Extremely Incorrect Lyrics: ‘When I Die’ by Groove Coverage’

Why are these lyrics incorrect all over the internet!

Okay, so I already know this song by heart but I was using it to help me with a writing exercise and thought it might be more helpful to actually ‘see’ the words so- I Googled them. The entire first page of search results lead me to sites with incorrect lyrics. Some so horribly off it makes me cry.

On the second page I found near to no search results of lyrics pertaining to the actual song, just other songs by the same artist. So, using SEO (search engine optimization) I’d like to post the correct lyrics here.

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When I Die by Groove Coverage
(from the Album 21st Century Girl)

The tides are undying
While tension grows cold
Under cover of darkness
My visions were sold
I still feel your body
Your sex and your mind
Your taint and your blessing
Will save me tonight

And when I die, I die for you
Please make my deepest dreams come true
Cause when I cry, I cry for you
My life is nothing without you
And when I die, I die for you
Please make my deepest dreams come true
Cause when I cry, I cry for you
My life is nothing without you

The seasons are turning
While dreams disappear
Under cover of darkness
I’m feeling you near
Do you see my body
My sex and my mind
Without all these pleasures
I’m losing my life

And when I die, I die for you
Please make my deepest dreams come true
Cause when I cry, I cry for you
My life is nothing without you
And when I die, I die for you
Please make my deepest dreams come true
Cause when I cry, I cry for you
My life is nothing without you

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My sister laughed at me because this horrible crime against music sent me off on one of my internet quests. I actually emailed/filled out contact forms for eight different sites with the bad lyrics. To the credit of my sanity- two of the worst ones actually had the line written as ‘My tights aren’t dying.’ I mean, seriously?!

Are people just that stupid? It’s not a mistake one can easily explain by mishearing. It’s like a non-English speaker wrote all these down (no offense to them but the lyrics are still wrong).

I know this is a stupid thing to be mad over. It’s not my favorite song, it’s not a number one hit, and a good portion of people have never heard of the artist -BUT- it’s the fact of the matter. In this day and age of information on the internet you’d think that at least one out of eight results would be correct.

I literally found only one correct set of lyrics on the net (after writing the bulk of this post) on an English to Japanese translation site (said site being written mostly in Kanji).

Either way my tirade, mission, and rant are all complete. Now I can go back to writing.

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