Monday, July 27, 2009

Mondegreen

Sarah McLachlan's song, Building A Mystery, has a pair of lines that go:

You strut your rasta wear
And your suicide poem
And a cross from a faith that died
Before Jesus came


I had long interpreted these lyrics to be, in fact, about x-treme yoga:

You spread your ass to where
In a suicide pose
Across from a faith that died
Before Jesus came


Now, Kiss This Guy confirms that I'm not going crazy. (At least not for that reason.) This site keeps a database on all the mondegreens on all the popular songs people have ever heard. Other people think McLachlan is singing about extreme yoga, too, and in fact, one user has proposed an even better interpretation of the lines:

You strap your ass to a suicide machine.

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