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Misheard Pearl Jam Lyrics?

GivenToFly982GivenToFly982 Posts: 46
edited October 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
OK, most people have trouble understanding Ed's singing...even as a hardcore Pearl Jam fan, I have to admit Iv'e had a few PJ lyrics mixed up before. Like "No Way." The line that says "Of my need to not disappear" I could have sworn was "All I need tonight is a beer." Anyone else recently discover they had some lyrics mixed up?
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  • JesterTGameJesterTGame Posts: 109
    this is why i love pj. you hear an album 100 times and i still dont know the words. but you get kylie minogue and after one listen you know the song.
    i have done this on just about every song. great thread.
    Fuck me if i say somthing you dont want to hear,
    Fuck me if you only hear whats in your head.
    Fuck me if you can, coz im not leaving here.
  • lost codelost code Posts: 108
    go

    lyric - turned to my nemesis, a fool not a fucking god

    misheard lyric - turned to my nemesis and pulled a fucking gun
    ...caught a bolt of lightning, cursed the day he let it go...
  • Cropduster84Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    lost code wrote:
    go

    lyric - turned to my nemesis, a fool not a fucking god

    misheard lyric - turned to my nemesis and pulled a fucking gun

    When I first heard it I thought it was "turn to my missus" as in wife :D

    Oh the shame :(
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • spnoonespnoone Posts: 630
    some of the more common ones i've heard are:
    rats: lick the dirt off a larger one's feet/olajuwon's feet
    rvm: saw things/soybeans
    glorified g: pellet gun/pelican
    elderly woman: i'm not my former/i'm not my father
  • Shakespeare's_sisterShakespeare's_sister Posts: 21
    Cropduster84 wrote:
    When I first heard it I thought it was "turn to my missus" as in wife :D

    Oh the shame :(

    I thought that too. I heard "turned to my missus and pulled out a fucking gun"
    "And, when the doctor said I didn't have worms any more, that was the happiest day of my life."
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Before "Vs" was released, "Go" was called "Nemesis", or at least that's what the music papers and the bootleggers were calling it, circa July '93. That's how I always knew Ed was saying nemesis, not missus. Had I not known that though, I'd probably think he was saying missus. ;)
  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 734
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Before "Vs" was released, "Go" was called "Nemesis", or at least that's what the music papers and the bootleggers were calling it, circa July '93. That's how I always knew Ed was saying nemesis, not missus. Had I not known that though, I'd probably think he was saying missus. ;)

    it does say "nemesis" in the liner notes...but i never really looked until last week...i thought it was "nurses."

    ds
    And no one sings me lullabyes
    And no one makes me close my eyes
    So I throw the windows wide
    And call to you across the sky....
  • jodijodi Posts: 183
    i got the ten guitarbook. some lyrics in this book are wrong, which looks very stupid.
    the music seems to be correct, the lyrrics aren't..
    There's a light,... when my baby's in my arms...
    And I know she's reached my heart,... in thin air
  • LightYearLightYear Posts: 41
    The first time I heard Black on the radio I thought he said,

    "Her legs spread out before me, as her body once did."

    Paging Dr. Freud!
    "No time to be void or save up on life...
    You got to spend it all."
  • orig_bise2postorig_bise2post Posts: 193
    until yesterday i thought light years said

    "and what about stone? ... "

    instead it's

    "we were but stones..."
    "Nobody is ever promised tomorrow. Increase the peace."
    ~Juan Azize
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    I always thought the line was....


    I turn to my nemesis
    I fooled that fucking guy
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • corvedd3corvedd3 Posts: 6
    spnoone wrote:
    some of the more common ones i've heard are:
    rats: lick the dirt off a larger one's feet/olajuwon's feet
    rvm: saw things/soybeans
    glorified g: pellet gun/pelican

    i also got confused with glorified g, except i was 100% sure that it went "black virgin on a pelican":) i was singing that for a really long time, until my friend heard me, and told me that it is highly unlikely that those were the lyrics....after that i looked it up:)
    "niechaj to narodowie wżdy postronni znają, iż Polacy nie gęsi, iż swój język mają" - Mikołaj Rej
  • Lucky OneLucky One Posts: 94
    My wife thought Evolution was 'it's a Revoulution'
    I mean I dare you to sing "Black" and not feel it.
    I dare you.
    I've tried to phone in "Jeremy" a few times, and it's tough.
    It doesn't work.
  • heavymetalguitaristheavymetalguitarist Posts: 6
    edited November 2015
    I always got confused with Jeremy.

    "Drawing Pictures, of Mountain tops....", always seemed like, "drawing pictures, of my guitar..."

    LOL
    Post edited by heavymetalguitarist on
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  • Eddie_Vedder_83Eddie_Vedder_83 Posts: 281
    spnoone wrote:
    some of the more common ones i've heard are:
    rvm: saw things/soybeans

    hahahahahahahahaha
    ~It is better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not - ?~

    ~You laugh because I am different, I laugh because you are all the fucking same -?~

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  • Spot In The SkySpot In The Sky Posts: 1,175
    about the glorified g- i wasnt too off, but it still changes the meaning. i thought he said "turn to my nemisis, IM a fool not a fucking god" which would go along with when he says "i shit and i stink, im real join the club" but he doesnt say IM a fool, so it does kinda change what hes saying
    "The world is dangerous, feel safe here tonight..." EV 9/17/06

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  • icfootstepsicfootsteps Posts: 7
    As a relatively new PJ fan, I thought Black said "her legs spread out before me" until about 2 minutes ago, and that "Dirty Frank" said the "booby" was getting chopped up in the back (not groupie.) Oh well. :o)
  • ucsbucsb Posts: 58
    hey lost code......thats exactly what i thought :)
  • ucsbucsb Posts: 58
    my bro thought that glorified G line was "good vibrations will let it come"....me and my friends would just laugh our asses about this....but he was sooooo confused cuz he was like only 9 years old..lol :)
  • FitzburghFitzburgh Posts: 29
    jodi wrote:
    i got the ten guitarbook. some lyrics in this book are wrong, which looks very stupid.
    the music seems to be correct, the lyrrics aren't..


    I was going to get the Ten Bass Guitar book, then I re-read the liner notes and it said that all Ament used were 8 string, 10 string, and fretless basses. Boy, did I luck out on that one.
    kthxbai
  • Pearl_Jam_NecklacePearl_Jam_Necklace Posts: 501
    Shakespeare's_sister wrote:
    I thought that too. I heard "turned to my missus and pulled out a fucking gun"
    hahaha good one
    ...It's only after disaster that we can be resurrected...
    it's only after you've lost everything ...that you are free to do anything....(Fight Club)

    ... I'll ride the wave...where it takes me....
  • Pearl_Jam_NecklacePearl_Jam_Necklace Posts: 501
    my son thought he was saying jeremys smoking....
    ...It's only after disaster that we can be resurrected...
    it's only after you've lost everything ...that you are free to do anything....(Fight Club)

    ... I'll ride the wave...where it takes me....
  • Off_EK_GoesOff_EK_Goes Posts: 22
    Hearts and Farts they fade .. fade awaaay. ;)
  • St. NickSt. Nick Posts: 72
    Turned to my nemesis, opposed my fucking god. I still think it's sounds quite logical.
  • PuckJamPuckJam Posts: 94
    I knew this wasn't what the lyrics actually were, it wouldn't make sense. However, in Insignifigance when he sings "It's instilled.....to wanna liiiiiiive!" I always heard "It's insane.....chew on a leeeeeeg!"
  • sicnevolsicnevol Posts: 180
    I had alot of those, I started sleeping with the CD's on and now It's like 100 times easier to decipher what eddie is saying.
    That's two things we've got, Tape and Time.
  • YellowTremorYellowTremor Posts: 13
    I had a weird one with the lyrics to Green Disease. Mind you. I make it my mission to know all the lyrics properly, and i have never really had a mistake(maybe 1 word, or just forgetting it), until this one...

    LYRICS: Believe me just asking you to sway.No white or black just grey.
    Can you feel this world with your heart and not your brain?

    MISHEARD LYRICS: Believe me , just asking you to stay. No I don't, practise breaking your feelings... One with your heart and not your brain?

    Oh the embarrasment when i found out... Only knew because i was going to use them in my msn username so went on lukin to get it properly! HA! lol
    She said to me, over the phone...She wanted to see other people... I thought:
    "Well then, look around, they're everywhere"
    Said that she was confused... I thought:
    "Darling, join the club"
  • PearlsofJamPearlsofJam Posts: 226
    Found a website.
    These are really funny:
    http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/pearljam.shtml

    Misheard Lyrics:
    And now my bigger a**, cradles stolen hash.
    or
    And now my better half, rests on broken glass.
    Correct Lyrics:
    And now my bitter hands, cradle broken glass.
    "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers"
    William Somerset Maugham

    Jessica
  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 734
    Faithful...

    actual: M-Y-T-H is belief in the game controls that keeps us in a box of fear,
    we never listen...

    what i heard: and while teenagers believe in the game controls that keep us in a box of fear, we never listen...

    ds
    And no one sings me lullabyes
    And no one makes me close my eyes
    So I throw the windows wide
    And call to you across the sky....
  • Julia_89Julia_89 Posts: 12
    when misheard pj lyrics come to my mind, i think of when i was little i thought evenflow was "even though"...and i was sure of it and was convinced that it made sense, then one day the DJ said "that was even flow by pearl jam" and i was like....whoa. Lame but true lol
    I don't post alot. Sorry.
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    6/22/08 PEARL JAM IN DC, FIRST SHOW EVERRRRRRRRRRR FUCK YEEUH!
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