The song on record is innuendo, but when they performed it live they made sure to spell it out for everyone

"I heard Gideon screwed you in Denver," which has a clever slant rhyme, becomes "I heard Gideon fucked you in Denver," which makes it seem like 14 year old Craig finally gets to swear on stage and his mom can't stop him.

― Hilary Duff McKagan (Tom Violence)

The lyrics of St. Vincent's "Prince Johnny" on the studio album go "...and bragged when and where and who you're gonna bed next" - presumably on the off chance someone might want to play the song on the radio because live it's always "...gonna fuck next". Also there's like a five minute guitar solo in there as well.

God, in my misspent youth, when I listened to early Marillion there was a line in one song where Fish proclaimed 'This is Brixton chess', when played live he would sing the line and in the gap before the next would bark 'BLACK WHITE BLACK WHITE' even as a 12-year old I'd be rolling my eyes, what a clod.

New Order's "True Faith," on record, has the verse:

When I was a very small boy
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we've grown up together
They're afraid of what they see

But live they regularly reverted back to the original lyrics:

When I was a very small boy
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we've grown up together
They're all taking drugs with me

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 July 2012 11:55 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

.. to say nothing of the Michael Jackson version..

Oh man I bet Aerosmith are the kings of this

http://www.rockthisway.net/altlyr.htm

― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, January 9, 2020 3:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

from: Livin' it up when I'm goin' down
to: Lickin' the pink but I'm tastin' brown

I wanted to spell it out for everyone

ts: Steven Tyler vs Andrew Dice Clay

steven tyler: dice sans self-awareness / irony + blueshammer

"Suckin on Your Gland" probably my favorite unused Aerosmith bootleg title

(I'm thinking he means thyroid?)

SUCKIN ON YOUR GLAND BRAD