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Clawgrabber said:
my big mixups:
(these are all real)

1. stay:
just the band and the clatter
as A NINJA runs to ground
just the band and the clatter
as A NINJA hits the ground

2. Mysterious Ways
living underground, eating from a CAT

3. Wake Up Dead Man
Can't we rewind and JUST WATCH PORN

4. North & South of The River
Can we stop playing these ALTAR 'TUDES
(lord knows what I thought that meant)

5. City Of Blinding Lights
rather than:
Time, won't leave me as I am
Time, won't take the boy out of this man:

Tonight... One Lean Me Howie Sand
Tonight...One Jingle Bird An Honest Tan

(that was as close as i could get until i forced myself to read the lyrics, which was about a year after I got the cd)

6. A Man And A Woman
Brown Eyed Girl Across The Street
On Newspaper Rhine

and i still don't know what he says on LOVE AND PEACE right after
Baby don't fight, we can talk this thing through.

it sounds like "With Meanie and You" (perhaps a Beatles reference) or maybe a more cockney "With me knee and you" (he's gonna knee her in the stomach... not really the best way to end a tiff, if you ask me.)
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Holy F@#$%!! (hope I don't get a "warning" for this) did I ever laugh my a@# off over this one!! Like i said, it's been a while.... :lmao:
 
Actually I think there is an online site that has lyrics like those... What are the right lyrics anyway?? I don't know what to beleive now :laugh:
 
Ancalagon said:


I thought that for years too! Yes, it's a word, but it's spelled flak. It's anti-aircraft fire, so it conjured up images of war in my mind. The 'silken sky' could be parachutes.

True colours fly in blue and black
Through silken sky and burning flak
Colours clash, collide in bloodshot eyes

Between you and me, I think it's a slight improvement on the 'proper' lyric. :shh:

Edit: According to U2.com (which is far from infallible, of course) the proper lyric is:

Blue silken sky and burning flag
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I thought it was flag
 
^ Yeah!!! That's what I meant :rolleyes: They should really correct that!!

Thanks Soul Love for clearing things up for me!! :laugh:
 
Mofo:

Been round back
Been round front

Me:

Real man red
Real man red

:happy: :lol:
 
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WalkOn21 said:

Something like that?
Except "skies are fall" seems a bit misplaced. Why would he make a reference to autumn in this song?
"Skies are fallen" would make more sense in this context, but I don't hear "en".
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Well in vertigo I hear something that goes like this:
check mated
hours of fun
show me Neil....

Didn't actually neil mccormick talked about this song ltelling that he likes it very much since there is a reference to him because when the band recorded this song he was in the studio? did I dream it? :ohmy:
 
Let me embarrass myself once more:

- Jesus, I'm waiting here, bus
(he's angry at the bus driver :wink:)

-your stick on tattoos, never making the news
I always thought it meant she hated tattoos (stick on tattoos) and wanted the world to know that, but it didn't work (never making the news).
 
Lol... Hey everyone! I think I've only posted a couple of times so you all won't know me.

This wee topic has been amusing and I've also got a good few lyrics wrong....

Here's one....

In "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".... the line...
"I have kissed honey lips...felt the healing in her finger tips"

I thought it was.... "I have kissed Annie Lennox... felt the healing in her finger tips"

Lol!
 
Alright, I can't possibly be the only person to mishear this one from Shadows and Tall Trees:

Do you feel in me
Anything redeeming
Any worthwhile feeling
Is love like a taco
Hanging from my ceiling

As opposed to "tightrope" :lol:
 
Kimberly said:
Lol... Hey everyone! I think I've only posted a couple of times so you all won't know me.

This wee topic has been amusing and I've also got a good few lyrics wrong....

Here's one....

In "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".... the line...
"I have kissed honey lips...felt the healing in her finger tips"

I thought it was.... "I have kissed Annie Lennox... felt the healing in her finger tips"

Lol!
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:lol: Though we can add this one to my 'I misheard it and didn't even know it' list. I've always heard it as "I have kissed hardened lips". I always thought that it didn't really make sense but I just assumed that it was 'deep' :laugh:
 
in vertigo i always thought that bit at the beginning (is it larry?) where someone says something just after the countdown..
'turn it up loud, captain'
actually - it might even be that!
 
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