# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/61 "2015-08-08T06:03:19Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > What I HEARD is very, very racist, and I did a literal double take. Thought I was hearing those racist lyrics for quite some time and then it dawned on me what they were REALLY saying, and boy did I feel stupid. The first time I heard Charley Patton’s “Jesus Is a Dying Bed Maker”–dubbed from a scratchy old 78–I was quite startled by what sounded like a refrain of “Jesus is a giant big nigger!” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/62 "2015-08-08T14:10:37Z")
In Andy Gibb’s song [‘Love is Thicker than Water,’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBk0JHKiYec) he very clearly to me says ‘the fish dreamer’ instead of ‘this dreamer’ one of the four times he says those words. No one, ever, that I have mentioned that to can hear it, but it’s plain as day to me. 0:19 This dreamer 1:01 The fish dreamer 2:09 This dreamer 2:19 This dreamer ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/63 "2015-08-08T18:04:55Z")
I started a [SDMB thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=741947) on a misheard lyric. Here is my opening post: > [@AC/DC's Highway to Hell. Did Bon Scott sing a racist verse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dcs-highway-to-hell-did-bon-scott-sing-a-racist-verse/705726/1): > > AC/DC’s Highway to Hell. Did Bon Scott sing a racist verse? > > Every time I hear [it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKggnBh2Mdw), I _ **swear** _ he sings the following: > > _Livin’ easy > Lovin’ free > Sees a nigger on a one way ride_ > > I looped through this verse over and over just now, and I am convinced he is _not_ singing “_ **Season ticket** _ on a one way ride.” > > Am I delusional? Crazy? I dunno. But I did a quick google search and it appears I am not alone on this. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/64 "2015-08-08T19:19:44Z")
Most of mine have been covered here. “Blank Space” I heard “I want a lonely Starbucks lover”. So she likes guys who hang out in coffeehouses. “Southern Cross” I still swear it’s “Nice Jamaican waves”, never mind it’s the wrong part of the world. My biggest one and most recently discovered I was wrong is Led Zeppelin’s “Fool in the Rain”. For years I thought it was “I’m just a fool waiting on the wrong blonde”. Made some sense, he’s standing in the rain waiting on a girl who stood him up again. He realizes another girl is the right one for him and he goes running to her. The line “ain’t the first time, believe me baby” even backed up my misheard lyric. Then one day I suddenly heard that line correctly. “Just a fool waiting on the wrong block”. Oh. :smack: Kind of changes the meaning of the song. I almost think I liked my misheard version better. ---
**Author:** ![SeniorCitizen007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@SeniorCitizen007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeniorCitizen007)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/65 "2015-08-08T19:57:16Z")
In ‘Uptown Funk’ I was convinced the lyrics were: Girls eat you hallelujah ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/66 "2015-08-08T21:09:28Z")
_Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough_ by Michael Jackson; Keep on, with the force, don’t stop always sounded to me like Keep on to the Post Office I’ve only just now googled to find out what it should have been. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/67 "2015-08-08T21:43:44Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > In Andy Gibb’s song [‘Love is Thicker than Water,’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBk0JHKiYec) he very clearly to me says ‘the fish dreamer’ instead of ‘this dreamer’ one of the four times he says those words. No one, ever, that I have mentioned that to can hear it, but it’s plain as day to me. > > 0:19 This dreamer > 1:01 The fish dreamer > 2:09 This dreamer > 2:19 This dreamer I hear it. It sounds to me like he is saying “The this dreamer” and they left it in the final mix. In the Beatles “Here Comes The Sun” George gets mixed up between saying “seems” and “feels” at [2:21 in this link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1AesMfIf8), so it comes across as “it seels like years since it’s been clear.” They probably were on their 100th take and just thought “fuck it. No one will notice.” ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/68 "2015-08-08T23:45:00Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > _**“Summer Breeze” (Seals & Crofts)**_ > Lyric: “…blowing through the jasmine in my mind.” > Heard: “…blowing through the jazz man in my mind.” For me that was “…blowing through the chasm in my mind.” ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/69 "2015-08-08T23:58:57Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I’ve always heard “wrapped up like a douche.” What is it really, “revved up like a deuce”? Not clear. Ditto. John Fogerty is a good one for mishearing. For years I hadn’t a clue what he was singing in “Lodi”: “If I only had a dollar / For every song I’ve sung / Every time I had to play / While people shsmumblemum.” Then I heard Emmylou’s version - and I couldn’t understand that line when she sang it, either! I finally ended up asking my wife, who told me it was “While people sat there drunk.” ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/70 "2015-08-09T09:24:57Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > _**“Stairway to Heaven (Led Zep)”**_ > > Lyric: “…And as we wind on down the road…” > Heard: “…And there’s a wino down the road…” I _do_ hear the laughter! It’s me! ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/71 "2015-08-09T09:32:32Z")
**Pinball Wizard**. Not The Who version (which I’d never heard), but, ahem, the Elton John version (on his GH V2 album): Lyrics: That deaf, dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean pinball. I heard: You can’t stop a blind kid – Sean plays a mean pinball! ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/72 "2015-08-09T13:12:32Z")
From Robert Plant’s “Burning Down One Side”: **heard** : tried Zabamin, tried Zahmaine **lyric** : try as I might, try as I may I had no idea what those places in the mishead lyric might be, maybe some hippie reference I was too young to understand, so I went with it. Twenty-five years and the actual lyrics made themselves clear… ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/73 "2015-08-09T18:32:58Z")
Obscure song: 3x2 = 6 by Vanity 6. I’ve broken the link because some of the images border on NSFW. [https://www.youtube.com/](https://www.youtube.com/) watch?v=P9gZak\_0KXo Without cheating or opening the spoiler box, what is she saying at 1:07? I heard, which makes absolutely no sense, Male Makers, Girl Takers, A girl’s best friend’s her pride. The actual lyric: My made up name is Vanity, 'cause a girl’s best friend’s her pride. Also, I could make out about half the other words in the song without having seen the lyrics. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/74 "2015-08-09T21:55:55Z")
Another Elton John, but not a mishearing, just a misunderstanding my 9yo self had in the song Tiny Dancer: Sung: Jesus-freaks, out in the street Understood: Jesus freaks out in the street Same words, different meaning! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/75 "2015-08-10T02:10:41Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Ditto. > > John Fogerty is a good one for mishearing. For years I hadn’t a clue what he was singing in “Lodi”: “If I only had a dollar / For every song I’ve sung / Every time I had to play / While people shsmumblemum.” Then I heard Emmylou’s version - and I couldn’t understand that line when she sang it, either! I finally ended up asking my wife, who told me it was “While people sat there drunk.” The Creedence Song “Down On The Corner” had totally incomprehensible lyrics to me until I heard a cover of it at a restaurant. Until then, it sounded like: _Down on the corner Out here in the street Wifdklshfsdfkjdskjhin Bring a nickel, happy feet._ And you still can’t convince me the line isn’t \*You don’t need a **pinhead** Just to hang around \* He is NOT saying “penny”. No 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:** [August 10, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/76 "2015-08-10T02:20:34Z")
Sammy Hagar, _Heavy Metal_. Lyric: Headbangers in leather, sparks fly in the dead of night Misheard: Ten fingers in leather, sparks fly in the middle of the night Edit: Actually, now that I look up the lyrics, there’s a bunch of them I got wrong. . ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/77 "2015-08-10T02:48:22Z")
Eagles. “Life in the Fast Lane” For years, due to sub-par radio in the VW that I owned at the time, I still parse the chorus lyrics as “ **Eat my jar of Vaseline** ”. I blame it on youth, commonly available psycho-active drugs, and that damn radio. When I hear it now, I still use those lyrics. My daughters have the roll-eyes down pat whenever that song comes about. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/78 "2015-08-10T04:03:37Z")
“Space Truckin’” by Deep Purple. lyric: C’mon, c’mon, c’mon space truckin’. heard: C’mon, c’mon, c’mon space monkey. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/79 "2015-08-10T12:29:14Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > In Andy Gibb’s song [‘Love is Thicker than Water,’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBk0JHKiYec) he very clearly to me says ‘the fish dreamer’ instead of ‘this dreamer’ one of the four times he says those words. No one, ever, that I have mentioned that to can hear it, but it’s plain as day to me. > > 0:19 This dreamer > 1:01 The fish dreamer > 2:09 This dreamer > 2:19 This dreamer I don’t remember this particular example but I’m sure you’re not making it up because Andy Gibb pronounced the “ess” sound as “esh” in several of his songs. One that comes immediately to mind is from \*I Just Want to Be Your Everything \*: “Open up the heaven in your heart and let me be The things you are to me and not some puppet on a shtring” I’m cracking up at some of these but mostly I can’t believe that other people hear the same nonsense lyrics as I. ---
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> [@eburacum45](#): > > _Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough_ by Michael Jackson; > > Keep on, with the force, don’t stop > always sounded to me like > Keep on to the Post Office > > I’ve only just now googled to find out what it should have been. I always heard “keep on, to the bus stop, don’t stop…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=5)