Misheard lyrics

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.