# 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:** 16
**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:** [October 29, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/301 "2017-10-29T21:05:36Z")
[_The Surfin’ Dead_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8JwtAiGqQ) – The Cramps Lyrics: ‘Ooh baby, your asphalt eater hung ten’ Misheard lyrics: ‘Ooh baby, you’re askin’ for a peter hung ten.’ ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/302 "2017-10-30T04:32:37Z")
Roger Waters, It’s a Miracle. Misheard: She said meet me in the garden I’ve got salmon in my ear Actual lyric: She said meet me in the Garden of Gethsemene my dear ---
**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 6, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/303 "2019-06-06T22:24:23Z")
Saturday I was reminded of this one: [_Hold The Line_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0F9uLZf6M) – Toto Lyrics: Hold the line. Love isn’t always on time Misheard lyrics: Toe the line. Love is a four-way zone time. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/304 "2019-06-06T22:51:00Z")
I just today learned what Edgar Winter sings after “Come on and take a Free Ride…” _ **Actual lyrics:** _ Come on and sit here by my side _ **I’ve always heard:** _ Come on and set your mind aside I kind of like my line better. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/305 "2019-06-07T00:29:58Z")
There’s a new Halsey song that, to my ears, has her singing “How you gonna like it, sucking on dick?” Obviously, that’s not what’s being sung. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/306 "2019-06-07T18:07:37Z")
Recently I was wondering when a misheard lyrics thread would resurface, and here it is. Cool. I’d like to add: ‘Alex Chilton’ by the Replacements Actual - “Cerebral rape and pillage in a village of his choice” Misheard - “We will rape and pillage in a village of his choice” – sounded cooler anyway… ‘Riders On The Storm’ by The Doors Actual - “Sweet memory will die” – I think this was discussed a number of months back, along with the squirming toad… Misheard - “Sweet Emily will die” - (amusingly, the first lyrics site I searched for had “Sweet family will die”) And since this is supposed to be “personal” mondegreen, ‘Panama’ - Van Halen Actual - “you reach down, between my legs, ease the seat back” Misheard - “you reach down, between my legs, ease the seed bag” - This seemed more Dave’s style anyway… It embarrassingly took a few years for me to realize that Elton John in “Saturday Night’s All Right” was shouting out “She’s With Me”, not “Sympathy”… ---
**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 7, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/307 "2019-06-07T18:31:45Z")
It IS “sweet family will die.” Listen here: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qvPBQcM3MF8/hqdefault.jpg "The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Live from Rehearsal Room)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPBQcM3MF8) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/308 "2019-06-07T18:59:24Z")
First heard _A Chorus Line_ in high school. The song “I Can Do That” has this part: _I’m watchin’ Sis go pitterpat. Said, “I can do that, I can do that.”_ I apparently missed all the subsequent references to his sister in the song and ignorantly though he was referring to some dancer he was watching on TV named _Cisco_. Went so far as to name a character in a play I wrote a year or so later after this nonexistent person. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/309 "2019-09-05T21:27:50Z")
Somehow, _Peaches_ by The Stranglers came up in conversation today. Lyrics: Is she tryin’ to get outta that Clitares? Misheard lyrics: Is she tryin’ to get outta that clitoris? The confusion between the French bathing suit and a part of the female anatomy was intentional on The Stranglers’ part. I never knew I’d been whooshed until this morning. :smack: ---
**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:** [September 5, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/310 "2019-09-05T22:29:43Z")
Just found out that the Vapors are singing “Live at the Marquee.” All this time I thought it was “laugh at the monkey.” ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/311 "2019-09-05T22:59:10Z")
When I was a kid, I thought Peter Gabriel’s _Shock the Monkey_ was about a monkey named Jacques. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/312 "2019-09-06T01:47:58Z")
I learned this weekend that the 1978 song by Sniff ‘n’ the Tears is not “Travesty.” Rather, it is “Driver’s Seat.” I also learned that Sly and the Family Stone’s hit in 1969 is not “Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself” but is “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” Siriusly. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/313 "2019-09-06T04:25:26Z")
If I hear “What You Need” by INXS I have to remind myself that Michael is singing, This is what you need, I’ll give you what you need. Because what I hear is, Keep a watchin’ me, keep a watchin’ me. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/314 "2019-09-06T07:30:44Z")
Pearl Jam - _Rearviewmirror_- the first couple of times, I heard “pissed on my plate” as “pissed on my face” ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/315 "2019-09-06T22:50:17Z")
Not a particularly interesting one, but I just 5 minutes ago watching lyrics on you tube for random songs did I learn that the Eye of the Tiger is the “Cream of the fight” not the “Thrill of the fight” ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/316 "2019-09-07T02:19:40Z")
Unless you’re whooshing us, couldn’t it be the person who typed the lyrics who got it wrong? Because I hear “thrill” too. That reminds me, in the 80’s it was a couple of years after “Animal” by Def Leppard that I learned it’s, “… And I lust Animal.” and not “… And I love Animal.” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/317 "2019-10-10T21:57:06Z")
Tracy Chapman, “Smoke and Ashes” I heard “Smokin’ hashish” :o ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/318 "2019-10-10T23:56:16Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Unless you’re whooshing us, couldn’t it be the person who typed the lyrics who got it wrong? Because I hear “thrill” too. > > That reminds me, in the 80’s it was a couple of years after “Animal” by Def Leppard that I learned it’s, “… And I lust Animal.” and not “… And I love Animal.” I just don’t fricken’ know. When I posted that I saw four or five sources in agreement that it was “cream” which makes sense with the whole “rise to the top theme” and I heard it clearly as cream. Now after more research some people[sup]1[/sup] say both, or say “dream” or say it changes through the choruses. I am now leaning toward “cream” first time and thrill the rest. [sup]1[/sup] Manny Peoples, B.S.Loadof, et al, (2019) _YouTube_ ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/319 "2019-10-11T01:15:25Z")
Robert Palmer… _Might as well face it I’m addicted to love_ Me: _Tiny square pieces I’m addicted to love_ No idea. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/320 "2019-10-11T01:25:50Z")
Ben Folds Five, “The Battle of Who Could Care Less” Real line: “Think about your masterpiece.” For years, I thought it was “Think about your masturbation.” I mean, I had always imagined the character in the as a loser who spent the day hanging around the house watching _The Rockford Files_ and smoking weed, so self pleasure seemed like another plausible activity for such a character. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=17)