Established/most famous misheard lyrics?

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  • PRLJM1
    PRLJM1 Posts: 584
    Cortez the Killer sent me wrote:
    LeatherMosquitoMan wrote:
    Lick the dirt off Olajuwon's feet

    It worked so well too... back in the day!

    +1
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  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    SPACEMAN...spin the black circle!
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  • rafie
    rafie Posts: 2,160
    VinylGirl wrote:
    Spiritual_Chaos wrote:
    "Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed" from corduroy

    All these years and I still can't get out of the habit of singing it this way :oops:

    I like this way better anyway!
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,528
    Anyone else have one?

    I guess "Forty five virgins and a pelican" is famous too.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    edited March 2011
    mookeywrench wrote:
    You are a furry thing.

    Guilty for this one! When I heard Faithfull for the first time I definitely heard 'you are a furry thing' and thought to myself 'that can't be right'!! :lol:

    Also: don't know if anyone else has heard this one too, but for a while I thought part of Red Mosquito was 'I was bitten, must've been the devil, he was just plain mean' :lol:
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  • Super Creep
    Super Creep Posts: 374
    rafie wrote:
    VinylGirl wrote:
    Spiritual_Chaos wrote:
    "Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed" from corduroy

    All these years and I still can't get out of the habit of singing it this way :oops:

    I like this way better anyway!

    Oh, wow. Until this moment I actually thought those were the actual lyrics! :lol:
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,429
    LeatherMosquitoMan wrote:
    Lick the dirt off Olajuwon's feet

    HAHA - never heard that before. :lol:
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  • Shawshank
    Shawshank Posts: 1,018
    I Got Shit

    "I walked the line" is posted as the chorus lyric most of the time, when it's actually "I walked in light".
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,429
    mookeywrench wrote:
    There's also the mystery misunderstood lyric from State of Love and Trust that was being debated on the board.

    When Eddie read the post he anonymously PM'd the guy saying what the correct lyrics were, the guy then responded back to Ed saying he didn't know what he's talking about.

    Eddie claims he hasn't posted since.

    Sounds like a typical Ten Clubber. :lol:
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  • anus ankle soup
    anus ankle soup massachusetts Posts: 124
    samjam wrote:
    mookeywrench wrote:
    You are a furry thing.

    Guilty for this one! When I heard Faithfull for the first time I definitely heard 'you are a furry thing' and thought to myself 'that can't be right'!! :lol:

    Also: don't know if anyone else has heard this one too, but for a while I thought part of Red Mosquito was 'I was bitten, must've been the devil, he was just plain mean' :lol:

    he was just plain mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +1 :lol: I can't get that out of my head!
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    For the longest time I didnt know that Ed sang "Violins" in Daughter. I used to always think it was "Young Girl, by all means...center of her own attention".
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  • bazzer
    bazzer Posts: 3,126
    Suzi78 wrote:
    Ledbetter

    You've probably already seen this before...but it's worth watching again. Potato wave!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU
    I love Potato wave, but my wife gets sick of it ;)
  • PilateOfTheStorm
    PilateOfTheStorm Posts: 4,319
    anus ankle soup wrote:
    samjam wrote:
    mookeywrench wrote:
    You are a furry thing.

    Guilty for this one! When I heard Faithfull for the first time I definitely heard 'you are a furry thing' and thought to myself 'that can't be right'!! :lol:

    Also: don't know if anyone else has heard this one too, but for a while I thought part of Red Mosquito was 'I was bitten, must've been the devil, he was just plain mean' :lol:

    he was just plain mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +1 :lol: I can't get that out of my head!

    i used to think that too :oops: :lol:
  • The Akkus
    The Akkus Posts: 1,095
    The first time I, as well as many others, heard Satan's Bed was from the Fox Theater Atlanta show. I recorded that show and listened religiously.

    For the longest time, instead of "Jump off a cliff dont need your help so back off", my friend and I thought he was saying "John Bobbitt please dont leave your nuts on my car"

    hehe Go listen, close your eyes, and when it gets to that part, just think about the misheard lyric lol :mrgreen:
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  • silver39
    silver39 Columbus, Ohio Posts: 1,346
    VinylGirl wrote:
    Spiritual_Chaos wrote:
    "Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed" from corduroy

    All these years and I still can't get out of the habit of singing it this way :oops:


    LOL! Never knew this wasn't right, haha! D'oh!
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  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    we we buttstones :)
    your light made us stars
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    The Akkus wrote:
    For the longest time, instead of "Jump off a cliff dont need your help so back off", my friend and I thought he was saying "John Bobbitt please dont leave your nuts on my car"

    lol!

    the mumbling part in even flow i'd like to interpret as 'fuck your mama'
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,528
    If Ed is not singing "furry things", what would he be singing?

    Aren't there any more well established wrong lyrics?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Spiritual_Chaos wrote:
    If Ed is not singing "furry things", what would he be singing?

    Aren't there any more well established wrong lyrics?

    He says everything ("ev-er-y-thing")
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  • Pearl Drummer
    Pearl Drummer Posts: 4,627
    So how do i feel? Fuckin how do i
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