“Knights In White Satin…”
Stevie Nicks, Edge of Seventeen:
Just like the one-winged dove!
Poor birdie. ![]()
(Actual lyric: Just like the white-winged dove!)
I still claim that my mondegreen for Elton John’s Someone Saved My Life Tonight makes more sense than the original lyrics:
Someone saved my life tonight (Should’ve they?)
as opposed to the actual lyrics:
Someone saved my life tonight (Sugar Bear)
Which brings to mind Elton John receiving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from this guy.
Beatles-“All you need is blah”
Can anybody say that Rihanna isn’t singing “Hazel’s Got the Music”? (The second line and the chorus later.) I am not the only one who thinks so. Unfortunately Ellen makes fun of us on her show.
And in the original recording of “I am your Venus” by Shocking Blue I was surprised that they let them sing a certain word that rhymes with “Venus” on the radio back then. (I am your fountain of joy desire?)
A War song came on the car radio, and I said 'turn it up, I love this song". My wife says, “Oh I love this too.” She cranks it up and starts singing, “No way out”, instead of Low-ride-er. We laughed through the whole tune.
Van Halen’s Runnin’ With the Devil - Instead of hearing, “I got no love, no love to call real…” I hear, “I got no love, no love in Korea. I got nobody waiting at home.”
Carly Simon’s Baby Your the Best - Instead of hearing, “Nobody does it. Half as good as you…” I hear, “Nobody does it. Heavens caress you. Baby your the best.” I only found out the right lyrics after watching the movie Lost in Translation.
Paul Simon’s Kodachrome - Instead of hearing, “Momma’s gonna take my Kodachrome away.” I always thought it was, “Momma’s gonna take my combs and throw 'em all away.” As a little kid I would wonder, Why would Paul Simons mom take away all his combs? Doesn’t she want him to look nice?
Van Halen - “Jump”
Actual lyrics:
Well can’t you see me standing here,
I’ve got my back against the record machine
What I heard for years
Well can’t you see me standing here,
I’ve got my back against the wrecking machine
Here we stand
Rosa Parks, hearts broken in two, two, two
Sleepless nights
Losing ground
I’m reaching for you, you, you
Last week a girl in my class took her break with me in my car. We are from different cultures and generations, if it makes any difference. I had the radio on but I wasn’t really paying attention to what was on because I was working on a paper. Suddenly she says, “I thought rap was nasty but they playin’ a song about dicks on the ceiling?”
I have no idea how she got that from this, but the song was** Blackwater** by the Doobie Brothers.
“I like to hear some funky dicks on the ceiling…”? I can’t even wrap my head around that one.
John Fogerty actually makes sport of that when he perfumes “Bad Moon Rising” in concert. He’ll sing that line and oftentimes will point offstage to where the facilities are.
This morning I realized that the Johnny Rivers’ line was “…the one they call the 7th son,” not …“the one they call the setting sun.” I’m ashamed to admit how many years I was deluded.
Thankfully, they never played it too often when I was in my teenage years, or I would have had to emigrate to New Zealand because of the embarrassment.
When I was a wee kidlet, I thought Prince’s new hit song was entitled “Raspberry Sorbet”. 
Cat Stevens’* Matthew and Sons* has the line “they don’t dare” referring to asking for raises, which I always heard as “they don’t care”, which puts a much different spin on how they feel about their job
For years I was convinced Elton John had a song in which he kept declaring, “I like girls.”
Turns out he really separates the first two syllables in “Island Girl”
The lyrics to “Bette Davis Eyes” are hard to decipher. I thought Kim Carnes was singing “she knows just what it takes to make a problem.” She is actually singing “she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush” which makes no sense. It turns out Kim’s song is a cover version and someone misheard the lyrics when listening to the original song. The original lyrics are “she knows just what it takes to make a crow blush.”
That sounds delicious! ![]()
THank god for android phones… i use to forget to look this stuff up when i got home…
Recently Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) “gypsy”
I had no idea Lindsey is singing in the background "Lightin’s strikes,…maybe once… maybe twice,.
“Captain Jack”-for (embarssingly) long time thought the kid was smoking a pipe.
It’s very funny that Kim Carnes got the lyric wrong, but “make a pro blush” does make sense when “pro” is short for prostitute.