Post subject: Misheard lyrics that were way-cooler than the original.
Have you ever had a favourite lyrics in a song then found out that what's said isn't what you thought and actually sucks pretty bad?
On the final song of 'Be' Common follows the tradition of having his father do some spoken word at the end, and he usually says some pretty cool, wise stuff. I'd always heard 'Be on time, with nowhere to go' and thought that was a really sweet mantra to have, like you should always be in the right place at the right time but always be a wanderer and let life take you where it will. An impossible paradox to achieve but one you should aim for. When I first heard it I was like 'woa, I need that above my desk' but then I googled it and it turns out it's 'Be on time, but know when to go' which I suppose is just about being punctual or something, I dunno.
Then the one I just discovered is Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.' I always thought he sung 'Our love is all we have ... Our love is all we've got's money', like halfway through the sentence he changes its meaning to be more about commercialism than love and how maybe his love is really just shallow and he realizes that if he didn't have this love he'd still have money left in the bank and he could keep living. Instead it turns out it's 'Our love is all of God's money' which is just a fairly lame love-song lyric that doesn't really mean anything.
It's a funny line that I guess I imagined. Byrne's delivery also sells it perfectly, that conflict is more unpleasant when other people are in the right than when they're in the wrong. The mental image of a bitter person getting disproportionately angry at a nice person. A slice of ironic psychoanalysis that fits perfectly with the rest of the song and encapsulates the character's point of view.
I thought in When The Sun Hits the lyric at the end of the chorus was "you're his sunbeam" but it's "you're his song yeah". that's so boring. _________________
Turned out "Gonna find a virgin and a pelican" was really "Glorified version of a pellet gun". What a letdown. _________________ May we all get to heaven
'Fore the devil knows we're dead...
craola likely knows this already, but no one knows what is actually being said in one part of Degausser by Brand New - including the band. I like
"You got back but you're running, I fell asleep in the halocline, I can't shake this little feeling, I'll never do anything right."
Others have heard "fall asleep in the alkaline", "fell asleep on the anchor line", "fall asleep in the end tonight", "fell asleep at an incline", "fall asleep in the afterlife", "fell asleep as my chest divides"(i really can't hear that one but like it a lot), and what I think must've been a joke "fell asleep with a bear, collide!". Those are just the ones that agree with "you've come back bur you're running" or similar hearings, others are like "You burned bright but you've run out", "you're burned bad but you're running", etc. We'll never know _________________
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