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“She’s a killer queen
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Dynamite with a laser beam…”
With the massed vocals, it was near impossible to make out what the words were. It sounded sort of like “got bad intebbitty” - but that’s just stupid! <snip by BWP> As it turns out, he is saying, “gunpowder gelatine,” but pronouncing it “gel-a-teen.”
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Out of interest, how are you pronouncing ‘gelatine’? Gel-a-teen seems about right from my perspective. (For what it’s worth, I always thought he was saying ‘Got that agility’, so I was no closer to knowing it than you were.)
On the topic of liking your own lyrics better, I’ll nominate my rather dark interpretation of Fallout Boy’s “This ain’t a scene (it’s an arms race)”. And there’s also an apparently more common mishearing which is just hilarious.
Real lyrics: I’m a leading man, and the lies I weave are oh-so intricate.
Misheard by me as: I believe in love - and also in d… also in decay.
Misheard by several of my co-workers as: I’m an leetle man, and oh-so evil, oh-so into cats.
And nobody I know has ever realised that the lyrics are ‘this ain’t a scene, it’s a goddamned arms race’ before finding out the name of the song. Generally the jury comes in on the side of ‘This ain’t a seat, it’s a goddamned arse place’.
Y’just gotta love a song that provides that much entertainment value.
This song by Boston… http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/peaceofm.htm
…had me perplexed for many years. They were saying “I don’t care if I get behind” but what my ears heard was: “I don’t care about FBI.”
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB]
And I can’t listen to the last line of ** Rock the Casbah** without hearing “from the mental retardated” which, of course is "fundamentally he can’t take it.
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Wow, I always thought it was “mental retardated” as well. I mean, I guess I knew in the back of my mind that it couldn’t be, but I never really gave it much thought.
[QUOTE=Bites When Provoked]
Out of interest, how are you pronouncing ‘gelatine’? Gel-a-teen seems about right from my perspective.
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It’s probably regional, depending on where one is from, but I’m not used to seeing an ‘e’ on the end, and I’ve always pronouced it “gel-a-tin.”
Gelatine gets 2,780,000 hits on Google, gelatin gets 8,860,000.
Maybe it’s like how some people pronounce it “mar-ja-rin” and some say “mar-ja-reen” for margarine, although that word always has an ‘e’ on the end.
hotflungwok, that was awesome
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Actual lyric:
What have we done with innocence?
It disappeared with time, it never made much sense
Adolescent resident Wasting another night on planning my revenge
One in ten, one in ten
I heard: Wasting another night on planning my defence
What intent? What intent?
I’m notoriously bad at understanding song lyrics the first time I hear them. Usually, they become clear, but not always. For the longest time, I thought every girl was crazy about a Shotgun Man or a Shark on Land or soemthing…
Also, it just occured to me while listening to this song on the radio that I can’t understand a single word of Our Lips Are Sealed, except for that line.
I was about to submit my response to this thread from 2006, and got to thinking, “What a minute? Didn’t fishbicycle reply to my post??” Turns out he did! But what the hell? Just in case it’s been driving someone else crazy…
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I have listened to it a hundred times, and there is no way in hell that Bruce isn’t saying:
“Little Early Burly gave my anus curly-whirly”.
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I’ve seen that mentioned in another thread awhile back, perhaps by you, and I have to say this:
I never heard it that way before reading the post. Now I cannot get that phrasing out of my mind :mad: :eek:
Because I can’t be arsed to look up Bon Jovi lyrics, I still don’t know what he’s saying in “Livin’ On a Prayer” that sounds like “cheater trees are running away”.
The first time I heard “Alive and Kicking” by Simple Minds, I had no idea what the first line of the chorus was supposed to be, despite knowing full well the title of the song. “I have a ticket” was my guess; a friend supplied “I am the dickie”. The written lyrics can say what they like; the closest he could possibly be coming to the real lyric is “eye-live and kickee”, which makes even less sense than either of our interpretations.
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Because I can’t be arsed to look up Bon Jovi lyrics, I still don’t know what he’s saying in “Livin’ On a Prayer” that sounds like “cheater trees are running away”.
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