Misheard Lyrics

Published on 17 August 2005 in Asides. 6 Comments Tags: , .
Every single time that I hear Mark Geary's song "Morphine", I swear that the line Your sulpher kiss is, in fact, Your soul forgets. Every time. Also, when I was kid and I was too lazy to read the hymnal, I always sang How great Thy heart instead of How great Thou art. Where I got the long i sound is truly beyond me. I was a strange child, what with the running around coffee tables in order to fly and the hiding under computer desks for fun. What lyrics do you always mishear?

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  • Logan
    17 August 2005 at 11:45 pm

    We had to sing “America” every morning in elementary school. My personal interpretation:

    “My country, ’tis of thee
    Sweet land of liberty
    Of the icing.”

  • Gnome
    18 August 2005 at 8:41 am

    LOL! That’s great. I remember my sister watching a Rugrats show years and years ago that had an interesting interpretation of that song. I think it went like:

    My country, tears of thee
    Sweet land of lizardy
    Of thee I scream.

    That’s definitely not one of those songs where you think much about the lyrics, though. It’s like you’ve heard it so many times that you sing it without hearing it at all.

  • Logan
    18 August 2005 at 2:57 pm

    On that note, I wonder how many Americans could accurately sum up the meaning of the lyrics to the national anthem, or how many people realize that three of the four sentences in it are interrogative.

  • Gnome
    18 August 2005 at 3:01 pm

    I wonder how many Americans realize that the national anthem isn’t about the Revolutionary War. I’d be willing to bet that an extraordinary number would say that it was.

  • Logan
    18 August 2005 at 7:46 pm

    [sheepishly raises hand]

  • Gnome
    18 August 2005 at 9:18 pm

    Guess you’ll know to take a closer look at that Wikipedia article next time ;)

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