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Bastille Day:

"There's no bread; lemony cake!"

 

Passage to Bangkok:

"Our first stop is in bold guitar..."

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Eyes wide open

Heart undefended

In a sense, untarnished

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Seven Cities of Gold

 

A man can lose his past, in a country like this

wandering anus - parched and nameless

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Massive bump, but I used to mishear:

 

"Battle flags are flown at the feet of a god unknown" from "Armor in Sword" as

 

"Battle flags are flown at the feet of a garden gnome"

 

 

I actually like the misheard line better.

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Massive bump, but I used to mishear:

 

"Battle flags are flown at the feet of a god unknown" from "Armor in Sword" as

 

"Battle flags are flown at the feet of a garden gnome"

 

 

I actually like the misheard line better.

 

That’s a fairly common one.

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My dad, who was constantly hearing Rush music since both my older brother and I got into the band at high school age in the '80s, would jokingly sing his versions of some lyric lines. Some of them genuinely misheard and some, I think, just Dad being Dad and poking fun at things.

 

"New World Man" became "New Squirrel Van"

The chorus from "Distant Early Warning" was interpreted as "A whirlwind on my shoulder, and whatcha gonna do!"

 

I remember when "Force Ten" hit the radio, I thought the chorus was "Look in - to the eye of the stone/ Look out - for the voice without form". There were a few other lines I just couldn't make out. (I had no CLUE what that song was supposed to be about when I first heard it. Was it somehow based on the movie Force 10 from Navarone, a film I'd heard of but never actually seen? Maybe...some of the lines almost sounded like they were describing military manoeuvres. I don't think I'd heard of the Beaufort Scale at that point.)

 

My most recent (non-Rush) misheard lyric was actually on Porcupine Tree's "So Called Friend". Their Arriving Somewhere DVD is one of the various concert DVD's I've been watching for the last few years while getting in my workout on the elliptical machine. And for years I've been wondering what the lyrics on that song were. It almost sounded like "She blends the snow cone send and rips my life apart." (???) Finally last week I looked it up. "She bends my so called friend and rips my life apart".Oh.

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