I wanna fuck you like a pig.
I wanna fuck you like a pig.
Don't have anything too ridiculous, but:
Getting Smaller: Hey and for what in this world
WISH (Not Wish): Where's your dead at?
Sunspots: And everything I'd ever want, is inside of TIER!!!!!!
The Idea Of You
Actual: "None of this is happening."
What I keep hearing: "Oh yes. It's happening."
Happiness In Slavery
Actual: "It controls you."
What I keep hearing: "Bad controls you."
Caught my old roommate singing along to Love is Not Enough right after WT came out and heard this gold...
Actual Lyrics: "For you to go and take this...and smash it apart"
Drunk Roommate's Lyrics: "Forty years ago in TEXAAAAS..."
The second I stopped the music and said, "Wait, wait, WAIT...what did you say???" he got all embarrassed...especially when I pointed out the next lyric doesn't fit his version!!
So, as a good friend does, I still casually throw that confusing line into our conversations and will do so until one of us dies.
The Collector
Actual: "I am a good boy and I will swallow it all! Swallow it all! Swallow it all! Swallow it all!"
What I keep hearing: "I am a big boy and I will swallow it whole! Swallow it whole! Swallow it whole! Swallow it whole!"
Burning Bright
Actual: "I'm going back...of course I am..."
What I hear: "I'm going to Hell...of course I am...as if I ever really had a choice"
I WOULD FOR YOU
If i could be somebody else
well I think I would for you
if I could pee on someone else
well I think I would on you
The Wretched
Actual lyric: "But not another reason to continue"
What I hear: "But not another reason not to continue"
Actual lyric: "Back at the beginning. Sinking. Spinning"
What I hear: "Sinking. Swimming."
That reminds me. I keep hearing "But not another reason to continue" as "But not another reason out to continue."
Meet Your Master:
Original: Count down, to the end
Gotta make it come faster
Is a coming disaster
My Ears: Goddamn! Julian! Gonna make it come faster, this is gonna be a disaster!
Head Like A Hole:
Original: God money
My ears: Got money
Down In It:
Original: "I was above it, now I'm down in it
My ears: "I was at the party, now I'm down in it
Running:
Orignal: "I'm running out of places I can hide from this"
My ears: "I'm running out of the place, I can die from this"
Burning Bright:
Original:
I AM FORGIVEN
I AM FREEE
I AM..A...FIELD...ON..FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
My Ears:
I AM FORGIVEN
I AM COMPLETE
I AM A FIELD OF FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(Seriously, at 4:58 it really sounds like Trent goes "I AM COMPLETE")
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When I first got into NIN about 10 years ago I always misheard "happiness" at the end of Happiness In Slavery as "A penis" whispered over and over again. Yes, I feel weird about it in retrospect.
And yeah, I always thought the "not/out to continue" thing in The Wretched was strange. I guess it's just the delay or something that catches up with the vocals.
I used to mishear shitloads of lyrics, the one that sticks out in my mind right now is from Love Is Not Enough even tough it's a relatively minor one
Actual line
'The tile on the floor, so cold it can sting'
What I heard
'The towel on the floor, so cold it can sting'
"You've become a virus that's killing off his host" sounds to me like "You've become violent - keeping off his host".
Every Day Is Exactly The Same
Actual: "Sometimes I think I'm happy here."
What I keep hearing: "Sometimes I think I'm happier."
My girlfriend hears the chorus of Less Than as “I’m Molested.” I can’t unhear this now.
even though the song is called LESS THAN, when i sing the chorus to myself without the recording to correct me, instead of:
are you less than?
i hear:
are you listenin'?
This ain't a consequence. This is the beginning of the end.
Dear World :
"And you didn't even notice, and you didn't even notice, and you didn't even notice that you're pissing".
God... is he really that old already?
I just realized that the following are not, in fact, the actual lyrics, and now the title of the song makes much more sense:
I am forgiven
I am free
I am not real
I'm fire
Was convinced for years that the line in Burn was "I wanna watch the whole world burn" and no-one could tell me otherwise. This was when I had the NBK OST on cassette only and had lost it. When I got the song again on CD I was upset Trent had rerecorded it with new lyrics. That was, what, 15 years ago? Still convinced I'm right.
The Becoming
Actual: "It won't give up. It wants me dead. Goddamn this noise inside my head."
What I keep hearing: "Don't give up. It wants me dead. Goddamn this noise in side my head."
The Hand That Feeds
Actual: "You're keeping in step. In the line."
What I keep hearing: "You're keeping it still. And in line."
Please
Actual: "All my life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but it just left me dead."
What I keep hearing: "All my life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and a part of it just left me dead."
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Head Like A Hole
Actual: "God Money"
What I keep hearing: "Got money?"
Down In It
Actual: "I was up above it."
What I keep hearing: "I was gonna better it."
Somewhat Damaged
Actual: "So impressed with all you do."
What I keep hearing: "So embossed in all you do."
Starfuckers, Inc.
Actual: "Now I belong."
What I keep hearing: "Don't argue."
Good lord somma you guys need hearing aids.
Came Back Haunted
Actual: "The throat is deep and the mouth is wide"
What I heard: "The foot is deep and the mouth is wide
Closer
Actual: "You are the reason I stay alive
What I heard: "You are the reason I'm still alive"
In college I had a roommate who misheard lyrics all the time, anyway I heard him singing 'Last' to himself once. Kinda like once you see something, you can never un-see it.
Real lyrics: "this isn't meant to last, this is for right now, this isn't meant to last"
What I heard: "this is a metal ass, this for right now, this is a metal ass..."
Even right now, I can't stop laughing.
Last edited by renton44; 08-17-2017 at 11:21 AM.
Yup, "metal ass" on that song is an old classic. Peeps been hearing it that way for years.