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===“Olympus”?=== | ===“Olympus”?=== | ||
A correspondent writes: | A correspondent writes: | ||
{{quote|Sorry but you ALL HAVE IT WRONG!!! THE LYRIC IS “RISES LIKE A LEOPRESS”... THIS HAS BEEN BUGGING THE F OUT OF ME FOR YEARS. I think Weezer screwed up the whole world in this lyric...}} | {{quote|Sorry but you ALL HAVE IT WRONG!!! THE LYRIC IS “RISES LIKE A LEOPRESS”... THIS HAS BEEN BUGGING THE F OUT OF ME FOR YEARS. I think Weezer screwed up the whole world in this lyric... read his lips in the video}} | ||
Now while I respect the the vigour with which this argument is put, I cannot agree with it. | Now while I respect the the vigour with which this argument is put, I cannot agree with it. Firstly, the video cuts away to [[Steve Lukather]] who, rather like a tone-deaf footballer singing the national anthem, has forgotten to sing along at the key moment: | ||
We must allow [[David Paich|Mr. Paich]] some facility with logic and common sense, even if not much, and while Olympus clearly does not rise above the Serengeti, or another part of the African continent, being a mountain, it ''does'' at least rise above things like plains. | We must allow [[David Paich|Mr. Paich]] some facility with logic and common sense, even if not much, and while Olympus clearly does not rise above the Serengeti, or another part of the African continent, being a mountain, it ''does'' at least rise above things like plains. | ||