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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…
Lady Mondegreen sounds bad ass
When you’re in Morrowind, oh, baby, that’s sick
In lay me down by the dirty heads, the line:
But they were seen by the good eye of the mean billy green
Should have been:
But they were seen by the keen eye of the mean billy green
There’s a break-up song on Chvrch’s debuted 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.
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!
Also, Mr. Miller? What the hell is a pompatus of love??
There used to be a greater power alone on the sea:
You became a light on the dark side of me. Love became a draw that I could not appeal. But did you know that when it snows, My eyes become alive, and the light that you shine can be seen?Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey…
🎶Wrapped up like a douche, another owner in the night🎶
🎶Hold me closer, Tony Danza🎶
I like to sing, “Wrapped up like a douche, another rubber in the night” but yours sounds closer. That song is great for this. “Blighted by the right, wrapped up like douche, another Romney in the fight”
I always thought it was “another rumour in the night” 🥲
That’s when it’s time to write a cover.
“It’s too late to roll the dice” instead of “it’s too late to apologize” sounds much more meaningful.
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…
I cannot hear this song without thinking that the background singers are repeatedly saying “cut your balls off” during the refrain
“Sewing machines of love”
-Tears for Fears
🎶Concrete jungle wet dream toma-to!🎶
And I’ll sing all night and in the mornin’ light
When your shades are on and your head’s on ice
You’ll know you’ve seen the redneck sodomy
