the days in between

Does anyone else have this problem? It happens to me all the time. Most often when Ian is with me, pointing out the obvious and then laughing *with* me and my silliness. Anyway, so song lyrics. Name a band, any band. One that you've listened to often enough to know most of the words to at least some of their songs. First of all, as my Uncle David pointed out, you rarely ever know all the words to one song. Test it out. It's pretty hard to sing an entire song w/o listening to the CD at the same time. But, I digress. I have this bad habit of not really paying that close attention to the ACTUAL lyrics. Essentially I just make up my own. I mean, who doesn't. But the problem is that of course I think they are the actual lyrics, and then Ian catches me singing some random words that sound like the same words the real singer is singing, but, well, they aren't.

Driving back from an ultimate tournament last spring, a friend mentioned a funny mis-interpretation of lyrics that had happened to her roommate. I forget the artist, but the actual verse was "the cross I bear" and my friend's friend wanted to know why the hell there was a "cross-eyed bear" in the song.

I am particularly bad at led zep and blue rodeo lyrics. I think I hold my own with Paul Simon, though.