Lyrics You Purposefully Liek to Sing Incorrectly

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For example:

"Soleil Moon Frye" to Roxy Music's "The Space Between"

Joe (Joe), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

No X-Mas for John Cage! No X-Mas for John Cage!

walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

michael jackson, first line of the chorus of "don't stop 'til you get enough" = "keep on, with the cole slaw!"

hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Eddie Money - "I Got, Two Chickens to Paralyze"

Lady Madonna "Knee Deep in Doughnuts, Chilli at Your Feet, wondering how you manage to make minced meat"

And my favorite from the guy who lives down the hall in my frat house... Manfred Man "Blinded by the light. Wrapped up like like dousche, a pudding putter in the night..."

Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Stars' "Alligator Love Letter."

adam (adam), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Beat it (beat it) Beat it (beat it) No one wants to beat-it beat-it

billstevejim, Monday, 7 February 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

The Beatles - Michelle - "Some day monkey play piano song, play piano song"

darin (darin), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I substitute "Wu-tang" for "waiting" at every opportunity

why must we cut onions? (Lynskey), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"Hold me closer, Tony Danza"

nickn (nickn), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Bryan Adams - "Everything I do, I do on the loo"

I am pathetic. But it amuses the kids.

noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Phoenix, "If I Ever Feel Better". I always sing "Hang on to the good days" as "Hang on the good TAKES", as if admonishing the sound engineer. A dork would be me.

Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

"Don't cry / Don't raise your eye / It's onlyyyy Teenage Waistband"

SalBass, Monday, 7 February 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll let you guess the 90s pop hit I sing like this:
She sucks, she sucks, she sucks
she gives good head!

Dawanawanawanawana

She fucks, she fucks, she fucks
she's in my bed!

Yeah, I know it's juvenile.

James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

not as juvenile as:

movin to the country
gonna eat me a lot of feces

....

feces comes in a can
it was put there by a man
in a factory, downtown... millions of feces feces for me millions of feces feces for free LOOKOUT!

pussa, Monday, 7 February 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

haha oh man these are crackin me up. I totally sing the "hold me closer Tony Danza"... there was a friend of mine in school who once asked me who John Quays was. I should've told her it was John Cage...

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 February 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"I wrapped my fear around me like a blanket
I pissed in your coffee and you drank it!"

Guayaquil, Monday, 7 February 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

The classic one of these, of course, is Creedence Clearwater Revival's "there's a bathroom on the right". I've known a ridiculous number of people who sing along to it this way.

whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

i like the way you suck
i like the way you fuck
i like the way you suck like the way you fuck,
suzie q

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 7 February 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

An old Queen favorite (again, I guess a subtitle of this thread might be "Not even close...but I like it, so fuck it"):

"I want a cow,
I want a cow,
I want a cow,
and I want it now!"

Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i've been repeatedly mishearing (and singing along to) a line from junior boys' "high come down" for a while now:

"but i gotta take a pee"

(i have no idea what the actual line is.)

spasticheritage, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

it's PURPOSELY, not "purposefully."

Pedant in Seattle (M Matos), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 01:42 (nineteen years ago) link

there was a friend of mine in school who once asked me who John Quays was. I should've told her it was John Cage...

That was an actual mishearing by my girlfriend a while back, and now I can't listen to that song without hearing "John Cage". I think it improves the song vastly. Like, why no christmas for John Cage? What did he ever do to make the naughty list?

walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"trying to leave my life without toothpaste,
is the hardest thing I'll eh-eh-vurr doooo"

"if you're gonna play in Texas,
you gotta have a chicken in the band"

"Flying on a pentagram
I'm a loser baby, so why doncha kill me"

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to think Beefheart was singing this in Mirror Man:
You ain't too old, as long as you can boogie, you ain't too old.

Marcel Verhoeven (Marcel Verhoeven), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link

In Ray Charles' "Nighttime is the Right Time" I like to sing along with the backup singers: "Marvin Gaye! Marvin Gaye!"

Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link

The Boys Are Back in Town: "The boys are packin' brown"

Forever Young: "Forever Dung"

Get Out of my Dreams: "Get out of your clothes, get into my bed"

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Love Shack: "Butt crack" or "love sack"

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"Billie-Joe shot a man while fucking his asshole/ Bobbie Sue took the money and run/ hey ey ey.../ c'mon take the money and run!"

ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link

When I first heard "After Hours" when I was 12, I thought the lyrics "dark party bars" were "dog potty balls". To this day, I cannot resist singing loudly... "dog potty balls."

beatbox (beatbox), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"All You Need Is Blood"

Un investigador del siglo XXI (AaronHz), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

"Its a long way, to the top, if you wanna sausage roll!"

Oh wait do they actually sing that?

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Also on a more obscure note, I used to sing "Sons of Pioneers" by Japan as "even though the air is calm/something here smells like corn"

But I was easily amused as a teenager.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

we dont need no edu-macation

latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"Damn, niggas want to stick me for my tapers"

Because Biggie has the craziest fuckin candles around

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:49 (nineteen years ago) link

When they kick at your front door...
..Ohhh-oh, the cream of Breakstone ..


He goes running for the shelter of his plumber's little helper ...

dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The Walkmen: "Can't you hear me, I'm... BEATING OFF A DOG"

Trolman, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Joe Jackson's (covered by Anthrax): "Got the Time" -- "Gotta fine chi-chi-chicken in my bed/There's a chicken in my bed!"

Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

"Wanna Be Startin' Something" owns this thread. "You're a legume/ you're an haricot vert/et cetera"

Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Crap, a kid in my freshman dorm used to have a complete lyric for Radiohead's Creep called "Cock". I wish I could remember all of it (no wait, maybe I don't). The chorus:

Suck my cock
Lick my scrotum
Wrap your lips around my balls
I want you to blow me

Oh, Oh,

SHEEEEEEEEEEE'S SUCKIN' ON MY COOOOOOOOOOOOCK!
SHEEEEEEEEEEE'S SUCKIN' ON MY COCK! COCK COCK!
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK! etc.

Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

"Ich heisse Super-fantastiche
Ich schnapfe Knicker-elastiche
Ich heisse Super-fantastiche..."

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I just hope my pinball's not too big.

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i guess you'vesaid
what can make me feel this way
a girl
a girl
a girl
talkin' bout a girl (a girl!)

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

One-eyed soul, mushroom head
One-eyed soul, mushroom head
One-eyed soul, mushroom
I was born when I was dead
I'M GONNA GIG MY DESPAIR!
I'M GONNA GIG MY DESPAIR!
I'M GONNA GIG MY DESPAIR!

I'M GONNA GIG MY DESPAIR!, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

fart in an elevator
stinkin it up when i'm goin down

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

In "It's my life" by Bon Jovi

Change "Like Frankie said I did it my way" to
"Like Frankenstein I did it myway"

David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

To the tune of "Close To You":

"Why do Birds start to disappear/
Every time I drink beer?"

noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Dead souls:
"Colm Meany"
"Colm MEAny"

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

for my sins

hot hot heat
panda jizz panda jizz on my legs and my arms for you...

secondhandnews, Monday, 14 February 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

We all live in a moldy mandarine, a purple jellybean, a tub of margarine

She lies and says she's in love with him
Can't find the butter, man

Oh Margie
You came and found me a turkey
On my vacation away from work-y

VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Benny and the Jets:

She's got a malhazoo and a na-na too.

Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Monday, 14 February 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

up the down escalator:

i lost my erection while dodging the flak
Oh give me a hint or something

jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I first heard "bus ride is too slow, they blast out the disco on the radio" from the Ramones' "Rockaway Beach" as: "boys' rock is too slow, try to find some disco on the radio," which I like even better. The whole song has some fantastic lyrics though.

Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Please let me repeat this:

fart in an elevator
stinkin it up when i'm goin down

GUHUHUH!

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Kraftwerk's "Computer World":

"Interpol, and Deutsche Rock, FBI and Scott La Rock"

this is how I heard it first anyway.
evoking Scott brings it full circle even though he was nobody at the time obv. As for changing "Bank" to "Rock", it makes it symmetrical but I'm not married to it.

tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Elvin Bishop's "Fooled around and Fell in Love" = "Cool Mountain Girl in Love"

tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link

in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" i always thought "showing how funky" sounded an awful lot like "Shona's out fucking"

Neil FC (Neil FC), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Keane - "somewhere only wee goes".

Sorry!

Dustin Cocktail, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

white stripes - i think i smell a rat into

I think i smell alrightttttttttttt

gallantseagull, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

A friend in middle school used to always sing "They all want me, they can't have me, so they stick me in the butt with a candy." I still find that funny, in a middle school sort of way.

Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 March 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link

i imagine steve perry stabbing someone while singing "don't stop...bah-leedin'"

Marrakesh and Ashley Olsen (m bison), Thursday, 19 March 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link

when scrubs comes on and its theme song time, i will often sing "i know superman" or "i'll blow superman"

Marrakesh and Ashley Olsen (m bison), Thursday, 19 March 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link

I usually do this when it sounds like someone is singing "shit" or "fuck" but they're actually not..

Boringly enough, the only example I can think of right now is Live "The Dolphin's Cry" .. "Love will lead us, alright, love will leave your shit with me.."

billstevejim, Thursday, 19 March 2009 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm tired but we won't sleep at all
Even though the air is calm
There's something here that smells like corn ...
(Japan "Sons of Pioneers")

Also:

"The stage becomes a ship in flames
I tie you to the mast
Throw your body overboard
And kick you up the arse"

(Bauhaus "Spirit")

one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 19 March 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link

In "Come Together" it sounds like he's saying "shit" about 20 times.

billstevejim, Thursday, 19 March 2009 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Several Misfits lyrics

I turned into Aunt Marsha

Who'd I do it for, hey Neil Young

I like to substitute the lyrics to "we don't need another hero" for the lyrics of Detonation Boulevard

unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Thursday, 19 March 2009 03:39 (fifteen years ago) link

changing "say my name" for "say i'm gay" and a lot of the last words of other lines to "gay". lol college.

caek, Thursday, 19 March 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link

When I feed my cat, I still sometimes sing "Food for the kitty" to the tune of "Fool for the City"

kenan, Thursday, 19 March 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link

another lol college:
This one goes out to the bloody glove
This one goes out to the glove I left behind

we went through a phase of changing love to glove and trying to redo the lyrics about OJ Simpson.

unexpected item in bagging area (sarahel), Thursday, 19 March 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Sometimes I get a half-and-half bowl at the teryaki truck, and I always sing to myself "Teryaki, half chicken half beef/that's the kind of food I want playin on my team"

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link

*down with

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link

something that i came up with is replacing many of the lyrics to Jingle Bells so it's all about Batman

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link

wow an honor to meet you sir

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link

i made a lot of money off of it

my gf sings a certain song whenever my dog Bird wants to play fetch but it's late at night and we don't want to wake up the downstairs neighbors:

but it's too late birdie now
it's too late
though we really did try to play it
a ball inside is too loud
and i can't hide it
i just can't fake it, oh no

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-UmhCIEraA

Philip Nunez, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link


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