Misheard lyrics

...not that THAT makes any sense either

I was just thinking about this earlier, about how sometimes what you think the lyrics are is sometimes better than the actual lyrics, like I thought this System of a Down lyric: "pushing little children/with their fully-automatics" was "pushing little children/with the folly of their madness".

Um, yeah.

ahahahahahahahahahaha

And I still can't figure out the lyrics of 'Remember Me' by Blue Boy. Is it
"I'm the one who hurt you, baby, aight",
"I'm the one who had your baby's sight"
or "I'm the whore who hurt your baby's eye"?

Every picture tells a story, Tony. Every picture tells a story, Tony.

aaliyah's we need a resolution

"snoop video, looks at the ceiling"
(really: stupid yo? looks are deceiving)

* "Microphone Fiend:" I thought Rakim was describing his love of rapping as "sort of an addiction/magnetized like Nixon." Hmm, I thought, clever allusion to Watergate. It turns out he was saying "magnified by the mixing." Honestly, I prefer the former.

* "Whip It:" "Go forward! Move ahead! Run to the taxi! It's not too late!" That one isn't mine, but I like it all the same.

* "Goodbye Stranger:" "to Rabbi Josen/every day." It was actually "is the life I've chosen/every day."

* The Cars' "Bye Bye Love:" "Substitution asked Confucius, 'What's inside your head?'" It was actually "Substitution, mass confusion, clouds inside your head."

* speaking of The Cars: "Let's Go" takes on a more sinister tone when you think Ric Ocasek's singing "she never liked the Jews." (Again, not mine, but I've never heard it the same way!)

La Isla Bonita

I believe that was Maxell tapes (before they got Pete Murphy looking windswept).

"I like juice and that's the truth!!"

anyone, my all-timer -- when i was a little kid, i used to think that the buggles' "video killed the radio star" was "vinnie, don't kill the radio star" (and listening to the song, it never made sense why "vinnie" wanted to kill the radio star)

and i used to think that the line from "le freak" by chic that goes "le freak, c'est chic" was "bo-beep, go sheep!"

'He met Marmalade down in old New Orleans/Struttin' her stuff for Mister Heath'

Also googled as:
"Wrapped up like a deuce"
"revved up like a deuce" (Seems to be the consensus on the Manfred Mann version.)

Wrapped up like a goose in the middle of the night
Held up by a ...deuce... another ruler in the night
...douche...
..."dooshent"...
Slapped up by a dude...
Knocked up by...

..From "The Straight Dope" :
"Bruce's lyrics were no paragon of clarity, but at least you could understand the words: "Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night." Some claim the "deuce" being referred to is the 1932 Ford Coupe beloved of hotrodders (cf. the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe"). Maybe, but when you're talking about a song whose opening line goes on about madman drummers, bummers, and Indians in the summer, I'm not making any definite claims.

The Manfred Mann's Earth Band ("Quinn the Eskimo") did a cover version of the tune in 1976. It became a hit, no doubt because the band made the lyrics even more opaque than they already were. They changed the line in question to "wrapped up like a deuce."

What's it mean? I'm barely on speaking terms with my own subconscious. Don't ask me to explain someone else's."

Everlast, watching the Discovery Channel.

(NERD - Provider)

also an ex-gf thought that brand new heavies - you are the universe was "you are my unicorn".

Truer words were never misheard.

"You are everything to me/You are Wayne's World" - Containe, "You" (should have been 'you always were')

moral to the story: never assume a proper noun is the correct lyric.

Michael Jackson: "Smooth Criminal"

(In reality it goes: "Annie are you okay?")

Madonna: La Isla Bonita

"Where the sheep have no name" instead of "where the streets have no name" (Where The Streets Have No Name)
"I have pierced holy lips" isntead of "I have kissed honey lips" (Where The Streets Have No Name)
"Hell, damnation" instead of "Elevation" (Elevation)
"Gonna take a walk with your sister Lorraine" instead of "Johnny take a walk with your sister the rain" (Mysterious Ways)

"You can go your own way / You can call it thunder and 'oh-nee-baaaay" (i know that one falls apart but when I was a wee lad that's how my sister and I sang it in the car)

"Living on a Cheerio pole" - male background vox on Material Girl - sang more as a joke, in retrospect - another Kerry-and-James-back-of- the-car-on-family-vacation classic

and another from that same era: Rick Astley's "Never gonna Give you Up" sang as "Then I'm gonna give you up, then I'm gonna let you down / then Im gonna run around and dessert you"

We'd also do this weird thing with our hands along with the opening descending keyboard riff in "Carribean Queen" that made it look like we were casting a spell and it never failed to make us giggle uncontrollably. Man, my parents were into some shitty music.

"Have a nose...what kind of fool am I?"

from Robert Plant's "Heaven Knows." my aunt used to babysit me when i was little, you see. she played guitar, and was avidly into Led Zep and Pat Benatar and Heart, amongst other things. she was more amused by this than i think i was, and one night we stayed up rewriting all the lyrics to the song, starting with what i'd heard. i don't remember them all, although "the finesse of the old grey goose" was involved somewhere...

Kiss - "I want to rock and roll all night. . .and part of every day"

Also, I think I've said before that I thought "Smoke on the water" was "Slow comin' home girl."

"It was never my intention
To blindly feed the boy cocaine"

*loses shit*

"volunteer your fear of the blue sky"

I didn't realize it was "Caught in the crowd" until I heard the No Doubt version. I like mine better. Angst/depression/etc.

2) I thought that when the Doobie Brothers sang "Take me in your arms/Love me, love me a little while," it was "Take me in your arms/Lovely lovely Louelle." At the time, I had never heard of a woman named Louelle, but I was like 7, so I figured what did I know? More than 25 years later, I heard it in the car and said, "You know, I've heard of exactly one person, ever, who was named Louelle. Maybe they're saying something else." Once I empowered myself, it didn't take long to detect the lyric. I'd still like to actually meet a woman named Louelle, though.

Look at me--
"Her Monty Knee"
It makes up for the shortcomings of being poor

When you're 15, you want a rapport
You do unto others, and run like a mother
I don't want a rapport anymore
No, I don't want a rapport anymore

Oh, and Blur - "This is Hullo"

"I'm a water slide
You're an air slide"

Water slide = wet pussy, air slide = stiff, "inflated" penis
Made sense at the time

"Life in the hive puckered up my night"

Always sounds to me in my head, like:

"Life in the hamburgers of my night"

Neither of them make much sense.

"'seulement entre toi et moi'
means that our love will always be..."

April Wine

I later learned he was saying "I got the hook up, holla if you hear me"

My confusion was based on the premise that, if Master p had the hook up, then their should have been no difficulty in hearing him. I articulated this confusion to a group of self described "rap heads" and was promptly laughed at.

This isn't true, is it?

And if she keeps walking like that she will need a new spine soon.

For most of my childhood I thought Sade was singing "Ooooooh Bopper Ator"

I thought the backup singers were singing "Lot's wages" on "Showbiz Kids."

I thought Huey Lewis was singing "Now the oboe may be better tweeting, but the heart of rock and roll, the heart of rock and roll is still beating."

When i was younger for some bizarre reason i though that smoke on the water was soap on a rope

haha. I might use this for comic relief sometime.

Also: "Charleeeene don't like it / Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah"

A certain WFMU DJ and myself thought Lowell Fulson was singing about having a "fatback roll" in his pocket in "Tramp."

It wasn't until I heard a crappy cover of it this weekend during some equally crappy tv show or something that I realized it's actually "stay with your man awhile."

*hangs head in shame*

For the rest of our drive we couldn't stop going "Platypus...Platypus...Platypus..."

'caught up like a duce another runner in the night'

DUCE referring to :: a leader or commander; a chief.

that makes sense right?

"I'm fighting in a demon fight with you;
A demon fight with you."

and from the same song:

"Be my little baby, don juan, and only"

That's what you get for letting kids listen to music, I guess.

Smoke on the water / And fire in the sky

he thought it was:

Slow-motion Walter / That fire-engine guy

And then the character Phoebe on "Friends" mistook Elton John's (well, Bernie Taupin's) chorus in Tiny Dancer as:

"Hold me closer Tony Danza"

:)

small world

1.) You'll say anything to a butterfly (If this is It)

2.) I wanna new drug, wetherwall made me sick

3.) They say the heart of rock and roll is forbidden

I guess I can make another Louie Louie reference today...

I wondered why you didn't hear more about Ian Curtis being gay.

the stones, of course

Poor guy.

As cited in Mojo as one of the best lyrics of all time!

(I hear "I look ill but...")

Misheard Lyrics:
I'm in love with excremental torture.
Original Lyrics:
I'm in love with extreme mental torture.

Story about this misheard lyric by: Steveritt

A rock journalist in the UK went to press with these misheard lyrics.

Not a misheard lyric per se, but for the longest time I refused to believe that Morrissey was actually singing, "No, I'm gonna kill my dog" on "Unhappy Birthday." And for the life of me I still cannot figure out how that has anything to do with the rest of the song.

And there is a line in "Summer's Last Sound" by Disco Inferno that I always hear as "..Which would tell you if you'll spend the next few years/Free from Laffy Taffy petrol bongs."

It's black humor, obviously:

Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it's Nothing
Surely you're happy
It should be this way ?
I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"

Like when you're in a bad mood and someone says, "How many dogs did you kick on your way to school today?"

"Three lions on a shirt, jewels remain still gleaming"

!!!!

What I heard: "I trust the boys in the government".

Real lyrics: "I trust the police and the government".

i like my version much more!

We then realised they're singing "there's a conflicting sound". I liked the other version better.

Great tune either way, though. The Faint are face-rockingly awesome.

i always wondered what tom did to piss them off.

i thought of another one

ben harper's 'diamonds on the inside'

"she was a horrible liar"

for ages i was hearing "she was a whore and a liar"

NIN, Hurt - not misheard but I prefer to sing it this way:

"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"

I'm surprised no one's mentioned it upthread, but Radiohead's "No surprises" had my brother fooled for a while, doubting the merits of the song:

"such a pretty ass / on such a pretty girl"

when my bro criticized this, my brother-in-law responded "well maybe he's just calling it like he sees it"

As a teen one of my friends had "Dreadlock Holiday" (you know, the one that goes "I don't like reggae / I love it") on tape, and after we'd listened to it about a kazillion times, another friend said, "You know, this is a great tune, but why does the singer say he doesn't like cricket?". Holy god did we laugh!

-- Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (1 year ago) Link

He does actually sing "I don't like cricket". One of the most popular sports in the West Indies is cricket, so it makes sense.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned it upthread, but Radiohead's "No surprises" had my brother fooled for a while, doubting the merits of the song:

"such a pretty ass / on such a pretty girl"

when my bro criticized this, my brother-in-law responded "well maybe he's just calling it like he sees it"

-- Mark Clemente, Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I could never figure out if tired_nhappy in the liner notes meant tired AND happy or tired/unhappy. hmm?

"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"

"I miss my little Danish friend" :' (

(I looked around pretty hard for a picture of Mustaine. The emoticon above will have to suffice.)

"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"

lol I thought I was the only who sang it that way. It's even better on the Cash cover. Also, I always picture him singing it to the sSwedish chef from the muppets.

that scene with mustaine is one of the most surreal things i've seen on screen
the guy recalls 1982 like it was a week ago

Just realised that James Carr is not singing 'Sugarplums all dancing in my mind/ everyday you whip me it feels like valentines' in You Got my Mind Messed Up.... (it's 'everyday you're with me')

My brother thought Billy Jo was saying "sell doughnuts at my door" on 'When I Come Around'.

This girl insisted that the lyrics to Positive K's "I Got a Man" were "I'm not tryin to head out sea", and claimed it was a 'metaphor'.

one of my friends in middle school thought James Hetfield was saying "to constipate his grace" in Metallica's 'Unforgiven'

Someone on Internet Relay chat thought the chorus to "The Real Slim Shady" went "I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the Real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are justin my teddy".

oh and this foreign guy who spoke broken english on IRC was convinced that the chorus to Metallica's 'One' went "Hold my breathless, I wish go dead"

british nobodies freerunner have a song called 'friday don't need it' and it sounds exactly like "fried egg, don't eat it" which amuses me somewhat

vegan anthem

my brother used to think one of the lyrics on Shaquille O'neals debut was "Rhymin is like poopin, I'm already a legend"...

oh and this foreign guy who spoke broken english on IRC was convinced that the chorus to Metallica's 'One' went "Hold my breathless, I wish go dead"

I knew someone who thought it was "Oh, my breath is Irish for death".

that just made me lol

Oh my breath is Irish for death....Oh please Zod spank me.

Split Enz 'I See Red'

hurt my penis walking down the street
I see red I see red I see red

Still no idea what the actual lyric is.

i always used to hear the Big L line "you see what happened in my last fight friend?/aight then" as "you see what happened to my last white friend/ aight then"

just mis-heard again today, as I have forever, the Hollies "Bus Stop"

"By all goods she was mine" (instead of) by August she was mine.

can't believe that i am the 1st to mention this one (b/c i'm not the only one whose misheard this song), but anyway:

the cocteau twins, "sugar hiccup on cheerios"

I just posted this in the Muxtape thread, but:

In the Rose Tattoo song "Remedy" I mistook the line "Baby you know they call it...Rock and rollll!" for, "Baby you're not retarded...ROCK AND ROOOLLLLL!"

Until last week, in Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry," I always thought he sang:

"And then we'll cook corned beef porridge, of which I'll share with you"

Saw someone sing it in Karaoke and when they printed the actual "a meal for it" lyrics, I nearly fell over.

Am I the only one who for years thought the chorus to Toto's "Africa" goes "I guess the rain's down in Africa", not "I bless the rains down in Africa"?

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/ >>> mega LOL

Tori Amos: "God, sometimes you're a stone cold fool"

Theres a song on that last Burial album that me and my mates keep hearing as "I cant take no more in my eye". No idea wtf it actually is, mind.

From "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts":

"Rosemary combed her hair and ... took a cabbage into town."

Mott, I'll always love ya for that one.

Carrot glide, carrot glide, no he can't read my poker face.

"Le-e-et's groove/be sick in your shoes" - Let's Groove by Kool And The Gang

Not only did you get the lyric wrong but the band too.

Paul Young, "Every Time You Go Away":

Every time you go away
You take a piece of meat with you

Life Without Buildings - Juno: "Mad as a seal, mad as a seal"

Roger hold a pumpkin, in the cold November rain

anagram, I always used to think it was 'you take a piece of cheese with you'

Gang of Four - Anthrax

"ought to control what I do to my mind" >>Actual lyrics

Better lyric that I always heard<<<<<"Oh to control what I did to my mind."

I used to always think "how spooky. What on earth did he do to his mind that makes him wish he could go back and take the mental reigns? Was he brainwashed?"

Cars "Shake It Up" - "Dance all night with anyone/ Don't let nobody pick your bum"

Cher - "Shit, seeds, crappin' beans"

Just heard "Rich Man's Spiritual" by Gordon Lightfoot for the first time, and seriously thought the 1st verse ended "I'm gonna get me a long white rope, and get me hung". The following verses made me look up the lyrics, though.

For years I thought Morphine's "Candy" went:

"Candy says she's made arrangements / for me in her cell"

Instead of "in the sand."

Huh. Not very interesting. Carry on.

I thought that when James Murphy shouts "Joy Division!" in Losing My Edge that he was shouting "Chinavision!" and I figured it was probably a really cool band I should learn more about.

same with the band NCC (10cc)

"Break my knees so I can't move" in Destiny's child's Bug-a-boo.

more than a lover
more than a lamma
more than enough, for you
-aaliyah

I always heard INXS 'Don't Change' as:

Don't change the earth
Don't change a thing, for me

"And you can act real rude and totally removed
Like an African in Brazil"

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

Beat it, beat it, no one wants to beat it, beat it

: D

"just like a ONE-winged dove, sings a song sound like she singing"

If I only could
Make a deal with God
Get him to swap our faces

- Kate Bush

Beat it, beat it, no one wants to beat it, beat it

ya learn something every day.

"Lasagne!!!!"

http://www.prostamerika.com/soundersfc/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Uefa_Champions_League_roma.jpg

Champignon!

I just realized I've been mishearing this Thinkin Fellers lyric - "The terror, the horror" as "The turds of war"

always heard in 'rock your body', "the air is thick, it's smelling rank".

Suede-Animal Nitrate
"In the council hall, he jumped on you both"

Another "Beat It" mondegreen:

"Show 'em how fucking / strong is your fight!"

I always thought "Breed" by Nirvana woulda been better if it'd been about a girl named Giselle.

"Giselle! Giselle! Giselle! Giseeeeeeeeeeeelle!"

Love is the drug - Roxy music
"I said COKE, she said yes, dim the lights you can guess the rest"

Found out it was go not coke, personally i like my version better!

guess the rest = "damn, cant see it now!"

wait, the lyric isn't "I said Coke, she said yes?" ...that's what I thought it was, uh, until now.

When my sister and I were kids we would sing Smooth Operator as "Coast to coast we eat enchiladas, then we sail"

DOG WARTS! DOG WAAAARTS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztRdUuOgEwk

(It's actually 'downwards')

"Ooh, I'm gonna buy shoes and I'm ready for the WEEKEND!"

Dream Baby Dream

Keep them James Brown runnin, Jesus
Keep them James Brown runnin forever

Talking Heads, "Dream Operator". When he sings "three angels above the whole human race", I thought for ages he was singing "the angels above Napoleon in rags". Come to think of it, I prefer my interpretation.

Diana Ross, I'm Still Waiting:

Then someone finally came
He told me that he loved me
I put him off at last
He could see I had no ass

Nirvana - "Scoff"
Gimme back my autoharp!
Gimme back my autoharp!

Nirvana - "Aneurysm"
Beat me, Adam Ant!
Beat me, Adam Ant!

This must have been mentioned before but, LCD Soundsystem:

"Get your payments from the nation
for your trouser tribulations"

... or does this belong here

We always thought Scoff was saying "Albert Hall"

My mate used to think Mozza was singing "Last of the Famous International Gayboys"

In smells like teen spirit, I could have swore Kurt Cobain sung "I'm a Beatle" in th chorus after he sings "a mosquito"...but turns out he was singing "my libido"...That guy always sung like he had a shotgun in his mouth...

lol good one

Chinese like a melody in my head
(garbled)
Na, na, na, na everyday
Like my eyeball's stuck on replay replay

They say that girl ya know she act too tough tough tough
Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light
They say that girl you know she act so rough rough rough
Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light
And I say doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy, meow meow meow
till' you see all my dreams
Not everything in this magical world is quite what it seems

an actual mishear from an idiot on mIRC:

"I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are justin' my teddy"

when I was a kid I used to think "the Monserrat mystique" was "your mom's a rotten steak"

in "Kokomo"

I thought it was something like, "Monterrey Jack steak".

There's a Nation of Ulysses song where they say "Cough syrup! What are you coughin' up? Cough syrup!"

For some reason I thought they said, in an intentionally bad Japanese accent, "Godzirra! What are you talkin' about? Godzirra!" - as if people were warning someone that Godzilla was right behind him, and he didn't understand.

there was this chick we used to chat with on IRC that used to love the song "I Got a Man" by Positive K, but she would insist the lyrics were:

"I got a man
WHAT'S YOUR MAN GOT TO DO WITH ME?
I got a man
I'M NOT TRYIN TO HEAD OUT SEA"

She insisted "head out sea" was a metaphor. Then again, this was the same girl who once claimed World War 1 was fought between the North and the South over slaves.

All these years I've heard a line from B&S's "Shoot the Sexual Athlete" as ".. and he dressed like Sharon Olds." SHOCKED AND DISAPPOINTED to find out that he dresses like Sherlock Holmes.

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

Show me a penis

Just when I thought that love could never be a part of me/that's when you came along/and showed me a penis

(Juvenile, I know)

"No more will my green seagull turn a deeper blue"

(paint it black)

To expand on "Africa" confusion...

"There's nothing that a hundred men on mars could ever do
I guess the rain's down in Africa..."

"I just hope my pinball's not too big"

Brother and I used to think Immigrant Song went:

"Always sleeping, and crushing on / I wanna go where there's a wrestling show!"

Hey little thing lemon lime sh' can-o-corn/ Uh mama I'm sure the ha nah nah disciplaaan!

Bryan Adams' abomination came on the other day and I realized that all these years I thought the lyrics were "I'd die for you / I'd lie for you / I'd walk a mile for you..."

Like, a WHOLE mile. ON FOOT.

always hear: "and he can't be a man cos he doesn't smoke / ten cigarettes a week". worked as i now smoke 10 cigarettes each week, no less.

a friend slept over last night so made breakfast this morning, listening to a bunch of 60s northern soul tracks and patti & the emblems 'mixed up shook up girl' (the great live version from that multi-cd compilation) came on. my friend was shocked and wondered who the 'big fat sugar girl' was

xp: I have always thought that too.

elvis, burning love: "i missed my turn to smoke, but i feel fine"
beach boys: "round round get a round, i'll get a round... i'll get a round in, i'll give you special brew"

for context, xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hyO8L4P-oo

"Ooh, I'm gonna buy shoes then I'm ready for the WEEKEND!!"

and i was standing on the side of the road
rain falling on my shoes
heading out for the east coast
lord knows i've paid some dudes gettin' through
tangled up in blue

roxy music - stranded

actual lyrics: "from courtly love to costly game"

i always hear: "from courtNEY love to costly game"

"Make me a deal, and make it quick
Offside is zeal, I kick it.
Doowabeda DEE a ZurrrrrWIT!
I really hope we don't blow it..."

but which chevrolet i own
i drive back to the place you are
peter gabriel, "in your eyes"

David Bowie, "Wild is the Wind": "Don't you know, your life- it's hell"

http://i.imgur.com/x65Fs.jpg
basically what the clean version of the song results in

The Jungle Brother's "Black Is Black" I heard "Martin Luther had to shout" as "Martin Buber had to shout." For a brief moment I was impressed that the Jungle brothers were throwing out Buber references before I pieced things together.

When I was a kid I always heard that Dire Straits song as 'money for nothing and your chips for free'. I mean, who's gonna turn down free chips? I'll take mine with salt and loads of vinegar, thanks.

I always heard INXS 'Don't Change' as:

Don't change the earth
Don't change a thing, for me

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 27 September 2009 10:50 (1 year ago)

...you mean it isnt that? *checks*

fuuuuuck.

I also thought "The one thing"'s chorus went "you want my thing". Blargh. Mumbles Hutchence.

"Oh, give me the Beach Boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock n roll and drift away ..."

Is the band name Half Man Half Biscuit derived from the Birthday Party song She's Hit in which A Monster Half Man Half-beast climbs the stairs?
Think that's the right correct words but Cave sounds odd at that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0CiQlwtyVk&feature=related

Wo-Woh it's a Rock and Roll Dalmatian....

"I'm not talking 'bout a live-in"
"I'm not talking 'bout milennia"

(England Dan and John Ford Coley - "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight")

There's a warlock blowin the stars around...

Isn't she lovely
Isn't she wonderful
Isn't she precious
Less than one minute old
I never thought through love we'd be
Making one as lovely as she
But isn't she lovely, yes or no

misheard lyric: "bad day at the cattery, they're making a mess of me"
actual lyric: "bad day at the cannery, they're making a mess of me"

from Meet Me In The Dollar Bin by Les Savy Fav.

I don't want my pizza burnin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXq3r1Kq0Q

Creepy.

Pixies lyrics I have misheard:

"losing my penis to a horrid disease"
I refused to believe that he was saying "whore with disease"

"I am moved -- SHIT! and I lose ya!" ("I am un chien andalusia")

max b

"spending all my money on jewellery and vehicles"

as

"spending all my money on jewellery and bagels"

An alternative take on Neil Young's classic 'Broken Arrow'...

"Did you see them in the river?
They were there to wave to you.
Could you tell that the empty quiver? Groundskin.
In the inn on the banks that were crowded and narrow
Held a broken arrow?"

Now I know that italicised part makes absolutely no sense and I know now that its actually "empty-quiverred brown-skinned Indian", but for years that's how I heard it (no lyric sheets in those Buffalo Springfield albums!).

I'M THE ILLEST MUTHAFUCKA FROM HERE TO GARDENIA

Until last week, I though this line was "I'm the illest muthafucka since Vincent Gardenia", thus continuing the Beastie Boys tradition of surpassing the hip hop prowess of Italian-American character actors, cf. Abe Vigoda.

"Enter Sandman"

Say your prayers!
It's a won-
-derful gift my son,
To include everyone.

Fork display

http://www.kissthisguy.com/538misheard.htm

war of the masses / outcome disastrous / many of the victim's families shaved their asses

my friend missy posting abt her daughter on facebook: A-- asked to hear "Missy in the sky with dominoes."

<3

tinie tempeh - pass out

"i've never been to scunthorpe"

wait a minute he DOES say that

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAFBjmdNPKo&feature=related

^ both engrained in my brain

"spit on the streets/don't hesitate"

everyone's misheard "how soon is now," of course ... i originally thought that the opening lyric was "i am the sun and the air/of a shiner that is criminally vulgar." that is, that someone had punched Morrissey and gave him a black eye (or maybe that's me projecting?) what the "sun and air" had to do with getting a black eye, though, was an unsolved teenage mystery.
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 December 2002 20:23 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How Soon Is Ow?

(timing!)

I got the money and the juice
Twin sisters in my bed
Their father had Andy
So i shot him in the head

i assumed it was some kind of Andy Griffith reference.

Speaking of the Smiths, I always heard it as "Haunted bicycle"

I'm not talking bout my linen
and I don't wanna change your mind
but there's a warm wind blowin the stars around
and I'd really love to see you tonight

Was pretty sad to find out that on Money Trees off Good Kid Maad City, "Dolla Mike" had not just fucked my main bitch.

When I was little and I would listen to "All I Really Want" I thought Alanis was singing "The conflicts, the craziness, and the sound of credenzas falling all around"

That's actually how I learned what a credenza was

Humpty Dance

"I'm sick with this, straight gangsta mack"

as

"I'm sick with this, straight 'gainst the max"

and in fact, used to describe things as "straight 'gainst the max" as a term of derision.

u should bring it back

creepin on the comeup:

"Stocking cat food, plotting jack moves"

still not sure the actual lyric, but i like the image of bizzy working in a pet store...

.

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

Dusky's "Nobody Else" is one of my favorite tracks of the year, slightly mitigated when my daughter asked if they're singing, "No body....no body hair."

eating dick with janus, jeanie, and george harrison

hey-e-ey bud or amstel light?

("alive," PJ)

When I was a kid I always heard that Dire Straits song as 'money for nothing and your chips for free'. I mean, who's gonna turn down free chips? I'll take mine with salt and loads of vinegar, thanks.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, January 21, 2011 10:54 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when I was a kid I was convinced it was "money for nothing and your checks for free."

me too!

I'm not talk bout my linen
and I don't want to change your blinds

(I'd Really Love To See You Tonight)

True story: until two months ago, my wife thought this song was called 'Burn to Death'

—ArchCarrier in the Motown discussion thread

re: The Four Tops' "Bernadette"

when i was a kid i thought ac/dc's "dirty deeds" took place "in a dunder jeep."

<3

i just googled "dunder jeep" and apparently this is a common misconception.

how else does crocodile dundee offroad through the outback?

Until 2001, I thought it was "dirty deeds and the dunder cheek," which didn't make sense, but it I figured it was some kind of Australian slang, like, "Crikey, you really bollocksed up that bloomin' onion, you dunder cheek."

Used to mishear "rockin in Atlanta at Tattletails" as "rockin in Atlanta at the tidal table" in Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls. Somewhere along the line I glanced at a map and discovered that Atlanta was not a seaside community.

Is there not a specific misheard rap lyrics thread? anyway in the intro of Shook Ones part II it sounds like Mob Deep gives a shot out "to all my real n_gg_s who aint got no fillings" and i'm now fantasizing about a remake of this song which is all about dental health.

Enter Sandman: 'Eggs to-night / It's your di-eet!'

In Aladdin Sane I misheard "Paris or maybe hell" as "Paris or maybe Hull" for ages, which is much better IMO.

Woah, just looked this thread up to post some misheard Bowie!

African Night Flight:

One of these days/One of these days/Gotta get a boyfriend one of these days

In Aladdin Sane I misheard "Paris or maybe hell" as "Paris or maybe Hull" for ages, which is much better IMO.

Well Hull is where the Spiders from Mars were all from, so are you sure he isn't singing that?

When I was a kid, I heard the first line of Peace Sells as:

What do you mean I don't believe in God / Tu-tu Mary Lee?

I wouldn't say I was convinced it was correct, but I have been hearing "infinity" as "in Tennessee" in Infinity Ink's "Infinity" (the artist and title of which I just discovered).

real lyric: "The greater is the beauty"

misheard lyric: "february is the s.a.t.'s."

-- stereolab, Pack Yr Romantic Mind

For years, I thought Billy Joel was singing "rock and roll's a color war and I can't take it anymore." I was so disappointed to learn that he was really singing, "rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore."

Overheard my gf singing to herself this evening:

"Why do boats suddenly appear/Every time you are near?"

"He screams in the night / Ice cream in the day"
-Laura Marling "Night After Night"

Hold on to the night
Hold on to the mammaries

Richard Marx, Hold on to the Night

it really does sound like he's saying mammaries

my mom always said the same thing!

First line from The Shy Retirer:

"Another blue-haired desk girl"

I misheard (and probably still do) tons of lines from Springsteen's thickly-accented & slapback-heavy "Johnny 99" vocal, but the one that made me pause & wonder abt my own subconscious was "Down in the part of town where when you hit her at night, you don't stop"

(for "... when you hit a red light, you don't stop"—which suggests pretty much the same thing, albeit in a much less chilling manner)

almost posted that to this thread instead

The opening line of the second verse of YG's Left Right is obviously 'I'm a pirate / she's a tourist' and... I think I get it?

From "Lisztomania":

Ending this love for gentlemen only
You can have a cannoli
Now that you're lonely
Google it google it google it google it google it google it google it

from green earrings by steely dan

"the rings of randy's eyes"

Lol

I always hear "I'm nodding my head like yeah" from "Party in the U.S.A." as "I'm not in my head like yeah, which is really fitting for a song about escaping a panic attack.

"the rings of randy's eyes" is so believable tho, good line for "everyone's gone to the movies"

because my hatred of the band Train cannot be confined to one thread: I recently heard their song "If It's Love" for the first time, and, at a certain point in the song, I was *sure* I must have badly misheard the word 'kingdom'... but nope! it turns out the dude really was singing:

Can't be a queen bee
Without a bee-throne

(sorry if that was unclear--I think we need a catchy neologism to refer to "no way is the actual lyric that terrible" double-reverse mishearing, especially if the band Train is going to continue making hit songs for another decade)

Elvis - Burning Love : 'I missed my turn to smoke / but I feel fine'

Not misheard but I've been going round singing 'You to me are everything / A Swedish song that I can't sing / Oh baby'

When I was a kid, I heard the first line of Peace Sells as:

What do you mean I don't believe in God / Tu-tu Mary Lee?

― how's life, Friday, November 1, 2013 11:50 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just listening to this again and also:

What do you mean I don't support your sister?/I go to court when I have to.

tell them n*ggas free miccio

My kids always sing "it's just like cheese in another world" to the Libertines' Up the Bracket

Surprised it hasn't been posted already:
"'scuse me while I kiss this guy" from "'scuse me while I kiss the sky"

Oh, I always thought that was "bluestreak, robots in disguise".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3u22OYqFGo

"black widdle baby!!!"

i am so sorry

Billy Joel - Downeaster Alexa:

"I've got bills to pay and children who need booze"

Fuse ODG - T.I.N.A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_xBp2l3Y8

"she hurt my head, obama!!"

But if you go carrying pictures of Geminowwwww
You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow

Like he was talking to all the 1960s pickup artists who were deploying "what's your sign, baby" astrological techniques.

Always thought that was a particularly forced rhyme.

For so long I always heard that one Kooks song (which Google tells me is called 'Naive' and not 'Not Fond Of Asking' as: "I know, she knows / I'm not from the Ruskin". So naturally I assumed it's about a guy gatecrashing a students-only night in Anglia.

For so long I always heard that one Kooks song

Sorry to hear this traumatic news, hope you made it through ok.

there's this song on the new New Pornographers album ("Fantasy Fools") where they say "muscle memory, dreaming fever" and I can only hear "muscle memory dream divas"

Mmmm just now I realized that Bon Iver was not actually holding any dickheads:

Real lyrics:
"I'll be holding all the tickets and you'll be owning all the fines"

http://i.imgur.com/fcl9LLC.jpg

hahahahahaha dying

I had "Hit Em Wit Da Hee" on in the background and thought Lil' Kim just said "Me and my girl Missy eating pussy up in Bennigan's"

i got so excited

when I first heard 'Big Pimpin' as a 12-year-old in 2000, I thought maybe Jay-Z was saying 'big campin' (my family was big into camping at the time). in retrospect, I'm pretty sure I invented Kidz Bop.

I always heard the line in "Good Year for the Roses" that goes:

After three full years of marriage
It's the first time that you haven't made the bed

as "made the grade".

Tourettes! Tourettes! Did I build this shit, tourettes?

At the beginning of REM's "Pilgrimage," I've always heard "Take a turn / take a fortune" as "Take a turn / take up bocce." I still think that makes more sense.

We're going to party/karate/siesta/forever, come on and sing-a-long

Guns 'N Roses - It's so Easy
'See me hit you, new born chi-i-ild'
See me hit you, you fall down

xxp "take up bocce" is how I always sing it to myself too. Don't think I ever actually knew what the real lyrics were.

i hear 'take a prawn tree' which makes no sense

Take a turn / take a fortune

Until this very minute I thought he was saying Take up watching.

MJ: "Keep on // to the Post Office // Don't stop 'til you get enough" (Jon Wurster)

Sly & the Family Stone - "Hot buttered summertime"

You're out of touch
I'm out of time
Blood runs out of my head when you're not around

I heard Cheerleader on radio once some months ago, liked it, tried to find, but I thought it was 'Chariot' so couldn't find it. Also, that lyric didn't really make much sense.

Japanese singles/albums would often have lyric sheets, transcribed phonetically:

The Jam, David Watts : "I am a dull and simple lad, Kind of not want to rush at me"

Madness, Driving in my car: "It says "Morris" on the door, the cheapie O.O.D.T.4"

"Make you feel like the queen of Rome, make him love you til you can't come down", until abt 30 seconds ago when my bf sang it to me the right way

<3

"Dreams": when the rainbow shaves you clean you'll know
love that one

Up until I learned who he was, I misheard pretty much every reference to Al B. Sure as "Alvie Shore", who (given associations with Annie Hall) I always assumed was a stereotypical Jewish nebbish that rappers would namecheck for some reason.

omg "Blood runs out of my head when you're not around"

Actually in general this thread has a lot of gems - I can't really imagine anyone mishearing it as "two chickens to paralyze" but that's totally how I'm singing it from now on.

Keep thinking about that place Statison Boulaye which must be near The Monkee's Pleasant Valley.
Certainly what I heard it as in my early teens.
Think it's clearer on the cd though not heard in a while.

Adolescent resident
Wastin' another night on Planet Maury 'vich
Want it dead
Want it dead
WANT IT DEAD!
Don't wanna be your monkey wrench
Want warranties on accidents

MAHHHHHHH-CHINE, GIVE ME MAHHHHHHH-CHINE
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=muse+mercy

sry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj8Xpdx60Ws

That weren't no D.J. that was hazy cosmic Jedi

fwiw I think that Muse chorus sounds a lot like Boston, which is not exactly a good thing for me, but an unusual reference point in 2015/6

slap that baby make him pee

Always thought "Changes" was "Turn and face the strain." Some kind of boating lingo.

I now defy you to ever hear anything other than "hot potatoes" sung over the chorus of 'Rock Me Amadeus'.

i will raise you this: just today in a meeting we were talking about a coworker named w@ta@nab3 and that is the same tune that leapt to mind

oops i thought this was the "i can't stop singing the song this way now" thread
nm!

Dead Ringer For Love

"Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew"

i don't know what i thought these lyrics were for the last 35 or so years, but they weren't this. he really underpronounces the b in brew so i've heard it as 'rock and roll and roo', whatever that means.

'Round round get a round
I'll get a round
Get a round round round
I'll get a round
I haven't got no bread
I'll get you Special Brew

Elton John - Can't Stay Alone Tonight

what I heard (while shopping): 'your vagina in my rearview'
what Bernie Taupin actually wrote: 'you're the diner in my rearview'

To this day, I still hear Justine singing about Sto-vo-kor on "Connection" and have no clue what the real lyric is supposed to be.

whereabouts?

At 0:44, in the first verse.

You can't really blame her because this particular misheard lyric is in Spanish, but my wife thought at the end of Spanish Bombs by The Clash, they keep repeating "Oh my car is on."

In John Cale's Buffalo Ballet, whose third verse goes:

Gold came and went, quickly spent
And the people broke down, and often drowned
In the wealth and pain of old Abilene

I always hear:

And the people broke down, and often dreamt/wept

I get how 'drowned' makes an AABB pattern, but I think it fits better as AABA. He even changes the articulation in many of the live versions to make it that way.

speaking of AABBBA, "Dancing Queen." the chorus will always be "YOU CAN DANCE!!!!!! YOU CAN DIE!!!!! HAVING THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!!!!"

I had a friend in high school who came to me ( i having been, and still am, the goto guy for such matters)with this question pertaining to Alice Coopers No More Mr. Nice Guy. Upon hearing the line, "I went to church incognito" he quite earnestly enquired "Hey Joel, where's Cognito"? I should've said Southern California! Instead I politely corrected him. Not a lyric but another time, at a party where we were all listening to Ozzy's live lp Speak of the Devil, in the intro to The Wizard, the Ozzman says " this reminds me of the old Fillmore East. Anyone remember old Fillmore East "? At which point Ronnie turned to me and said, " Hey Joel, who's Phil Maurice? I don't recall my response but I'm pretty sure I laughed and gently corrected him. That guy could be a real bonehead at times. Lol!

And I must admit, as Flappy Bird says, I've always heard the chorus of Dancing Queen that way too. I was quite disappointed to discover it was "you can jive" at the age of..oh..45 maybe. I still prefer "die" though. Overgrown arrested adolescent to the end, I suppose.

Just heard Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative" and remembered when I was a kid I used to think he sang:

"Don't get me wrong / I'm really not sick / Beetlejuice is not my thing"

I assume it's because the film and the song were hot around the same time and my 8-year-old self probably thought he wasn't feelin' it.

I wasn't so familiar with the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter until recently, but when I heard it I had to check the lyrics for the chorus to check ("War, children") - as I thought it was unlikely that it went "Booooob Dylaaaan!"
...which is what I kept hearing.

I used to think that the Spice Girls' Wannabe, instead of 'get with my friends' went:
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get rid of my friends."

that Gimme Shelter variant is amazing.

"Shane Wright like a diamond"

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/resources/images/5772602.jpg

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14946511._Prolific_offender__arrested_after_multiple_burglaries/

On Today by Smashing Pumpkins, I still maintain that Corgan sings "My willy stings" at one point.

Last week Guy Garvey introduced this with "Here's a song about Les Dennis"

For nearly 30 years I've misheard the greatest moment in the greatest Warren Zevon song, The French Inhaler.

It's I-I-I thought you'd be a star. Not I-I-I passion fiesta.

Another illusion shattered.

I always heard INXS 'Don't Change' as:

Don't change the earth
Don't change a thing, for me

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 27 September 2009 10:50 (1 year ago)

...you mean it isnt that? *checks*

fuuuuuck.

― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Friday, January 21, 2011 8:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit y'all just blew my mind

This one is embarrassing: I had gone my entire life thinking "Satisfaction" went "I can't get no girly action."

Happened to be listening to a cover recently and realized that it must have been "no girl reaction" all along, which makes much more sense and is a better lyric.

I probably first got to know those lyrics through Weird Al's "Hot Rocks Polka," where it really sounds like "girly action," and that's how I heard it for years and years.

Listening to it now, I'm certain Al is actually singing "girly action." So, you're in good company!

I always thought it was “girly action” too, til about 10 yrs ago.

One I was reminded of recently was my longstanding misconception of the last verse of “The Green, Green Grass of Home”:

There’s a garden, there’s a saddled padre

I've always thought it was "girly action". I reckon Bono does too.

Along Came Jones by the Coasters. As a kid, I always heard 'along came long, lean, lankey Jones' as 'along came lonely, naked Jones'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFyr49TwuiI

Was disappointed to realize that the bridge from Nothing But Flowers by Talking Heads was not

The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for angry culture
I wish that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong

I feel it works just as well in context.

A couple years ago my in-laws bought my daughter K (then 4 years old) a little stuffed dog that would sort of bop its head and sing "Thank You For Being A Friend" (aka the Golden Girls' theme). I guess as a result of this juxtaposition, K used to sing "Your heart is true, you're a pal and a comfy dog."

that's great

I'm watching this gator glide by on the lake
Ice frozen six feet deep just how long does it take

first time i heard this i thought Neil was talkin' about alligators slowly sliding across a frozen lake

Black Grape, Kelly's Heroes.

I originally heard it as: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like Suggs.", wondering whatever poor Graham McPherson did wrong & imagining Superman singing Baggy Trousers.

Then, for ages, I thought the correct lyrics were: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs." - which I thought was fairly intruiging & worked alright.

Only now I found out that the real thing apparently is: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like surfs."

For a considerable time, I thought The Tubes' "Don't Touch Me There" contained the phrase "I love the way you're built, Fritz".
On reflection I reckon it's probably "I love the way your belt fits". Still hear it wrong, though.

Another one: Peter Gabriel, Games Without Frontiers. That bit where you hear the French version of the title: "Jeux sans frontieres", that initially sounded to me like: "She's so funky, yeah!". (I did look up the lyrics then right away as I suspected I might have been off.)

"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."

I believe this to be the actual lyric...

Actually, it was supposed to be "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men do cocaine." which at least rhymes with the next line "Who's got the biggest, Who's got the biggest, Who's got the biggest brain...."

"She's so funky, yeah!"

I had it as "She's So Popular".

Anyway, Kate Bush sings that bit, I always had it "hey, that Peter Gabriel has a range!"

"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."
I believe this to be the actual lyric...

Really thought it was too, I found that 'surfs' line earlier through a Google search for the lyrics. It's claimed to be that on the majority of lyrics sources, but now I'm thinking that those pages are all wrong.
(In any case, it's nothing to do with Madness' frontman either...)

I speak French and I had always heard "she's so popular" instead of "jeux sans frontières". Even now, having known it's "jeux sans frontières" for years, it still sounds a lot closer to "she's so popular" to me.

"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."

I believe this to be the actual lyric...

I thought it was this too, all this time. But you listen to the song again and you hear the "f"s, mostly.

"Serfs" not "surfs" though.

They're both doing "f"s, I think, at 1:10 here.

But then, at 1:18, one of them definitely does a "b".

I think it's both.

Actually it's Smurfs.

I always thought it was "most of these men seem like sods". As if I even know what a "sod" is!

Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog:

Beast bark back bark back

According to all the lyrics sites it's 'peace brought back brought back'

We All Came Up To Montra
From The Waves Beneath The Shore Line
To Make Wickets With Them All
We Didn't Have Much Time
Frank Sipper And The Morgans
Will Have The First Real Surround
Some Stupid Little Flare Do
Burn The Place To The Ground
They Burned Down The Diamond House
It Died With An Awful Sound
Town Was Running I And Out
It Was Calling Kids Out To Found
When It Was All Over
Had To Find Another Place
Wish Time Was Running
Seeing We Would Lose The Race
Come On Baby

when i was a kid i used to think santana’s “evil ways” went like this:

“when i come home, baby,
my house is dark and my butts are cold”

as opposed to “pots” (the “woman you don’t cook for me” thing would’ve gone over my head anyway)

As a kid i heard the line in Livin On A Prayer as
“Take my hand, we’ll make it elsewhere”

When that song came out, there was a kid in my class who thought it was Livin' on a Prairie, like Laura Ingalls Wilder.

that's great!

I like my version better, but in the song Sugar n' Spikes, Captain Beefheart says Whoopin' hope, not Poopin' hope.

yesterday i learned that the dutch word for "mondegreen" is "mama appelsap", after a michael jackson song (presumably the soul makossa thing)

Correct, it's because a lot of people thought they heard/wanted to hear 'mama appelsap' in 'Wanna Be Startin' Something'. 'Mama appelsap' means 'mama apple juice'.

mamasay mamasa mamakusa puts me in mind of the epic Rusted Root neologism thread

In "Man In The Mirror", the line "a summer disregard, a broken bottle top" I always sing in my head as "a Baby Bottle Pop"

"So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
You know the one, goddammit everything's going to be alright."

Runnin With the Devil:

I found the simple life ain't so simple
When I jumped out, on that road
I got no love, no love in Korea ...

Party Rock Anthem, I always heard them declare "No Lennon or Zeppelin."

Saint Etienne, Girl VII: "Blazer y-fronts blazer y-fronts"

when I was first getting into Metallica, due to James's weird elocution, I kept thinking he was singing "tied to machines that make me pee", and kept wondering what the main character had left to pee out of

Though I know the real lyrics, my whole life my brain has persisted in hearing Ex Lion Tamer's chorus as going "be good to your geniuses!"

Might be an old chestnut, but The Police's Walking on the Moon: "Tomorrow's another day, Tuesday"

In "Tempted," I always end up singing "tempted by the fruit of your mother."

I'm telling you, babe
That I don't think it's true, babe
Or even if it is, keep kissing mine

https://i.imgur.com/E3gQ0km.png

Whenever I listen to the Red Crayola song Former Reflections Enduring Doubt, I hear the opening words as: "Martha Plimpton..."

(I like that so much, I don't even wanna know what Mayo's really singing!)

We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

lol u gotta be shitting me

That's gonna bug me...

Back later

Got it.

Carry on...

Wayward son

There'll be peas when you are done

I was sure "Stayin' Alive" said "The New York Times don't make no sense"

(even before my recognition of their warmongering corporate liberalism)

Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Cold Shot." Was stunned to find out he's not singing "at nights I go shopping"

(real lyric = "and that's a cold shot, baby")

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arse

that sort of reminds me:

Kylie - Made of Glass
"where dogging is rarely that necessary"

I always thought the Mr Belvedere theme began:

Streets of China
Never met him before

And not

Streaks on the china
Never mattered before

Silver Jews - Ablemarle Station

Bad roads, bad snow, bad bridges
Ted Turner wants Batman religious

(could turn a once bad man religious)

'Breathe' - Shaggy ft. Blu Cantrell

I've always always always heard the line as 'So what's that supposed to be, a bald lady?'

idk if this fits here but I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years and I still cannot understand why Billy weights it like "Carob Bean Queen"

It is ca-RIB-be-yan right? Not care-ob-BEEN? *does a google* what the fuck he recorded three versions of this song? European Queen? African Queen?

I would say something like CA-ro-BE-yan?

not much different to how he sings it I guess? I have heard people pronounce it Cuh-RIB-ian but that sounds non-standard

ah this is a UK vs American thing https://www.google.com/search?q=caribbean+pronounce

Ocean is English/Trinidadian

Also that's how it's pronounced in the Caribbean, isn't it?

How is it pronounced in Pirates of the Caribbean?

I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years

y tho

My boyfriend has two playlists, a daytime list and a nighttime list, Ocean is on both

Both pronunciations suggest four syllables, whether you're weighting on the rib or the care/bee. European is four syllables; does Ocean sing "Europe Peen" when he adjusts the origin story of his queen?

I'm gonna write a song called "Euripidean Queen"

He sings it with four syllables though? Admittedly I don't hear it every day.

do you say you-ROW pee-an?

I hear it every day too because work and it's definitely 4 syllables

also here's a random fact I found out the other day: Billy Ocean sings backup vocals on Scott Walker's Track Three on Climate of Hunter

Nope I say YER-rope-EE-an, the opposite of fa-LOPE-ee-an.

It is four syllables? OK I'll take it. I guess it's more my own aesthetic barometer swinging more toward the melodious possibility of a "ca-RIB-be-yan QUEEN" over "CARE-ob-BEE-yan QUEEN". Having the phoneme "bean"/"BEE-yan" weighted heavily next to an also-weighted-heavily "queen" is unappealing to my ears? Bean Queen. Lots of 'ee' sounds.

Anyway "now our hearts they beat as one / no more love on the run" is a fabulous lyric, but I always like it when a lyricist names an object and then follows it with a pronoun, "our hearts, they..." "my father, he..." "my lover, she..." etc.

*a subject, rather, I guess

I keep hearing mentions to Felix Leiter in the "I’d be a fearless leader/I'd be an alpha type" lines in Swift's "The Man". I really liked the clever nod to Ian Fleming and addressing her own americanity.

That's Sean Paul, not Shaggy

Lol

xp - oh yeah, course it is.

Just remembered that when I first heard 'Motorcycle Emptiness' as a teenager at a local indie night, I heard 'Under neon loneliness' as something like 'La la-la la lovely boots' and now that's what it is

Bob Dylan - Are You Ready?

Are you ready for the judgment?
Are you ready for that Taylor Swift song?

For a moment I thought he was making a joke, but the recording is from 80

Woah-oh, in a coupla days, they come and take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when they're outta Capri-Sun, they get me a release
We was all on the cover of Newsweek

I feed you dignity to stand with pride
Realize that all in all you stand tall
Go ahead, Mr. Window

From my mom:
"I always thought it was 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza.' "

look, mommy
there's an airplane up in the sky

oo - oo - oo - oo - oo
oo - oo - oo - oo - oo

did did did did you see the frightened ones?
did did did did you hear the falling bombs?

Not sure ifI mentioned this but my French grandmother used to think the middle-eight in Paul McCartney's 'Just Another Day' was:

'Sau-sage / Sau-sage / Sometimes she feels sau-sage'

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas:

Heard:
Has bad depression got a hold on me/Or is this the way love's supposed to be?

Actual:
Has high blood pressure got a hold on me/Or is this the way love's supposed to be?

Put that magic jump on me/Slap that baby, make him pee!

Today I learned it's "Have you got it? Do you get it? If so, how often?" not "Have you got it together, if so how often?".

Ooh, now I learned that today.

In Gorillaz 19-2000 they sing

"There's a monkey in the jungle
Watching a vapor trail"

turns out my wife has thought the monkey was "watching a baby drown" all these years

Thursday, Understanding in a Car Crash

Heard:
'Tis time 'tis time 'tis time 'tis time to go

Actual:
It starts and stops and starts and stops again

hard to hear the words clearly when the singer is beating you over the head for 5 minutes

Korea Korea Ko-Reverend Al Green

hahaha up til this moment looking it up, i thought it was "reoccuring like the reverend al green"

Kendrick Lamar, Money Trees

Heard: Everybody gon' respect the shoe/But the one in front of the gun lives forever

Actual: Everybody gon' respect the shooter/But the one in front of the gun lives forever

Black Sabbath

Heard: Can you help me? Thought you were my friend.
Actual: Can you help me occupy my brain?

I figured out the right lyrics decades ago, but was reminded of it today

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Heard: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L. that costs your flaming allowance!
Actual: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L.A.(Cost Of Living Allowance)!

not sure why that's tickling me so much, but bravo

Maybe you only heard it on the radio but the lyrics came with the album so you could fully enjoy their hilarious po-faced politicisms. (I kid, slightly, but that one is a highlight.)

I read a Christgau review of an early Emmy Lou Harris album a few months ago and then absolutely misheard it this morning as "I would rub my asshole / in the bosom of Abraham"

Listening to New Order for the first time in years after reading Hooky's book and remembered this one:

"Oh Allah is like the flowers..."