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Friday, September 01, 2006

Song lyrics you thought you knew

A couple of months ago, I was singing along to the song at the beginning of Friends...

So, no one told you life was gonna be this way.
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's the old way..


Well Scott started cracking up and I had no idea why (though this does happen often in our household).

It turns out the words are actually "your love life's DOA" (Dead on Arrival for those who, like me, didn't know what that meant).

So a few weeks later at uni I was telling one of my mates about our conversation. She pipes up "that's not the words is it?"

"Uh yeah I listened carefully and it actually was that"

"Oh. I thought it was, your love life's been a waste".

Three versions of the same line of a song, nice.

Another song I'd had wrong for years was that one that goes "what we need is a great big melting pot"... I always thought it was "what we need is a great big mountain pot".

You know, such a big pot that it was huge like a mountain.

I also seem to remember someone from youth group days who thought "revival town" was "read bibles now"!

Because this amused me so much, I thought I'd do a wee google search to find some more misheard song lyrics. But I didn't find much - well I found a whole website dedicated to this, but most of them seemed untrue.

So has anyone else got any doozies to share?

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