Actual Lyrics:
I’ll see you at the the weighing in when your life’s sum-total’s made.
And you set your wealth in godly deeds against the sins you’ve laid.
So place your final burden on your hard-pressed next of kin.
What John Thought the Lyrics Were:
I’ll see you at the weighing in when your life’s sum-total’s made.
And you set your wealth in godly deeds against the sins you’ve laid.
So place your final burden on your armrest Mexican.
I just got my first submission and it’s a good one. John writes:
I always thought that the line in Jethro Tull’s Lick Your Finger’s Clean “And you place your final burden on your hard pressed next of kin” was and you place your final burden on your armrest Mexican. No wonder it never made sense.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking of what armrest Mexican would actually be and I still haven’t come up with anything.
Actual Lyrics:
You’re my lord, you’re my shepherd
Careful kid, no one gets hurt
You made me
What Alison Thought the Lyrics Were:
You’re my love, you’re my sugar
Careful kid, no one gets hurt
You’re maybe
This next post comes from Alison. I honestly had to read over the lyrics on this one, because I can also totally hear the ladies of New Pornographers singing about how someone is their is love and their sugar, but alas, the name of the song is My Shepherd and not My Sugar. In her defense, there are way more mushy song written for somebody’s sugar. Shepherds, not so much.
Instant Karma by John Lennon
Actual Lyrics:
Instant Karma’s gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head.
What I Thought the Lyrics Were:
You think some cop is gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head.
This is another one of my favorites. There was a time when I thought this was John Lennon’s battle cry against police brutality. He talks about getting knocked on your head, looked in the face, and knocked off your feet when all along, he was singing about instant karma. Not “some cop.”
Actual Lyrics:
She’s an easy lover,
She’ll take your heart but you won’t feel it.
What I Thought the Lyrics Were:
She believes in lava,
She’ll take your heart but you won’t feel it.
Easy Lover is song about a woman (the easy lover) that goes around breaking hearts. I was a kid when this song was popular and thought this was a dangerous lady who believed in lava (whatever that means). It made total sense at the time. It wasn’t until I was in my early twenties, heard a friend sing the correct lyrics and had my world forever changed. The woman Phil Collins and Phillip Bailiey were singing about is still a dangerous lady, but it has nothing to with lava.
