Misheard lyrics

The Waiting Trophy Man
The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
edited July 2008 in Other Music
What a wonderful world - "dark sacred nights" i thought was "dogs say goodnight" :D
Another habit says it's in love with you
Another habit says its long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
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  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    The Mars Volta - "Inertiatic ESP"... "Now I'm lost." I thought he said, "No Arms!!"
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  • stu gee
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    Gloria Estefan - Rhythm is Gonna Get You

    When i was a kid and that was on the radio i thought she was saying 'Tristrum is gonna get you'. I remember thinking who the hell is tristrum?
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  • robble
    robble Posts: 63
    i use to go regularly to a blues night at one of my frequents, they covered billy boy arnolds "i wish you would" the singer would slur the line "come back baby won't cha" but pronounced won't cha as wontsha , i thought he was singing "woodshack"
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  • Lizard
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    Just yesterday I realized I always sang "just like the ONE winged dove" instead of "WHITE winged dove'!! :o

    my husband got a kick out of that visual!
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  • Joe2TheRevenge
    Joe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    When i listened to Purple Haze, i used to think Jimi was saying "Excuse me while i kiss the sky"

    When in actuality he was really saying "Excuse me while i kiss this guy"
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  • Vedder Lukin Good
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  • sweetlewgrl
    sweetlewgrl Posts: 27
    in comatose....
    i thought he said curl my toes!!
  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    When i listened to Purple Haze, i used to think Jimi was saying "Excuse me while i kiss the sky"

    When in actuality he was really saying "Excuse me while i kiss this guy"

    Actually, you had it right. This is one of the most mishead lyrics in rock, with many people hearing it as "kiss this guy." It is in fact "kiss the sky," but Jimi used to have a lot of fun with it during live performances. I did a linguistics paper on this lyric along with the often misheard lyric from Black Sabbath's Paranoid (he sings "I tell you to enjoy life. . ." with people hearing it as "I tell you to end your life.")
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • strummers
    strummers Posts: 2,611
    In Rats my other half thought the line "Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet" was "lick the dirt off Olajuwon's feet" (as in Hakeem).

    Also, a friend thought the line in The Manic Street Preacher's Faster "So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything" was "Sodamese is a CareBear, mad cows everything" - if you listen it does actually sound like that!
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    strummers wrote:
    In Rats my other half thought the line "Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet" was "lick the dirt off Olajuwon's feet" (as in Hakeem).

    On the way to Mansfield, my husband asked me if that was what Eddie was singing.
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  • xSmackSoundx
    xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    for a while in "marker in the sand" when eddie says "walking tightrope high" I thought he was saying "fucking tired of life" listen to it... its believable
  • Echo27
    Echo27 Posts: 57
    In "Rocket" by Def Leppard I always thought he was saying "Get your...drugs!" instead of "Guitar...drums!".

    It also still kills me that McCready thought it was "I wanna rock and rock all night, and PART OF every day". I crack the hell up whenever I hear that song now.
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  • Brain Of E
    Brain Of E Posts: 499
    boroff89 wrote:
    Actually, you had it right. This is one of the most mishead lyrics in rock, with many people hearing it as "kiss this guy." It is in fact "kiss the sky," but Jimi used to have a lot of fun with it during live performances. I did a linguistics paper on this lyric along with the often misheard lyric from Black Sabbath's Paranoid (he sings "I tell you to enjoy life. . ." with people hearing it as "I tell you to end your life.")

    i think he was being sarcastic
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  • Joe2TheRevenge
    Joe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    Brain Of E wrote:
    i think he was being sarcastic

    you win a cookie.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,690
    wow, i always thought the lyrics for The Beastie Boys song "Hey Ladies" went like this:
    ..... Tom Foolery
    women on tv wear their hair like Chuck Woolery

    real lyrics:
    Date women on T.V. with the help of Chuck Woolery

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 42,010
    Beastie Boys "Looking down the barrel of a gun"

    "Life comes in phases you Take good with the bad"

    I thought he said "Moo goo gai pan"
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,690
    aren't these the correct lyrics?  :p

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