# Lyrics you insist on singing wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 7, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352 "2022-01-07T02:07:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/121 "2022-02-07T02:14:57Z")
That’s better than the real lyric. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/122 "2022-02-07T12:48:32Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > After seeing the discussion of Hotel California in another thread, I’ve decided to keep singing the verse as, “Her mind was **differently** twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz… How about lyrics that the artist insists on singing wrong? I believe the actual line in Hotel California is “she got the Mercedes bends”. (not Benz) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/123 "2022-02-07T15:06:03Z")
Can’t Get Enough, by Bad Company. Come on, come on, do what you do becomes Come on, come on, **doo-wacka-doo!** ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/124 "2022-02-08T03:35:07Z")
Is that all there is? Is that all there is? If that’s all there is, my friends, Then that’s all there is. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/125 "2022-02-10T22:57:19Z")
When an eel lunges out and it rips off your snout That’s a morayyyyyy ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/126 "2022-02-20T14:54:17Z")
Tear my jock off. Tear my jock off Gourmet poo! Gourmet poo! Sonny laid Martina Sonny laid Martina In my room In my room ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/127 "2022-02-20T15:09:34Z")
I can’t light no more of your darkness no more augie doggies > **[I'm just a Poe Boy | Bohemian Rhapsody](https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1181592-bohemian-rhapsody)** > > See more 'Bohemian Rhapsody' images on Know Your Meme! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/128 "2022-02-20T15:15:34Z")
Reported for spelling correction. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/129 "2022-02-20T15:29:43Z")
Thank you, What\_Exit. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/130 "2022-02-21T19:04:17Z")
My god I could multi-post this like a dog. No fancy rhymes here, just sung in the most grandest, the most Shakespearian, Greg Lakeian voice possible… Just, take a pebbllllllllle, and RAM IT UP YOUR ASS. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/131 "2022-02-21T19:15:09Z")
Eons ago, if a radio on the factory floor played Purple Haze, I’d sing out loudly, “'scuse me while you kiss my ass!” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/132 "2022-02-22T18:41:38Z")
Money, it’s a gas Grab that cash with both hands and wipe your ass ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/133 "2022-02-25T06:29:24Z")
_Even though, ya ain’t got it, honey,_ _I’m so in love with your money…_ Anne Murray, gold-digger ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/134 "2022-02-25T15:31:35Z")
Ok, I laughed out loud at this. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/135 "2022-02-25T15:36:31Z")
I also misquote Chrissie Hynde on “Middle of the Road” with the pants line. Speaking of Pretenders, I also do Gonna use my style Gonna use my sidestep ( **sexy** instead) Gonna use my fingers Gonna use my, my, my imagination… ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/136 "2022-02-25T15:37:24Z")
how do y’all do strikethroughs, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/137 "2022-02-25T22:51:41Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > how do y’all do strikethroughs, anyway? Start with [s] End with [/s] I was kind of mystified what brass in pocket meant. It turns out someone in the band said that to mean “I have money,” i.e. coins. Another contribution: I fought the law lawn and the lawn won ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/138 "2022-03-13T17:19:50Z")
An aspirational (?) song that easily could have gone in the taking-an-oversized-mallet-to thread, the song “I believe I Can Fly” should’ve changed its main lyric to: “I believe in Masai…” (Masai Ujuri - president of bball ops for Toronto Raptors ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/139 "2022-03-13T17:59:45Z")
Once in a blue moon I’ll throw _Rumours_ on for a spin. When it gets to the worst track on the album, _Oh Daddy_, I always reverse the meaning, singing along. It makes it more tolerable. _Why am I right when you’re so wrong_ _You’re so weak but I’m so strong_ ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352/140 "2022-03-13T18:01:54Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > _Why am I right when you’re so wrong_ > _You’re so weak but I’m so strong_ Did you ever know that you’re my hero? And everything I would like to be? Did you ever know that I’m your hero? And everything you would like to be? Also: Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl I fell in love with a Mexican fatso Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle the cat had to piddle A kid I grew up with took the AB theme and changed it. Original: We’re goin’ hoppin’ (hop) We’re goin’ hoppin’ today Where things are poppin’ (pop) The Philadelphia way We’re gonna drop in (drop) On all the music they play On the Bandstand (Bandstand) His version: We’re goin’ humpin’ (hump) We’re goin’ humpin’ today Yeah we’ll be thumpin’ (thump) With her ass cheeks we’ll play And we’ll be pumpin’ (pump) Out all our jizz for today On a bed post (bed post) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-you-insist-on-singing-wrong/957352.md?page=8)