I thought I was mishearing Kyrie Eleison. I heard it right. I just didn’t think Kyrie Eleison had a meaning. It means Lord, Have Mercy.
I was guessing that he was singing carry a raisin.
I liked this act on Britain’s Got Talent. This guy’s whole act is based on deliberately misheard lyrics.
Sting-Spirits in the material world
Actual – Are spirits in the material world
I hear – I stare into my cheerios
“Tea, a drink with Jan and Fred…”
Hark, the hair-oiled angels sing
Glory to the newborn King
I had no idea what a herald was when I was 8
You’re trying to tell me he didn’t sing that?!
Googles the lyrics…
Well, I’ll be damned. Thirty-five years I’ve misheard that. Thirty. Five. Years.
In all fairness to me and the rest of Western Civilization … c’mon on! At best he is singing: “I’m a poor heart aches…” I’ve listened to it repeatedly with the “correct” lyrics staring me in the face, and I cannot hear “My poor heart aches.” Sheesh.
Nope. The lyrics sheet is wrong. I am right. Writing Sting at this very moment to get his confirmation.
Heard a sound check for Sting once. He slaughtered the lyrics as they checked levels.
“Every yard you rake”, “Every cake you bake”, “Every hand you shake”…
So, technically not misheard, but deliberately sung wrong.
Right? Same here. Since I was a kid, And it’s bracing to realize I can now actually report having something wrong for 35 years, longer than my wife’s been alive. Speaking of whom, I told her about my 35-year mishearing the other day and she basically did a spit take, bursting out laughing and protesting “That makes NO sense.” And she’s not wrong! IDK, LOL.
Tangentially related: I have found that I notice lyrics a lot more since hitting my forties. Anyone else experience this? Old songs I have known forever come on, at least the melody and chorus, and I hear lyrics from the other verses I never noticed before. Like the funny/sad/romantic O. Henry vibe of the story related in the “Pina Colada Song”, for instance, which I never picked up on until I had heard it hundreds of times over 30+ years. And it’s not the repetition: now when I hear new songs from the likes of Father John Misty, I really focus on the lyrics right from the first listen. Anyone else relate to this?
Sure it wasn’t the end of “Love is the Seventh Wave”, sung correctly? https://www.sting.com/discography/lyrics/lyric/song/181
I think it was me who noted the “anus curly whirly” which is clearly a rimjob reference. And then little Hurly Burly offers the singer a ride! After licking his ass! Put a ring on that one, son!
Money for Nothing
What he sings: “stick it in the camera…”
What I hear: “stick it in the caramel…”
I always thought the line in the Steely Dan song “Done up in blueprint blue” was a mishearing o my part. Nope, but the line makes no sense.
On the other hand, I thought the song’s title was Babe. No, it’s Peg, but it sounds like Babe to me.
Is there anything more famous than this?
“If you like being at Carlotta’s…and gettin’ caught in the rain…”
“Smoke on the water…the fire engine guy…”
“Don’t you know that you are a stupid star”
The famous menage a trois in “Groovin’”: “That would be ecstasy, you and me and Leslie.”
Many years later I learned it was “endlessly.” Oh.
But I started at a very young age. When I was in early grades we sang “My Country 'Tis of Thee” and while I’m sure I got many more lyrics wrong than just the one at the end, I thought it went, “sweet land of liberty, O-V-I-C.” Probably in anticipation of our new commie overlords.
Before I learned the title of the song, I thought they were just singing, “Hey…” Which is closer to “Babe” than to “Peg”. So I’m with ya on that one.
I knew the title was “Peg” but I still thought they were singing “Hey” until just now. :smack:
Styx’s Come Sail Away, I thought the line was “I’m god, I’m the Captain, so climb aboard.” Sounds right to me, only the line is “On board I’m the Captain, so climb aboard.” Too redundant for my tastes.:
And the line
“We live happily forever so the story goes
But somehow we missed out on that pot of gold”
Should be
We lived happily ever after the story’s told.
But somehow we missed out on the pot of gold.
I had a hard time believing he was really singing “Sugar Bear.” Once I was convinced, I wondered if he was getting paid by Post.
Sting loved to make up lyrics to Every Breath You Take. In this video, Rick Beato plays the original tracks to it and there is a guide track with Sting singing (as I recall) , “All the blood you’ve spilled. Every one you’ve killed. Every grave you’ve filled …”
When my daughter was little she heard lyrics of Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage” as
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your rear
You fart and no one seems to hear.