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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:22 pm
"I am an ARCH-I-TECT they call me Vulture"
Apparently he says Butcher.
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:27 pm
Bob Marley - Is This Love?
"We'll be together, with a roof rack over our head."
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:00 pm
Angel Olsen - "Chance".
Actual lyric - "I wish I could un-know some things that taught me so".
The lyrics as I thought/wish they were - "I wish I could un-know some things that told me so".
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Wed May 05, 2021 9:22 pm
I always thought Tim Booth was singing, "Stop stop talking about who's to blame when all the counties are to change."
It turns out he's singing, "Stop stop talking about who's to blame when all that counts is how to change."
Needless to say, my version was better.
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:35 pm
It's not a misheard lyric, as such, because I've always know what the correct lyric is but I genuinely can't sing the Beatles' And I Love Her without singing, "Dark are the stars that shine. Bright is the night." It's like some kind of mental block I have.
Needless to say, I prefer my version. It has a more sinister tone to it.
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:34 am
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Sat Nov 20, 2021 8:27 pm
"Wearing a fez that she keeps in a jar by the door."
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Sun May 01, 2022 6:37 pm
"I had some dreams. There were clowns in my coffee." ~ Carly Simon.
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Mon May 02, 2022 12:15 am
'Calling Jamaica' - REM, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight.
Only this weekend did I find out it is actually 'Call me when you try to wake her'.
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Mon May 02, 2022 8:42 am
I've heard people sing, "Calling Cheryl Baker."
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Wed Jul 06, 2022 3:13 pm
Only today, when a DJ referred to your 'first six string' before the song came on, did I realize that 'Summer of 69' does not begin 'got my first real sex dream' but 'got my first real six string'.
All my life I've thought it was about a boy having his first real sex dream in the summer of his life. It played, and I still hear 'It was the summer of 69 when I got my first real sex dream'.
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Wed Jul 06, 2022 4:10 pm
Your lyric is indeed better.
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:39 pm
From the most recent Angel Olsen album, from the song "Right Now" (probably the best song on the record)...
Supposably the actual lyrics:
Some truth is never known Until you've lost your hand Until you've had to fight And waited through the night
My misheard and better lyrics:
Some truth is never known Until you've lost your mind Until you've had to fight And waded through the night
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:44 pm
The juxtaposition of...
Until you've had to fight And waded through the night
Is especially, poetically apt.
Fight (battling, striving) and wading (forging, striving against a murky current that silently wishes that you falter) through the night (the emotionally "dark" time).
The original/actual "Until you've had to fight, and waited through the night" is a meek and weak sort of speak.
Clause 1: fighty. Clause 2: waity.
No, Olsen, no!
Olsen, no!
NoOH OLSEN NO!!
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Thu Nov 03, 2022 5:24 pm
Maniac, from Flashdance.
I always thought 'She's a maniac, maniac, maniac on the floor' was 'There's a maniac, maniac, maniac on the phone'. It's on the radio now, and it isn't what I thought.
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:56 pm
England World Cup Squad - We've Got The Whole World At Our Feet (England - Mexico, '86).
"There's not a single team that we can beat."
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Subject: Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:04 pm
"Why must you wreck all my phone calls? Are you planning a bootleg LP?'
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