Time for another badly heard lyrics post. I apparently got quite a bit wrong in
Dammit:]

In the first verse, I thought the line was
the timing, and structure, did you hear, you fucker?
and just now, I see that most people transcribe it as:
"did you hear he fucked her?"

For a while, I thought the chorus ended:
"Like Narcissus growing old."
a year later, I decided it must be:
Like a sissy's growing up
The actual lyrics which I just found out today while writing this post:
Well I guess this is growing up

in the last…

Wow, my music collection is full of songs that don't exist:
i want candy
angel
widdershins
into a darkened room

Grumble.

These tracks are actually:
"I want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow
"Angel" by Vinyl Sun
"Into a Darkened Room" by Inertia

Widdershins, on the other hand, I still haven't managed to identify. But it's sure as hell not tori amos, tool, Nine Inch Nails, or Sisters of Mercy - which are the artists accused of it.Into a Darkened RoomInto a Darkened RoomInto a Darkened RoomInto a Darkened RoomInto a Darkened Room…

I pretty much exclusively listen to music on my iPod. I don't listen on my computer because most of the time that I'm at my computer, I'm writing. I can't write and listen to music at the same time: I just end up transcribing lyrics.

This is frustrating because I love data. I love graphs. I wish I was actually tracking my listening, but what I'm tracking is that percentage of my listening that successfully gets from my iPod to last.fm. The iPod support for last.fm didn't work for me from January until April of this year. I just got…

Time for another "Dan can't understand lyrics" post:

Actual lyrics:

And I said, "What about 'Breakfast at Tiffany's?'"
She said, "I think I remember the film,
And, as I recall, I think, we both kind of liked it,"
And I said, "Well that's the one thing we got."

And what did Dan's sadly mistaken ears pick up? This is a particularly mangled one:

And I said, "What about 'Breakfast at Tiffany's?'"
She said, "I think I remember the film,
There's Aragorn, Hathaway, some kinda lightning"
And I said, "well that's one thing we've got."

Obviously, it was badly mangled enough…

I went through my iPod and marked down all the songs with "rain" in the title. Then I tried to listen to them…

I ended up fast forwarding through most of them, because I just wasn't in the mood.

I actually listened to:
steady as the rain
Rain Dogs
Only happy when it rains
You look like Rain
The Rainbow Connection

I skipped over:
rain
raining in baltimore
Purple Rain
November Rain
English Summer Rain
Fool in the Rain
Rain King
Sunshine & the Rain

And I decided against including:
Emotional Weather Report
It's Coming Down
Lightning Crashes
Small Change…

Here's another edition of Dan's misheard lyrics:

Since the early 1990's, I've thought the 4th verse of this song went as follows:

He plays in the park for tobacco and food
Well I excuse myself if they think I'm rude.
Tourists don't want me to end his show,
but it's kind of unattractive, got the worst of it, though

The internet says that these are the actual lyrics to that verse:

Play in the park for tobacco and food
Then I excuse myself but they think Im rude
Tourist dont want me to end his show
But this colorful attraction…

This makes me sad.

Well, I've finally determined what to use the Last.fm blog feature for – misheard lyrics.

Today's feature is Sublime's "What I got" Here's what the lyrics actually are:

Life is too short
so love the one you got
cause you might get run over
or you might get shot

Here's what I always hear:

cause you might get promoted
or you might get shot

My brain is weird.

I got this track, shame of shames, on the "Killer Buzz" compilation. Reading the track lists, I thought to myself "I've never heard of this song!" It came on while I was walking home from work today, and I was happily singing along, when I happened to glance at the iPod screen.

Which was when I realized that the chorus does not, in fact, go "I no longer love you." The next line is also not "I'm a long-tailed Jew" which was the closest I'd ever come to deciphering it.

Actual chorus:
I alone love you
I alone tempt you…