janeowit's Journal: Knowingly Mishearing lyrics

You know all those funny stories about people who are singing out loud with someone and they embarrassed when they find out that what they thought were the correct lyrics, were in fact, not?
There wasn't a bathroom on the right, there wasn't a secret asian man, and Tony Danza was not going to hold you closer.

This isn't one of those times. In my case, I can't stop incorrectly singing the lyrics to songs, when I know the correct ones. It really bothers me, too.

During Sufjan Stevens' "Woman at the Well", he says "she was a fountain then", but I sing, "she was a fountain pen". In the beginning of Pete Yorn's "Alive" he says "Sometimes it's pain" and I sing "Some Thomas Paine". Remember, I've been loving that song since September, and I just started missaying the lyrics and I can't stop. It has to be the oddest acquired habit? Eccentricity? Neurosis? I don't even know what it is, but it is the weirdest thing I have ever picked up. But now every time I hear those parts I hear the "wrong" lyrics, despite that they are clearly enunciated in the songs.

Have you ever started a new behavior that you thought was annoying, but couldn't seem to stop?

I still believe

[trmj]

He was singing about Tony Danza.

Re:

[turg]

Except the song was recorded seven years before anyone ever heard of Tony Danza.

You Oughta Know

[ellem]

It is
And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know

I sing
And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
The cross eyed bitch that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know

Even though I know the correct words now my line is better. Like the time John Lennon changed "She was a beauty queen" to "And you know what I mean".

Re:

[janeowit]

I always thought she was saying "the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me", and I thought that would be a very odd gift to give your girlfriend.

 

I know mine

[nizo]

Have you ever started a new behavior that you thought was annoying, but couldn't seem to stop?

Without a doubt, mine would be talking. Thankfully I have small feet :-D

No... I can stop anytime I want...

[TechnoLust]

I just enjoy being annoying. :-)

Don't forget Maid Marian

[winkydink]

and the curious genetic deformity that makes finding shoes so difficult, i.e. tit-toed feet. :) (That's Squeeze for all you whippersnappers... and no, I don't have a freakin' clue what that song's about. :)