# 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:** 25
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/481 "2024-08-12T21:41:58Z")
Not mine, but my wife’s. We were driving from Sault Ste. Marie, ON to Ottawa when Golden Earring’s “[Twilight Zone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylGkm2EHHvE)” came on the radio. After hearing it, she asked me what was meant by ‘when the bullet hits the phone’. (It’s ‘bone’, not ‘phone’.) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/482 "2024-08-12T21:59:55Z")
Don Martin would be proud of that one. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/483 "2024-08-12T22:16:47Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Golden Earring’s “[Twilight Zone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylGkm2EHHvE)” I think of that song all the time. On the road to the house there’s a sign that says ‘Entering golf cart zone.’ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/484 "2024-08-12T23:25:53Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Don Martin would be proud of that one. [Fonebone!](https://i.postimg.cc/fLyhP7M5/Fonebone.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/485 "2024-08-12T23:28:10Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I think of that song all the time. I love the line “Where do I go, now that I’ve gone too far?” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/486 "2024-08-13T02:05:07Z")
From “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King”: Be no one around all day, Beat it to 'em on my way! (Actual lyrics:) Free to run around all day, Free to do it all my way! ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/487 "2025-04-12T18:33:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Singing the Dolphin Through - Manfred Mann > > **Actual lyrics:** Joseph, the mud gives way to coral… > **Misheard lyrics:** Joseph the Mutt gives way to Carol… I was thinking about this on the drive to the supermarket today, and wondered if I’d posted it. (I did.) When I got into the supermarket, they were playing _Blinded By The Light_. I thought it was a nice coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/488 "2025-04-12T19:01:06Z")
Up until a couple of days ago I thought Blind Melon in the song No Rain were singing, “I’d like to keep my cheating strategy.” Instead, the actual lyrics are, “I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today”. I’m not sure how I feel. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/489 "2025-04-13T16:08:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > When I got into the supermarket, they were playing _Blinded By The Light_. That song was out for quite a while ( to my preteen time awareness ) before I even knew the name of the song and that the words were actually “blinded by the light”. My ears for years always heard it as something more like “Fly me by the light”, or rather more sonically, _Flah meh bah the lot_. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/490 "2025-04-14T14:22:53Z")
My wife said for years she thought that the chorus of the song 'Boys of Summer" went: _I can see you_ _Your bra still drying in the sun_ It’s actually ‘_Your brown skin shining in the sun_’. I sing her version whenever the song comes on the car radio. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/491 "2025-04-14T16:19:32Z")
I was listening to The Lovin’ Spoonful’s ‘Daydream’ and stumbled through the lyrics once again so I looked them up. I always thought: _And even if time ain’t really on my side_ _It’s one of those days for takin’ a walk outside_ _I’m blowin’ the day to take a walk in the sun_ _ **And fall on my face on somebody’s new-mowed lawn** _ was “and follow my face on somebody’s new-mowed lawn” I pictured someone walking down the sidewalk following their face’s shadow on the lawn.’ And: _And even if time is passin’ me by a lot_ _I couldn’t care less about the dues you say I got_ _ **Tomorrow I’ll pay the dues for droppin’ my load** _ _ **A pie in the face for bein’ a sleepy bull toad** _ was ‘_Tomorrow I’ll pay the dues for droppin’ my loan_ _And cryin’ my face for bein’ a sleepy born son_’ To be fair, that last line is pretty unintelligible, imo. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/492 "2025-04-14T16:27:19Z")
I keep hearing the Hollies’ “On a Carousel” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5XRjp7vClT8/hqdefault.jpg "The Hollies- "On A Carousel" in Abbey Road 1967 (Reelin' In The Years Archives)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XRjp7vClT8) as “Haunted Carousel”. Weird Al should do that as a Halloween-themed cover. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/493 "2025-04-14T17:00:00Z")
I just remembered one- in ZZ Top’s ‘Gimme all your lovin’, I always heard: _You got to make it hot_ _Like a puma in a beanery_ I had to wonder, what’s a puma doing in a beanery, and why is that hot? The actual lyrics are: _You got to make it hot_ _Like a boomerang, I need a repeat_ ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/494 "2025-04-14T17:30:47Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I had to wonder, what’s a puma doing in a beanery, and why is that hot? [Hollywood, Santa Monica… Those places are hot.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%27s_Beanery) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/495 "2025-04-17T02:32:52Z")
> [@solost](#): > > _You got to make it hot_ > _Like a puma in a beanery_ This is my new favorite mondegreen ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/496 "2025-04-17T15:29:02Z")
I’m honored 😊 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/497 "2025-06-24T22:45:05Z")
Had to dig this up because we listened to this song on heavy rotation, through good speakers, and all thought Dr. Deth was right: > [@DrDeth](#): > > "_They call me Mellow Yellow…(quite right, Slick)_ > (Donovan) > [@Hampshire](#): > > I just had to look this up because what you heard was exactly what I’ve heard forever. > I didn’t believe when I read the lyric was “quite rightly” so I had to listen for myself. The guy had a horrible pronunciation of “rightly”. Yeah, he pronounced it exactly like he was being cool and calling someone “SLICK”. Now, Donovan might have written “quite rightly”, but in the studio I’ll bet he looked over at someone and threw in _“…Slick.”_ He even hits it like a nickname or a label. Don’t forget, the entire song is him putting on a Too Cool persona _and_ making fun of Too Cool people (and their fads, like smoking banana peels). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/498 "2025-06-24T22:55:05Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Don’t forget, the entire song is him putting on a Too Cool persona _and_ making fun of Too Cool people Well, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/499 "2025-06-24T23:05:47Z")
You were quite right, Slick… ---
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/500 "2025-06-25T00:06:09Z")
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