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Most misheard Pearl Jam lyrics

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  • bisquitzapperbisquitzapper Posts: 3
    i always thought a line in i got shit in the second verse was:and i just smile while i wait for the train,but im not ugly and your looking at me,and i stare back through blue eyes i kill you, if just once i could be alone id stare back at me yeah.
  • AtlantaJammerAtlantaJammer Posts: 2,611
    Still convinced it is... her legs spread out before me....
  • PaulBrownPaulBrown Posts: 2
    I think the misinterpretation for Black came from the guitar book for Ten that was out. I remember a couple years ago I bought one at an HMV(which someone must have stole because it's vanished). In the book it had the lyrics for all the Ten songs, and "her legs spread out before me" was what was written for Black. It confused me and I immediately went here:

    http://www.tenclub.net/songs/song.php?song=Black

    ...to check. I'm assuming that most people that gather lyrics to post at the billions of lyric websites out there, got their lyrics from that book.
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  • vedderfan10vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    "My tea and coffee are strong..."

    should be "I feel cocky and strong"....Or is "I'm feeling cocky and strong"?
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  • SchroecoSchroeco Posts: 2
    Thought the lyric was Trebuchet aimed right at my face

    Found out it was and the Barrel shakes aimed right at my face
  • SnakeSnake Posts: 2,605
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    pissed on my plate, swallowed it down.....:p
    Thats exactly what I heard man!
    Pirates had democracy too.

    "Its a secret to everybody."
  • cellar doorcellar door Posts: 5
    risa wrote:
    heard: her legs spread out before me (as her body once did)

    actual: Were laid spread out before me (as her body once did)

    me too! i was slightly confused, thought it was some sort of weird sexual inuendo or something...
  • guitar_daveyguitar_davey Posts: 111
    ...oh party time!
  • guitar_daveyguitar_davey Posts: 111
    cellar door wrote:
    me too! i was slightly confused, thought it was some sort of weird sexual inuendo or something...


    If those were really the lyrics, there wouldn't be much innuendo there--just straight up smut! lol
  • littlepearllittlepearl Posts: 3
    a friend of mine..
    interpretation: "zonk the wombat"
    actual: "don't go on me"

    hehehehehe.. makes me chuckle. he was adamant that it was all about the wombat (may have had something to do w/ the copious amounts of alcomohol and greenery that evening entailed)
  • EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 2,937
    In the plastic abbey

    instead of:

    In the pasts we carry

    D'oh!
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  • SlavkoSlavko Posts: 19
    for a long time i had an old version of ''whipping'' entitled ''don't need''
    and i thought ''they're whipping'' was ''help meeee''
    when i heard the studio version i thought ''why did they change the song?''
    i still sing it as help meeeee...
  • phillyfanphillyfan Posts: 831
    GivenToFly982 wrote:
    search for Yellow Ledbetter as well...hilarious
    that is a good one
    If you hate something dont you do it too
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  • _Hockey_Mom_Hockey_Mom Posts: 105
    risa wrote:
    heard: her legs spread out before me (as her body once did)

    actual: Were laid spread out before me (as her body once did)

    Me too! lol
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  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    "i've been harboring fleets in this reservoir " I thought was
    "i've been harboring FLEECE in this reservoir." I pictured a big resi filled with sheep.
  • veddingsingerveddingsinger Posts: 21
    "Yellow Ledbetter"

    Great song.

    Nice combination of Hendrix guitar style and Dylanesque speech intelligibility.
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    AndiM wrote:
    Well, instead of "Jeremy has spoken" I always heard something along the lines of "Tell me he's broken". Couldn't make it meaningful to myself, but still was surprised to find out the real lines :D.
    I thought for a long time that it was "Jeremy's smoking...plastic"
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    squizzlefritz wrote:
    Me too! lol
    :eek: ME TOO!!!!!!
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
  • olivineolivine Posts: 19
    Just remembered an old one.

    State of Love and Trust

    I always hear "pain to declare" instead of "pain, painfully quick".
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    Schroeco wrote:
    Thought the lyric was Trebuchet aimed right at my face

    Found out it was and the Barrel shakes aimed right at my face
    shit! I thought it was "Trigger shaped, aimed right at my head".
    Realise it makes no sense :rolleyes:
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    cymbolic_music wrote:


    Do you think those names would work if PJ did an Across the Universe type of thing? (where the characters are named Jude, Prudence, etc)


    that is actually a clever idea...
    I wonder what a PJ movie would be about...
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    velogator wrote:
    In one of the concert boots I have on cd, or maybe its Benaroya?? Ed is talking about misheard lyrics and says that the funniest one to him is that Mike Mcready thought that in Kiss', "Rock and Roll all Night", were the real lyric is:

    "I want to rock and roll all night and Party everyday"

    Mike thought it was:

    "I want to rock and roll all night, and part of everyday" :-)

    yeah that's benaroya, i think after Lukin' because he starts talking about how those lyrics are often misheard.

    funny stuff.
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    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
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  • mnpjgrrlmnpjgrrl Posts: 38
    I thought the beginning of "Wishlist" was

    I wish I was a new trombone, for once I could go off!

    Makes sense right? You know how those pesky trombones are always going off.
  • whoyouare72whoyouare72 Posts: 2,154
    I think in Corduroy Ed is saying:

    Everything has chains
    Absolutely nothing's changed, ahh take my hand...

    DUH I just looked up the lyrics and those are the lyrics....
  • ToneTone Posts: 1,206
    risa wrote:
    heard: her legs spread out before me (as her body once did)

    actual: Were laid spread out before me (as her body once did)

    Add me to that list, but I think it's cause I saw the misprinted lyrics (as mentioned by others). I remember even having an argument with a friend about which was correct.

    Love this thread! Big LOL to "pissed on my plate", I think I did hear that at first too, but I can't really remember now.
    whoareyou72 wrote:
    I think in Corduroy Ed is saying:

    Everything has chains
    Absolutely nothing's changed, ahh take my hand...

    DUH I just looked up the lyrics and those are the lyrics....

    Umm, okay, thanks for letting me know! I don't think I ever looked those up and thought it was "everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed"

    Thanks! LOL ;)
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  • ToneTone Posts: 1,206
    GivenToFly982 wrote:
    search for Yellow Ledbetter as well...hilarious

    Holy shitballs is that ever funny! I snorted everytime "potato wave" came up. Thanks for directing me to a great laugh! :D
    Glaciers melting in the dead of night and the superstars sucked into the supermassive.
  • jessejesse Posts: 170
    animal i thought it said " took shit from you to me" instead of "torture from you to me"
  • 395486pj10395486pj10 Posts: 95
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    pissed on my plate, swallowed it down.....:p


    I thought that's what it was for the longest time!
  • overstandoverstand Posts: 54
    ..."a young girl, violence, center of a rhododendrun..." daughter..
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    overstand wrote:
    ..."a young girl, violence, center of a rhododendrun..." daughter..
    im a Florist...so that really made me laugh :D
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
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