Messin' Up Lyrics?

[CarneVaca]

Does Stevie ever sing the words to Rhiannon anymore as they are in the original recorded version?

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

We all know Miss Stevie flubs/changes the lyrics (GDW being the main culprit I think. LOL)

Okay, so I'm not crazy. I thought I heard her slip up on the first verse and now I know I'm right! I can't remember exactly what she said though, do you remember?

[wondergirl9847]

She went "heartless challenge, pick their prey but they never cry out loud..."

Woops, it's supposed to be lousy lovers.

[amber]

I like it a lot when she does that, maybe she doesn't listen to and sing her songs as much as we all do?? Also, i'd like to take a moment to defend Stevie on Don't Stop which i used to hate, but now like much better cause she's singing it - she makes it sound less sappy, sugary, and even.
Do any of you have lyrics of Stevie's that YOU thought were different, and then you found out the real words? I suppose you've all had the words to her songs forever, but due to no money-ness, I haven't. Here's my lovely, WRONG words to Storms (just found out real ones a few months ago)
"living, through each, empty night IDENTICAL inside" and the best one:
"So I search to find A NEXT AFFAIR ... so I can truly win"
I know there have been others, I can't recall them now. I know I just straight up couldn't understand most of SOTM first verse until i got the words....

Amber

[mylittledemon]

I recall listening to the 1982 Mirage Tour Concert on a bootleg CD back in 1998 or so. At that point in my fandom, I had yet to hear the "Tusk" album, so I didn't know the words to Sisters of the Moon.

you know the part where Stevie goes "Heavy persuasion, ehhahhhhh....it was hard to breathe!" I thought she was saying "Hell, it was raging in...and it was hard to breathe"

[amber]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

you know the part where Stevie goes "Heavy persuasion, ehhahhhhh....it was hard to breathe!" I thought she was saying "Hell, it was raging in...and it was hard to breathe"

Hey, that's a pretty good lyric!!
Wow, someone actually said something about something i posted. Neat!
For SOTM I used to just sing a general tuneful caterwauling interspersed with the few words I understood. It sounded almost the same! hehe.
Amber

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by CarneVaca

Does Stevie ever sing the words to Rhiannon anymore as they are in the original recorded version?

Okay, what about singing the original melodies to her classic songs? I don't think I've ever heard "Dreams," "Rhiannon," "Gold Dust Woman" and "Stand Back" sung with their original melodies intact. I can understand dropping the high falsetto notes in "Dreams" and "Rhiannon," but for just ONCE I would love to hear "Stand Back" with all of the bent-notes and inflections instead of just belting out whole lines with a single note. There was something dark and sexy about the recording that just comes across as manic and angry onstage.

[jadegypsy]

Actually the one I most remember hearing and then checking was on Beatiful Child for:

"I fell in love when I was only ten" instead of "You fell in love when I was only ten"

And "I still wish that you were mine" instead of "I wish that you were mine."

I do believe she gets the words to Landslide right most nights, as for Rhiannon and GDW I like the improvising, kinda reminds ppl she isn't lip synching, not to mention she would probably be bored to tears if she performed them the same every night...

[Carolina Girl]

In Gypsy, I always thought she was saying "like a landslide" instead of "lightning strikes" I didn't realize I was wrong until just this past Saturday when I was watching LIB, and she clearly enunciated "lightning." Yes, I feel like an idiot!

[amber]

Originally Posted by Carolina Girl

In Gypsy, I always thought she was saying "like a landslide" instead of "lightning strikes" I didn't realize I was wrong until just this past Saturday when I was watching LIB, and she clearly enunciated "lightning." Yes, I feel like an idiot!

Where Stevie's lyrics are concerned, one should never feel like an idiot. She's a notorious un-pronunciator. A guy on the radio once made a joke about that if her and the guy from creedence (I forgot his name just this second) did a duet you wouldn't be able to understand a word. It's not just you.

[skcin]

I don't recall many LB flubs, but I recently heard Stevie sing POTU on a TISL boot (can't remember which show):

They go onto the shores, that have no sea,
Haunted by that same fantasy...

I actually think she covered it pretty well with the fastasy line...

Paula

[jbrownsjr]

Has Christine ever flubbed? Surely she has at some point?

[amber]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Has Christine ever flubbed? Surely she has at some point?

Christine Perfect!? No way!

[jbrownsjr]

she cheats, she has a setlist printed by her!

[HomerMcvie]

It's EASY to cheat when you play keyboards. Plenty of places to tape small lyrics sheets, and only 2 feet from your face. Don't know if she's done it or not, though. She is Perfect, right?
And she would never say "Drowndin"