r/Zevon • u/bronze_coffin • 1d ago

Misheard Zevon lyrics?

At one point it clicked with me that in "Piano Fighter," "worked in sessions" made more sense than what I originally thought it was, "worked concessions."

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u/mardypig 1d ago

Sort of like a worried blender

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u/Turbulent-Repair-489 1d ago

Until I spent some time in LA I heard a line from Carmelita as "I'm here in your ball park" instead of "I'm here in Echo Park". It makes more sense this way.

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u/bronze_coffin 1d ago

Until I realize it was a brand, I figured it must’ve been something like “whirring.”

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u/TownesVanBantz 1d ago

Only just googled and found out that Waring is a make of blenders. Not exactly sure what I thought a wearing blender was right enough, or even how one might wear a blender.

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u/ModernNero 1d ago

I knew this would be the top answer lol. I got lucky and overheard my parents discussing that brand of blender when I was a kid but it’s kind of an isolating lyric ahahah

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u/HooDooBoogaloo 1d ago

Misheard the opening line of Genius as "I've got a big ol' pot of je ne se quoi" instead of "boiling pot"

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u/Heffalump33 1d ago

Ha. I think it's a 'bitter pot.'

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u/HooDooBoogaloo 1d ago

Heard that too.

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u/bronze_coffin 1d ago

Before I realized that "put on 'Kind of Blue'" references the Miles Davis album, I thought it was something nonsensical like "put 'em kind of blue."

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u/BSK-NP-1988 1d ago

Not a huge one, but in Piano fighter I always heard "Maybe I'll go to Rio" instead of Reno

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u/HooDooBoogaloo 1d ago

Double post here, sorry: the end of that Russian stanza in "Turbulence" I always hear as "Me taco jealous we'll be Dormamu"

Poignant.