Misheard Lyrics

[Marina]

I recently found out I was singing two Pearl Jam songs wrong.

My version/Real version

I see the verse in the rain / I see the birds in the rain
I don't want to hurt, there is so much in this word to make me believe / I don't want to hurt, there is so much in this world to make me bleed

Problem is, I like both my versions better.

Quite often the case! You get used to your own version. - I still prefer my take on Grendel!

But they are prettier, wouldn't you say?
One is more poetic, and the other is much more optimistic rather than the very bleak "there's so much in this world to make me bleed".


For once I am being positive, and I am wrong!!

[Conan]

Was listening to Rush's "Fountain of lamneth" yesterday, and suddenly remembered one of my oldest misheard lines:

"Just one blur I recognise, the one that sooths and feeds" It should be. But I always heard it as:

"Just one blur I recognise, the one that Susan feeds"!!

[JohnSReid]

Jigsaw:

We are pilots of passion, swatting the flies off course

[arcademannequin]

Jigsaw:

We are pilots of passion, swatting the flies off course

I always thought it was 'pirates' of passion! - Arr Arrrgh me hearties!!

[stillcamwaters]

The Field

"Like my farts are carried away on a stiffening breeze"

[arcademannequin]

The Field

"Like my farts are carried away on a stiffening breeze"

That's brilliant! - Can I use it as my signature?

[mwelljester]

The Field

"Like my farts are carried away on a stiffening breeze"

"brilliant!......."

[stillcamwaters]

The Field

"Like my farts are carried away on a stiffening breeze"

That's brilliant! - Can I use it as my signature?

Of course, but hold your nose!

[RavenGirl]

Oh my good god.. have just been reading this and, quite literally folks, weeping with laughter.

Bertrand the Big Boy [cat, not pimp] is looking at me as if I have finally relinquished my grip on Reality and I'm sure my neighbours think that i am 10 mins short of being taken awy by the White-Coated Ones..

Nevertheless, I have dredged up some of my Musical Faux Pas:

1] Bob Marley: cannot remember which song exactly, but he actually sings "We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads".

I hear: ".. with a roof rack over our heads" and then imagine the extended Marley family squeezing in to an impossibly small car, with all their luggage in bin liners strapped to the roof.


2] Oysterband: in the song "Bells of Rhymney", they sing ".. we have fangs we have teeth, say the ['something', can never hear it] bells of Neath"..

I hear: We have fags, we have tea, say the vast balls beneath"


3] Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody.. not sure what they sing but I hear, variously:

Spare him this life, full of short salty bees..

Beezlebub has the level buttered side of beef, of be-ef, of bee-eeeeef

Oh baby, can't do Listz to me baby, just gotta get owls, just gotta get owls, just gotta get sh*te out of here


Hmm, maybe I need to adjust my meds....

Happy listening,

Stella RavenGirl

[RavenGirl]

PS:

Marina - i always hear "whore" too... we are damned for all Eternity.