misheard lyrics

Well do I have some good news for you

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about the science pope
Don't know much about the French-eyed pope

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:20 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

This has been making be laugh for a good couple of days

Look, I said I didn't know much about history.

Oh yeah, I also remembered the other day that, for an embarrassingly long time, I thought the line in the Friends theme song was 'your love life's the old way'.

We share the same biology
Regardless of our geology

my friend was convinced that Metallica's Unforgiven went

"new blood joins this earth
and quickly he's subdued
to constipate his grace
the young boy learns their rules"

Not so much misheard as mis-scanned, but in 'Laughing' by the Guess Who, I just realized I've long heard

You took away everything I had
You put the hurt on me

as

You took away everything
I had you put the hurt on me

So I guess it's not a song about sado-masochism after all.

OH, Neanderthal's Metallica post reminds me (and I thought for sure I'd posted this before but I guess not in this thread) that I used to think the opening lines of 'Enter Sandman' were

Say your prayers
It's a won-
-derful gift, my son
To include everyone

'Say your prayers, little one' obvs

“I walk in Coleraine, with my telescope in my hand…”

for years I thought the Mr Belvedere theme began

"Streets on-a China
Never met him before"

so I spent childhood thinking that Bob Uecker found Mr Belvedere on the streets of China and took him back to the US to be his butler

hard lol

There were plenty of lyrics in Christmas songs that never made any goddamn sense to me as a kid (or even now, tbph) so it never occurred to me to question who Crispin Even was or how the snow got deep inside of him.

real heads know it's all about Deep In Crispin Even 3

I recall now upon hearing the song that there was a brief window of time when I thought the lyrics were

Find your tenderoni
Tenderonious, all right

flappy bird at 1:12 19 Jun 18
Aqua sea foam shame
Sunburned freezer burn
Choking on the ashes of a renerade

lol i thought it was aqua sea foam shame until...right now

oh n/m it is lol

I mean it has to be literally hundreds of times that I've heard the song over the past thirty years, and I'm only just now realizing that the line in 'Outshined' is not 'the grass is always greener where the dogs are shedding'?!?!?!

I think it’s meant to sound like what you thought it was, but the lyrics booklet gives plausible deniability for a Parental Advisory loophole, perhaps? (I’ve never seen a cover with the label at any rate.)

OHHHH, thank you! I'm not a complete dipshit. The lyrics sheet totally says 'shedding' and I was credulous enough to believe what it told me when I pored over that thing a million times. Plus it wasn't bleeped on MTV.

Soundgarden were definitely the kind of band to toe that line, they were/are very wry and self-aware MFers.

"We were saying Fool On, Kevin's Mom!"

Hard-headed funk, you all!

I always thought in "Won't Get Fooled Again" it was "And the party on the left/is now the party on the right," but it's actually "And the parting on the left/Is now the parting on the right." Which I think is meant to convey the same meaning, but ... I don't see why it's not "party." Is Pete actually talking about ... the way people part their hair?

to this day I heard "this mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place" in Suffragrette City as "the smell of fried chicken put my spine out of place", even though I'm aware that is wrong.

Always thought "Like to Get to Know You" by Spanky and our gang went

Well I'd like to eat yr butthole
Yrs i would
Well I'd like to eat yr Butthole
If i could

"We're having meatballs..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr-zG-IXDyo

Kid Charlemagne - "Did you realize / that you were Italian in their eyes?"

married women lack our vision
everybody wants to rule the world

hon hon hon honky im king of the pizza! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTgaY3Tc0ek

For years I thought the first line of Keep Your Dreams by Primal Scream was "I believe that syphilis can burn your soul away." Not all that far-fetched considering the word "syphilitic" shows up in at least two other songs on the album.

In Scott Walker's "Montague Terrace (In Blue)" this is what I always hear:

The girl across the hall makes love
Her thoughts lay cold like Sharon Stone

Listening to ABBA's "Super Trouper" and just heard:

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Costco

I always thought the part Kate Bush sings in Games Without Frontiers was "she is so funky yeah" not "jeaux sans frontieres"

on Metallica's "Now That We're Dead" it sounds like James is singing "Now that we're dead, Madea..."

Radiohead’s Airbag:

“I’m back to say the n-word”

irl lol

Arpaidiohead

Holland-Dozier-Holland - why can't we be lovers

"...I can't picture you, baby
You and I being apart..."

what i'm hearing, every time...and it makes me even feel guilty:
"...I can't control you, baby
You and I being apart..."

Sooooooo... it turns out that in 'Watch the Corners', J. Mascis sings "All at once the time flew" and NOT "All I want's a Tamiflu".

Apparently the main character of Joni Mitchell's "Raised on Robbery" was "drinking for diversion", not "drinking forty virgins." To the extent I ever thought about it I guess I thought it was the name of a drink or something?

Ohhhhh, I just remembered a real good one from my childhood:

I'm only human
A flesh and blood hombre

Lol

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

https://mojim.com/usy169194x5x35.htm