{"id":23962,"date":"2020-12-21T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23962"},"modified":"2020-12-21T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:35:47","slug":"i-like-my-lyric-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-like-my-lyric-better\/","title":{"rendered":"I Like My Lyric Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like some others here (? [&#8220;Indeed,&#8221; says Mr Moderator]), Get Happy!! is my favorite Elvis Costello album, and \u201cMen Called Uncle\u201d is my favorite track from that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the longest time I thought the opening line was <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Now there&#8217;s lip prints all over your face<br \/>Well maybe that&#8217;s why I can read you like a book<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought it was possibly \u201ckiss prints\u201d which would give a similar meaning but that\u2019s not really a phrase you hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a disappointment when I learned that it was actually \u201cnewsprint\u201d.  Could that actually be it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really, isn\u2019t \u201clip prints\u201d far better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m looking for a little love in this but also looking for other misheard lyrics that you think are better than the actual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But don\u2019t turn this into an exercise in mondegreens.  No \u201cThere\u2019s a bathroom on the right\u201d allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn\u2019t find a good live video of EC on this song but was pleased to find a Robbie Fulks cover (from a show where he apparently covered the whole album).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robbie Fulks - Men Called Uncle\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A1fvD7RHS7k?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like some others here (? [&#8220;Indeed,&#8221; says Mr Moderator]), Get Happy!! is my favorite Elvis Costello album, and \u201cMen Called Uncle\u201d is my favorite track from that. For the longest time I thought the opening line was Now there&#8217;s lip prints all over your faceWell maybe that&#8217;s why I can read you like a book <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-like-my-lyric-better\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}