# Song lyrics you deliberately sing wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444 "2012-04-30T20:12:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/81 "2012-05-02T20:43:23Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Are you reeling in the years? > Stowin’ away the time? > Are you gathering up the cheese? > Have you had enough wine? Are you living in the east? Strolling away the time? Are you gathering up the years? Do you have a diamond mine? ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/82 "2012-05-02T23:48:38Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > “But there’s a warm wind blowing the stars around/And I’d really love to see you tonight…” Holy Crap! Until this, I thought those _were_ the lyrics! :eek: :o Well, I probably won’t stop singing it that way… ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/83 "2012-05-02T23:50:01Z")
> [@limegreen](#): > > WHAT:eek::smack: Those aren’t the real words? I just googled it, and I’ve been singing it wrong all these years!! Don’t feel bad, I just learned this too! LOL ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/84 "2012-05-03T00:02:33Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > 'Ccording to [this](http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/dan_seals/id_really_love_to_see_you_tonight.html), those are the real lyrics. Or am I getting whooshed here? A couple of lyrics sites have it the other way, but after getting thoroughly confused, I went and listened to the song. It is “blowing the stars around”. I confirmed this by watching the video where Dan Seals (England Dan) does a country version of this song and it’s much more pronounced. _whew_ ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/85 "2012-05-03T00:14:12Z")
An oldie, “Johnny Angel”: Other fellas call me up for a date, But I just sit and wait, I’d rather masturbate. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/86 "2012-05-03T00:16:33Z")
And my favorite when I’m in a racist mood: R-E-S-P-E-C-K! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/87 "2012-05-03T02:38:25Z")
“All…we…do-ooo… crumbles to the ground and hurts our little feet…” ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/88 "2012-05-03T03:11:35Z")
From “One” by Metallica: The lyric is “Tied to machines that make me be”, I always sing “Tied to machines that make me pee”. One of those stupid-ass things you find funny in High School, that for some reason is still worth a chuckle today. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/89 "2012-05-03T03:18:33Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I think this one may be far from widespread but- > > In the **Rush** song **Freewill** , instead of “path that’s clear” I always sing (and hear): > > \*♫ I will choose a \*\*bathysphere \*_♫_ > > I know it makes absolutely no sense, but that’s what my brain thought it heard way back when and it stuck! There actually **is** a song about a Bathysphere, though. It’s by [Smog](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjB3c4woT20&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/90 "2012-05-03T03:30:18Z")
“What are the words to La Bamba?” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/91 "2012-05-03T04:05:27Z")
> [@Aeris](#): > > Ha! My mom is the one that started my on that. Except we sing ‘Secret Asian Man’. Even better, “Sequined Asian Man.” I just like the visual that one gives me. [Takei] [Oh My!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ALsvU50wQ)[/Takei] ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/92 "2012-05-03T04:27:19Z")
Alternative radio in the 90s was a good source for these. The opening lines of “Santa Monica” by Everclear: _I am still living with your goat Lonely and dreaming of a wet coat_ And Collective Soul’s “The World I Know” was always “The One-Eyed Gnome” to me. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/93 "2012-05-03T09:30:23Z")
The Beatles’ “The girl with colitis goes by.” Sondheim’s “Not a Dago Spy” (Not a Day Goes By) And of course the immortal Marmoset Song: “Marmoset, there’ll be days like this; there’ll be days like this, my marmoset.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/94 "2012-05-03T10:19:59Z")
I probably do it all the time with any song I learn to play on keyboard first, and haven’t heard or sang in a while. But that’s the one I want to bring up. There this old Christian song, done in a Gaither style, called “Let the Hallelujahs Roll.” It’s chorus begins, “Hallelujah feels the same in every language/ It starts the doorbells ringing in your soul.” No one I know has any idea why it is “doorbells.” And so my old church always sang “joy bells” instead. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/95 "2012-05-03T13:45:37Z")
“You! You got what I need! And you say he’s just a friend, but you’re always fucking him!” One of my co-workers would sing the beginning of the Three’s Company theme “come and lick on my balls.” To which I’d respond “Who licked my ball sack!? (Who, who,who, who, who)” ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/96 "2012-05-03T14:31:54Z")
All in all, you’re just another dick in the mall. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/97 "2012-05-03T14:56:34Z")
You’ve painted up your tits and curled and combed your pubic hair. Ruby are you constipated? here just eat this pear. Apologies to Kenny Rogers… nah not really! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/98 "2012-05-03T17:54:51Z")
Sheryl Crowe ``` "all i want to do is hurt someone" ``` ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/99 "2012-05-03T18:13:26Z")
When, at work, Purple Haze would play, I’d sing: 'scuse me while you kiss my ass. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/100 "2012-05-03T18:16:53Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > When, at work, Purple Haze would play, I’d sing: 'scuse me while you kiss my ass. User name reminded me of another favorite, from ‘Hair of the Dog’: _Now you’re messin with a vaginal itch._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444.md?page=6)