Or the "missing verse" in "Our Lips Are Sealed"

Careless talk
Through paper walls
We can't stop them
Only laugh at them

Spreading rumors
So far from true
Dragged up from the underworld
Just like some precious pearl

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

The opening notes of "Whip It"



Are from "Pretty Woman"

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Pretty much all the lyrics to Paradise City appear to have been chosen because they sounded good together. Just nonsense kind of stiff or schizophrenic stream of consciousness. While the lyrics they ended up with are dumb at least it isn't embarrassing for anyone over 14 to belt it out driving down the road

The Cheap Trick original lyrics make sense. The old maids line didn't seem to fit with the rest of the stanza. What they cut out fits a lot better, not sure if it sounds as good because I'm shit at trying to sing it with the right rhythm.

The Black Eyed Peas Let's Get It Started original title and lyrics would get you banned from here. And it sounds dumb, the rewrite is better.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

The B-side of Pink Floyd's first single, Arnold Layne, was Candy and a Currant Bun, a hasty lyrical rewrite and record of a favourite song from their live set.

Considering The BBC banned Arnold Layne from airplay when it was released in 1967, due to the lyrics featuring a gently sympathetic portrayal of Arnold's nocturnal proclivity to steal women's undergarments from local washing lines, dress up and get aroused in front his mirror, it isn't at all surprising Let's Roll Another One never made it out of the recording studio intact.

I was expecting content considerably more offensive from your description.

Beatles - I saw her standing there - From Paul -

The story within the original lyrics that Billie Joe wrote to "Basket Case" would've fit nicely into the American Idiot "libretto"

[Verse 1]
I really don't know where this story began
My friend Houston had got himself a girl
Swank is her name, she's got the best of him
And he's got the best of her in the palm of their hands

[Chorus]
And they could care less what's coming up
Sometimes the future doesn't have much luck
This wigged-out thing called love
It may get kinda rough
And they don't really mind
They're on their own

[Verse 2]
They said this has been motionless orbit flight
Around each other intoxicating their minds
Dancing in the street under suburban lights
They stumbled to the concrete without a hurt

[Chorus]
And they could care less what's coming up
Sometimes the future doesn't have much luck
This wigged-out thing called love
It may get kinda rough
And they don't really mind
They're on their own

[Bridge]
Love losing control
So you better hold on

[Chorus]
As they walk together in time
Leaving all us drunks behind
This wigged-out thing called love
It may get kinda rough
But they don't really mind
They're on their own, own

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Thanks, sphere

Asshole!!!

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin