I haven’t written in a while, like 3 months, oops. So I thought I’d start with something silly.
Did anyone else hear the song “Sad Songs Say So Much” and think it said “I’ll hold the skunk”? No? Just me?
To be fair to myself, I was only 4 or 5 and the song was playing softly on a crackly radio in the bedroom. But I was laying there in bed thinking “Why do you want to hold a skunk? I mean, that would definitely make me sing some sad songs.”
Of course it says “When all hope is gone”, but there will always be a small part of me that thinks “I’ll hold the skunk”.
And this one came out when I was a little older, Good Thing by the Fine Young Cannibals.
At least this guy mumbles, so I’m not a total idiot. But at the end of the third verse, I was convinced it said “I had the flu.” Now that I’ve heard the real words “like a fool”, I can’t hear “I had the flu” anymore. But I listened to that over and over and over again. Am I the only one? I was convinced this guy’s girlfriend finally came back, and now he had the flu so couldn’t go out and have fun with her. I knew that couldn’t be the real line, but I couldn’t find another one that made any more sense.
So those are a couple of thoughts from my childhood. They just happened to come to me while we listened to music on the balcony.