# Things you only THINK you  heard

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-only-think-you-heard/189386>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-only-think-you-heard/189386 "2003-07-18T13:43:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-only-think-you-heard/189386/81 "2004-01-29T12:30:47Z")

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> [@Joel](#):
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> And something that everybody who’s heard this song has probably misheard. In the ELO song “Don’t bring me down” there’s a line that sounds like “Don’t bring me down…Bruce”  
> But it’s actually “Don’t bring me down…grroosss”

It’s **not** Bruce?!

My favorite misheards (you guess the songs)

Maybe you’re just like my mother  
she never sat inside

Trust you once my wife  
everything zen…

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-only-think-you-heard/189386/82 "2004-01-29T15:57:16Z")

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> [@cuauhtemoc](#):
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> In that same song, I thought “Does she speak eloquently?” was “Does she speak Gaelic like me?”

Gaelic, huh- I guess that fits with “will she go down on you in a theatre?” _G_

RE Seal’s Kiss from a Rose- I still think it’s “grave”, the whole song seems really Eddy Poe-ish. I love it!

I thought Steve Nicks was singing about a one-winged dove also.

With all the talk about Toto’s AFRICA, I’m amazed no one’s mentioned “Kilamonjaroh (sp?) rising like A LEPRESS above the Saraghetti (sp?)”

A lepress? A female leopard or a female leper?

Finally, I figured out OLYMPUS!!! D’oh!

And I bet some church-goers here sang for years about “Bringing in the Sheep”.

Finally, my own personal mondegreen- Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart-  
“Love is like a shadow on the altar of time”… tho the real lyrics are,  
“Love is like a shadow on me all of the time.”  
I think mine’s better.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-only-think-you-heard/189386/83 "2004-01-29T16:15:40Z")

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> [@Harborwolf](#):
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> My girlfriend thought Rage Against The Machines “Renegades of Funk” went “Redneck Kings of Funk.” She asked me because she thought the lyrics were a bit strange considering the band they came from. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder. Something about picturing Zack in overalls and a flannel shirt hoppin up and down singing about funky hillbillies.

No, the “Redneck Kings of Funk” would be by the Rage soundalike, Kid Rock 🙂 :eek:

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