Fat Bottomed Girls

matt z wrote:

What's a tosser?

I'm not British and wish to keep the discussion open here rather than simply look it up

Speaking of misheard lyrics. I never heard that "God works in mysterious ways" bit from one vision. Reading it on here made me think it was an inside joke.... a snipe hunt

Lol, I thought the meaning of the word "tosser" was understood almost by all modern English-speaking people :-)

Altough, I always knew that it originally came from Britain.

On a few Queen songs, I swear they're trying to make it difficult to decipher what they're saying by purposely mispronouncing. I have an especially big problem with Brighton Rock, which is a shame because, besides the lack of clarity, they sound fantastic on that track. It just sounds like Freddie doesn't want me to know what the hell he's talking about.

To be fair the lyrics aren't about listener clarity, they have to fit the song. I remember the first time I read the lyrics to Drowse and it immediately became my favourite Queen song. Before that the whole thing was so 'muddy' I had no idea what was being said/sung.

(Teo Torriatte too... no idea what they are on about....)

;-)

Often during live shows Freddie was clearly just making a noise that sounded vaguely like the lyric.

Such as Live @ Wembley DVD during Friends Will Be Friends

'Only a phone call a way, you tried to track him down but somebody rrull hu rumber'

The camera then cuts to Brian who appears to roll his eyes at something, possibly having problems with his guitar but who knows?

Different.. Freddie forgot the words. Brilliant!

it's really true, i saw the jazz 2011 remaster lyrics and ultimate queen, and one place is wire, and other, the ultimate, is water

Yeah, 2011 says wire. I guess Brian doesn't check these things, or maybe doesn't remember the correct words to his song.

I would hazard a guess that its water just with 'across the water' being a familiar saying, certainly in Britain at least.

It also makes more sense in the context of the verse in general.

"I would hazard a guess that its water"

Its not a dispute, just wondering why the published printed lyrics not only are incorrect but make no sense...

In Bohemian Rhapsody is "So you think you can STONE me and spit in my eye" OR "So you think you can STOP me and spit in my eye" ???...
My LP says "STONE" and i think its what freddie says, but i have read "STOP" many times...

Stone.

End.

Can you show us where it says stop? Would be interesting to see.


(Unless its an hilarious Japanese interpretation in which case 'stop' is perfectly acceptable...

I always heard "stop" and never knew any better. In FBG it does sound like "wire" a bit, but I always thought it was "water" because it made more sense to me as a contrast to "land". And I mean you got no additional experience of other places from your songs just being played on the wire, so you didn't get to see any more "blue eyed floozies on the way" either....lol. By the way, that's a totally wicked line from Brian, assuming it was his.

I know plenty of people who think it's 'stop', can't be arsed to correct them. I can kind of see how you'd hear stop, but then I kind of can't. There's not exactly a 'p' sound in there at all, and it's pronounced with an 'oh' sound, not the way you'd pronounce stop. Unless you were saying stope. Oh well

Wire is an old english saying for Radio as in the WIREless so does make sense either way