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There are 16 misheard song lyrics for Dar Williams on amIright currently.
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Don't be like me forever, you'll forever stoop.
Don't be like me, forever young, forever stupid.
So I try to stavage leakey.
So I try to stop each new kid.
Technicolour loo? I want a technicolour green!
Technicolor luau all on technicolor green
There there was my chance to hear her saying nasty things.
Leather boots magenta hair and saying nasty things.
This cryptofascist mania, it's in the cafeteria
Yes, she said, that's right... But I like the cafeteria.
It's crypto-fascist mania it's silicon deliria
Yeah, she said, you're right, but I like the cafeteria.
"Are You Out There?" (MP3)
And Mother Static waltzed around me
And though the static walls surround me
"Are You Out There?" (MP3)
You always played 'Imagine,'
Kind of vision grunging bands
You always played the madman poets
Vinyl vision grungy bands
..Like your owner
Just because she bought the time
And you turn to me, you say,
'You whore, I'm not threatened.'
...Like you own her
Just because you bought the time
And you turn to me, you say,
'You hope I'm not threatened.'
I will not be afraid of swimming
I will not be afraid of swimming.
I will not be afraid of women
I will not be afraid of women.
Yeah, there was a time I didn't like the love, I liked the climate.
Yeah, there was a time I didn't like the love, I liked the climbers.
"Farewell To The Old Me" (MP3)
Surrender to the Oral B.
So farewell to the old me.
"Southern California Wants To Be Western New York" (MP3)
The waitresses, the black waitresses
Who want to leave for the West Coast.
The waitresses look like waitresses
Who want to leave for the West Coast.
"The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed" (MP3)
You stupid butthead!
You stupid pothead!
"What Do You Hear in These Sounds?" (MP3)
Where does the arrow point to? Her demented noses.
Where does the arrow point to? Who invented roses?
"When Sal's Burned Down" (MP3)
If you toss around some words
You might say that Sal was carrying a torch or the mop
But the mop's gone, too.
If you toss around some words
You might say that Sal was carrying a torch for the mob
But the mob's gone, too.