i’m behind schedule for the week, and can hardly keep eyes open. i blame caden-6yr for waking me up at 3 am and then my stressing about something i shouldn’t have been stressing about until 6 am when mike left for the airport. i shamelessly begged caden-6yr to stay asleep tonight, more for my benefit than his. and i told him that, also. loving. so very loving of me.
however. let’s talk lyrics. briefly. before i pass out.
that 80s song by the Motels, Only the Lonely has worse lyrics than i ever thought. but. those lyrics do NOT say ‘only the lonely get laid.’ I thought they did say that. nuh-no. I’m clearing that up in case y’all thought so, too. it’s ‘only the lonely can play.’ you’re welcome.
a couple of months ago i had a similar revelation, courtesy of Irene Cara singing Flashdance in a more enunciated way than I’d ever heard before. Okay, fine, it was the same version as ever, but I finally heard it right for the very first time. Irene does NOT sing “take your pants off and make it happen.” no. she does not. She sings: “take your passion and make it happen.” see the tricky part? Pants off… passion…. right. confusing. sounds the same.
but in case you think i’m just way pervy by now, that is not the case. i was a ballet kid in the 80s and ‘take your pants off and make it happen’ was what happened when you got to ballet class and took off the jeans that you were wearing over your so-not-stylish baby pink tights and stripy leotard and then started to dance. ‘take your pants off and make it happen.’ that’s what she really meant. drop the jeans and do an arabesque like you mean it, little girl. Irene was all about the dancing. Honest misunderstanding.
(I used to have a ‘no blogging while tired’ policy. this was brilliant. it prevented posts like this. but if i still adhered to that policy, i’d never blog and then i’d miss y’all.)
I love you.
9:57 pm
I hope you get some sleep tonight, you do sound like you are a little discombobulated. Sleep well and come back to the world of blogging after a good nights sleep. Hopefully you are already in bed fast asleep, since you are a couple hours ahead of me…
On a side note, there are lots of songs my sister and I don’t know the correct words for, so we just make up the most ridiculous ones we can. The only downfall is my daughter now knows some songs with really dumb made up lyrics, and I’m sure she doesn’t realize they are just plain goofy or that they don’t make any sense.
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9:35 am
Funny. Brings back some 80s memories for me. I confess I had so many Michael Jackson lyrics wrong when I was in high school, back before we had the internet to check things. We danced to “PYT” and I never knew what in the world half those lyrics were.
I guess my kids will never know the experience because they can look everything up online!
9:40 am
I need to put a sticky note by my bed that reads, “must start day off with Kelsey.”
It’s only 7:35 am and I’m laughing so hard there are tears.
A great way to start the day.
Thank you.
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12:53 pm
Jennifer,
one day your daughter will LOVE that about you when she realizes all those lyrics were wrong.
Heather,
MJ lyrics are the hardest! i still don’t understand any of that pyt stuff!
Sarah,
no one has EVER said that. (but thank you.) when i was 16, my dad left me a yellow sticky note addressed to ‘morning glory.’ he was being WAY sarcastic.
i intentionally left off Nelson’s “Love and Affection” although it is my favorite lyrical mistake. My friend Beth was sure it was ‘i can’t live without your love and erection.’ we thought it was a bit ‘edgy’ but went with it.
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6:59 pm
i’m dying. that’s HILARIOUS! oh.my.word. edgy indeed.
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