Misconstrued Lyrics!

[kb9wyz]

For a while I thought Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemane" was "King Chinaman."

Oops.

 

[gaunten]

for a long time I thought the chorus to metallicas fuel began with:

"Ooooo, oh that bird"
(ooooo, on I burn)

also, before i got the lyrics for lethargica by meshuggah, I thought it sounded like:
A lethargic, cow explosion, to kill
monsters, prodigies, in the furrel
slow and deliberate, distorted rice goat
real lyrics:
a lethargic, careless motion to kill
monstrous, pordigous, indeifferent
slow and deliberate its torturous skills

 

[Rathead123]

Nobody thought of Eddie Moneys, Ive got...2 chickens with parasites..
2 tickets to paradise.. Our singer slips in the lyrics the first way sometimes, and no one can tell.

 

[WickedPissah]

I used to have a band. First time we got together, we contemplated doing Sweet Home Alabama. My buddy, the singer, takes it from the top, just to see if he knows it. He does fine until he gets to "Singin' songs about the southland" which he sings as "Singin' songs about the subway". Epic lulz.

 

[Happynoj]

For many years, I couldn't work out why the Rolling Stones suddenly started singing about everyone's favourite cheesy pasta snack in the middle of a song that seemed to be about gambling.

Then one day I realised that the line 'Macaroni' from the song 'Tumbling Dice' was actually 'Got to roll me'.

 

[edmidlifecrisis]

Personal "misheard lyrics" confession.

For years I couldn't tell what Michael Stipe was singing on REM's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" I listened to it via mp3 and never looked at the cd for the lyrics.

Here's what I heard all these years

"Only in Jamaica"
"Only a chowdermaker"

instead of

"Don't even try to wake her".......

Of course on "Document" I never understood ANY words on ANY song......at least they've gotten a LITTLE better over the years..

 

[Joe Nerve]

How about War's "Spill the Wine" - Spill the wine, take that pearl.

Most people think it is "ooh I dig that girl".

You have just altered my reality. Nothing is real anymore. The entire world knows he's saying "dig that girl". No. This can't be true. I thought it was a joke. I checked and it seems it's not. Nothing will ever be the same.

 

[edmidlifecrisis]

You have just altered my reality. Nothing is real anymore. The entire world knows he's saying "dig that girl". No. This can't be true. I thought it was a joke. I checked and it seems it's not. Nothing will ever be the same.

Me too. I have thought it was "dig that girl" for decades......

 

[John Deacon]

Being from the band, I can tell you. Freddie sings the last verse as gimme fried chicken. the rest is one vision.

 

[OtterOnBass]

Taken from Failblog:

"Ken Lee"



watch and laugh.

 

[Lazylion]

In the 80s I used to sing Blue Oyster Cult's "Burnin' For You". There was one line I never could understand. I just decided to sing this:
"I've seen suns that were freezin' their lines of worth through",
which makes no sense. Nobody ever called me on it, and I never did get the real lyric!

Edit: just googled it. Lyric freak says the line is:
"Ive seen suns that were freezing and lives that were through"
Freezing suns? Meh, still doesn't make a lot of sense. But it turns out I was pretty close. Too bad there was no google back then.

Now I have closure! Yay!

 

[Blown Cone]

I know my cousin, listening to the beastie boys' "Intergalactic," thought the line "another dimension" was "I have an erection."

To this day, i've been in vast amounts of tears, laughing.


Edit:
On another note, checking kissthisguy

Something wrong with our ad system?

 

[dirtbeard]

I Know that it's not the right lyrics, but everytime I hear Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", I hear

"... you need Kool-Aid, baby, I'm not foolin..."

 

[edmidlifecrisis]

When I was a kid and used to listen to "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles, there is a line.....

So Why I Love To Come Home.....

took me thirty years to figure out what he was singing..

I heard "So when I lurch in your home" which of course makes little sense unless he was a stalker...

 

[Lazylion]

Taken from Failblog:

"Ken Lee"



watch and laugh.

Ha ha, that was great! Harry Nilsson must have been spinning in his grave, but laughing at the same time!
You know you've done a great job when you finish the song and they ask "what language was that?" LOL

 

[MonetBass]

One I could never tell.....

Is it "give me one vision"

Or....."give me fried chicken" ? ( Queen )

Both. If you listen, they sing "gimme gimme gimme FRIED CHICKEN" at the end. Yeah!

 

[standupright]

Taken from Failblog:

"Ken Lee"



watch and laugh.

AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


oh man....that was great

 

[5StringBlues]

Then there's that Elton John lyric; "Hold me closer, Tony Danza".

"Count the headlice on the highway"


Also Elton:"Dont Let Your Son Go Down On Me"

Head East:"Shave My Wife I'm Goin Down For The Last Time"

 

[Bard2dbone]

I actually heard someone sing one of Eltons as " Someone shaved my wife tonight."

It would have been great if he had meant to do it as irony. But it was just because he had an accent. This was in Manila in the mid-'80's.

 

[Chili Bo Billy]

Our singer would change lyrics to various songs over the course of any set played.
ie: Europe - "It's the Final Cowtown"

Toto - "Hold the line, She likes to take it from behind"

You get the picture, Just to see if the audience was paying attention.