Misheard

I discovered a fun post by Blue Country Magic featuring often misunderstood song lyrics. I forever misheard a line from the pop band Toto’s “Africa”. Instead of I guess it rains down in Africa, the words are I bless the rains down in Africa. I have no idea what that means.

This theatrical masterpiece gets an honorable mention...

Metallica caused another such conundrum, this one far more embarrassing. For decades I thought the tune “Sad But True” was actually Sound Patrol. It makes zero sense but the notion remained until car radios began listing this information. ~rolls eyes~ Yes, I’m so old that I remember tuning in with a dial, a fidgety operation until you reached the exact desired frequency.

The Beatles are on my personal list, as well. Georgia on My Mind sounded like Jo Jo on My Mind, as if Jo Jo was an old flame in the song “Back in the U.S.S.R.” A crisp digital version on my iPod Touch corrected this misconception. The same technology changed my perception of many Meatloaf tunes.

Are you familiar with seventies era ‘rabbit ears’ TV antennae? The youngest child was charged with both adjusting the wires and switching channels, something my husband and I both did. Now we teasingly call ourselves the original remote controls. Isn’t it amazing how many experiences we share despite an eight year age gap?

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