Wallflowers Mondegreens

WHAT THE HECK IS A MONDEGREEN?
A mondegreen is a misunderstood song lyric.

OK people...admit it...you didn't always know EXACTLY what Jakob was saying, now did you? So, here's your chance to come clean and share your Wallflowers mondegreens with the world. Don't be shy! Jessie & I have already posted some of our mondegreens here so you won't feel so dumb about yours.

SO HOW DO YOU GET YOURS ON HERE?
Well, it's really quite simple, actually...
Just e-mail Jessie or me (Brittany) at the addresses shown below. Be sure to put "MONDEGREEN" as the subject! We would also appreciate it if you would include the following information:

• Your Name
• Where You Are From
• Song Title
• What You THOUGHT The Lyric Was
• What The Lyric REALLY Is
• Your Comments On Your Mondegreen
  (If you have any comments. Be funny, be creative! Like tell us why you thought it made sense, or how you felt when you found out you were wrong! But if you don't want to elaborate on your mondegreen, it's ok!)

Remember these MUST be from WALLFLOWERS songs only!

E-mail Your Secret Shame To:
starflower3@rocketmail.com (Jessie)
britt10@rocketmail.com (Brittany)
WE'LL NOTIFY YOU WHEN YOUR MONDEGREEN IS POSTED!

In the meantime, chew on these for a while!

Name: Jessie
From: Atlanta
Song Title: "6th Avenue Heartache"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "...stood by me, just like green beans..."
What the lyric REALLY is: "...stood by me, just like moonbeams..."

Name: Jessie
From: Atlanta
Song Title: "The Difference"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "...with his girl, mate in the summer..."
What the lyric REALLY is: "...with his girl, maid of dishonor..."

Name: Brittany
From: Nashville
Song Title: "One Headlight"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "Hey, come on trot a little..."
What the lyric REALLY is: "Hey, come on try a little..."

Name: Brittany
From: Nashville
Song Title: "6th Avenue Heartache"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "...stood by me just like marines..." (I also thought it said "Marie" for a while)
What the lyric really is: "...stood by me just like moonbeams..."

Name: Heather Searles
From: New Hampshire
Song Title: "Josephine"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "...won't you help me with these crates of wine..."
What the lyric REALLY is: "...won't you help me with these cuts of mine..."
Explanation: "I thought it meant he had a job and he had to load crates of wine on a truck or something; it really did make sense at the time...to me anyways. I found out the real lyrics on the computer, I felt pretty stupid...all that time I'd been singing it wrong in the shower!!

Name: Janna
From: Texas
Song Title: "One Headlight"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "...through this maze of unliness and raid..."
What the lyric REALLY is: "...through this maze of ugliness and greed..."
Explanation: "I thought he was talking about some kind of attack of troops, like a massacre."

Name: "Snerdly"
From: A state of shame.
Song Title: "Josephine"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "...won't you help me with these CATS of mine..."
What the lyric REALLY is: "...won't you help me with these cuts of mine..."
Explanation: "I don't know...cats are hard to deal with. It seemed to go with the flow of the song...love...cats...'Josephine.' How did I find out I was wrong? Well, I was singing along (out of tune might I add) and a fellow Wallflowers fan overheard. After she had stopped laughing she pointed out the mistake.

Name: Stephanie
From: Toronto
Song Title: "Ashes to Ashes"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "Wedge of a lemon tree bark, bark"
What the lyric REALLY is: "Where'd you ever learn to treat me like that, that"
Explanation: "I'm pretty dunb Huh? I must have pretty bad ears to have thought that was what Jakob was saying."

Name: Erika
From: New Jersey
Song Title: "6th Avenue Heartache"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "I held my hands and never knew how to hack"
What the lyric really is: "I held my hands and never knew how to act"
Explanation: "There really is none; I just had no clue as to what the word was, so I made up my own as a substitute, although I knew it made absolutely no sense at all!"

Name: Katherine
From: California
Song Title: "One Headlight"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "...with the the lawn lookin' on with human flaw."
What the lyric REALLY is: "...with the long broken arm of human law."
Explanation: "Since "One Headlight" talks about death and a cemetary, I guess I put 2 and 2 together and thought LAWN, like forest lawns (the cemetary or something)...don't ask! Hmm, I always have had a tendency to distort lyrics though..."

Name: Demetria
From: South Carolina
Song Title: "Three Marlenas"
What I THOUGHT the lyric was: "...always sprayed her headlights..."
What the lyric REALLY is: "...always prayed to heavens lights..."
Explanation: "I really wasnt sure what it meant but since he had a song called "One Headlight", I figured I was right." My sister told me what it was, so then I made sure by looking on a lyrics page."

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