Misheard lyrics

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