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5.18.2004

More Favorite Misheard Lyrics

Frankly, I always wished the lines from Suede's "Sleeping Pills" were what I thought they were, instead of what they are: "You're a water sign / I'm an air sign." The way I first heard it, I thought Brett Anderson was singing: "You're a water sign / I'm an asshole." Much better than going along with astrological bullshit would be characterizing the other person via their implicit belief in said bullshit, and folding in the unpleasantly aggressive aspect of playing such a person for a fool by acknowledging one's own assholity. Plus, if the idea of the two lines is incompatibility, I like "water sign" and "asshole" much better. (Yes, it's true: I've got sweet F.A. to do this afternoon.)

1 comment:

2fs said...

Wow - you're a Registered Commenting Person. Can I have your autograph? Anyway: my weird Onion synchronicity continues: a day after I posted the bit about being an asshole by acknowledging said fact, here's The Onion with an article based on the same phenomenon...