Alright…Last night, my roommates and I had a little pre-Easter party. In college, anything that even remotely resembles a holiday gets its own celebration. This AC/DC song comes on the stereo, and yours truly, being mildly inebriated, starts singing along. I’m going along singing “Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief”, which I have done countless times in my car listening to the radio. Everyone looks at me and stares… Call me deaf, but I swear they were saying that. “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”??? Well, like that makes any sense… :smack:
Ever misheard lyrics? It’s like you’ve lost ten years of your life from singing the wrong words to the song. I feel cheated.
When I was younger, I misheard the lyrics to Rush’s “Temple of Syrinx”. I heard it as:
We are the priests
of the temples
… I’m serious!
I thought that Geddy Lee was singing as a character whose identity was being doubted by another “offstage” character: “No … really, I’m telling you – I AM a priest of the temple! For real!”
I just remembered another one that I hear wrong. The only problem is that I never bothered to find out the real lyrics, and I don’t know the name. Maybe some can ID it. It’s Creedence also, and I hear the line in question as:
“Stuck in an old dryer bin”
I believe the line is the final one sung in the chorus, possibly.
I had no idea what Cher was singing in “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves.” I thought she was singing about “bees up in the trees,” until I heard the title, at which point I got it. I also thought Madonna was singing “I’m gonna kiss Don Pardo,” in “Die Another Day.” Come to think of it, I still have no idea what she says there.
Ok…I’ve always wondered how this would ever work into a conversation in my life, but this thread prompted me to look up the lyrics of a song by The Doors that I’ve always loved as an inside joke. It turns out, my inside joke was based on the wrong lyrics.
From “Five to one”:
“…Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes…”
I always thought Morrison was saying:
“Trading your woes for a handful of dimes”
But even better, in order for those to be the lyrics, I always thought he sounded like Elmer Fud:
[surreal hijack] Oddly enough, Lodi is whereA&W Rootbeer was created. I just started that thread today as well. The town is stalking me…no wonder Fogerty felt trapped there. [/hijack]
Thats what I always thought it said too, I’m glad to find someone else. I always had this picture in my mind of an epic story. The Thunder Chief was a guy who looked like Apache Chief from SuperFriends and was ten feet tall. He had a magic Tomahawk and was so strong when he took a swing with it, it sounded like thunder. The thirty thieves were trying to steal his magic axe, and he had to fight them off. It was just a really cool thing to sing about. Then when I found out what the real song, it sucked.
Yes, many people have told me I have an over active imagination.
One night in Chicago in one single round
One night in Chicago in one single round
One night in Chicago in one single round
Mohammmed Ali…
busted the heart of the crowd.
the actual lyrics:
Your actions will follow you full circle round
Your actions will follow you full circle round
Your actions will follow you full circle round
The higher the leap, I said,
the harder the ground*
On the Car’s Candy-O album the song “The Dangerous Dyke” was an old favorite until I found out a year or so ago it was the “The Dangerous Type”. Completely messed up the appeal of the song for me.
There’s an entire database of misheard lyrics to be found here Many of them seem a bit contrived, but there are quite a few that will make sure you never sing the song right again. My favourite: “Bloody Nylons” at the end of Smells like Teen Spirit. I just have to sing that every time I hear the song.
(note: the website only posts small fragments of lyrics, so there’s no copyright involved AFAIK. Just a nod to the mods here.)
My favourite: “Bloody Nylons” at the end of Smells like Teen Spirit. I just have to sing that every time I hear the song.