#Misheard song lyrics

[copperbadge]

Me: when Taylor Swift sings "got a lot of Starbucks lovers" in the song Blank Space, she appears to be making a play on "star crossed" but conferring on her partners a certain air of mediocrity, a status of "basic", by comparing them to a popular and accessible coffee chain. In this essay I will --

The actual lyrics when I search them after hearing the song in a store: got a long list of ex-lovers

Me: ...how much of my final grade is this worth again?

[emeraldraccoon478]

so when I have songs stuck in my head for a long time, my brain just makes up new words, it rarely makes sense

a few favorites include things like

“A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down, medicine go down oh medicine go down, yes a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down in the edison museum!”

“Son of man look to the sky, lift your spirt set it free. One day you will walk with pride, son of man your mind is full of sheeeeeep”

“Oh below me I feel no motion, standing on these mountains and plains. Far away from the rolling ocean, still my dry land heart can pain”

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

major case of “I misheard these lyrics but I like my version better” from Factories by Autoheart.

What I heard:

“I am bright and grew in a darkened room [unintelligible] you and I make a breakthrough”

The Actual Lyrics:

“I am bride and groom in a darkened room Marrying anguish with one last wish Will you and I make a breakthrough?”

That makes sense (I guess. sort of.) but I don’t like it.

[one-steve-with-cheese-to-go]

Boulevard of Toady Screams

(Sung to the tune of Boulevard of broken dreams)

I ate a fucking toad

A whole ass toad and it was fully grown

Down the hole it goes

It’s crawling through my guts, I ate a toad.

I saw it on the street

Picked it up and swallowed the whole thing

Now it’s wriggling

Croaking and angry, I ate a toad

I ate a toad, a big ass toad

I ate a toad, I ate a-

My sister’s looking for her pet, I ate it

It’s wriggling, and now I’m constipated

Into the ER for internal bleeding

Because I ate a toad

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah

My stomachs grumbling

I am regret but it just won’t come out

Don’t know why this time

Just something primal made me eat a toad.

Out of surgery,

The toad is fine, my sis won’t speak to me

Check my vital signs,

I see the toad and it still looks tasty.

That fucking toad, swallow it whole.

I ate the toad again, I-

My sister’s looking for her pet, I ate it

It’s ribbiting, and now I’m constipated

Back in the ER full of toady screaming

Because I ate a toad

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah

Ah-ah, ah-ah, it’s laying eggs, please help me

*Musical solo

I ate a fucking toad

A whole ass toad and it was fully grown

Down the hole it goes

It’s crawling up my throat, I ate a-

My sister bought a padlock for her toad’s tank

She doesn’t know I have a key, let’s take it

I’m the subject of a clinical study

Cause I keep eating toads.

*Musical solo

[prunedup]

[georgelthomas]

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Song Lyrics I've Misheard

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Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2023 here. If you’d like to read other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here. Song Lyrics I’ve Misheard Music has always been such a…

[in-sufficientdata]

The result of realizing you've been singing a mondegreen and leaning into it instead of correcting yourself:

A car full of people singing "you've been running 'round, running 'round, running 'round throwing that turtle on my name"

[fma03envy]

You should watch fma03; it's really good I promise

[tuulikannel]

This reminds me off how I as a kid understood the lyrics "it's raining men, hallelujah" as "it's rainy day, hallelujah". XD (I thought there's been a drought and they're happy to get rain. Makes sense, right? As a consequence, even today I might find myself humming it on rainy days.)

(Full comic) (I recommend checking it out. I agree with her. XD)

[geezerwench]

Misheard song lyrics

OMG he's so funny

Peter Kay

@its_me_jayman on TikTok

[ruby-cloud]

YOU do the math, who's looking at you

[themanwhomadeamonster]

The 1999 combat theme and its foreshadowing because the autism got to me and I spent too long trying to figure out this soundtrack

Jumping off from @brokenjardaantech's WITW music analysis post here - go check it out, it's very insightful and lays the foundations for what I'm about to talk about! And thanks to @theterribletenno for the burst of inspiration by giving me a massive oh shit realisation in the most chilling way possible LOL

Spoilers under the read-more; TL;DR at the end :'^D

To preface, the soundtrack is structured in an ABC structure with bridges between A and B, as well as another between B and C that borrows from A. The key starts in Cm, briefly modulating to Gm in section B then back to Cm during the second bridge, and settling on Em for section C. In-game for WITW you most likely will only hear up to the first bridge since the Technocyte fight only goes for around a minute long

Sections A, the bridges and partially C feature genre similarities to grunge rock with fuzzy guitar chugging, whammy bar, and palm muting, while the drums are notably sharp snares (except for the first bridge, which are clean bass kicks that gradually distort transitioning into section B's style). Musically, it sounds like a typical fighting soundtrack meant to hype you up - the melody is confident and likes to push and pull its rhythm. But in section C it notably become emptier in its layering while keeping the distorted drums, placing emphasis on the lyrics (which I'll get to below lol). Heavier syncopation and polyrhythms are also introduced.

Section B however is the main outlier. This section is where it most strongly resembles industrial rock: rhythmic synth layers begin to accompany the melody (a pedal point line that plays every semiquaver/sixteenth note), synth drums replace acoustics and the guitars drop the fuzz that is characteristic of grunge and steadily strum every quaver/eighth note. Compared to the push and pull rhythm of section A, this section is steadier, less chaotic than the other sections, it wants you to focus on this section.

Notably, the lead guitar introduces a familiar leitmotif: This is What You Are (which @brokenjardaantech goes more in depth regarding its use in WITW). Here, though, its second chord becomes flattened (Dm -> D♭m) and introduces a diminished, dissonant sound. To me this was the first hint that the song may actually be about Arthur's downfall. This is What You Are is a musical leitmotif that recurs in moments of vulnerability, especially when someone is at risk of losing their sense of self, their identity and what they are. It plays during The Second Dream when we discover the Operator, during the New War when Eidolon!Lotus just lost herself to Ballas and can't recognise the Tenno, and in WITW during the Vessel "fight" when the Tenno is forced out of their Warframe.

I was prompted to actually dig more into the lyrics because I saw @theterribletenno bring up something really interesting

In this specific song, the leitmotif is diminished, it's corrupted. "Surrender to the corruption" - this is what Arthur is afraid of. I brought up earlier that section B had a genre shift. The contrast of the music is important, it's highlighting something, and together with the musicality of the leitmotif, it's making a sense of urgency and danger. The leitmotif is a warning to Arthur.

Section B sings these lyrics:

Break it, break it, Break it open!

Compared to the desperation in the other lines, these two lines are sung mockingly. The Infested are trying to break Arthur, and are succeeding. Their voice is becoming his. But there are actually two vocal lines in this section - you can also hear muted backing vocals in a much less aggressive and lethargic tone warning that "Disillusion". Arthur is trying so hard to keep his own voice and stay clear-minded but it's being drowned out and he's nearing his breaking point, and Albrecht, based on the Codex Fragments you find, is well aware of this.

In section C, while the layering is less intense it's noticeably more heavily syncopated and polyrhythmic, and introduces new (accompanying) echoing and dissonant synth layers reflecting the confusion and disorientation that Arthur begins to feel (these synth layers are actually introduced in the second bridge, but are more easily heard in section C). Section B and C also keep the synth/distorted drums that section A and both bridges lack (at most it's a reverb in those sections); the industrial sound of the song becoming associated with the increasing influence of the Infested over his humanity.

So I tried deciphering more lyrics for each section; I haven't figured all of it out and most of it could very well be wrong because of how heavily clipped the vocal line intentionally is so I don't want to make anymore assumptions than I need to, but I can understand enough of it to realise that the song is foreshadowing Arthur's corruption to the Infested. In green are the lyrics I'm confident are correct:

A:

Sting it, sting it, sting it! Sting it, sting it, sting it in the flesh!

Bridge:

I don't understand! It brings more disease!

B:

Break it, break it, Break it open! (Disillusion)

Bridge:

Sting it, sting it! Sting it in the flesh!

C:

Who's dreaming? Who's the [???] It's a vision[?]!

TL;DR: the grunge/industrial genre hybrid represents Arthur's humanity/Infested respectively, and the song becomes increasingly industrial as the song progresses, most noticeably through the increasing distortion of the drum sound. Section A sets the stage, section B serves as a warning to Arthur that he's losing his sense of identity as the Infestation drowns out his "voice" while a dissonant version of This is What You Are plays, and section C is him experiencing confusion and disorientation as the Infestation continues to corrupt him.

[forgottenthreads]

As an Ace/Aro person who likes music I have a solution to some of those love songs:

I believe in a thing called Lunch, just listen to the grumble of my tum

I would eat anything for Lunch but I won't eat tha...ah...ah...at

The Lunch shack is a little old place where we can eat together

You.... Your Lunch is on Fire

Well, I wanna eat with you on a mountain

I wanna dine with you by the sea

I wanna lunch like this forever

Until the sky falls down on me

I Lunch myself, I want you to Lunch me

When I'm feeling down I want Lunch before me

Shit through the cloth and you're to blame

You give lunch a bad name

Indigestion starts when I ate your game

You give lunch a bad name

Yeah you give lunch a bad name

Don't need money, won't take fame

don't need no credit card to ride this train

it's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes

but it might just save your life.

That's the power of Lunch

Unfortunately you can't do it for all songs but the few it works on are amazing.

[misheard-em]

Lyric: “Suspicious Minds”

Misheard as: “Suspicious Pies”

• friend and her mother both thought Elvis was singing about pies for years

[connecting-the-stars]

Cody’s Song:

If I were a weapon, you said I’d be a gun. Lethal at close range I guess, with silencer and stun.

But I feel more like a needle, always pulling on the thread. Always making the same point again, and wondering if you heard what I just said.

Well, if I am a that weapon, I am pointing now at you. So just put down the hostage and we’ll talk it down until we see this through.