The poliiice don’t like it
Fuck the Casper
Fuck the Casper
I sing it that way on purpose. It weirds people out.
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.
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.
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.” 
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.
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.)
whose
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:
I originally knew it as:
My country tizz of thee
Sweet land of liberty
of the icing
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
Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” - I always thought she was singing “Climb every woman.”
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.
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)
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.
At first I thought The Romantics were singing about their manager:
What I like about Jews,
They really know finance!
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.
*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
*
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
You mean “Racked up like a doucher in the rubble of the night”?