Lyrics that sound different to the song.

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I’ve completely forgotten the name of the band/album/song that this is from. All I know is that the lead singer is the brother of T1000 (Robert Patrick)

In part of the song it sounds exactly like he’s saying “Could you want to take my picture” or “Cos you want to take my picture” (‘cos’ being a common verbal shortening of ‘because’)

But I happen to remember (from reading the sleeve notes) that the true phrase is “Do you want to take my picture”.

Can anyone explain this discrepancy between what the song and the lyrics?
And what other songs have bits that sound nothing like the lyrics?

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The band is Filter.

I always thought that in Silent Lucidity that the lyrics said, “As I lay next to you in silent lucidity”. It’s really “I’m smiling next to you in silent lucidity.”

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In Pearl Jam’s “Daughter”, the line is “Center of her own attention”. I just can’t wrap my head around that. To me it sounds exactly like “Center of her own potential uncle”, as little sense as that makes.

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Keeping with Pearl Jam: I can’t listen to the chorus of Glorified G.

“Glorified version of a pellet gun”? Hell no…all I hear is “Glorified version of a pellican”. :dubious:

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“4 or 5 virgins on a pelican.”

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ABBA’s “I Do I Do I Do I Do” has the lyric “if we can’t make it.” Sounds just like “if we get naked.”

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That’s a fairly common occurrence, I think: the songwriter will write out one set of lyrics, but the singer may discover that a slightly different phrasing makes it easier for them to sing. Words get elided, contractions added or taken out, the first syllable gets swallowed…

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I don’t think the OP is talking about mondegreens, but cases in which the lyrics being sung are actually identifiably different from the “official” lyrics that come with the packaging. Winterwren has it. And if not for those reasons, it does happen for others.