Ok, I was intending to write about how the economy is well up, to put it bluntly, a certain creek without a paddle. And now with Brown announcing a second unconditional banking bail-out. Woe is us!
But I ended up being distracted by this website (I need the frivolity and the humour…badly) and I recall visiting it a couple of years ago. Blimey, I am not the only person who has misheard lyrics.
Poor Alanis Morissette. I always liked Jagged Little Pill and the angsty, You Oughta Know. Radio stations surgically removed the bit: ‘when you fuck her.’ to something totally inaudible. But what the hell has a cross-eyed bear got to do with it?
Well, it seems many people think she is singing, ‘It’s not fair to deny me of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me’.
When in actual fact she is singing, ‘It’s not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me’
It seems that many people discover they have the lyrics wrong when they are singing along with others in the car…. and find out when they go off at a complete tangent. Such as finding out that Smokey Robinson was singing, ‘I Second That Emotion’ as opposed to, ‘Second Hand Emotion’.
Though sometimes the misheard lyrics are far more entertaining than the actual lyrics. Poor Robert Palmer….he may well have believed, ‘You’re Addicted to Love’ …and not, ‘You’re a Dick in a Glove’…..
But strangely I happened on Smash Mouth’s Walkin’ on the Sun (which I liked) where the misheard lyrics go, ‘You need to be there when your baby’s old enough to be laid’….
Now I too believed that was being song as well and always thought it worryingly jarred with the rest of the lyrics … Well, I possibly shoulda checked what was being sung.
‘You need to be there when your baby’s old enough to relate’….
Oops! Oh well….
And was Jimi Hendrix singing about kissing the guy or kissing the sky on Purple Haze…………
I was playing Guitar Hero the other day and I swear Hendrix said kiss the guy, but then my partner was saying that no one really knows.
You don’t remember the old hymn about Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear?
In The Pretender, when Jackson Browne sings “I’m gonna rent myself a house”, I always used to hear it as “I’m gonna rid myself of health”… which would be more Leonard Cohen than Jackson Browne, now I come to think of it.
Indeed it does sound more Leonard Cohen……
In Another Brick in the War, Pink Floyd sing, ‘No dark sarcasm in the classroom’….
Instead it is heard as, ‘No dogs and cats in the classroom’…….