The funniest one I can remember was Jeremy was in regular play on the radio and MTV. One time my sister was walking through the house shouting: "Jeremy spoken, yeeeeeeeeeeeees he diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid!" I damn near pissed myself!
When I first got Vitalogy, I thought the one line in Last Exit was "Better move forward, at last we begin" instead of "For better or for worse, best we began."
My brother thought that "sorry you didn't see him but I'm glad we talked..." in Alive was actually "sorry you didn't see him but I'm playing guitar". I haven't been able to sing the correct lyrics since his confession. Every time I hear Alive now, those are the lyrics I hear.
Ha, I too thought this for the longest time.
One of my many:
I was pissing, must have been the devil, he was just plain mean.
I don't understand how fist makes any sense. or any more sense. Is someone smashing their hand down on the plate or what?
So I think : parent gets angry at kid that doesn't want to eat, smashes their hand down on the plate, kid is scared, finishes it up. Song about child abuse there, IMO. Never heard "pissed on my plate" there. Probably 'cause it was too gross to picture !
Glorified version of a pelican.....from my friend...would sing Glorified G outloud and for like a month was postive it was pelican...too funny no one wanted to tell him he was way off base.....
I cant say I ever sang it out loud, but I know for a fact that my dad and I thought it was pelican for weeks. Then finally one day he just heard it right and we laughed. We still say pelican for fun.
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My brother thought that "sorry you didn't see him but I'm glad we talked..." in Alive was actually "sorry you didn't see him but I'm playing guitar". I haven't been able to sing the correct lyrics since his confession. Every time I hear Alive now, those are the lyrics I hear.
Ha, I too thought this for the longest time.
One of my many:
I was pissing, must have been the devil, he was just plain mean.
NO WAY! I DODNT KNOW THAT UNTIL RIGHT NOW!
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"Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Glide me towards you"
For ages I used to sing....
"Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Like we told you"
:eek:
OMG until I read this I actually thought that was it....I don't usually look up lyrics unless I can't figure them out and I thought I was right on this one!!! DUH :oops:
This thread is hilarious!! I have been giggling for aaaaaages!!
My worst misheard lyric is actually from Tool- Eulogy
The lyrics are - "Why then are you so surprised when you hear your own Eulogy?"
The lyrics i heard..and OMG LOL LOL LOL - "Why then are you so surprised when you're off and you love Jenny"
... wait ... WHAT??
The song is called "Eulogy" you Freaking IDIOT!!! How did you get "Jenny" out of "Eulogy"??? LOL!!!!!
To this day i feel like a complete TOOL...mind the pun!!
I spend a lot of my free time at night researching lyrics these days. Not the most productive use of my time, but i actually find it really relaxing, possibly the way some people find reading poetry relaxing/enjoyable!!
oy...first post here...I have been lurking for so long...but I can't pass this up...when that song "Cult of Personality" came out (yeah, I am dating myself) I had a friend who thought when they sing at the end "I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of, I'm the cult of...) that they were singing...."I need a tow truck, I need a tow truck, I need a tow truck"
Also...Biggie Smalls..."I love it when you call me Big Papa" he thought the lyrics were "I wake up in the morning with a pocketbook..."
Glorified version of a pelican.....from my friend...would sing Glorified G outloud and for like a month was postive it was pelican...too funny no one wanted to tell him he was way off base.....
I always thought it was Glorified version of Elliot Gould. What the hell does Elliot Gould have to do with a Pearl Jam song?? who knows
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In Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower," when he sings "the hour is getting late," I used to think he was singing "but I was getting laid!" I still hear it, actually....and the "YEAH!" that immediately follows makes it even funnier to me
I read the following in a similar thread a few months ago, and now this is what I hear instead of the real lyrics. In Go I hear:
"Turned to my mrs, I pulled out my fucking cock."
instead of
"Turned to my nemesis, a fool, not a fucking god."
There are others, but none quite as funny as that.
I always heard "tell my nemesis, before you're fucking gone"
In "Rearview Mirror," one of my friends thought Ed was singing "Soap is so much cleaner...wash you, wash you" rather than "Saw things so much clearer" -- damnit, I still hear it too!
A roommate also thought in "Daughter" the lyric was "The pager left will remind me" -- of course, that's when pagers were still around
When I was a kid I thought AC/DC's
"Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap"
was
"Dirty Deeds, Thunder Chief."
I thought the song was about an bad indian chief or something...
i always thought it was dirty deeds done with sheep?
my fav non pearl jam misheard lyric is rolling stones beasts of burden "i ll never be your beast of burden" sang "i ll never leave your pizza burning" or bon jovi's living on a prayer "sitting on a chair"
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Unless those really are the lyrics.
When I first got Vitalogy, I thought the one line in Last Exit was "Better move forward, at last we begin" instead of "For better or for worse, best we began."
"dark grin, he can't help, when he's happy looks insane" in even flow
were "girlfriend he can't have when his habit looks insane"
Which i actually think is bang on if you consider the context of the song.
Try it next time you listen, it makes perfect sense to me, I still sing it that way even after learning i was wrong, ha!
Instead of "It doesn't hurt when I bleed"
I heard "It doesn't hurt when I pee."
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Ha, I too thought this for the longest time.
One of my many:
I was pissing, must have been the devil, he was just plain mean.
So I think : parent gets angry at kid that doesn't want to eat, smashes their hand down on the plate, kid is scared, finishes it up. Song about child abuse there, IMO. Never heard "pissed on my plate" there. Probably 'cause it was too gross to picture !
BEST!
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NO WAY! I DODNT KNOW THAT UNTIL RIGHT NOW!
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thats TOO funny!!!!!!
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Now I'll always hear that
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My worst misheard lyric is actually from Tool- Eulogy
The lyrics are - "Why then are you so surprised when you hear your own Eulogy?"
The lyrics i heard..and OMG LOL LOL LOL - "Why then are you so surprised when you're off and you love Jenny"
... wait ... WHAT??
The song is called "Eulogy" you Freaking IDIOT!!! How did you get "Jenny" out of "Eulogy"??? LOL!!!!!
To this day i feel like a complete TOOL...mind the pun!!
I spend a lot of my free time at night researching lyrics these days. Not the most productive use of my time, but i actually find it really relaxing, possibly the way some people find reading poetry relaxing/enjoyable!!
Also...Biggie Smalls..."I love it when you call me Big Papa" he thought the lyrics were "I wake up in the morning with a pocketbook..."
great thread...
I always thought it was Glorified version of Elliot Gould. What the hell does Elliot Gould have to do with a Pearl Jam song?? who knows
Tres Mts. 3/27/11
EV Solo:Providence 6/15/11 Boston 6/16/11 Hartford 6/18/11
PJ20 9/3/11-9/4/11
Concert Wishlist: I am Mine, Marker in the Sand, Parachutes, In Hiding, All Those Yesterdays, I Got Shit, Long Road, Light Years
I always thought:
Actual: "tatooed all I see"
Misheard "tatooed on high seas"
Like they were pirates or something.
Tres Mts. 3/27/11
EV Solo:Providence 6/15/11 Boston 6/16/11 Hartford 6/18/11
PJ20 9/3/11-9/4/11
Concert Wishlist: I am Mine, Marker in the Sand, Parachutes, In Hiding, All Those Yesterdays, I Got Shit, Long Road, Light Years
mine was glorified version of a pelican
his dad had a sex change operation and was known to him as aunty diane.
um.
not really, but would make for an interesting movie.
I always heard "tell my nemesis, before you're fucking gone"
"Without pain, now I'm pee pee" :problem: really stood out, but that isn't where it ended.
http://www.pandora.com/music/song/pearl+jam/once#lyrics
without pain, now I'm pee pee is going to be stuck in my head for a long time
ACTUAL: Oh I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey, I, I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey...oh...
I can't be the only one who thought the lyrics were "don't worry I'm still alive" the first thousand times i heard it
"and echoes, nobody hears...."
but I often hear it as
"like geckos........"
which makes me think of the silly gecko in those Geico commercials.
A roommate also thought in "Daughter" the lyric was "The pager left will remind me" -- of course, that's when pagers were still around