Day 23 - Misheard Song Lyrics

I heard Young the Giant’s song “Cough Syrup”, after I started calorie counting.  While I knew that what he was saying was “Life’s too short to even care at all”, all I could hear was “Life’s too short to eat a carrot now”.  Now every time I hear that song, that is all I can hear and it makes me giggle.  There was a commercial a while back about misheard lyrics that had this adorable little girl sitting in the backseat of a car belting out “She’s got a chicken to ride and it’s in my hair…my baby donkey”.  Seriously, listen to The Beatles “Ticket to Ride” with that in mind next time.  You’re welcome.

There is the infamous “Blinded by the Light” wherein I was positive that he was singing “wrapped up like a douche” rather than “revved up like a deuce”.  I WISH that I did not mishear those lyrics because I was so disgusted by what I thought I heard that I never got around to liking that song.

When Nirvana’s Nevermind came out I remember loving the music while simultaneously thinking “what the hell is he saying anyway”?  Since the internet didn’t exist then, I just guessed.  To this day, I still hear “doused in mud, so petite” rather than “doused in mud, soaked in bleach”.  Undoubtedly, there is a long and detailed list of all of the other lyrics that I have misheard buried somewhere in my brain.  I’m sure some of my friends would be more than happy to remind me of my blunders since I like to sing the same line of a song over and over and over so it drove them a special kind of crazy if I had the lyrics wrong. 

At any rate, I heard Cough Syrup on the way home and I was cracking myself up.  That’s right,  I’m the crazy lady who cracks myself up by hanging out in my own head during my commute.  You cannot convince me that this comes as a surprise to you.  For your entertainment, I’m embedding the video.  You only have to listen to the first line if Young the Giant is not your thing.  I apologize in advance to all of the carrots out there.