There’s a guy, at work, Jeff Taylor. Younger guy but eager enough to listen to me talk about my music. I was yammering about Kim Mitchell when he said “‘Patio Lanterns’, what’s that about? Swingers?”
I stared a minute and said “It’s about a gradeschool backyard patio party, where the hell did you get ‘swinging’ from? They’re drinking lemonade, man.”
“It could be hard lemonade,” he answered.
I wouldn’t let this go. “But seriously? Where are you getting swinging out of ‘Patio Lanterns’?”
“‘Who would be the first to kiss?'” he quoted back at me.
Sigh. Can’t argue with that, I guess.
Our house had the biggest patio
Our house had all the summer shade
We had patio lanterns
I’d spend half the night making lemonade
Which we drank a lot
‘Cause we were all so shy
Shy and nervous
Who was gonna be
Who would be the first to dance
Who was gonna be
Who would be the first to kiss
Under those patio lanterns
Those patio lanterns
They were the stars in the sky
Those patio lanterns
Lighting up our lives
Those patio lanterns
They were the stars in the sky
Those patio lanterns
Lighting up our lives
Under those patio lanterns
And I was stuck on Joy
(That was her name)
We didn’t talk much
She was a nervous girl
I was a nervous boy
We stuck together like glue on glue
Dancing to an old song
Bobby Vinton’s “Blue on Blue”
Heartache on heartache
Who was gonna be
Who would be the first to dance
Who was gonna be
Who would be the first to kiss
Under those patio lanterns
Those patio lanterns
They were the stars in the sky
Those patio lanterns
Lighting up our lives
Those patio lanterns
They were the stars in the sky
Those patio lanterns
Lighting up our lives
Under those patio lanterns
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The video wouldn’t play in my country. I thought “Swingers” houses were identified by hanging a pineapple sign on the house somewhere. :-)
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I suppose the question is, are the patio lanterns pineapple-shaped in the video?
If so, perhaps Jeff was right!
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Ha! That could be the case.
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Wow your pal is onto something…
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I love how we can all hear things differently.
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Including the words!
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Haha yeah. My good buddy Brian used to always sing the wrong words to things, he just heard things differently, but it was always hilarious.
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I usually mix up words, but not so much as to mistake Patio Lanterns for a song about swingers….
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Hey, I still believe Norah Jones’ Don’t Know Why is about an unfulfilling one night stand where he came and she didn’t. And it’s a hit song that gets played everywhere that has electricity!
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Now I’m gonna look it up and see if I can play Sigmund Freud!
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Haha it’s her big hit song, you’ll know it. I think I even posted about it before. Probably.
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Bill refuses to listen to Kim Mitchell because of this song. This is why Bill must be stopped.
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BILL!?! Come on man, what the hell? That’s like me saying “I won’t listen to AC/DC because of that one song they did about balls.”
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lol, you are not wrong!
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Shaking my fist at Bill right now. Go buy another headband, Bill!
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lol
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