Oh, so *that's* what they're singing!

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Out of interest, how are you pronouncing ‘gelatine’? Gel-a-teen seems about right from my perspective. (For what it’s worth, I always thought he was saying ‘Got that agility’, so I was no closer to knowing it than you were.)

On the topic of liking your own lyrics better, I’ll nominate my rather dark interpretation of Fallout Boy’s “This ain’t a scene (it’s an arms race)”. And there’s also an apparently more common mishearing which is just hilarious. :smiley:

Real lyrics: I’m a leading man, and the lies I weave are oh-so intricate.
Misheard by me as: I believe in love - and also in d… also in decay.
Misheard by several of my co-workers as: I’m an leetle man, and oh-so evil, oh-so into cats.

And nobody I know has ever realised that the lyrics are ‘this ain’t a scene, it’s a goddamned arms race’ before finding out the name of the song. Generally the jury comes in on the side of ‘This ain’t a seat, it’s a goddamned arse place’.

Y’just gotta love a song that provides that much entertainment value.

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This song by Boston…
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/peaceofm.htm
…had me perplexed for many years. They were saying “I don’t care if I get behind” but what my ears heard was: “I don’t care about FBI.”

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Wow, I always thought it was “mental retardated” as well. I mean, I guess I knew in the back of my mind that it couldn’t be, but I never really gave it much thought.

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My co-worker came out with a pretty good one today. It made me giggle:

In **John Mellencamp’s ** Hurts So Good, the actual line is:

Sometimes love don’t feel like it should

As it was playing in the background today, I was chatting along with him, when suddenly he stops, listens, points up at the speaker and says:

“Hey, isn’t that about OJ? Or no, maybe OJ got the idea from this song.”

I was thrown for a loop. “The hell?” I say.

“You know,” he explains, “‘Sometimes a glove don’t fit like it should’.” Dead serious. Laughed his arse off when I told him the real line. Good stuff.

Another co-worker once bounced along singing “I like the tiger, its the thrill of the fight….” I told him I liked the tiger, too.

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It’s probably regional, depending on where one is from, but I’m not used to seeing an ‘e’ on the end, and I’ve always pronouced it “gel-a-tin.”

Gelatine gets 2,780,000 hits on Google, gelatin gets 8,860,000.

Maybe it’s like how some people pronounce it “mar-ja-rin” and some say “mar-ja-reen” for margarine, although that word always has an ‘e’ on the end.

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Wait, you mean it’s not “…war correspondent”? Nevermind, indeed.

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hotflungwok, that was awesome :smiley:
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench

Actual lyric:
What have we done with innocence?
It disappeared with time, it never made much sense
Adolescent resident
Wasting another night on planning my revenge
One in ten, one in ten

I heard:
Wasting another night on planning my defence
What intent? What intent?

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The only way I could was show them to the Wikipedia page on him.

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Pssst …BaneSidhe … your location is missing an ‘a’ … Appalachia … :slight_smile:

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I’m notoriously bad at understanding song lyrics the first time I hear them. Usually, they become clear, but not always. For the longest time, I thought every girl was crazy about a Shotgun Man or a Shark on Land or soemthing…

Also, it just occured to me while listening to this song on the radio that I can’t understand a single word of Our Lips Are Sealed, except for that line.

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For over twenty years, I was certain that the last line of “Werewolves of London” was “His hair was purple.”

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I was about to submit my response to this thread from 2006, and got to thinking, “What a minute? Didn’t fishbicycle reply to my post??” Turns out he did! But what the hell? Just in case it’s been driving someone else crazy…

Me:

fishbicycle:

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I have listened to it a hundred times, and there is no way in hell that Bruce isn’t saying:

“Little Early Burly gave my anus curly-whirly”.

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The opening line of “So Far Away”, by Dire Straits, is:

*Here I am again in this mean old town *

But, due to Mark Knopfler’s adding a hitch to his singing of “I am again”, for years I thought the line was:

I hear that Armageddon is a mean old town

which certainly makes sense.

Doesn’t it?

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I’ve seen that mentioned in another thread awhile back, perhaps by you, and I have to say this:

I never heard it that way before reading the post. Now I cannot get that phrasing out of my mind :mad: :eek: :slight_smile:

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What song is that?

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Because I can’t be arsed to look up Bon Jovi lyrics, I still don’t know what he’s saying in “Livin’ On a Prayer” that sounds like “cheater trees are running away”.

The first time I heard “Alive and Kicking” by Simple Minds, I had no idea what the first line of the chorus was supposed to be, despite knowing full well the title of the song. “I have a ticket” was my guess; a friend supplied “I am the dickie”. The written lyrics can say what they like; the closest he could possibly be coming to the real lyric is “eye-live and kickee”, which makes even less sense than either of our interpretations.

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The ever-infamous “Blinded by the Light”.

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Oh. The douche song. I should have known.

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Gina works a diner all day?