Misheard Song Lyrics

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Paul McCartney

"Maybe I'm Amazed"

(for many years thought it was)

"Baby I'm Amazed"

Zeppelin:

..and she's buying a stairway to heaven

(sounded to me like)

..and she's barring a stairway to heaven

Missing Persons

Walkin' In L.A., nobody walks in L.A.

(for a long time thought it was)

Walkin' in a Lake, nobody walks in Lake

B-52s: Love Shack

Tin Roof... Rusted

(thought it sounded something like)

Henrooo... rustit

'Til Tuesday

Hush hush, keep it down now, voices carry

(thought it was)

Hush hush, keep it down now, oh so scary

[Yeti]

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot.

I thought it was 'I put it to rest'.

[Jaskohouston]

Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner - "Big Old Jet Airliner"

My dad proclaimed "what the hell" while at the age of 10 I was singing along with his classic rock station

"Big Old Jed Had a Light On, don't carry me too far away"

Listen to it. It still think that's what it sounds like.

[jakethebake]

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Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner - "Big Old Jet Airliner"

My dad proclaimed "what the hell" while at the age of 10 I was singing along with his classic rock station

"Big Old Jed Had a Light On, don't carry me too far away"

Listen to it. It still think that's what it sounds like.

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Wow! I think this may be the winner.

[Rushmore]

Hendrix, Purple Haze:

"'Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

[Los Feliz Slim]

My wife thought that in "Sweet Home Alabama" they're saying "Big wheel keep on turning, carry me home to see my kids".

[B Dids]

"Give me a lazer down this road that I must travel"

And there's a friend who famously thought that Coolio invited us to "come along and ride on a bad crustacean"

[jakethebake]

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"Give me a lazer down this road that I must travel"

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What the hell was that lyric anyway? i never did figure out what he was saying.

[Eurotrash]

i'm probably not alone on this one, but I could have sworn that the song "the freshmen" by The Verve Pipe went:


for the life of me, I could not believe we'd ever doubt forty cents, we were merely freshmen.



I remember figuring that one out way back when -- my friends and I had a good laugh at how wrong we were. i still kinda like my version better.

[B Dids]

Kyrie Eleison (http://www.yale.edu/adhoc/research_resources/liturgy/d_kyrie.html)

[B Dids]

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mkyrie.html

Mr Mister specific link.

[jakethebake]

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Kyrie Eleison (http://www.yale.edu/adhoc/research_resources/liturgy/d_kyrie.html)

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Very interesting. Thanks! I can now cross that off my list of things that have kept me up at night for the last 20 years.

[fingokra]

Alanis M. (can't spell her first name much less the last)

actual

"cross I bear"

make believe

"cross-eyed bear"


Here is one I still don't get, maybe someone call tell/explain it

"wrapped? up like a ??????, another rumor in the night, blinded by the light"

[Eurotrash]

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"wrapped? up like a ??????, another rumor in the night, blinded by the light"

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pretty sure this one is "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"

[PoBoy321]

I was gonna say that there was this teeny bopper type song called Flavor of the Week, and I always thought the chorus went "He's too stoned, Nintendo, I wish that I could make her see," and I was always like "Nintendo, that can't be right," so I looked up the lyrics and yeah, that's the real line, and I realized that I've listened to some really bad music.

[jakethebake]

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"wrapped? up like a ??????, another rumor in the night, blinded by the light"

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pretty sure this one is "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"

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Clearly that makes much more sense.

[fingokra]

Pardon my ignorance but what does that mean?

[Eurotrash]

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Pardon my ignorance but what does that mean?

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um, I'm really not sure, but isn't a deuce coupe like 1950s slang for some kind of muscle car? revved up like a deuce, like revving the engine?

that's my best guess.



edit: regardless how odd the lyrics are, the Manfred Mann version is a great tune /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[BusterStacks]

i thought it was "wrapped up like a douche"

[fingokra]

that is what I thought but wasn't going to say it

[PoBoy321]

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i thought it was "wrapped up like a douche"

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Everyone does. It absolutely sounds like it, but if you listen to the original Springsteen version, it's definitely "Revved up like a deuce"

[TylerD]

I have no idea what the "lyrics" are for the The Go! Team album so I just sing my own -- they're pretty good.

[Eurotrash]

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that is what I thought but wasn't going to say it

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that actually seems to be a common mishearing of that one. i'm pretty sure I thought it was this too, at some point.

[BusterStacks]

http://a1468.g.akamai.net/f/1468/580/1d/pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/26529/300.jpg

[Eurotrash]

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I have no idea what the "lyrics" are for the The Go! Team album so I just sing my own -- they're pretty good.

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lol I've got some of their stuff and have to admit that I do this too. i can't figure out those lyrics for the life of me. are they even meant to be understood?

[RacersEdge]

I think it's Latin - and a Christian term.


Edit: Didn't see the link - I guess it's Greek.

[GMan42]

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i thought it was "wrapped up like a douche"

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Everyone does. It absolutely sounds like it, but if you listen to the original Springsteen version, it's definitely "Revved up like a deuce"

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Actually doesn't Springsteen sing "cuttin' loose like a deuce" there?

His original version is cool BTW--has like a million verses in it compared to the MM version.

[jason1990]

Pearl Jam, Smile
Correct: "Three crooked hearts swirls all around."
Misheard: "Free cookies and s'mores all around."

[RacersEdge]

I heard one of the most misheard was

"There's a bad moon on the rise"

heard as

"There's a bathroom on the right"

[Slow Play Ray]

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My wife thought that in "Sweet Home Alabama" they're saying "Big wheel keep on turning, carry me home to see my kids".

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they're not?!

In Green Day's "When I Come Around" I always heard the line "so don't knock down my door" as "sell donuts at my door"

[Yeti]

They're saying 'kin'.

Not a big deal, mind.

[Slow Play Ray]

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They're saying 'kin'.

Not a big deal, mind.

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Well, I'll be damned...add that one to my list.

[hoopsie44]

Until song lyrics became readily available on line, the words to Tumbling Dice by The Stones were one of rock's great mysteries. Not just one particular line, the entire song.

[bustedchucks]

i used to think madonna had poor taste in breakfast foods.

"im a cheerio girl"

damn you, material girl

[AsiaKurosawa]

secret asian man.

[maxsick]

Happy Mondays- "God's Cop"

Actual lyrics: I can virtually do anything I read
Heard lyrics: I confer to the guru anything I read

[jesusarenque]

A college girlfriend of mine thought that "Hey, where did we go?" was actually "Hey, Rodrigo!"

[Nigel]

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'Til Tuesday

Hush hush, keep it down now, voices carry

(thought it was)

Hush hush, keep it down now, oh so scary

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Ok, the song is even called "Voices Carry", c'mon man.

[RacersEdge]

but what is the girl in the background saying on Weezer's "Beverley Hills"? I have the lyrics, but the background voice is not there.

[Crveballin]

Rolling Stones "Beast of Burden"
My lyrics "Ill never leave your pizza burning"
Correct Lyrics "Ill never be your beast of burden"

[Sponger15SB]

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Hendrix, Purple Haze:

"'Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

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I'm kinda shocked nobody has mentioned "The Archive of Mishear Lyrics"

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

[man]

does anyone listen to ratatat? at the beginning of "seventeen years," I thought the kid was saying:

"I've been grounded for about seventeen years. I don't like myself anymore, I can't get it out of my head. know what I'm saying? I can't do that. no disrespect, but that's how I am."

it's actually:

"I've been rapping for about seventeen years. I don't write my stuff anymore, I just take it from my head, know what I'm saying? I can do that.. no disrespect, but that's how I am."

I'm an idiot. (my friends still make fun of me for taht.)

[trying2learn]

my little brother used to sing, "don't go jason waterfalls..."

[Sponger15SB]

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my little sister used to sing, "don't go jason waterfalls..."

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FYP

Why the F would a guy listen to TLC, and actually sing it.

[trying2learn]

i think he was 9 at the time...it was adorable...if slightly gay.

[Aces McGee]

For a long time, my friends thought the line "Into the flood again" in Would? (Alice in Chains) was...

"Hail to the furniture"

-McGee

[chesspain]

Natalie Merchant

Pick any song--ten percent of the words will be unintelligible. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Harv72b]

A DJ on the local radio station does a game called "Bjork or gibberish". It's fairly self-explanatory.

Jimi Hendrix
Actual: "Whatever it is that girl put a spell on me."
Sounds like: "But every lizard girl put a spell on me."

Don't know if this one counts, since I don't think the band knew the lyrics when they recorded it, either:

Iron Butterly
Actual: "In the garden of eden baby..."
Heard (and song released as): "Ina-gadda-da-vida, baby"

[GrandmaStabone]

blink 182 - "watching, waiting, comis-erating"

I thought it was "watching, waiting, come as your eighteen"

[usmfan]

My wife's hilarious mis-heard:

AC-DC's "Dirty Deeds"
actual: "Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap."
heard: "Dirty jeans, you're laundry's clean."

[James Boston]

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"wrapped? up like a ??????, another rumor in the night, blinded by the light"


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reved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

I have no idea what that means, but I know that's what they're saying. It's more coherent in the Springsteen version. Everyone thinks Manfred Mann's Earth Band is saying "douche."

[Senor Cardgage]

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Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner - "Big Old Jet Airliner"

"Big Old Jed Had a Light On, don't carry me too far away"

Listen to it. It still think that's what it sounds like.

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I knew they obviously weren't the real lyrics, but as a kid this sounded EXACTLY like

"Big ol' Chad and a rhino, don't carry me too far away"

to me.

[Tron]

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My wife's hilarious mis-heard:

AC-DC's "Dirty Deeds"
actual: "Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap."
heard: "Dirty jeans, you're laundry's clean."

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I had a friend that though it was "Dirty DJ and the thunder chief"

[Joshssj4]

Tiny Dancer

And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

thought it was:

And now she's in me, always with me, Tony Danza in my pants

I actually did think this until people began to look at me funny when I sang this song.

[hotsauce615]

Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the light


Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night
NOT

Cut loose like a douche, another rubber in the night

[Lazymeatball]

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but what is the girl in the background saying on Weezer's "Beverley Hills"? I have the lyrics, but the background voice is not there.

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I also want to know this. Something like "in the hizzy."

And does anyone know that Missy Elliot song featuring Ludicrous "Rumors" which samples those little kids voices for the chorus from some old school rap song? What the hell is that all about, is that even english?

[kyro]

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My wife's hilarious mis-heard:

AC-DC's "Dirty Deeds"
actual: "Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap."
heard: "Dirty jeans, you're laundry's clean."

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I had a friend that though it was "Dirty DJ and the thunder chief"

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I thought it was Dirty deeds and the thundercheat. For the past 5 years I've been trying to figure out what the hell a thundercheat is

[Eurotrash]

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And does anyone know that Missy Elliot song featuring Ludicrous "Rumors" which samples those little kids voices for the chorus from some old school rap song? What the hell is that all about, is that even english?

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i think you're talking about Gossip Folks, and I have no idea if that was gibberish or what, but it sounded kind of cool.

[Nottom]

A friend of mine went to school with a guy who thought Def Leppard's "pour some suger on me" was "When war comes shoot your own leg"

They were in the car one day and his friend started singing when it came on the radio, and he just looked at him dumbfounded.

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I have no idea what the "lyrics" are for the The Go! Team album so I just sing my own -- they're pretty good.




[/ QUOTE ] I can't figure out those lyrics for the life of me.

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The Ramones' lyrics were impossible to figure out too.

http://www.mtv.com/news/images/archive/Ramone_Joey/sq_ramones_joey_church3.jpg

[zephed]

Hold me close and tie me down, sir.

Elton John plays it afterall!

I got one of those desk daily calendar things.

[HopeydaFish]

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Zeppelin:

..and she's buying a stairway to heaven

(sounded to me like)

..and she's barring a stairway to heaven



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In Stairway to Heaven there's also:

"And if you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last"

Sounds like:

"And if you listen very hard, a Jew will bother you a lot"

also in stairway,

"just a spring clean for the may queen"

sounds like

"just a sprinkling for the making"

[youtalkfunny]

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Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner - "Big Old Jet Airliner"

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I used to think it was "Please don't turn that light on."

Don't laugh, until you listen to it.

I was the only one in my peer group who recognized the word "Exodus", when my friends all heard, "The Excorcist is near," in The Who's Baba O'Reilly

And don't forget "We didn't start the fire", where Billy Joel sings about the "Children of Thalidomide". Tell me you didn't think he said, "Children of the little mind."

(BTW, "China's under martial law" was originally "Poison apples in the store", but the China line was inserted at the last minute, to reflect the then-current Tienamen protest.)

[NutCrackerr]

No Doubt - Spiderwebs

Actual - "I screen my phone calls"

Misheard - "I screem my balls off"

[diebitter]

BeeGees - How deep is your love

Heard:
And you come to me, on a submarine

was
And you come to me, on a summer breeze

[dibbs]

Tiny Dancer... an associate of mine always thought the lyric was "Hold me closer Tony Danza." Wow.

[maryfield48]

"Solidarity" by Black Uhuru was famously misheard as "Sorry Dorothy".

[Pinga]

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"wrapped? up like a ??????, another rumor in the night, blinded by the light"


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reved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

I have no idea what that means, but I know that's what they're saying. It's more coherent in the Springsteen version. Everyone thinks Manfred Mann's Earth Band is saying "douche."

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Ever heard the song, "Little Duece Coupe"? These old guys called the Beach Boys used to sing it.

http://image03.webshots.com/3/7/90/14/8279014xXcbnjykDp_ph.jpg

[Tom1975]

" I'm slim shady, yeah I'm the real shady, all you other slim shady's are just in my titty"

[IQ89]

Dead or Alive: You Spin Me Round


http://www.pure80spop.co.uk/Images/poppics/Peteburnsold.jpg

Actual:
You spin me right round
baby right round
like a record baby
right round round round

misheard:
You spin me rice roun
baby rice roun
like a record baby
rice roun roun roun

[ILL34GL3]

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also in stairway,

"just a spring clean for the may queen"

sounds like

"just a sprinkling for the making"

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Yeah when I heard that part that goes:

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
it's just a springclean for the May Queen"

I thought he was saying:

"If there's a disturbance in your bush don't worry about it,
You're just menstruating so you can be fertile again"

[The Truth]

[ QUOTE ]
but what is the girl in the background saying on Weezer's "Beverley Hills"? I have the lyrics, but the background voice is not there.

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I think its "Gimme gimme" like give me give me, but stupider.