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Don't always believe what you hear!

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Do you remember the life lessons your parents tried to instill into you? My mum told me that I shouldn't always believe everything I hear, especially when you are not sure of what you are listening to.

As a child, I remember singing along at the top of my voice to Paul Young in my parents car,

"Ev'ry time you go away you take a piece of meat with you."

Meat? Because Paul Young was clearly a butcher?

I recall my mum bursting into laughter and telling me to listen more carefully.

Fast forward 30 or so years and I am driving my car while my tween sings along to Taylor Swift, Blank Space. She sung:

"Tell me when it's over, if the high was worth the pain,

calling all those Starbucks lovers"

Here is the song, what do you hear?

These are clearly not the right words, so I had to talk to my friend Mr Google and find out the actual lyrics and it appears that we were not the only people singing the wrong words. According to Metro Lyrics, our ears pick up what the artist says, but our own brains interpret what we hear based on our own experiences and what we picture happens next. 

So the real words are "Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane" , well this song has driven me insane this week and I go from singing Starbucks Lovers, to the real words, depending on what I am hearing at the time.

So my mom may have had a point all those years ago, you shouldn't always believe what you hear!

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  1. I still do this now sometimes. It's hilarious actually. I still remember listening to All That She Wants...is another baby when I was 8 or 9 and I only knew single words in English. I totally thought she wanted to swap her baby and was mortified...

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  2. I"m pretty sure there must be millions of song lyrics that I've got my own versions to after all these years of singing along to the radio! The danger of just having music as a background all the time rather than listening to it properly.

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  3. Peter Kay does a wonderful sketch on song lyrics, makes me cry with laughter every time I see it. It's funny the way your brain interprets things, although some songs would be better with the lyrics changed.

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  4. I remember singing 'I've got shoes, they're made of plywood' to You're The One That I Want instead of 'I got chills, they're multiplying'..... I was an odd child!

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  5. Oh your mum is so right! Thinking on a deeper sense actually :) I also remember singing in english exaclty how i heard too lol

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