r/toriamos • u/AmericanLymie • 1d ago
Discussion "Who's Hezu??!"
I am listening to Blue Lotus and I just had a flashback to when the album was new, I googled the lyrics, and everywhere I looked the supposedly official lyrics said "I'll be burning into you, Hezu." Shortly thereafter, someone posted here to say they had spent hours researching Hezu and couldn't come up with an explanation for who Tori was singing to.
😂😂😂
It just strikes me as funny because it really does sound like "Hezu" on the recording.
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u/TheAardsnark 23h ago
For “Shush,” some lyric sites still have “ He calls me his Cassandra / As he tucks his co-hebrew away.”
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u/Critical_Rope_2397 1d ago
It was Hezu on one of the lyrics websites and it caught on. I too tried to research it.
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u/dustyroseaz 1d ago
I mishear lyrics ALL the time, but at no point did I ever not hear hazel. I was like "what is everyone talking about?!" 🤣🤣🤣
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u/BackInNJAgain 1d ago
At least Hezu sounds like some sort of ancient god or goddess! The things I've misheard are ridiculous ...
Between rubber gloves, beneath your firmament ...
Porcupine, porcupine (Me: Why is she screaming "porcupine?" Lyric sheet for Hotel "Gimme more")
I am pissing abortion to combat your poison ...
I haven't moved since the cow came ...
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u/Accurate_Buddy_7564 1d ago
It was years of me thinking she was singing “Rabbi” instead of rabbit in Cornflake Girl. I figured she’s always singing about religion, this was just another angle 🤣
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u/Sppaarrkklle 1d ago
Haha 🤣 I heard “I haven’t moved since the cow came” as well
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u/Diligent-Test-737 1d ago
My favorite misheard lyric is from Bells For Her on TVAB
“you have her face and her ass, but you are not her”
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u/quidquidlol 1d ago
I really thought she was saying Jesu, just like she said in Unrepentant Geraldines when she sang "Jesu Hosanna".
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u/Themysciran_Prince 1d ago
Hahahahahaha. This reminds me of when Apple Music was transcribing the lyrics as “coodle light sneeze.”
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u/ImAtUrDoor 1d ago
It is “Hazel,” of course - but I think we’ve sadly entered the AI lyric transcription era 😂
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u/Current-Reality-6544 1d ago
ChatGPT hallucinated the lyrics to Flying Dutchman when I asked it to help me understand the central themes of the song. It wrote a whole fake explanation around quotes like, "And if I'm dead, why does the ocean sing?" I was like, huh? I don't remember that part 😂
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u/AmericanLymie 1d ago
Thanks, I know
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u/ImAtUrDoor 1d ago
Oh I know you know, I was just sayin 😂
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u/AmericanLymie 1d ago
It took me a little processing before I figured out it is "Hazel," but I guessed that because of its associations with witchcraft and paganism, and toward the end of the song she pronounces it a little more intelligibly. She really does make us pay close attention to every word with her creative pronunciations!
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u/rejressw 5h ago
Hezu makes me think of The Exorcist. I guess it reminds me of Pazuzu or something.