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"Algebra books out into the city streets..."
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When you attend a terrible high school, it's sure to inspire misheard words to songs. It even influences how correct lyrics are perceived, as the situation at school can be so unhealthy that your mind wanders just seeing and hearing everyday things. I can't even begin to tell you how incompetent some of our school officials were. To be fair, I wouldn't say it was like having the 2020s in the 1980s. Nothing was that bad until the 2020s. But my high school modeled the fascism that others later built upon.
This school taught me that there's algebra books out in the city streets. I mean that literally. I had repeated altercations with one student in particular who kept destroying my textbooks. I think he even threw my algebra book out into a city street. I know he stuck bubble gum in my science book, and he threw one of my books in a mud puddle. One time I got in a fight with him, and he tried making me pay for his broken glasses. The problem with this was that he never wore glasses.
When I first heard "Fallen Angel" blasting over the boom box in my den, the very first line caught my ear. Why, it was about "algebra books out into the city streets"! I felt I could relate to the song because it was about school textbooks getting ruined. But this line was misheard. The song actually says, "She stepped off the bus out into the city streets."
I'm not exactly sure what context I first heard the song in. I was thinking it was when Power 94½ began playing it, but it might have been the radio show Joel Denver's Future Hits, which aired in many cities. I'm not even sure what station we heard Joel on, but it might have been Power 94½. Around the same time, there was also a live call-in show that aired on Sunday nights. This show interviewed big music stars of the era. I know there was a show that had a host named Shadow P. Stevens - not to be confused with Shadoe Stevens of American Top 40.
Those shows aired pretty late at night, so I must have only heard them in the summer, when I wasn't forced to wake up at 6 AM to attend a shitty school.
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