How many songs' lyrics can you screw up?

[American liberal]

I'm driving home from work listening to XRT, my favorite local rock station since I was 14. A Red Hot Chili Peppers song comes on that I've heard on the radio at least 100 times.

It starts: Scar tissue that I wish you saw| something something Mr. Know it all|

But it's the chorus that gets me. Although I hum along absentmindedly, I have NO IDEA what the lyrics are. It sounds like: With a burning shade it's a lonely view...
With a burning shade it's a lonely view...

Which of course makes no sense at all! Somebody, please educate me!!!

Thanks!

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

1. here you go... great tune

Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view

Push me up against the wall
Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra
Fallin’ all over myself
To lick your heart and taste your health ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...

Blood loss in a bathroom stall
Southern girl with a scarlet drawl
Wave good-bye to ma and pa ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view

Soft spoken with a broken jaw
Step outside but not to brawl
Autumn’s sweet we call it fall
I’ll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...

Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view...

[American liberal]

4. thanks. much better than "burning shades" LOL

[AlCzervik]

6. Wow, thats even more depressing than i thought

it was after seeing the lyrics.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

8. Depressing in a therapeutic way...

[bettyellen]

2. i dunno know about that but last night two of my co workers

substituted animal noises for lyrics they didn't know. they sounded like a big flock of gurgling birds.
it was highly entertaining!

[bettyellen]

3. hey birds... i got that part at least!

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

5. Although.... the offical lyrics say "Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra"

I KNOW... he says "Young TOUGH girl..." weird.

[Not_Giving_Up]

7. I can't help but laugh!

In high school, Love Shack (B-52's) was huge. We all saw the video on MTV, and my best friend and I swore that when they showed the goat, they yelled "Henry! Busted!" Imagine our suprise when we saw the actual lyrics on the inside tape cover..."Tin roof, rusted!"

[American liberal]

11. OMG!!! I thought it was Henry, too!!! That is so funny!!! thanks!

Oh, the Love Shack is a little ol' place that we can get together
Love Shack, ba-a-a-by!
Love Shack, baby, Love Shack
Love Shack, baby, Love Shack

I still love that song. It makes me want to move around!

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

9. BTW, I lived in Chicago area for a long time, really miss the radio there!

XRT, the loop... Howard Stern. <sigh>

[American liberal]

10. OK, how about this one?

It's a classic rock song. Could not tell you the name of the artist.

With a background south-of-the-border beat, the singer tells a bunch of back story, then all of a sudden he's surrounded by all these women.
"There's black ones, brown ones, tall ones short ones.
Then out of the middle
comes a lady
She whispers in my ear
Something crazy
She say
"Spill the wine
Don't take that girl
Spill the wine
Don't take that girl"

What's he really saying?!

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

14. Here you go...

from: http://ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/lyrics/s/spill_the_wine.txt

Spill The Wine
Eric Burdon & The War


Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

I was once out strolling one very hot summer's day
When I thought I'd lay myself down to rest
in a big field of tall grass
I lay there in the sun and felt it caressing my face

And I fell asleep and dreamed
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
And that I was the star of the movie
This really blew my mind, the fact that me,
an overfed, long-haired leaping gnome
should be the star of a Hollywood movie

But there I was, I was taken to a place, the hall of the mountain kings
I stood high upon a mountain top, naked to the world
In front of every kind of girl, there was
black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones...

Out of the middle came a lady
She whispered in my ear something crazy
She said:

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

(spoken:)

I thought to myself what could that mean
Am I going crazy or is this just a dream
Now, wait a minute
I know I'm lying in a field of grass somewhere
so it's all in my head
and then.. I heard her say one more time:

(sung:)

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl


(spoken:)
I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
As she disappeared, but soon she returned
In her hand was a bottle of wine, in the other, a glass
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass
And raised it to her lips
And just before she drank it, she said:

(sung:)
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

[American liberal]

15. you are good!

[JohnnyRingo]

12. Don't want to be...Your pizzaburger

Heard that Stones song on a juke with a worn stylus

I'm always screwing up lyrics I hear.

[American liberal]

13. it took me a minute: Beast of Burden from Some Girls

That's the only time I went to see the Stones. And they SUCKED!!! 2 hours late, stoned out of their minds (Mick almost fell off the stage). The only saving grace was that Carlos Santana was the warm-up band. OMG, was he awesome. He played like he was making love to his guitar, I mean he was stroking it! It was that performance that pushed Jeff Beck off his pedestal as my favorite guitarist. Carlos has been there ever since. Man, is he good!