# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/21 "2005-10-14T02:39:05Z")
_The poliiice don’t like it Fuck the Casper Fuck the Casper_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/22 "2005-10-14T03:05:47Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > 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…” I sing it that way on purpose. It weirds people out. > [@robardin](#): > > 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_. That’s much better time management, I’ll grant you that. I can’t think of anything really good right now. I’ve been listening to R.E.M. lately, and it doesn’t really matter if you mishear Michael Stipe’s lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/23 "2005-10-14T04:20:46Z")
Here’s a weird one. There was a popular song last year by Jill Scott called “Living my life like it’s golden” (which was also the chorus), and I swear to god I kept hearing the chorus as _Even my backpack is stolen_ Can’t explain it, but even knowing what the real lyrics are, that’s what I hear when it comes on the radio. ---
**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 14, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/24 "2005-10-14T04:48:49Z")
Just remembered another one…one of my friends thought Pearl Jam’s “Can’t Find a Better Man” was “Can’t find the butter, man.” 😃 ---
**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, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/25 "2005-10-14T04:58:58Z")
To stay on the food theme, Hot Chocolate’s mega hit “You Sexy Thing” (as featured in _The Full Monty_) has Erroll Brown belting out: “I believe in Milko”. A good bedtime drink if you’re fed up with hot chocolate and milo, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Can_Handle_the_Truth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/26 "2005-10-14T05:01:14Z")
When I was in second grade I thought the last line of _My Country 'tis of Thee_ was “let free dumb ring.” ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/27 "2005-10-14T05:24:05Z")
> [@Can Handle the Truth](#): > > When I was in second grade I thought the last line of _My Country 'tis of Thee_ was “let free dumb ring.” The lyrics as I heard them: “My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, O, V, I, C.” Then the rest of the song, and the end as you heard it. I figured out free dumb = freedom long before I figured out OVIC=of thee I sing. (But I know a guy who’s name is Vic, and he had no clue why the song spelled out his name, he just felt honored.) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/28 "2005-10-14T05:25:19Z")
> [@](#): > > [(But I know a guy **who’s** name is Vic, and he had no clue why the song spelled out his name, he just felt honored.) whose ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/29 "2005-10-14T05:39:52Z")
When I was little I used to bug my mom to play the “little bee” song. It was mny favorite - I finally went and took out the album it was on - the one with the man and woman kissing on the front. It took a while for her to figure it out - \*Don’t let another day go by my love, It’ll be just like starting over \* - (Just like) Starting Over I really thought he was singing “Little bee” :smack: ---
**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 14, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/30 "2005-10-14T06:04:49Z")
> [@Hilarity N. Suze](#): > > The lyrics as I heard them: > > “My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, O, V, I, C.” > > Then the rest of the song, and the end as you heard it. I figured out free dumb = freedom long before I figured out OVIC=of thee I sing. > > (But I know a guy who’s name is Vic, and he had no clue why the song spelled out his name, he just felt honored.) I originally knew it as: _My country tizz of thee Sweet land of liberty of the icing_ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/31 "2005-10-14T13:53:01Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > 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. Actually, it _is_ “satin shoes.” _Yeah, you got satin shoes Yeah, you got plastic boots Y’all got cocaine eyes Yeah, you got speedfreak jive, now_ ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/32 "2005-10-14T14:11:39Z")
Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” - I always thought she was singing “Climb every woman.” ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/33 "2005-10-14T15:20:26Z")
My ex-wife heard _Canary in a Coal Mine_ by The Police as: “You live your life like you were Larry in a coma…” I have no idea who she thought Larry was. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/34 "2005-10-14T17:28:56Z")
**Beach Boys - _Fun Fun Fun_** “You shouldn’t collide now, you shouldn’t collide” (_You shouldn’t have lied now, you shouldn’t have lied_) **English Beat - _Mirror in the Bathroom_** “You might meet her in the bathroom” (_You’re my mirror in the bathroom_) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/35 "2005-10-14T18:49:23Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” - I always thought she was singing “Climb every woman.” Until I just read this, I seriously thought that it was Climb Every Woman and always wondered what that meant…figured it meant for women to climb up and be strong or sumthin’… Oh well. I thought the song The Mighty Quinn was The Mighty Penguin… And I have never understood more than 4 words of anything Mick Jagger has ever sung. And Dylan might as well be singing in Croatian for all I understand of him. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/36 "2005-10-14T19:10:56Z")
At first I thought The Romantics were singing about their manager: What I like about Jews, They really know finance! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/37 "2005-10-14T20:08:29Z")
Just before coming to this thread, I posted in the “Iko, Iko, what’s a flag boy?” thread, saying I thought it was, “My grandmaw and your grandmaw…” And while we’re on the subject, to Hell with Mandfred Mann! When a singer repeats the same line 52 times, you oughta be able to figure out what the mushmouf is singin’. Yes, I’ve seen the real “revved up like a deuce, another roller in the night” line, but fuck you anyway, Manfur ! Ee-nun-shate, doood. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/38 "2005-10-15T01:21:28Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > 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” > > 😕 \*I’ve got the obligatory Hendrix perm And the inevitable pinhole burns All down the front of my favorite satin shirt I’ve got nicotine stains on my fingers I’ve got a silver spoon on a chain I’ve got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains I’ve got a pair of Gohills boots And I’ve got fading roots \* ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/39 "2005-10-15T02:47:31Z")
_We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control **Thought’s a hazard in the classroom** Teacher, leave those kids alone_ ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072/40 "2005-10-15T03:11:53Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > “revved up like a deuce, another roller in the night” You mean “Racked up like a doucher in the rubble of the night”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-we-could-use-a-good-misheard-lyrics-thread/326072.md?page=3)