mis-heard TGA lyrics

i always thought 'a pause to cool the refrain' in 1930 was actually 'a popsicle to the brain'
...oops :/

cola-connoisseur wrote:

'a popsicle to the brain'

haha i just pictured brian singing that and it made me laugh

For a while I heard "the beatings had to someday end" in Boxer as "the meetings at the Sunday Inn."

Best misheard lyric ever. In High Lonesome.

What he says:
And in my head there's all these classic cars and outlaw cowboy bands

What I thought he says:
And in my head there's all these classic cars and I want cowboy pants

simo wrote:

For a while I heard "the beatings had to someday end" in Boxer as "the meetings at the Sunday Inn."

Make that 2.

I always heard "Poor Mr. Pitbull" not Mr Pitiful, and I still sing it that way in Miles Davis.

shownofear91 wrote:

Best misheard lyric ever. In High Lonesome.

What he says:
And in my head there's all these classic cars and outlaw cowboy bands

What I thought he says:
And in my head there's all these classic cars and I want cowboy pants

I used to think it was:
And In my head there's all these classic cars and I wore cowboy pants



but I also used to think in the song The Navesink Banks
instead of:
"Spent time neath the tressels, with the punks and the dimestore saints, kept faith and a switchblade, tucked beneath my coat, and I ran with dirty angels, slept out in the rain"
I thought he said:
"Spent time neath the tressels, with the punks and the downstore saints, kept faith in a switchblade tucked beneath my coat, and the red and dirty angels slept out in the rain"

In "River's Edge", I always thought it was "So now I drive the 101/ I'm a cowboy tonight." Really changes the song when you figure out it's "So now I drive the 101/ on a California night."

I still hear "Rest your weary head and love a better me" over "Rest your wear head and lover bury me" in TSoJ. Maybe because "love a better me" sounds better =P

Reinvent good times wrote:

I always heard "Poor Mr. Pitbull" not Mr Pitiful, and I still sing it that way in Miles Davis.

Mr. Pitiful comes from an Otis Redding song I think, so I heard that one straight away =P

In "Spirit of the Jazz" my bro thought it was "you smell like motel soap" as opposed to "you slow like Motown soul" hahaha

23 wrote:

In "Spirit of the Jazz" my bro thought it was "you smell like motel soap" as opposed to "you slow like Motown soul" hahaha

That's a good one =D

In "We Came to Dance" I initially thought he said "Strike up the Badlands song that everybody knows," and not, "Strike up the band, play a song that everybody knows"

Mercy and a Minute wrote:

In "We Came to Dance" I initially thought he said "Strike up the Badlands song that everybody knows," and not, "Strike up the band, play a song that everybody knows"

classic

Since he doesn't exactly pronounce the second syllable of the word boxer, it sounds like Brian is saying, "Remember when I knew a box, baby?"

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23 wrote:

In "Spirit of the Jazz" my bro thought it was "you smell like motel soap" as opposed to "you slow like Motown soul" hahaha

LMAO!!!!!!!!!

in here's looking at you kid, i always thought he said, "you remind nana...instead of anna...like grandma, nana..i was like wtf what does his nana have to do with this song" lol so sad

Yeah haha I have read interpretations of that song where people think it's about his grandma having alzheimers...

azlisa wrote:

in here's looking at you kid, i always thought he said, "you remind nana...instead of anna...like grandma, nana..i was like wtf what does his nana have to do with this song" lol so sad

Nana is also a name...

thecosmickid wrote:

azlisa wrote:

in here's looking at you kid, i always thought he said, "you remind nana...instead of anna...like grandma, nana..i was like wtf what does his nana have to do with this song" lol so sad

Nana is also a name...

i've never heard or seen anyone's name be nana, but here usually grandma's are referred to as nana lol

my friend thought for the longest time that the lyrics at the end of orphans were " Where pallaminos lay" like the horse instead of "where ballerinas lay"

i always hear in Once Upon a Time (i know it's not a Gaslight song) "you used to wet girl them hot pants" but i guess "wear" makes more sense

in orphans- we were diamonds and naturals

I thought the line "swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes" in The Blues, Mary was "swirling around my head like your dreams in your ugly shoes" - stupid, i know but it does sound like that, kind of, and sometimes just for shits and giggles i still sing it that way

Ferris Wheel - "Boy won't talk" - I used to sing "Boardwalk talk". I think it sounds cooler, and it fits with the previous lines!