What's your favourite misheard The National lyrics, gang?

[Kieran McConville]

Here's mine, and they both come from Racing Like A Pro;

one time you were blowing young ruffians

your mind is racing like a pronoun


But I have others.

See you inside watching swans on TV
Livin' and dyin' in New York it means nothing to me

 

[PhilsFan]

On "Gospel," I still hear "we'll stand by the pool and throw out our good news."

 

[Kieran McConville]

I actually thought that was what it was. Or maybe 'good minds'.

 

[LemonMelon]

I love that "it's a common fetish for a doting man to ballerina on the coffee table, cock in hand" reads exactly like a misheard lyric, but it's the actual lyric.

 

[nielsgov]

We're half away, in a thinking pie.

 

[Kieran McConville]

I'll explain everything to the geese


Back in the day I had another, less printable, notion of how that line could be misheard.

 

[cobl04]

My girlfriend hears “follow me now as I finger the ghost” in Sufjan Stevens’ Vesuvius.

 

[Kieran McConville]

finger the ghost for what?






I'm just kidding, I geddit.

 

[beegee]

"I have dreams of anonymous pastrami"

 

[Kieran McConville]

I'm on a good mixture, I don't want to waste you

(ok, that I didn't really mishear)

 

[cobl04]

"I have dreams of anonymous pastrami"

I hear this as well!!!!!!

Another one from my gf - she thought "Carin at the liquor store..." was "Corinthian legacy"

 

[Kieran McConville]

shooting tvs reading corinthians thirteen

 

[Kieran McConville]

I see Russian dolls
what did Harvard teach you

 

[Kieran McConville]

Getting sandy clothes, with my gringos