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re: What are your favorite "misheard" lyrics?
Posted on 9/15/15 at 8:58 am to The Hindu Dindu
Posted on 9/15/15 at 8:58 am to The Hindu Dindu
Posted on 9/15/15 at 9:24 am to AlxTgr
LOL. Here's another weird one, that shows how your memory can play tricks on you when you hear a song.
There's an Al Stewart tune from the 24 Carrots CD called Paint By Numbers. For years - and I would have SWORN by this - I thought there was a line in it that went "What'll you do if the music sucks when I'm gone?"
One day I finally went and looked up the lyric sheet and sure enough this line is nowhere to be found. What I did find, though, is that the first time through in the song he sings:
"What'll you do if the muse gets lost when I'm gone?"
Then in the next verse it's "What'll you do if the brush gets stuck when I'm gone?"
Somehow - frick if I know how - my mind combined "muse gets lost" and "brush gets stuck" into "music sucks"
There's an Al Stewart tune from the 24 Carrots CD called Paint By Numbers. For years - and I would have SWORN by this - I thought there was a line in it that went "What'll you do if the music sucks when I'm gone?"
One day I finally went and looked up the lyric sheet and sure enough this line is nowhere to be found. What I did find, though, is that the first time through in the song he sings:
"What'll you do if the muse gets lost when I'm gone?"
Then in the next verse it's "What'll you do if the brush gets stuck when I'm gone?"
Somehow - frick if I know how - my mind combined "muse gets lost" and "brush gets stuck" into "music sucks"
This post was edited on 9/15/15 at 9:26 am
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