Misheard lyrics

I speak French and I had always heard "she's so popular" instead of "jeux sans frontières". Even now, having known it's "jeux sans frontières" for years, it still sounds a lot closer to "she's so popular" to me.

"Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs."

I believe this to be the actual lyric...

I thought it was this too, all this time. But you listen to the song again and you hear the "f"s, mostly.

"Serfs" not "surfs" though.

They're both doing "f"s, I think, at 1:10 here.

But then, at 1:18, one of them definitely does a "b".

I think it's both.

Actually it's Smurfs.

I always thought it was "most of these men seem like sods". As if I even know what a "sod" is!

Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog:

Beast bark back bark back

According to all the lyrics sites it's 'peace brought back brought back'

We All Came Up To Montra
From The Waves Beneath The Shore Line
To Make Wickets With Them All
We Didn't Have Much Time
Frank Sipper And The Morgans
Will Have The First Real Surround
Some Stupid Little Flare Do
Burn The Place To The Ground
They Burned Down The Diamond House
It Died With An Awful Sound
Town Was Running I And Out
It Was Calling Kids Out To Found
When It Was All Over
Had To Find Another Place
Wish Time Was Running
Seeing We Would Lose The Race
Come On Baby

when i was a kid i used to think santana’s “evil ways” went like this:

“when i come home, baby,
my house is dark and my butts are cold”

as opposed to “pots” (the “woman you don’t cook for me” thing would’ve gone over my head anyway)

As a kid i heard the line in Livin On A Prayer as
“Take my hand, we’ll make it elsewhere”

When that song came out, there was a kid in my class who thought it was Livin' on a Prairie, like Laura Ingalls Wilder.

that's great!

I like my version better, but in the song Sugar n' Spikes, Captain Beefheart says Whoopin' hope, not Poopin' hope.

yesterday i learned that the dutch word for "mondegreen" is "mama appelsap", after a michael jackson song (presumably the soul makossa thing)

Correct, it's because a lot of people thought they heard/wanted to hear 'mama appelsap' in 'Wanna Be Startin' Something'. 'Mama appelsap' means 'mama apple juice'.

mamasay mamasa mamakusa puts me in mind of the epic Rusted Root neologism thread

In "Man In The Mirror", the line "a summer disregard, a broken bottle top" I always sing in my head as "a Baby Bottle Pop"

"So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
You know the one, goddammit everything's going to be alright."

Runnin With the Devil:

I found the simple life ain't so simple
When I jumped out, on that road
I got no love, no love in Korea ...

Party Rock Anthem, I always heard them declare "No Lennon or Zeppelin."

Saint Etienne, Girl VII: "Blazer y-fronts blazer y-fronts"

when I was first getting into Metallica, due to James's weird elocution, I kept thinking he was singing "tied to machines that make me pee", and kept wondering what the main character had left to pee out of

Though I know the real lyrics, my whole life my brain has persisted in hearing Ex Lion Tamer's chorus as going "be good to your geniuses!"

Might be an old chestnut, but The Police's Walking on the Moon: "Tomorrow's another day, Tuesday"

In "Tempted," I always end up singing "tempted by the fruit of your mother."

I'm telling you, babe
That I don't think it's true, babe
Or even if it is, keep kissing mine

https://i.imgur.com/E3gQ0km.png

Whenever I listen to the Red Crayola song Former Reflections Enduring Doubt, I hear the opening words as: "Martha Plimpton..."

(I like that so much, I don't even wanna know what Mayo's really singing!)

We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

lol u gotta be shitting me

That's gonna bug me...

Back later

Got it.

Carry on...

Wayward son

There'll be peas when you are done

I was sure "Stayin' Alive" said "The New York Times don't make no sense"

(even before my recognition of their warmongering corporate liberalism)

Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Cold Shot." Was stunned to find out he's not singing "at nights I go shopping"

(real lyric = "and that's a cold shot, baby")

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arse

that sort of reminds me:

Kylie - Made of Glass
"where dogging is rarely that necessary"

I always thought the Mr Belvedere theme began:

Streets of China
Never met him before

And not

Streaks on the china
Never mattered before

Silver Jews - Ablemarle Station

Bad roads, bad snow, bad bridges
Ted Turner wants Batman religious

(could turn a once bad man religious)

'Breathe' - Shaggy ft. Blu Cantrell

I've always always always heard the line as 'So what's that supposed to be, a bald lady?'

idk if this fits here but I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years and I still cannot understand why Billy weights it like "Carob Bean Queen"

It is ca-RIB-be-yan right? Not care-ob-BEEN? *does a google* what the fuck he recorded three versions of this song? European Queen? African Queen?

I would say something like CA-ro-BE-yan?

not much different to how he sings it I guess? I have heard people pronounce it Cuh-RIB-ian but that sounds non-standard

ah this is a UK vs American thing https://www.google.com/search?q=caribbean+pronounce

Ocean is English/Trinidadian

Also that's how it's pronounced in the Caribbean, isn't it?

How is it pronounced in Pirates of the Caribbean?

I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years

y tho

My boyfriend has two playlists, a daytime list and a nighttime list, Ocean is on both

Both pronunciations suggest four syllables, whether you're weighting on the rib or the care/bee. European is four syllables; does Ocean sing "Europe Peen" when he adjusts the origin story of his queen?

I'm gonna write a song called "Euripidean Queen"

He sings it with four syllables though? Admittedly I don't hear it every day.