Misheard Pearl Jam Lyrics?

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  • Wow, I was totally wrong about Black lyrics. Makes sense though.
    Nature has its own religion...
  • I thought it was pelicans as well for a long time. Ooops.

    I know someone who always used to sing Alive:
    ...sorry you didn't see him, but I'm playing guitar!...

    (funny thread)
  • meme wrote:
    Ashamed to say, but in black, at the beginning, I thought Ed said:

    Her legs spread out before me...

    Glad I'm not the only one! I posted this earlier in the thread.
    "No time to be void or save up on life...
    You got to spend it all."
  • 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.

    Those were funny, although a little far-fetched....its hard to imagine anyone, even someone who has never even heard of Pearl Jam before, thinking Ed was saying "And I smoke, smoke, Winston's, Winston's" instead of "And if so, if so, who answers, who answers."

    And I think "All I need tonight is a beer" would have made sense in "No Way." :D
  • Turned to my nemesis....pulled it on fucking god

    Thats what i believed for years
  • MFC: "Ask I'm an ear" I heard as "Ask Scotland Yard"!
  • neboyneboy Posts: 4
    Commy wrote:
    Unsealed, on a porch a letter sat
    Then you said, 'I wanna leave it again'
    Once I saw her...on a beach of weathered sand
    Then you said...I wanna leave it again, yeah...
    On a weekend, I wanna wish it all away, yeah...
    And they called and I said that I want what I said...
    And then I call out again...
    And the reasons, oughta leave her calm...I know
    I said, 'I know what I wear, not a boxer or the bag'
    Ah yeah...can you see them?
    Out on the porch, yeah, but they don't wave
    I see them, round the front way, yeah...
    And I know that I know...I don't want to stay
    Make me cry...

    I see, ooh...I don't know why there's something else
    I wanna drum it all away
    Oh, I said, I don't, I don't know whether I was the boxer or the bag
    Ah yeah...can you see them?
    Out on the porch, yeah, but they don't wave
    I see them, round the front way, yeah...
    And I know, that I know, I don't wanna stay alone...
    I don't wanna stay...yeah...
    I don't wanna stay... (2x)
    I don't, don't wanna, oh...yeah...ooh...ohh...



    Close anyway...

    What was he smoking when he was singing it, bcuz damn! Kick a** song though!
    Quit looking, you just might find it.
    x Neboy
  • SmileSmile Posts: 25
    I have listened to several versions of Black on the bootlegs...each one that I've heard contains the following lyric:

    "...Her legs spread out before me as her body lays still."

    Peace.
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Smile wrote:
    I have listened to several versions of Black on the bootlegs...each one that I've heard contains the following lyric:

    "...Her legs spread out before me as her body lays still."

    Peace.

    it's your mind playing tricks on you. listen to it again with a cleared mind.
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  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    MFC: "Ask I'm an ear" I heard as "Ask Scotland Yard"!

    that is amazing! I can't even imagine that...they sound nothing alike....gotta be one of the strangest mis-hearings I'm aware of....
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  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Mitchacho wrote:
    i thought jeremy was '...lemony snickets son' instead of 'lemon yellow sun'...haha nah just kidding.

    but black has bugged me, because i am certain that it is 'now my bitter hands, shake beneath the clouds'...but some people insist on 'chafe beneath the clouds'. i mean, hands dont chafe, and thats just stupid. also, i have a really cool wallpaper picture with the black lyrics and eddie, but someone spoiled it by writing Chafe in it. sooo annoying when something stupid like that happens.

    p.s. i hope it isnt Chafe or ill snap

    Be cool. It's definitely shake.
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  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Here's my own personal favorite mis-hearing...I might have already posted it...but anyway....in Fatal, instead of "When April's in May" I heard "With Eggrolls in Mayo."
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  • PJaholic wrote:
    My Dad who is a HUGE PJ fan but terrible with lyrics thought in Daughter he was saying "Young girl, Violin" istead of "Young girl, Violence".

    i also believed it was violins for years....definetly sometimes it's pretty hard to get what ed's saying....
    sourepithaphs
  • Echo27Echo27 Posts: 57
    in Breath, after he says "a breath and we'll all reach the door", it sounded to me like he said "oh...and I got a lotta head"!
    "I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?"
  • i also believed it was violins for years....definetly sometimes it's pretty hard to get what ed's saying....

    Believe it or not your dad and you are both right. In the lyric booket it has "Violins(ence)" :)
    "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend" - STP

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  • DarkStar wrote:
    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

    Okay, you just blew my mind.
    I thought he was saying, "And we're teenagers leaving the game".
    "Those who dance are called insane by people who don't hear the music."
  • andjaandja Posts: 14
    Those were funny, although a little far-fetched....its hard to imagine anyone, even someone who has never even heard of Pearl Jam before, thinking Ed was saying "And I smoke, smoke, Winston's, Winston's" instead of "And if so, if so, who answers, who answers."

    And I think "All I need tonight is a beer" would have made sense in "No Way." :D
    The best one hilarious
  • andjaandja Posts: 14
    Can you imagine what it feels like for us when our mother tongue is not English?
    At least you misheard it for another word,but we...... we are creating dozens of new words.

    BTW BEST THREAD EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    PS When I first heard Jeremy,in my high school,oh gee was it a puzzle!!!!-
  • I know it's "I'll swallow poison until I grow immune" but I like to say "I'll swallow poison until I grow a mule" :)
    Lost nine friends we'll never know five years ago today...
  • Oh and I truely thinks Daughter says "Violins" but that's funny, I never noticed the (ence) in the CD insert before.
    .


    Until I read this post, I though it was "violins." Hmmmm... Guess I should pay more attention.

    Also when I first heard "Animal" I thought it was "I gotta be" instead of "I'd rather be"
    The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head...
  • LightYear wrote:
    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!

    I thought that was the proper lyric. *blushes* What is it?
    "And all the thoughts that spin...'round my head... I'm spinning... I'm spinning...how quick the sun can drop away"

    "Don't it always seem to go... you don't know what you've got till its gone...they paved paradise...and put up a parking lot..."

    ".... Your dreams.......I see......................"
  • mickmick Posts: 4
    Its seems there are quite a few mishearings of that one specific line in 'Go.' So I thought I'd share mine, although not as humorous as others ....
    '... I turned to my nemesis, A full-on fucking God...'
  • PuckJamPuckJam Posts: 94
    I always thought the "Turn to my nemesis..." line in Go was "Return to my messes....a fool now it's fucking gone!"
  • SmileSmile Posts: 25
    I thought that was the proper lyric. *blushes* What is it?

    The proper lyric in Black is "her legs spread out before me..."

    I know that some folks think it's something different, but I believe otherwise.

    Peace.
  • MerkyjammMerkyjamm Posts: 272
    I definitely agree about Black, and the liner notes for Ten and Vs. make it SO hard to decipher the words. Corduroy is a giggle as well, considerin' how they forgot to put that in the Vitalogy book.

    I always hear: "The waiting drove me mad, I'm finally here and you're a mess, even though I KNOW it goes the other way round. S'funny.

    And Lukin? Forget it, I still don't know it all. I got the lyrics off the net and still find it obscenely hard to catch!

    And finally, I, too, will admit to the 'pelican' part of Glorified G, but I quickly looked it up, seeing as how it made next to no sense.

    And I always hear "f**king face" on Leash, I was sure of it!!!
    Too many cowboys, not enough indians, so just go ape shit!

    I may be boring but at least I'm not Jack fucking Johnson.

    TV is such shit; let's go outside and ride bicycles, right now!

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  • SmileSmile Posts: 25
    Merkyjamm wrote:
    And I always hear "f**king face" on Leash, I was sure of it!!!

    Yes, Ed more often than not sings "F**king face" on live versions. I think that is what he wants it to be, but on the studio version he sings "lucky face" since it's a song about youth and he doesn't want parents in an uproar over their kids singing along to a song that says "F**king" throughout the whole piece. That's what I think, anyway.

    Peace.
  • 5 years ago someone I worked w/ who wasnt even a fan but knew the song thought jeremey was

    jeremy's smokin graaaaaaaaaasssss today

    I always laugh a little bit when I think of that
    I am a rhinoceros and my skin is two feet thick
  • igotpjigotpj Posts: 187
    LightYear wrote:
    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!

    Yeah, me too!
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  • mickmick Posts: 4
    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

    I 100% thought the lyrics for Green Disease were what you thought they were. Infact I had a little giggle thinking the right lyrics were your misinterpretation of the real ones. I would have bet my entire life savings and everything I own that the corrrect lyrics were incorrect. But I have since listened, and looked in the liner notes and .... well lets just say I'm lucky I never made a bet. Wo man, you have changed my life in a small way. I do think the misheard lyrics work well also though.
  • mickmick Posts: 4
    can I ask a favour of any pj purists out there. I've had a heck of a lot of trouble with a line in hitchhiker. Its right at the end of the last verse.
    '... go tell all of your friends, I'm _____________ ...." I have absolutley no idea what Ed sings there. I've tried many internet searches for it, and none satisfy. A lot try to sell that the line is 'I'm an idiot and your great,' but I just don't buy that. It doesn't fit the rest of the song at all. I would appreciate any help on this one.... its been driving me nuts every time I listen to the song.
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