# Misheard Lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354 "2000-04-05T16:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/1 "2000-04-05T16:05:00Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/2 "2000-04-05T16:07:00Z")
Disregard all typos in the above post. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/3 "2000-04-05T16:30:00Z")
Obscure, but I rememer hearing The Police’s _Voices Inside My Head_ as “Horses piss on my head.” A friend of mine’s little sister was convinmced Huey Lewis wanted a new truck, not a new drug. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/4 "2000-04-05T16:48:00Z")
A friend of mine at work thought ZZ Top’s “Sharped Dressed Man” conatined the lyrics, “Every girl’s crazy 'bout a shy best man!” ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/5 "2000-04-05T16:51:00Z")
This one’s got to be a classic, but the first time I heard ‘Purple Haze’, I thought Jimi was saying '‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy’. * * * **TMR** _If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley right around the corner._ ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/6 "2000-04-06T05:12:00Z")
This is a great topic. In fact, there’s a whole website dedicated to misheard lyrics, at [http://www.kissthisguy.com](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. anyway, I digress. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/7 "2000-04-05T18:15:00Z")
Geez, there are so many. I was so crummy at interpreting lyrics as a kid. One that springs to mind is a BeeGee’s song with the lyric: And she came to me On a summer breeze… Which I heard as: And she came to me on a submarine… Which is just as plausable if you think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/8 "2000-04-05T18:27:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/9 "2000-04-05T18:51:00Z")
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! * * * That John Denver’s full of shit man! ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/10 "2000-04-05T18:56:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Trout Mask Replica** : > > This one’s got to be a classic, but the first time I heard ‘Purple Haze’, I thought Jimi was saying '‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy’. In addition to the website, there was a series of books published, the first one titled “'Scuze Me While I Kiss This Guy.” Esprix * * * [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Derfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lord\_Derfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Derfel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/11 "2000-04-05T18:59:00Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/12 "2000-04-05T19:03:00Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![MtnMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@MtnMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MtnMan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/13 "2000-04-05T20:17:00Z")
My all-time favorite was my college room mate who loved that Steve Miller classic _Big Old Jed Had A Light On_. I kid you not. ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/14 "2000-04-06T06:34:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/15 "2000-04-06T07:04:00Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/16 "2000-04-06T08:35:00Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/17 "2000-04-06T08:51:00Z")
“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.” ---
**Author:** ![Chrome\_Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Chrome\_Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chrome_Toaster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/18 "2000-04-06T09:07:00Z")
There was a song, long ago that I thought went, “Undercover Angel… Midnight Tennessee…” of course, it was “midnight fantasy” ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/19 "2000-04-06T14:20:00Z")
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”… * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354/20 "2000-04-06T14:49:00Z")
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.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misheard-lyrics/16354.md?page=2)