Kissthisguy! The Best Misheard Lyrics

[Coldfire]

OK, I'm sure this has been done before. But if so, it has been a while. That combined with our evergrowing population urges me to bring it up again: the wonders of Kissthisguy!

Check out this site: http://www.kissthisguy.com

It's all about misheard lyrics, and people telling about them. You can post your own misheard lyrics here too! Let me start you all off by giving you a fine sample of what's to be found :)


Mariah Carey - I Can't Live (If Living is Without You)

The real lyrics were: I can't forget this evening or your face as you were leaving.

But I misheard them as: I can't forget the semen on your face as you were leaving.

The embarrasing moment of revelation: My friend, singing along to the radio, sang, much to the surprise of my befuddled ears, the aforementioned words. Luckily, the words are repeated in the second verse, and she did, indeed, say that.

Age when I realized how wrong I had been: 15

Misheard by: Marci

Isn't it priceless?? This site is also great for finding that one lyric you always wondered about.

So spill! What are your favourite lyrics mistakes?

[David B]

Kansas: "Carry on Wayward Son"

For the longest time, I thought a line said: "And if I claim to be a white man, it surely means that I don't know." (The proper word is "wise" not "white.")

I couldn't figure out how this guy couldn't know if he was a white man!

[tshirts]

GROOVIN' ~ The Young Rascals


"Life would be ecstasy, you and me endlessly/ Groovin' on a Sunday afternoon
"

I still hear "You and me and Leslie "

[kiffa]

There are several websites about misinterpreted song lyrics; some are really funny.

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/index.shtml

http://www.home.flash.net/~trevas

[pepperlandgirl]

This is a really old song
"Poetry in motion", I don't know who sang it.
I also didn't know the title for a long time so instead of hearing "Poetry in motion" I heared "Oh a tree in motion." Obviously that made no sense.
And of course The Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
What I heard "I girl with calidous goes by."
Of course it's "A girl with kaliediscope eyes."

[kiffa]

the second site is:

http://home.flash.net/~trevas/ now, I'll check to see if that works. sorry for the inconvenience.

[lswote]

Originally posted by tshirts
GROOVIN' ~ The Young Rascals


"Life would be ecstasy, you and me endlessly/ Groovin' on a Sunday afternoon
"

I still hear "You and me and Leslie "
No shit? I DID think it was and Leslie! I'll be damned!

[aseymayo]

Alright, alright - I'll admit it. The first time I heard the Buzzcocks singing "You're an orgasm addict," I thought they were saying, "We're all gas-o-matics."

But my all time favorite is my sister's interpretation of "Yellow Submarine." She thought the Beatles were singing, "We all live in some yellow dungarees"!!

(Pepperland - the version of "Poetry in Motion" that I remember was by Johnny Tillotson)

[douglips]

Here's one for you, Coldfire.

Actual lyric: I will choose the path that's clear... I will choose freewill.

What I misheard: I will choose a purpose here...
Well, it kinda sounds like it, and it fits into the meaning of the lyrics.

What my brother misheard: I will choose a bathysphere...
Rationale: "A bathysphere stands up to pressure, so he's saying he wants to make a choice that will stand the test of time."
What?!?!

Seriously.

[rowrrbazzle]

also check out The Ants Are My Friends (http://www.enteract.com/~jessicar/lyrics).

[London_Calling]

The one lyric I can say I have never had the first idea what was being sung has been until now the chorus of R.E.M.s 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight'. My best mumble had been "Comedy will da da hmmm". Decided it was about time I knew:

Tell her,
Tell her she can kiss my ass, then laugh and say that you were only kidding.
That way she’ll know that it’s really, really, really, really me.

(chorus)

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.


It was that complicated !!!

[sailor]

In Lucy in the sky with diamonds the Beatles sing (supposedly) "a girl with caleidoscope eyes" but it sounds more like "a girl with colitis goes by"

[FreakFreely]

At the end of the Beatles song "I Am The Walrus" there's a chorus of chanting voices shouting in the backround: "Jump up! Jump up! Everybody jump up! Jump up! Jump up! Everybody jump up!" And so on.


What I heard was: "Smoke pot! Smoke pot! Everybody smoke pot! Smoke pot! Smoke pot! Everybody smoke pot!"

[London_Calling]

Freak - you might find the written 'official' lyric might not have been strictly followed in the studio.

[pepperlandgirl]

That's a common one Freak.

[CelticFire]

There's a song by the Bee Gees... It totally sounds like "A Bald-Headed Woman", but I guess the real lyric is "More Than A Woman". Ya gotta hear the song.

[phouka]

Fine Young Cannibals' "Suicidal Blonde":

A friend pointed out that the chorus sounded like "soup and salad bar" instead of "suicidal blonde". Haven't been able to listen to that song straight faced since then.

[Coldfire]

Phouka, surely you mean INXS?

[DRY]

In addition to being one of my favorite posters, "Michelle" is the topic of one of my favorite misheard lyrics:


The real lyrics were:
Michelle ma belle, sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble.

But I misheard them as:
Michelle my bell, some day monkey play piano song, play piano song.


Growing up, I never really was sure what the french lyrics were, and since I wasn't the type to sing out loud, I never worried about it much. But I nearly fell over with laughter when I was told the lyrics were misheard as having to do with monkeys and pianos. Kind of like a bad Wizard of Oz dream.

Like many others, I couldn't understand why "Bad Moon Rising" contained a reference to "bathroom on the right".

Finally, the Madonna song with the lyric: "Last night I dreamt of San Pedro". Again, I didn't think about what the lyric was actually supposed to be, but couldn't believe it was misheard as "Last night I slept with some dago."

[TroubleAgain]

In the song "Blinded By the Light", my brother was convinced the line was "wrapped up like a douche, I roll her over in the night." I was very damned sure that wasn't right, but didn't know what the correct words were until I read the book about misheard lyrics. Then I could correct him: "Reved up like a deuce, another runner in the night." Who the hell was expecting a car reference????

[brachyrhynchos]

I don't remember lyrics myself, but looking through those sites, my favorite was Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" heard as:

Slow-motion Walter, dat fire-engine guy.


da da daaaa ... da da de daaaaa (cracks me up everytime I hear the real thing, can't get Walter out of my head).

[neuro-trash grrrl]

Well, when I was young, I thought the chorus to "Blinded by the light" was "wrapped up like a doofus and a roller in the night". Then I hit puberty and started hearing "wrapped up like a douche..." just like everybody else. I have misheard a lot of song lyrics in my day, some of which I have shared in previous threads. Unfortunately, I can never dredge up very many at one time. I don't think I've ever shared any of these particular ones before, though. For example, who can forget the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers song:

What I got you got to give it to your mama!
What I got you got to give it to your papa!
What I got you got to give it to your dog...

This one isn't mine, but my sister's. It's the Doors' classic...

Ya know the day destroys the night, ninety times a day...

The first time I heard the Cure's "The Caterpillar", I thought Robert Smith was singing:

Flicker flicker flicker flicker flicker flicker flicker flicker here you are
Ketcha ketcha ketcha ketcha ketcha ketcha ketcha ketcha ketchup in a gun...

Does anyone know the late Kurt Cobain's political affiliation? I do. He explains it in the lyrics of "Lithium":

I like you, I'm a Democrat, I miss you, I'm a Democrat, I love you, I'm a Democrat, I kill you, I'm a Democrat...

And I know I mentioned this one in a previous thread, but my family still hasn't let me live it down after all these years. Hit it, Paul...

Mama don't take my chromosomes
Mama don't take my chromosomes
Mama don't take my chromosomes awaaaa-aaay!

Mama don't take my chromosomes
If you need to barf then barf at home
Mama don't take my chromosomes awaaaa-aaay!

I have so many more of these, and I'll probably be popping in here several more times when I remember another one. So I'd just like to close by saying that I have no idea what Gavin Rossdale is singing in the bridge of "Glycerine", but it sure sounds like "bamboo watergun", doesn't it?

[Shadenwawa]

Creedence songs... I've always heard "There's a bad moon on the rise" as "There's a bathroom on the right."

The other one is from "Down on the Corner" when he says "You don't need a penny just to hang around." I've always heard it as "You don't need a pinhead just to hang around..."

-S

[Sassy]

My dad came home one night and demanded I get a copy of "that song about the guy with 400 kids and a crop in the field." What he wanted was Kenny Rogers "Lucille." I got the single, still have the single and it still makes me crack up!

[Nacho4Sara]

Ya know, I'm not sure to this day what the real lyric is...

There's a Phil Collins song that I always thought went:

She seems to have an a-physical infliction...

I saw him son some show and there was something about, "Invisible Touch..." I have no idea. But I laugh every time I hear that song. :)

[Wonko The Sane]

The chorus for The Rolling Stones' Beast of Burden

I'll never be, Your Pizza Burnin'

I heard it right the first time, but after a DJ said the wrong lyrics, I can't listen to it without smiling.

[BurnMeUp]

See some of those are possible... but when i looked on that website, there are some entries that no one could have heard that way, that people just posted to try to be funny... it smacks of junior high students posting there.

However some are pretty close...

I had a girlfriend once, who's mom swore that the song "blister in the sun" by the violent femmes had the line "dick hands, i know you're the one..."

[hflathead]

"life is like a rodeo, the trick is to ride, naked to the fair" instead of "make it to the bell" later, Tom

[Ceejaytee]

DRY wrote:
Finally, the Madonna song with the lyric: "Last night I dreamt of San Pedro". Again, I didn't think about what the lyric was actually supposed to be, but couldn't believe it was misheard as "Last night I slept with some dago."

Maybe it's the New Yorker in me, but I always thought she was saying "Last night I dreamt of a bagel."

[Robot Arm]

cue The Ramones:

"Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours a day,
I want a piece o' date bread."

[Scupper]

Stayin Alive, Bee Gees

"You can tell by the way I use my walk ..."

I heard,

"You can tell, by the way, I'm Luke Skywalker ..."

[Annie-Xmas]

From "Send in the Clowns"
Real lyric: Don't you love farce, my fault I fear.
Heard as: Don't you love farts, my fart I fear.

[Gazoo]

This is always my favorite, Marshall Tucker Band:

Purdy little love song, can't wrong.
Instead of the correct lyric:
Heard it in a love song, can't be wrong.

Of course, I just found out what the hell they were saying in Red Hot Chili Peppers' song Scar Tissue this week. I'd like to say I had some funny one's made up in place of With the birds I'll share this lonely view, but in truth I had no idea what he was saying.

[vanilla]

I want a piece o' date bread
Hilarious!!!
One of my favorite songs!

There was an oldie from the 60's by the Honeycombs called Want Ad.
They sing of putting an ad in the paper for a new guy:
Wanted, young man single and free
experience in love preferred, but we'll accept if your Chinese

Or so I'd always thought. After many years, I realized it was trainees not Chinese. I always wondered what was wrong with Chinese guys...

Also in the book, someone thought ALmost Paradise was all those parrot eyes!

[CalMeacham]

Ceejaytee:

My wife always heard that lyric as "last night I dreamed of salt bagels..."

[Sunshine]

Originally posted by neuro-trash grrrl
...I have no idea what Gavin Rossdale is singing in the bridge of "Glycerine", but it sure sounds like "bamboo watergun", doesn't it?

That's too funny! I love that song and I always hear "Bad moon, right again". No idea what the real words are.

My worst one is in John Mellencamp's Jack & Diane (I think). He says "Do your best James DEAN" but for some very weird reason, I always thought it was "Do your best James TAYLOR"! I sang it out loud in front of my best friend and she about peed her pants. All she could say was, "Why would anybody be trying be cool by doing a James Taylor impression?"

[xizor]

A few years back Salt-n-Peppa had a song called "Push It".
Actual:
Ah, push it, push it good
Ah, push it, push it real good

What I thought:
Ah, pussy, pussy good
Ah, pussy, pussy real good

About the same time, B-52's Love Shack
Actual:
Tin roof, rusted
What I thought:
Ten months, pregnant

[Silver Fire]

Originally posted by Sunshine
Originally posted by neuro-trash grrrl
...I have no idea what Gavin Rossdale is singing in the bridge of "Glycerine", but it sure sounds like "bamboo watergun", doesn't it?

That's too funny! I love that song and I always hear "Bad moon, right again". No idea what the real words are.




Close. I'm almost positive that it's "Bad moon, white again."

But, really, no matter what you put in there it doesn't make any sense.

In Creed's new song, "Higher", the chorus goes something like this:

Can you take me higher?/To a place where blind men see/Can you take me higher?/To a place with golden streets.

My brother sings it like this:

Can you take me higher?/To a place with lima beans/Can you take me higher?/To a place with golden streams.

When I corrected him he said that he had always wondered why they were singing about beans and peeing. LMAO!! I still say lima beans whenever I hear that song.

[Anti Pro]

Trouble Again, I thought the same thing about 'Blinded By The Light' though, I never did figure what a douche bag had to do with a 'rooner in the night' My son had to set me straight on that song before I'd believe it was anything different.

He also cracked up when I was singing along with Meatloaf's 'Bat Out of Hell' song 'If I wanna dance, I wanna dance with you.' DJ started laughing and said, 'Mom, it's "if I want to be DAMNED, I want to be damned with you", why do you think he calls it 'Bat out of Hell' for?? Hmmmm, I figured he wanted to dance REALLY fast!! :rolleyes:

[Nacho4Sara]

That's too funny! I love that song and I always hear "Bad moon, right again". No idea what the real words are.

I thought it was, "bad moon wiii-re" but I could be wrong.

I don't know if anything else will think this is funny, but about 5 years ago a song came out called "If I Ruled The World" by Naz featuring Lauryn Hill. Well the real chorus goes:

"If I ruled the world, I'd free all my sons/black diamonds and pearls"

My friend at the time heard: "If I ruled the world, I'd free all my sons/black times are the worst"

which didn't make sense because it is basically a black power song. I still laugh when I hear that song.

[Geek Mecha]

Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World

"The bright blessed day, the dogs say good night..."


:o Oops, it's "the dark sacred night..."

[ascrivey]

My friend always thought it was Kick it up instead of Lick it up.

Me....I just found out the song was Rihannon( Is that Stevie Nicks?) (named after a goddess) not Brianna.

[bradysg]

My favorite is:

Secret Asian Man instead of Secret Agent Man.

Secret Asian Man
Secret Asian Man
Well they've given you a number
and take-out's on the way.

bradysg

[StrTrkr777]

When I was in HS, there were some girls that had heard the new Falco song "Rock me Amadeus" and thought it said "Rock me I'm a desk" and another groupo thought the part where Falco is singing Amadeus Amadeus over and over, they thought he was singing "hot potatoes"

So,

"Rock me, I'm a desk"

or
"Rock me, hot potatoes"
"Hot potatoes"
"Hot potatoes"
"Hot potatoes"
"Hot potatoes"
"Rock me, hot potatoes"


Jeffery

[NickyLarson]

Two comments here: A horrible Manfred Mann cover version of 'Blinded by the Light' that came out in the seventies (and was a hit, fer cryin' out loud) did use the lyric 'wrapped up like a douche'. Springsteen, though never one for proper enunciation, at least was clearer in his pronunciation of the word 'duece'. The Manfred Mann version could be what a lot of people are mis-hearing.

Second: In a radio interview on WNEW-FM, also in the seventies, guest DJ Dr. Winston O'Boogie played 'I Am The Walrus' and as the song faded out came on the air and said, 'Know what they're saying? "Everybody's got one, everybody's got one"'. And that's the official word.

But they're really singing "Everybody smokes pot, everybody smokes pot..."

[tubagirl]

The song by Eiffel 65, BLue

He sings for his chorus

I'm blue daba de daba da daba de daba da daba de daba da...

Then my not very hetro friend pointed out that he thought he was saying

I'm blue, I'm in need of a guy, I'm in need of a guy, I'm in need of a guy.

Now every time I hear it, that is all I hear.

[bedhog]

Judas Priest's "Breakin' the Law" - I always thought was "Rakin' the Lawn".

And "Spirits of the Material World" by The Police - I coulda sworn I heard it as "I Spit Earrings Into My Cereal Bowl".

[TroubleAgain]

Originally posted by NickyLarson
Two comments here: A horrible Manfred Mann cover version of 'Blinded by the Light' that came out in the seventies (and was a hit, fer cryin' out loud) did use the lyric 'wrapped up like a douche'.

Umm, okay, but why would they do that? It makes no damned sense. Didn't then, and doesn't now.

[schillometer]

Originally posted by FreakFreely

What I heard was: "Smoke pot! Smoke pot! Everybody smoke pot! Smoke pot! Smoke pot! Everybody smoke pot!"

Must be a common one-- there's a Rocket From The Crypt song that ends with this very chorus being chanted for about five minutes.

[schillometer]

Speaking of Nirvana misheard lyrics, I was convinced for a while that "Tourette's" actually had lyrics. It seemed perfectly clear that at one point Kurt sang "We know how to dance / Ruh ruh / We're all stuck in France / Nyuh nuh (maybe 'My heart')".

Of course, the actual Nirvana lyrics in many cases were a hell of a lot funnier than what we thought we heard. "Did he really just say 'Sell the kids for food'? Naw, it's gotta be something else."