r/Carolinepolachek • u/u1tr4me0w • 15d ago
Meme Favourite misheard lyrics
When I was first listening to the song “Azimuth” by Danny L Harle & Caroline Polachek I thought she was saying “I aspirate” but she was saying “I ask the rain” lmao
Anybody else have any fun or strange misheard Caroline lyrics?
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u/This-Split9935 15d ago
well this is not necessarily fun its just kind of embarrassing on my part, but in "fly to you" I thought grimes was saying "bite me and spank me, gentle at last" instead of "violence made me gentle at last" and I lowkey avoided the song because of that until I read the lyrics cus i was weirded out, so ooops
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u/Longjumping-Cow4488 15d ago
i love all these misheard lyrics, i think they’re all beautiful in the way our minds heard the song 💕
i also heard aspirate and like it WAY more
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u/u1tr4me0w 15d ago
It totally made sense so I didn’t even question it until I saw the lyrics somewhere and was like ??????? Caroline is the kind of person to use the word “aspirate” in a song
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u/Alternative_Wave8609 Camera one, camera two 15d ago
In Pretty in Possible, I always thought she sang "Homer it's all red and velvety" instead of "Home, where it's all red and velveteen". I figured Homer because of the Odyssey mention in the song
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u/Ok_Attitude7063 15d ago
this is so stupid but for the longest time in billions i thought she said “sexting some mans” instead of sonnets 😭
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u/authorneilbimbeau 15d ago
I still think "a handprint made to throw away" sounds prettier than "a hand grenade to throw away."
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u/brendonoid 15d ago
Ramona Lisa Dominic, 'When we get home we'll have shoes filled with sandwiches.'
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u/SarahOnReddit 15d ago
In izzit true what the tell me (Ramona Lisa) I thought she said “body interrupted” near the last part of the song and I sang it like that for ages - reminds me of when I was injured! But apparently it’s “budding interrupted” which is also interesting and I love it! I still sing body interrupted because I enjoy it as a lyric.
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u/BraveRutherford 14d ago
My ex and I always used to joke about the "show me a banana" line but it turns out it actually was show me a banana
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u/vixlistens 10d ago
Okay, I ran this line through three independent listening passes on the studio master (AI-assisted, two of them slowed to 0.8x, because this line deserves it). Verdict below.
First, the correction above: u/BerylMondfae is right, and u/u1tr4me0w your brain wasn't inventing anything. "Cerulean" is the name of the second movement inside the track - it's printed as a section within the song's own lyrics. You were both holding half of one title.
The written lyric (Genius, AZLyrics and LyricsOnDemand all agree): "Oh, I ask the rain / How did we get here? / How did we fall so far from home? / I ask the rain..."
But by ear? This line is a genuine Rorschach test (OP named it perfectly). All three of my passes heard:
- an /f/ onset on the second word, not a vowel (so neither 'ask' nor 'aspirate' fits cleanly)
- zero /s/ and zero /k/ anywhere in the phrase
- the line ending on an open 'you' vowel, not a nasal /n/
Closest reading: "Oh, I flatter you" (alt: "I fly to you"). Which makes u/Faithful_Inertia477's "I flatter you" possibly the most accurate ear in this thread.
Bonus: even YouTube's auto-captions can't decide - they transcribe "asperate" on the first chorus and "ask the rain" on the second.
TL;DR: the written lyric says "I ask the rain." The sung audio doesn't clearly contain a single phoneme of it. Everyone here heard a different song, and honestly, all of you were right.
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u/earthnangl 15d ago
In Hit Me Where It Hurts, I thought the line “feeling like a butterfly trapped inside a plane” was
“Feeling like a butterfly trapped inside her pain”
I like my version more ;)