In the grand tradition of Hendrix's "Scuze me while I kiss this guy", I just read a review in one of my favourite magazines "Record Collector", published in England. It was a review of Leonard Cohen's new album "Old Ideas", and in the song "Going Home" the reviewer quoted Leonard's lyrics in which God describes Leonard as "a lazy bastard, living in a soup".
The actual lyrics are "living in a suit", which I assume refers to Leonard's usual attire of a business suit, both in live performance and in photographs. I imagine the problem here is that the UK phonetic pronunciation of "suit" is more "syoot" than the Canadian "soot", as Leonard sings it.
Gotta wonder how the reviewer interpreted the line he quoted. Maybe he was thinking chicken noodle?
Excellent album, by the way.
Anyone else have some good mangled lyrics to share?
The actual lyrics are "living in a suit", which I assume refers to Leonard's usual attire of a business suit, both in live performance and in photographs. I imagine the problem here is that the UK phonetic pronunciation of "suit" is more "syoot" than the Canadian "soot", as Leonard sings it.
Gotta wonder how the reviewer interpreted the line he quoted. Maybe he was thinking chicken noodle?
Excellent album, by the way.
Anyone else have some good mangled lyrics to share?
