Red, Golden Dreams ....

This morning my son was happily singing 'There's a lie, there's a lie, ah, ah, ah', over and over again. I got really curious so I asked him what the heck was he singing and he started dancing and showing me moves to the now synonymous John Travolta's signature move in the movie 'Stayin' Alive'. Then it hit me, he was actually trying to sing 'staying alive, staying alive'... and I laughed my head off till my sides hurt:D

I'm reminded of my own lyric generating days, back then (about 20 years ago) I would just babble my way through songs, as long as they sounded the same, I would sing to my heart's content! My classmate and I used to sing this Air Supply song 'Making Love Out Of Nothing At All' like nobody's business not knowing the actual meaning of the song. Heck! If we knew we probably have whispered the song then! People probably thought we were some horny girls! LOL

Anyway, back to the lyric thingy... I loved listening to Duran-Duran and Culture Club in the early nineties and one song that particularly was constantly stuck in my head is CC's 'Karma Chameleon'... I would sing 'red, golden dreams' which was what I thought were the actual words of the song instead of 'red, gold and green'... Hehehe... I'm sure CC's Boy George would have frowned listening to my lyrics. BTW, what on earth happened to him?? Back then I thought he was the most beautiful guy on earth!

I really can't remember the amount of times I was singing songs with the lyrics totally not in tune to the actual song... hehehe... and the worse part is I would believe that they were the actual lyrics until one fine day, months or even years later (yes, years... hehehe) I would actually discover that I was wrong all along. I'm sure we've all at one time or other in our lives would have definitely gone through the same experience, right?

Back then, the internet was practically an unheard of word. No online lyric search sites, no anything. The only way to get the actual words to songs those days were to buy these pretty expensive lyric books (there was this pretty famous one that I forgot the name) or to listen and copy the lyric from a radio cassette player.

Back then my sister and I would try to write down the lyrics by playing, pausing and rewinding the radio cassette player just to get the lyrics (where got internet those days, let alone a lyric search site). My dad (when he caught us in the act) would scold the life out of us because he thought we were trying to wreck the player! So, we would quietly do it when he was not around. Boy, you can probably guess how old I am from the fact that I mention cassettes... LOL!

I remember my first ever cassette (they were the in thing back then) was this Bee Gees and John Travolta album. One song I particularly like is 'Moonlight lady'... well, I think that was the title. Too bad I lost the tapes, would have been a collector's item now. I remember telling my mom I wanted the Bee Gees cassette (I was 9 years old then) and I think it cost only RM5.00! Mom didn't want to buy for me but I was persistent, well... persistence paid because she got fed up of my rantings and got it for me in the end. When we reached home, I ran into the house, quickly played the cassette and I was so happy cos it was my own first cassette. I was gleefully smiling and laughing around the house all day. My sisters thought I was going crazy!

My son probably doesn't even know what a cassette or radio cassette player is now. You tell him CD, he knows la... hehehe... Soon, he's probably gonna be asking me for his own iPod or something. The closest I could come to an iPod back then is the 'Walkman' but that was one huge piece of machinery compared to the MP3 players nowadays. And with the huge number of lyric sites available freely, I'm sure I would never get any lyrics wrong. But I guess singing 'red, golden dreams' was kinda fun too... hehehe!