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I just learned that in Collective Soul’s Shine, he’s not saying “you haven’t let your light shine down”. But it’s actually a Jesus song and 'heaven let your light shine down." Over 30 years I was wrong lol
“‘E’ for very, very, extra ordinary.” VS “‘E’ for very, very, extraordinary.” The way I heard it performed always sounded like two separate words. I was like, “damn, she couldn’t just be nice the whole song?” I finally read the lyrics when I was older.
“I don’t want another heartache at my door, don’t want another heartache on my list” VS “don’t want another heartache on my lips.”
In The Fray - How to Save a Life, they sing:
And I pray to God he hears you
I always heard:
and I paid a guy to kiss youThe song is largely about a person trying to help/give advice to a depressed friend. With this change in lyrics, I feel the desperation of the main character shines through far more brightly.
The friend has such low self esteem that you decide to pay someone to pretend to like them, because you’re out of options for how to cheer them up.Like a dog without a bone, like an actor OUT OF ROLE
For fuck’s sake Jim, actor out on loan, pff! What had he been smoking?
What the hell do you mean “like a kiss from a rose on the gray!?”
No idea what song it is but what if it’s intentional that it sounds so similar …
Hey now, you’re a rockstar, get the show on, get laid
I refuse to accept that those aren’t the lyrics.
It was but they had to change it for Shrek and the G-rated version became the canonical one.
At a punk gig once I heard:
“Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake!“
They were actually singing about “Tinnies (Aussie for beer) on Tuesday”. Not as good IMO.
🎶Wrapped up like a douche, another owner in the night🎶
🎶Hold me closer, Tony Danza🎶
And little Early Burly gave my anus curly whirly
And asked me if I needed a ride!
I like to sing, “Wrapped up like a douche, another rubber in the night” but yours sounds closer. That song is great for this. “Blighted by the right, wrapped up like douche, another Romney in the fight”
I always thought it was “another rumour in the night” 🥲
the full line from the song is
Yeah, she/he was blinded by the light
Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night
Not if you’re referring to the Manfred Mann version: that one was “Revved up like a deuce”.
“It’s too late to roll the dice” instead of “it’s too late to apologize” sounds much more meaningful.
That because they really butcher it and say 'poligize.
The worst part is you can actually fit the full word in the same beat but it doesn’t sound dumb af
Ooh, I like this one! I thought it was, “it’s too late to call the job” when I first heard it and was pretty unsure what he was going for…
He’s sad because he was going to call in sick but waited too long.
Yes! Of course. I now have a whole music video of someone hideously hungover, driving to work singing this… Kind of like the “everybody hurts” video but like crazy shit is happening.
So you’re picturing me every morning back when I had to drive in to work. Got it.
Ah, so you are a Bexar drunk? I’m further down i10 myself, not sure I could go through that interchange every day.
Edit: I am being too literal again, I think.
Harris. Also just off 10.
I do know her well! Hi neighbor! I hope you don’t have to suffer the i10 610 interchange daily!
not always. I saw this in a forum meant years ago, I wish I had saved a screenshot or something…
the forum thread was about the dumbest lyrics in songs and someone said sanitarium by metallica had these lyrics:
Got some death to do
Mirror stairs back hard
Kill, it’s such a friendly wordand complained it’s nonsense. why would stairs be made of mirrors, and what did that have anything with the rest… also what does stairs back hard even mean, etc …
as you may have guessed even if you don’t know the song, the lyrics are “mirror stares back hard”, which means the person is talking about their own reflection having a look in their eyes.
not only were the misheard lyrics dumb, but I always admired the sheer confidence of the person who, upon hearing these nonsense lyrics, instead of using their internet access to look it up to confirm, used it to complain how stupid it was without thinking twice about whether they could have misunderstood.
“go to lonely starbucks lovers” my beloved
'Cause I’m in too deep
And I’m trying to keep
up above in my head
All the thoughts in my head
'stead of going underHoly shit.
I saw them live last year for the finale tour and even live, I heard “up above in my head”
Yeah, those are the actual lyrics. It’s “all the thoughts in my head” that’s misheard.
Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person’s mind though.
you really did!
I always think of Metallica’s Saint Anger:
🎶 Medallion noose, I hang myself
Saint Anger 'round my neck
I feel my world shake
Like an earthquake
Hard to see clear
Is it me? Is it fear?
I’m not even angry with you
I’m not even angry with you
I’m not even angry with you
I’m not even angry with you
🎶
Yet the real lyrics are:
I’m madly in anger with you
I’m madly in anger with you
I’m madly in anger with you
I’m madly in anger with you
… sigh…
Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up
I always heard:
Picture yourself (At) the MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting how come You’re in the stands?
I loved this line as it was calling out the assumption when you picture something big, why are you in the crowd and not the star of the show? It felt motivating and a fun play on the way people imagine themselves in the world.
It’s actually:
Picture yourself The MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting Occam You’re in the stands
Which, just doesn’t do any of the things the misheard lyric does. So disappointing.
Looking back on when we fisted
I cannot escape and I cannot forget
Baby, you’re the one, you still turn me on
You can make me whole again
