The sky is bitching violently
That's what I thought the lyric was in “No One at the Bridge” by Rush, which we are listening to at Mark's behest. He just informed me the sky was actually pitching violently. Too bad: "bitching" would have been better. 'Course, I'm not too sure we can trust Mark since he also seems to think an AC/DC song I remember as being called "Gone Fishing" is actually called "Gone Shooting."
posted by Sarah Goss at 6:13 PM
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One of the local Philly radio stations used to have an annual contest for misheard lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven". The best by far was "And there's a wino down the road, I should have brought more Oreos".....
Okay, I can see "And there's a wino down the road." Totally. But the line after that does not sound like "I should have brought more Oreos." No way.
Oh, boy--you've hit on one of my all-time favorite topics. My most sentimental memory in this regard is some amusing soul who wrote in to Creem in its 80s incarnation (or possibly Spin?) asking if Michael Stipe was in fact singing "We could gather, throw up beer" in their song "Sitting Still." Although they were pretty heavy drinkers in those days, the real line is something like "We could gather, throw a fit."
I'm told that it's unbelievable I never until about a year ago heard the apparently classic misheard CCR line (which seems to only be slightly less popular than "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy") "There's a bathroom on the right," but whenever I think of it it still makes me laugh...like right now.
Hee hee heee! Thank you for making me laugh today, Michael... first you were a mosquito, and now you gave me "There's a bathroom on the right." Yes, it definitely sounds that way, and the Jimi Hendrix one does, too, so those are both credible to me. I love misheard lyrics. Sometimes it's embarrassing when YOU are the one who's misheard them, and you're singing along unselfconsciously, and someone corrects you... that seems to happen to me a lot (with Mark correcting me)...I'll try to think of a good example.
Heehee. Remember my lyrics for FAME: Take your pants off and make it happen ...
That's one of my faves EV-ah... Mita and "take your pants off and make it happen." But, wait, isn't that from "Flashdance," rather than "Fame"? From "What a Feeling"?
Oh yes. Irene Cara songs blur together in my mind, apparently.
Take your pants off
And make it happen la la la
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That is one of my favorite mishead lyrics, Mita!... and I know I have a bunch, too, but at the moment all I can think of is that I thought in Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer," the line was, "We've got each other, and that's a lie for love. We'll give it a shot." I always WAS a cynic. As it turns out (according to Mark, at least), that line is easy to mishear because of its brilliant use of enjambment; he claims the line actually goes,
"We've got each other, and that's a lot. For love,/
We'll give it a shot."
See the enjambment?? Verrrry tricky stuff. I still love Meghan's mishearing from that same song, because it really DOES sound like ("Tommy's got his six-string in hock;) Now he's holding men, when he used to make talk so tough."
Hee hee hee hee.
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