Misheard lyrics

My boyfriend has two playlists, a daytime list and a nighttime list, Ocean is on both

Both pronunciations suggest four syllables, whether you're weighting on the rib or the care/bee. European is four syllables; does Ocean sing "Europe Peen" when he adjusts the origin story of his queen?

I'm gonna write a song called "Euripidean Queen"

He sings it with four syllables though? Admittedly I don't hear it every day.

do you say you-ROW pee-an?

I hear it every day too because work and it's definitely 4 syllables

also here's a random fact I found out the other day: Billy Ocean sings backup vocals on Scott Walker's Track Three on Climate of Hunter

Nope I say YER-rope-EE-an, the opposite of fa-LOPE-ee-an.

It is four syllables? OK I'll take it. I guess it's more my own aesthetic barometer swinging more toward the melodious possibility of a "ca-RIB-be-yan QUEEN" over "CARE-ob-BEE-yan QUEEN". Having the phoneme "bean"/"BEE-yan" weighted heavily next to an also-weighted-heavily "queen" is unappealing to my ears? Bean Queen. Lots of 'ee' sounds.

Anyway "now our hearts they beat as one / no more love on the run" is a fabulous lyric, but I always like it when a lyricist names an object and then follows it with a pronoun, "our hearts, they..." "my father, he..." "my lover, she..." etc.

*a subject, rather, I guess

I keep hearing mentions to Felix Leiter in the "I’d be a fearless leader/I'd be an alpha type" lines in Swift's "The Man". I really liked the clever nod to Ian Fleming and addressing her own americanity.

That's Sean Paul, not Shaggy

Lol

xp - oh yeah, course it is.

Just remembered that when I first heard 'Motorcycle Emptiness' as a teenager at a local indie night, I heard 'Under neon loneliness' as something like 'La la-la la lovely boots' and now that's what it is

Bob Dylan - Are You Ready?

Are you ready for the judgment?
Are you ready for that Taylor Swift song?

For a moment I thought he was making a joke, but the recording is from 80

Woah-oh, in a coupla days, they come and take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when they're outta Capri-Sun, they get me a release
We was all on the cover of Newsweek

I feed you dignity to stand with pride
Realize that all in all you stand tall
Go ahead, Mr. Window

From my mom:
"I always thought it was 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza.' "

look, mommy
there's an airplane up in the sky

oo - oo - oo - oo - oo
oo - oo - oo - oo - oo

did did did did you see the frightened ones?
did did did did you hear the falling bombs?

Not sure ifI mentioned this but my French grandmother used to think the middle-eight in Paul McCartney's 'Just Another Day' was:

'Sau-sage / Sau-sage / Sometimes she feels sau-sage'

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas:

Heard:
Has bad depression got a hold on me/Or is this the way love's supposed to be?

Actual:
Has high blood pressure got a hold on me/Or is this the way love's supposed to be?

Put that magic jump on me/Slap that baby, make him pee!

Today I learned it's "Have you got it? Do you get it? If so, how often?" not "Have you got it together, if so how often?".

Ooh, now I learned that today.

In Gorillaz 19-2000 they sing

"There's a monkey in the jungle
Watching a vapor trail"

turns out my wife has thought the monkey was "watching a baby drown" all these years

Thursday, Understanding in a Car Crash

Heard:
'Tis time 'tis time 'tis time 'tis time to go

Actual:
It starts and stops and starts and stops again

hard to hear the words clearly when the singer is beating you over the head for 5 minutes

Korea Korea Ko-Reverend Al Green

hahaha up til this moment looking it up, i thought it was "reoccuring like the reverend al green"

Kendrick Lamar, Money Trees

Heard: Everybody gon' respect the shoe/But the one in front of the gun lives forever

Actual: Everybody gon' respect the shooter/But the one in front of the gun lives forever

Black Sabbath

Heard: Can you help me? Thought you were my friend.
Actual: Can you help me occupy my brain?

I figured out the right lyrics decades ago, but was reminded of it today

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Heard: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L. that costs your flaming allowance!
Actual: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L.A.(Cost Of Living Allowance)!

not sure why that's tickling me so much, but bravo

Maybe you only heard it on the radio but the lyrics came with the album so you could fully enjoy their hilarious po-faced politicisms. (I kid, slightly, but that one is a highlight.)

I read a Christgau review of an early Emmy Lou Harris album a few months ago and then absolutely misheard it this morning as "I would rub my asshole / in the bosom of Abraham"

Listening to New Order for the first time in years after reading Hooky's book and remembered this one:

"Oh Allah is like the flowers..."

"Let me take you down"
"(Why?)"
"Because I'm going to!"

"And I wanna liquefy everybody gone by". Is it "gone by" or "gone dry"? I've always heard it as "gone by".

My first exposure to 'Wild Horses' was hearing the Sundays' cover back in my teen years, and because enunciation wasn't always Harriet Wheeler's strong suit, I heard her sing something like

Oh, let's do supper
But don't ache and pain
A lovely disorder
Just like Lois Lane

I always heard the woman’s voice in the refrain of Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money as “Feed my little baby”.

I was just listening to a podcast yesterday where the host had (in childhood) heard it the same! It was on Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs that Explain the 90s, but I can't remember which episode I was listening to at the time.

the woman in question: Ronnie Spector!

that was the part I only just learned like a year ago, or that the lyric before was "just like Ronnie sang" (though Eddie Money sings so mush-mouthed sometimes that's probably why)

it is the 'My Heart Will Go On' episode, and the thought of it made me die laughing. that you, Rob?

Sara
Sara
Stop operatin’ your eyes

For years I thought that the line in Dylan's 'Jokerman' about "a small dog licking your face" was actually "a small dark look in your face".

I discovered a few minor Dylan mishearings on "Isis" while watching the Scorsese Rolling Thunder film the other day. A song I've been singing along to for 25 years, mind you.

"where the creek used to rise" I had as "where the creek hits the rise."

"You mystical child" as "Oh, I missed ya, good child."

"In the drizzlin' rain" as "with your dress all in rags."

I used to hear the lyrics of "Tangled Up in Blue" wrong and have never quite reconciled the written lyric vs. my sense of what the lyric *ought* to be. E.g.:

We drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out west
Split up on the docks that night, both agreein' it was best

vs.

Split up on a dark sad night, both agreein' it was best

For years I thought that the line in Dylan's 'Jokerman' about "a small dog licking your face" was actually "a small dark look in your face".

Huh… I guess I did too, until just now.

I used to hear the lyrics of "Tangled Up in Blue" wrong and have never quite reconciled the written lyric vs. my sense of what the lyric *ought* to be. E.g.:

We drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out west
Split up on the docks that night, both agreein' it was best

vs.

Split up on a dark sad night, both agreein' it was best

― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:46 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Damn, I've thought it was "docks that night" for decades.