Why I thought it would even be logical for that to be the lyric is beyond me, but even now when I hear that song my head sings "your mothers got me horny, she's on her trampoline"
Another one I mishear is Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys. The real lyric is:
"Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway"
I hear " seeing my face in lights or my name on monkeys found down on broadway"
Not quite the same but I have a tendency to mix up football lyrics with the real ones, it's not uncommon for me to sing, "Low lie the fields of Athenry where once we watched the King Kenny play."
Back in 1968 when I use to listen to this song on the radio I misheard `let me in or else i`ll lean down your door` as `let me in or else i`ll` wee down your door`. Still sounds like it, to me, when I hear it now.:)
In Live and Let Die, the line "In the ever changing world in which we're living" gets misheard as "in which we live in" quite a lot. I don't think McCartney will care a lot.
Coldplay's Clocks where he sings "I could not stop that you now know singing" but I'm convinced he actual sings"I could not stop the tuna moan singing" I always wondered why a tuna fish would be moaning!
Coldplay's Clocks where he sings "I could not stop that you now know singing" but I'm convinced he actual sings"I could not stop the tuna moan singing" I always wondered why a tuna fish would be moaning!
I think if a tuna fish knew it was going to be killed and eaten, it would be more than bound to be moaning!
In Live and Let Die, the line "In the ever changing world in which we're living" gets misheard as "in which we live in" quite a lot. I don't think McCartney will care a lot.
I thought that was the lyric, til I read your post! :D
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Real: "Pissing the night away"
Misheard: "Piss in the microwave"
Your version's better!
I thought the Kinks' Sunny Afternoon referred to "Tales of drunkenness and croquet", which gives a very different image from "drunkenness and cruelty".
The line in Whenever, Wherever by Shakira, "Lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains" would have made a brilliant misheard lyric if it weren't what she actually sang!
Inspired by another thread . Are there any songs in particular of which you always thought you knew the lyrics, but had them wrong?
Me, I always used to think in the Aerosmith song 'Dude Looks Like a Lady', they were singing 'Do it like a lady'.
ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' has the line 'diggin' the dancing queen', which I always thought was 'dig it, the dancing queen'.
The Wheatus song 'Teenage Dirtbag' contains the line 'he drives an IROC'... I always thought it was 'he drives and I rock' or 'walk' - I had no idea there was a car called an 'IROC'!
When I was young I also always thought that Kate Bush was singing 'Out on the wily, windy moors' rather than 'wild and windy moors'!
The Dancing Queen still bugs me whenever I happen to hear it, you have it as 'diggin' the dancing queen, but I hear it as.. 'dig is the Dancing Queen', think that 'diggin' would sound better.
There's one other old song by Little Richard, which sounds very dodgy, as he seems to repeat a swear word right through it to the appreciation of the audience, as they are heard as well. It could be quite innocent but hard to make out.
In Set The Fire to the Third Bar - Snow Patrol, I always hear the line 'Until exhausted close our eyelids' as 'Until exhausted clothes are ironed' - every time!
Great Thread, laughter-a-second. Ma eyes worn out from laughter, so going to bed. But thread got me thinking re the singers in XF and will listen carefully to the words when they sing. :D:D
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'Hello-Hurray - cheers then, mate..need to write boy, need to write boy'
instead of
'Hello-Hurray - cheers then, mate...It's the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles'
The Police, Massage in a brothel.
Why I thought it would even be logical for that to be the lyric is beyond me, but even now when I hear that song my head sings "your mothers got me horny, she's on her trampoline"
Another one I mishear is Empire State of Mind - Alicia Keys. The real lyric is:
"Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway"
I hear " seeing my face in lights or my name on monkeys found down on broadway"
Not quite the same but I have a tendency to mix up football lyrics with the real ones, it's not uncommon for me to sing, "Low lie the fields of Athenry where once we watched the King Kenny play."
Back in 1968 when I use to listen to this song on the radio I misheard `let me in or else i`ll lean down your door` as `let me in or else i`ll` wee down your door`. Still sounds like it, to me, when I hear it now.:)
Yes, I'm very old.:o
"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, saying Ayo - Galileo"
Should be:
"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, saying Ayo - Gotta let go"
Come on Eileen.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dexysmidnightrunners/comeoneileen.html
Whenever I see the lyrics in isolation, I don't recognise them.
Apart from 'Come on Eileen' and 'tooralooratooraloorayay'
Your version's better!
I thought the Kinks' Sunny Afternoon referred to "Tales of drunkenness and croquet", which gives a very different image from "drunkenness and cruelty".
There's one other old song by Little Richard, which sounds very dodgy, as he seems to repeat a swear word right through it to the appreciation of the audience, as they are heard as well. It could be quite innocent but hard to make out.
Real lyric: And I swear That I don't have a Gun.
Misheard Lyric: And I smell and I don't have a Gun.
I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Tesco
and
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me to the doctors at the break of the day