Sometimes, you substitute the wrong lyrics in a song. Your ear does not hear them correctly. The accent of the singer or lack of diction might make it impossible to discern what is being sung.
Or, you have hundreds of phrases stored in your head and you project one outward that sounds like the one being listened to, your brain choosing the one in your head over what is actually out there in the world. The brain loves short cuts.
When I was a wee thing, in the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, I thought the lyric, “A girl with kaleidoscope eyes,” was “A girl with colitis goes by.”
One can only imagine the amount of colitis in my family that brought that one to the fore.
On a slightly related note, I have a new rule:
“Never eat a hot open turkey sandwich at a junky diner before taking a transcontinental flight.”
4 comments:
I grew up in the 80's. My cousin Chantell thought the phrase "take your passion" in FAME was "take your pants off and make it happen"
:-o
But I want to know..... just what IS the 'pompitice of love'??
And is it 'Tube Snake Boogie' or 'Tube Steak Boogie'??
And on a related note I had a friend who got on the auto-train for 3 days after a bowl of chili at Union Station......
I am still puzzled by the lyric "it looks like a douche in and the runner in the night" from "Blinded by the Light."
I know the Springsteen one - owned the album:
Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night
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