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Misheard lyrics
Posted by lordlichfield on 15 May 2009 - 3:25pm.
My apologies if this is something of an old chestnut and has already been debated here but I would very much appreciate it if someone can give me the definitive answer to this question which started a fierce debate at work last night.
Are the lyrics to Love Plus One by Haircut 100:
Where do we do from here?
Is it down to the lake I fear?
Or are they:
Where do we go from here?
Is it down to the late café?
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And following on from that...
is it IIIIII, aye ay ay ay ay aye, or eye eye eye eye eye eye?
Where's Nick Heyward when you need him?
Can't give you a 'definitive' answer, m'lud - I think you might require the services of a Mr Nick Heyward for that - but I've always thought it was the lake option. A straw poll in the office says it's "lake I fear" too. Mind, there are only three of us here this afternoon.
I concur, sir
Hadn't even thought of the other option. A quick listen (ah the joy of working from home) reveals he'd have to have been going some to sonically mangle "late café" into what's on the track.
And it doesn't rhyme.
One other thing. Back in the day – so far back it may even have been in the days when The Word's very own Hinge and Bracket were in charge of Smash Hits – I'm sure I saw a quote in which Heyward recalled a gentle ribbing from Paul Weller about that couplet. Heyward responded that it was his first song, correctly pointing out that it's not much worse than "In the city there's a thousand things I wanna say to you".
Definitive answer is...
...lake I fear.
I know this because I have the album (ahem). And that's what the lyric is in the accompanying booklet.
Random fact - I was born on the exact same day as Haircut One Hundred's saxophone player.
Lake I fear
I believe - and I fear that he was responsible for the fashion no-no of tucking jumpers into jeans. A no-no I said yes-yes to with some enthusiasm at the time. I was young, it was a long time ago
I agree - I think its Lake I Fear
And I too enjoyed tucking jumpers into trousers.
But it looks as if you've just been for a poo
Vienna by Ultravox
My sister-in-law spent YEARS thinking this song was actually "Oh Theodore".
And my nephew also wanders round the house singing what he believes to be "Raking The Lawn" by Judas Priest (see if you can guess)
He's now 11 and noone has had the heart to tell him yet.
Strangely, they are not related.
Raking the lawn! Raking the lawn!
That's genius!
There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
all inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town
feel as though nobody cares if I live or die
so I might as well begin to put some action in my life
Raking the lawn!
Raking the lawn!
So much for the golden future, I can't even start
I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart
you don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue
if you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too
Raking the lawn!
Raking the lawn!
You got it ...
... in one.
Raking the lawn is
Raking the lawn is fantastic. Much better than the original.
Thanks to everyone for putting me right. Looks like I will now have to go and eat some humble pie. They even might force me to tuck my jumper in or something.
Alice Cooper
(Christ, it took me ages to get that Gallus Cooper tribute band elsewhere)
A funny chap down the corridor in hall of residence got the idea but failed at the tape with "I want to be a lefty". As a good god fearing tory, most upset was he by this hollerer of raucous music, seemingly to be promoting the other side.
Gallus Cooper
I went to see Alice Cooper (& Motorhead, & Joan Jett & The Blackhearts) at the SECC a while back. Gallus Cooper were playing in Rockers (a dingy wee bar) at 6pm that night. I found out from someone who knows Gallus that Gallus doesn't like Alice Cooper. But took it because it was a paying gig!
Herman's Hermits...
..."He's a Must to Avoid" - friend of mine used to think it was "he's a muscular boy" .
On a similar theme, my cousin used to think Liberace was in fact Liver Archie.
(They were both very young at the time).
word association football hooligan
liver archie andrews salts
Genesis and O-grade biology
From 'The Return of the Giant Hogweed'
The true lyric :
'Strike by night!
They are defenceless.
They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom'
misheard by a friend as
'Strike by night!
They are defenceless.
They all need the sun to photosynthesise their dinner'
Both equally plausible, botanically speaking