Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder?
 

Though not exclusive to Prog. there are times when listening to lyrics that I either completely mis-hear what is sung or have no idea what they are singing about.

For Example;

Yes 90125 -City of Love (track 9).

When I first heard it I thought, in the fade-in introduction, Trevor Rabin was singing;

8-o

I'm afraid Yes also get my second example;

'I'll be the roundabout, your words will make you out and out.
I'll spend the day your way.
Call it morning driving through the sound and in and out the valley.'

HUH? - any suggestions on what that's about?

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Actually, tongle, the only word you misheard there is "Your." It's "the" words will make you out and out.

The song is about a drive in the English north country.

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There's even a term for it: mondagreen

My favorite supposed example is from Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds: "...the girl with colitis goes by"

I've always felt it would make a great theme. (hint, hint...)

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Rolling Stones: "I'll never leave your pizza burning."

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I went to school with someone who used to think the stones did a song called "i ain't jake" (angie)

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Whenever I mishear a lyric, my version is almost always better.

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My little sister honestly thought the Clash did a song called "Fuck The Tadpole" (Rock the Casbah)

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Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights does start.

"I don't know why we've been divorced, we fall and roll in brie"

Doesn't it???????

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yes...yes, it does.

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As a small child in church a couple of hymns really confused me...

The classic 'gladly the cross-eyed bear'

And a line from 'Sweet sacrament divine'

'....there in thine earhole trustfully, we tell our tale of misery etc'

Truth be told I still sing it like that full volume and no one notices lol

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Admitedly taken from a lyrics web site so may be some minor errors but....


A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour.
And assessing points to nowhere, leading ev'ry single one.
A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun,
And take away the plain in which we move,
And choose the course you're running.

Down at the edge, round by the corner,
Not right away, not right away.
Close to the edge, down by a river,
Not right away, not right away.

I have no way of explaining what on earth that means...any suggestions?

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Jon admitted to writing lyrics for the way they sound as they're sung, not necessarily for meaning.

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Well THAT makes sense - thanks Yesspaz, I did wonder if that was the case!