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Post by solgroupie on Apr 5, 2010 14:00:03 GMT -5
what lyrics are out there that you didn't hear right the first time, but even after you learned the correct ones, you still heard it the original way?
i heard learning to fly today, and that part where it says, "tongue tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, i" - i heard it as "earthbound biscuit." this was when i was probably a teenager, and i still sing biscuit instead of misfit.
since i am forced privileged to hear a lot of country music, there is one song where the guy sings, "well, who cheated who?" and i hear it every time as "well, hoochie coo." again, i think my way is better.
any takers?
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Post by callipygias on Apr 5, 2010 15:21:45 GMT -5
i heard learning to fly today, and that part where it says, "tongue tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, i" - i heard it as "earthbound biscuit." I hear that as "...just an earthbound, this little guy."
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 5, 2010 18:31:55 GMT -5
This one might be embarrassing. When I first heard the Little Rivers Band's Reminiscing, I thought they were singing, "walking through the park with nitroglycerin." They were supposed to be old, right? I just figured...you know? We could do a whole thread on misheard Led Zeppelin lyrics. Don't even get me started.
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 16, 2010 10:37:26 GMT -5
heard another one today on my way to work. the song glycerine, by bush, has a line: could have been easier by three our old friend fear and you and me - and i always hear: our old friend phil and you and me.
phil's a good guy.
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Post by callipygias on Apr 18, 2010 18:59:40 GMT -5
This is how I thought Tiny Dancer started:
Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seems to slow the band Pretty eyes, harlot smile, married a music man
instead of how it really starts:
Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
And later, when he sings "Piano man he makes his stand" I still hear "Down on my hand, he makes a stand."
And finally, same song, the last part of the chorus, he sings, "Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today," but I swear he says, "Maybe darling she's so plennnehh, she had a busy day today."
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 18, 2010 22:15:14 GMT -5
^^^I also miss-heard lyrics in that song. Can anyone figure out what Elton's singing during the chorus of "Philadelphia Freedom?" I certainly can't. Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song. I hear: "Always sleep well, touching off. I only know if it's a quest and shout!" Actual lyrics: "On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore." Nope, just don't hear it.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Apr 18, 2010 22:42:20 GMT -5
youtube doesn't have the Wayne's World sketch about this, at least not that I can find.
"Excuse me...while I kiss this guy!"
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 19, 2010 15:34:20 GMT -5
here's another one i've been trying to think of for days.
in give it away, by the red hot chili peppers, they say: bob marely, poet and prophet.
i hear: bob marely, rolling in a bucket.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Apr 19, 2010 19:56:57 GMT -5
I know what you mean about Philadeliphia Freedom.
Let's see:
Philadelphia Freedom puts me knee-high to a man, Da-da-da-da-da my family never had...
Right?
Here's one by the Eagles:
Warm smell of policeman, rising up through the air...
Now I understand it's:
Warm smell of Coletus (a flower) rising up through the air...
I defy anyone to decipher this oldie:
Me and you and a dog named Boo...
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 20, 2010 0:26:36 GMT -5
Just listened to Me and You and a Dog Named Boo. There were two lines at first I couldn't understand. I figured out one of them on a third listen, but one still has me confused. It's in the first verse and sounds like: "Will power me that old cargo. Give me a second while I look it up. Okay, I was pretty close. It's "Will power made that old car go." I'm now listening to Lobo's greatest hits. Thanks Bix!
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Apr 21, 2010 21:44:43 GMT -5
I think the most famous miss-heard line in rock is "There's a bathroom on the right."
Please don't tell me you don't know where that comes from.
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Post by callipygias on Apr 26, 2010 18:01:16 GMT -5
"Wrecked up like a douche" should be pretty high on the list, too.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Apr 26, 2010 18:51:49 GMT -5
"Wrecked up like a douche" should be pretty high on the list, too. It seems to me like they just walked into that one. Even though I know the word is actually "deuce," I still can't hear it as anything but "douche." They had to know they were doing that.
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 26, 2010 19:13:24 GMT -5
a guy i work with used to be a dj for a rock station back in the seventies, and he told me once that he and a couple of other guys he worked with played that record over and over, trying to figure out just what the hell they were saying.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 27, 2010 1:28:43 GMT -5
Listening to Climax Blues Band's Couldn't Get It Right and heard a line I can't figure out. It sounds like "Just another know and con fatality." Ha?
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