# Kissthisguy! The Best Misheard Lyrics

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 4, 2000, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555 "2000-07-04T13:44:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/41 "2000-07-08T04:06:39Z")

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Louis Armstrong, _What a Wonderful World_

“The bright blessed day, **the dogs say good night…** ”  
:o Oops, it’s “the dark sacred night…”

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**Author:** ![ascrivey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@ascrivey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ascrivey)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/42 "2000-07-08T04:50:06Z")

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My friend always thought it was Kick it up instead of Lick it up.

Me…I just found out the song was Rihannon( Is that Stevie Nicks?) (named after a goddess) not Brianna.

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**Author:** ![bradysg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@bradysg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bradysg)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/43 "2000-07-08T16:04:46Z")

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My favorite is:

Secret Asian Man instead of Secret Agent Man.

Secret Asian Man  
Secret Asian Man  
Well they’ve given you a number  
and take-out’s on the way.

bradysg

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**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/44 "2000-07-08T16:22:23Z")

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When I was in HS, there were some girls that had heard the new Falco song “Rock me Amadeus” and thought it said “Rock me I’m a desk” and another groupo thought the part where Falco is singing Amadeus Amadeus over and over, they thought he was singing “hot potatoes”

So,

“Rock me, I’m a desk”

or  
“Rock me, hot potatoes”  
“Hot potatoes”  
“Hot potatoes”  
“Hot potatoes”  
“Hot potatoes”  
“Rock me, hot potatoes”  
Jeffery

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**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/45 "2000-07-08T22:22:53Z")

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Two comments here: A horrible Manfred Mann cover version of ‘Blinded by the Light’ that came out in the seventies (and was a hit, fer cryin’ out loud) **did** use the lyric ‘wrapped up like a douche’. Springsteen, though never one for proper enunciation, at least was clearer in his pronunciation of the word ‘duece’. The Manfred Mann version could be what a lot of people are mis-hearing.

Second: In a radio interview on WNEW-FM, also in the seventies, guest DJ Dr. Winston O’Boogie played ‘I Am The Walrus’ and as the song faded out came on the air and said, ‘Know what they’re saying? “Everybody’s got one, everybody’s got one”’. And that’s the official word.

But they’re really singing “Everybody smokes pot, everybody smokes pot…”

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**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/46 "2000-07-09T02:24:54Z")

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The song by Eiffel 65, BLue

He sings for his chorus

I’m blue daba de daba da daba de daba da daba de daba da…

Then my not very hetro friend pointed out that he thought he was saying

I’m blue, I’m in need of a guy, I’m in need of a guy, I’m in need of a guy.

Now every time I hear it, that is all I hear.

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**Author:** ![bedhog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@bedhog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bedhog)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/47 "2000-07-09T05:21:46Z")

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Judas Priest’s “Breakin’ the Law” - I always thought was “Rakin’ the Lawn”.

And “Spirits of the Material World” by The Police - I coulda sworn I heard it as “I Spit Earrings Into My Cereal Bowl”.

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/48 "2000-07-09T05:28:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by NickyLarson \*  
> \*\*Two comments here: A horrible Manfred Mann cover version of ‘Blinded by the Light’ that came out in the seventies (and was a hit, fer cryin’ out loud) **did** use the lyric ‘wrapped up like a douche’. \*\*

Umm, okay, but why would they do that? It makes no damned sense. Didn’t then, and doesn’t now.

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**Author:** ![schillometer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@schillometer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schillometer)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/49 "2000-07-09T06:03:13Z")

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> \*Originally posted by FreakFreely \*  
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> What I heard was: “Smoke pot! Smoke pot! Everybody smoke pot! Smoke pot! Smoke pot! Everybody smoke pot!” \*\*

Must be a common one-- there’s a Rocket From The Crypt song that ends with this very chorus being chanted for about five minutes.

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**Author:** ![schillometer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@schillometer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schillometer)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissthisguy-the-best-misheard-lyrics/24555/50 "2000-07-09T06:10:58Z")

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Speaking of Nirvana misheard lyrics, I was convinced for a while that “Tourette’s” actually had lyrics. It seemed perfectly clear that at one point Kurt sang “We know how to dance / Ruh ruh / We’re all stuck in France / Nyuh nuh (maybe ‘My heart’)”.

Of course, the actual Nirvana lyrics in many cases were a hell of a lot funnier than what we thought we heard. “Did he really just say ‘Sell the kids for food’? Naw, it’s gotta be something else.”

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