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Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Music: Mondegreens

Listened to the King Crimson discs. Court of the Crimson King sounds a lot like early Genesis (or vice versa). Anyway, I heard a mondegreen on the second track, "I Listen to the Wind." One stanza goes:

I'm on the outside looking inside.
What do I see?
Much confusion...

I heard:

I'm on the outside looking inside.
What do I see?
Munchkin Fusion...

The image of melding dwarves was so striking I had to look at the lyrics sheet immediately. What a disappointment to read the actual, pedestrian lyrics. Captain Beefheart forestalls the problem by putting the mondegreens in the original lyrics.

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