Heard Bob Seger’s Her Strut the other night, as always got a kick out of this line:
They love to watch her strut.
They do respect her, but
they love to watch her strut.
Because, of course, without a lyric sheet, and given the musical phrasing, it’s just as easily heard as:
They love to watch her strut.
They do respect her butt.
They love to watch her strut.
Reminds me of Tom Petty, who was forced to change the line “Let’s roll another joint” for the radio. He changed it to “Let’s hit another joint”, as in “Let’s stop at another bar” – making the drug reference even more explicit – and they let it stand!
Are you certain about that? I always heard it as “But I know what I am and what I am is a man”. Which, of course, takes all the ambiguity out of the next line.
“Can I believe the magic of your sighs?” from Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?, which can easily be misheard as “Can I believe the magic of your size?” Hee-hee!
Band: Lowest of the Low
Album: “Shakespeare, My Butt” (one of the all-time best 1st albums)
Song: Rosy and Grey
"Well, I’ve kissed you in France and I’ve kissed you in Spain
And I’ve kissed you in places I’d better not name
And I’ve seen the sun go down on Sacre Coeur
But I like it much better going down on you "
Sorry then I’ll explain (in a spoiler coz it really is a spoiler to the series)
At the end it turns out that Number 6 is Number 1 (as far as anything in the series is really resolved) Number 6 takes off number 1’s gorilla mask and sees himself. So every eppisode of the show actually told us the answer. “Who is Number 1?” Answer “You are, Number 6”. There is even a subtle pause in delivering the line “You are, Number 6” that suggests the comma. Very cool idea if you ask me. And totally hidden until you get to the end (and have it explained to you).
It wasn’t ‘hidden’. It was simply that the writer didn’t get to come up with more crack-addled rubbish from his brain before then. Some people think it was… interesting. Others think it made no sense at all. Which it logically doesn’t.
Though it doesn’t seem ambiguous out of context, one line in The Conversation is marvelously ambiguous – and you don’t realize how until the end.
“He’ll kill us if he had the chance.” Hackman spends the entire movie worrying that the speaker might be killed, until he realizes the line should be “He’d kill us he had the chance” – with the implied "We’ll kill him because . . . " before it.
Lol. I was just listening to this song and thinking about this line 2 days ago. Of course, I know what it means; but I, also, explored alternate interpretations. “Let’s roll another joint” is TP telling his cronies “Hey, let’s rob another 7-11.” I.e. “Let’s roll another joint.”
“I wanna kiss her but (pause)
she won’t let me.
I wanna whisper sweet nothings in her ear
I wanna hold her behind (pause)
closed doors and more
I wanna kiss her but (pause)
she won’t let me”
