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
she don't lie she don't lie she don't liecroquet
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 20 August 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
― The Vermilion Sand Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 August 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
Ha yeah I don't think Google is right!
― timellison, Monday, 20 August 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
"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 years ago) link
We are we are God's chilled wren
.. Isn't it?
― Mark G, Monday, 20 August 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
ShoobidduhShoobidduhShoobidduh 'round me, all riiiiight
― Dr. Goldfood and the Grill Bombs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 August 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
crazy daddy - a tall pedo("metronomic underground")
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
this came on shuffle yesterday - Hole - Celebrity Skin "no I'm not selling sheep"
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
I mean RZA
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 October 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
Cause is time is time is time with your time and is news is captured
― timellison, Monday, 8 October 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
tbf hardly matters if you mishear Jon Anderson lyrics
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 8 October 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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".
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
I've misheard Ramones "I wanna be well" as "I wanna be whipped" for years.
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 10 March 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
My brother and I thought the Mr Belvedere theme was:
Streets on-a ChinaNever met him before
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 March 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
That's all for everyoneMust be just too sexy, what I need
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 July 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
Unfortunately no
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 July 2019 06:23 (four years ago) link
Ah okay, I looked it up
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 July 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
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".
― Grantman, Monday, 29 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
lol
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 July 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
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?
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Monday, 29 July 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Another on the Corgan tip:
SailDown in OahuSailI am one
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 September 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
lol that's p good
― flappy bird, Friday, 13 September 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
Deftones - "Elite"
Chino has heavy vocal effects and he's shrill screaming, so the verse sounds like
"When you're ripeYou're Billy JoelYou're Billy Joel!"
Found out it was "bleed out of control" and can't hear it the old way anymore
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 September 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdUoPaleNK8
1:04In a crowded roomI won't text too much
― wasdnuos (abanana), Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
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.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Me and my friends had that issue with Barbara Ann.
We thought it was Bob Beran
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
En skikkelse lå der på bakkenSå vond at de blomster rundt visnetEn dyster sjel lå der på bakkenSå kald at alt vann ble til isEn skygge da falt over skogenDa skikkelsens sjel visnet bortFor skikkelsens sjel var en skyggeEn skygge av vondskapens makt
Da skikkelsens sjel visnet bortFor skikkelsens sjel var en skyggeEn skygge av vondskapens makt
I always mishear it as 'skkkgwhaaahhwooowwwggghh'.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
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.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link