Whenever "People Are Strange" by The Doors starts playing in my head, this is how I hear it:
People are strangeWhen you're a strangerWhen you are notThen people are not
This is because I have no idea how the song goes after the line "when you're a stranger". What about you, what do you hear?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I do this all the time but sometimes I don't even use real words - I just make up nonsense words that sound like they fit and use those.
When I was a kid I thought "I Shot the Sheriff" was "Eyeshot to Sherry" and I was ok with that.
― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I do the nonsense words thing too.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I do this all the time with Cocteau Twins songs.
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I like pizza I like cakei like mashed po-tayyy-toesi don't like eating fish sticksi don't like old meatloafwhat we do is secret, secret
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
For me - 'Can't Hardly Wait' by The Replacements will always have the line in my head - Jesus rides beside me - He never imbibes and he smokes
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 11 June 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Cause the walls start shakingThe earth was quakingMy mind was achingI really lost my bacon
― xhuxkfactor (los blue jeans), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
my brother's interpretation of Pixies' "Gigantic" has always stayed in my head:
My dick's GIGAAAANTIC
― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
For some reason every time I sing the "Different Strokes" theme song I sing, "A man is born, he's a man of steel".
― sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
For some reason it happens a lot with The Beatles
We all live in a yellow submarineA purple jellybean, (yelling) A TUB OF MARGARINE!
also:
I wanna hold your hand,your hand, your hand, your hand...(Because of that stupid joke: what did one boy octopus say to the girl octopus? I wanna hold your hand, your hand, your hand, your hand...)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
You forgot: A BUBBLEGUM MACHINE!
― kate78, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Not in my version! I did however forget "mouldy mandarine".
bubblegum machine, you say? that's a good one!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Embarrassing, but for We Will Rock You, in my head I always sing:
"We will, we willF#ck you, Suck you, stick it right up you!"
We used to sing it in school sports. Oh Australian childhood. I miss you.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahah that, and "Am I ever gonna see your face again? (no way, get fucked, fuck off!")
We used to all get in trouble at school socials when that song came on.
― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I do this all the time:
Picking up the piecesHalf alive in a nine 'til fiveBacon eyes
("swamp thing")
― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Jesus loves the little children,All the little children of the world...From the mountains, to the prairies,To the oceans white with foam
I dunno, the two just sort of merge in my brain. And I don't particularly like either song. It's just one of those weird earworms that shows up in my head some mornings
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 12 June 2009 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost: Trayce, when I was about 13 my 16yo cousin from Morwell came up to visit me, and we went to a Saturday night disco together. The DJ played "Am I Ever Gonna See your Face Again", everyone was dancing. I turn around and my cousin is STANDING ON A CHAIR, headbanging with her fist pumping in the air. I thinking, Omg wtf are you doing? After the song finished she said, " I don't get it. No-one stood on their chair! That's what everyone does when they play that song in Morwell." I was too young to know that I should have replied, "Um yeah. Because they're all BOGANS." Good times.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 12 June 2009 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Bahaahah! Thats so awesome :D
I grew up in a bogany town in NSW, but I dont remember anyone standing on chairs, heh =) They would have all headbanged and whatever though - this was a school where the school dances usually played shit like the Angels, Bon Jovi and Europe ughhh.
― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Friday, 12 June 2009 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
It's the eye of the tuberIt's the thrill of the friesdipped in ketchup as I put them in my mow-ow-owthit's the yam on the counterwith its roots growing outthat gave me the eye-dea ... eye of the tuber
― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Friday, 12 June 2009 07:26 (fourteen years ago) link
What's a "bogan"?
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 June 2009 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
this happens to me but with the tune not the lyrics. if i could remember the example...
― whatever, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I have tons of these... I didn't know what came after 'Rocketman' in the Elton John song so just sang "Rocketman... he is a man with a rocket on"
― Not the real Village People, Friday, 12 June 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey macarena BAHA'I!
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been singing Television's Torn Curtain in the shower lately, except the lyrics were "porrrn...squirt-ain". See how clever I am?
― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost: Tuomas, a 'bogan' is a slang term, basically the Australian version of white trash. Dunno if that translates. Lower middle class if you want to get down to nuts and bolts. Guys wear mullets, skinny jeans, flannel shirts and metal t-shirts. Girls have bad bleach jobs or bad perms, too-tight clothes, blue mascara and fight each other in broad daylight. At least that's how they were in my town. Could be different now, I've been gone for a while.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 13 June 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not a song lyric specifically, but every time I hear the 'IAEA' mentioned on the news, I have to sing "EEEE EYE EEE EYE OHHHH". Really loud. Yes. I am a child.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 13 June 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I didn't know what came after 'Frosty the Snowman' so just sang (and still do) "Frosty the Snowman... is a snowman made of snow"
There's a theme to mine....
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
we are the sons of no onekeggers of yore
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Joni, "Harry's House / Centerpiece"
The more I’m with you, pretty babyThe more I feel my love increaseI’m building all my dreams around youOur happiness will never cease’cause nothing’s any good without youBABY, YOU'RE MY CENTIPEDE
(cue rebbie jackson)
― giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I used to think that Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time" was a first person confessional to "Father Longenstein." Raised Catholic, lol.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a juggalo soldierbroader than broadwaykeep keepin onI don't care what they say
gee thanks noodle vague
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Google Image Search is surprisingly disappointing for "juggalo soldier".
― Juggalo Soldier (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
juggalo gals go round the outside round the outside round the outside
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks to Mr. Hegelson:
I'm a Matt ... I'm a DC ... I'm a combination Matt DC.
― actually a decent question y'all fucked up with ironic bullshit answer (sarahel), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link