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I thought you were a friend, but I guess, I guess I hate you

walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,569
edited May 2010 in The Porch
"It's your move now...
I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I hate you..."

Unbelievably, up until five minutes ago I never knew that was what Eddie muttered at the end of "Corduroy." I also didn't know that the line goes "Everything has chains / Absolutely nothing's changed" until quite a few years after the song was released.

Completely changes the song for me.
Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
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  • IAmMyselfIAmMyself Posts: 671
    Yeah, I had the same type of moment a while back.
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    I didn't know that's what was said in Corduroy.


    My friend thought Faithfull said:
    Voice inside so drowned out, drowned you are, you are, you are a free thing

    He mentioned he didn't know why it actually said "furry thing", as "free" made more sense to him.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i just found out in In mY Tree he says "got back my inner sense..." instead of "got back my innocence". i like that.

    i think the COrduroy thing is more clear on RVM than Vitalogy, or maybe im thinking of another song.
  • veddertownveddertown Posts: 5,260
    I thought I knew most of the lyrics pretty well and recently I've discovered that I've had lines in songs that I've always sung along to but just didn't ever know until I looked them up. God only knows what comes out when I sing along. My daughter sings Parachutes, "Why deny, all the troubles when combined with a missing leg." I don't let on though. :lol:
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    Make me fries
  • loadedgunloadedgun Indiana Posts: 1,389
    Potato wave?
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  • made us starsmade us stars Posts: 166
    Footsteps -- always thought it was "pictures on my desk" but now I'm hearing "pictures aren't my taste" and I like that a lot better. But it could be either, going to look right after I post this :)
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    "Glorified version of a pelican"
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    Back when Footloose was a big song a kid in grade school thought it was "Everybody cut Fruitloops"...

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  • letsongsprotestletsongsprotest Posts: 552
    Actually on faithfull, I don't believe that it says "furry thing". I think that Eddie just drags out the word everything. As in "ev-err-y thing.

    That's what I hear, though I intially also thought it was furry
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  • arqarq Posts: 8,003
    Oh Eddie, eddie, eddie, nobody understand you, but your mumbling is the best!
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    On a wizard, on a wha-ay-ee-ale.
  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    youngster wrote:
    "Glorified version of a pelican"
    I remember saomeone saying "4 or 5 virgins and a pelican"
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    youngster wrote:
    "Glorified version of a pelican"
    I remember saomeone saying "4 or 5 virgins and a pelican"


    Horrified Virgin on a Pelican
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  • jcfranzjcfranz Posts: 168
    made us stars wrote:
    Footsteps -- always thought it was "pictures on my desk" but now I'm hearing "pictures aren't my taste" and I like that a lot better. But it could be either, going to look right after I post this :)

    Ooh, pictures on my chest... It was you. It was you...
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  • walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,569
    Oh God, look what I've started.

    (Like the dirt off Olajuwon's feet.)
    Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ

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  • LizardLizard Posts: 12,091
    MrSmith wrote:
    i just found out in In mY Tree he says "got back my inner sense..." instead of "got back my innocence". i like that.

    Didn't know it was that. Thanks!
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  • Satans Red MosquitoSatans Red Mosquito Posts: 763
    First time I heard glorified g I was half asleep driving back home from college, I swear Eddie was singing Glorified version of Elliot Gould. I thought "wow, Eddie was singing about the old guy from oceans eleven, that's cool I guess". Needless to say I needed to go to sleep badly.
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  • StoneVedder_10StoneVedder_10 Posts: 146
    "thirty thieves and the thunder chief..." - "dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap". :lol:
    Everything has chains, absolutely nothing's changed...
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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    There's a Chevelle song "Get Some" when he sings "How can i" <get some> i thought he was singing "How Jedi"
    still like my version better!!! "How Jedi...How Jedi... How Jedi...GET SOME"!!!
  • ToneTone Posts: 1,206
    walkunafraid wrote:
    "It's your move now...
    I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I hate you..."

    Unbelievably, up until five minutes ago I never knew that was what Eddie muttered at the end of "Corduroy." I also didn't know that the line goes "Everything has chains / Absolutely nothing's changed" until quite a few years after the song was released.

    Completely changes the song for me.

    Okay, thanks... until I read this I always heard it as: "Everything has changed; absolutely nothing's changed", so there you go :lol:

    But NOTHING beats Potato Wave, the Misheard Lyrics Guy's version of Yellow Ledbetter is full of win! :lol::lol::lol:
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  • morgie2morgie2 Posts: 1,065
    made us stars wrote:
    Footsteps -- always thought it was "pictures on my desk" but now I'm hearing "pictures aren't my taste" and I like that a lot better. But it could be either, going to look right after I post this :)

    Footsteps is about the psychology of a serial killer. I think the lyrics are "pictures on my test", referring to the Rorschach inkblot test. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test)
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  • blorpblorp Posts: 34
    My girlfriend insists that Ed says "It's not chewy" over and over on Habit...I think he's really saying "It's not your way" but she has a theory about a love/hate relationship with a granola bar.
  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    walkunafraid wrote:
    Oh God, look what I've started.

    (Like the dirt off Olajuwon's feet.)
    that right there is the best!
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  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    blorp wrote:
    My girlfriend insists that Ed says "It's not chewy" over and over on Habit...I think he's really saying "It's not your way" but she has a theory about a love/hate relationship with a granola bar.
    I swear I just nearly choked on water when I read this post! :lol:
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  • wolfamongwolveswolfamongwolves Posts: 2,414
    Lizard wrote:
    MrSmith wrote:
    i just found out in In mY Tree he says "got back my inner sense..." instead of "got back my innocence". i like that.

    Didn't know it was that. Thanks!

    It's only the last time when he says "inner sense", otherwise it is "innocence"
    I think Ed likes toying with exactly this sort of stuff

    For example... lyric sheet for Not For You:

    This snot for you
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    00: Dublin
    06: London, Dublin
    07: London, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
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  • doomponydoompony Posts: 4,497
    letsongsprotest wrote:
    Actually on faithfull, I don't believe that it says "furry thing". I think that Eddie just drags out the word everything. As in "ev-err-y thing.

    That's what I hear, though I intially also thought it was furry


    it says furry thing in the yield lyrics. i hope it's furry thing because that's one of my favourite lyrics.
  • DissidentmanDissidentman Posts: 15,378
    morgie2 wrote:
    made us stars wrote:
    Footsteps -- always thought it was "pictures on my desk" but now I'm hearing "pictures aren't my taste" and I like that a lot better. But it could be either, going to look right after I post this :)

    Footsteps is about the psychology of a serial killer. I think the lyrics are "pictures on my test", referring to the Rorschach inkblot test. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test)

    And I thought it was "pictures on my chest", as in family pictures on his chest of drawers. Giving more meaning to the lyric "It was you", as in it was you in the picture - a family member that caused me all this pain.
  • CosmoCramerCosmoCramer Posts: 571
    CJMST3K wrote:
    I didn't know that's what was said in Corduroy.


    My friend thought Faithfull said:
    Voice inside so drowned out, drowned you are, you are, you are a free thing

    He mentioned he didn't know why it actually said "furry thing", as "free" made more sense to him.

    I thought he said "Voice inside so drowned out, drowned you are, you are, you are everything, whats a boy to do?"
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