05.13.09
Beer on the Shelf
A few summers ago a warm sunny day inspired me to take the speakers of my stereo out to the balcony. After opening a beer I wondered which O.A.R. song it was that said “I put my beer on the shelf.” I couldn’t remember, but I wanted to hear it. Google found nothing. But I was still pretty sure there was such a song, and finally I found it. Just that it said “fear on the shelf,” not beer. But the song still made my day.
Misheard lyrics are funny. And it’s good that I find them funny because I’m so good at mishearing lyrics. I hear what I want to hear. There are many sites listing these, like KissThisGuy.com, appropriately named after the Jimi Hendrix song.
But this is the song, it’s called King of the Thing. After hearing the song, I thought how stupid of me to think the line could be “beer on the shelf,” because the very previous line is “I put my pint down on the table.” Wrong again!
emkiley said,
May 19, 2009 at 11:57 am
O.A.R. definitely needs to change “fear” to “beer”. In fact, changing fear to beer is something that most people in general should be advised to do regularly, except in the case of most extreme sports (: