Word: dustland
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...forget you forgot). I have one notebook called “Misheard but Good Lyrics” for those occasional songs I listen to and think: Damn, that lyric would have been so much better if they had used this other word instead. Listen to “A Dustland Fairytale” by The Killers and tell me the phrase “night gown” shouldn’t be replaced with “night cap.” Sorry, it’s just a fact, and now you’ll never listen...
...where Flowers sings: “The cops, they’ll steal your dreams and they’ll kill your prayers / Take a number where the blood just barely dried.” But this opacity comes at the cost of making sense. “Dustland Fairytale,” a badlands ballad about white trash, love, and God knows what else, features lyrics like: “Saw Cinderella in a party dress / But she was looking for a nightgown. / I saw the devil wrapping up his hands / He’s getting ready...
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