Misheard Lyrics

[eclair]

Aren't they prepared for a jailbreak at the jail? And less prepared for a jailbreak at the dry cleaners, the funeral home and the wig rental place?

[GirlyGhoul]

Oct 28, 2014 23:01:38 GMT -4 eclair said:

Aren't they prepared for a jailbreak at the jail? And less prepared for a jailbreak at the dry cleaners, the funeral home and the wig rental place?

Good point. Perhaps they were counting on a jailbreak at the water treatment facilty being more successful than at the jail!

[ratscabies]

Frankly, the biggest problem is that Phil keeps SINGING ABOUT IT ON THE RADIO! How successful can a jailbreak be if you are literally broadcasting your intentions???

I love Thin Lizzy so verrr much...!

[cabbagekid]

In "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson And Bruno Mars, Bruno sings:
"Julio, grab the stretch"

I thought he actually sang:
"Coolio, grab the stretch"

Which I think makes the song infinitely better.

[eclair]

I can't find my ipod, but it may yet turn up. So in the meantime I hit a few used CD stores and got physical copies of Marina and the Diamonds first 2 cds, Noisettes cds, Santigold cds, Janelle Monae cds, the new Tokio Hotel cd and more! I'm having a great time listening to all of this music on my home and work computers.

Tokio Hotel's song Love Who Loves You Back has the lyrics,"What's real we have to squint to see, Lean in closer next to me, Count to three and lose control, If you like it let me know..." I am somehow hearing something about a threeway, then lean in closer next to me. Which isn't bad...in fact, it might improve the song for me.

Santigold's cd Master of My Make-Believe (great cd, so many good songs!) has a song The Riot's Gone Away, with the lyrics,"I've been haunted all my life, On the brink of something close, People know that I write, Know I'm grappling with a ghost..."

Grappling with a ghost is evocative yet relatable. But she barely pronounces the 's' in ghost, so it sounds like she's grappling with a goat. Totally different meaning and feeling. Although my mother is a difficult Capricorn, so maybe I can relate.

And for anyone who cares, Marina and the Diamonds will have a new cd out in April, and the songs are already findable online, at youtube, etc. My favorite new song is "I'm a ruin".

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

I recently discovered that the lyric in John Lennon's "Nobody Told Me" is in fact, not "There's matches in the bathroom, just below the stairs." I thought he was being a genial host, offering matches for your weed *wink*wink* or something. I just realized it's actually "There's Nazis in the bathroom, just below the stairs."

The correct lyric makes more sense, but I liked my version better!

[crankykate]

This is part of Hozier's "Take Me to Church":

My lover's the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice
To drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course
That's a fine looking high horse
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starving faithful
That looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work

And this is what I hear:

My lover's in sunshine.
Kierkegaard is on my side;
She demands a sack of ice.
Bring the horsie
And some Chinese.
Something meaningful -- the rain forest.
That's a fine looking high horse
What you've got on the table.
We've got a lot of star people.
That looks tasty
That looks []
This is how we work.

[The Brunette]

I'm still not sick of that song, but your version I'll worship on a blog for a Saturday night. I'll add some more, though...

My lover's got humour not human/She's the Used to giggle at a funeral

Every Sunday's getting more bleak morbly

Offer me that deathless death death's despair

Our gentle sin gentlemen

Seriously, that song is a garden of mondegreens (and it's even worse with the horrid dance remix that a lot of radio stations insist on playing.)

[eclair]

I'm reading and enjoying Aasif Mandvi's autobiographical book, "No Land's Man". He is a senior in high school in 1984 and crazy about Michael Jackson's Thriller. His grandparents come to visit from India, and his sister suggests that he perform his song and dance of Billy Jean for them (he will later perform it at his high school talent show in Tampa FL to rave reviews). So he treats his baffled grandparents to Billy Jean. They don't know what to make of it, but each day his grandmother will stand in the doorway of his room and supportively say,"Billy Jesus is not my lawyer."

[TrafficChick]

Listening to the oldies station, ELO comes on. I hear P singing in the backseat.

"My demon llama... My demon llama..."

I will never hear that song the same again.