hnpcc | lyrics

I'm usually pretty good at mishearing lyrics.

Even so, I'm amazed at just how badly I managed to mishear "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga. I don't think I've mangled lyrics quite so much since spending almost a decade wondering why "Stuart Diver" featured in an American song (short answer: he didn't, actually.)

So I looked up the "Poker Face" lyrics. The bit I was wondering about was in the chorus:

Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She’s got to love nobody)

"She's got to love nobody".

Which I was hearing as "Shame she's got to [something] nobody."

No idea where the extra word "shame" came from, or why I couldn't hear 'love' in there at all.

The funny thing is I'm still hearing it as "shame" even though I know what it's supposed to be.

Same as 'Stuart Diver', which I've never managed to hear as the correct lyric (if I manage to remember what the hell the actual song is or who it's by then I'll tell you what the correct lyric allegedly is.)

Still, at least I managed to work out "St George save yourself" before it got hardwired into my brain.

Edit: just realised I'm subconsciously 'hearing' the Lady Gaga thing as "Shame she's got to be nobody" which doesn't make a huge amount of sense either. I'm wondering if my subconscious is just filking for the hell of it now.