misheard lyrics

Can anyone guess which one this is? These might be the real words, for all I know.

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.

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.

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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?

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".

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.'

"just because of love what does?"

-devin the dude

I heard Unbelievable at Skate King and thought the chorus was "you're ugly and bald"

the fact that I heard it at Skate King was very relevant btw

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!

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.

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.

there's another, longer thread on this

Misheard lyrics

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well i crossed my old man back in Aragorn, don't take me alive

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"

alan alda's all we are

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!"

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.

"i'm just liberal nerves and feelings" - Joni Mitchell, "People's Parties"

Nelly Furtado:

"I am like a bird, I'll only fly away. I don't know where my phone is."

she's little miss prissy
and she love you, gene, baby, all the time
baby all the time!

Let's dance
Let's shout
Shake your body and do the brown

invest in a stool softener, man

or, y'know, drugs are bad

i did see this humorous transcription of Two Chainz's verse on Rick Ross's "Fuck Em":

"I'm chain smokin loud
Like it's a newborn"

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 again
Make way for monstor (sic) jealousy
The strove man kicks in ending my breakfast
Cereal Bowl, I spell your name with Oaties
Oh, I messed it, messed it, messed it up

I got my car stolen there in the haystack
I am tired of your dark warm circus eyes
Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bath
Encore man

definetely an improvement.

"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.

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'.

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?"

Spotlight on Lou Rawls, y'all
Aw, don't he look boss, y'all
Said he loves to hurt his ding dong

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

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).

Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shave us, some gay Lou Barlow

I can certainly conceive of Taylor Swift singing that line.

xpost (or is it?)

Aqua sea foam shame
Sunburned freezer burn
Choking on the ashes of a renerade

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.

She keeps a pompous shrade of my heart

A Milano?
Hell if I know
A mosquito
Jalapeno
Yeah

Hey
Way
I've got a new fromblay

BORN IN A JUNKYARD

we are we are we are the charm children

she don't lie she don't lie she don't lie
croquet

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

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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