misheard lyrics :)

thedrowner

cant remember if there was ever a thread on this but at helter shelter the other night my friend came out with a classic, and then it made me think of some more....so if any one has any, post them up!

'and now im all alone in bethlehem my only home'
bedsitland-soft cell

'uncle patrick in a pear tree'
the 12 days of christmas

'grey foolish rashers on the 45'
cornershop-brim ful of asha

'pop moma'
rock my heart-haddaway

'got a geebo and a fluffum'
got to keep on pushing onwards-little donkey!

Tyrrial

I heard
"she's a pure as a Caldron in snow"
It was:
"she's as pure as a cold driven snow" - Belle and Sebastian


i like what i heard better..

the66electric

'Suicide Blonde' from INXS used to be 'Simba-sasta-ba'.

Steve Conway

. . .er . . I *still* hear The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Pop" as "Split-screen pup"

Don't ask me what a split-screen pup is, or why it keeps popping out of the dark recesses of my mind though

Nice thread Drowner!

Tyrrial

i remembered another one....

The Smiths - Panic
it's suposed to be heard:
"there's panic on the streets of london"
i heard
"can't i comb the streets of london"

where is my mind?

lamda

"Blackpool looks blue and red" from Blur This is a Low i thought for ages it was "black bollocks blue and red" hmmm. it was confusing.

Also in the Hives Well Well Well, the first line is
"the present has scared away the past" but it really sounds like
"in prison, youre scared to wet your pants"

which i think is much better anyway:D

renagade*

One of our songs called Stella the last line goes
"I saw the sky all naked " and nearly everyone thinks its
"I saw this guy all naked" maybe thats why I dont score groupies when we play that song ahahahahahahh


www.beautifulllosers.info

Dexy

so many were to begin with
1.little boy blew on the man and the moon (cat stevens cats in the cradle)
well its just one but im sure there's more

Space Coyote

You'd have to throw in nearly every lyric by Kurt Cobain.
When I found out the real words to the songs from Nevermind I was quite surprised to say the least.

shay

Couple o years ago, caught a mate of mine singing that classic by the pixies "way up to the nation" from Doolittle????

Kali

Cocteau Twins - Ivo... "ping-pong ding-dong" and the whole of the rest of the song..

Sandi

LOL! I love threads like this. I'm in the PC lab in college and trying really hard not to laugh out loud!

Madonna - La Isla Bonita
Supposed to be: "Last night I dreamt of San Pedro"
I thought it was: "Last night I dreamt of some bagel"

And here's a real classic!

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Supposed to be: "Who ya gonna call, GHOSTBUSTERS!"
Some girl on FM104 (sorry) thought it was: "Who ya gonna call, THOSE BASTARDS!"

Steve Conway

I've just thought of one from a little further back . . and the world of bland boy-pop rather than rock.

Take That (or someone similar - shows how interested I was!) had a song with lyrics that say something like: "All I do each night is pray" which kept getting played on the radio.

For a long time I though it was "On your newly shining face"


On and that woman, oh, what's her name Macie Gray (spelling!)

Real lyric was "My world crumbles when you are not there"

I thought it was "I blow bubbles . . . . " That kind of makes sense in a way, she could have meant that she just passes the time doing unimportant stuff . . . . .

SprostonGreen

There is or was a website dedicated to this called kissthisguy.com I think, after the Hendrix lyric that is actually kissthesky, or do I have this mixed up.

A mate of mine thought that PIL's lyric was instead of "anger is an energy" was "hang a lizard in a tree"

May the road rise with you is the song

saintgaz

Yeah, for ages I thought it 'scuse me while I kiss this guy' too.

Not to mention 'All Along the Watchtower' - 'Let us stop talking bull**** now..' It's 'falsely', though it means pretty much the same thing.

And The Doors - Five to One, c'mon, be honest, hands up if you ever thought it was 'You walk across the floor with your flow-wer in your hair' - it's actually 'in your hand'.

Funny enough that someone should bring up 'La Isla Bonita' - I thought she was 'singing 'Young Girl with Eyes like potatoes' (it's 'the desert' - but it sounds like spuds, or at least did when I was 13).

And Steve Conway - just make sure Michael Jackson never gets to read this thread....

Jamie D

I had genuinely thought that the chorus line to U2's 'Electrical Storm' was 'Electric Toaster'

But then I heard the name of the song and I quickly relised my miss-steak. I'd love to hear Bono singing pashonately about an electric toaster or maybe sliced bread!

"These are the pans that built America"

Sliverfish

Drowner! What's this I hear about you and the66electrrc in a car park? You never told me about that?:eek:

Tyrrial

another belle and sebastian song mix up wich i had:

it's supposed to be:
"go with girls, at least you know what your doing"

i heard:
"go with girls, at least you know were to put it"

..... i'm quite proud of the track my mind if on...

although i am a little worried as well

thedrowner

this thread is bloody brilliant, i've got tears of laughter running down my face (and soaking my skirt)!

silverfish...what???? ve never done anything wtih anyone in a carpark. phoneboxes (for any1 who knows that rumour) maybe...

keep thinking!

im trying to dig some up now-im just reminded of episodes of never mind the buzzcocks

roxy music-virginia plane
'make me a tea, and make it sweet
no sign of of Seal....i'll take it!
to robert de niro i'll show it
i hope and pray that he'll blow on it coz we've been around a long time trying to (trying to trying to) find a breaktime!'

john wayne
'he stands so high, its enough to make an erection cry
he was a twat and he rolled the parsons lovely sleeping wife
the lovely les...'

i'll have to try and remember some more of them coz they were great

saintgaz

Just remembered another one.

That 'Remember Me' - irritating Dance Tune from about 6 years ago. Jack Hyland used to play it in the background whenever 'Tarquin's sister' used to ring him - know the one?

About the only line in it is "Remember me? I'm the one who had your baby's eyes."

Always thought it was "Remember me? I'm the whore you had your babies" :eek:

And there I was for ages wondering how they could get away with playing it during the day on commercial radio..

thedrowner

i never knew that's what she said

and 'what she gonna look like with a chimney on her'
i puzzled over that one for ages

when i was younger i used to try and write out lyrics from songs by listening to them and it was funny the things i used to ocme up with...

oh there was this one time, when i was 5 and i'd been watching the soundof music lots and i was trying to spell out the words and i aksed my mum how to spell 'sight' and she wouldnt tell me

so the line became

'i hate to go and leave this pretty ****e'

James_M

A friend of mine heard "Eddie Karaoke"

When in fact it was "Annie are you ok" - Michael Jackson

Oh how we laughed.

One I still haven't figured out what they're actually saying:

Eurythmics - "I'm going overgrown with fleas, there must be an angel..."

o sleep

another belle and sebastian one (sorry if this irritates anyone):

from tigermilk, the state i am in
real line is something like "my brother had confessed he was gay, it took the heat of me for a while"

but me being stupid etc thought he was singing:
"my brother had confessed he was gay he said that he loved me for a while"

also, that one in a town so small there's no escape from view, well quite reasonably (bcos it makes more sense) i thought she sang "in a town so small, there's no escape from you". i still think that's what she sings, but a belle and sebastian obsessive told me i was wrong.

Steve Conway

Originally posted by James_M
A friend of mine heard "Eddie Karaoke"

When in fact it was "Annie are you ok" - Michael Jackson

Oh how we laughed.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

I always thought (and still did until I read your post) that it was:

"Annie are you walking"

as in - are you still able to move enough to try to get away, or are you just lying there bleeding?

Educational this thread is

Space Coyote

There's a line in 'On A Plain' from Nevermind by Nirvana. It goes ...

"The finest day that i've ever had
Was when I learned to cry on command"

But I always thought it was ...

"The finest day that I've ever had
Was when I learned to cry off a man"

disturbing

Silverfish

Oh my.

I used to think instead of singing

'My world crumbles when you are not here...or near' whatever it is,

Macy Gray was singing 'I wear goggles when you are not here'


Karen Carpenter was singing 'All the best love songs are written with a broken arm'


And Bryan Adams was 'Standing on your daddy's porche'


Yeah, live and learn.

Wacker

Hey I'm reading the Crow Road by Iain Bamks and there is a bit when one of the characters thinks Hendrix is gay because he heard the liine
"Excuse me whlie IO kiss the sky" as
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

Brilliance.

Also, Weezer, In the Garage.
It goes " In the garage, I feel safe, no one cares about my ways."
I hear "In the garage, I feel safe, no one cares about my weight"

I honestly believe my verion is a much better lyric!

Wacker

Damn! I should really have read all the replies before I posted. Now I feel foolish.

TJM

The Stone Roses - I wanna be adored. A friend (who'll remain nameless) was convinced it was "I wanna be a dog", and saw nothing in the least strange about this.

saintgaz

When I first heard it I thought Ian Brown was singing 'I wanna be a Door'.

No! Come back, hear me out, it's not that stupid! I didn't think he wanted to be a swinging or sliding barrier by which an entry is closed and opened. I thought, given his 60s obsession, that he wanted to team up with Messrs Morrison, Krieger, Manzarek and Densmore. Well it could have been that, right!

Actually, this is starting to frighten me when I think of all the lyrics I've got wrong - maybe my hearing's been knackered these last 28 years and I'm only copping on now....

azrial

When I was a kid I thought "Whats Love got to do got to do with it" was...
"Whats love Dr. Doo Dr.Doolittle"
and my sister thought that "I Want to Kill This Waitress " by Tori Amos
was... "I want to kill this wedding dress"
and my dear flatmate thought that "my poor heart aches with every step you take" from Every Breath You Take
was... "I'm a pool hall ace with every step you take"
hehehehe...

thedrowner

Originally posted by James_M
A friend of mine heard "Eddie Karaoke"

Eurythmics - "I'm going overgrown with fleas, there must be an angel..."

*lol*

i think the euruthmics one is: no one on earth can feel like this( or these)

oh keep them coming i havent laughed at a thread like this since manics.

saintgaz

when i was younger i used to try and write out lyrics from songs by listening to them and it was funny the things i used to ocme up with...

Yeah Drowner, so did I. And some of the results caused me no little embarassment. I remember New Order - Blue Monday:

"I see a ship in a harbour, I can and shall obey"

I had this down as

"I see a ship in a harbour, icon and shallow bay"

and thought this was very profound - the ship being some sort of icon, the harbour being the shallow bay. I was quite disappointed with Barney's unimaginative actual lyrics when I found out the right words years later - I felt sure Ian Curtis would have had the same as me.

Speaking of Ian Curtis, his mumbling voice and his cheery chums in Joy Division have cursed me from beyond the grave.

First line of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is:
"When routine bites hard and ambitions are low"

My version?
"When rooting bites hard and I'm bitching our love".

Transmission:

Actual:
"Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the Sun."

I heard:
"I stalk relentless frightened of the Sun."

Had me thinking he was singing about the Yorkshire Ripper!

Novelty: (not Ian's Lyrics I know)

Actual:
"Can't stand on your own in these times
against all the odds
You'll just fall behind
like all the other sods"

Mine:
"Can't stand on your own in these times
It's not the arts
You'll just fall behind
like all the other spas"

FlapjackJoe

And I'm pretty sure the following line caught EVERYONE out:

SILVERCHAIR - Learn to hate

"Come and join the mass debate"

[I'm pretty sure you can figure out what those lyrics can be confused with...]

Rob Taylor

I remember when Zig and Zag were on Ian Dempsey's breakfast show in the early 90's they used to have stuff like this most mornings.

Once they said that in his spare time away from INXS, Michael Hutchence used to sell kites on Grafton St, and He'd stop people and ask them "D'ya wanna buy a kite?" (you're one of my kind)

and Michael Jackson ran behind his concert promoters singing "Come on, put the posters up, don't stop til you get 'em up". (Don't stop til you get enough)

Pure class. how we laughed.

Rob

thedrowner

more more, i want to hear more!

there's a bit in the middle f cry me a river my justine timberlake where the rapper guy is singing 'the damage is done so i guess i'll be leaving'

i thought he was singing :
'the jammy j's done so i guess i'll be leaving'

and my friend though 're-re-wind when the crowd say bo selecta' was:

'3-2-1-when the crowd say bo selecta'

Ixidor

Type O negative.... Black No. 1

the real words are:
"you can't go out cos your roots are showing"

i thought
"you can't stay out cos you groove is going"

i should have guessed that it wasn't a Type O kinda thing to say

spoiltbrat

Next time you hear 'Independant Woman' by Destiny's Child (secretly your favourite band) replace the line 'I bought it' with 'I farted' - it adds a whole new dimension to the song. It works exceptionately well with the video accompanying the new lyric.

Another ruiner -

Morning Prayer - Jeff Buckley
Replace the line 'You'll see me as I am' with 'You'll see me as a ham' and you will never hear it properly again.

Bye

James_M

what about cher

"something something something ooh thats just his arse, If you wanna know if he loves you so its in his kiss"

I actually don't know what she's really saying in it but there y'are

Deckchair

____________________________________________________
and my friend though 're-re-wind when the crowd say bo selecta'
____________________________________________________

I thought it was Dee, Dee one on the crossing ball selecta

Lolo

In Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence", I still hear
"Feelings remain
Soldiers burping"
instead of
"Feelings remain
So does the pain".

My mum thought "Sowing the Seeds of Love" by Tears for Fears was "Sewing Machines of Love".

2 others courtesy of people I work with:

Real lyric: "Super Trouper beams are gonna blind ya" (Abba)
Heard as "Super Trouper pigs are in a flying chair"

Real lyric "Don't lean on me man 'cause you can't afford the ticket"
Heard as "Don't lean on me man 'cause you can't afford the chicken"

There are websites devoted to this, like http://www.kissthisguy.com/
where I found my all-time favourite
Real lyric "Midnight at the oasis"
Heard as "Midnight after you're wasted"

Wacker

In Once by Pearl Jam, there is the rather innocent, obvios chorus of

"Once Upon A Time........."

My best mate actually heard it as

"Once Oh Party Time"


Quite an accomplishment, if I may say so myself.

Pigman II

Actual Lyrics : 'You hide behind walls of Jericho'
Labi Siffre - Something Inside So Strong

What I heard : 'You hide behind walls of Cherry Coke'

bandit

To my shame I always thought the opening line to animal nitrate by suede was "Well like he's cum you know by his hand"
as opposed to the actual lyric
"Like his dad you know that he's had"

lamda

Originally posted by bandit
To my shame I always thought the opening line to animal nitrate by suede was "Well like he's cum you know by his hand"
as opposed to the actual lyric
"Like his dad you know that he's had"

Haha thats funny.. well it is Suede.. you could be forgiven for thinking that!!

thedrowner

just remembered another one of my stupid mistakes

'all the ladies independent, throw your hands up at me'
'all the ladies independent, throw your hands up batman'

blue (form NMTB)-song2
'please to meet yaaaaaa'
'is there any jaaaaaam?'

SprostonGreen

All the boys thinks she's a SPA, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

thedrowner

"This mind, this body, and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways"


"This mind, this buddy and his foreskin cannot be stapled by your deviant ways

fiona apple-sleep to dream.
i got it from the kissthisguy.com website. oh its so funny

louise the bone-eater
'la isla bonita'

Wook

1: i wonder how some of these examples can sound the same
2: It feels good i am not alone in the world of mumbling artists
3: Don't know the artists name but here goes:

'You got the key to my castle'
heard
'you got the key to my arsehole'

Pigman II

Originally posted by SprostonGreen
All the boys thinks she's a SPA, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

Weird you should mention that tune, I always thought the words were 'She's got better days aside.' which actually make more sense than the proper lyrics imho.

Tyrrial

i miss heard dEUS song sister due for ages

it is
"i never felt so calm and cold"

i thought it was:

"i never felt so common cold"

didn't make sence then and it doesn't now