This has probably been done before but I wasn’t here for it so it doesn’t count.
Anyway. . .
My daughter was watching The Wonder Years on Nick when the theme song came on. Joe Cocker doing With a Little Help from My Friends. So my daughter sings the opening line: “Watch what you do with that stank attitude. . .”
I just cracked me up.
It reminded my of a time not too long ago. I was over a friends house listening to Steely Dan. Sang I: “Are you bringing in the cheese. Blowing away the tide. . .” This was really stupid of me because I know the title of the song is Reeling in The Years.
What about you? Have you misheard anything lately?
This is a great topic. In fact, there’s a whole website dedicated to misheard lyrics, at http://www.kissthisguy.com
I’ve heard so many songs wrong, I don’t even know where to begin. they all run into each other like a train wreck in my brain. don’t ask why there are trains in my head. it’s a really long story and it’s a matter of national security. and besides, it’s not really all that interesting. Except for the part about the badger, the exotic dancer from memphis, and a stick of butter, but that’s a whole other story.
Went to the kiss this guy site. I see that I’m not the only one who had problems with Steely Dan.
Lots of Beetles but not one from A Little Help With My Friends. My daughter remains the original.
One that I will never forget was the theme song from the Dukes of Hazzard.
I thought he was saying “straightnin the curves, flapping their gills” and of course it straightnin the curves, flatting the hills." My brothers used to give me a lot of shit about that!
I still can’t figure out why, in Wannabe, the Spice Girls are extolling the joys of salty, preserved meat when they sing bacon lasts forever, friendship never ends
My brother and I are from Texas, so we heard a LOT of Country & Western when we were little.
I remember us sitting in the back of Mom’s lime green/wood paneled station wagon and belting out:
“You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille,
With four HUNDRED children and a crop in the field…”
Also, several years ago I found out that my idiot Ex-husband thought Foriegner’s ‘Head games’ was called ‘Hat Games’.He sang it that way and everything.I never could convince him otherwise…
I hear someone saying oh fluffy dog'' in Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick,’’ right after the part about ``218 babes wearing nylons.’’ I’m pretty sure this is misheard, but I still can’t figure out what the real lyrics are.
Other than that, the only one I can think of is God grew a beard'' for I’ve grown up here.’’ But that was Tom Waits (``Whistle down the Wind’’) so it’s excusable
``You’re just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird.’’ – Tori Amos.
Like MtnMan, I had a friend who also thought * Big Old Jed Had A Light On*. This same person used to love the CCR classic “Bad Moon on the Rise” . . . course she thought the lyrics were There’s a bathroom on the right.
None of which is as funny as the fact that my mom would not let me get a Bruce Hornsby album when I was a kid, because she thought the name of the band was Bruce Hornsby Deranged. Sheesh, parents.
“Empty stares from each corner of a shared prison cell . . .” Pearl Jam
There’s a song they play on the oldies station and I think it is called “I Cry Like a Baby.” Anyway, the line says, “When I think about the good love you gave me, I cry like a baby.” Well, up until a couple of weeks ago, I always wondered why the guy cried like a baby when he thought about the “cold, lonely cavemen.” I mean, I guess it is sad but I wondered why he would sing about it.
Maybe this should go in the “Things You Would Never Admit in Public” thread…
“You don’t have insurance? Well, just have a seat and someone will be with you after you die.” --Yes, another quality sig custom created by Wally!
A Jesusfied sig: Next time I covet thine opinion, I’ll ask for it!
“And when I touch you I feel happy inside,
It’s such a feeling that my love, I get high,
I get high,
I get hiiiiiiigh…”
—I Want To Hold Your Hand. Legend has it that when Dylan met the Beatles, he brought some of the ol’ weed, thinking, because of this song, that they were familiar with it.
“His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”
A friend of my wife’s thought the Go-Gos hit “Our Lips are Sealed” was “eyelids of seals”…
Oh, and that song “Suicide Blond” always sounded like “Supersonic Blond” to me - hey, it still makes as much sense as the real lyrics! - and my friend Susan used to swear it was “Soup & Salad Bar”…
My mom commented on a song I was listening to, “How’s About a Date”, by Billy Idol. She asked why I would listen to such a dumb song. I said, “Mom, the song is Eyes Without a Face.” She paused, then replied, “Well, that’s even dumber.”
