U2 lyrics you sing wrong

[Rafiennes]

Probably not the correct subject title for this but I was listening to U2 yesterday - my 1 year old is obsessed with Vertigo.

And when it comes to the middle solo and Bono sings 'check mated, hours of fun', for some reason, I don't hear 'hours of fun'...I hear 'Shazzafaw!'

Made my son laugh like a maniac so I spent the rest of the night saying 'Shazzafaw!'...

Anybody else have a lyric they hear wrong and sing that way?

 

[Zooropean103]

Somehow when I listen to Pride I always hear: "in the name of love WHAT more in the name of love" instead of "one more".

Also to me the chorus of I Will Follow sounds: "WHAT YOU'RE EVER DOING WHAT YOU'RE EVER DOING."

 

[2861U2]

Somehow when I listen to Pride I always hear: "in the name of love WHAT more in the name of love" instead of "one more".

Wait, isn't the correct lyric "what more?"

 

[vaz02]

http://forum.interference.com/t161919.html

btw i always thought the lyric was what more too.

 

[love2bmama]

^ I thought it was "one more" for about the first 20 years or so, until I figured out it is "what more"

 

[corianderstem]

And when it comes to the middle solo and Bono sings 'check mated, hours of fun', for some reason, I don't hear 'hours of fun'...I hear 'Shazzafaw!'

x 100,000

"Shazzafaw" is exactly what "hours of fun" sounded like to me, too! That's hilarious!

I can't stop giggling about that. I might have to start saying "shazzafaw" at random times, just for shits and grins.

 

[love2bmama]

I don't sing this wrong, but ever since someone in interland pointed out that this line in COBL:
"what happened to the beauty inside of me?" sounds an awful like B is saying
"what happened to the beaty in sodomy", I can't help but think of that every time I hear the song.

 

[love2bmama]

Re: Re: U2 lyrics you sing wrong

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"Shazzafaw" is exactly what "hours of fun" sounded like to me, too! That's hilarious!

I can't stop giggling about that. I might have to start saying "shazzafaw" at random times, just for shits and grins.

to me it sounds like "jazzophone!" so that's how I sing it, rofl!

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Re: Re: U2 lyrics you sing wrong

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"Shazzafaw" is exactly what "hours of fun" sounded like to me, too! That's hilarious!

I can't stop giggling about that. I might have to start saying "shazzafaw" at random times, just for shits and grins.

I hear "Shazbot" whatever the hell that is...

http://forum.interference.com/t161919.html

 

[No spoken words]

Probably not the correct subject title for this but I was listening to U2 yesterday - my 1 year old is obsessed with Vertigo.

And when it comes to the middle solo and Bono sings 'check mated, hours of fun', for some reason, I don't hear 'hours of fun'...I hear 'Shazzafaw!'

Made my son laugh like a maniac so I spent the rest of the night saying 'Shazzafaw!'...

Anybody else have a lyric they hear wrong and sing that way?

I hear it as "Showers of fun", actually. But, "shazzafaw" is a great word, no doubt.

 

[Aygo]

Re: Re: U2 lyrics you sing wrong

I hear it as "Showers of fun", actually. But, "shazzafaw" is a great word, no doubt.

I always hear it "Jezebel" instead of "hour of fun" or whatever...

 

[Axver]

SHAMU THE MYSTERIOUS WHALE!

 

[redhotswami]

In OOTS, ever since I saw someone's homemade vid, now I sing "that's a frog" before all the do dos.

 

[phillyfan26]

I always sing wrong a crucial lyric in One.

"Well we hurt each other and we'll do it again."

I always thought he said a muffled "carried" again. I always sing it that way. Even though it's wrong. Even though it makes no sense. Even though it changes a lot of the meaning of that section. I'm bad.

 

[coolian2]

I always sing wrong a crucial lyric in One.

"Well we hurt each other and we'll do it again."

I always thought he said a muffled "carried" again. I always sing it that way. Even though it's wrong. Even though it makes no sense. Even though it changes a lot of the meaning of that section. I'm bad.

We curry each other

 

[Galeongirl]

with Vertigo I always heard
Sure Day eh, just fall, show me in it yeah...

but I guess nobody knows what he sang

 

[Joey788]

SHAMU THE MYSTERIOUS WHALE!

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

In OOTS, ever since I saw someone's homemade vid, now I sing "that's a frog" before all the do dos.

I sing the do dos as the word "beauty" repeated over and over again, it makes perfect sense to me

Also the Gaelic lemon cheesecake in Another Time, Another place, and while we're talking about Boy, "Is love like a taco, hanging from my ceiling" in Shadows and Tall Trees

 

[Dorian Gray]

electrical storm = "electric coleslaaaaaw"

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

electrical storm = "electric coleslaaaaaw"

Wow. Just wow.

 

[~BrightestStar~]

electrical storm = "electric coleslaaaaaw"

 

[europop2005]

on the Chicago vertigo DVD i always understood the second verse of Electric Co to be "cut knife shot blast in your horses side" don't ask thats just what i heard i understand the lyric is "a shockblast goes through whats inside"

 

[Alisaura]

SHAMU THE MYSTERIOUS WHALE!

Bono's finest lyric.

 

[U2girl]

I always think the line in ABOY is

An intellectual tortoise
Racing with your bullet brain

 

[Rafiennes]

At the end of 'One, when his voice is going into falsetto land, I used to hear him ordering his breakfast

'Bacon, and bacon and eeegggggsssss'

 

[craigp]

mofo - edges part

 

[tpsreports2424]

SHAMU THE MYSTERIOUS WHALE!

WOW!!!


what a great laugh that was

 

[BluRmGrl]

:looks around to see if this crowd can be trusted:

OK... for years I always heard & sang the lyric in ISHFWILF as: 'I have kissed haunted lips...' WTF??? 'Haunted lips'?!?!?!? Anyway, I sat down with my liner notes about 5 years ago & re-read all the JT lyrics (which I had done feverishly the minute I first owned a copy - obviously, without paying attention ). That's when I discovered they were 'honeyed lips'.

I sing it right now, but I still always hear 'haunted lips' in my head.

 

[Rafiennes]

Just told my wife over the phone about 'Shazzafaw' and I heard her say it to my son...laughing his ass off...works with both parents!!!

 

[HolyMeximofoJoe]

SHAMU THE MYSTERIOUS WHALE!

oh man im gonna be singing that from now on

I always hear "Looking for the sound that's gonna drown out the weather" instead of "world" in MOFO. I swear I cannot hear it, I try and try but nope.

And as for shazzafaw.... I can see how someone would think that. It does sound like he could be saying that.