Misheard Lyrics
Misheard Lyrics
I think we've talked about this before, but it might have been 2 boards back, cause I dont really remember it . . .
Anyways, I was wondering what songs you've misheard a lyric in and maybe didnt know the correct lyric for years and years.
Simple though the lyric was, I didnt know EC was singing "simple though love is" in I Cant Stand Up For Falling Down until an embarassingly short time ago. Instead, I always heard it as "superbowl lovers."
I always wondered what that meant . . .
Anyways, I was wondering what songs you've misheard a lyric in and maybe didnt know the correct lyric for years and years.
Simple though the lyric was, I didnt know EC was singing "simple though love is" in I Cant Stand Up For Falling Down until an embarassingly short time ago. Instead, I always heard it as "superbowl lovers."
I always wondered what that meant . . .
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These are all from TRUST.
"Or wind up with a fat man in the Hammersmith Odeon" ("Or wind up with a fight fan in the Hammersmith Hotel")
"I like your sons
And I like your daughters"
(They hire out your sons
And hire out your daughters")
"He needs a lot, the ass needs the turkey" ("He needs her like the axe need the turkey") and "You took him to be trouble" ("You took him to be true")
Oh, and:
"Now I know that you are King Horse
Built with tenderness and brute force"
("Now I know that you're all King Horse
Between tenderness and brute force")
I'm not reading the lyrics any more. I only end up disappointed.
"Or wind up with a fat man in the Hammersmith Odeon" ("Or wind up with a fight fan in the Hammersmith Hotel")
"I like your sons
And I like your daughters"
(They hire out your sons
And hire out your daughters")
"He needs a lot, the ass needs the turkey" ("He needs her like the axe need the turkey") and "You took him to be trouble" ("You took him to be true")
Oh, and:
"Now I know that you are King Horse
Built with tenderness and brute force"
("Now I know that you're all King Horse
Between tenderness and brute force")
I'm not reading the lyrics any more. I only end up disappointed.
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My own personal "wash your ears out" mishearing moment was when I went to one of the Confederates shows at the Royal Albert Hall and EC did a solo spot. He decided to play a new song called (according to my ears anyway) "Any Cane Sugar". It took two years for Spike to come out before I realised what he was on about...
In case any of you have pity in that the Albert Hall is a big place, I was actually in the front row right in front of Elvis....
In case any of you have pity in that the Albert Hall is a big place, I was actually in the front row right in front of Elvis....
Who’s this kid with his mumbo jumbo?
Well, since in what I assume is a bit of punk-era "listen to the songs, don't read 'em" aesthetic, EC issued NO lyrics sheets until Imperial Bedroom (and, on the original version, that was in the form of a single, almost unreadable, block paragraph printed on the inner sleeve), so there must have been thousands....Just can't remember any!
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I always thought it was..
"There was a chip on Charlie
He didn't crack a smile"
instead of "checkpoint charlie"...it kinda still makes sense.
Completely off topic....I was listening to Spike last night...what is the line in This Town..
"Something about the moody doomed love of
the Fish-Finger King"
about? Anyone care to enlighten me?
"There was a chip on Charlie
He didn't crack a smile"
instead of "checkpoint charlie"...it kinda still makes sense.
Completely off topic....I was listening to Spike last night...what is the line in This Town..
"Something about the moody doomed love of
the Fish-Finger King"
about? Anyone care to enlighten me?
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What?
I always thought it was "the looney-tune love of the fish-finger king".
And "far to a flaw".
And "far to a flaw".
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It's a line from the song that Charlie Sedarka sings, and it doesn't have to make sense on its own. It could be that Charlie's song makes no sense, which the preceding line implies, or maybe it does make sense but is misqouted here, which the "something about" allows for:laughingcrow wrote:I was listening to Spike last night...what is the line in This Town..
"Something about the moody doomed love of
the Fish-Finger King"
about? Anyone care to enlighten me?
It was a song with a topical verse which I'm afraid he then proceeded to sing
Something about the moody doomed love of the Fish-Finger King
"But it's a dangerous game that comedy plays
Sometimes it tells you the truth
Sometimes it delays it"
Sometimes it tells you the truth
Sometimes it delays it"
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Not with a ten-foot pinky
Uh, Cope, would you like to handle this one?
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Here's my theory.....weird though it may be....
Birdseye (frozen food chain) claim to be the Fish Finger Kings - they have used this in their advertising. Charley Sedaka has a grey beard and an expanding waistline - he looks like Captain Birdseye. Simple.
Later he feeds off a dead monkeys hand and has a stare like Persian cat while eating stripping puppets on a liquid stick, pulling chewing gum out of his ears, sitting on a cloud at the North Pole and chucking gollywogs under the chin.
Spike eh? - he's not compared to Dylan for nothing - very strange Elvis indeed.
Birdseye (frozen food chain) claim to be the Fish Finger Kings - they have used this in their advertising. Charley Sedaka has a grey beard and an expanding waistline - he looks like Captain Birdseye. Simple.
Later he feeds off a dead monkeys hand and has a stare like Persian cat while eating stripping puppets on a liquid stick, pulling chewing gum out of his ears, sitting on a cloud at the North Pole and chucking gollywogs under the chin.
Spike eh? - he's not compared to Dylan for nothing - very strange Elvis indeed.
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