I found out just a few days ago that in Weezer’s My Name is Jonas, Jonas is ‘carrying the wheel’ and not as I had been hearing it, ‘carrying the whale’. About 25 years of assuming the song started with some kind of quirky modern take on the biblical Jonah/Jonas and the whale story.
She’s got a new dress on
(on insulin!)
Sits by her radio
(on insulin!)
She’s got those x-ray eyes
(on insulin!)
Don’t know which way to go
(on insulin!)
I also hear CAN OF POO!
Rihanna - Kiss it Better (video possibly NSFW) :
“Who cares when it feels like crap”
For years I thought it was “Binman”
All the women who proper binmen
I remember the corned beef of my Destiny’s Childhood
Just remembered one that gave me a chuckle when I realized:
Little Brother - “The Listening”
Heard for years: “we’ve got a better chance of blowing up just whistling”
Actual: “we’ve got a better chance of blowing up in Switzerland”
So I’ve just found out that in Taylor Swift’s arguable magnum opus All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version), the lyric is
When your Brooklyn broke my skin and bones
And not as I have always thought
When you broke clean, broke my skin and bones
I think my version is much more poetic tbqh, which makes me a better lyricist than Taylor Swift.
objects in the riviera may appear closer than they are
Thought he was singing the taste of Scotchridge on my tongue and that Scotchridge must be one of those bottles of something you can only buy at liquor stores in the States - obviously, he’s just saying the taste of Scotch rich on my tongue. So the meaning is basically the same, just not as hyper specific as I initially thought.