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Misheard song lyrics

Started by golden eagle, December 18, 2014, 07:06:30 PM

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A fun variation is Songs Commonly Called by the Wrong Title (Teenage Wasteland, Sending out an SOS, etc.)
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bandit957

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jeffandnicole

Or the recent Verizon commercials where they intentionally used people's subliminal mindset with the "half fast" internet or whatever they were talking about. 

bandit957

Quote from: golden eagle on December 18, 2014, 07:06:30 PM
We all sang along to songs thinking that we were singing the correct lyrics, only to find out later that we had it wrong. For instance "The Promise" by When In Rome:

Actual lyric: I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say.

What I used to think they said: I'm sure but I'm just thinking that the ride was safe.

In this song, which was heard frequently on the old wLAP-FM (when they weren't ripping LAP bunker blasts), I thought that line had something to do with "The 5 Man", who was a guy with a 5 on his shirt in an old Atari game I had.

I thought of a few more from the '70s: In the song "Alive Again" by Chicago, I thought the line "I am alive again" was "I am a lima bean." And in the song "December 1963" by the Four Seasons, I thought the opening line "Oh what a night" was "Oh one eye."
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cl94

Even Flow by Pearl Jam. I've heard the entire thing sung with the wrong lyrics.

Losing My Religion by REM.
Should be "That's me in the corner", heard by many as "let's pee in the corner..." or some variation.

Dancing Queen by ABBA. When I first heard it, I thought it was about tangerines.

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bandit957

I just thought of a hilarious one, which was "Forever Man" by Eric Clapton. Back when that song was popular, everyone thought he said, "Won't you be my bald-headed woman, I'll try to be your bald-headed man."
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bandit957

Quote from: bandit957 on December 23, 2014, 08:55:06 PMBut no popular song had as many misheard lines as "Holding On" by Steve Winwood. Practically every line was misheard in a hilarious way.

Another song like this was "Heart Don't Fail Me Now" by Holly Knight. I don't what made me think of this just now, since I haven't heard it on the radio since I was 15. That song was full of misheard lyrics - some of them R-rated.
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golden eagle

Earlier tonight, I heard "Head Over Heels" by the Go-Go's. I used think Belinda Carlisle was saying, "Get over here".

bandit957

Quote from: golden eagle on January 04, 2015, 12:27:08 AM
Earlier tonight, I heard "Head Over Heels" by the Go-Go's. I used think Belinda Carlisle was saying, "Get over here".

There was a line in the chorus of that song where I used to think they said, "Just like the toilet and the sink."
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Quote from: WillWeaverRVA on December 31, 2014, 02:25:03 PM
Surprised no one's mentioned "Hold me closer, Tony Danza" yet.
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For a long time I thought the background vocals of "Eminence Front" said "Baby let's fuck!" (it's "eminence front")

Also thought Robert Plant sang "fuck a while with me" (it's "walk") in Over The Hills and Far Away for a time.
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Pete from Boston

For about twenty years I thought Steve Winwood's "Valerie" was "Finally."

vdeane

I keep hearing one line in Taylor Swift's Blank Space as "come on you Starbucks lovers".
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golden eagle

"The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby & the Range:

Lyric: Standing in line, marking time, waiting for the welfare dime...

What I thought he said: Standing in line, monkeying time, waiting for a worthy dime...

spooky

Quote from: vdeane on January 08, 2015, 01:43:04 PM
I keep hearing one line in Taylor Swift's Blank Space as "come on you Starbucks lovers".

I hear that too. Just checked the lyrics and apparently it's "got a long list of ex-lovers".

bandit957

I thought of one for another song you don't hear much on the radio anymore - "My Town" by the Michael Stanley Band. Real line: "Been down, but we still rock on." Misheard line: "Been down, but we steal a lot of gum."
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Henry

For many years, I always heard a verse in the UB40 hit start off with "Red red wine, you've met my feet so fine, keep me rocking all of the time..."

Damn those Jamaicans and their charming accents!

(The actual line is "Red red wine, you've made me feel so fine, keep me rocking all of the time...")
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golden eagle

"Lithium" by Nirvana...

Lyric: "We broke our mirrors, Sunday morning"
What I thought I heard: "Broke I'm is, Sunday morning"

1995hoo

I heard "Eminence Front" on the radio yesterday and couldn't help but think of this thread. I'm really glad I heard it on the way BACK from a job interview. Having "unlimited fuck" running through my head at the interview might have been a bad thing.
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bandit957

I remember when I first heard the song "Leader Of The Band" by Dan Fogelberg. The chorus went, "I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band." But when I first heard it, I thought he said, "I'm just a living magazine to the leader of the band."
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roadman65

I used to think that Quite Riot's Cum On Feel The Noise used to say "Girls fuck your boys" instead of what it really says "Girls rock your boys."

Then Pass The Dutchie I used to think that a woman's body part was being said instead of Dutchie.

Then the children's song John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt I first thought was John Jacob Jingleheimer Shit for a good reason.  The kids in my first and second grade class would purposely sing the song that way.  Then later on hearing the song for real on a recording is when I learned that a real song was recorded with that particular name minus the s word but with the proper s word.
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Boys will be Boys by Paulina Rubio has a pretty hilarious one for those who have Spanish as mother language like me: Where she sings 'They like to play around', she appears to say 'Se la chupé a Ralph', which I don't dare to translate as is... suggestive :sombrero:.

Another good one is in the FC Barcelona anthem (written in Catalan): where it says 'Blaugrana al vent' (literally 'Blue-maroon to the wind') it appears to say 'Hala Madrid', so it appears to hail its archenemy Real Madrid :-D.
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Quote from: roadman65 on January 14, 2015, 11:44:31 AM
I used to think that Quite Riot's Cum On Feel The Noise used to say "Girls fuck your boys" instead of what it really says "Girls rock your boys."

They mean the same thing, but one doesn't anger the censors.
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bandit957

Quote from: cl94 on January 14, 2015, 07:33:05 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 14, 2015, 11:44:31 AM
I used to think that Quite Riot's Cum On Feel The Noise used to say "Girls fuck your boys" instead of what it really says "Girls rock your boys."

They mean the same thing, but one doesn't anger the censors.

I remember AM radio and 'American Top 40' deleting the third verse. I don't know whether the commercial single was like that.
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