Misheard lyrics

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

fwiw I think that Muse chorus sounds a lot like Boston, which is not exactly a good thing for me, but an unusual reference point in 2015/6

slap that baby make him pee

Always thought "Changes" was "Turn and face the strain." Some kind of boating lingo.

I now defy you to ever hear anything other than "hot potatoes" sung over the chorus of 'Rock Me Amadeus'.

i will raise you this: just today in a meeting we were talking about a coworker named w@ta@nab3 and that is the same tune that leapt to mind

oops i thought this was the "i can't stop singing the song this way now" thread
nm!

Dead Ringer For Love

"Rock 'n roll and brew, rock 'n roll and brew"

i don't know what i thought these lyrics were for the last 35 or so years, but they weren't this. he really underpronounces the b in brew so i've heard it as 'rock and roll and roo', whatever that means.

'Round round get a round
I'll get a round
Get a round round round
I'll get a round
I haven't got no bread
I'll get you Special Brew

Elton John - Can't Stay Alone Tonight

what I heard (while shopping): 'your vagina in my rearview'
what Bernie Taupin actually wrote: 'you're the diner in my rearview'

To this day, I still hear Justine singing about Sto-vo-kor on "Connection" and have no clue what the real lyric is supposed to be.

whereabouts?

At 0:44, in the first verse.

You can't really blame her because this particular misheard lyric is in Spanish, but my wife thought at the end of Spanish Bombs by The Clash, they keep repeating "Oh my car is on."

In John Cale's Buffalo Ballet, whose third verse goes:

Gold came and went, quickly spent
And the people broke down, and often drowned
In the wealth and pain of old Abilene

I always hear:

And the people broke down, and often dreamt/wept

I get how 'drowned' makes an AABB pattern, but I think it fits better as AABA. He even changes the articulation in many of the live versions to make it that way.

speaking of AABBBA, "Dancing Queen." the chorus will always be "YOU CAN DANCE!!!!!! YOU CAN DIE!!!!! HAVING THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!!!!"

I had a friend in high school who came to me ( i having been, and still am, the goto guy for such matters)with this question pertaining to Alice Coopers No More Mr. Nice Guy. Upon hearing the line, "I went to church incognito" he quite earnestly enquired "Hey Joel, where's Cognito"? I should've said Southern California! Instead I politely corrected him. Not a lyric but another time, at a party where we were all listening to Ozzy's live lp Speak of the Devil, in the intro to The Wizard, the Ozzman says " this reminds me of the old Fillmore East. Anyone remember old Fillmore East "? At which point Ronnie turned to me and said, " Hey Joel, who's Phil Maurice? I don't recall my response but I'm pretty sure I laughed and gently corrected him. That guy could be a real bonehead at times. Lol!

And I must admit, as Flappy Bird says, I've always heard the chorus of Dancing Queen that way too. I was quite disappointed to discover it was "you can jive" at the age of..oh..45 maybe. I still prefer "die" though. Overgrown arrested adolescent to the end, I suppose.

Just heard Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative" and remembered when I was a kid I used to think he sang:

"Don't get me wrong / I'm really not sick / Beetlejuice is not my thing"

I assume it's because the film and the song were hot around the same time and my 8-year-old self probably thought he wasn't feelin' it.

I wasn't so familiar with the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter until recently, but when I heard it I had to check the lyrics for the chorus to check ("War, children") - as I thought it was unlikely that it went "Booooob Dylaaaan!"
...which is what I kept hearing.

I used to think that the Spice Girls' Wannabe, instead of 'get with my friends' went:
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get rid of my friends."