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Misheard song lyrics

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

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golden eagle

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.


Another one, from "Every Breath You Take":

Actualy lyric: How my poor heart aches with every step you take.

What I used to think they said: I'm a fool of heartaches with every step you take.


Mr. Matté


1995hoo

My brother and I were at a Nationals game in October and the PA man was playing a song by a female singer that I thought was a song about wanting to be a stripper: "I just want to take, take, take, take, take, take it off, take it off."

I later learned that's not how the song goes, but I think I like my version better than the real words.

I knew a fellow who thought "More Than a Feeling" went "I see that derrière walking away." I think I like that better than the real words too.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Scott5114

Due to the PA being kind of quiet compared to the slot machines in a noisy casino, it's easy to mishear lyrics of songs you're not familiar with. They were playing The Who's "Eminence Front" pretty heavily for a while, and half of the department thought they were saying "Unlimited fuck".

Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" apparently had the line "There's a bad moon on the rise" misheard as "There's a bathroom on the right" so frequently that John Fogerty gave up and started singing the misheard lyric.
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roadman

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When I was a kid, I always used to think the line in You're So Vain was "There were clowns in my coffee, clowns in my coffee" instead of "clouds."  And for years, I was convinced that the reason Arlo Guthrie was arrested for littering in the Alice's Restaurant Massacre' was because there were dead bodies in the trash they dumped over the cliff (said bodies being the reason that Alice and her husband hadn't taken out their garbage in a long time).
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"My life has been a tapestry
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vtk

Collective Soul: "whoa, presidential election now" (it was 1996 after all)

Metallica: "sad patrol"

The Beatles: "sunday monkeys play piano ensemble"
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

PHLBOS

I mentioned this in another music/song-related thread; when I first heard Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music as a kid during the mid-70s, I thought they were saying "Play that fu*@ing music...".
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roadman

Quote from: PHLBOS on December 19, 2014, 02:09:06 PM
I mentioned this in another music/song-related thread; when I first heard Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music as a kid during the mid-70s, I thought they were saying "Play that fu*@ing music...".
Reminds me of the day my sister was reading the lyrics for Convoy and suddenly exclaimed "Oh, it's "Roll that Truckin' Convoy!"  I thought it was ....
"And ninety-five is the route you were on.  It was not the speed limit sign."  - Jim Croce (from Speedball Tucker)

"My life has been a tapestry
Of years of roads and highway signs" (with apologies to Carole King and Tom Rush)

Brandon

Quote from: roadman on December 19, 2014, 02:57:26 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on December 19, 2014, 02:09:06 PM
I mentioned this in another music/song-related thread; when I first heard Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music as a kid during the mid-70s, I thought they were saying "Play that fu*@ing music...".
Reminds me of the day my sister was reading the lyrics for Convoy and suddenly exclaimed "Oh, it's "Roll that Truckin' Convoy!"  I thought it was ....

If it makes it out over the air, the odds are very much against what you may have thought it was.  For more, ask George Carlin.
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Pete from Boston

Was it a shot at Tiran Porter when Michael McDonald wrote "The white man has the power" in "What a Fool Believes"?

PHLBOS

Quote from: Brandon on December 19, 2014, 03:02:29 PM
Quote from: roadman on December 19, 2014, 02:57:26 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on December 19, 2014, 02:09:06 PM
I mentioned this in another music/song-related thread; when I first heard Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music as a kid during the mid-70s, I thought they were saying "Play that fu*@ing music...".
Reminds me of the day my sister was reading the lyrics for Convoy and suddenly exclaimed "Oh, it's "Roll that Truckin' Convoy!"  I thought it was ....

If it makes it out over the air, the odds are very much against what you may have thought it was.  For more, ask George Carlin.
Don't be so sure of that.  When the song first came out (decades before the CSI series); FM stations would play Who Are You? by The Who in its entirety, which included the phrase "Oh who the f*@k are you?" towards the end of the song.
GPS does NOT equal GOD

vtk

I've actually heard that lyric uncensored on FM radio recently.
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

vtk

Shouldn't this thread be titled "misheard lyrics", which we've been discussing? "Misinterpreted lyrics" would be when we get the words right, but the meaning wrong.
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

Big John

Cracklin Rosie.  Thought it was a hooker but refers to a bottle of wine.

catch22

My girlfriend (now wife), mishearing AC/DC:  "dirty jeans and the dungarees"

Takumi

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golden eagle

Quote from: vtk on December 19, 2014, 04:27:38 PM
Shouldn't this thread be titled "misheard lyrics", which we've been discussing? "Misinterpreted lyrics" would be when we get the words right, but the meaning wrong.

You got a point. I changed the title.

xcellntbuy

Credence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon on the Rise" often sounds like "Bathroom on the Right."

wxfree

Quote from: Mr. Matté on December 18, 2014, 07:50:43 PM
"Wrapped up like a douche..."

I've heard that somewhere.

Quote from: Scott5114 on December 18, 2014, 09:44:22 PM
"Unlimited fuck"

Someone is going to have to make that song now.

Rod Stewart - Some Guys Have All The Luck
Actual lyrics: "Some guys do nothing but complain"
Misheard as: "Some guys do nothing but wank"
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golden eagle


1995hoo

Thought of another in the car the other day when the song played: "Blind Woman from Tokyo."
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

bandit957

Anyone else remember "Take your pants off and make it happen" from "Flashdance"?

Also, there's the song from England Dan & John Ford Coley where I thought they said, "I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen." I used to hear that song on the radio when I was growing up, and I thought it must have had something to do with the linens on a bed.

One of my favorites in the '90s was Depeche Mode singing, "I feel you...The toilet breaks."

But no popular song had as many misheard lines as "Holding On" by Steve Winwood. Practically every line was misheard in a hilarious way.
Might as well face it, pooing is cool

mrsman

"Turn the beat around, let me hear her passion."

Given the rhythms I honestly thought this song was about a woman experiencing great pleasure during intimate activities, when in reality, it's just about dancing.

Neddyfram

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