# I think we could use a good misheard lyrics thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072 "2005-10-13T15:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/1 "2005-10-13T15:24:41Z")
Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” was on the radio this morning. Every time I hear it it reminds me of when I was a kid, because for the longest time I was _positive_ he was saying: “Hold me closer, Tony Daaaanzaaaa…” What are some lyrics you heard differently from what they were? ---
**Author:** ![John\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@John\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_F)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/2 "2005-10-13T15:53:25Z")
There is a line in “Do you Feel Like We Do” that I’m not sure anybody but Frampton knows. \*Champagne for breakfast and a sherman in my hand \*\*\*\*\* top, \*\*\*\*\* tails - never fails Or “Peached up peached ale, never fails” \* I’ve listened to it hundreds of times and have no idea what he is saying. The other one that drives my crazy is VH Ice Cream Man. \*I got good lemonade, ah, dixie cups I got puddin’ pie banana, dixie cups I got a one pound banana, dixie cups I’m gonna put my banana up, dixie cups\* WTF Dave??? ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/3 "2005-10-13T16:06:58Z")
The classic misheard lyric is , of course, from Jimi Hendrix’s _Purple Haze_: "Excuse me while I kiss this guy’ instead of “Excuse me while I kiss the sky”. For a long time I beleved that Mick Jagger was singing “I’ve got satin shoes and (some brand name I didn’t know) boots” at the beginning of _Can’t You Hear Me Knocking_ instead of sad shoes and nasty boots. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/4 "2005-10-13T16:22:58Z")
Not having had much religious education in my youth, I originally though the chorus in _Kyrie Eleison_ by Mr. Mister was “Carry a laser down the path that I must travel.” ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/5 "2005-10-13T19:40:41Z")
There’s a song that plays on our music system at work that I misheard for days before I finally went to the backroom and looked at the readout on the unit. I couldn’t figure out why the guy was singing “It’s all about the workplace”. He wasn’t. He was singing “It’s all about the wordplay”. Jason Mraz, I think. My coworker got ticked the day the Shame song came on…she said, “I just don’t understand why they keep singing Shame, shame, shame…” It was “Chain, chain, chain, chain of fools.” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/6 "2005-10-13T19:43:30Z")
I think I’m the only person who hears this one: In Andy Gibb’s “Love is Thicker Than Water,” there are several times where he says, “You are. . . this dreamer’s only dream.” However, one of the times he says it, to me it sounds exactly like he’s saying “You are. . . the fish dreamer’s only dream.” ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/7 "2005-10-13T20:05:12Z")
In the Who’s Substitute, before learning the name of the song, I thought they were singing “silk stitch shirts” As soon as I gave any consideration to the lyrics, I realized I was wrong. When I finally heard the title, I felt like an idiot. Still do, as a matter of fact. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/8 "2005-10-13T20:08:15Z")
There’s a song that goes “Seaaaa Breeeze” I think. Someone I know always thought it said “Seea Baaaasss.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/9 "2005-10-13T20:11:51Z")
White winged dove, I always thought was ONE winged dove for some reason. :smack: From the Stevie Nicks song; Edge of Seventeen. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/10 "2005-10-13T20:15:26Z")
I had the lyrics for Toto’s Africa completely messed up. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/11 "2005-10-13T20:22:31Z")
For years I simply heard a garbled line in the Laura Nyro-written/Three Dog Night hit version of _Eli’s Comin’_ Finally I discovered the line I couldn’t understand was “I walked to Apollo by the Bay.” Only problem is, I still have no idea what the hell they’re talking about. Whenever I Google “Apollo by the Bay” I simply get a link to the song lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/12 "2005-10-13T20:39:51Z")
Delerium’s _Daylight_ includes the lines _You won’t have to be my Heaven, I won’t have to be your friend._ I always hear it _You won’t have to be my Heaven, I won’t have to be your sin._ I like my version better. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/13 "2005-10-13T20:47:48Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > White winged dove, I always thought was ONE winged dove for some reason. :smack: > From the Stevie Nicks song; Edge of Seventeen. I could never tell what the hell she was saying. I figured it was “wild something something” ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/14 "2005-10-13T20:51:49Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > For years I simply heard a garbled line in the Laura Nyro-written/Three Dog Night hit version of _Eli’s Comin’_ Finally I discovered the line I couldn’t understand was > > “I walked to Apollo by the Bay.” > > Only problem is, I still have no idea what the hell they’re talking about. Whenever I Google “Apollo by the Bay” I simply get a link to the song lyrics. Those both happen to be the names of movie theatres in both Seattle and San francisco, or were. I have no idea if that’s what the lyric was referring to though. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/15 "2005-10-13T21:02:24Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > “Hold me closer, Tony Daaaanzaaaa…” My husband swore it was, “Hold me close, I’m tired of dancing.” He also thought it was “867 Box 309” instead of “867-5309” in the “Jenny” song. Of course, I’ve never misheard a lyric in my life. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/16 "2005-10-13T21:03:58Z")
That Paul McCartney & Wings song “Jet” … I’ve never known what they were singing and never bothered to search & find out, but it sounds like they’re singing about… _Darth Vader, … free trader!_ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/17 "2005-10-13T21:07:50Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > The classic misheard lyric is , of course, from Jimi Hendrix’s _Purple Haze_: "Excuse me while I kiss this guy’ instead of “Excuse me while I kiss the sky”. > > For a long time I beleved that Mick Jagger was singing “I’ve got satin shoes and (some brand name I didn’t know) boots” at the beginning of _Can’t You Hear Me Knocking_ instead of sad shoes and nasty boots. Aha, Pink Floyd must’ve done the cover on that one. “I got nicotine stains on my fingers, and the inevitable piano mall buds, all down the funt and my finger in satin shoes” not to mention “Got a pair of go hell boots and I got my finger on my roots” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/18 "2005-10-13T21:22:31Z")
All my childhood I thought _Silent Night_ has: round, young virgin little did I know then that now that I’m middle-aged, the only guys who are interested in me are round, young virgins 😕 ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/19 "2005-10-13T22:07:52Z")
A friend of mine (no really… not me at all!) used to think that the Kiss song “Rock and Roll All Night” went: _I wanna rock and roll all night, and **part of** every day_. (Instead of _ **party** every day_.) Frankly, now that we’re over 30, this seems much more doable. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/20 "2005-10-14T02:07:20Z")
I \*still \* have problems when doing my occasional Wayne’s World driving along freak-out with the lyrics from _Dark Side of the Moon_, especially: “The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death” which invariably comes out “It’s always the same in a relative way…” I know, I’m a miserablist… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072.md?page=2)