― emily bee (emilybee), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 15 May 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― David N (David N.), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 23 August 2004 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link
ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/kingoftheroad.gif
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
"just because of love what does?"
-devin the dude
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Monday, 3 September 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard Unbelievable at Skate King and thought the chorus was "you're ugly and bald"
― musically, Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the fact that I heard it at Skate King was very relevant btw
― musically, Thursday, 3 December 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
there's another, longer thread on this
Misheard lyrics
― anagram, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
alan alda's all we are
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
"i'm just liberal nerves and feelings" - Joni Mitchell, "People's Parties"
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 11 February 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
she's little miss prissyand she love you, gene, baby, all the timebaby all the time!
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 18 March 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
Let's danceLet's shoutShake your body and do the brown
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
invest in a stool softener, man
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
or, y'know, drugs are bad
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
definetely an improvement.
― Ludo, Saturday, 14 April 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
"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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Someone to claim us, someone to followSomeone to shave us, some gay Lou Barlow
― mick signals, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
I can certainly conceive of Taylor Swift singing that line.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
xpost (or is it?)
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
Aqua sea foam shameSunburned freezer burnChoking on the ashes of a renerade
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
She keeps a pompous shrade of my heart
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
A Milano?Hell if I knowA mosquitoJalapenoYeah
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
HeyWayI've got a new fromblay
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
BORN IN A JUNKYARD
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
we are we are we are the charm children
― timellison, Monday, 20 August 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:25 (one year ago) link
Haha
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
I keep picturing a zombie cowboy.
― peace, man, Thursday, 26 May 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
When I was a youngster, I thought McCartney was telling Jude "Chew leather under your skin."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 26 May 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
Oh boy, another blast from the past. From Miami Sound Machine's '1,2,3':
If you need some CokeSing 'I can do it'
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 11:19 (one year ago) link
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 crashessome 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
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
https://muppetmindset.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bcc3f-hopper3.jpg
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Sunday, 23 October 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
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"
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 23 October 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
Used to think growing up that 'The Price of Love' (Everly Brothers, covered by Bryan Ferry) started:
"Wine is sweet and Jenny's bitterDrink all you can, but you won't forget her..."
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 29 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
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'?
― soref, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
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"....
― Picture of Chairman Mao (I M Losted), Monday, 5 December 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link
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.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 10 December 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
A souped-up homeboy from the old town
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
in Top Billin' it sounds an awful lot like Milk says
Gizmo's cuttin, up for theeSuckers that's down with me
but of course what he's really saying is
Gizmo's cuttin, up for theeSuckers that's down with nei-ther one of us
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
somebody told methat you had a boyfriendwho looked like a girlfriendand I had better be wary of that yeah
― ledge, Friday, 13 January 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
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"
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 January 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
oh crap I posted about this 15 years ago upthread. lol
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 January 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
ledge writing better lyrics
― Mark G, Friday, 13 January 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
How could I forget this one? I first heard it on oldies radio, actually.
http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/driveinshow.shtml
― Fuck You Know About a Tralee (I M Losted), Thursday, 16 February 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
In context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCLcMvgLF2Q
― Fuck You Know About a Tralee (I M Losted), Thursday, 16 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
about 1:20 into the smashing pumpkins “rocket”MILLER LITE!!!!!
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
Madonna - Crazy for You
all I can hear is "Trying hard to control my fart"
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 September 2023 05:02 (six months ago) link
Talking Heads - 'Air'
'Air can hurt you too' = 'Air in her tutu'
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Thursday, 2 November 2023 11:47 (four months ago) link
"There's a bathroom on the Rhein"
source: my daughter
― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Thursday, 2 November 2023 12:04 (four months ago) link
"i'll drive that stakethrough the centre of my heart lonely vampire inhaling its fart"
― tremolo, Thursday, 2 November 2023 14:01 (four months ago) link
(no shade in the shadow of the cross by sufjan stevens)
― tremolo, Thursday, 2 November 2023 14:02 (four months ago) link
Pearl Jam - Dissident
"When she couldn't hold, no, she fartedA dissident is hereEscape is never the safest pathOh, a dissident, a dissident is here"
(it's of cousre "folded", but Vedder's pronunciation and the context made a good case)
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 November 2023 14:08 (four months ago) link
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 kittenHe is just another learner lover
This has always been and will always be, for me:
Now he’ll barbecue your Lenten penisJust another learner lover
― as a lyricist he is from hell (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 18 November 2023 07:01 (four months ago) link
Highlands IndustryThat is what we areNo one in betweenHow can we be wrong?
― i don’t want this, you don’t want this (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 17 December 2023 08:01 (three months ago) link
how can weave be wrong
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 December 2023 08:20 (three months ago) link
Did you realize that you were Italian in their eyes?-- "Kid Charlamagne" (Steely Dan)
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 16 February 2024 00:26 (one month ago) link
I guess it rains down in Africa...
― Lee626, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 06:43 (one month ago) link
Just got reacquainted with one from my childhood, from Dishwalla’s “Counting Blue Cars”:He had many questionsLike children aloft in dew
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:27 (three days ago) link