What song lyric(s) do you always get wrong, and you don't care?
August 7, 2013 6:14 AM Subscribe
You know what I'm talking about. It's that popular song that you like to sing when you hear it, or in your head when you're going about your day. You know some of the words but the rest you've filled in with something phonetically fitting, but logically absurd.
As an example, a woman I was friends with in college would sing "Like a twister I was born to walk along" instead of "Like a drifter I was born to walk alone" to that Whitesnake song. When I corrected her, she shrugged, and I can only assume she still sings it like that. To make matters worse, now when I hear it, I have her version in my head (although, my sister downloaded it from one of the online stores, and it says "like a hobo..." which just sounded weird. It wasn't a remix as far as I know).
As an example, a woman I was friends with in college would sing "Like a twister I was born to walk along" instead of "Like a drifter I was born to walk alone" to that Whitesnake song. When I corrected her, she shrugged, and I can only assume she still sings it like that. To make matters worse, now when I hear it, I have her version in my head (although, my sister downloaded it from one of the online stores, and it says "like a hobo..." which just sounded weird. It wasn't a remix as far as I know).
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It wasn't until I played rock band 2 years ago that I realized the line was "the cross I bear, that you gave to me" and not "the cross-eyed bear, that you gave to me" in You Oughta Know by Alanis Morrisette.
I think I was just too young to understand the cross bearing metaphor when I first heard the song and then just never questioned it after that. I still sing about the cross-eyed teddy bear that this girl's boyfriend gave her for some reason when the song comes on now.
posted by magnetsphere at 6:22 AM on August 7, 2013 [1 favorite]
I think I was just too young to understand the cross bearing metaphor when I first heard the song and then just never questioned it after that. I still sing about the cross-eyed teddy bear that this girl's boyfriend gave her for some reason when the song comes on now.
posted by magnetsphere at 6:22 AM on August 7, 2013 [1 favorite]
Excuse me while I kiss this guy. Sorry James Marshall Hendrix
posted by JohnnyGunn at 6:22 AM on August 7, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by JohnnyGunn at 6:22 AM on August 7, 2013 [1 favorite]
Oh, another one, from Lana Del Rey's "Born to Die":
"Lost but now I'm found/I can see your one side is blind" instead of the real lyric: "I can see but once I was blind."
posted by whistle pig at 6:25 AM on August 7, 2013
"Lost but now I'm found/I can see your one side is blind" instead of the real lyric: "I can see but once I was blind."
posted by whistle pig at 6:25 AM on August 7, 2013
(The "hobo" version of the song was from when it was originally recorded in 1982. They re-recorded it in 1987, used the word "drifter", it went to #1 on the Billboard charts, I had my first kiss to it, the rest is history)
posted by Lucinda at 6:26 AM on August 7, 2013
posted by Lucinda at 6:26 AM on August 7, 2013
There's a street here in L.A. called Alvarado. Guess what I sing whenever I drive down it.
posted by sexyrobot at 6:26 AM on August 7, 2013
posted by sexyrobot at 6:26 AM on August 7, 2013
I once heard someone call Paradise from Coldplay as "Pair of Dice" and now for the life of me I cannot sing it any other way.
posted by royalsong at 6:27 AM on August 7, 2013
posted by royalsong at 6:27 AM on August 7, 2013
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I learned at some point that this is a common mis-hearing of it.
posted by whistle pig at 6:22 AM on August 7, 2013 [1 favorite]