And knowing is half the battle.
Shannon leaves me a comment on Facebook about the music video BLOG and gets me reminiscing about the past. She says she never can get through We Didn't Start The Fire without messing up a lyric. Being the HUGE Billy fan that I am, I pride myself on knowing all the lyrics to all the songs and memorizing the order of all his songs on each of his albums but there are many many times I screw up a lyric…or mishear them.
There is a part in Getting Closer that for the life of me cannot figure out what it is he's saying. I refuse to look it up on the internet and each time it comes on my iPod I point at the speaker and demand Steve to tell me what he's saying. There is a part in Movin' Out that EJ swears he's saying something derogatory and we argue about it one day in the middle of the Louisville Outback parking lot that there is no way Billy is dropping a racial slur into a lyric. But We Didn't Start The Fire can definitely leave you in the dust on parts and lead you to fudge a little like when Vik, Nicoletti, and I insert Ru Paul for Dien Bien Phu Falls during a karaoke session.
As a kid, I love the Storm Front album so much that I play it in the den (back when our walls are still wood paneling) and dance around the room with kick ball changes and pas de bourrées. And when "The Fire" song comes on I try my best to sing-a-long.
And when it comes time to name my G.I. Joes that mom buys for me to play with my brothers, I go to good ole Billy to come up with some awesome names for them.
Charlie always uses Hardball which for some reason he calls Carl Weathers. One day Carl falls apart because of too much use and we learn that G.I. Joes are connected together by a simple rubber band. Mom goes back to Toys R Us and buys Charlie the same guy again and we keep the pieces of the old Carl just in case we need body parts strewn about after an "explosion". Charlie is also quite partial to Snake Eyes too but Carl is always his G.I. Joe of choice:
Pher uses Muskrat and after going on Yo Joe! I learn it is Version 2 that he plays with:
Then there are a set of twins which aren't a set of twins but I like to believe they are (it just so happens mom bought two of the same guy). I enjoy playing with both Deejays and actually know how to tell them apart. I decide to name the first one Watergade:
And the second one Cooljet:
So to answer your question Shannon, I can never get through We Didn't Start The Fire without singing it wrong. And certainly not without singing WaterGADE instead of Watergate and Cooljet instead of Khrushchev.
There is a part in Getting Closer that for the life of me cannot figure out what it is he's saying. I refuse to look it up on the internet and each time it comes on my iPod I point at the speaker and demand Steve to tell me what he's saying. There is a part in Movin' Out that EJ swears he's saying something derogatory and we argue about it one day in the middle of the Louisville Outback parking lot that there is no way Billy is dropping a racial slur into a lyric. But We Didn't Start The Fire can definitely leave you in the dust on parts and lead you to fudge a little like when Vik, Nicoletti, and I insert Ru Paul for Dien Bien Phu Falls during a karaoke session.
As a kid, I love the Storm Front album so much that I play it in the den (back when our walls are still wood paneling) and dance around the room with kick ball changes and pas de bourrées. And when "The Fire" song comes on I try my best to sing-a-long.
And when it comes time to name my G.I. Joes that mom buys for me to play with my brothers, I go to good ole Billy to come up with some awesome names for them.
Charlie always uses Hardball which for some reason he calls Carl Weathers. One day Carl falls apart because of too much use and we learn that G.I. Joes are connected together by a simple rubber band. Mom goes back to Toys R Us and buys Charlie the same guy again and we keep the pieces of the old Carl just in case we need body parts strewn about after an "explosion". Charlie is also quite partial to Snake Eyes too but Carl is always his G.I. Joe of choice:
Pher uses Muskrat and after going on Yo Joe! I learn it is Version 2 that he plays with:
Then there are a set of twins which aren't a set of twins but I like to believe they are (it just so happens mom bought two of the same guy). I enjoy playing with both Deejays and actually know how to tell them apart. I decide to name the first one Watergade:
And the second one Cooljet:
So to answer your question Shannon, I can never get through We Didn't Start The Fire without singing it wrong. And certainly not without singing WaterGADE instead of Watergate and Cooljet instead of Khrushchev.