misheard lyrics

Ha yeah I don't think Google is right!

I’ve referenced Google’s version of a lot of song lyrics lately (simply because they appear immediately, at the top of the search results) — and I think I’ve always found at least one glaring mistake.

i always thought the Sundays lyiric was "the finest hour i've ever known/ was finding a pal in the underground" but it seems it's "finding a pound on the Underground" which is admittedly better

"I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shocked love awaits"

and the actual lyric - "away" - is so much better obv

We are we are God's chilled wren

.. Isn't it?

Shoobidduh
Shoobidduh
Shoobidduh 'round me, all riiiiight

crazy daddy - a tall pedo
("metronomic underground")

this came on shuffle yesterday - Hole - Celebrity Skin "no I'm not selling sheep"

I always thought ODB said "Up from the 36 Chambers...it's the GOOCH!"

at the open of Clan in the Front

I mean RZA

Cause is time is time is time with your time and is news is captured

tbf hardly matters if you mishear Jon Anderson lyrics

I just heard Rodriguez Sugar Man for the first time in a deserted Duke of Hawarden and this guy going on about his jumpers and coats was really putting me on edge

In "Call me maybe" I always thought she was singing "I've heard Satan is real" but it's actually "At first sight and it's real".

I've misheard Ramones "I wanna be well" as "I wanna be whipped" for years.

My brother and I thought the Mr Belvedere theme was:

Streets on-a China
Never met him before

That's all for everyone
Must be just too sexy, what I need

Just saw the lyrics to “Do Ya” and what I thought was “Commander!” or “ Amanda!” is supposedly “C’mon now.” I believe I am not alone in this.

Until last year I thought the chorus of Dancing Queen was "You can dance / You can die / Having the time of your life."

Unfortunately no

Ah okay, I looked it up

Rather puerile but for a long time on 'Today' by Smashing Pumpkins, I thought Corgan was singing "My angel wings were bruised and restrained, my willy stings".

lol

lately this has been stuck in my head: "IIIIIIIIIIIIII liiiiiiiiiiiiike the Christian Right"

LOL. Someone right wing nutjob of a musician should record that! You up for it, Morrissey?

Another on the Corgan tip:

Sail
Down in Oahu
Sail
I am one

lol that's p good

Deftones - "Elite"

Chino has heavy vocal effects and he's shrill screaming, so the verse sounds like

"When you're ripe
You're Billy Joel
You're Billy Joel!"

Found out it was "bleed out of control" and can't hear it the old way anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdUoPaleNK8

1:04
In a crowded room
I won't text too much

For some reason I was thinking about this recently: When I was a little kid, back in the days of AM Gold, I used to hear "The Night Chicago Died" all the time. I was far too young to have any context or reason for knowing who Al Capone was, and my little dumb kid brain didn't really hear what it was they were singing. So for some reason, I parsed it as something like, "A man called Bobbabone." Which struck me as a hilariously unlikely name even then.

Me and my friends had that issue with Barbara Ann.

We thought it was Bob Beran

En skikkelse lå der på bakken
Så vond at de blomster rundt visnet
En dyster sjel lå der på bakken
Så kald at alt vann ble til is
En skygge da falt over skogen

Da skikkelsens sjel visnet bort
For skikkelsens sjel var en skygge
En skygge av vondskapens makt

I always mishear it as 'skkkgwhaaahhwooowwwggghh'.

Okay, here is what might be the dumbest example itt: even though the song is titled '867-5309 (Jenny)' and I have known the full title for almost as long as the song has existed, I just realized a minute ago while quietly singing along that I've been mishearing the lyric as 'Daaaanny, I've got your number' for literally decades now.

And I'm fully aware that they evoke Jenny's name multiple times elsewhere in the song. I have no idea who the fuck Danny was supposed to be.

I'm in a state of shock. I just realized that the lyric of "The Bare Necessities" is not actually "Wherever I wander, wherever I roam, I couldn't be found there in my big home", as I'd thought for many years, but is actually "I couldn't be fonder of my big home".

Ours is a very Cocteau-positive household so, because I am generally a dipshit, you may be able to imagine my gf's consternation wrt my interpretations of certain Cocteau Twins lyrics. Her least favorite likely being the chorus to 'Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops', which I insist ends with Liz Fraser singing 'bicycle in chicken sauce'.

Haha

Me and my friends had that issue with Barbara Ann.

We thought it was Bob Beran

― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 3:05 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bopper Ann, for me.

I mean tbf whatever they're singing it isn't in any way a clearly-enunciated 'Barbara Ann'.

Talking of the Beach Boys, the coda of "Break Away" is surely not:

"Fecal vibrations and all the sensations, break away"

I'm in a state of shock. I just realized that the lyric of "The Bare Necessities" is not actually "Wherever I wander, wherever I roam, I couldn't be found there in my big home", as I'd thought for many years, but is actually "I couldn't be fonder of my big home".

― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, December 6, 2019 3:04 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

My theory - Phil Harris sang "I couldn't be ... found? .. Of my big home", and they never corrected it.

When they made Jungle Book 2, they re-sang "Bare Necessities" and corrected it to what you said.

When i was a kid i thought "Soul Man" went..

COMIN TO YA
ON A CASSEROLE

I sang along with PJ Harvey's "O Stella" in the car this morning: "Baseball players only!". Had to look up what she's actually singing

Beyonce - Countdown
'Whoo-oah killing me softly / Caspar the Friendly Ghost'

That seems to be how Casper would do it, very gently and with great kindness

I always thought the first line of redemption song was “ oooh a pirate’s just a rabbi”

Hahaha

True in so many ways.

The mohel of the merchant ships
Minutes after they took
Foreskin from the penis

It's all i ever had