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And the last known survivor stocks his bread in the night
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Eye of the Tiger
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Eye of the Tiger
Pearl Jam “Yellow Ledbetter.” Even Vedder has has joked about the lyrics being hard to understand. Even though I know the lyrics every time I hear the song I hear him singing something different. It doesn’t help that he frequently changes the lyrics during live shows.Eddie Vedder told a story at a Pearl Jam concert that when he and Mike Mcready first met, Mike swore the lyrics to the Kiss song was., "I wanna rock n roll all night, and part of every day". Haha
How many thousands of hours were spent trying to sort the supposedly filthy lyrics to that song?Louie, Louie, oh no
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The Kingsmen
Sometimes I wonder if Eddie actually intented his lyrics to be misheard, or at least infused with alternate interpretations depending how he mumbles... er... sings them. "Everything has chains" sounds like "Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed" in "Corduroy". I kind of like it the second way; it seems to be a more profound statement in that over-earnest 90's sort of way. And because that's how I heard the song for 20 years before I bothered looking up the lyrics on the internet.Pearl Jam “Yellow Ledbetter.” Even Vedder has has joked about the lyrics being hard to understand. Even though I know the lyrics every time I hear the song I hear him singing something different. It doesn’t help that he frequently changes the lyrics during live shows.
I think it was more of a “grunge” style of singing. All of those late 80’s early 90’s grunge bands have at least a few tracks that make you go what did he just say? Or maybe it was the drugs and alcohol. I saw quite a few of these bands come through Austin in the early/mid 90s and I can’t really remember any of them singing very coherently during the shows. Then again the entire shows are a little hazy, so maybe I’m the only one that couldn’t understand them.Sometimes I wonder if Eddie actually intented his lyrics to be misheard, or at least infused with alternate interpretations depending how he mumbles... er... sings them. "Everything has chains" sounds like "Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed" in "Corduroy". I kind of like it the second way; it seems to be a more profound statement in that over-earnest 90's sort of way. And because that's how I heard the song for 20 years before I bothered looking up the lyrics on the internet.
Listen to this...
"Sweet dreams are made of cheese,
who am I to diss a brie..."