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Mispronouncements

from The Misnomer by The Mispronouncer

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The mispronounced words are spelled how they're mispronounced. Like, phonetically. You'll figure it out.

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1. It’s a fluid language, don’t doubt the changing.
I’ll miscorrect your pronounciation.
But this comes with an asterik.
I can’t yet claim to have mastered it.
Saw the prints of a woof down by the crick.
Speak like a man: sound like a hick.
Caucaphonous voices I can’t interpretate.
Just let that mess perculate.
A man the strong fear but the cute exploit.
I’ll go to my grave defending a mute point.
Here comes the calvary, sabers flashing.
Fall prostate before the main attraction.
Ritzy jewlery, penthouse suit.
On a whole nother level ’til you slip down chutes.
Mistrial by fire, mistake no prisoners.
Also known as The Malapropismer.

Chorus: I don’t care if it’s worse or better
When I take a word and I drop a letter.
I can put a letter where it doesn’t belong,
And you can wonder if maybe you just heard wrong.
I can take the letters and mix ’em all around.
Top it all off with an alternate vowel sound.
I can take a word you revere and revise it
And say it to your face and you won’t recognize it.

2. Let your commitment to diction wobble:
Put that stress on the wrong syl-LA-ble.
Do it of-ten and you’ll get in-famous.
Known as an outlaw or an ignoramus.
Supposably all the spooks concur:
This world’s full of kooks going nucular.
I snuck through the foilage, struggled through the rubble.
I made my excape, the epi-tome of sub-tle.
Not uncommon for the thinker in the room
To do double-duty as a harbinger of doom.
Most people just take it for granite
That if it’s going well someone planned it.
You thought I was being mischievious when you sawl
The sarcastic tone of the writing on the wall.
Not a brainwarsh, I’m trying to immerse ya.
I don’t trust words and vicea versa.

Chorus: I don’t care if it’s worse or better
When I take a word and I drop a letter.
I can put a letter where it doesn’t belong,
And you can wonder if maybe you just heard wrong.
I can take the letters and mix ’em all around.
Top it all off with an alternate vowel sound.
I can take a word you revere and revise it
And say it to your face and you won’t recognize it.

Bridge: I’ll translate for you if you don’t get this:
The Saint wants to a eat bigeer for bwiftiss.
If Dutch finds dinder cooked to a cinder,
It’s gonna get pitched straight out of the winder.
Bang the drums, strum the goodtar.
Don’t wait for the day when the Could, Would, Should: Are.
Sundy, Mondy, Tuesdy and so on.
You want to go by the book? Sing your own song.

3. So, yeah, maybe meaning gets sacrificed,
But if that’s the price, I guess that’s the price.
I’ve learned to accept the bad with the good,
And it’s not so bad being misunderstood.
Let me tell you ’bout the so-called “need to communicate:”
Total comprehension isn’t necessary to relate.
Here’s the bottom line: it’s lame to cling
To the idea that mere communication’s the main thing.
Some don’t know better, and that’s got its place,
But I recommend a conscious embrace.
So what if you seem dumb? So what if it happens
That your educated friends look at you like you’re madm’n?
Are you gonna lay your tongue on the altar of phonetics?
Or are you gonna revel in the squalor of aesthetics?
Still can’t grasp what it is I’m all about?
How many times do I have to spell it out?

Chorus: I don’t care if it’s worse or better
When I take a word and I drop a letter.
I can put a letter where it doesn’t belong,
And you can wonder if maybe you just heard wrong.
I can take the letters and mix ’em all around.
Top it all off with an alternate vowel sound.
I can take a word you revere and revise it
And say it to your face and you won’t recognize it.

credits

from The Misnomer, released July 27, 2012
Ben Bird introduced the song.
The Mispronouncer made the beat, played the keyboards, wrote the lyrics, and performed the vocals.
Alex Braun played the bass guitar.

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