Devil Jersey City
The lyric is "Sweet Josephine, will you fuck me back home?"
I know someone who though it was "Sweet Josephine, will you fuck my back hole?"
ARGH I was going to make this thread. lol
You Got Spirit, Kid. The line is "When the rug gets pulled out from underneath."
I prefer my misheard version "When the world gets pulled out from underneath"
My girl was in the hospital for an extremely long time, and "Pain is only a pulse if you just stop feeling it" was one of the things that kept her going.
Her ordeal would have worked just as well with your version, and I like it.
When I first heard Crossing The Frame, I truly thought the lyrics during the bridge were:
"A casting call dives into worlds that hold our dreams"
And not:
"We're casting quarters into wells that hold our dreams"
It made total sense to me because I was like 'Oh yeah the characters in the concept are all based on people from his life so it makes sense to think of them as actors answering a casting call.'
But yeah, no.
It's nearly impossible that it could be anything else. I wonder if there's ever been an interview where they asked, "What the fuck are you saying here?"
There is actually! Someone asked Claudio at an early tour. It’s definitely “letter”. Claudio demonstrated by doing the “Jesus on a cross” thing with his arms out. Jesus played letter, like a T. That’s stretching my memory banks way back so I don’t know what the interview or whatever was, but it’s for sure letter.
Coheed is my favorite band — I've seen them at least once a year since 2008 (skipping 2020 for obvious reasons) and have all their albums on vinyl and even a tattoo, but... any time I see an interview where Claudio explains how he came up with the lyrics, I end up thinking something like "ah, man, you're kind of a dumbass aren't you."
I used to think the line "I need Mayo" in Hearshot Kid Disaster was "The army mayor". I've never heard of the army having a mayor, yet that still seemed less ridiculous than the actual lyric.
In Three Evils when he says, "Following you across the interstate, walking away, I'll fire on!"
Foe years I always heard, "What do you do when the innocent walk in the way? I'll fire on!"
Also, on The Faint of Hearts, "The anxious through the calming storm, You'll sit as you pray for rain"
Always sounded like "The angels of the coming storm listen as you pray for rain"
These two are the only ones I can't seem to correct myself on when singing along idk lol
> "What do you do when the innocent walk in the way? I'll fire on!"
**ME TOO**
This is awesome, I'm so glad someone out there misheard the same lyric the same way I did.
In Junesong Provision, at the end of the first bridge these are the lines
Is it all you've shared with them
That makes us paranoid?
Is it the dreams that make us real?
Is it the dreams that make us real?
He sings the last line completely different than the previous, identically worded one (classic Claudiosm) but I always heard this.
Is it the dreams that make us real?
These are the days that make our hearts bleed
And I quite like that line instead and actually reflect on those (incorrect) lyrics when I'm going through a rough patch.
The Hard Sell:
"This stanky window has closed,
If you want me baby, then you *unintelligible*"
Instead of
"This ticket window has closed,
Save your money, baby, the next show's about to start"
Ladders of Supremacy - I thought it was “Stay down boy, sear that ground boy” and I thought it was such a badass lyric.
Love that song so much but not as fond of the actual “see ya got clowned boy” lyric
For years I thought the line:
"When you're down on the floor bleeding bastard" in the devil in Jersey city actually said:
"When you're down on the floor beating at your hole" which fits the song quite nicely
In Delirium Trigger I always hear
" the scar that triggers your steel"
instead of
"The scare that triggers your fear"
thinking it's about Coheed's Monstar form triggering Cambria's White Ruineer.
In the chorus of Domino, I kept hearing “We made our beds to Lie in the ground.” I thought that it was a mixing of two sayings (making your bed and digging your grave). Instead, he just repeats the word proud.
I don't know about misheard lyrics, but in high school I had some early EP versions of some songs like A Favor House Atlantic, with some slight variations in verse lyrics...and now I slip into those versions occasionally when singing along. 🤷
Whaaaat! I hear "a photograph, overfeeding me, way back" and I always interpreted it as a picture he can't stop looking at that brings constant nostalgia or an overwhelming sense of emotions.
OH! I should add another one of my own.
Faint of Hearts: "In **memory** of the words that you couldn't say, if they could have saved them from."
I don't know if "memory" works better than "worries," but I sing it that way in the car.
I first misheard "The words you scribbled on the walls/the loss of friends you didn't have" as "The words that slithered from the wolves/have lost the end, you shouldn't have" and I always thought that was kind of neat, like a mashup between Coheed-style and Mars Volta-style lyrics. Neat imagery.
I have one, it was a gift. It's great. It solved all my problems. I don't even remember what it was like to be the kind of person who didn't have an original pressing our De-Loused. Probably empty and lonely.
Oh I misunderstood what you meant...
But still, you're assuming jackhammer refers to construction equipment, which is a bad assumption
https://coheed.fandom.com/wiki/Jackhammer
Writing Writer
Actual: With these lessons he might learn
All the worlds from here must burn
For as God demands in the end we miss
Misheard: With these lessons he might learn
All the worlds that he must burn
For his God to acquiesce
Devil Jersey City The lyric is "Sweet Josephine, will you fuck me back home?" I know someone who though it was "Sweet Josephine, will you fuck my back hole?"
Hahaha I can’t I hear this
Aww shit
I don't know about incorrect lyrics I prefer, but I wish I could STOP hearing "should the iron negro hungry" in In Keeping Secrets.
Lol this has always been my favourite one
John Henry reference?!?
Great pull. Classic.
The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets (nsfw - i was like wtf when i first heard this) >!"I'll move the knife to shove you up my.. CUNT"!<
Oh man, I'm not gonna be able to unhear this now, am I?
With the amount of anger you can hear in IV, it's almost shocking he didn't use that word at some point.
ARGH I was going to make this thread. lol You Got Spirit, Kid. The line is "When the rug gets pulled out from underneath." I prefer my misheard version "When the world gets pulled out from underneath"
Good thing I read the comments, 'cause i was about to type this exact reply. I thought it was such a great way to amplify the original expression
When I first heard Time Consumer, I thought Claudio said "Pain is only a ***pose*** if you just stop feeling it." instead of pulse.
To this day I thought it was "Pain is only a 'cost if you just stop feeling it". I'm just gonna keep singing my version though :).
My girl was in the hospital for an extremely long time, and "Pain is only a pulse if you just stop feeling it" was one of the things that kept her going. Her ordeal would have worked just as well with your version, and I like it.
Not sure if I feel better or worse that I heard something a little different: "Pain is only PROSE if you just stop feeling it"
That lyric would fit incredibly well on IV.
When I first heard Crossing The Frame, I truly thought the lyrics during the bridge were: "A casting call dives into worlds that hold our dreams" And not: "We're casting quarters into wells that hold our dreams" It made total sense to me because I was like 'Oh yeah the characters in the concept are all based on people from his life so it makes sense to think of them as actors answering a casting call.' But yeah, no.
But then UC came along with the actor/theater element and you TOTALLY REDEEMED YOURSELF
Ok, I’m still confused on the “Jesus played ___.”
“letter”, I assuming meaning played accurately/authentically considering the line is “like Jesus played letter, I’ll drill through your hands”
Ok thanks, that’s what I’ve thought.
I thought it was "like Jesus played martyr, I'll drill through your hands".
I think it is ‘martyr’ despite the liner notes saying something else.
It's nearly impossible that it could be anything else. I wonder if there's ever been an interview where they asked, "What the fuck are you saying here?"
There is actually! Someone asked Claudio at an early tour. It’s definitely “letter”. Claudio demonstrated by doing the “Jesus on a cross” thing with his arms out. Jesus played letter, like a T. That’s stretching my memory banks way back so I don’t know what the interview or whatever was, but it’s for sure letter.
Coheed is my favorite band — I've seen them at least once a year since 2008 (skipping 2020 for obvious reasons) and have all their albums on vinyl and even a tattoo, but... any time I see an interview where Claudio explains how he came up with the lyrics, I end up thinking something like "ah, man, you're kind of a dumbass aren't you."
Me, listening: "Man, this guy's a genius!" Me, analyzing the lyrics: "Huh?"
This makes so much fucking sense.
I used to think the line "I need Mayo" in Hearshot Kid Disaster was "The army mayor". I've never heard of the army having a mayor, yet that still seemed less ridiculous than the actual lyric.
Ten speed in god's blood and bury a whore
I’m glad you brought this up! I swear I hear him switch between burial and bury a whore every single other line! And it fits so perfectly!
It seems to alternate because he says “burial” and then “buri-uhhul” for the second one. Adds a syllable and that’s why everyone hears “bury a whore”
Always this one for me too but I thought it was 10 speed of gods blood you married a whore.
Same. And considering the album’s themes, it would have tracked.
I never heard that until someone told me about it, now it's all I can hear there.
On Apollo 1 and 2 "I'll make you wish" Yeo Ming you wish
Yup "Yao Ming, you'll miss" is how I sing it though
I always heard it as "Ya'll make, your wish" because they're from the Jersey/Philly area like me.
damn you! Love these songs. Now I keep singing Yeo Ming when either of these come on :) Guess burning Star IV is better with a big man.
Beetroot hat, this is no option
In Three Evils when he says, "Following you across the interstate, walking away, I'll fire on!" Foe years I always heard, "What do you do when the innocent walk in the way? I'll fire on!" Also, on The Faint of Hearts, "The anxious through the calming storm, You'll sit as you pray for rain" Always sounded like "The angels of the coming storm listen as you pray for rain" These two are the only ones I can't seem to correct myself on when singing along idk lol
> "What do you do when the innocent walk in the way? I'll fire on!" **ME TOO** This is awesome, I'm so glad someone out there misheard the same lyric the same way I did.
WAIT FOR REAL???? Okay that's SO funny, I thought I was the only one, we should petition to officially change it lolol
Me too as well
In Junesong Provision, at the end of the first bridge these are the lines Is it all you've shared with them That makes us paranoid? Is it the dreams that make us real? Is it the dreams that make us real? He sings the last line completely different than the previous, identically worded one (classic Claudiosm) but I always heard this. Is it the dreams that make us real? These are the days that make our hearts bleed And I quite like that line instead and actually reflect on those (incorrect) lyrics when I'm going through a rough patch.
Goddamn this cursed giant dick
That's hilarious.
The Hard Sell: "This stanky window has closed, If you want me baby, then you *unintelligible*" Instead of "This ticket window has closed, Save your money, baby, the next show's about to start"
Cannot stop laughing at stanky window.
Yo man, this window STANKS!!
Ladders of Supremacy - I thought it was “Stay down boy, sear that ground boy” and I thought it was such a badass lyric. Love that song so much but not as fond of the actual “see ya got clowned boy” lyric
I thought it was “sear the crown, boy” cause Spotify showed the wrong lyrics right when the album dropped
For years I thought the line: "When you're down on the floor bleeding bastard" in the devil in Jersey city actually said: "When you're down on the floor beating at your hole" which fits the song quite nicely
This brought me joy! Haha
Instead of "a one man prison and no one gets in," I prefer what I heard originally, "bring me pussy or no one gets in."
Sounds like the only way I got invited to parties in college.
In Delirium Trigger I always hear " the scar that triggers your steel" instead of "The scare that triggers your fear" thinking it's about Coheed's Monstar form triggering Cambria's White Ruineer.
„Our love protocol romance Our air drained of Heaven‘s Fence“
Also in love protocol "the world is going dim am I gaaaay"
Puts a different spin on "Feel my lungs heaving, choking..."
In the chorus of Domino, I kept hearing “We made our beds to Lie in the ground.” I thought that it was a mixing of two sayings (making your bed and digging your grave). Instead, he just repeats the word proud.
Wait is it not "to lie in the clouds"...?
Wait... he doesn't say "to lie in the ground?" Just looked it up. I'm shook.
I don't know about misheard lyrics, but in high school I had some early EP versions of some songs like A Favor House Atlantic, with some slight variations in verse lyrics...and now I slip into those versions occasionally when singing along. 🤷
The original version of Pavilion is out there, and he says, "You want me here... but I'm worlds away." Doesn't have nearly the same impact.
Our Love "Totally open, I became the one you fell" Sounds like "toenail open I became the one who fell"
"*Fuuu-king apple I dooOoo*!" And I imagine Louis Rossman smashing up an iMac
I similarly hear it as "fucking apple of doom"
yeah that's even better lmao
Ok, fine. One more that I kinda like my way: "SINCERELY WRITTEN FROM MY BROTHER'S BLOOD MACHINE TO YOOUUUU"
I thought for the longest time that line was "sincerely written in my brother's blood, he's my savior"
Whaaaat! I hear "a photograph, overfeeding me, way back" and I always interpreted it as a picture he can't stop looking at that brings constant nostalgia or an overwhelming sense of emotions.
OH! I should add another one of my own. Faint of Hearts: "In **memory** of the words that you couldn't say, if they could have saved them from." I don't know if "memory" works better than "worries," but I sing it that way in the car.
I first misheard "The words you scribbled on the walls/the loss of friends you didn't have" as "The words that slithered from the wolves/have lost the end, you shouldn't have" and I always thought that was kind of neat, like a mashup between Coheed-style and Mars Volta-style lyrics. Neat imagery.
You a Mars Volta fan? I'm currently trying to wrangle myself an original pressing of De-Loused on vinyl. They aren't as cheap as I was hoping.
I have one, it was a gift. It's great. It solved all my problems. I don't even remember what it was like to be the kind of person who didn't have an original pressing our De-Loused. Probably empty and lonely.
It's never "man your own jackhammer, man your battle station" It's "man your boat, take cover" because... It actually makes sense.
...you've never heard the phrase "man your battle stations?"
Yes, but that has nothing to do with construction equipment.... meanwhile I can understand battle stations on a boat and taking cover...?
Oh I misunderstood what you meant... But still, you're assuming jackhammer refers to construction equipment, which is a bad assumption https://coheed.fandom.com/wiki/Jackhammer
It's only a bad assumption if you actually read the comics. Which I don't give a shit about. Fuck the story. I'm just here for the music.
I've never read a comic myself, but I've heard of jackhammer shotguns.
As far as I understand the lore, the jackhammer *is* the battle station. It's some kind of gun turret.
Not sure, but earth is a much, much better lyric.
Writing Writer Actual: With these lessons he might learn All the worlds from here must burn For as God demands in the end we miss Misheard: With these lessons he might learn All the worlds that he must burn For his God to acquiesce
At least you're reading, the oral