Problems With Liner Notes

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Songs whose lyrics are misquoted in their albums' liner notes.

AKA Driver - Lyrics not present in the John Henry liner notes due to fears of legal problems with the manufacturers of Nyquil.
Yeh Yeh - Lyrics not present in the Mink Car liners because it was a cover of a song administered by a different label.

Letterbox - The "Too late or soon..." section is missing from the liner notes.
Snowball In Hell - The "Side effect or drug trip" verse is not in the Lincoln liner notes.
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - The "try on this pair of pants" verse is not present in the Flood liner notes.

Road Movie To Berlin - Has two extra lines printed in the Flood liner notes. These two lines were deleted from the final version because the Johns felt they made the song too long.

Au Contraire - The lyrics in the last verse are rearranged.
Piece Of Dirt - Lincoln liner notes contain the lyrics of an earlier live version.

A Self Called Nowhere - In the John Henry liner notes, the lyric is "It's a thing named 'it', in a bottomless pit" although it has been decided that the correct lyric uses the word "id," as in the instinctive part of the unconscious according to Freud
Become A Robot - The Then liners change the line "Here's hoping you don't harbor a death wish" to "Here's hoping you don't harbor a wishnik" in order to protect the faint of heart.
Bee of the Bird of the Moth - The liner notes change the line "Everyone's deforming..." to "Everything's deforming..."
Hot Cha - The liners say that Hot Cha had to "run back home" instead of "come back home."
Lucky Ball And Chain - The Flood liner notes say "When she told me of that day" instead of "When she told me off that day"
Memo To Human Resources - In The Spine's liner notes, the line "Talk you through the finer points..." instead is "Walk...". And, in the liner notes for Indestructible Object, the written line is "With finer points..."
The Cap'm - The liner notes change the line "My hat looks good on me?" to "This hat looks good on me?"
The Shadow Government - The liner notes change the line "...I saw the mayor stealing my junk," to "...I saw the mayor stealing my stuff."
With The Dark - The liners change the line "Rusted, incrusted, combusted, and dusted" to "Rusted incrusted combusted to ashes."

Apollo 18 - The Dial-A-Song number listed is incorrect
Factory Showroom - Though definitely an intentional move and therefore not technically a problem, the album's liner notes do not contain lyrics to any of the songs. The Japanese release of the album includes liner notes that include lyrics in both English and Japanese.
The Else - Packaging contains no tracklist, publishing information, etc. for the bonus disc packaged with it (Cast Your Pod To The Wind).
A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants: Melody, Fidelity, Quantity - Says on the timeline that Child's Play's release is related to track 3, Particle Man. It should say it's related to track 6, Cyclops Rock.

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