@hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
Post #4375071
2026-08-04 12:31 UTC
I've heard several mondegreens for different lines in the chorus of Boston's "More Than a Feeling", but mine was always the second line. The correct lyrics are:
"It's more than a feeling (More than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play (More than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (More than a feeling)
'Til I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away"
But my brain changed "When I hear that old song they used to play" to "When I heard that old song yesterday". I must have sung it that way for decades before I happened to look at the lyrics.
Boston, "More Than a Feeling" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QK8RxCAwo
(Incidentally, after watching this video I am convinced that Tom Scholz was an early pioneer of the Shoegaze movement)
#TuneTuesday #MistakenLyrics
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@Howitzer105mm@pdx.social 2026-08-04 15:49
@hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange This is one of the songs that's in my list of mondegreens. I used to sing it "And I've been contrieving". Whatever that meant. It made as much sense to me as Steve Miller's "pompitous of love", so why not?