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"I just thought of one, from The Who's "Pure and Easy":
Actual Lyric:
All men are bored
With other men's lives
"My" Lyric:
All men aboard
With other men's lies
I took that to we all must go through life with lies we…"
"A friend of mine misheard "tropical drink melting in your hand" in the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" as "Got the cocaine money in your hand," and I absolutely prefer that one."
"There's a Neil Diamond song, "Forever In Blue Jeans" that I misheard as "Reverend Blue Jeans," like it's about some youth pastor. I remember years ago finding out I wasn't the only one. On an episode of MST3K,…"
"I always heard Creedence Clearwater Revival's "There's a bad moon on the rise" as "there's a bathroom on the right." Like the others, I don't know that I prefer my younger self's version necessarily. They…"
"It's tricky, because there's lyrics that I've mis-heard, but none that I could say that I "preferred", per se. I'll have to think about this a while."
"I misheard the lyrics of "Yesterday" but only slightly.
The actual lyrics are...
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday
...but I heard it as...
I said, "Something wrong?"
Now I long for yesterday.
I wouldn't say I…"
Misheard lyrics you prefer to the originak
It's likely everyone has listened to a song they liked and misheard the lyrics. That's not unusual. However, have you ever thought your misheard lyrics were better or more interesting than those of the actual song? That replacing the actual lyric with your version might make it more thought provoking or meaningful? I'll give you a couple of examples for myself, one obscure, one famous:There was a band from Boston called Human Sexual Response from the 80s. They had a song called Marone Offering…See More
"The 80s Hercules miniseries did have it as a plot point that Zeus took away his immortality, at which point Hercules aged until he appeared around 60 or so. Prior to that, he was lamenting the death of one of his Mortal friends who died from old age…"
"I should really dig out my Swamp Thing trades and follow along. "
"So, just like a James Bond movie, then?"
"Since the original film barely used anything from the comics beyond the title and the basic concept, there is certainly plenty of room for improvement. I'd watch it."
"They could throw out everything from that lousy movie. Such a disappointment, and a departure from the Moore/O'Neil original. "
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- At 10:52am on November 19, 2017,
Olivier Marti said… - Hello Mr. Jackson. You offer an interesting idea of "the four just men" as maybe-inspiration of the Joker's crimes in Batman #1. So, what do you think, where does that pirating-radio-to-send-threat-idea in 1940 comes from? Thank you very much
- At 1:25pm on March 28, 2010,
Cavaliere (moderator emeritus) said…
- Happy birthday, Randy!
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