Rewriting Westerberg

[dee]

torture

A million baby kisses from a street car named bizarre
The porter he's a lonely man,stuck inside this rail way car

[dee]

left of the dial

I saw your mugshot babe
In some local page
Didn't mention your life
They just mentioned your crime

Ten thousand lakes
Ten million parking lots
Filled with cigarette butts
Half are yours and mine

[dee]

darlin' one

Five hundred pier lights reflect a broken sea of glass
Protect a love that will never last
Forsaken pole that someone cast

[dee]

world class fad

Well you look fantastic
Though you try to mask it
With run down upholstery

This shuck and jive
Might have to take a dive
Before you're tied to the scenery

[anarkissed]

I don't think I have the skill to do this...But I frequently misunderstood Paul's lyrics, and then liked what I thought they were better than what they actually were (or at least what other people said they were)...Can't think of too many examples now, of course...One was in "Talent Show": I always thought he was singing "We got our guitars and we got a firm fix", which I liked better than "thumb picks"...Most people say that at the end of "Bastards of Young", he's saying "Take it, it's your's", but I thought it was "Keep it short"...I thought that would have been funny, because, at the time, there was still this sort of post-punk ethic that called for shorter songs, and that song did seem to end somewhat abruptly...If I could change some lyrics, I never particulary cared for the "vomit" line in "Whatever Makes You Happy" or the "clean underwear" line in "Love Untold"...

[FreeRider]

I'll give it a shot.

The Last

would it hurt to fall apart a little lower
I know I'm falling to my knees....

Happytown

the plan was to set the world on strife
but it rains everyday of your life
in Happytown...