I hear morning bros whistling…
What are the actual lyrics?
A couple of days ago I heard the Bee Gees “Jive Talking”. I decided to look up the lyrics because there was a part I knew I always heard wrong.
Actual lyrics: Telling me lies yeah
My misinterpretation: Telling Elijah
I can’t really hear any lyric at all. I need the lips & the context to hear what is being said. When you say something random like in singing, I can’t quite capture it. It doesn’t matter though. I have no trouble at all in everyday-life. No one talks to me by singing.
ABC’s Poison Arrow
Lyric: Shoot that poison arrow…
Heard: She’s got poison eyebrows… (I was 9 years old when the song came out)
Also, as I mentioned in a similar earlier thread, I originally thought that Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust was actually called Another One Rides the Bus, long before anyone had ever heard of Weird Al Yankovic.
Just had another one happen to me. The song is Steely Dan’s Sign in Stanger, from the 1976 release *Royal Scam.
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Actual Lyric: Do you have a dark spot on your past? Leave it to my man he’ll fix it fast.
What I’ve been hearing for almost 40 years: Do you have a dark spot on your pants? Leave it to my man he’ll fix it fast. :smack:
Mine is the Rod Stewart / Faces song “Stay with Me.”
The lyrics are
You won’t need too much persuading
I don’t mean to sound degrading
But with a face like that
You got nothing to laugh about
Red lips hair and fingernails
I hear you’re a mean old Jezebel
Let’s go up stairs and read my tarot cards
But I always heard that last line as
“go upstairs and be my powder puff”
And I like my lyric much better, it has an affectionate raunchiness that fits the song.
PS- My apologies if I posted this in this thread earlier, I thought I might have but I scrolled through the thread a few times and didn’t see it. There are a lot of similar threads in this forum.
PPS - Lyrics websites really suck
I always thought it was a “Long Cool Woman in a Red Dress.” Googling it for a Baker’s Dozen thread, I find out the dress is BLACK?
I don’t care. It sounds red to me.
Another thread about songs reminded me of this one.
REM’s “The One I Love”
Real lyric: “A simple prop, to occupy my time”
I heard: " A simple prop, to help you tie my tie".
My weirdest one is one where I’m sure my version is better than the real one.
On Dark Side of the Moon there is a voice (I thought it was an old bum, but apparently it was a roadie or someone coming by the studio who agreed to be interviewed) who I heard say:
“I certainly was in the race…”
The actual line I found out recently was “I certainly was in the right…”
I always though it was “Long cool woman and a bad man”.
drad dog I too thought it was “I certainly was in the race”.
I heard Bush’s “Glycerine” on the radio just now and I still keep thinking it says “kiss the rain.”
Until recently I’ve never really used any herbs and spices, and never really gave them any thought, so for years whenever I heard Simon & Garfunkel singing “Scarborough Fair” I heard the line, “Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,” as, “Parsley, sage, rosemary and time.”
I believe “thyme” is indeed pronounced as “time”…
I once heard that STP’s Scott Welland got the line ‘flies in the vasoline [sic]’ from mis-hearing ‘life in the fast lane’.
EDIT: I found a citation.
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Thank you. That makes me feel a little better now.
This is one of the threads that don’t die, and while I’m listening to the Who’s Quadrophenia, I’m noticing another misheard lyric from Cut My Hair, the last line is:
“My fried egg makes me sick first thing in the morning”
I thought it was:
“My Friday makes me sick first thing in the morning”
When I was a kid, I misheard it as ‘partially save Rosemary in time’, which seemed kind of mean to poor Rosemary…save her all the way, guys! Geez!
I got heartaches in my pocket
I got pickles in my hair
Rollerskating to “Gloria” by Laura Branigan:
Real lyric: “I think they got the alias…that you’ve been living under”
I heard: “I think they got your area…that you’ve been living under”
Which also kind of makes sense.
These aren’t really misheard lyrics, but misunderstood lyrics. In elementary school we had a singing for 15 - 30 minutes. Those songs still pop into my head from time to time. I don’t know what this first one is, but it seems it was sung around Christmas so I think it’s a song about Jesus.
His eyes were black
As black as a jet
Growing up near NAS Miramar, I could tell you jets were definitely not black! They were light grey on top and white on the bottom with barred roundels on the sides and wings, and cool artwork on the tails. I had no idea, nor was it ever explained, that ‘jet’ in this context meant a certain kind of rock, which is black.
This is from Stephen Foster’s Some Folks:
Some folks long to die,
But that’s not me nor you.
How did he know how long I have before I die? I was rather offended. I wanted it to be a very long time before I died! ‘Long’, meaning ‘desire’ was well out of general use before I got to elementary school.