does anyone else have misheard lyrics which sometimes outstand the original singers notes or else are daft or hilarious?
― erik, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
This is mega-annoying because it's a really cool song but I can't listen to it anymore.
― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Nitsuh, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Chris Lyons, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Lyrics:
What is this song all about?Can't figure any lyrics outHow do the words to it go?I wish you'd tell me, I don't knowDon't know, don't know, don't know, oh noDon't know, don't know, don't know...Now I'm mumblin' and I'm screamin'And I don't know what I'm singin'Crank the volume, ears are bleedin'I still don't know what I'm singin'We're so loud and incoherentBoy, this oughta bug your parentsYeahIt's unintel-ligibleI just can't get it through my skullIt's hard to bargle nawdle zoussWith all these marbles in my mouthDon't know, don't know, don't know, oh noDon't know, don't know, don't know...Well, we don't sound like MadonnaHere we are now, we're NirvanaSing distinctly? We don't wannaBuy our album, we're NirvanaA garage band from SeattleWell, it sure beats raising cattleYeahAnd I forgot the next verseOh well, I guess it pays to rehearseThe lyric sheet's so hard to findWhat are the words? Oh, nevermindDon't know, don't know, don't know, oh noDon't know, don't know, don't know...Well, I'm yellin' and we're playin'But I don't know what I'm sayin'What's the message I'm conveyin'?Can you tell me what I'm sayin'?So have you got some idea?Didn't think so -- Well, I'll see yaSayonara, sayonaraAyonawa, odinawaOdinaya, yodinayaYaddayadda, yaaahyaaahAyaaaaaah!
― Kodanshi, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― brains, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
It brings visions of Rem Koolhaas searching hystericaly through his minimally futuristic loft for his knickers.
now another one for readers who understand Dutch (not many I guess). A friend of mine thought that in 'Vicious' Lou Reed actually sang the dutch word 'visjes' which means 'little fish'
Little fish You hit me with a flower
― erik, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― helen fordsdale, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Ah well. I used to hear "I'll get another job at night" from XTC's "Earn Enough For Us" as "I'll get another job at *nine*". (i.e. back to work at 9 am the next morning, which makes sense)
― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Gary Numan, his love is real, but he isn't? ;-)
― erik elektrik, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Snotty Moore, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
MaybeI don't really wanna knowHow you got engrossed'Cause I just wanna play...
I marvelled at the way the guy with the eyebrows stretched out that syllable "gross", as if solely to disgust anyone who expected a sense of decorum from him. I had a new favourite great white hope. Of course, I soon found out the lyric was actually "how your garden grows", which is just so lame.
I never really got over that.
― B:Rad (Brad), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 20:11 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Prude, Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:24 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
That's funny, I only count one per head.
It's great when misheard lyrics mean the opposite of the real thing. I spent months singing along to Wilco's "Radio Cure" as "distance has a way of making love understandable," when the lyric is "no way." Shucks.
― wl (wl), Thursday, 24 October 2002 22:57 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
What an interesting life I lead.
― Callum (Callum), Thursday, 24 October 2002 23:06 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
oops, but that's the way I heard that line, from Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower', listening to Mad Sheer Khan's live version of the song on the radio tonight
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:19 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:36 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― emily bee (emilybee), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:50 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 15 May 2003 23:09 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Can anyone guess which one this is? These might be the real words, for all I know.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:20 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
Jesus, I think you have ruined this one song for me. I used to love it but I have the feeling that since this day I'll be hearing John Foxx singing "underpants!" everytime.
― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:35 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― David N (David N.), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:42 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:08 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
It sounded like she was singing "Your toxic come dripping down my body" or summat. That can't be right though can it? I mean, she's not putting (or rather, her songwriters aren't) THAT much innuendo in her songs yet are they? Although that thing where she fiddles with her breasts in the video clip lead me to believe that it's not far off.
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 23 August 2004 00:31 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 23 August 2004 00:33 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/kingoftheroad.gif
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:22 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
MOTHERFUCKER! A recent detour to a Beastie Boys lyrics site disabused me of the following lyrics to "Hold It, Now Hit It:
As transcribed: "Every day I drink O.E. and I don't go to work." As heard in my brain for the past 20 years: "Every day I take a wee and I don't go to work"
Goodgod y'all, is nothing sacred?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:43 (eleven years ago) Permalink
In Kristin Hersh's version of "Cuckoo" on Hips and Makers, I know it's "Oh the cuckoo / She's a pretty bird / She warbles / As she flies" -- but I always hear (prob bcz I want to hear) "... / She wobbles / As she flies".
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 23:00 (eleven years ago) Permalink
As A kid I listened to Mariah Carey's Breakdown millions of times and I always thought the last line of the chorus was 'I tell my mother lies and then I breakdown and cry.'
― Christyles, Monday, 3 September 2007 08:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
"just because of love what does?"
-devin the dude
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Monday, 3 September 2007 09:19 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I heard Unbelievable at Skate King and thought the chorus was "you're ugly and bald"
― musically, Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
the fact that I heard it at Skate King was very relevant btw
― musically, Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
Torche - "Across the Shields"
Can't be right:
Harsh mad anger all the time! Soothsay big on your dime! Send all your kingdoms porn! And pray mother keep us all!
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:50 (eight years ago) Permalink
I don't know if its right or not, but i like those Torche lyrics.
For a really long time I thought ZZ Top was singing "Every girl's crazy 'bout a shy gas mask." In fact, I found the actual lyrics quite disappointing.
― ImprovSpirit, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:01 (eight years ago) Permalink
As heard in my brain for the past 20 years: "Every day I take a wee and I don't go to work"
Still prefer this.
― Otherwise you're kinda being comp-lit in his racism. (kkvgz), Friday, 4 June 2010 15:32 (eight years ago) Permalink
there's another, longer thread on this
Misheard lyrics
― anagram, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:39 (eight years ago) Permalink
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lotr/images/d/de/Sword.jpg
well i crossed my old man back in Aragorn, don't take me alive
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:48 (two years ago) Permalink
The Jags - 'Back Of My Hand'
When I was younger, I kept hearing "you're not unreadable, you're not unbeatable" as "get out of Weinerville, get out of Weinerville"
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:08 (two years ago) Permalink
alan alda's all we are
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:23 (one year ago) Permalink
Someone in this usually very quiet Huntington Beach neighborhood is gettin' all crunk this Saturday evening, presently to the sound of C+C Music Factory's 1990 single 'Gonna Make You Sweat.' This has reminded me that, when the song was current, me and my ten year old friends had a joke that the lyric was actually, "Everybody, pants down!"
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 14 January 2018 05:10 (one year ago) Permalink
I thought for years that the line in 'Daydream Believer' was 'my shaving razor's cold and it stinks'. That's when it's time to buy a new one, Davy. Gross.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:48 (eleven months ago) Permalink
"i'm just liberal nerves and feelings" - Joni Mitchell, "People's Parties"
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 11 February 2018 23:51 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Nelly Furtado:
"I am like a bird, I'll only fly away. I don't know where my phone is."
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:01 (eleven months ago) Permalink
she's little miss prissyand she love you, gene, baby, all the timebaby all the time!
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 18 March 2018 22:57 (ten months ago) Permalink
Let's danceLet's shoutShake your body and do the brown
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:43 (nine months ago) Permalink
invest in a stool softener, man
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:52 (nine months ago) Permalink
or, y'know, drugs are bad
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:53 (nine months ago) Permalink
i did see this humorous transcription of Two Chainz's verse on Rick Ross's "Fuck Em":
"I'm chain smokin loudLike it's a newborn"
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:54 (nine months ago) Permalink
I've got a Japanese edition of R.E.M.'s Monster with a lyric insert included - of course, as with all R.E.M. albums before 1998, the UK/US edition didn't include the lyrics, so someone clearly was hired to write down what they thought was being sung. Stipe's lyrics are hard to make out in general, particularly when you consider that Monster's production is quite murky in places, so of course the lyrics printed in the book are completely wrong!
Here's an excerpt from 'Circus Envy':
Here comes that awful feeling againMake way for monstor (sic) jealousyThe strove man kicks in ending my breakfastCereal Bowl, I spell your name with OatiesOh, I messed it, messed it, messed it upI got my car stolen there in the haystackI am tired of your dark warm circus eyesPut pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bathEncore man
I got my car stolen there in the haystackI am tired of your dark warm circus eyesPut pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bathEncore man
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 14 April 2018 19:11 (nine months ago) Permalink
definetely an improvement.
― Ludo, Saturday, 14 April 2018 20:03 (nine months ago) Permalink
"She Belongs to Me": for at least a couple of decades I used to sing "For Halloween buy her a trumpet/And for Christmas, get her a bit drunk." As is often the case with these things, I like my lyric better.
― clemenza, Saturday, 14 April 2018 20:07 (nine months ago) Permalink
When I was a kid listening to Exposé's 'When I Looked at Him', I used to hear 'when I looked at him with love eternally' as 'when I looked at him with love, he turned to leave'.
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 12:47 (eight months ago) Permalink
I heard Rod Stewart's "Young Turks" the other day for the first time in ages, and remembered that when I was young and it was first a hit I thought the lyrics in the second verse was "life is so brief, and Tommy's a thief when you're undecided." I was like, "This song is about Billy and Patty, who the heck is Tommy?"
― THERE IS NO PHIL D. THERE IS ONLY LIZ (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2018 13:27 (seven months ago) Permalink
Spotlight on Lou Rawls, y'allAw, don't he look boss, y'allSaid he loves to hurt his ding dong
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:41 (seven months ago) Permalink
Until last year I thought the chorus of Dancing Queen was "You can dance / You can die / Having the time of your life."
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:01 (seven months ago) Permalink
I am one of the many who initially heard "Come along, you Starbucks lovers" in the chorus of Taylor Swift's "Black Space" (...even tho I knew that couldn't really be the line).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:06 (seven months ago) Permalink
Someone to claim us, someone to followSomeone to shave us, some gay Lou Barlow
― mick signals, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:07 (seven months ago) Permalink
I can certainly conceive of Taylor Swift singing that line.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:08 (seven months ago) Permalink
xpost (or is it?)
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:09 (seven months ago) Permalink
Aqua sea foam shameSunburned freezer burnChoking on the ashes of a renerade
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:12 (seven months ago) Permalink
I thought a lot of Cobain's lyrics were made up euphonious words for many years
I wish I could remember all of my original super super wrong interpretations. It would make for a hilarious alternative Nirvana lyric sheet.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:16 (seven months ago) Permalink
She keeps a pompous shrade of my heart
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:17 (seven months ago) Permalink
A Milano?Hell if I knowA mosquitoJalapenoYeah
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:17 (seven months ago) Permalink
HeyWayI've got a new fromblay
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:18 (seven months ago) Permalink
BORN IN A JUNKYARD
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:23 (seven months ago) Permalink
we are we are we are the charm children
― timellison, Monday, 20 August 2018 01:48 (five months ago) Permalink
she don't lie she don't lie she don't liecroquet
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 20 August 2018 02:54 (five months ago) Permalink
― The Vermilion Sand Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 August 2018 03:00 (five months ago) Permalink
Ha yeah I don't think Google is right!
― timellison, Monday, 20 August 2018 03:08 (five months ago) Permalink
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.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Monday, 20 August 2018 03:18 (five months ago) Permalink
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
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Monday, 20 August 2018 03:28 (five months ago) Permalink
"I'm traveling in some vehicleI'm sitting in some cafeA defector from the petty warsThat shell shocked love awaits"
and the actual lyric - "away" - is so much better obv
― flappy bird, Monday, 20 August 2018 06:23 (five months ago) Permalink
We are we are God's chilled wren
.. Isn't it?
― Mark G, Monday, 20 August 2018 06:58 (five months ago) Permalink
ShoobidduhShoobidduhShoobidduh 'round me, all riiiiight
― Dr. Goldfood and the Grill Bombs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 August 2018 12:56 (four months ago) Permalink
crazy daddy - a tall pedo("metronomic underground")
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 09:38 (four months ago) Permalink
this came on shuffle yesterday - Hole - Celebrity Skin "no I'm not selling sheep"
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 09:47 (four months ago) Permalink
I always thought ODB said "Up from the 36 Chambers...it's the GOOCH!"
at the open of Clan in the Front
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 October 2018 23:42 (three months ago) Permalink
I mean RZA
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 October 2018 23:44 (three months ago) Permalink
Cause is time is time is time with your time and is news is captured
― timellison, Monday, 8 October 2018 22:01 (three months ago) Permalink
tbf hardly matters if you mishear Jon Anderson lyrics
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 8 October 2018 22:55 (three months ago) Permalink
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
― saer, Monday, 14 January 2019 14:55 (one week ago) Permalink