Wrong Song Lyrics

[Amadeus]

I'm sure everyone's misheard lyrics. What's especially embarrassing is when you're singing them, completely off. My dad always thought The Sound of Music went "Tea, a drink with Janet Gray," which doesn't make much sense.

Mine's from "Well and the Lighthouse," where it says "Resurrected, living in a lighthouse" I always thought it was "Rezzo Rectin, living in a lighthouse... The lines and the lamps and sleep, and yes." Turns out I was way off - "Resurrected, living in a lighthouse. The lions and the lambs ain't sleepin yet."

[T3chno]

I often confused the part in For Reverend Green by Animal Collective when Tare is yelling "For Reverend Green" as "Forever in green."

[Amadeus]

Oh yeah, that reminded me, my grandmother used to think "Forever in jeans" was actually "For Reverend James"

[Seneschal]

My mum can never get song lyrics right, even the clearest and simplest ones, which is a shame since she likes to sing a lot. Usually she just substitutes "dum-di-dum" in place of words, but sometimes she improvises lyrics of her own, such as "I can see clearly now the rains have come".

The only song lyric I used to get wrong which I can remember offhand is in Itchycoo Park, where instead of hearing "We can miss out school/Why go to learn the words of fools?", I heard "We can miss out school/Why go to learn the words of cool?" which doesn't really make sense.

[Spawn of Yanni]

I always hear the words "I'm looking at a blank page now" in Porcupine Tree's Mellotron Scratch as "I'm looking at kkstrong".

[Cheez]

In Linchpin by Fear Factory, I always thought the opening line was "Just give me a pie!" when it was "Can't take me apart!"

[SlappyMcGee]

On the Arcade Fire note, I always hear, "You better look out for love!" at the end of Wake Up but it's look out below or some lame shit.

[T3chno]

I always hear the words "I'm looking at a blank page now" in Porcupine Tree's Mellotron Scratch as "I'm looking at kkstrong".

I just relistened to Mellotron Scratch, and you are damn right Yanni. Now I'm gonna keep hearing that in that song.

[Scrivener]

of course there's: "I'm blue, if I was green I would die" i forget which song though

and when my sister heard the jingle for mitsubishi, which goes "hey, mitsubishi" , she thought it was "hey, mister fishy"

[TheEverPresent]

Heh, I was confused on the very same Well and the Lighthouse lyrics.

Pretty much half of AFI's lyrics are quite confusing.

[Amadeus]

On the Arcade Fire note, I always hear, "You better look out for love!" at the end of Wake Up but it's look out below or some lame shit.

Wait, seriously? That's what I thought it was too.

[Leaff]

On the Arcade Fire note, I always hear, "You better look out for love!" at the end of Wake Up but it's look out below or some lame shit.

That, mostly. And Rainbow Voodoo by Clark if that counts, but I think he intentionally made it ridiculously messy, vocal-wise.

[乳头的早餐谷物]

'Start Me Up' as 'pistachio'.
Oh, and 'Ich bin der Musikant' (from Taschenrechner by Kraftwerk) as 'spin the music, cunt'.

[Amadeus]

A couple of ones I noticed recently:

"Here's the sound that it's alight, here's the mode that it's alright" vs "Here's the sun, it's alright; here's the moon, it's alright" - Rebellion (Lies), Arcade Fire
"Sleeping in is giving in, no matter what they taught us" vs "Sleeping in is giving in, no matter what the time is" - Rebellion (Lies), Arcade Fire
"Pure in five colors, pure inside my mind" vs "Purify the colors, purify my mind" - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

[SkyPanda]

Arcade Fire seems easily misheard!



"eyes without a face" becomes..

"I SUPPLY THE FISH." much better lyric imo

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

In "Bikini Sports Punchin" by Maximum the Hormone, I've always heard the title being sung as "making a Spot, Spot check!" And so I've naturally envisioned this entire epic with a manic GM trying to kill his players, but one player standing heroically and announcing that he'll roll a Spot check. With the explosion of music comes a Broadway musical performance including fireworks and dancers dressed as d20's with legs "rolling" themselves.

EDIT: If you look this song up on YouTube to hear it, as I've just done in order to see how a person might interpret this song for the first time, I ought to warn you that the music video is fucking weird, and will probably make you uncomfortable if there are people walking around nearby.

[Izzy]

I always seem to think the part that says "Come on pilgrims sing to the pyres." in Staying Fat - Bloc Party says "Come on progress into the past."

[remm]

Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson.
It actually is "Jesus loves you more than you will know"
I used to think it was "She's a slut you more than you will know"

:/

[otters~1]

irc

<flag> Anyone know "Lola" by The Kinks?
<skylining> No.
<flag> I assume some of you will.
<Godless> nope
<jerrod> LOLA
<jerrod> L
<flag> The lyrics always struck me as weird.
<jerrod> O
<jerrod> L
<jerrod> A
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<jerrod> LOLA
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<jerrod> She walked up to me and she wanted to dance
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<jerrod> I love the lyrics.
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<jerrod> I always listened to that song as I walked out of school at the end of the day.
<flag> <3
<flag> But anyway: Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
<flag> But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
<flag> And so is Lola
<flag> La-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
<flag> Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
<jerrod> I imagined my self in slow motion as I walked through the masses.
<jerrod> yeah
<flag> So suddenly Lola's a man?
<Godless> o_O
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<flag> Never got that.
<jerrod> Lola was always a man.
<flag> Okay.
<jerrod> It alludes to that in the lyrics.
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<flag> No it doesn't.
<jerrod> YES
<flag> It says "she" thirty times.
<flag> Oh well.
<jerrod> yeah
<jerrod> It's a first person song
<jerrod> the man thinks she is a woman in the begining
<flag> Ah. And how do you know this?
<flag> Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
<jerrod> Let me get some text to reference
<flag> Right.
<flag> I always liked "Waterloo Sunset" better anyway.
<jerrod> I asked her her name and in a /dark brown voice/ she said, "Lola"
<flag> What?
<flag> It's "dapper."
<jerrod> but when /she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine/
<jerrod> why she walks like a woman and /talks like a man/
<flag> Okay.
<flag> I like dapper better, but whatever,
<flag> Great song.
<jerrod> Yeah
<jerrod> It'
<jerrod> It's a very sweet song.
<jerrod> At the end of the day he's just happy to have someone.
<flag> That's one interp.
<jerrod> And he loves lola regardless of the dick.
<flag> Well put.

[Vyacheslav]

Cannibal Corpse's "Make Them Suffer." When Corpsegrinder screams "SUFFER!" at the beginning, it sounds an awful like "SOFA!"

[otters~1]

Cannibal Corpse's "Make Them Suffer." When Corpsegrinder screams "SUFFER!" at the beginning, it sounds an awful like "SOFA!"

Yeah because that makes a lot of fucking sense.

[T3chno]

<flag> Anyone know "Lola" by The Kinks?
<skylining> No.

lolskyline.


Uh yes, those lyrics were about a transvestite. Freaked me out later too.

[otters~1]

Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light," the lyrics "And she was blinded by the light/Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night" (chorus). Every version of this much-covered song sounds like deuce = douche. Weird phenomenon.

Chris Thompson's

EDIT: Wikipedia has this to say: "The song is notable for lead vocalist Chris Thompson's garbled enunciation, especially of the phrase 'revved up like a deuce' which has led many fans to interpret it as 'wrapped up like a douche'. The original Springsteen lyric is neither of the above, instead being 'cut loose like a deuce'."

[sheganican]

I'm Slim Shady yes i'm the real Shady all you other Slim Shadys are just mud tanning :|

[Amadeus]

I just realized today that Win was singing "from us kids," not "dumbass kids"