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June 8, 2019: Potato Wave (Read on the Porch Episode 20)

Hi Jessi and Kate,

Thank you for the kind words on your last episode.  It meant a lot to me to hear you feel my opinions are in-depth, however I don't know if I can find a whole lot of depth to Yellow Ledbetter!


The "mystique" around the lyrics to this song lend it to be best reserved for the end of a set-list at one of their shows or even better closing down a bar at 2am and letting whatever lyrics you slur out at the top of your lungs.  I'm pretty sure, I've sung along with friends several times at house parties in college, later into the night, and all of us weren't singing the exact same words.

I took the liberty to looking up the lyrics from a few sources, those being Google, Genius Lyrics, AZLyrics and SongMeanings.  All of them list the same words.  Then I decided to write out the interpretations from Misheard Lyrics and I have them listed below with some of my favorite lines highlighted.  I think my favorite part was "Make me fries" just before Mike's solo.


On a ceiling
On a porche glitter fairy landfill 
I wanna leave Bennigan's
One blizzard hymn on a beach of little horses
Mona said, I wanna leave Bennigan’s
On a wheel, on a wizard, on a whale
Anna Nicole’s mana said that i don’t wanna see Anna fall down again
And the wizard on Aleve, a Gump I know
I said I don’t want a whale in a box or a bag
Ah yeahhhhhhhhh can you see dems?
Out on the porch, potato wave
ICEE dems, brown the runway
Anna no, Anna no, I don’t wanna see

Make me fries…(Mike’s solo)

ICEE, I don’t know why suntan nails
On a Carmine, unaware
I said I don’t, I don’t know where there’s a box or a bag
Ah yeahhhhhhhhh can you see dems?
Oh, I know poor boys, potato wave
ICEE dems, brown the runway
Anna no, Anna no, I don’t wanna shave it off
I don’t wanna stare
I don’t want a stair
I don’t want a slayer…
I don’t know all of the words…YET!

You both also compelled me to watch the series finale of "Friends" again.  I remember getting pretty excited when I heard Yellow Ledbetter played in the background (ANOTHER SPOILER ALERT), not only while Rachel was boarding her plane but also while Ross and Phoebe realized they were at the wrong airport (JFK and not Newark).  Although Ross was given his chance to stop Rachel, after the passengers got off due to a faulty "left flangie." Of course it was happily ever after in the end!


Forced to endure, what I could not forgive,

Chris

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