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I am a 40 year old married mother of two teenage boys. I live for writing, especially romance. Love the happily ever after scenerio. The best thing about writing for me is the ability to lose yourself in your work, and feel as if you've accomplished something great. At the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
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Poisoned Purple Pen #904826 added February 16, 2017 at 8:09pm
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Music you tease
Prompt: We've all got them...what are some of your favorite misheard song lyrics? Those words and lines you swear are/were the truth...until someone else set you straight with the facts (and probably the lyric booklet that came with the album/tape/CD).
Ah, music, my sweet, sweet music. How you've played me over the years. For instance, I'm a Rihanna fan. And out comes this song and the only words I can decipher are work, work, work, work. Honestly I didn't even try to figure that song out. And you should know going in I've got A to Z lyrics bookmarked because I like knowing what I'm singing. I've always been big on getting the words right. But I have to say the one song that plagued me for years was this little beauty from childhood by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
Oh Blinded by the Light indeed. I can clearly recall asking my mother what he was saying when we were driving once, and even she couldn't understand that lyric. We joked around about how it sounded like the word douche, but knew that couldn't be it. I mean they wouldn't be singing about douche, right? Turns out they weren't. Usually when the line Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce hit, I would stop singing. Desperate to figure out what I was missing. Yep, it was only a few years ago that I looked up the lyrics and called my mom to tell her what they were.
If you haven't looked up the lyrics to that song, let me just tell you now. I'd bet $20 we've all been singing most of that song wrong.  The lyrics are even more bizarre to me now then whatever it was I used to sing as a kid. But hey, the music was great.
Then there's this oldie but goodie from my childhood that my uncle pointed it out that I'd been singing wrong for decades, only to be hanging with a long time friend and find out how badly she had the lyrics. 
Build Me Up Buttercup. Ah, still love this song. But I thought it was Fill Me Up Buttercup. Which is funny to me now. So I'm getting my haircut, and Pegster and I are talking about songs from the past and what we used to dance to on Thursday nights bar hopping.
And she says, "hey T do you remember that Buttercup song?"
I'm thinking, damn who did Mark tell. I mean it was like a week after I'd finally been corrected. So I say, "Yeah, I can't believe I got the lyrics wrong for so long." And I swear to you her face lights up. God love you, Pegster ~ I can still picture your excitement from that moment.
"Me too. You thought it was Veronica too, right?"
OMG, Veronica? Where did she come up with Veronica in those lyrics????? So I'm looking all puzzled and she starts singing.
"Why do you build me up, Veronica baby just to let me down." 
Oh man I almost fell out of my chair. And I'm laughing. Hard. And she's holding scissors next to my head! 
So I tell her how no, I knew it was Buttercup, but I had Build wrong and kept saying Fill.
I love musical prompts. I admit it. Music lights up my life every day. It's better than American Express. For me, Music, Don't leave home without it! That's my motto. 
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