Seven naked native girls
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tilly_stratfordLet marrow bone and cleaver choose
While making feet for children shoes
Anyway, about music, let me quote the faithful source of any intellectual: The CD jacket.
And my point is, that's how it should be, shouldn't it? If it makes sense to you, if it appeals to your kind of logic and you like the imagery, nobody should spoil your fun, right? Now, I have several problems with correct lyrics on songs I like, my biggest might be one misheard word in Don McLean's complete and glorious American pie. Now, I always liked the imagery -
Last week I discovered another one that really shocked me - I happened to be reading the lyrics while listening to George Harrison's Soft-hearted Hana (the best track on his self-titled album in my opinion. And it's about drugs!) And in my head the lyrics goes:
Then there's the Hives' The dead quote olympics (biggest Housemartins copy if I ever heard one)which I still keep hearing as To deck or I'll move, bitch. I still shout it out like that, you know.
Just like the song I'm listening to now. I'm slightly disappointed Tom Waits doesn't sing, "Tilly's arms are hard and mean". The whole part turned out to be "Wipe him down with gazoline / 'Til his arms are hard and mean".
The whole point is, I liked the lyrics better my way. I think they should have been like that originally, although most of the songwriters I mentioned are dead by now. So, any similiar examples out there?
While making feet for children shoes
Anyway, about music, let me quote the faithful source of any intellectual: The CD jacket.
"Believes the interpretation of those who buy songs and listen to them, is, even if wrong, the correct one. To him the Everly Brother's Cathy's clown will always be about a man called Cathis Clown."That's from the jacket of Gilbert O'Sullivan's Berry vest album, just so you know.
And my point is, that's how it should be, shouldn't it? If it makes sense to you, if it appeals to your kind of logic and you like the imagery, nobody should spoil your fun, right? Now, I have several problems with correct lyrics on songs I like, my biggest might be one misheard word in Don McLean's complete and glorious American pie. Now, I always liked the imagery -
And while Lennon read a book of MarxI always liked the part about singing dirties in the dark, a nice reflection on young innocense and whatnot. But it isn't "dirties", you know. It's "dirges", though I will never accept it.
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirties in the dark
The day the music died
Last week I discovered another one that really shocked me - I happened to be reading the lyrics while listening to George Harrison's Soft-hearted Hana (the best track on his self-titled album in my opinion. And it's about drugs!) And in my head the lyrics goes:
Seven naked native girls swam seven sacred poolsAnd though I was baffled he sang about sex, there's logic in there, right? Seven naked girls, "take you on right now"... But once again, the mishearing of a few words changes the whole context: It's actually "You'd better get your clothes on or else there'll be a row". So that's what "take you on right now" refers to. And I'm mildly disappointed.
Lone-ranger smoking doobies said, You're breaking all the rules
You'd better get your clothes on or else I'll be aroused
If it wasn't for my sunstroke I would take you on right now
Then there's the Hives' The dead quote olympics (biggest Housemartins copy if I ever heard one)which I still keep hearing as To deck or I'll move, bitch. I still shout it out like that, you know.
Just like the song I'm listening to now. I'm slightly disappointed Tom Waits doesn't sing, "Tilly's arms are hard and mean". The whole part turned out to be "Wipe him down with gazoline / 'Til his arms are hard and mean".
The whole point is, I liked the lyrics better my way. I think they should have been like that originally, although most of the songwriters I mentioned are dead by now. So, any similiar examples out there?
