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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[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.