Online lyrics
2006/12/09 filed under /metalI'm a lazy guy and when I can look something up online instead of getting out of my chair, I'll do it.
Today I was listening to my mp3 collection of Bruce Dickinson and I wondered about the lyrics of a song called Devil On A Hog. So I searched for lyrics "Devil on a hog". Luckily the query returned a lot of results.
The first search result showed me the lyrics of this song, but I was puzzled by all of the '?' characters. Was the original author not sure? Did the site scrape these lyrics from some other place and did something wrong with encoding? Some of the lyrics didn't even make sense!
So it was time to get out of my chair and look the lyrics up in the CD booklet (yes, I have the CD too, I just think mp3 is easier. Lazy, remember? ;-). The lyrics in the booklet showed me something completely different.
Let's look at a few differences:
| Online Version | CD Booklet Version |
|---|---|
| There? a place it ain? in space | There's a place in innerspace... |
| That? where I get to you | That's where I'll get to you |
| I? not the shy or torrent kind | I'm not the shy retiring kind |
| Like a supernova for the blind | I'm like a supernova for the blind |
| I used to say I guts like hand | I used to sit at god's right hand |
| But I clean my show into my one night stands | But I quit that show to do my one night stands |
| I? a god I? handling wider | I'm a Godhead rider |
...and it goes on and on full of errors.
Now I don't see a big problem when one guy writes down wrong lyrics on a drunken night, yet it scares me when these bad lyrics somehow appear on a lot of lyrics sites.
Since this torrent or retiring kind seems quite unique, let's construct a fun query.
Yahoo returns 14 sites when I search for "devil on a hog" "shy or torrent kind". Google shows us only 9.
Apparently, these sites are simply crawling each other and uploading incorrect lyrics.
Oh well, lesson learned. Bruce Dickinson does not sing about a "torrent" kind, nor about "handling wider". He also didn't say "I guts like hand". This should be enough proof to become less lazy and get out of my chair more often. Then again, the correct lyrics can be found online too ...
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