# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/101 "2015-08-13T22:58:59Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I heard: > > Just like the one-winged dove… Same here! All these years… ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/102 "2015-08-15T14:52:51Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Rush “Limelight.” > > Actual “Living in a fish-eye lens…” > Heard “Living in the fish islands…” > > I had another one on the tip of my tongue and can’t think of it now. Yup, I hear fish islands too. ---
**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 15, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/103 "2015-08-15T15:51:12Z")
A friend in high school was WAY off on this lyric. In “Fish Heads” by Barnes and Barnes: Real lyric: Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino… He heard: Roly-poly fish heads are never seen eating Capistrano… ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/104 "2015-08-17T19:03:34Z")
Eric Clapton’s ‘After Midnight’ I always hear the backup singers saying “Captain Midnight, Captain Midnight” ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/105 "2015-08-17T19:22:52Z")
Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” Actual lyrics Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free What I heard Money for nothin’ and your checks are free ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/106 "2015-08-17T19:33:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > _ **Do, a deer** _ from \*The Sound of Music > \* > Lyric: “Tea, a drink with jam and bread” > Heard: “Team a drink with Jan and Fred” Always thought it was Janet Blair. ---
**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 18, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/107 "2015-08-18T12:05:28Z")
Pearl Jam’s Even Flow just shuffled on my computer. I of course have been listening to this song for YEARS…I had pasted in the lyrics about two years ago, but didn’t go over the stanzas with a fine tooth comb when I did. I then idly noticed this morning that the line from the opening stanza ostensibly goes like this: “Oh, dark grin he can’t help when he’s happy, looks insane” While I was 100% sure that it was: “Oh, girlfriend he can’t have-even when he’s happy, he looks insane.” I just went back and listened to it again, and I am still sure that it is the latter; the key words definitely sound to me like those in the 2nd one. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/108 "2015-08-18T22:26:45Z")
If I had known the name of [this](https://youtu.be/GikWha5TC94) Broken Social Scene song was “Cause = Time”, I probably wouldn’t have misheard these lines: They all want to love the cows 'Cause they all need to be the cows They all want to fuck the cows ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/109 "2015-08-18T22:28:57Z")
I’m so glad you asked because I just got reminded of my own deeply personal one. I always heard this: “It never rains in California But girl don’t they warn you It pours… Menopause” No lie. ---
**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 18, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/110 "2015-08-18T23:43:56Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > “It never rains in California > But girl don’t they warn you > It pours… > Menopause” Only women bleed. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/111 "2015-08-19T03:17:59Z")
_ **Killer Queen,** _ by Queen **Correct** : She’s a killer queen, gun powder and gelatine (I think; I know we’ve discussed this here). **I heard** : She’s a killer queen, gunfighter agility… I like mine better. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/112 "2015-08-19T03:21:00Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > Same here! All these years… Me too…three…twelve… ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/113 "2015-08-19T03:24:00Z")
Not me, but my 10-year-old daughter. On the sound track to Les Miz, the song “Do You Hear the People Sing?” has this lyric: _The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France._ She thought it was: - The blood of the Martians will water the meadows of France.\* That’s how we sing it now . ---
**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 20, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/114 "2015-08-20T19:16:38Z")
_All In The Family_’s theme song, _Those Were The Days_. Lyric: Gee, our old LaSalle ran great Misheard: Giarolla salary rate ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/115 "2015-08-20T19:29:05Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Not me, but my 10-year-old daughter. > > On the sound track to Les Miz, the song “Do You Hear the People Sing?” has this lyric: > > _The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France._ > > She thought it was: > > - The blood of the Martians will water the meadows of France.\* > > That’s how we sing it now . [http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Stuff/MarsAttacksCards/41HorrorInParis.htm](http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Stuff/MarsAttacksCards/41HorrorInParis.htm) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/116 "2015-08-20T19:32:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _All In The Family_’s theme song, _Those Were The Days_. > > Lyric: Gee, our old LaSalle ran great > Misheard: Giarolla salary rate It sounded like they were naming an Italian-English woman to me: Giarolla Sarah Grey ---
**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 20, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/117 "2015-08-20T19:42:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _All In The Family_’s theme song, _Those Were The Days_. > > Lyric: Gee, our old LaSalle ran great > Misheard: Giarolla salary rate Also (for me): Lyric: Boy, the way Glenn Miller played! Misheard: Boyda Wakelin Milla Blade (WTF!) Apparently I’m not the only one who didn’t understand it either. I recall a TV Guide issue with an article on AitF, and the intro to the articl listed those lyrics. A subsequent letter to the editor said something to the effect, “Thanks! I’ve been wondering what they were saying!” ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/118 "2015-08-21T04:32:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > _All In The Family_’s theme song, _Those Were The Days_. > > Lyric: Gee, our old LaSalle ran great > Misheard: Giarolla salary rate I could not understand that part for the life of me. The most I could make of it was some nonsense like G-r-o sour and grey. ---
**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 22, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/119 "2015-08-22T23:30:26Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Just last night I learned that the chorus to Rob Zombie’s “Dragula” does, in fact, say “dragula” – not “jagged edge.” No, it’s clear as day. He’s singing “Slam in the back of my…Jagged ass”. 🙂 ---
**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 23, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/120 "2015-08-23T00:18:46Z")
_The Bill Cosby Show_… To me they lyrics always sounded like _Hoo Lord! Gonna get some raggets… and some rolls… and some reezinrizins Ha, ha, ha, ha!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=7)