That’s funny… I used to think he was singing about a Big Ol’ Shinin’ Lighthouse!
I always heard ‘big ole jet airliner’ but had many a fun times inserting made up stuff. A couple of favorites “Being that you’re a minor” “Bet there ain’t none finer” “Big old Meg’s vagina”. . …
That’s Sade.
Saydis from Green Lantern.
As for me, it was probably about 20 years before I realized the line wasn’t:
Life would be ecstasy,
You and me and Leslie,
Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon.
Me too. I figured leslie was code for LSD.
Bigot Jed had a Lighter.
I went through that in high school, with “In Excess” and “INXS.” Finally connecting the dots = :smack:
I’ve been hearing it that same way. I intend to continue to hear it that way. Can we just say that Dylan got it slightly wrong?
:smack:
I thought it was about a threesome.
From my 5-year old daughter today:
Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah,
Someone’s in the kitchen, I know
Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah,
Strummin’ on the old man Joe.
From Heart of Glass, “Mutual Mistrust” is a lot better phrase than “Mucho mistrust”. The latter seems like a forced attempt at a throwaway “hip” phrase, whereas the former makes a lot of sense. I only knew it was “mucho” when I saw the lyrics in karaoke, and at first I thought it was a transcription error.
My sister Sue wondered why she kept hearing about the “Sue” Indians, but never about the “SEE-ox” ones.
…Five…
I’ve got the Monkee’s Greatest Hits on vinyl, and first heard “I’m a Believer” when I was about 6 years old. From that time until I saw Shrek (the first Shrek movie had the remake version, I believe), I thought the line was:
Disappointment hot air on my dreams
Then I learned it’s actually
Disappointment haunted all my dreams
Which makes a lot more sense.
I thought it was
I’m not talking ‘bout committin’,
and I don’t want to change your life
I always hear “Once you mistrust” I kinda like mine better.
Ditto for me on the grave and every highway.
I still get laughed at mercilessly for making the mistake of singing along to Billy Squires “The Stroke” in front of a friend. I thought the “Strummin’ Stuntman” was the winner turned sinner.
It makes absolutely no sense, but that’s what I thought. :smack:
My 3-year-old does a version of Ba Ba Black Sheep that goes something like:
Blah blah black sheep,
have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
three bags full.
One for the mayor,
one for the lame,
one for the little boy
who lives down the shame
On this video, the “movin’ in” is clearly enunciated. However, I hear “blowin’ the stars around” the first, third, and fifth times the lyric comes up; “the stars are out”, the second and fourth. Kind of like one of those “bang-bang” plays in baseball – you can watch the replay twenty times, and the runner appears safe on half those occasions, out the other half.
Nope. That occasional, in this case dramatically affected, elongation/palatalization of the “t” sound, is a New York City/Long Island accent thing. (In reference to Billy Joel’s “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”.)
I always thought it was “Disappointment hollowed all my dreams”…
I heard the same thing for 10 or 15 years until I learned the actual lyric. I still have to force myself to hear “white-winged dove”.
I think you mean “Big Hotel Atlanta”.