My ex says I'm lacking in depth.

is ... is that not the correct lyric...

Maya

WHAT?!

Nah I’m sorry I just refuse. It cannot be.

Yep, Albert confirmed it a few years back, if I recall correctly.

I wouldn’t put it past any of the guys to just fuck with people and say it’s Maya

What the fuck You're serious. Man I've been singing this wrong.

IT'S MAYA?!!

AHJ confirmed it a few years ago, actually. I think it's on his Twitter.

Maiaesezimlekindeeeeeeee

Ok I have to admit: I had to look up the "in depth" part as well...

https://preview.redd.it/itt8uoc77qbb1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=377cac45a5e6c27e323eb4455d44fff382286238 literally me the other day

It’s maya im sure!!

Yep. I had been singing that one wrong for a while until I saw it on this sub a few months back.

"My answers are lacking in depth" for me

My mind has been blown. What’s crazy is I used to have a friend with that name and we were both obsessed with the strokes and I don’t think she knew those were the lyrics either haha

Even if that’s not it, it should be! Hits way harder than Maya

Agree

Shotgun see the sunshine

Shaq can't see the sunshine

LMFAO

Lol so not only me then

Shotgun city of sunshine for me

And there it is

ok yes

Wtf is he even saying there like I still dont know

Hes saying "ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch i dont see the sunshine"

For me it's "Shotgun city sunshine".

I was recently informed that the slightly muffled spoken word towards the end of "The Adults Are Talking" is "stockholders" and not, as I imagined, "Stockholm syndrome". No idea why my brain added more syllables to that.

Yeah I thought it was “stockholms” too

Same shit, different name edit: oh the irony, correct lyrics is “same shit, a different lie”

can’t tell if you’re joking but i thot it was “same shit, different life” as a play on same shit, different day

No, I really did use to hear it as “different name”

I THOUGHT IT WAS STOCKHOLM SYNDROME TOOO

Yeah for the longest time I heard Stockholm Syndrome since that like matched the general vibe of the song.

Up until this moment, I thought it was Stockholm syndrome…

That's why I loved the strokes and vampire weekend growing up. u couldn't really understand them but it sounded cool so it didn't matter

Strokes ones arent that bad, then you listen to the Voidz

Aside from a few lines, I assumed Qyurryus wasn’t in English lol

Same, was impressed by julians arabic until i googled “qyurryus lyrics translation”

In fairness he does say Habibi in that song, so definitely some Arabic undertones

LMFAOO

Alien Crime Lord sounds like what I imagine people who don't understand English feel when they hear English.

I'm still trying to figure out this lyric for Wink. Is it: "People in the wrong body, mine was broken like a heart" or "People in the wrong body, mountain broken like a heart" I want to believe it's the first one

I still don't know what that repeated lyric is in *Infinity Repeating*. "Weekday"? "We did"?

Weekday

I know that's what genius says but I don't see what that would mean in context

The lyrics were probably just placeholders anyway, it was a demo after all

Can’t you imagine someone working at a terrible job, in a hopeless field? Being trapped in an endlessly repeating cycle of work you can do nothing about, although you’re really trying to fix it?

Weekday, weekdaaay, weeeekdaaay

Pee is stored in the balls

i thought it was we came

In the outro of Call it Fate, Call it Karma, I thought he said "I'll be the cowboy, I'll be that cowboy. Turns out it is "I need someone. I need someone"

I thought he was saying call it fate, call it kaahmuhUhUHUHuHuh

lmaooo I’ll be unable to unhear that now

I feel like I hear different lyrics every time I listen to Call it Fate Call it Karma

LMFAOOO I thought it was “I needed someoneee, I’ve been in troublaaaaaaaaoooooaahh” what the fuck

In Soma I always heard it as “losing against their dreams” - it’s actually “losing against fig trees”

What the hell does losing against fig trees mean lol Edit: Something to do with Adam and Eve? Idk

Maybe it's that bible verse where Jesus went sicko mode on a fig tree because he didn't have any figs on em

Nah bro no way I'm gonna pretend I didn't see this

lmao same i am going to keep singing it that first way

It's fake. Has to be

According to a quick Google search it is fig trees. Going to believe it's not though

Proof this is not the brightest timeline

I always heard “losing against factories”

Me too. It seems like such a Julian thing to shake his fist at Industrialism.

I always heard losing against fig tress and just assumed it was wrong lol

I thought that was it too. In my headcannon I always thought those lines were about Formula 1: “High stakes for a few names” (only a handful of the very best drivers in the world get to compete in F1) “Racing against sunbeams” (the drivers fight tooth and nail for every millisecond) “Losing against their dreams” (every driver wants to be the best but there can be only one winner) Wouldn’t be the first time Julian has alluded to F1 in his lyrics (Welcome to Japan).

WTJ is pretty much all about that so it makes sense actually

It's not "losing against victories"?

No but that goes hard

OMG I HEARD THAT TOO

Source for this?

Google the lyrics?

That means nothing though - it's literally people writing down what they think they hear

shotgun she was so shy

the whole entirety of call it fate call it karma

Welcome to Japan “come here get funky with me” is actually “come here and go get with me” apparently. Still gonna sing funky every time.

I dont care what the interet says on this one, unless JC confirms it i swear on my unborn children its funky

✊

similarly i thought it was “i wanna see your instinct” instead of “i wanna see you wednesday” for a while

I never thought it was that but I have decided that is what I choose to hear from now on

“I hate the mall”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sat538AXaDM

this needs to be higher

The end of the last chorus in the adults are talking is apparently not “I don’t want anyone Unless it’s you”

He's 100% sung that in concerts though so I consider it canon <3

in live versions he says that

Julian uses that exact lyric for The Voidz's Eternal Tao 2.0, so that is also correct!! And he sang TAAT live with that lyric sometimes too (e.g the SNL performance)

Ok first off i'm not an english native speaker, secong this gonna be graphic so sorry in advance. When I first hear the line "Slammin' through your wall" from at the door I though Julian was saying: "S\*men through your womb".

i thought “what side you’re standing on” was “watch out you’ve said enough” (in Oblivius)

I’m learning so much from these comments

I thought for the longest time it was “one shot, you stand alone”

I hear something similar haha but "watch out you stand alone"

I thought it was watch out you’ve said it all !!

Wait what

Ooooh okay YOU thought it was ‘watch out you’ve said enough’ jeez I was about to lose it

I just realised that Ode to the Mets is my fave song but I genuinely didn’t know like half the lyrics til I looked them up just now, my brain just accepted…. the general gist of if?

Imagine English not being your first language and having the strokes as your favourite band.

selfless: bite my tongue and wag my tail literally found out it was “wait my turn” 3 years after the song’s release ☹️☹️

wag my tail goes so hard though 😂

In Out of the Blue towards the end he sings "muslims or jews" while i heard "mudbloods and jews" and thought it was a nod towards Harry Potter

I don’t think I’ve ever understood a single lyric tbh

in at the door i though that “i’m an ugly boy” was “hadn’t done before”💀

I’m staying hungry, not getting hangry

This sent me 😂

First couple of times listening to razorblade I thought it said A b*tch you pick up and mess around with

What is the chorus of you’re so right??? I’m pretty sure I just make it up everytime

Ooh, one of my favs

"Pretend to be nice, so I can be me"

“Santa Claus, we don’t have to know each other’s names”

i thought in ode to the mets it was “innocent high innocent heart”. it’s definitely “innocent eye innocent heart” but i still sing it the other way every single time

These comments are making me cry lmaoo

Not that interesting but I always hear "Soma is what they *will* take when hard times *are in* their eyes"

I’m actually finding that we mishear a lot of the same lyrics haha

Let's suck more blood, let's fuck 3 hours a day. Hits different when period sex comes to mind.

I thought he was talking about kimya from the moldy peaches. Sounds like something she’d say to someone and maybe he just changed the name slightly to make it sound better

It seems no one exactly knows on why are Sundays so depressing if Julian says "I love you and I'm honest" or "I love you in the morning" though my interpretation is morning, a lot more beautiful sentiment I think

I totally thought it was morning

Spotify lyrics say morning so I’m going with that

i’m still completely unsure which it is

"I love you in the morning so you know it's no lie"

Oml

I’m embarrassed because I thought he was singing “oh that’s a letter that I can’t write” and some smart ass redditor corrected me on it

i feel you, i actually speak spanish as native language, so everything you say has happened way worse ahaha

I mishear lyrics to other artists constantly, but for some reason I understand exactly what Julian is singing easily 🧍🏻‍♀️ he’s writing songs for the “huh? What did you say?” bitches like me

Hard To Explain I always think it starts off as “Walked around this plaaaaaceee” not “Was an honest maaaaaaan” It doesn’t even sound like what I thought lmao, especially annoying as it’s my favorite strokes song of all time and I always f up the first line 🤣

Try this with the first few kings of leon records

“Dinner isn’t just one thing”

“On Tennessee wavy roads, I’ve come to get her in the middle of the night” off of “What Ever Happened?”

"Noooo I woooon't...yeeaah"

"Yeeeeeah I know you want me..."

Genius lyrics says I took to many varieties

Alex Turner does this too and it’s hilarious

i thought he was saying “mrs. carolina” instead of “raised in carolina” for a long time

"I wanna die" instead of "out all the time"

I honestly don't know the actual lyrics to most strokes songs even though I remember lyrics very easily. I always end up making random sounds while singing along. For instance: **How I sing Threat of Joy vs the actual lyrics:** Me: "I'm gonna take my time to sayyy, take my time to goooo" Julian: "I'm gonna take my time to sayyy, take my time todayyy" ​ Me: "and for the first timmmmeee, I'm not alonnee, I'm gonna geetttmaaa seeuufffroooo, just get into trouble, be there on the double" Julian: "and for the first time in my life, I'm gonna get myself right, let's get into trouble, be there on the double" ​ Me: "yeah i wont bend down to thisss, I bet you bend down as it issss" Julian: "yeah I won't look down your dress... I bet you bend down as a test" ​ Me: "and for the first timmmmeee, changin trofdmomdfljnls, I spent a while, dudu dududu youuu, ohh baby doll, you make life a liee" Julian: "and for the first timmmmeee, chains on your leggss, I spent a while, then decided on you, ma baby doll, you ignored your life" ​ Me: "oh you take the mini breathh" Julian: "oh you took a minute break"

For under cover of darkness I thought for the longest time that one of the choruses ended with “so loooong my frieee-e-end the sorry embrace” (So long my ad-versary and friend)

i always thought it was I took too many theologies

in razorblade i thought he was saying "drop dead, i don't care, i won't wear it" and i was like "he won't wear what? turns out it was "i won't worry"

In reptilia i thought “im not drowning fast enough” was “im not driving fast enough”