# YOUR misheard lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 6, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166 "2015-08-06T16:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/281 "2017-06-14T16:27:24Z")
[**Run Runaway**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikMiQZF-mAY) - Slade This one just came to me. Lyric: _If you gotta crush, don’t beat about the bush_ Misheard: _If you gotta crush, don’t be an octopus_ . ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/282 "2017-06-16T15:12:29Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > another heard the Go-Gos’ _Our Lips Are Sealed_ as “Olives or Seals.” I thought it was “Honest, Lucille!” And instead of “telling lies” I thought it was “telling my ass.” Good pop song but they seem to mumble the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/283 "2017-06-16T22:39:39Z")
[I love cookie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T6e3GJCjow). ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/284 "2017-06-16T23:36:08Z")
Just recently I learned the actual lyrics to the Fleetwood Mac/Judas Priest song “The Green Manalishi” go like this: _Now when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks And the night is so black that the darkness cooks_ Whereas I’ve always heard it like this: _Now when the day goes to sleep and the full moon **lurks** And the night is so black that the darkness **cuts** _ I still prefer my version. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > All the lyric sites insist: > > _And drag me back, drag me back, drag me back > Through that revolution, without solution_ > > But we all know how reliable they are. No kidding. Here’s what most of the lyrics sites say for Alan Parsons Project’s “Games People Play”: _"Games people play, you take it or you leave it Things that they say, **Honor Brite"** _ “Honor Brite”??? That makes no sense at all. More likely the real lyrics are: “Things that they say, are not right.” ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/285 "2017-06-19T03:18:42Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > The Cult, “Big Neon Glitter”… > > All the lyric sites insist: > _And drag me back, drag me back, drag me back > Through that revolution, without solution_ > But we all know how reliable they are. Those sites are a hoot! Jimmy Buffett “Pencil Thin Mustache” “A two-tone Ricky Ricardo jacket…” One site gave us “A two-tone regular carnival jacket…” ---
**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:** [June 19, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/286 "2017-06-19T13:26:14Z")
Are you living in the East Strolling away the time? Are you gathering up the years? Do you have a diamond mine? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/287 "2017-06-19T14:43:22Z")
Quick note, listened to a live version of Big Neon Glitter, it’s as the lyric sites say it is. Oh weel. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/288 "2017-06-20T09:14:26Z")
When Streisand sings _Don’t Rain on My Parade_, about twice as many people think “the sun’s a ball of butter” (25,000 Google hits) than “the sun’s a bowl of butter” (11,300 Google hits). ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/289 "2017-06-20T10:18:09Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Are you living in the East > Strolling away the time? > Are you gathering up the years? > Do you have a diamond mine? There’s no way in hell this can be serious. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/290 "2017-06-20T21:45:41Z")
Oh, but it is. For years I thought those were the lyrics. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/291 "2017-06-26T00:43:10Z")
The song, [Strawberry Letter 23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR1JQOBRrUY&index=221&list=FL-Go3zYcUQVvPRMHN0MtlTg), the issue is at about 1’27"- I hear: These bitches look high. Actual: See speakers of kite. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/292 "2017-06-26T00:59:37Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Oh, but it is. For years I thought those were the lyrics. Seriously. I used to think Steely Dan was singing, _“Are you reeling in the eaves?”_ As in, walking drunkenly along the edge of the roof. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/293 "2017-06-26T01:19:38Z")
There was an absolutely horrible (yes, enough even to besmirch my good name) piece of flotsam called “I Got a New Girl Now” by a band called Honeymoon Suite. Either it’s “she’s **not** like yoooooouuuuu” or “she’s **a lot** like yoooooouuuuu”. I’m not really losing sleep over solving this one - just the time and effort to type this out was something in itself I was debating. I always used to wonder what in the name of Margaret Hamilton was “living in a fish-islands” in Rush’s “Limelight” all about. Was sad to find out it was “rotten” and not “ROCKIN, to tha core!” in VH’s “Ain’t Talkin Bout Love”. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/294 "2017-06-26T22:51:29Z")
From the Stones, Brown Sugar: Drums beatin’ cold, English blood runs hot Lady of the house wonderin’ when it’s gonna stop House boy knows that he’s doin’ all right **Use it in a hurry, just around midnight** I always figured “it” was a condom or something. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/295 "2017-07-02T20:06:15Z")
I wasn’t the originator of this abuse. It was some Dumbshit McGee on the Intartubes that made me saw it and now I can’t unheard it. [All my friends are eating steak and snow.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprcpdwuwCg) Which, I mean, if you add a bit of pepper to that snow it might be some cool eatings. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/296 "2017-07-04T07:26:15Z")
I don’t know how I was hearing this, but for years, until I looked at the lyrics to “No One is to Blame” from Howard Jones I heard the line: You can dip your foot in the pool, but you can’t have a swim as You can feel cheerful as a fool, but you can’t have a swim. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/297 "2017-07-05T07:51:31Z")
For a long time, I thought the folk song “The Shoals of Herring” was “The Shores of Erin.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/298 "2017-07-05T08:02:52Z")
In “Twists in My Sobriety” I heard “Look, my eyes are hollow glass,” not “Look, my eyes are holograms.” ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/299 "2017-07-05T12:45:40Z")
Girl by Beck Real lyrics: “and her rags were burning” Sounds like: black Suburban (like the SUV) ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/300 "2017-07-12T03:38:02Z")
Neal Diamond’s “Forever in Blue Jeans” sounded like _The Reverend Blue Jeans_ to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=16)