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On a dark desert highway...

I was in high school- my junior year. My mom and then-girlfriend are in the front seat, mom driving. We're driving home from Raleigh and Crabtree Valley Mall (quite a treat for a rube in Nash County). Anyway, The Who's "Who-oooo are you, who-who, who-who" is playing on WQDR. My mom AND girlfriend are singing "Coo-oool Water, hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo." 2 generations getting it simultaneously wrong. It took me a few choruses to realize they were both singing that.

I spoke in deep articulation from the back seat "WHOOO ARE YOU!"

I get a dual response of "Is THAT what they're saying??? Are you SURE?"
 
Not quite lyric related but when me and my gang in high school rolled in my '72 plymouth duster we listened to an earth wind and fire eight track a lot. (Hey i was broke and someone gave it to me) evidently they had to fill some dead space Between tracks with some instrumental music. It was appropriately labeled as the "interlude" on the case.
We're all riding around and trying to decide which of my 4 8 tracks to play and my pal randy chimes in "i like that song called 'interlude'!" I about wrecked laughing so hard.
 
Have to agree with the Adan Sandler video.
I don't think I've ever understood more than 3 words of any Pearl Jam song!
 
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I had friend that thought the refrain to David Bowie's Suffragette City was:

I'm a mean and lonely man and I can't afford to get it
Come back to Summer in the City

Correct lyrics

Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket
I'm back on Suffragette City.
 
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Just like the Lone Ranger

(just like the white wing dove
Edge of 17
Stevie Nicks)
 
I always thought that the Eric Clapton song "Cocaine" was about a horse that no one could stay on when they tried to ride it.

I guess figuratively it was, sort of.....;)

When he sang "she don't lie. she don't lie, she don't lie, Cocaine"

I thought he was singing "we don't ride, we don't ride, we don't ride, Cocaine"
 
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Corny, but true. My Grandma use to think that the country song by David Lee Murphy....Dust on the bottle was actually Dust on the Bible. I never told her any different.

There might be a little dust on the bible
But don't let it fool ya about what's inside
There might be a little dust on the bible
It's one of those things that gets sweeter with time
 
Blue Oyster Cult: "Don't fear the reefer"??


Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon:
"I certainly was in the right"
Often misquoted as, "I certainly wasn't right"
Big difference.
 
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