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Just thought I'd take an informal poll here. The other night Ruby and I were playing Scrabble and the song "Whipping Post" came up. I mentioned a line from it and she couldn't believe that I didn't know the correct lyrics. So, please, without googling, fill in the blank with the word you always thought belonged here.
Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel.
Like I've been **** to the whipping post.
**** to the whipping post.
**** to the whipping post.
Good lord, I feel like I'm dyin'.
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not sure I know the song, but is it tied?
formerly known as etaoin...
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I'll go with eta. That's what it always sounded like to me. It has the additional advantage of making sense, for what that's worth, given the context.
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I'm confused, connie. What does your friend Ruby say the "real" word is?
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the "real" word
Or either what *you thought the "real" word was?
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Ruby of Ithica is right and I was wrong! *sob* Oh, well, I creamed her in Scrabble yet again!  I had always thought I was hearing down not tied. I just wondered if anyone else suffered from the same hearing problem. I guess not.
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Mebbe it's just a personal association from your daily lex cyph - tied down? <eg>
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That's all right, Connie. My head is quite full of mondegreens. I've been listening to Norah Jones' CD--and she has this one song that has a line:
'My heart is drenched in __________________'
Well. I made that line:
'My heart is drenched in white'--and traveling many a mile I tried to figure out why the persona in the lyrics would have a heart drenched in white. Never mind that the following line had the word 'mind' in it; never mind that 'wine' would have rhymed better with 'mind' than 'white.' And forget checking the lyrics that came in the CD case. I tend not to read CD case information for years--don't want to contaminate my first impressions and mondegreens. One must cling fiercely to one's mondegreens.
Anyway, I certainly enjoyed weeks of wondering why the persona's heart was drenched in white as she longed to be with the other person in the song, who seemed to be a pretty bad jerk to me.
Then I couldn't stand it any longer. I didn't wait several years. I read the CD jacket and, damn it, her heart was drenched in wine--as the jerk was on her mind. Now I've got to figure out why her heart was drenched in wine--but that should be easier to figure out than her heart drenched in white, which I still think is a cool, if cryptic, concept.
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I used to hear a song by Seal on the radio that I couldn't make out. Finally got the CD, ripped it open and read . . . that he didn't include the lyrics because he didn't want to interfere with the listeners personal interpretation!!! 
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I say, if the singer doesn't respect the lyrics enough to ENUNCIATE them, they deserve to have their song mondegreened by those of us listening.
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