Topic: Misheard Lyrics (Read 17603 times)

alyosha · « **on:** 29 Jun 2006, 09:37 »

So, I finally actually listened to "Getting in Tune" by the Who, rather than singing along. I found out that where I was singing "Riding on You" all these years, The lyric is actually "Right in on you."

So, inspired by this event, I'm curious, what other lyrics have people mis-heard?

I have the "'Scuse Me WHile I Kiss This Guy" calendar, and I must say it's disappointing at best. The only really good misheard lyric I've gotten from it was "Ah, we are sailing. Yes Give Jesus Pants." for "Give Peace a Chance." I'm sure you all can do better. Amuse me, please...

Mikendher · « **Reply #1 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 09:41 »

When I first heard Inside Out, I thought the lyrics were "but the afterlife would leave me empty inside"

(it's actually "but the lack thereof would leave me empty inside")

Garcin · « **Reply #2 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 10:07 »

New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle, I kept hearing (for years) "Every time I think of you/ I feel shot right through with a bolt of poo."

Apparently that's quite common.

Willem · « **Reply #3 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 10:11 »

hmm, i understand that it is definite that the correct lyric is 'scuse me while i kiss the sky' then? because i thought that people were still debating.

anyway, there's the song 'girl' by beck where even he doesn't know what he's singing. (my summer girl, sonar girl, whatever)
only other thing i can think of is 'rape my feelings one more time' instead of 'raise my feelings one more time' of the stooges' gimme danger.

if you google for it you can find some sites about this.

Houdinimachine · « **Reply #4 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 10:20 »

My dad always thought that the lyrics "I wish they all could be California girls" were "I wish they OFFERED me California Girls."

Which, to be honest, is often a just as correct wish in the case of guys in my family.

pig nash · « **Reply #5 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 10:51 »

Quote from: Willem

hmm, i understand that it is definite that the correct lyric is 'scuse me while i kiss the sky' then? because i thought that people were still debating.

anyway, there's the song 'girl' by beck where even he doesn't know what he's singing. (my summer girl, sonar girl, whatever)
only other thing i can think of is 'rape my feelings one more time' instead of 'raise my feelings one more time' of the stooges' gimme danger.

if you google for it you can find some sites about this.

I'm fairly certain it's sun-eyed girl. Also people always think it's Shot to the heart/and you're too late. But it's really Shot to the heart/and you're to blame

NosLycn · « **Reply #6 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 10:54 »

For years, I was mishearing the lyrics of "Paint it Black" by The Rolling Stones. I thought that the line "Like a newborn baby, it just happens..." was "Like a nymphomaniac, it just happens everyday." I didn't realize this until a karaoke event which was minorly embarrassing as I sang my alternative lyrics.

Kai · « **Reply #7 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 10:55 »

Paint it Black is pretty much one of my favorite songs ever.

SRSLY

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #8 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 11:53 »

theres a Zao song (cant remember the name) and i always heard "and when the anti comes, reigns down on everyone fire from the sky" when the actual lyric is "and when the end she comes, reigns down on everyone fire from the sky" which isnt too bad, really. it even makes sense in the context of the song.

and the In Flames song "Lunar Strain" where he says "all across the galaxy life suffers defeat" but he says it really quickly and weird and i always thought it was "all across the galaxy life fucking fades" or "life starts to fade"

when i was alittle kid i thought the nirvana song "love buzz" was saying "can you build/fill my love boat?" instead of "can you feel my love buzz?"

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #9 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 12:53 »

Back when we were young,my friend Zachary thought that some Stone Sour lyrics were "Destroy,Destroy,motherfucker." when they were "Get inside,get inside,motherfucker."

I thought it was funny at the time.

est · « **Reply #10 on:** 29 Jun 2006, 21:28 »

Some personal ones from high school years:

For Jane's Addiction's "Three Days" I thought that the lyrics were "you're a dead jesus" instead of "erotic Jesus".

For Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" I thought that the chorus was "Jeremy smoked in class today" instead of "spoke".

One I've seen on the web that was completely crackpot:

In Fiona Apple's "Not about love" I read someone try to put forward something really lame about last's night's music being "sick with phat basses" instead of "last night's phrases sick with lack of basis"

This was on a fan board, too. I can't understand how the person thought that Fiona Apple would write lyrics like he suggested. I understand that it could have been a troll, but it didn't seem like one at all.

MajinTrunkz · « **Reply #11 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 00:39 »

When I was really young, I used to think the lyrics to "Yellow Submarine" were "We are all jealous of Marie." Of course, I didn't know what the title of the song was then.

Scytale · « **Reply #12 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 00:43 »

Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine

and the In Flames song "Lunar Strain" where he says "all across the galaxy life suffers defeat" but he says it really quickly and weird and i always thought it was "all across the galaxy life fucking fades" or "life starts to fade"

Huh all this time I sought he was saying "Life Stops with me" lol my copy of LS doesnt have any lyrics in the linear notes.

Another one for me is All along the watchtower, I used to think Dylan was singing "Mrs Medway drink my wine" instead of "Bussinessmen they drink my wine".

backstagebetty · « **Reply #13 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 01:49 »

When the album Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morrisette came out, I was about 14 years old. In the song You Oughtta Know, I though she said "It's not fair to remind me of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me." I figured the guy in question had given her some sort of cross-eyed stuffed animal that he had perhaps won at a fair (my mind wanders). Turns out she said "the cross I bear". I was 14 and I didn't know what a "cross to bear" was. My dad had a good laugh at my expense and then proceeded to tell everyone he knew. He still brings it up.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #14 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 02:27 »

In Pearl Jam's "Alive", I always thought the line "Sorry you didn't see him, but I'm glad we talked" was "Sorry you didn't see him, but he played guitar".

amok · « **Reply #15 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 02:29 »

Opeth - The Drapery Falls

"Deadly patterns made my wreath"

I think this is the line. A friend of mine pointed out to me that the way he sings it, it sounds like "devious badgers" at the start. Now I can't unhear it.

alyosha · « **Reply #16 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 06:52 »

Quote from: est

Some personal ones from high school years:

For Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" I thought that the chorus was "Jeremy smoked in class today" instead of "spoke".

The song came out when I was 12, and I really didn't understand the drug-lingo. So, when I heard the lyric as "Jeremy's smoking grass today" I was completely confused. Until a 'hipper' (also 12 y/o) friend of mine explained that grass was slang for pot, and the song made sense. It was probably 6 years before I learned the correct lyric...

Alanis DIDN'T say:

Quote

"It's not fair to remind me of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me."

this one is actually on the aforementioned page-a-day calendar. I guess there were 2 good ones...

As for myself, another I misheard at a young age was form AC/DC's "You SHook Me All Night Long" I STILL hear the opening line as "She was a fax machine." THis one actually made sense to me, as I first heard the song via the movie "Maximum Overdrive" in which electronic gadgets come to life...

Jarvillian · « **Reply #17 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 09:46 »

It's a crappy as hell song, but that 'Punk Rocker With Flowers In My Hair' by some annoying woman sounds like she's saying 'I wish I was a prawn cracker / With Flowers in my hair'

backstagebetty · « **Reply #18 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 13:22 »

Quote from: alyosha

Alanis DIDN'T say:
"It's not fair to remind me of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me."

this one is actually on the aforementioned page-a-day calendar. I guess there were 2 good ones...

Wow! Well I guess I'm glad I'm not the only one. By the way, it just hit me that it is "deny me" and not "remind.."

Oh well. I hate that song.

Paul Kemp · « **Reply #19 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 13:40 »

http://www.rathergood.com/chicken/

pig nash · « **Reply #20 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 14:13 »

When Freddy Mercury is scatting in "Another One Bites the Dust" there's a part where he says "Bite the dust, hey!" and I always thought it was "I'm adopted!"

alyosha · « **Reply #21 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 16:57 »

along those lines, I always thought that the "opening " line of "SOmebody to love" was "each morning, I get up, I'm dialated" I had to post to a message board to find out what he was really saying...

Sckitzo · « **Reply #22 on:** 30 Jun 2006, 20:44 »

I seem to hear a bunch from Nightwish (must be the ex leadsingers accent) but one of the ones that stick is my mind is from Wishmaster
Master
Apprentice
Hardporn (instead of Highborn)
Seven Seater (instead of Seventh Seaker)

cTony · « **Reply #23 on:** 01 Jul 2006, 08:42 »

I misheard Led Zeppelins 'Out on the tiles' As saying\;
"I got me a fat woman, and she thinks that I'm a man"
instead of
"I got me a fine woman and she thinks that i'm her man"
...Totally changed the entire songs meaning for me >_<.

I know i've done this alot, but i can't remmember any other examples.
Theres probably something worse that i've blocked out :D !

Mockery · « **Reply #24 on:** 02 Jul 2006, 02:02 »

From the chorus of the Beastie Boys' "No sleep til Brooklyn"
I thought they were saying:
Don't.... sleep.... separately!

Also there's an aussie hip-hop song which has the line:
"I'm not coming to your barbecues, man, no more"
I thought it was:
"A comedy of barbecues..."

est · « **Reply #25 on:** 02 Jul 2006, 18:15 »

Quote from: pig nash

When Freddy Mercury is scatting in "Another One Bites the Dust" there's a part where he says "Bite the dust, hey!" and I always thought it was "I'm adopted!"

On first read that made absolutely no sense, but then I remembered the part you're talking about and I agree. That's kind of cool.

Lexington, 125 · « **Reply #26 on:** 02 Jul 2006, 19:46 »

My girlfriend is the queen of misheard lyrics.

Heard by me while she was singing along w/ smashing pumpkins bullet with butterfly wings.....

the spider lays the eggs, & i'm still just a rat in the cage

hahaha still chuckle about that one

Atrocity Exhibition · « **Reply #27 on:** 02 Jul 2006, 21:34 »

actual lyric to crappy Disturbed song:

"into the abyss with my mind"

I swear to god, it's

"into the abyss with my mom"

Johnny C · « **Reply #28 on:** 02 Jul 2006, 21:46 »

The entirety of the song "Blinded By The Light."

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
WRAPPED UP LIKE A DOUCHE AIMING
THE RUNNER IN THE NIGHT

FeralCats · « **Reply #29 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 13:10 »

My grandmom thought that the line in Zappa's 'Inca Roads' that was originally
'Park it
Park it'
was 'Faggot, Faggot'. Talk about preconcieved notions! But she refused to admit that John Lennon ever said 'Fuck'.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #30 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 15:45 »

Better than my grandmother. She thought that EVERY rock and pop musician to ever exist died of an OD in the seventies.

Kwi · « **Reply #31 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 16:04 »

Still better than my great grandmother who had never heard a guitar riff until stopping by my house.

Also, suprised no-one has mentioned the infamous mis-interpretation of Smoke on the Water.

"Slow walking Walter, Fire Engine guy"

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #32 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 16:41 »

Quote from: Atrocity Exhibition

actual lyric to crappy Disturbed song:

"into the abyss with my mind"

I swear to god, it's

"into the abyss with my mom"

You see, disturbed is the king of being unintelligable, so that doesn't count. Nicely similar, one of their songs I misheard as "give me your moms now".

The Eyeball Kid · « **Reply #33 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 20:11 »

The Barenaked Ladies 'Brian Wilson' has a line that goes 'Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane'. I used to hear it as 'Garlic and Balzac, garlic and Balzac, call it insane', refering to a French author and food
I was 14 then, so the Decemberists hadn't been invented yet and lyrics like that weren't too common

Injektilo · « **Reply #34 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 21:47 »

I didn't know that Alanis lyrics was "cross I bear" until I read that post just now. Alas!

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #35 on:** 07 Jul 2006, 21:48 »

the first couple of times i heard Jawbreaker's "Accident Prone" i thought the line "i scratch my accidents into the wall" was "i scratch my ass and nail it to the wall".

Jedit · « **Reply #36 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 02:15 »

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Fin.

Merkava · « **Reply #37 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 08:18 »

A new one, but when I hear "Do You Believe in Rapture" by Sonic Youth, I sometimes hear "do you believe in rat sorbet?" instead of "do you believe in rapture, babe/then/there?"

brandie · « **Reply #38 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 09:16 »

I thought Smashing Pumpkins' Bullet with a Butterfly Wing was
"despite all my rage I'm still just ready to cage" (instead of a rat in a cage)

My old roommate was in France for like 9 months, and when she got back, we were all driving around and the NERD song came on She Wants To Move. My roommate got all high and mighty and was like "God, i'm so sick of this song. They played it like every day in France. I know all the words."

Then she proceeded to sing the chorus. "Girl. Look at your girl.... Popular forever!"
(Instead of "Mister, look at your girl.... Hope it lasts forever."

We were dying.

Oh, and when my brother was a little little kid, the thought the Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue" was actually "Bag of Soup".

Willem · « **Reply #39 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 09:27 »

ah yes and the world is a vampire sent to jail.

philharmonic · « **Reply #40 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 14:38 »

I always have to stifle a snikker when I hear Clint Black's "Nothing But the Taillights" on the corus theres a line "back here with my thumb out in the wind" but i always hear it as "back here with my bum out in the wind" HA!

Maui · « **Reply #41 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 19:22 »

My friend Brian was convinced for the longest time that the Bob Marley song Stir It Up was actually titled Steer It Up, because of the Jamaican accent, heh.

gambollingsundae · « **Reply #42 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 19:47 »

I used to think that it was "jojo was a man who thought he was a woman"

but then I looked up there lyrics and reallized i was confusing verses

Teh_Shinobi · « **Reply #43 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 19:48 »

I've never been able to figure out if the Shipping News song "The Human Face" has a section of the song where the lyrics are "Hentai! Hentai!" or "And die! And die!" It sounds a lot like the first one but I'm going to assume it's the latter. ^_^

gambollingsundae · « **Reply #44 on:** 08 Jul 2006, 19:53 »

Quote from: Sckitzo

I seem to hear a bunch from Nightwish (must be the ex leadsingers accent) but one of the ones that stick is my mind is from Wishmaster
Master
Apprentice
Hardporn (instead of Highborn)
Seven Seater (instead of Seventh Seaker)

Nightwish's Everdream amuses me. The song never registers in my head until the first line of the first verse: "Would you do it with me?"

Also, the first time I listened to Bauhau's Sanity Assassin, I swer I hear Peter Murphy shout "Sausage!" instead of "assassin"

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #45 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 13:33 »

Quote from: brandie

I thought Smashing Pumpkins' Bullet with a Butterfly Wing was
"despite all my rage I'm still just ready to cage" (instead of a rat in a cage)

Wow. I didn't even know those were the lyrics, I thought the lyrics were "despite all my rage I'm still just ready to cave".

Houdinimachine · « **Reply #46 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 14:20 »

Quote from: Kwi

Still better than my great grandmother who had never heard a guitar riff until stopping by my house.

Also, suprised no-one has mentioned the infamous mis-interpretation of Smoke on the Water.

"Slow walking Walter, Fire Engine guy"

And suddenly the Barenaked Ladies song "Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel" seems much more intellectual for containing this phrase:

"Can't help but wonder if all this is real
Cause tonight is the night I fell asleep at the wheel

Rubberneck traffic and passersby
And Slow Motion Walter the fire engine guy "

RallyMonkey · « **Reply #47 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 14:33 »

I once made a female a mix CD, and then she sent me a text message the next day saying she really liked the song that went "You lied, you lied, and it's never been the same."

It took me the longest time to realize she was talking about July, July - The Decemberists, which goes "July, July, Juuuuulllly. It never seemed so strange."

Then another one of my friends thought the lyrics "Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage." was "Did you exchange a walking part in the war for a leaf in a cage." in Wish You Were Here.

I thought my friends were smarter than that.

Johnny C · « **Reply #48 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 14:48 »

Quote from: The Barenaked Ladies

Rubberneck traffic and passersby
And Slow Motion Walter the fire engine guy

OH MY GOD YES

I FORGOT ABOUT THAT

Zaarin · « **Reply #49 on:** 09 Jul 2006, 16:18 »

For the longest time I thought Johnny Rotten sang "It made you a moron, and touched your wife's bum!" in "God Save the Queen". Looking back, that seems pretty daft, but I thought he was sneering the last line and that altered its meaning for me.

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alyosha

Mikendher

Garcin

Willem

NosLycn

Scytale

TrueNeutral

alyosha

Jarvillian

Paul Kemp

alyosha

Sckitzo

cTony

Mockery

Atrocity Exhibition

Kwi

TrueNeutral

The Eyeball Kid

Injektilo

Merkava

brandie

Willem

Maui

gambollingsundae

Teh_Shinobi

gambollingsundae

TrueNeutral

Zaarin