Misheard lyrics

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."