Incomprehensible lyrics

Case in point:

Arcade Fire's "Tunnels"

Listen carefully to the song, and don't do an end run by reading the lyrics sheet or look it up online.

"And if my parents are crying
then I'll dig a tunnel
from my win-doe-dee-o"

What in tarnation is a 🙄😵 windoedeeo?

It's The End Of The World As We Know It.

REM

I'll give anyone a tenner who can recite the lyrics vocally, word for word.

Or we didn't start the fire which is equally tricky

anything by death metal bands in general...

Originally posted by Starrman
Or we didn't start the fire which is equally tricky

Actually end of the world isn't too hard at all, I've just learnt it in about ten minutes, including guitar part. 🙂

In fact the Reel Big Fish version is much faster than REM's

Blinded by the light, Manfred mann

Pearl Jam's "Yellow Ledbetter"

Shane mcGowan(sp.?) Ballad of New York

Reminds me when I was around 16 and listened to "Jesus Christ Superstar" for the first time, I could't really figure why King Herod calls Jesus "the King of the juice" (It's "the King of the Jews", of course). And in the priests' song, I heard (and still do, in fact) not "his glamour increases", but "his grammar increases" - which is kinda logical, after all He was a carpenter's son, thus might be not as well educated 🙂

One that still amuses me to this day, in 'Heartbreaker' by Led Zep, the lines:

'One more thing on my mind, if you can clarify, please do'

actually sounds like

'One more thing on my mind, if you can carry my beef stew'

It's starts when you are a child in church:
Hark the Harold angels sing (angel named Harold?)

Secret Asian Man

Originally posted by elvendreamgirl
It's starts when you are a child in church:
Hark the Harold angels sing (angel named Harold?)

Secret Asian Man

Originally posted by Nyxie
Blinded by the light, Manfred mann

Originally posted by shavixmir
Manfred Mann covered it, it's by Bruce Springsteen.

🙂