― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Not a misheard lyric per se, but for the longest time I refused to believe that Morrissey was actually singing, "No, I'm gonna kill my dog" on "Unhappy Birthday." And for the life of me I still cannot figure out how that has anything to do with the rest of the song.
And there is a line in "Summer's Last Sound" by Disco Inferno that I always hear as "..Which would tell you if you'll spend the next few years/Free from Laffy Taffy petrol bongs."
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
It's black humor, obviously:
Loved and lostAnd some may sayWhen usually it's NothingSurely you're happyIt should be this way ?I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"
Like when you're in a bad mood and someone says, "How many dogs did you kick on your way to school today?"
― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"Three lions on a shirt, jewels remain still gleaming"
!!!!
― musically (musically), Friday, 12 January 2007 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link
What I heard: "I trust the boys in the government".
Real lyrics: "I trust the police and the government".
― GLC (ZakAce), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
i like my version much more!
― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
We then realised they're singing "there's a conflicting sound". I liked the other version better.
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Great tune either way, though. The Faint are face-rockingly awesome.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
i always wondered what tom did to piss them off.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link
i thought of another one
ben harper's 'diamonds on the inside'
"she was a horrible liar"
for ages i was hearing "she was a whore and a liar"
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
NIN, Hurt - not misheard but I prefer to sing it this way:
"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"
― ledge, Thursday, 12 July 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm surprised no one's mentioned it upthread, but Radiohead's "No surprises" had my brother fooled for a while, doubting the merits of the song:
"such a pretty ass / on such a pretty girl"
when my bro criticized this, my brother-in-law responded "well maybe he's just calling it like he sees it"
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
As a teen one of my friends had "Dreadlock Holiday" (you know, the one that goes "I don't like reggae / I love it") on tape, and after we'd listened to it about a kazillion times, another friend said, "You know, this is a great tune, but why does the singer say he doesn't like cricket?". Holy god did we laugh!
-- Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (1 year ago) Link
He does actually sing "I don't like cricket". One of the most popular sports in the West Indies is cricket, so it makes sense.
― Chriddof, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mark Clemente, Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
I could never figure out if tired_nhappy in the liner notes meant tired AND happy or tired/unhappy. hmm?
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"I miss my little Danish friend" :' (
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
(I looked around pretty hard for a picture of Mustaine. The emoticon above will have to suffice.)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
lol I thought I was the only who sang it that way. It's even better on the Cash cover. Also, I always picture him singing it to the sSwedish chef from the muppets.
― l, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
that scene with mustaine is one of the most surreal things i've seen on screen the guy recalls 1982 like it was a week ago
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Just realised that James Carr is not singing 'Sugarplums all dancing in my mind/ everyday you whip me it feels like valentines' in You Got my Mind Messed Up.... (it's 'everyday you're with me')
― sonofstan, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
My brother thought Billy Jo was saying "sell doughnuts at my door" on 'When I Come Around'.
This girl insisted that the lyrics to Positive K's "I Got a Man" were "I'm not tryin to head out sea", and claimed it was a 'metaphor'.
one of my friends in middle school thought James Hetfield was saying "to constipate his grace" in Metallica's 'Unforgiven'
Someone on Internet Relay chat thought the chorus to "The Real Slim Shady" went "I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the Real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are justin my teddy".
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and this foreign guy who spoke broken english on IRC was convinced that the chorus to Metallica's 'One' went "Hold my breathless, I wish go dead"
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
british nobodies freerunner have a song called 'friday don't need it' and it sounds exactly like "fried egg, don't eat it" which amuses me somewhat
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
vegan anthem
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
my brother used to think one of the lyrics on Shaquille O'neals debut was "Rhymin is like poopin, I'm already a legend"...
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I knew someone who thought it was "Oh, my breath is Irish for death".
― chap, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
that just made me lol
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh my breath is Irish for death....Oh please Zod spank me.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Split Enz 'I See Red'
hurt my penis walking down the street I see red I see red I see red
Still no idea what the actual lyric is.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i always used to hear the Big L line "you see what happened in my last fight friend?/aight then" as "you see what happened to my last white friend/ aight then"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
just mis-heard again today, as I have forever, the Hollies "Bus Stop"
"By all goods she was mine" (instead of) by August she was mine.
― Soren Kierkegaard Existential Light Orchestra, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
can't believe that i am the 1st to mention this one (b/c i'm not the only one whose misheard this song), but anyway:
the cocteau twins, "sugar hiccup on cheerios"
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I just posted this in the Muxtape thread, but:
In the Rose Tattoo song "Remedy" I mistook the line "Baby you know they call it...Rock and rollll!" for, "Baby you're not retarded...ROCK AND ROOOLLLLL!"
― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 11 April 2008 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Until last week, in Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry," I always thought he sang:
"And then we'll cook corned beef porridge, of which I'll share with you"
Saw someone sing it in Karaoke and when they printed the actual "a meal for it" lyrics, I nearly fell over.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 25 August 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Am I the only one who for years thought the chorus to Toto's "Africa" goes "I guess the rain's down in Africa", not "I bless the rains down in Africa"?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.amiright.com/misheard/ >>> mega LOL
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 19 February 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Tori Amos: "God, sometimes you're a stone cold fool"
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 14 May 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Theres a song on that last Burial album that me and my mates keep hearing as "I cant take no more in my eye". No idea wtf it actually is, mind.
― Sylvia Blap (Trayce), Friday, 15 May 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
From "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts":
"Rosemary combed her hair and ... took a cabbage into town."
Mott, I'll always love ya for that one.
― staggerlee, Friday, 15 May 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Carrot glide, carrot glide, no he can't read my poker face.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"Le-e-et's groove/be sick in your shoes" - Let's Groove by Kool And The Gang
Not only did you get the lyric wrong but the band too.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Paul Young, "Every Time You Go Away":
Every time you go awayYou take a piece of meat with you
― anagram, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Life Without Buildings - Juno: "Mad as a seal, mad as a seal"
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Roger hold a pumpkin, in the cold November rain
― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
anagram, I always used to think it was 'you take a piece of cheese with you'
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link