Misheard lyrics

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"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."

that Gimme Shelter variant is amazing.

"Shane Wright like a diamond"

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/resources/images/5772602.jpg

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14946511._Prolific_offender__arrested_after_multiple_burglaries/

On Today by Smashing Pumpkins, I still maintain that Corgan sings "My willy stings" at one point.

Last week Guy Garvey introduced this with "Here's a song about Les Dennis"

For nearly 30 years I've misheard the greatest moment in the greatest Warren Zevon song, The French Inhaler.

It's I-I-I thought you'd be a star. Not I-I-I passion fiesta.

Another illusion shattered.

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.

― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Friday, January 21, 2011 8:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit y'all just blew my mind

This one is embarrassing: I had gone my entire life thinking "Satisfaction" went "I can't get no girly action."

Happened to be listening to a cover recently and realized that it must have been "no girl reaction" all along, which makes much more sense and is a better lyric.

I probably first got to know those lyrics through Weird Al's "Hot Rocks Polka," where it really sounds like "girly action," and that's how I heard it for years and years.

Listening to it now, I'm certain Al is actually singing "girly action." So, you're in good company!

I always thought it was “girly action” too, til about 10 yrs ago.

One I was reminded of recently was my longstanding misconception of the last verse of “The Green, Green Grass of Home”:

There’s a garden, there’s a saddled padre

I've always thought it was "girly action". I reckon Bono does too.

Along Came Jones by the Coasters. As a kid, I always heard 'along came long, lean, lankey Jones' as 'along came lonely, naked Jones'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFyr49TwuiI

Was disappointed to realize that the bridge from Nothing But Flowers by Talking Heads was not

The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for angry culture
I wish that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong

I feel it works just as well in context.

A couple years ago my in-laws bought my daughter K (then 4 years old) a little stuffed dog that would sort of bop its head and sing "Thank You For Being A Friend" (aka the Golden Girls' theme). I guess as a result of this juxtaposition, K used to sing "Your heart is true, you're a pal and a comfy dog."

that's great

I'm watching this gator glide by on the lake
Ice frozen six feet deep just how long does it take

first time i heard this i thought Neil was talkin' about alligators slowly sliding across a frozen lake

Black Grape, Kelly's Heroes.

I originally heard it as: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like Suggs.", wondering whatever poor Graham McPherson did wrong & imagining Superman singing Baggy Trousers.

Then, for ages, I thought the correct lyrics were: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs." - which I thought was fairly intruiging & worked alright.

Only now I found out that the real thing apparently is: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like surfs."

For a considerable time, I thought The Tubes' "Don't Touch Me There" contained the phrase "I love the way you're built, Fritz".
On reflection I reckon it's probably "I love the way your belt fits". Still hear it wrong, though.

Another one: Peter Gabriel, Games Without Frontiers. That bit where you hear the French version of the title: "Jeux sans frontieres", that initially sounded to me like: "She's so funky, yeah!". (I did look up the lyrics then right away as I suspected I might have been off.)

"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."

I believe this to be the actual lyric...

Actually, it was supposed to be "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men do cocaine." which at least rhymes with the next line "Who's got the biggest, Who's got the biggest, Who's got the biggest brain...."

"She's so funky, yeah!"

I had it as "She's So Popular".

Anyway, Kate Bush sings that bit, I always had it "hey, that Peter Gabriel has a range!"