commonly misheard song lyrics
 

ok, who'll admit to that time when you were singing some bizzare words to a song and had someone correct you, making you feel like a complete tool?

such as:

I always thought the Eric Clapton song Layla said:

LADY LOVE, you got me on my knees.
Layla, you got me on my knees)

or:
( and this one is not me)

OH MY GOD ( sung to the "low rider" melody)
Low- Ri- Der. get a little lower

LOL fun!!! :D

Ok the only thing that I can think of right now is this:
Duran Duran's "New Moon On Monday"

During the chorus, I thought it was:

"New Moon on Monday, and the five days through the night". (which doesn't make a whole lotta sense, but hey, that was the 80s, right?)

Actually it's, "New Moon on Monday, and a firedance through the night".

D'oh! :p

I once knew a guy who argued that "Life in the fast lane" (Eagles) was actually "pumpin' in the vaseline".

Seriously.

All the classics are on kissthisguy.com .

The only one I can think of that's not cliche is this song, "Escucha Me," by the Gipsy Kings. It goes like this: "Escucha Me, Escucha Me..." but to me it sounds like, "It's good chow mein, it's good chow mein."

Mmmmm.

(Of course, it's all in Spanish, so I can make up all kinds of incorrect lyrics.)

i think that's the funniest thing ive ever heard

"There's a bathroom on the right." (creedence clearwater revivial, Bad Moon Rising)

And of course ... "Standing here I've got my back against the wrecking machine." (Van Halen, Jump)

Maybe its me but I keep misinterpreting anything Stevie Nicks sings as:

"Ahh wahh doo bee nnnn ahhh wahh oohhh woeMan I errr in loooooooovvvvvvvvvvve iiiiiiiiii ooooohhhhhh."

Anybody know what in the hell she is saying? :)

I've known many people to make this mistake, but never understood it... the phrase "I see a bad mood rising" occurs many times in the song and is quite clear... indeed the very title of the song is "Bad Mood Rising." I think context should indicate the true words there, since it's basically the same phrase rearranged. But I suppose if someone wasn't paying attention to the song's lyrics at large, and they misheard that particular line, it would draw their attention and become memorable.

When I was young and stupid, I thought the opening phrase to Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl," which says "Hey, where did we go," was actually saying "Hey Rodrigo!" I made the mistake of singing along with the song when it came on the radio, and the friend I was with gave me shit for months over it. I got back at him though, when he sang the opening line of "Bits and Pieces" by the Dave Clark Five as "Amadeus's bits and pieces" rather than "I'm in pieces, bits and pieces."

Part of the problem, I think, is that many songs have lyrics that make little or no sense, so we're accustomed to strangeness and don't question our odd interpretations.

here's another one of mine:

The heart brings you baaaaack......ON THAT YOU CAN RELY

blues travler

is actually

the HOOK brings you back

i figured it out when i couldnt find the song on any of their albums.....because the song is called "the hook"

Donnie Iris, "Ah Leah!" -- I had no clue what the hell he was singing till I saw the song title. Doh!

"< Whatever >/Here we go again" ==
"Ah Leah!/Here we go again"

Meatloaf - Bat out o hell

"im gonna sit on that fan all night"

i was corrected: "on a silver n black phantom bike"

I have had a problem with Stevie, myself...for *years*, I thought it was "just like the one winged dove", instead of "white winged dove". Imagine my embarassment when I finally figured it out. Duh. I mean, who the hell writes a song about an amputee dove?

Case will remember the band's name, but it was Aimee Mann's old 80's band. The song was "Voices Carry".

Hush hush / Keep it down now / This is scary


Actually...

Hush hush / Keep it down now / Voices Carry

Now, I'm not the one who made this mistake. Someone I know did (maybe it was Case), and I thought it was funny as hell.

edit: 'Til Tuesday'? I can't remember the name to save my life and I refuse to Google it.

'Til Tuesday.

I always thought it was:

"Oh, shush, keep it down now. Voices Carry."

When I was a little kid, there was a song that kept coming on the radio whenever I was in the car with my mom. Some of the lyrics were: "Don't fight 'em, don't fight 'em." I don't know the song at all. I thought they were saying "Milk botton, milk bottom." My mom was sort of horrified when I started singing along. :/

Dating myself -

Real lyrics - Indiana wants me
My version - And the air was clean

Years ago the song "Contant Craving" came on the radio when I was in the car, and instead of "Constant Craving," I sang "Don't say gravy." Got strange looks from my car-mates. As a result, years later, the word "gravy" still carries a certain weight in my circle of friends.

"I'ma gonna beat the gravy out of yous."

Oh, man...I bought that song on 45...

Queen: Killer Queen

One of my favorite songs...I always thought it was

"building a remedy for Kruschev identity"

but it's really

"building a remedy for Kruschev AND KENNEDY"


go figger...

Sidhe

there are a few errors made by pros that made albums...

there's a really good one of Tori Amos' remake of "Thank You" by Led Zep, but i can't remember exactly what....but it's way off

also this

jane's addiction's remake of sympathy for the devil by the strolling bones

" and his nation screamed in vain"

s/b :" Anastasia screamed in vain"

For all of you (us) '80s victims:

Paul Young "Everytime You Go Away"

"Everytime you go away... you take a piece of meat with you."

Went to a robbie williams concert on saturday night (FANTASTIC)

he thanked the fans for being so supportive, waiting in the hot sun for hours just o be up the front.. but could they please learn the words!!

the whole stand up crowd was singing -

"Mr No Bangles"

instead of

"Mr Bo Jangles"

I admit it
 

I sometimes think I hear actual words in rap lyrics.

But then I listen harder and realize that I'm hearing things.
As long as I don't hear them in my head, I guess I'm still all right though.

Brian

If it happens again, bop on down to the hospital. I can give you something that will fix that. You don't mind the shuffle, the drooling and the involuntary muscle movements do you?

I always laugh when I hear Blinded by the Light - by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

The actual lyrics are:

Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night


What I thought it was for years was:

Wrapped up like a douche
Another stoner in the night.

Blinded by the Light
 

No matter who's singing it, Manfred Mann or Springsteen, this has got to be one of the most mangled lyrics in history. The douche interpretation seems to be nearly universal. But then, the whole song is "Huh?" However, my dad, who was active in a few gangs roaming from the Bronx through eastern New Jersey in the late 1950s understands Springsteen lyrics perfectly.

re: Blinded by the Light
 

I always thought it was:

"Wrapped up in seduction by a roamer in the night"

Badger always heard "Suck the gypsy dead" instead of "Suffragette City"!

Also, in Queen's "I'm Going Slightly Mad" he hears "I'm not that talkative" instead of "I'm not my usual top billing"... He still swears his version is right.

Can anyone answer this question: in the Stone's "Sympathy for the Devil" the lyric goes
"And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay"
What does this refer to? I get most of the other historical references in the song.

- Pie

my husband is russian. you know that metallica song (enter sandman, i think) where they sing "exit light!" well, he thought they were saying "amstel light"

Rock me, Amadeus!
 

Fuck me, I'm a danish.

Depeche Mode's "Pimpf"

Sounds like they might be saying: "Cold...beer! Cold...beer!"
Is actually: Them making noises that aren't actually words

Also from DM, "Enjoy the Silence"

Sounds like they might be saying: "All I ever wanted, all I ever needed is him, in my arms."
Is actually: "All I ever wanted, all I ever needed is here, in my arms."

I went to England to see Depeche Mode at the Crystal Palace Soccer Stadium years ago. I won the tickets from a radio station in Las Vegas. They gave 2 VIP tickets, airfare, hotel, and spending money to whomever would do the craziest thing to win them.

My dad had never been out of the country so I decided to bring him. Also because I didnt have that much spending money. It was a mistake to bring my dad though because he was hardly a D'Mode fan and I couldn't even get him to check out the sites in England. I couldn't get him to leave the pub at the hotel unless it was to go to another Pub. I'll be the first to admit they've got great beer, but we flew for over 10 hours and I think we should have gone to check out Stratford upon Avon, Stonehenge, etc.

C'mon Radar, you're going to make me ask, aren't you. OK, how'd you win the tickets?:D

LOL - Trust me, some things are better left unsaid. :)

Oh, you still have political aspirations, don't you.:haha:

I will still run for office, but it's better left unsaid just because it's gross and freaky.

Well now you have to tell us !!!!!!!

I really needed a good laugh. Tell us how you won the tickets and then post more messed up songs. I live with the king of messed up songs. My husband thought the "In Your Letter" by REO Speedwagon was about a girl named Ebuletta... Ebuletta, ooh Ebuletta...Ebuletta, you said you didn't love me...Songs are like names, you really should know how to pronounce them, but if you don't, post it here because I think it is really funny.

Let me preface this by saying I knew a guy in the Navy who could pull his dog tag chain through his nose and out his mouth. I was with a friend when the radio station asked for people to fax in some crazy stunt they'd do. I was goofing around with a friend and sent them a note saying I would snort life guppies up my nose and cough them out of my mouth still alive. I didn't anticipate they would actually call me and I had never done it before. I didn't even know if it could be done. I thought it could because of my friend in the navy and because it was small and wet I figured it would be like hocking up a big loogie.

The radio station not only accepted my offer, but started advertising it all day everyday. They told people to bring a fishing pole and check out a guy snorting live guppies.

I started getting nervous and the day of the event I bought some guppies and tried it for the first time 2 hours before I was supposed to do it on stage.

Several hundred people showed up and others did some fairly lame "crazy stunts". A couple showed up and the woman put peanut butter and jelly all over the man covered him with bread and ate sandwiches. Some woman showed up in a bikini and asked guys to pour beer all over her, some guy mixed up alpo dog food, ketchup, mayo, mustard, relish, etc. and ate it. Then he shoved his finger down his throat barfed it up and ate it again.

I was called and came on stage and people were cheering me. I snorted one up the left side, one on the right, then two at the same time. One of them got stuck. I hadn't anticipated the wriggling in the sinuses and I had to blow it out. The crowd loved it. Then I got the glass of water with fish in it and drank it down and swallowed it. They all went nuts.

I was interviewed by all the local news stations, and the local paper in Vegas. For a while it was hard to go to a bar without someone calling me "the guppy guy". When I got to England some tabloid sort of paper over there wanted me to do a repeat performance but I already had my tickets so I refused. One of my friends wanted me to do it on Letterman as a stupid people trick, but I'll pass on that too.

Mine wasn't necessarily the grossest stunt, but it was stylish and freaky, and fit the bill of "crazy".

On a side note...

I figured out that if you snort too small of a fish it will go right down your throat before you can stop it. If I ever had to do it again, I'd use slightly larger fish.

Well, now I'm faced with a horrible dichotomy. On the one hand, I have a really hard time taking seriously any political rhetoric from a guy who snorts live aquarium fish. On the other hand, the fact that Radar claims to have snorted live aquarium fish has caused me to have more respect for him than I ever thought possible.

Being so torn makes me crazy; but Radar...dude...my hat is off to you!

Radar's story reminds me of something that happened back in St. Louis...

Late Spring 1994: Pink Floyd released their most recent studio album, The Division Bell, and were doing a spring/summer tour of the US. They weren't coming to St. Louis, but were playing at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on June 20th. Well, about 2 weeks before the show, the major rock station in St. Louis at the time had a contest: what would you do to win tickets to see Pink Floyd in KC?

So, people were doing stupid shit on the morning show, trying to win these tickets...and they apparently had a winner: a guy that ate a tree branch.

Well, they were about to give the guy the tickets, but they had to wait a moment because the "winner" was vomiting. Another nut job that was down at the station (where this was going on) then volunteered to drink tree branch guy's vomit.

He did so, and wound up winning the tickets.

This could go in the "funny things kids say" thread, but whatever.

My son has begun singing some of the songs he hears from his mom, dad and babysitter. Lots of funny things, but the best of the lot is:

"when the dog barks, when the bean stinks..."

should be "when the dog bites, when the bee stings..."

I laugh like crazy every time he does it. On a side note, if you ask him "Who's house?" he replies "Run's house! Say what?"

Yellow Ledbetter

WARNING!

listen carefully....you may very well injure yourself if you watch that unprepared. bluecuracao had a makeup runoff incident due to tears of laughter and had to be rushed to the powder room.

That is the funniest damn thing I have seen in a long time.

Potato wave=coffee out the nose!

Modest Mouse- Someone will steal your carbon.
Me- Someone will steal your coffin.
I like mine better.
:)

All this would be funnier if I knew the originals [/culturegap]

The make me fries part got me.

I love to the whole Anna Nicole's mama part too... and the end "I don't know all the words.... yet"

That song came on while MB and I were out having lunch today, and made us bust out laughing. Our server thought we were nuts.

That goes for me too for must of the stuff.

I don't pay much attention to lyrics usually, so here's the only funny one that I experienced myself. Instead of "We drink-a-drink-a-drink to Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink ..." I kept hearing "We drink-a-drink-a-drink to live in the pink, the pink, the pink ..." (still like mine better :D )

My favourites that have been reported elsewhere are

"It's alright, babies come in bags ..." by the Eurythmics and
"The ants are my friends ..." by Bob Dylan

"Chug a lug. It's driving me mad. It's making me crazy crazy."
--Steve Miller Band

"Kiss mine. It's not the first heartbroken"
--Olivia Newton John in Grease

"Why do the best things surely make you lose your mind?"
--Eagles

And it's more accurate to sing it "Lydia Pink, the pink the pink," anyway. It's about Lydia Pinkham's Compound, a very popular patent medicine way back in the way-back.

Most of the time, I sing it with the SCA lyrics, though:

Oh here is a story
A little bit gory
A little bit happy, a little bit sad
About a drink called
Imperium Compound
And how the S.C.A.'s been had.


Oh we think, we think we think
The King is a fink, a fink a fink
A fincure of
Respectability
He rules the Kingdom with Imperium Compound
The results are plain to see...

Further wackiness -- trust me -- ensues.

Here is about the whole works of the SCA version. Holy schmoly -- I know a bunch of these people at least slightly, and the barony with the Welsh name is where I began in the SCA back when Adler des Berges was its Baron. I believe two of the people mentioned are now dead -- Angus (if that's the right Angus) and Gyrth Oldcastle. Trude really does have a Cheshire Cat's grin. Yang the Nauseating is known to the outside world as science-fiction writer Robert Lynn Asprin. Speaking of authors, I'm rather surprised they didn't come up with verses for authors Poul Anderson, who was Bela of Eastmarch in Society, or Jerry Pournelle. Two more guys I've met.

I always thought he said "If I'm hungry at 4:30 in the morning, think god will deliver?" but it's really "... Pink Dot will deliver".
Wtf is that?

I originally thought the song was about someone taking a cab ride...

Hush Hush. Take me downtown, Mrs. Carey.

No, really. I figured the singer was telling a female cabbie to shut and drive.

;)

I have a friend who intentionally mishears lyrics all the time, and sings his versions along with the songs at the top of his voice. One day, we were going through a drive-through at a fast food place (we were next in line to place our order) and a Cranberries song came on the radio. So my friend belts out:

Do you have to,
Do you have to,
Do you have to sniff my finger?

Seems the mic at the order station up ahead was open when he did this, because when we pulled up, the girl at the other end of the mic was laughing too hard to take our order.

:D