All right now! I’m listening to a live version of Still the One on an oldies CD that my hubbie burned for me. In this live version I hear that she is not still the one that makes him laugh and he better have. She is most DEFINITELY still not the one that shares his bed and gives him head.
Good Lord! How could I think they’d play that on the radio?
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In this live version I hear that she is not still the one that makes him laugh and he better have.
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Isn’t it
You’re still the one, that’s my better half?
Checks, yep. However, I realize I never did know what they were saying at this part:
When winter came, **I just wanted to go
Deep in the ** desert, I longed for the snow
The bolded part would be the only words I understood there. :o
Even though I knew the name of the U2 song was “Vertigo,” it took a long time for me to grasp that the line was:
Hello, hello (hola!)
I’m at a place called Vertigo
and not
Hello, hello (hola!)
Madam, please ever don’t go!
And the sad thing is, I was always bothered by the tortured grammar of “please ever don’t go.”
[QUOTE=Biggirl]
All right now! I’m listening to a live version of Still the One on an oldies CD that my hubbie burned for me. In this live version I hear that she is not still the one that makes him laugh and he better have. She is most DEFINITELY still not the one that shares his bed and gives him head.
Good Lord! How could I think they’d play that on the radio?
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And I think it’s
Still the one I want to talk to in bed.
Still the one that turns my head.
Heard this one again yesterday.
Matthew Wilder, Break My Stride.
The lyric,
And you said you had to get your laundry clean
I know it says that. It makes sense for it to say that.
I always hear,
And you said you had to get your laundry green
Gaaah!!
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Who hears voiceovers of the Wierd Al versions of songs?
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Since this thread is all about correcting mis-heard lyrics—
In Maroon 5’s Sweetest Goodbye the chorus goes:
I’ll never leave you behind
Or treat you unkind
And I. . .
Are the next words A)'ll know you’ll understand B)love your honesty or C) something completely different that my ears cannot hear?
[QUOTE=gigi]
Another one:
I can’t imagine how many times I’ve heard “Down on the Corner”, but only this weekend did I realize he wasn’t saying
You don’t need a pinhead just to hang around,
But if you’ve got a nickel, won’t you lay your money down?
The mystery is why I mentioned this to my friend.
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I thought it (pinhead) was the exact same word! I never found out differently until I heard another singer cover the song.
[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!]
I thought it (pinhead) was the exact same word! I never found out differently until I heard another singer cover the song.
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I don’t know why I never thought to question it!
According to lyrics sites, it’s “I know you understand”.
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For many years I thought it was “I’m not talking 'bout believing”.
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And I thought he was saying “I’m not talking 'bout the living”. (That Dan England, he’s a weeeeird guy. 
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<Cue Cranberries>Zombeh! Zombeh! Zombeh-eh-eh</Cranberries>
I cannot listen to “Hard To Say I’m Sorry” by Chicago without hearing, “After all the who ya been through…” even though I know the lyrics are, “After all that you have been through…”
I Googled it, and I’m not the only one who hears that.
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Okay I haven’t read all the way through this thread, but I can guarantee this one’s not there:
This dude I worked with years ago fancied himself a music-ologist, and had lots of confidence in his lyrics knowledge. One day, Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ came on the radio, and he sang along. When he got to the end, specifically the “Ma Ma Se, Ma Ma Sa, Ma Ma Coo Sa” part, we heard him singing, “Mama says Mama saw my macho socks, Mama says Mama saw my macho socks!” We were like, “Dude! WHAT are you singing!?” and with much authority he explained that “macho socks” is slang for condoms and that Somethin’ got Started because his mama found his condoms.
No misheard lyric can top that one in my experience, but Foreigner’s “Hot bloody chicken of the sea” does come close.
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I laughed, I cried…
I think I will have to work “macho socks” into my daily vocabulary.
[QUOTE=Charger]
I cannot listen to “Hard To Say I’m Sorry” by Chicago without hearing, “After all the who ya been through…” even though I know the lyrics are, “After all that you have been through…”
I Googled it, and I’m not the only one who hears that.
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I hear “After all that we’ve been through”, and at least one site agrees.
Although, maybe she hates The Who, had to sit through all their songs, and needs to be comforted.
This one’s been driving me nuts for some time
In Creedence Cleasrwater’s “Out My Backdoor”, I originally made out the line as
“Won’t you take a ride on the Glide-wheel spoon”
Later I had a revelation that it was “Won’t you take a ride on the Glide; We’ll Spoon.”
THAT made sense. When I mentioned this to Pepper Mill, she thought I was being unusually dense – she’d known that was the correct interpretation for years.
But I learned on this very Board that the widely accepted lyrics are:
“Won’t you take a ride on the flyin’ spoon.”
Virtually all lyric sites I’ve checked have these lyrics. None have “…on the Glide. We’ll Spoon”
This bothers me, because that interpretation made sense (admittedly in a song filled with stream-of-consciousness-like weirdness, but a lot of that stuff makes sense, too, if you look at it.) Some people seem to think this refers to cocaine use, something that’s not a foregone conclusion to me.
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
“Won’t you take a ride on the flyin’ spoon.”
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I’ve have laid money on that being the right lyric. I am amazed to find it’s not!
Er, what’s a Glide?
ETA: Oh, duh. I see on re-reading that you’re saying they probably *are *the correct lyrics. :smack:
[QUOTE=scabpicker]
When Pearl Jam hit with “Alive” I honestly thought it was a beer commercial ( I usually just hear the lyrics in the chorus the first few times I hear a song )
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Oh dear god, now I’m going to think of that every time I hear that now.
My favorite of all these I’ve heard is the Elton John song Tiny Dancer. At least I think that’s the name of the song. Not a fan, but someone pointed it out to me that the lyrics “Hold me closer, tiny dancer” sound like “Hold me closer, Tony Danza”. I still laugh when I hear the song on the radio.
My sons and I used to argue over the lyrics to “Cracklin’ Rosie” – I always insisted she was a “store-bought woman,” the boys made fun of me and said it only made sense that it was “stubborn woman.” Thank heavens the internet came along and proved me right – but for a long time I had some doubts.
THE FIXX
Lyric: Red Skies at Night
Heard: Rick’s Got a Knife
KISS
Lyric: I want to Rock & Roll all night and party every day
Heard: I want to Rock & Roll all night and part of every day
PEARL JAM
Lyric: Jeremy spoke in class today
Heard: Jeremy’s broken glass today
INXS - What You Need
Lyric: Give it all, Give it all
Heard: Chili dog, chili dog
TRANSFORMERS
Lyric: The Transformers, robots in disguise
Heard: The Transformers, robots in the sky
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THE FIXX
Lyric: Red Skies at Night
Heard: Rick’s Got a Knife
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Rick’s got a knife, Rick’s got a knife, uh oh (uh oh) Oh, oh, oh, oh etc. Works for me!