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I've just found out this minute that one of my favourite bands The Cocteau Twins actually had full lyrics for their songs. I've been listening to them since I was found under a basket on the Nile and I always thought that bar the odd dictionary-proof phrase here and there the gorgeous voice of our Liz breathed heavenly Elfish. Or something. And I used to sing along like. In full nonsense-language!
So, admitting that I don't really listen to lyrics, am I the only one to have the Idiot-Eureka moment years down the line and finally realise that I've been mouthing or singing the wrong gibberish?
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Not sure if this song has already been mentioned on this thread but robert Elms just played And The Beat Goes On by The Whispers.
I always thought the line
Just like fishing in the ocean
was actually
Just like pissing in the Ocean
Yes I know its not obvious but back in the day when I was going down Tudors in Harrow/ Bailys Watford I hated this type of music and only went there on the pull.
Now love soul music but at the time it was a style of music to be ashamed of to admit listening to.
Growing up I always thought Cobain was saying 'Ladim jaja' (pronounced yaya) which means chilling your bollox in serbo-croat because of course the bassist Kris Novoselic is from a Croat family. Actually prefer this to the true lyric 'A denial'
How about your own improvements to a lyric? For example, “To cut a long story short, I shat my pants”. I always felt this conveyed the emotions young Tony is trying to project in the song a lot better, particularly at the songs climax - “I shat my ………PAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSS”. Well that’s what we used to sing to it anyway.
I need a SAGA. What’s the SAGA? It’s ….. Queen’s Park Rangers.
Bit late responding to this..... yes it was the four tops lyric - Joe and Paul went to the Palais on a night where the crowd was all black (apart from them) and they were appalled at the lack of punk equivalent attitude/music - people were listening to just really safe bland stuff
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