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    5 months ago

    🎶Wrapped up like a douche, another owner in the night🎶

    🎶Hold me closer, Tony Danza🎶

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    At a punk gig once I heard:

    “Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake!“

    They were actually singing about “Tinnies (Aussie for beer) on Tuesday”. Not as good IMO.

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    Damn it, Mr.Ingle. Can you not sing “in the garden of eden” without sounding like you have a mouth full of pudding?

    Fuck it. We’ll just change the name of the damned song. Who the hell makes a 17 minute long song, anyhow? You’re a damned idiot!

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    It’s a relatively minor difference, but for decades, I thought the lyric in Smashing Pumpkins’ Muzzle went

    🎵 My life has been extraordinary blessed and cursed at once 🎵

    and it’s been one of my favorite lines in any song. Except I was wrong. It goes

    🎵 My life has been extraordinary blessed and cursed and won 🎵

    It’s not a favorite anymore.

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    Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up

    I always heard:

    Picture yourself (At) the MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting how come You’re in the stands?

    I loved this line as it was calling out the assumption when you picture something big, why are you in the crowd and not the star of the show? It felt motivating and a fun play on the way people imagine themselves in the world.

    It’s actually:

    Picture yourself The MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting Occam You’re in the stands

    Which, just doesn’t do any of the things the misheard lyric does. So disappointing.

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    There’s a break-up song on Chvrch’s debut album called Tether. One line, frequently repeated, goes “I’m feeling capable of… seeing the end.” A fine lyric, very breakup, much hopeful.

    Except, I can’t tell when listening that she isn’t saying “I feel incapable of…” I don’t know if it’s intentional but I think the ambiguity really elevates the song from semi-empowering breakup song to powerfully-relatable song about the chaos of seeing a relationship end; simultaneously believing you can get through it while also having no idea how you’ll ever get through it.

    It’s just fun wordplay too: feeling capable/feel incapable. Makes me want to use that structure more in my own writing.

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      That reminds me of Night Sky, which has “I will ne’er be free” but it sounds a lot like “I will now be free”

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    I just learned that in Collective Soul’s Shine, he’s not saying “you haven’t let your light shine down”. But it’s actually a Jesus song and 'heaven let your light shine down." Over 30 years I was wrong lol

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    in my mind, the lyrics of no surprises by radiohead will always be

    no one laughs and no surprises

    rather than

    no alarms and no surprises

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    Probably a tad obscure, but at the end of Set (Extended Mix) there’s a section where they repeat “converge” but I can’t help but hear ‘you’re a virgin’ XD

    Then again I don’t like that better than the original lyric per se, it’s just different

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    “‘E’ for very, very, extra ordinary.” VS “‘E’ for very, very, extraordinary.” The way I heard it performed always sounded like two separate words. I was like, “damn, she couldn’t just be nice the whole song?” I finally read the lyrics when I was older.

    “I don’t want another heartache at my door, don’t want another heartache on my list” VS “don’t want another heartache on my lips.”

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    Like a dog without a bone, like an actor OUT OF ROLE

    For fuck’s sake Jim, actor out on loan, pff! What had he been smoking?