Best Misheard Lyrics

boxwine_in_hell
boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
edited March 2007 in Other Music
Somebody had some pretty humorous misheard lyrics over on another thread of a PJ song and this got me thinking about this topic. I have always been pretty good at picking up on lyrics but my wife is horrible. My favorite one of hers is the old Asia classic, "Heat of the Moment."

My wife for years thought they were saying

"He loving woman"

What's the best/worst misheard lyrics you've ever heard?
one foot in the door
the other foot in the gutter
sweet smell that they adore
I think I'd rather smother
-The Replacements-
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,016
    When I was little, I thought Paul was yelling "That puppy love" rather than "Can't Buy Me Love." lol
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  • RyeGuy
    RyeGuy Posts: 215
    Mike Mccready thought the line in a Kiss song was "Rock all night and part of everyday"
    "Makes much more sense to live in the present tense." Ed Ved

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  • bladworth116
    bladworth116 Posts: 344
    Brian Setzer's "Jump, Jive & Wail" always sounds like "you gotta drunk drive & then you wail"
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    bladworth116 wrote:
    Brian Setzer's "Jump, Jive & Wail" always sounds like "you gotta drunk drive & then you wail"

    That actually makes sense.....especially if you get pulled over for DUI.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • Clifwith1f
    Clifwith1f Posts: 143
    My mom thought "There's a bad moon on the rise" was: "there's a bathroom on the right"
  • Arctangent
    Arctangent Posts: 614
    i know someone who thought that on leash pearl jam were singing japanese, japanese... get out of my fucking face!

    i have always prefered the rspb version of another track from that same album - glorifed version of a pelican!
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    Arctangent wrote:
    i know someone who thought that on leash pearl jam were singing japanese, japanese... get out of my fucking face!

    i have always prefered the rspb version of another track from that same album - glorifed version of a pelican!

    Those are hilarious. Great now I'll never listen to those songs the same way again.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • ramspam
    ramspam Posts: 130
    Last christmas for some reason we were talking about Simon and Garfunkel and my cousin (24ish female) began singing "hello Douglass my old friend", as thats what she thought it was.
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  • this is not for you
    this is not for you Posts: 240
    lmfao me and my friend were listening to some nirvana in our ict class..

    listen to stay away the last ever line before the drum soloy-bit

    it sounds like kurt says

    stay away
    stay away
    stay away
    callums gay



    and yes my mates name was callum LOL
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Years ago my mom wanted to buy some music for my sister. She browsed music store looking for a band called Hauling Oats. :)
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    cutback wrote:
    Years ago my mom wanted to buy some music for my sister. She browsed music store looking for a band called Hauling Oats. :)

    I'm sure there's a Hall & Oats tribute band out there looking for a name....oh wait, the Hall and Oats tribute band window probably closed a long time ago. What a shame it would have been a great name.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    boxwine_in_hell wrote:
    I'm sure there's a Hall & Oats tribute band out there looking for a name....oh wait, the Hall and Oats tribute band window probably closed a long time ago. What a shame it would have been a great name.

    :D:D
  • JSP552003
    JSP552003 Posts: 222
    i thought of one of my friends as soon as i read the title, here's just a couple i've heard from him

    "livin' on a prairie"....Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer, his excuse was "there's a prairie in the video"

    and i have no idea how so don't ask but he actually thought it was "poison arrow"....Metallica - holier than thou
  • FoxyRedLa
    FoxyRedLa Lauren / MI Posts: 4,810
    Clifwith1f said:

    My mom thought "There's a bad moon on the rise" was: "there's a bathroom on the right"

    :rofl:


    Ok so like a week ago I learned that Clapton does not sing a song called "Heeeey Love" in fact it's a song by Derek and the Domino's and they're singing "Layla" bahahha I was devistated! :lol:

    My sister when younger thought Van Halen was singing about "Panty hose!" "Panty hose hose hose hose" bahaha :lol: she hates when I text her panty hose :smiley:

    Even funnier my husband thought they were singing "had enough!"bahaha I said babe the song is called Panama. He still doesn't believe me.
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  • whypitythedead
    whypitythedead Posts: 32
    norm said:

    Years ago my mom wanted to buy some music for my sister. She browsed music store looking for a band called Hauling Oats. :)

    A little while back Ron Bennington actually did this exact premise on his show. Speaking of Hall & Oates, one caller thought Rich Girl was them being cocky singing "You can rely on the Oates man's money." Best one I've heard

  • hauntingfamiliar
    hauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,401
    On Mercury - RHCP

    First line of that song. I just figured out this morning that he was saying,

    "I've got myself in a masochistic hold"

    And not

    "I got myself a masochistic ho"

    LMBO!!
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    My idiot buddy thought 'Walk this way' was 'Marcus Twain'.

    Sang it out loud while air banding the guitar. Gawd that was funny.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • hauntingfamiliar
    hauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,401
    ^ lol
    Guess he never saw the Run DMC-Aerosmith video.
  • Perry Neum
    Perry Neum Vienna, Austria Posts: 856
    Sleater Kinney's - Gimme Love

    Not popular instead of Never Enough
    :)
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  • jlj_swe
    jlj_swe Posts: 175
    A friend of mine had some issues with a line in Europe´s song The Final Countdown.
    They sing "We´re heading for Venus" but she was certain they said "We´re having some peanuts."
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