# How long has it been since the last misheard lyrics thread?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 28, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468 "2009-10-28T16:33:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/1 "2009-10-28T16:33:08Z")
I did do a search and nothing came up within the last two months.
It’s all Britney’s fault. First, I was sure that song of hers was called Operator. But no, the girl just doesn’t know how to pronounce ‘radar’. The other day on the drive in to work (the only time I listen to top 40 these days-- good ole Clear Channel) I hear a Britney song that’s new to me:
_One, two, three Peter Potamus 'n me!_
My husband turns to me, “She’s too young to remember Peter Potamus.”
I’m glad he said this because I heard Peter Potamus too. Of course, Clear Channel never back announces. Hey, they rarely front announce. Not until today did I learn that she’s (trying) to say “One, two, three Peter, Paul and Mary”.
Peter Potamus is one misheard lyric I’m keeping.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/2 "2009-10-30T12:40:50Z")
In Ciara’s Work, when she sings\* Put some snap into it\* , all I hear is _Pussy snappin’ to it._
I blame Cheech Marin & Quentin Tarantino.
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### Author:  [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/3 "2009-10-30T13:02:20Z")
_My lips like sugahhh,
this candy called your sperm_
[record sctrach]
Wait, WHAT?! Man, they’re really getting bold on the radio these days, aren’t they? I mean, I know it’s a hip hop song, but _jeez_.
[googles]
Oh it’s “this candy’s got you sprung”. That’s…slightly better, I guess.
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### Author:  [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/4 "2009-11-01T23:20:42Z")
Don’t think I’ve posted this one on here yet:
Gabriella Cilmi: _“Say about me. What they say about me”_
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/5 "2010-07-14T16:13:51Z")
[Sheik of Decatur left me a mule to ride](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hB3eCv_FOk).
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### Author:  [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/6 "2010-07-15T00:21:00Z")
Are you having trouble with your yardwork?
If there are busses in your hedgerow, just call your lawnman.
And remember that in the logroll, there’s still time to change your overalls.
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### Author:  [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/7 "2010-07-15T00:26:18Z")
You and Beaker had a bad romance.
All I could picture was Lady Gaga screaming at Beaker, with him saying, “Memememememe…”
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### Author:  [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/8 "2010-07-15T04:50:20Z")
2 for the same song, “Meet Me Halfway” by the Black-Eyed Peas:
1. My sister misheard “my heart to the limit” as “Mahal threw the lemon.”
2. I heard my daughter singing “I keep on waiting for the dentist.” It’s actually “I can’t go any further than this.” I like her version better.
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### Author:  [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/9 "2010-07-15T07:24:13Z")
I want your psycho, your vertical stick.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/10 "2010-07-15T14:45:41Z")
> [@Tabby\_Cat](#):
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> I want your psycho, your vertical stick.
This line is correct (stupid but correct) however I always expect her to say “. . .your vertical _smile_” because I still speak in the vernacular of a 7th grader:p
For your middle aged ABBA lovin’ dopers, take your teeth out, tell me what’s wrong.
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### Author:  [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/11 "2010-07-15T18:46:19Z")
Madonna’s La Isla Bonita has the line that always sounded like “Young girl with eyes like potatoes” to me.
Then there’s “I got some brains down in Africa.”
That’s why I’m queasy on Sunday morning?
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### Author:  [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/12 "2010-07-15T21:52:10Z")
Okay, it’s not really a case of _misheard_ lyrics, more of misanticipated lyrics. In the song _Black and White_, my brain knows that Sarah McLachlan is about to say “the whole of my undoing.” Nevertheless, some part of my subconscious clings desperately to the conviction that what she is actually going to say is “a hole in my underwear.”
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### Author:  [@Acantha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acantha)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/13 "2010-07-16T01:16:04Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> This line is correct (stupid but correct) however I always expect her to say “. . .your vertical _smile_” because I still speak in the vernacular of a 7th grader:p
I could have sworn I read somewhere it was ‘your Vertigo’ something or other, and that the whole song was an homage to Hitchcock.
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### Author:  [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/14 "2010-07-16T02:16:44Z")
Yeah, that. The lyrics are
I want your psycho,
your vertigo stick.
Want you in my rear window,
baby you’re sick.
It seems a bit highbrow for a trashy pop song, but well… it’s Gaga.
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/15 "2010-07-16T02:25:19Z")
Until this very moment I’ve never figured out if the line in Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” goes, “why can’t I find a woman like that?” or “where can I find a woman like that?”
[Drum roll as I google the lyrics]
The real answer seems to be “where can I find a woman like that?”, although there are a fair number of dissenting opinions. Therefore, I declare the result inconclusive.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/16 "2010-07-16T13:22:17Z")
> [@Acantha](#):
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> I could have sworn I read somewhere it was ‘your Vertigo’ something or other, and that the whole song was an homage to Hitchcock.
I believe I stand corrected; that \*would \*make more sense. Clearly that verse is a reference to Hitch, so now I’ll have to analyze the rest of the song to see if there are any other clues. Bad romances certainly are a running theme in Mr. H’s movies.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/17 "2010-07-16T14:57:15Z")
How about a radio station getting the _title_ wrong?
WXRT in Chicago has a deal where you can text them and get the name and artist of the last 3 songs. My wife got home yesterday and said she’d just heard a cool song; it went something like “Swim until you can’t see land.” I did a quick search on iTunes, and found, sure enough, “Swim Until You Can’t See Land” by Frightened Rabbit.
At the same time, Mrs. Wheelz texted 'XRT and the answer came back: “Swing Until You Can’t See Land.” 😕
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### Author:  [@Hemulen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hemulen)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/18 "2010-07-16T17:30:45Z")
Ramones, _Bonzo goes to Bitburg_: Despite having looked up the song to reassure me what it was about (figured it was a Reagan thing, but was too young to remember the occasion) I still managed to hear “you’re a politician, don’t become one of Hitler’s children” as “you’re a politician, don’t become one, a headless chicken”. It… makes a kind of sense?
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/19 "2010-07-16T17:35:39Z")
But it’s been no bed of roses
No flesh accrued
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race -
And I ain’t gonna lose -
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-last-misheard-lyrics-thread/515468/20 "2010-07-16T17:44:12Z")
> [@Wheelz](#):
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> At the same time, Mrs. Wheelz texted 'XRT and the answer came back: “Swing Until You Can’t See Land.” 😕
Could be an auto-correct gone wrong. I’ve been having that happen with my new iPhone, since its auto-correct works differently from my old (standard) cell phone.
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