Empty Mindless Spectre Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 The screaming part of Freewill: Each of us, a cell of awareness. In fact I think I'll leave. <some gibberish> with one song and dance. An unfortunateness far too free.I know the right lyrics, but I can never actually hear them. It confused me forever that the liner notes said: "If you choose not to decide, you still haven't made a choice". I thought it was contradictory to the message of the song, and I didn't hear it. I even had a couple of record store conversations about this (remember record stores....those were awesome...). It wasn't until many years later that I learned that this was a misprint and I was right all along. Of course, this begs the question of how the hell do you misprint something to say the exact opposite of what it says. For some reason I remember it actually reading :"If you choose not to decide, you cannot have made a choice" but I could be wrong...Also seems to me that I recall hearing that Neil wrote it that way intentionally, but Geddy didn't want to sing it that way because he didn't believe it to be true. So Geddy changed the lyric to reflect how he saw it. Again, this is all just off the top of my head, so someone please correct me if I have this incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnoble Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 from Grand Designs the line "Like a teardrop in the ocean" always sounded like "like a ditto in the ocean" to me. And then I immediatly picture a white piece of paper with some school work on it floating in the water :ebert: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanGetz Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 An angular mass of new yoghurts. Sprawling on the fringes of the settee. I have held the whiskered tails of immorality There are also some tracks where I 'predicted' the wrong rhyme upon first hearing the song, and now I just can't forget my 'improved' version: Sunlight dances through the leavesSoft winds stir the sighing treesLying in the warm grassFeel the sun upon your ass I can do, what you doYou just do it betterI can cry, like you cryIt just makes me wetter :D I think that "Feel the sun up in your ass" would also work. I'm drawing a blank on what song "lemony cake" is referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty Mindless Spectre Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 An angular mass of new yoghurts. Sprawling on the fringes of the settee. I have held the whiskered tails of immorality There are also some tracks where I 'predicted' the wrong rhyme upon first hearing the song, and now I just can't forget my 'improved' version: Sunlight dances through the leavesSoft winds stir the sighing treesLying in the warm grassFeel the sun upon your ass I can do, what you doYou just do it betterI can cry, like you cryIt just makes me wetter :D I think that "Feel the sun up in your ass" would also work. I'm drawing a blank on what song "lemony cake" is referring to. "There's no breadLemony cake" Ring a bell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aikenrooster Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Limelight: I swear he says "the universal beam" later in the song. As, of course, "fish islands." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I was just about to call it a night when I saw this thread and was reminded of something I saw the other day. Here's a quote from Oscar Wilde: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are gazing at the stars." Now. You don't suppose Neil clipped his lyrics from this man, do you??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangster of Goats Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I was just about to call it a night when I saw this thread and was reminded of something I saw the other day. Here's a quote from Oscar Wilde: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are gazing at the stars." Now. You don't suppose Neil clipped his lyrics from this man, do you??? Neil has indeed acknowledged the Oscar Wilde quote/inspiration in The Pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatLightInYourEyes Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 "A boy lies in the grass with one leg stuck between his teeth" —The Analog Kid I can't believe I thought for years that this was supposed to be a metaphor for something. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanGetz Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 An angular mass of new yoghurts. Sprawling on the fringes of the settee. I have held the whiskered tails of immorality There are also some tracks where I 'predicted' the wrong rhyme upon first hearing the song, and now I just can't forget my 'improved' version: Sunlight dances through the leavesSoft winds stir the sighing treesLying in the warm grassFeel the sun upon your ass I can do, what you doYou just do it betterI can cry, like you cryIt just makes me wetter :D I think that "Feel the sun up in your ass" would also work. I'm drawing a blank on what song "lemony cake" is referring to. "There's no breadLemony cake" Ring a bell? Thanks, I didn't make the Bastille Day connection at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersyl Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Watched the bootleg of my first Rush show ever tonight (April 08 1983, Montreal Forum) and re-heard an old misheard lyric from that time: "Everybody needs reversible narrity"... Whatever that means! :D :Neil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaghetti Lee Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 From "Vital Signs": Everybody need a SALT filter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pip65 Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 On Fly by Night, I always hear "My ship isn't coming but I just can't pretend" as "chickens are coming but I just can't pretend". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 On A Farewell To Kings, I always thought that the line went "Eyes cast down on the families' resistance". Now, after learning the correct lyrics, I hear "the famoleast resistance". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefox4000 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 In Anagram instead of Image just an eyeless game. I heard and still hear Image just an eyeless skank. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 In Anagram instead of Image just an eyeless game. I heard and still hear Image just an eyeless skank. Mick You saying my mum is blind? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I have so many I could post, but I took to long reading the thread :D My personal favorite is "pictures that you plug into your eyes," though. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatLightInYourEyes Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 A boy lies in the grass with one leg stuck between his teeth 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savagegrace26 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 (edited) I thought I was completely well versed in Rush lyrics until I watched Grand Designs live from the CA tour on Youtube recently. I have always heard "Like a daily variation, a diamond in the waste" - it didn't really sound right but I guess I never bothered checking that one until I heard "Like a teardrop in the ocean, a diamond in the waste" (it's kind of hard to decipher in the studio version) Also I could never figure out what Geddy was saying at the beginning of My Favorite Headache since it came out. I only discovered a couple of years ago what it was (since the album release didn't include printed lyrics). Anyway this is what it has always sounded like to me (and still does): Just between the eyes and just anyway (or jews anyway) instead of:Just between the ice ages anyway It confused me for years Wait, also this part I always hear as: One man standing on the plains of Abraham watching the DAMN sunrise (instead of a damaged sunrise) Edited July 11, 2014 by savagegrace26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaghetti Lee Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Wow someone actually knows some lyrics from "My Favorite Headache" ha ha... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 (edited) "Some worldviews are spacious, and some are merely spaced" ==> "Some reviews are spacious, and some are merely space" Equally fitting, if a bit clunky. Edited July 12, 2014 by len(songs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 (edited) Oh, and now I hear "Bakey bakey scones in a deep Sahara of snow" in 7COG... Edited July 12, 2014 by len(songs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus 2112 Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 A boy lies in the grass with one leg stuck between his teeth This gets me everytime as well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 "And all the powers that beAnd the gods of historyWould be changed forevermore" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 At the speed of love nothing changes faster than the speed of love..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len(songs) Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) At the speed of love nothing changes faster than the speed of love.....Umm, I think that that is, unfortunately, correct. EDIT: Yup, I checked Anthems. That's the correct line. Edited July 14, 2014 by len(songs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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