I am a darker poet

[rm]

Okay, you know that Decemberists song We Both Go Down Together where the singer makes the word "tramp" have three syllables? I still always hear it as "triumph" which makes the line "I found you a tattooed triumph, a dirty daughter from the labour camps" which is about 800 times more disturbing and interesting than "tattooed tramp" and I can't shake it. I mean, my god....

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[kill.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was triumph as well.

That is one of my obsessive albums.

[devereux1880.livejournal.com]

Darker perhaps, but much better like that.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

huh, I thought it was triumph, too. and I like it better that way.


they're playing in Central Park in July, by the way.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Fencing night. Am in quandry.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

aieee, I do not know what to tell you.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

But they're playing at 5! Although I guess there are opening bands, which makes it later.

You don't think the maestro would understand, just this once?

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

I hate that. There've been a few songs where my misheard lyric was so much better than the original, though the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Covenant's Call the Ships to Port, which I warped the chorus of into, "A quiet form of lying/we call our ships to port/the count is slowing rising/like whispers in the dark."

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

Slowly, rather.

I have migraine fingers.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I don't know the song, but I still like yours better.

The song that's a little like that for me is Dido's White Flag --

I always hear it as "I'm in love -- no mercy", which I like so much better than "I'm in love and always will be"

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

I've got to stand fast here against the raging torrent and say again that the song is way better as a ridiculous woe-is-me parody of self-important morbid teenagers than as anything that could ever be taken seriously. It's your classic "I'm so beautiful and tragic and haunted and you're so overawed by my flawless breeding you've become a passive receptacle for my suicidal delusions so hey let's go kill ourselves! Huzzah!" Which is hi-lar-ious. It's the perfect companion track to "Common People". If you make it a forced labor camp (especially anything to do with the Holocaust-- no Nazi I ever heard of would describe himself as "coming from wealth and beauty" so smugly. They were Socialists, yo.), you remove the class element, and the whole structure of the sarcasm collapses. So I think it's better-- not darker, but way-ass funnier-- the way it was intended.

[graene.livejournal.com]

You and poetry. I did tell you about sitting down to read to baby out of _One Silly While_, didn't I?

[franny-glass.livejournal.com]

I love that song.

[cookie-cm.livejournal.com]

I much prefer your version, it's natural genius.