Run Runaway - Slade
This one just came to me.
Lyric: If you gotta crush, don’t beat about the bush
Misheard: If you gotta crush, don’t be an octopus
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I thought it was “Honest, Lucille!”
And instead of “telling lies” I thought it was “telling my ass.” Good pop song but they seem to mumble the lyrics.
Just recently I learned the actual lyrics to the Fleetwood Mac/Judas Priest song “The Green Manalishi” go like this:
Now when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks
And the night is so black that the darkness cooks
Whereas I’ve always heard it like this:
Now when the day goes to sleep and the full moon lurks
And the night is so black that the darkness cuts
I still prefer my version.
No kidding. Here’s what most of the lyrics sites say for Alan Parsons Project’s “Games People Play”:
"Games people play, you take it or you leave it
Things that they say, Honor Brite"
“Honor Brite”??? That makes no sense at all. More likely the real lyrics are: “Things that they say, are not right.”
Those sites are a hoot!
Jimmy Buffett “Pencil Thin Mustache”
“A two-tone Ricky Ricardo jacket…”
One site gave us
“A two-tone regular carnival jacket…”
Are you living in the East
Strolling away the time?
Are you gathering up the years?
Do you have a diamond mine?
Quick note, listened to a live version of Big Neon Glitter, it’s as the lyric sites say it is. Oh weel.
When Streisand sings Don’t Rain on My Parade, about twice as many people think “the sun’s a ball of butter” (25,000 Google hits) than “the sun’s a bowl of butter” (11,300 Google hits).
There’s no way in hell this can be serious.
Oh, but it is. For years I thought those were the lyrics. Seriously.
The song, Strawberry Letter 23, the issue is at about 1’27"-
I hear: These bitches look high.
Actual: See speakers of kite.
I used to think Steely Dan was singing, “Are you reeling in the eaves?” As in, walking drunkenly along the edge of the roof.
There was an absolutely horrible (yes, enough even to besmirch my good name) piece of flotsam called “I Got a New Girl Now” by a band called Honeymoon Suite.
Either it’s “she’s not like yoooooouuuuu” or “she’s a lot like yoooooouuuuu”.
I’m not really losing sleep over solving this one - just the time and effort to type this out was something in itself I was debating.
I always used to wonder what in the name of Margaret Hamilton was “living in a fish-islands” in Rush’s “Limelight” all about.
Was sad to find out it was “rotten” and not “ROCKIN, to tha core!” in VH’s “Ain’t Talkin Bout Love”.
From the Stones, Brown Sugar:
Drums beatin’ cold, English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin’ when it’s gonna stop
House boy knows that he’s doin’ all right
Use it in a hurry, just around midnight
I always figured “it” was a condom or something.
I wasn’t the originator of this abuse. It was some Dumbshit McGee on the Intartubes that made me saw it and now I can’t unheard it.
All my friends are eating steak and snow.
Which, I mean, if you add a bit of pepper to that snow it might be some cool eatings.
I don’t know how I was hearing this, but for years, until I looked at the lyrics to “No One is to Blame” from Howard Jones I heard the line:
You can dip your foot in the pool, but you can’t have a swim
as
You can feel cheerful as a fool, but you can’t have a swim.
For a long time, I thought the folk song “The Shoals of Herring” was “The Shores of Erin.” :smack:
In “Twists in My Sobriety” I heard “Look, my eyes are hollow glass,” not “Look, my eyes are holograms.”
Girl by Beck
Real lyrics: “and her rags were burning”
Sounds like: black Suburban (like the SUV)
Neal Diamond’s “Forever in Blue Jeans” sounded like The Reverend Blue Jeans to me.