Jan 4, 2007

Somebody save me! Fill in this blank!

Is it possible to listen to a song over 90 times and not know the words?

No, wait, is it possible that four people wouldn't know the words to a song that they've listened to over 90 times?

Answer: Yes.

Our family realized this was the case tonight when we sat down to watch a recording of Smallville. As all of you Smallville fans know, it's got a fabulous theme song.

Ah, but do you know the words?

Emmett raised this question when he said, "Does that say 'Let your organs break right through?'"

"'Let your organs break right through'?!?" Ethan responded very ... er ... ethanistically. Which is to say, like a big brother making a little brother feel very much like a little brother.

"Well, what does it say, then?"

None of us knew for sure.

It turns out that the great and powerful Internet doesn't know, either! '

Different sites give different versions of the lines that we can't understand. Mainly these two:

Let your waters break right through ...
Let your warm hands break right through ...

"Warm hands?" Emmett said.

"Yeah," I said, "'cause on the show, Clark is always breaking through walls and stuff."

"But why 'warm'?"

Good question. The kind of question that we just never thought to ask through 90 other episodes.

Emmett: Good job raising the issue. In recognition, this is addressed only to the rest of us: Ya Goof!

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