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Not A Great Success.

Er! Apologies if any of you saw the entry that was here for a few seconds before I deleted it; I accidentally hit 'Enter' in the wrong place and posted my entire saved entry draft, which contains assorted unfinished fragments that may or may not become full entries in the future. What I actually intended to post was this.

Here is a story for you: there is a song called 'It Wasn't Me', sung by a man apparently named Shaggy. It contains the following line:

Picture this: we were both buck naked, banging on the bathroom floor.

For years - for years - I thought he meant that he and his ladyfriend were actually on their hands and knees next to each other, hitting the floor of the bathroom with their fists. I didn't quite know what they were trying to achieve with this, or indeed why they had deemed it necessary to discard their clothes prior to their floor-banging session, but that was what I envisioned whenever I heard the song.

The probably-intended interpretation didn't hit me until a month or so ago.

(If you have any musical-misinterpretation stories of your own, do share!)

Why do I want to write so much Kingdom Hearts fanfiction all of a sudden? I want to write about Sora and Riku and Kairi having adventures! I want to write Sora/Riku/Kairi! I want to write about Hayner and Seifer travelling through all of the Kingdom Hearts II worlds in their endeavour to make it back to Twilight Town and gradually coming to grudgingly respect each other! I want to write about Sora and Demyx being best friends! I want to write Leon/Tifa! THERE IS EVEN AN EXCEEDINGLY WRONG PART OF ME THAT WANTS TO PAIR RIKU UP WITH MICKEY MOUSE.

Unfortunately, I have been utterly unable to write anything lately.

Argh.

(In the case of Riku/Mickey, however, that's probably for the best.)

Finally: Donna Noble of Doctor Who is losing really quite badly to Zoe of Firefly in the second round of

cidercupcakes' all-female character championship poll. I don't expect her to win (she's almost two hundred votes behind), and although I'm not a Firefly fan Zoe seems fairly cool, but I'd like to close the gap at least a little, because Donna Noble is one of my favourite characters ever.

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Oh my god. Fits of laughter over here. There may or may not have been snorting.

(When my brother and I were little, we would have sworn up and down that the Bon Jovi lyric was "You give love a band-aid." Which, you know, made sense at the time. "Shot through the heart and you're to blame"? Obviously, the only polite thing to do would be to give that person a band-aid, if you've been shooting them through the heart and all.)

For years - for years - I thought he meant that he and his ladyfriend were actually on their hands and knees next to each other, hitting the floor of the bathroom with their fists.

*dies* That is darling.

I don't think I have any of my own to share. There have been a couple of times I've happily danced around to songs, even sung them, before properly listening to the lyrics and realising they're actually totally depressing. (Stereophonics "She Takes Her Clothes Off" comes to mind.) My powers of auditory observation are impressive!

For a very long time I had a favourite line in a song by The Shins that I was sure went "They are, to drowning men, holy water." I was very unhappy when someone informed me that the line was actually "They ought to drown him in holy water." Less amusing than your story, but I thought I'd share.

I spent QUITE A LONG TIME under the impression that Neil Young's Like a Hurricane opened with 'Once I thought I saw you in a smoky hazy barn' and thus kinda assumed the song was about a fireman who saw dead people.

WHICH HONESTLY WOULDA BEEN QUITE COOL.

(Then I got into Neil Young properly and discovered it is actually a crowded hazy BAR he's seeing people in.)

There is a song about werewolves from some horror movie or somesuch that contains the line "There's a full moon on the rise" that for years I thought said "There's the bathroom on the right". Funnily enough, that particular line being misheard led to a complete misinterpretation of the rest of the song.

On a completely unrelated note, I have finally reached the point that I can no longer blame you for my Pokemon related things.

For many years I thought the song we had to sing virtually every week in school assembly was "I am the lord of the dance settee". I imagined this to be a wonderful place where you could dance, or sit, whichever you preferred.

Are you sure you're not thinking of 'Bad Moon Rising' by the Creedence Clearwater Revival? The line is 'There's a bad moon on the rise', and 'bad moon' would be easier to mishear as 'bathroom'. (Which amuses me rather a lot, by the way.)

And I don't think it's originally from a horror film, but, thanks to Supernatural, I expect to be hit by a lorry whenever I hear it.

I CAN SEE THAT YOU VOTED FOR ZOE. DON'T THINK I CAN'T.

(Oh, all right, you have the right to vote for your favourite character. But I have the right to look sad about it.)

And your mishearing is intriguing!

THAT IS SO WONDERFUL.

hahaha aww. that's ok, because the radio edit is "love on the bathroom floor" and when I was little I didn't know why there was a love song about them being in love on a bathroom floor. apparently the nakedness didn't bother me.

I don't know if you've ever heard the song "Waterfalls" by TLC, but about two years back, a friend of mine IM'd me asking "Do you know the song Jason Waterfalls?" I was like....no? And she goes, "You know, 'don't go, Jason Waterfalls," and I was like AHAHAHAHAAH WOW. So now whenever I hear it with my friends, at least one person will turn to another and go "DON'T GO, JASON WATERFALLS!"

That is because Kingdom Hearts fic is awesome! I just wrote a fic about Pence myself (as I think he's the forgotten member of the Twilight Town gang. Also, when he's in fanfic, he always seems to be made a drug dealer...)

If it makes you feel better I want to read/write the amazing adventures of Mickey and Riku... oh, and DiZ and Riku (and possibly Namine)... also, ridiculous crossovers. (And I want Fran and Balthier to make an appearance. :P)

I love that the Kingdom Hearts games are a ridiculous crossover in themselves. Where else can you see Auron of Final Fantasy X canonically fighting Hades of Hercules? Nowhere, that's where.

I read your Pence fic! I meant to comment, but Livejournal was acting up. Your Pence is adorable, and I love that Hayner just doesn't notice he can't speak. Because he really wouldn't.

Please do write the amazing adventures of Mickey and Riku! I am so curious about what exactly their amazing adventures were. (And I would faint with happiness were Balthier and Fran to show up.)

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I heard that too!

I used to think the lyric "in the name of love" from Pride was "in the name of Fluff".
The Sweetest Thing will always be "That Swedish Thing" to me.

This is what happens when you get into a fandom early.

Ahahaha! Oh, to be young and innocent.

I don't know 'Waterfalls', but I just stared at that for a moment before what must have been the actual lyrics occurred to me and I cracked up.

(Hee! That is adorable, and also, yes, makes a strange sort of sense.)

I hear the titular line of Coheed & Cambria's Justice in Murder as 'there will be justice in Mordor'. Man did Sam change (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/Fyorin/Claudiosanchez.jpg) when Frodo left him...

I joked about there being Mickey/Donald fanfic until I realised that there probably was.

Also you must write KH fanfic. I've never even played the game and I write it. Hell, I've just finished planning a stupidly long and torturous AU fic for it that will probably drain all my life for the next three months.

I did not know you hadn't played the game! How do you gain your knowledge of the canon? Oh, wait, you watched

timydamonkey play it, didn't you?

Also, I am terribly curious about this AU. Can you tell me what it is, or will I have to wait until it's written to find out?

Some hardcore insomnia, youtube playthroughs and

timydamonkey gave me all I needed to know about KH. That's actually how I get started on pretty much all of my fandoms...

You need not wait! It is an Organisation = The Mob AU, with muchos criminality, stalking, gunfire and angst. A lot bit cliche but I needed an excuse to write Luxord as owning a casino.

That actually sounds as if it could be rather a lot of fun. (I have to ask: what is Demyx's role?)

It has to be said that I'm currently resisting the urge to make Demyx the casino's go go dancer.

Alas mobsters don't hang out with policemen (that I know of), so there's no Sora + Demyx epicosity here ;(

In thanks for seeing horrible horrible things happen to the Winchesters (who are really horrible horrible thing magnets, I suppose) I provide a cover of Bad Moon Rising (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYeAXHiVvlQ) whose goal is essentially 'make the music as creepy as the lyrics'.

My neighbors and I sung it as "There's a bathroom on the right" for ages.

I can't remember it off the top of my head, but there's another CCR song I always hear part of as "Oh lord, I'm stalking an old guy again." I have no idea what the real lyrics are, but they would probably disappoint me a little.

I would try to but I'm not sure I can do them justice! I always seem to struggle with characterisation in Square's games! (Well, except DiZ. I can write DiZ okay.) This of course means lots of practise.

I'm determined to fit Fran and Balthier in something somewhere! I'm also working on a Kingdom Hearts/D.Gray-Man crossover. (Well, two of them. One is serious. The other is just that I felt it was necessary to have Luxord play cards against Allen and Tyki.) It'll be funny as there's not going to much of a crossover of audience I'd assume, so I'm doing it from a KH POV expecting nobody to have any knowledge of D.Gray-Man whatsoever.

There's a song called, I think 'Beggin' You' which goes 'begging, begging you/ put your loving arms around me', which I thought for years was called 'Peggy Sue' and the line went 'Peggy, Peggy Sue, put your loving arms around me', which is MUCH BETTER.

That is indeed that song! It was on a tape of songs from Halloween-type movies that my mother gave me, so I assumed it was from a werewolf movie or something.

You should listen to the song, and any time they say 'there's a bad moon on the rise' replace it with 'there's the bathroom on the right'. I assure you, it changes the iterpretation of the song quite a bit.

*glees* I am so glad that I am not alone in this! (Isn't the entire song different with just that one line changed?) I did not realize my mistake until only a few years ago, when my mother heard me singing along and pointed it out. (One of the reasons I don't sing in public, I think. I don't think I could go through that humiliation again.)

My mother loves that song and so I had to listen to it quite a lot in my childhood. I think I shall tell her about this when she gets home.

we were both buck naked, banging on the bathroom floor.

LOL. You're funny. I'm going to vote in that championship poll now!

My mate Claire sings a line from the song Stayin' Alive as "You can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a Woman/man no time at all" rather than "Well you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man: no time to talk"

HAHAHA, JASON WATERFALLS. That is brilliant. *wipes away a tear*

Funny thing about 'Mordor' as a lyric: I've been listening to Led Zeppelin's Ramble On as part of a mix, and I kept hearing a line as "in the darkest depths of Mordor". I went to look up what the real lyrics must be only to find that not only was I hearing it right, but Zeppelin actually wrote songs about The Lord of the Rings.

The verse continues on to say that "Gollum and the evil one crept up", and yeah, they really mean Gollum. Made my day.

I am guilty as charged. XD If it helps, I have an embarrassingly large crush on Zoe...and have never seen the Doctor Who that Donna Noble is in.

WHAT?

How was I unaware of this epicosity? I listened to that as a child and never realised.

Well, Zoe IS rather amazing.

Hehe. I'm a fan of Blind Guardian and they wrote an album that was based on the Silmarillion - I'm very glad I went into that one knowing about it, and not thinking I was mishearing everything!

Mind you, I guess the album being called "Nightfall in Middle Earth" should have been a clue. (Helpful official lyrics! (http://blind-guardian.com/discography/albums/Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth/lyrics.html#1))

Is she two-hundred-more-votes-than-Donna amazing, though? I'm not sure anyone is that amazing.

There have been a couple of times I've happily danced around to songs, even sung them, before properly listening to the lyrics and realising they're actually totally depressing.

I have totally done this. In fact, I'd been listening to a song for a couple of years before I realised, about two days ago, that it was actually about someone committing suicide. Well done, me. (Auditory obliviousness high-five!)

I think you should write a song about a fireman who sees dead people. I think it is necessary. (That or badger Neil Young into it.)

That is marvellous! Quite a few of these mishearings are actually massive improvements on the original.

After a bit of googling, I think you may have doubly misheard it; the actual lyrics appear to be 'oh, baby, then you put your loving arms around me'. Which is more boring than either of those.

Ideally, they would meet in a crossover and be awesome across the galaxy together, but as it is, I'm gonna have to go with Zoe, I'm afraid. Sorry, Donna.

Ahahaha, yes, I sang merrily along to the Spice Girls' songs without the slightest idea of what the lyrics meant. (And then I rewrote their lyrics to fit mice. '2 Become 1', I believe, became 'Milk Becomes Cheese'. I don't - I don't know.)

I am, however, quite certain that the correct lyrics were not 'there's a chicken on you, oo-ooh, is there a chicken on me baby'.

And now I am giggling helplessly. I really want to know what this song is, now!

I love the song It Wasn't Me. Mid-90s pop is the greatest.

*grins*
Oh wow, double fail!

Your chicken song might've been Franz Ferdinand's 'Cheating on You' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVutodF8u8), maybe?

That is awesome. I might have to check it out!

They are awesome imo, though not a particularly well known band. I'm not sure if you'd like their type of music though... their lead singer has a rather unusual voice. In fact, I'll scour about on youtube.

Found the first 2 tracks on there - that'll give you a sample of a narration track and an actual song, plus it's in an order that makes sense. If you like it... you'll probably like the album. :)

War of Wrath (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOuu4Rp8hp4) (narration)
Into the Storm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPJHHii5Ic&feature=related) (song)

I never normally get a chance to talk about them, so... :P

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