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Re: Misinterpreted Lyrics
« Reply #20 on: January 02, 2014, 05:04:10 AM »

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Re: Misinterpreted Lyrics
« Reply #21 on: January 02, 2014, 07:48:12 PM »


Welcome to the forum, Urban Space Cowboy  :)

In regard to misinterpreted lyrics, I can't recall if this was mentioned on this forum or a different one, but for the longest time, even as an adult, I thought in Maxwell's Silver Hammer Paul was singing "Writing 50 times 'I'm a snot'..." I think I just realized a couple of years ago that he's actually singing "I must not...."
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Re: Misinterpreted Lyrics
« Reply #22 on: April 17, 2014, 07:59:25 PM »

Hello everyone who's about to fall over themselves to welcome me to the forums! When I was a lad...I thought the repeated first line from "Eleanor Rigby" was "What about all the lonely people?", expressing sympathy. Rather disappointing finding it was really "Ah, look at all the lonely people", which seems comparatively more crass.

I see this in a different way.
The song starts with an exclamation (Aaah!) - and when you use that kind of word, you want to draw people's attention. (Aaah! Look at that!)
The next is: Look at the lonely people! - it is pointed out to us, to take a look or to notice all that lonely people. So, I think it is very subtle.

Just for comparison - John used the same thing for effect in Gimme Some Truth:
Ah, I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

http://www.metrolyrics.com/just-gimme-some-truth-lyrics-john-lennon.html

So, the lyrics are more convincing: I'm really sick and tired of those hypocrites...
And it is not just short 'ah' - John sings it like this: painful and prolounged 'AAAaaaaah!'.

As for misheard lyrics in ER - I thought the line goes - I look at all the lonely people.
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Re: Misinterpreted Lyrics
« Reply #23 on: December 27, 2021, 08:06:00 PM »

After a lifetime listening to Beatles songs and singing along with them, I was staggered to learn today that I have been getting a line from "Wait" wrong for all these years...

Instead of:
"But if your heart breaks,
Don't wait,
Turn Me Away
And if your heart's strong,
Hold On,
I won't delay"

I have ALWAYS sung:

"But if your heart breaks,
Don't wait,
Turn me away
And if your heart's strong,
Hold on,
I won't be late"

It was bad enough a few years ago when I discovered that on "Love You To" George was singing:

"Love me while you can,
Before I'm a dead old man"

rather than:

"Love me while you can,
Love our fellow man"

Oh dear... I wonder what else I've been misconstruing?

Reminds me of the time I had to explain to a friend that "She's Not You" by Elvis was NOT Presley telling a friend that their new girlfriend wasn't right for and didn't suit them (She's just not "you" somehow; the match doesn't work). My friend had simply never realised that Elvis was telling his own girl that the woman of his dreams wasn't her, but someone else.

Funny how we can sometimes lock-in a completely wrong perspective on a song and stick with it for years without realising.

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Re: Misinterpreted Lyrics
« Reply #24 on: December 27, 2021, 08:32:36 PM »

I have ALWAYS sung:

"But if your heart breaks,
Don't wait,
Turn me away
And if your heart's strong,
Hold on,
I won't be late"

So have I! I was surprised to learn I've been getting that wrong for about 30 years now.

Funny how we can sometimes lock-in a completely wrong perspective on a song and stick with it for years without realising.

Indeed. I fell prey to the "I can't hide" line in "I Want to Hold Your Hand." When I read of the Beatles' first encounter with Bob Dylan I was really surprised to learn that's the line they were singing, not "I get high." I heard "I get high" for years.
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Re: Misinterpreted Lyrics
« Reply #25 on: December 27, 2021, 09:37:35 PM »


"Love me while you can,
Before I'm a dead old man"

rather than:

"Love me while you can,
Love our fellow man"

Oh dear... I wonder what else I've been misconstruing?


I barely knew what he was singing there. I heard the last line as something like

“Or I’ll get a plan”

Even after finding out the real line i still struggle to hear it that way.
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Re: Misinterpreted Lyrics
« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2023, 09:12:28 AM »

Norwegian Wood came on the radio and it reminded me that I used to hear “biding my time” as “biting my tie”.

No idea what I thought it was supposed to mean.
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Re: Misinterpreted Lyrics
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2023, 10:33:58 AM »

In John's solo song God, I knew the opening as
"God is a constant by which measures our pain"

"God is a concept by which measures our pain"

A great friend and fellow Beatle fan heard me sing it once, many years ago and corrected me. 
I'm a math person, I think constant works equally well and still hear it that way.
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