Homemaking Thursday
Yeah, I’m blowing off Homemaking
Thursday because I have something seriously disturbing to report. I've been
singing along to "Pour Some Sugar On Me" incorrectly for years. This fabulous
tune was released in the U.S. in April 1988. I was 17 years old. The album it
was included on, Hysteria, helped define my late-teen youth. So how was I
screwing it up?
Pour some sugar on me
When your needle’s low
Pour some sugar on me
C’mon fire me up
My logic was
that sugar is fuel and when your needle is low, it must mean you need to have
sugar poured on you to replenish that fuel. Of course, as it turns out, the
team that penned this song (Steve Clark, Phil Collen, Joe Elliot, Robert John “Mutt”
Lange, and Rick Savage) did not mean to refill one’s tank as specifically as I
imagined.
The true lyrics are:
Pour some sugar on me
In the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C’mon fire me up
I redeem myself only by realizing that
the spirit remains the same, just the delivery is different.
I dedicate this post to www.lyrics.com and for all those who have ever
screwed up the lyrics.
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