You know that Fiona Apple song Paper Bag? You probably do, but you think it’s called Hunger Hurts. Much as I always thought the lyrics were hunger hurts, but starving’s worse.
And as it turns out, she actually sings hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.
Which is… well, it is what it is. But I’m going to keep singing my version.
posted by tortaluga @ 11:54 AM
hi. i'm not really from wallis OR futuna. in fact, i don't even know where those places are. isn't that remarkable? the world isn't so big, that a person should be able to not know the whereabouts of wallis and/or futuna. i'm living in oregon right now. before that i lived in amsterdam. before that i lived in new york. when people say, "where are you from?" i still say new york. everyone knows where new york is. but new yorkers didn't go camping enough for me. alas. i sure miss the bagels.
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I hate it when they change the lyrics on you after you've finally learned them.
it just really isn't fair.
For years I thought U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" had a lyric that went
I see the toastler disappear
without a trace
and for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. What the fuck is a toastler?
Turns out it's "dust clouds".
Nikki says-
When I was young I thought the Beatles sang, in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, "The girl with kaleidos (sp.) goes by..." My parents thought it humerous b/c evidently it is a liver disease.
But who knows we never saw this girl- she could have had both kaleidos (unfortunately) and "kaleidoscope eyes" (how fun would this be-if only for a day?)- only John knows the answer.
And starving is definitely worse...
ok, my interest in this particular error was the fact that it changes the *meaning* to the opposite, and that this particular flip was funny given the conversations i've been having since the 30yo-men-post.
but! since we're now talking about funny lyric mistakes in general, i'd have to say my clear favorite is the woman who requested "the happy enchilada song" from john prine. you know... "it's a half-an-inch-of-water and you think you're gonna drown..."
or, it's a happy enchilada.
What about
"I'M -- GONNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL DAY --
AND *PART OF* EVERY NIGHT"
I still sing it that way. It's so much more responsible.
- La
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