Songs where the songwriter confuses A with B

Now explain what the rest of the song is about.

Not sure that this one fits exactly with the theme of this thread, but it strikes me as the same kind of sacrifice of sense for the sake of the rhythm or the rhyme:

"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town"

Uh, yeah, it's gonna be somewhere in this town . . . at the jail.

There might be more than one jail in the town.

Hackd iphone could be anywhere.

xxp great minds…

I always had trouble with this classic by Thin Lizzy:
"Tonight there's gonna be a Jailbreak/Somewhere in this town!"

"Somewhere in this town?" Ummmm.....the jail, maybe?

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, January 2, 2002 5:00 PM (twenty years ago)

There is nothing new under the sun.

"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town"

I'd imagine it'll be taking place at the jail, Phil. Great track though, and great band.

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 4:21 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

The whole town is like one big jail, and the name of the jail is Society

Singer doesn’t know where the jail is exactly

iirc the original liner notes lay out a narrative that more or less matches bernard snowy's summary

Just got the iPhone joke, that’s pretty funny.

xxxxxpost some towns have multiple jails.

They might have been on work placements

I always figured that jail was a metaphor for being grounded.

One thing we can be sure of, there's gonna be trouble.

In "Do You Believe in Magic" by the Lovin' Spoonful, the line

I'll tell you 'bout the magic and it'll free your soul
But it's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock and roll

confuses literal and figurative language. It's not like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll; it is that. He's literally talking about rock and roll to someone he doesn't know.

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— potato bun (@erewhonsmoothie) August 15, 2023

the chef's kiss here, really, is using a child's cartoon to defend this error

squidward plays a clarinet tho

It's also funny b/c even if he had correctly named a wind instrument, there's a lyrical confusion in conflating the literal and figurative meaning of "blow"

Recommendations for hip-hop without adagio (or these other tempos)?

Recursive confusion: Squidward actually plays the clarinet, not the flute.

what's the matter jimbeaux, don't you know how to reed?

Embouchure hope we get this sorted out

I fucked up, but it do sound good.

baby i'm scared of you by womack & womack probably one of my favorite songs ever but this always irked me:

But my heart is nothing like those locks
And your formula's not my brand of stock
Like little red riding hood, you're the fox
Oh baby I'm scared of you

Men are all canids

elliott smith uses the wrong pronoun for the hindu god shiva in "son of sam"

Shiva opens her arms now
To make sure I don't get too far

what i find interesting about this is that i'm pretty sure that line is recycled from something he wrote when he was in high school - so in all that time he either didn't learn shiva's gender, or just chose to stick with the line cause it sounds better

has parallels with another early lyric -

The mighty mother with her hundred arms
Swept all aside

so maybe this theme of powerful many-armed female deities was something he liked to stick with?

there's a lyrical confusion in conflating the literal and figurative meaning of "blow"

"she play the skinflute all night..."

ACUTALLY, one "blows" into the "edge" of a flute, so....

that's probably the funniest mea culpa I've ever read honestly

he blames his A&R guy, then blames everyone who heard the song for not telling him, then admits he got the idea from Spongebob Squarepants, then gets the instrument wrong anyway? amazing

stupid sexy squidward

also I think he's implying he thinks Squidward is the yellow one?

First of all, who's his A&R? A mountain climber who blows an electric guitar?

i used to know a girl named shiva, maybe ES did too

she worked at Red Lobster but he didn't remember

In “Konichiwa, Bitches,” Robyn says “I’ll hammer your toe, like a pediatrician.”

Surely she means podiatrist?

thinking her childhood doctor might need some investigating

or maybe she was referring to that lil reflex test they do only they don't hammer your toe it's your knee

I'll squeeze your balls and make you cough

Like a podiatrist

I'll examine your throat like an EMT

I'll squeeze your balls and make you cough

Like a podiatrist

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, August 16, 2023 12:52 PM

Lost Lulu lyric

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p01h6z6b.jpg

gd this revive delivers

"To Sir With Love" would be a great entrance song for Trump

more like "Tosser with Golf Glove" amirite

Like a basketball player

baby i'm scared of you by womack & womack probably one of my favorite songs ever but this always irked me:

Like little red riding hood, you're the fox

I played a trivia boardgame yesterday ("Linkee") where Little Red Ridinghood was the answer to the given cluewords "wood", "red", "grandmother", and "fox".

I got it right having remembered your post!