Song without words or song or really anything much.

[substitute]

I met a nice young woman tonight, 18 years old and going to both high school and community college. Her boyfriend is a Marine and he’s in Fallujah. I wonder if he’ll come home? And what he’ll be like? I hope it all turns out okay but it’s a heartbreak.

I was listening to Guadalcanal Diary’s fine serial killer song “Please Stop Me” and I realized that my favorite line in the song, which is “Find yourself in Georgia with a pitchfork through your head” is not on the album version. Either they only did that line live, or I invented it. I sure hope it’s the former!

WORD SUBSTITUTIONS:

Substitute “lunch” for “love” in all pop songs.

Substitute “bozo” for “cyber” everywhere.

Substitute “emo” for “evil”.

I’m off to watch Resident Emo and have some bozosex.

Comments

[worded-snapshot.livejournal.com]

Nice to see that you substitute wordplay too.

Squirrel, you'll be a wombat soon

[hotelsamurai.livejournal.com]

Also, in pop songs:

"squirrel" for "girl"
"wombat" for "woman"
My own name anywhere it will fit

Also

[hotelsamurai.livejournal.com]

I see that we have some things in common, so I've friended you.

word substitutions

[citizenx.livejournal.com]

Whitney Houston Song Titles With "Love" Replaced by "Drug(s)."

Re: word substitutions

[effluvia.livejournal.com]

You Give Good Drugs is my fave.

That's a good one

[citizenx.livejournal.com]

I share my friend's disappointment that "I Will Always Drug You" isn't on the list, but that's probably because it's originally a Dolly Parton song.

Re: That's a good one

[substitute.livejournal.com]

You give lunch a bad name (bad name).

Re: That's a good one

[samiamrex.livejournal.com]

I wanna know what lunch isssss and I want you to show me

giggle!

You get your monkey for nuthin and your chimps for free

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

You forgot monkey/money.

[worded-snapshot.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there is a mondegreen community on LJ, but I wonder if there is a community of just word substituting or nearword play ideas.

When I'm in a store where I can't stand the blaring piped-in pop music, I start to think how I can change the words to at least cope with mindless music. Thanks for the Whitney substitution word. Now I can exorcise her disembodied screech.

battle royale

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

The guy from Cake who goes "aw yeah all right"
versus
Rob Zombie's "yeah yeah yeah".

The lesser of two emos.

Love,
A.