Misheard Lyrics

Declan A Walsh

Over the years, I am sure we have all misheard words of songs.

Here are a few of my beauties:

Status Quo's only No. 1 "Down Down" from the mid-'70s. The chorus goes "Down Down Deeper and Down". For many years, I thought they were singing "Down Down LEADER OF DOWN". Sad, I know!

A recent misheard lyric was the title of a current tune by Primal Scream - "Can't Go Back". I must have heard it five times before I discovered that it was not "PAPER BAG"! Even now, I still think it sounds like that.

Not so surprising is "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" by R.E.M. You know that jumbled up chorus line which actually says "Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her".
I thought Michael was singing something like "CALL ME TA WAKE-A" or maybe "CALL ME TAM BAKER".

I think I might have thought Adam (with his Ants) said "RANDY Highwayman" rather than "Dandy Highwayman" in "Stand and Deliver"!

I know there are many others I misheard but I just can't recall at the moment.
Please don't cheat by looking at dedicated websites! It's your own memories that are important here.

Sabre0001

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Not so surprising is "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" by R.E.M. You know that jumbled up chorus line which actually says "Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her".
I thought Michael was singing something like "CALL ME TA WAKE-A" or maybe "CALL ME TAM BAKER".

Damn...I kept hearing "Call me Jamaica".

In One Step Closer (Linkin Park) - I heard "all these dots they make no sense" rather than "all these thoughts, they make no sense"...Of course dots aren't going to make any sense.

Have others but can't think of them right now.

MagicMarker

That Counting Crows cover of Big Yellow Taxi with yer wan Vanessa Carlton..

Lyrics are ''Paved paradise, and put up a parking lot''... But i swear to christ all i hear is.. ''Paved paradise, and put up a fucking lot''

anti-venom

Somebody once said that they misheard Bob Dylan singing,

"The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind, the ants are blowing in the wind..."

Rockshamrover

Years ago I think the Specials had a song called "Mirror in the bathroom". One of my friends thought the words were 'met her in the bathroom':D

hussey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7574541.stm


http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Robert Palmer
Addicted To Love
Might as well face it, you're a d*ck with a glove.

anti-venom

Rockshamrover wrote: »

Years ago I think the Specials had a song called "Mirror in the bathroom". One of my friends thought the words were 'met her in the bathroom':D

Great song.....but it was by The English Beat.

KnifeWRENCH

Sandi Thom - "I wish I was a prawn cracker with flowers in my hair"

Yup, first time I heard that song on the radio I actually thought she was saying "prawn cracker" (If she had, it would have made the song infinitely cooler imo :cool:)

ZakAttak

On the album 'Experience' by The Prodigy one of the early tracks on it has a sound sample of someone saying the line 'Make me wanna shake!', it really sounds like they're saying 'Make me wanna sh1t!'.

damonjewel

When I was young I always thought Bob Marley was saying German instead of Jammin

"I hope you like Germans too"

For a five year old I thought it was super weird

studiorat

"Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard" - Queen Bohemian Rapsody.

Jay P

Lots of Pearl Jam songs:

Glorified G
Black
Even Flow
And the mother of them all, Yellow Ledbetter!

Setun

anti-venom wrote: »

Great song.....but it was by The English Beat.

+1 Was listening to this tune this morning for the first time in about a year. Great song.

I know someone who misheard a Desmond Dekker lyric in Israelites. He sings:
"Wake up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir."
He heard:
"Wake up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast."

:D:D

noby

anti-venom wrote: »

Great song.....but it was by The English Beat.

Or just 'The Beat' for us non-Americans.

Awayindahils

The TaTu song, the one where they're in the rain in a prison/school, I thought it was 'running through my hair, running through my hair", rather than "running through my head".

The Swordsman

Daddio wrote: »

+1 Was listening to this tune this morning for the first time in about a year. Great song.

I know someone who misheard a Desmond Dekker lyric in Israelites. He sings:
"Wake up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir."
He heard:
"Wake up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast."

:D:D

Surely you mean the Desmond Dekker song 'My Ears are alight'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc

Actually, the funniest one I ever heard was recounted to me by a work colleague a few years back. This is policitally incorrect, so apologies if anyone is offended.

My colleague was in a night club when a slow set came on and 'The Wind Beneath my wings' was being played.

A (drunken) guy beside him started singing loudly along with the song and when it came to the lines:
'I can fly higher than an eagle'
the guy sang 'I can jump higher than a negro'.

nice1franko

I overheard my sister singing the Pet Shop Boys to herself one day:

"What have I, what have I, what have I done to the circus"

:rolleyes:

I wouldn't mind but even the title of the song is "What have I done to deserve this"

abitlonely

MagicMarker wrote: »

'Paved paradise, and put up a fucking lot''

"Paid paradise to put up some fcuking lights"?

bluto63

It took me a long time to figure out what he was sayin in Kooks - Naive when he sings "I know she knows I'm not fond of askin" I thought it was "I know she knows I'm from the rockston" What the hell is the rockston?

Karen_*

As a child and for many years after I thought Bruce Springsteen was singing 'everybody's got a hungy horse'

mortified

bad2theboneB

Kings Of Leon`s - King Of The Rodeo
I was convinced he was saying "Two talking rolo`s" but apparently he`s saying "Good time to roll on", i was devastated when i found out the truth!

noby

Karen_* wrote: »

As a child and for many years after I thought Bruce Springsteen was singing 'everybody's got a hungy horse'

But that is what he is singing. Isn't it?

My one:

"Four hundred children and a crop in the field"

Euro_Kraut

"Whats that coming over the hill? Is it a lobster? Is it a lobster?"

edelgkgeraghty

This is a funny thread!

I used to sing away to Bon Jovi's Living on a prayer and at a certain point where he sings:
Weve got to hold on ready or not
You live for the fight when its all that youve got.

I used to sing:
Weve got to hold on ready or not
You live for that fight with the whore that youve got

Awfull i know, but i though thats what he used to sing... imagine my embarrasment when someone actually pointed out to me what he was singin!

Karen_*

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

"Whats that coming over the hill? Is it a lobster? Is it a lobster?"

God I hope not!!!!

Feck ya anyway for having me snorting with laughter in the office!!

StonedParadoX

Metallica - Sad But true

when he sings the sad but true part i thought he was saying sappa troll!!!

it wasnt until my sister pointed that out and i'd been singing it the other way for flippin years!


also the parking lot song i also thought she said put up a ****ing lot

yevveh

hussey wrote: »

Robert Palmer
Addicted To Love
Might as well face it, you're a d*ck with a glove.

This made my day. I mishear a load of lyrics but I can't remember any right now.

Steak

I used to think the lyrics to Metallicas 'Of Wolf And Man' were:

'sheep shit, nose to the wind, sheep shit feeling I've been'

instead of:

'shape shift, nose to the wind, shape shift, feeling I've been'.

darling.x

Hi there,

This is such a great thread.

My one isn't to do with misheard lyrics, although there has been many, i just can't think of any now. Its a music dvd by metallica. Everytime i see it I read 'stunning *****' instead of 'cunning stunts'.

jill_valentine

lmao, @ the Lobster coming over the hill and Beelzebub's sideboard.

Those songs must have sounded a million times less interesting once you figured out what they actually were...

jos28

Still don't know the correct lyrics to this but I always sang along to the Stranglers;
Golden Brown, textured like sun,
lay me down with my machine gun !

Tzetze

Jimi Hendrix
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!" (the sky)

:eek:

staker

'Sex Bomb' by Tom Jones. My friend (I swear!) thought it was
'Snack box, Snack box, you're my snack box':D
I'm always mishearing lyrics too but none spring to mind. Great thread OP

shoelaceface

oh i love this... hmmmm let me think
i remember hearing on the radio that someone thought that in the song 'crystal ball' by keane, that he was actually singing 'oh chris de burgh, chris de burgh'..... just go and listen to it, you have to hand it to him whoever it was.. it really sounds like it....

someone i know thought that celine dions 'my heart will go on' was my 'hotdog is on'

another was cornershop - brinmful of asha, mistakenly heard as 'brian fried a rasha'...

my own personal ones....

the kooks... 'shine on'.... 'stacey grins' instead of safety pins...

and this song still baffles me... think its tori amos, or kate bush, cant remember... really good song... but it sounds like she's saying 'im hardly bringing you toast tonight'.

cant think of any more!

RxQueen

haha my little brother used sing cornershop - brinmful of asha when he was much younger , he used sing " green furry rasher on the 45" , we still slag him over it , bless!:D

IanCurtis

I posted this a while back, but I went for years thinking these lyrics from Stone Roses "Mersey Paradise"

You see it in the sea / river cools where I belong / In my mersey paradise

were

You see it in the sea / Liverpool's where I belong / In my mersey paradise

which I think are better than the real lyrics!!!

Zangetsu

@ jos28
Still don't know the correct lyrics to this but I always sang along to the Stranglers;
Golden Brown, textured like sun,
lay me down with my machine gun !

Funniest thing I've seen in ages!
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One of the worst mixups I've had was By The Way by the chillis when he does that part in the middle (still dont know what it is but i know im wrong).

"oooh ahh blah blah blah" whatever it is I though it was "oooh aahh ceist le mo múinteoir"

I always wondered why he was:

1: speaking (bad) irish

2: wanted to ask my teacher a question :pac:

Great thread!

gcgirl

studiorat wrote: »

"Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard" - Queen Bohemian Rapsody.

''for his one sasage tea'' was another good Bohemian Rapsody one!

Nailz

Down - I Scream
It sounds like Phil says "ICE CREAM!!!"

Edit:

IanCurtis wrote: »

I posted this a while back, but I went for years thinking these lyrics from Stone Roses "Mersey Paradise"

You see it in the sea / river cools where I belong / In my mersey paradise

were

You see it in the sea / Liverpool's where I belong / In my mersey paradise

which I think are better than the real lyrics!!!

NEVER!!! :mad: You know Ian Brown would monkey beat you if he seen this!!

bluto63

I was just singing along to This Modern Love by Bloc Party and when it came to the line 'you told me you wanted to eat up my sadness' I realised I was singing 'you told me you wanted to eat up my sandwich'

karaokeman

Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I originally thought it was;

"I don't believe its been, slaggin' my brother. Its all I ever"

In reality it is;

"I don't believe its bad, slid my throat is all I ever".

jaffacakesyum

The Script song Science And Faith

"You won't find faith or hope down a tennis court"

It's really:

"You won't find faith or hope down a telescope"

Michael Jackson's Beat It

For some reason when I was younger I thought he was singing "It doesn't matter who's for what right" ...which makes no sense but anyway

Abba - Dancing Queen

This one wasn't me. My friend honestly thought it was "See that girl, watch her scream, kickin the dancing queen"

mikemac

Bryan Adams got my first real sex dream..... six string

drumlover22

When I was younger, in the Eiffel 64 song, I'm blue, I thought the chorus was "I'm blue if I was green I would die". Made perfect sense to me at the time =D

gigawatt

tasmin archer sleeping satellite the line goes 'in the moonllit sky/ opposites still try' i always heard 'are the seats still dry?'

The House Of Wolves

drumlover22 wrote: »

When I was younger, in the Eiffel 64 song, I'm blue, I thought the chorus was "I'm blue if I was green I would die". Made perfect sense to me at the time =D

So it's not? ...Oh. :pac:

Welsh Megaman

The House Of Wolves wrote: »

So it's not? ...Oh. :pac:

Altogether now: ''I'm Blue, I o'd and I died, I o'd and I died, I o'd and I died, I o'd and I died...

smokedeels

MagicMarker wrote: »

''Paved paradise, and put up a parking lot''...

"a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song"

mikemac

Boom boom boom
Castlebar is in Mayo, heyo
I say boom boom boom
Castlebar is in Mayo, wayo

To this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqHQ_wWbG9Y

Not so much misheard as nobody realy knew what the lyrics were Ray D'arcy started this going

lordgoat

smokedeels wrote: »

"a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn't quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song"

Sunday bloody Sunday...

The Swordsman

Paul Simon : Graceland.

"The way she brushed her hair and farted".