misheard lyrics

Sooooooo... it turns out that in 'Watch the Corners', J. Mascis sings "All at once the time flew" and NOT "All I want's a Tamiflu".

Apparently the main character of Joni Mitchell's "Raised on Robbery" was "drinking for diversion", not "drinking forty virgins." To the extent I ever thought about it I guess I thought it was the name of a drink or something?

Ohhhhh, I just remembered a real good one from my childhood:

I'm only human
A flesh and blood hombre

Lol

Haha

I keep picturing a zombie cowboy.

When I was a youngster, I thought McCartney was telling Jude "Chew leather under your skin."

Oh boy, another blast from the past. From Miami Sound Machine's '1,2,3':

If you need some Coke
Sing 'I can do it'

so apparently there are some people who think the lyric in "Pepper" by Butthole Surfers is:

"some will die in hopper suits and fiery auto crashes
some will die in hopper suits while sifting through my ashes"

to this I ask.

wtf is a hopper suit, genius

https://mojim.com/usy169194x5x35.htm

https://muppetmindset.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bcc3f-hopper3.jpg

Ooh, good reference

Someone on Reddit recently asked about that 80s song that they thought went, "caribou clique, now we're sharing the same dream, now our horse can be as one, no more love on the run"

Used to think growing up that 'The Price of Love' (Everly Brothers, covered by Bryan Ferry) started:

"Wine is sweet and Jenny's bitter
Drink all you can, but you won't forget her..."

I always thought that the lyrics at the start of Miss America by Blur were 'Miss America sits in the shower/She's plucking owls from the sky', but apparently it's 'hours'?

I just pulled out Peter Brown's Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me, which I most certainly owned and played to death as a kid, and realized that I used to think it was "The Yamaha is the Playground for the Devil"....

Earl Sweatshirt, "2010":
"Triumph over plight and immense loss"
I'd heard "Triumph over plight in a men's large".. as if he was writing his theme tune.

A souped-up homeboy from the old town

in Top Billin' it sounds an awful lot like Milk says

Gizmo's cuttin, up for thee
Suckers that's down with me

but of course what he's really saying is

Gizmo's cuttin, up for thee
Suckers that's down with nei-
ther one of us

somebody told me
that you had a boyfriend
who looked like a girlfriend
and I had better be wary of that yeah

my goofball friend growing up used to laugh at Metallica's "Unforgiven" because he thought James was singing "to constipate his grace".

he didn't seem to believe me that it was "through constant pained disgrace"

oh crap I posted about this 15 years ago upthread. lol

ledge writing better lyrics

How could I forget this one? I first heard it on oldies radio, actually.

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/driveinshow.shtml

In context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCLcMvgLF2Q

about 1:20 into the smashing pumpkins “rocket”

MILLER LITE!!!!!

Madonna - Crazy for You

all I can hear is "Trying hard to control my fart"

Talking Heads - 'Air'

'Air can hurt you too' = 'Air in her tutu'

"There's a bathroom on the Rhein"

source: my daughter

"i'll drive that stake
through the centre of my heart
lonely vampire inhaling its fart"

(no shade in the shadow of the cross by sufjan stevens)

Pearl Jam - Dissident

"When she couldn't hold, no, she farted
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here"

(it's of cousre "folded", but Vedder's pronunciation and the context made a good case)

It’s thirty years since I first heard “Here Come The Warm Jets”, and I only just today decided to google the lyrics

Now he'll barbeque your kitten
He is just another learner lover

This has always been and will always be, for me:

Now he’ll barbecue your Lenten penis
Just another learner lover

Highlands Industry
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong?

how can weave be wrong

Did you realize that you were Italian in their eyes?
-- "Kid Charlamagne" (Steely Dan)

I guess it rains down in Africa...

Just got reacquainted with one from my childhood, from Dishwalla’s “Counting Blue Cars”:

He had many questions
Like children aloft in dew

tems "me+u"

"i don't think u listen, ur a lizard"

we can remember flatulent pain (simple minds, glittering prize)

the 49ers radio play-by-play guy thought the “Soul Makossa” part in “Wanna Be Starting Something” was Michael asking “is it the same side the mic was on”?

That's creative lol.

So much more preferable to the litany of dorks who insist it's "ima say it one more time, I'm not gonna stop!"

I knew an idiot in high school who claimed to love the song "Tubthumping" and would loudly sing

"I got no doubt
But I get up again"

You make me feel
Like my troubled heart is a million miles away
You make me feel
Like I'm drunk on stars and we're dancing out into space
See lesbians
See lesbians

Rhinoceros by Smashing Pumpkins

The one part towards the end always sounds like

“Open your eyes to these mustard eyes”

Eurythmics, "I Could Give You (A Mirror)"

opening line, "How could you be so cold / with nine arms to hold you"

thought the yardbirds song was "misty, you're a better man than i", like calling a guy "potsie" or "fonzie" in the u.s.a.

Turns out in "Bad To Worst" Burning Spear is singing "even myself knows that too" and not, as I just heard, "even Marcel Proust wrote that too".