Misheard lyrics

I always thought the line in The Pet Shop Boys "Being Boring"--"We dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'"--was "We dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends". I was wrong, but I still think mine is better.
― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I also thought it was "we dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends" for the last however many decades I've been listening to this song for, and it was always one of my favourite PSB lyrics, but their official website says "dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'", so I guess that must be what Neil is actually singing

I was part of a hip hop channel on mIRC (DALnet) once and the 'summary' for the room that loaded up when you entered was this quote from a member of the channel from like a year or two earlier, where they had thought the lyric to The Real Slim Shady was

I'm Slim Shady
Yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys
are justin my teddy

and were still being clowned for it years later

Justin, my teddy
I love it

Neil Young sings to his car:

When you're old enough to repaint
But young enough to sell

Prong - Prove You Wrong

Heard: Dependence on no one, I just trust animals
Actual: Dependence on no one, I distrust and oppose

lol yours is better!

At a music festival last year my friend heard

We'd be lucky to survive, wrapped up in a dream
as
Women are here to survive not to penetrate

Brandy, you're a fine girl
what a good wife you would be
but my life, my lover, my lady
is deceased

doo doo doo
doo doot doo
doo doot doo

As I write this, I do not know if in ETBG's "Each and Every One", Tracey Thorn is being offered:
- the same thing in a different guise
- the same thing in different guys
- or maybe something else entirely?