I just went to a lyrics site to check my quote from the Who’s ‘Love Ain’t For Keeping’ for RR, and found the first line rendered as
Layin’ on my back in the nude and on the grass
Now, this may very well be the case later on in the song, but for the first line it’s really the ‘newly-mown’ grass to which they are referring.
Anyone found any more malapropisms on lyrics sites?
Here’s Raining in Port Arthur by the Gourds – someone’s having a horrible afternoon.
i first read that song title as “raining in porn, arthur” and had to do a double take!
Made me look!Did you see the hippo called after you?
Made me look!Did you see the hippo called after you?
There are several that are now bugging me, because recall is failing me. The other week, Nina’s “All Your Life” lyrics were quoted as “harrowing” instead of “heroin makes you thin”. Still convinced that Paul Young “takes a piece of meat with you” every time you go away.
I’m waaay behind on my listening, but thanks for putting Bruce up, will get there.
Apparently a misheard lyrics is called a mondegreen but that’s not what you’re after here is it? Several lyrics sites had REM’s ‘Can’t Get There From Here’ saying ‘Throw your troubles out the door.”Troubles’ should read, the far more prosaic and easy to understand ‘trolls’.Obvious really.