Come to Sand, Knock on the Sand: The Misheard Lyrics Thread

[Farmer John]

Come to sand. Knock on the sand.

[stupidmop]

Come to sand. Knock on the sand.

Totally thought those were the real lyrics.

[harmless]

Ler ber cerpter terk the reh
ster us twer the cler

[stupidmop]

Ler ber cerpter terk the reh
ster us twer the cler

Those too.

[Jorge]

Come to sand. Knock on the sand.

[Kevin Davis]

Ouch. Now I feel stupid.

Sorry Kevin.

Did I ever tell you that I thought STBC was about Satanism and drugs?

You know, you never did.

*pulls up chair and looks on with interest*

[harmless]

Ouch. Now I feel stupid.

Sorry Kevin.

Did I ever tell you that I thought STBC was about Satanism and drugs?

You know, you never did.

*pulls up chair and looks on with interest*

See this needle? See my hand? Drop, drop, droppin' it goatfuckin' down into my veins, it's my fuckin' blood you can't tell me what not to do with it...

SPIN SPIN SPIN THE BLACK SATANIC CIRCLE, JOIN THE COVEN, SACRIFICE A CHILD

[Farmer John]

I totally thought Spin the Black Circle was about drugs when I was a kid. Mainly due to "see this needle" I think.

I also remember saying "hey mom, what's a 'Tremor Christ'?"

[harmless]

I think between STBC, 'Tremor Christ' and Heyfoxymophandlemama, I was convinced that I shouldn't be playing this album in front of my Christian parents. It's the greatest trick PJ ever played imo.

[Kevin Davis]

Don't forget "Satan's Bed." When I was a kid that was one of those big worry-your-parents-might-overhear-you-listening-to-it songs, right up there with The Offspring's "Bad Habit" and pretty much anything by Nine Inch Nails.

[harmless]

Don't forget "Satan's Bed." When I was a kid that was one of those big worry-your-parents-might-overhear-you-listening-to-it songs, right up there with The Offspring's "Bad Habit" and pretty much anything by Nine Inch Nails.

Oh shit, yeah. Satan's bed

And the whips before Whipping. Even back then I got sexual feelings I thought were wrong when I heard that.

[harmless]

Bugs just added to the sense that the album was really wrong. I can't remember when I decided that bugs was just hilarious and any thoughts of its darkness were created entirely by context.

[Tass Man]

Come to sand. Knock on the sand.

i also thought that later he sang:

Trans-Am Dan, to consequence

i always wondered who Trans-Am Dan was, and why would he be named after a car..

[Lament]

Vitalogy as a whole just felt so weird and dark and ominous when you were 13. And it wasn't like The Downward Spiral, which was really obviously dark. Vitalogy felt like "THERE ARE BAD, DARK THINGS GOING ON HERE THAT ARE OVER MY HEAD BUT I JUST KNOW THEY'RE THERE!" and that made it so much more intense because there was so much unknown lurking in those tracks (or at least that's what it felt like). Even the super fucking poppy radio song your mom liked had those 20 seconds of ominous, building feedback at the beginning. Everything about the album, down to the packaging, artwork, and urban legends kids made up about it at school made it the most fascinating, weirdly disturbing thing in the world of a 13 year old suburban kid.

[Simple Torture]

My username was based on misheard lyrics; for a while, I think the old TSIS had the lyrics on the site. It's whatever Eddie says at the beginning of 'Open Road' (from Phoenix '95). Still not sure what he says, but I don't think I'm right.

[daft twat]

They don't eat, don't sleep, they don't feed, they don't seethe. Bare their gums when they moan and squeak, lick the dirt off Olajuwon's feet..

[daft twat]

I got bugs on my skin! Tickle my nose hair.

[Lament]

When S/T came out I caught my then-girlfriend singing along to Unemployable, and her take on the opening line was "There's a big black man screaming 'Jesus saves!'"

[ridleybradout]

Not my own but has stuck with me:

"Oh the bitch is sad, all been washed in black, tied to hairy thing"

[stupidmop]

" giiiiirrlfriend, he can't help when he's happy he looks insane"