• don
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    🎶Wrapped up like a douche, another owner in the night🎶

    🎶Hold me closer, Tony Danza🎶

  • @Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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    “It’s too late to roll the dice” instead of “it’s too late to apologize” sounds much more meaningful.

    • @Flummoxed@lemmy.today
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      22 months ago

      Ooh, I like this one! I thought it was, “it’s too late to call the job” when I first heard it and was pretty unsure what he was going for…

        • @Flummoxed@lemmy.today
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          32 months ago

          Yes! Of course. I now have a whole music video of someone hideously hungover, driving to work singing this… Kind of like the “everybody hurts” video but like crazy shit is happening.

    • JackbyDev
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      That because they really butcher it and say 'poligize.

  • @gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
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    I always think of Metallica’s Saint Anger:

    🎶 Medallion noose, I hang myself

    Saint Anger 'round my neck

    I feel my world shake

    Like an earthquake

    Hard to see clear

    Is it me? Is it fear?

    I’m not even angry with you

    I’m not even angry with you

    I’m not even angry with you

    I’m not even angry with you

    🎶

    Yet the real lyrics are:

    I’m madly in anger with you

    I’m madly in anger with you

    I’m madly in anger with you

    I’m madly in anger with you

    sigh…

  • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Damn it, Mr.Ingle. Can you not sing “in the garden of eden” without sounding like you have a mouth full of pudding?

    Fuck it. We’ll just change the name of the damned song. Who the hell makes a 17 minute long song, anyhow? You’re a damned idiot!

  • @gladflag@lemmy.ml
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    At a punk gig once I heard:

    “Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake!“

    They were actually singing about “Tinnies (Aussie for beer) on Tuesday”. Not as good IMO.

  • Liz
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    122 months ago

    'Cause I’m in too deep
    And I’m trying to keep
    up above in my head
    All the thoughts in my head
    'stead of going under

    • Thomrade
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      Holy shit.

      I saw them live last year for the finale tour and even live, I heard “up above in my head”

        • Liz
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          12 months ago

          Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person’s mind though.

    • @Lolseas@lemmy.world
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      Omfg. I bought All Killer No Filler the first week it was in stores. And I heard your interpretation ever since. Hot damn, thank you so much for chiming in. And fuck.

      • Liz
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        12 months ago

        To be clear “up above in my head” are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.

  • @usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up

    I always heard:

    Picture yourself (At) the MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting how come You’re in the stands?

    I loved this line as it was calling out the assumption when you picture something big, why are you in the crowd and not the star of the show? It felt motivating and a fun play on the way people imagine themselves in the world.

    It’s actually:

    Picture yourself The MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting Occam You’re in the stands

    Which, just doesn’t do any of the things the misheard lyric does. So disappointing.

  • CodexArcanum
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    There’s a break-up song on Chvrch’s debut album called Tether. One line, frequently repeated, goes “I’m feeling capable of… seeing the end.” A fine lyric, very breakup, much hopeful.

    Except, I can’t tell when listening that she isn’t saying “I feel incapable of…” I don’t know if it’s intentional but I think the ambiguity really elevates the song from semi-empowering breakup song to powerfully-relatable song about the chaos of seeing a relationship end; simultaneously believing you can get through it while also having no idea how you’ll ever get through it.

    It’s just fun wordplay too: feeling capable/feel incapable. Makes me want to use that structure more in my own writing.

    • @MBM@lemmings.world
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      That reminds me of Night Sky, which has “I will ne’er be free” but it sounds a lot like “I will now be free”

  • @pyre@lemmy.world
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    not always. I saw this in a forum meant years ago, I wish I had saved a screenshot or something…

    the forum thread was about the dumbest lyrics in songs and someone said sanitarium by metallica had these lyrics:

    Got some death to do
    Mirror stairs back hard
    Kill, it’s such a friendly word

    and complained it’s nonsense. why would stairs be made of mirrors, and what did that have anything with the rest… also what does stairs back hard even mean, etc …

    as you may have guessed even if you don’t know the song, the lyrics are “mirror stares back hard”, which means the person is talking about their own reflection having a look in their eyes.

    not only were the misheard lyrics dumb, but I always admired the sheer confidence of the person who, upon hearing these nonsense lyrics, instead of using their internet access to look it up to confirm, used it to complain how stupid it was without thinking twice about whether they could have misunderstood.

  • @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    92 months ago

    Someone once told me that they thought the line in Uptown Funk was, “I’m too hot, hot ham!” and I’ve been hearing it that way ever since.

  • Drusas
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    It’s a relatively minor difference, but for decades, I thought the lyric in Smashing Pumpkins’ Muzzle went

    🎵 My life has been extraordinary blessed and cursed at once 🎵

    and it’s been one of my favorite lines in any song. Except I was wrong. It goes

    🎵 My life has been extraordinary blessed and cursed and won 🎵

    It’s not a favorite anymore.

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    Like a dog without a bone, like an actor OUT OF ROLE

    For fuck’s sake Jim, actor out on loan, pff! What had he been smoking?