Misheard lyrics

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