Lyrics Wrong [Conversation In Head]

Lyrics Wrong [Conversation In Head]

"I'll be a plastic toilet for you."

"What?"

"Well, I'm not talking to you. I'm just singing along with this song."

"I know that. But what do you think they're saying?"

"Well, he's saying 'I'll be a plastic toilet for you.'"

"Okay, let me stop you there."

"Okay."

"Because that's ridiculous."

"I don't know, is it? If he's not saying that, what is he saying?"

"... Okay... well... I'm not sure... But I know he's NOT saying that he will be a 'plastic toilet' for someone. I mean, what sense does that make? Do I need to Google the lyrics for you?"

"Well, I don't know. Maybe he's saying he loves this girl SO much that he'll take all her shit and still love her and be there for her -- he'll be a 'toilet' for her, in other words. Or maybe it goes even deeper, and he's sort of saying all that, but it's supposed to be obvious to the listener that he's gone too far in taking her shit -- if you will."

"... Let me Google the lyrics." Online search takes place. "And here you go. He's saying* he'll be a 'plastic toy' for her. So I can see your thinking on this, it's similar sounding, but your lyrics make so much less sense is all... But to be fair, this isn't as egregious a misinterpretation as when you thought Pavement was singing 'Korea' when the word was 'career' -- or, most notably, when you thought Radiohead was saying 'you've got to feel like Eddie Albert' when they were really saying** 'When you've got to feel it in your bones.' That one, in particular, was, I would assume, extremely embarrassing for you. I mean, after all, why would a 90s British rock group be saying to someone that they must be feeling like the star of TV's 'Green Acres'?"

"Mmm..."

* Just Like Honey by Jesus and Mary Chain
Listen to the girl
As she takes on half the world
Moving up and so alive
In her honey dripping beehive
Beehive
It's good, so good, it's so good
So good Walking back to you
Is the hardest thing that
I can do
That I can do for you
For you I'll be your plastic toy
I'll be your plastic toy
For you Eating up the scum
Is the hardest thing for
Me to do Just like honey (x 17)

** Bones by Radiohead
I don't want to be crippled and cracked
Shoulders, legs, knees and back
Ground to dust and ash
Crawling on all fours
When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones
Now I can't climb the stairs
Pieces missing everywhere
Prozac, painkillers
When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones
And I used to fly like Peter Pan
All the children flew when I touched their hands
I say you've got to feel it in your bones
I say you've got to feel it in your bones