Something I learned over the weekend . . .
I have long loved the song "Far Gone and Out" by the Jesus and Mary Chain from the record "Honey's Dead." And for as long as I've loved this song, my favorite lines from the song were:
Ice melts too fast
So nothing stays forever nothing's gonna last
She's dressed in black
A black hat and it's snowing
I just got to have her back
Like, if I think of "Far Gone and Out" I instantly think "A black hat and it's snowing/I just got to have her back"
But this weekend I looked up the lyrics to the song for some reason (to ruin my life, as you're about to see) and discovered that this site interpreted my favorite part to go:
Ice melts too fast
So nothing stays forever nothing's gonna last
She's dressed in black
A black that ends in nowhere and I just got to have her back
Wait? "A black that ends in nowhere?" That's completely different from "A black hat and it's snowing." I figured that the site could be wrong, so I checked this site, then this site, and then this site . . . and they all had the line down as "A black that ends in nowhere." While I doubt that these sites research their lyrics independently, meaning that one site could have gotten the line wrong and then all the other sites copied it, even this Jesus and Mary Chain fansite has the line as "A black that ends in nowhere."
So, this means I've misunderstood this lyric for a long, long time, right? Just how long? Since my Junior year of High School, at least . . . so a good 12 or 13 years, at the minimum. I distinctly remember listening to this song on my "Swim Meat" mixtape on the way to some invite my senior year like it was yesterday (crazy the way time flies) and looking at the snow-covered twigtrees along the road and, like, relating that in my mind to the black hat and the snowing that I thought the band was singing about.
And if I was wrong about that, I can only imagine what else I've misheard. Can I even go on trusting myself?
Anyway, here's a link to download the song. Listen very closely starting at :58 and you tell me, are we talking about "a black hat and it's snowing" or a "black that ends in nowhere" because, seriously, I still hear "black hat and it's snowing."
Thank you for your patience.
Unrelated Tonight is your last chance to catch Elna Baker's One Lady Show, "A Book of Overly Dramatic Confessions" at the PIT (154 W. 29th Street). The show is at 9:30 and costs $5. It sounds like this show has been opening up doors for Elna, so this might be your last chance to check her out before she's too famous for you.
Unrelated II Here's the Diplo remix of the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs single, "Gold Lion", that got 4 1/2 stars from Pitchfork yesterday. The thing that's really special about this remix: the single hasn't been released yet, so I don't know what the song "really" sounds like, do you?
Update Here is the non-remixed version of "Gold Lion." Pretty different from anything on Fever to Tell, I'm pretty excited for the new record.
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OMG, that is totally devastating! Sort of like how my entire childhood, as my dad made us listen to Creedence Clearwater all the time, and he always sang, "There's a bathroom on the right"--and then I found out in high school that it was "There's a bad moon on the rise." I felt so stupid. So used. Yours is a little more meaningful since the words of your song were touching and stuff, but, I truly understand the feelings of self-doubt.
so glad you could share this special moment. please don't share again.
Mom, I thought you said you liked Smash's story?
"And if I was wrong about that, I can only imagine what else I've misheard. Can I even go on trusting myself?"
I loved that part. I dunno why, but it's so funny and true, isn't it?
My sister used to think that Aerosmith's "Swweeett Emmoootionnn" opening line was "Aaasleeeep in the mooorning" and a certain brother of mine used to think Peter Gabriel's song "Big Time" was "Pig Time". I like it better the later.
Broek
A friend of mine thought that the lyrics to that country song that's chorus is "I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E." was "I spilt tea all over you and me."
My mistaken lyric story is as follows:
I have forever maintained that in that last verse of "Lola" by The Kinks, it goes:
Now I'm the world's most masculine man/
But I know what I am and in bed I'm a man.
And so is Lola
Now, it was pointed out to me 10 years ago that the real lyric is "But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola" which not only makes more sense but is also more clever.
NEVERTHELESS! Listen to the song, there is absolutely no way he says "I'm glad I'm a man." There is clearly some sort of 'b' sound being made there. I still say the lyric is, "in bed I'm a man."
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