Sunday, June 24, 2007
Misunderstandings
Have you ever misunderstood a common phrase or a song lyric and thought it said something different then it really did. For example the band "The Frey" has a song named "How to Save a Life" in a certain part of the song the singers says "Where did i go wrong i lost a friend somewhere along in the (bitterness)" and for some strange reason i thought it said "Where did i go wrong i lost a friend somewhere along in the (pit of decent)." Whatever "decent" is!
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there's a song that says,
there's a bad moon on the rise and i thought it was saying
well, the bathroom's on the right.
and another song that says,
you know they're never gonna keep me down.
and i was hearing
you know i never bought a cheap guitar
Coldplay's "fix you" says...
tears stream down your face when you loose something you cannot replace.
Until last week I always thought it said It's the extreame on your face when you loose something you cannot replace.
ha. yeah.
I thought that Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) kept saying "Come on catacombs....Cataco-ho-ho-hombs...etc. when he was really saying "Come on, chemicals." (The song was "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse" off their latest album Hissing Fauna).
I also thought that Get Back started out like "JoJo was a man who thought he was a woman" and for a really long time thought that Paul McCartney was talking about a cross-dresser.
sufjan's "abraham"--
i thought he was singin'
leg o' lamb
when in fact it was
lake or lamb.
just funny to think of him so passionately and beautifully sputtering "leg o' lamb," ya know?
I'm always misinterpreting phrases and songs but I can't remember for the life of me what they all were, expect for this:
You know how there are HOV lanes on the interstates? Well until recently, I thought "H.O.V." (High Occupancy Vehicle) was short for "hovering", like, the cars on this particular lane is going faster than the other cars so they are 'hovering' over everyone else. Whatever.
Can anyone finish this lyric for me?
"Blinded by the light. Lit up like a..."
-V
"Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son"
I thought it was
"Billie Jean is not my number
She's just a girl who thinks that I am the one, but she is not the one."
My friend thought that
instead of "Hold me closer tiny dancer" It was "Hold me closer Tony Danza" (maybe she figured it was appropriate for Elton John to sing)
"Rock the Casbah" "Rock the Cazbox"
there's a song that goes
"i wish we hadn't met at all"
but i thought it said
"i wish we had a medal"
hah.
HHHHHAAAAA!! :) I'm in stiches right now! Bathrooms on the right! HA!! TONY DANZA! OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS SO FUNNY!
I can't remember any lyrics right now, but I know I've done this before, I'm such a dork. Anyway, I'll try to think of some and come back again!
Good one Pax!
Vincent,
I THINK its:
Blinded by the light;
revved up like a deuce
another runner in the night...
I could be sriously wrong of course!
Kate
this one song by John Reuben has this banging chorus where he says
"WHOM SHALL I FEAR?"
but i always thought it was just him saying jibberish "Boom sha-lah-kee-ah!!!!"
until my sister was like..."what the heck are you saying??"
-linnea
that's a good thing to yell when you're all alone in the darkness:
"BOOM SHA-LA-KEE-AH!!!!"
i'd be too afraid to yell that all alone in the darkness, 'cause then the bad guys that are hiding around the corner would hear me and either attack or run in fear. fifty-fifty chance, so i wouldn't risk it.
and pax, it's time for a new question. (this is a good one, thuogh!)
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