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Misconstrued Lyrics!
- Thread starter Fishheadjoe
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Ha! Great topic! I remember in a band back in the 80's we did ZZ Top's "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers". There's a vocal line in the middle of the song when all of the music stops and it's just vocals for 8 beats. (This was before the interweb so you couldn't just look it up). We listended to that line a dozen times and couldn't figure out what he was singing. The closest thing we came up with was "Fries at McDonalds sure taste good, yeah!" So..........that's how we did it live. And it NEVER got old to us. We would bust out laughing EVERY time! It was all the singer could do to keep it together when we got to that part. One night I even kept an order of McD's fries in my rack. When we got to that part I just threw the fries at the singer. We lost it! The only thing that kept going was the drums for about 8 beats after the line. Good times. And, again, GREAT topic!
I heard a line Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" as "I've got Mormons, Jews, and hos..." instead of "I've got mortgages and loans."
This is a little off-topic, but these days lyrics websites are making matters even worse, with their lyrics being probably more wrong than right.
Once, I wanted to find the lyrics to Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment. The first one I found, I thought, no, this can't be right. Granted, the words are hard to discern by listening to the song, but somehow I knew "crash you into go" wasn't right
More searching produced the correct lyrics, but I never forgot those misconstrued words and every time I hear that song, I laugh out loud at them. Compare:
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I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
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I'm living for all that i think i know
I'm running here i'll crash you into go
I'm tired of all the love divide in two
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There are plenty of examples of incorrect lyrics on the web, but this is the funniest one I've found.
Once, I wanted to find the lyrics to Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment. The first one I found, I thought, no, this can't be right. Granted, the words are hard to discern by listening to the song, but somehow I knew "crash you into go" wasn't right
More searching produced the correct lyrics, but I never forgot those misconstrued words and every time I hear that song, I laugh out loud at them. Compare:Link Removed
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Invalid Link Removed
I'm living for all that i think i know
I'm running here i'll crash you into go
I'm tired of all the love divide in two
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There are plenty of examples of incorrect lyrics on the web, but this is the funniest one I've found.
When my mom was a teenager, she got all flustered when she was in a malt-shoppe (or something like that) and Jimmi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady" came on. She thought the lyrics, "foxy lady" were "**** zee Lady". Haha, it makes the entire song way different, especially the "here i come baby, i'm comin to GETCHA" part
Still basically the same thing. Come on, that song is about sex.
LOL, I'm coming out of my lurking status cause I know I'll forget it if I don't post it now while I'm thinking about it.
My mom's BF is a master at naming any classic rock song or band. Anything I don't know, he always knows...
So I have this song stuck in my head that I've heard a thousand times. I ask him, who sings it and he hasn't a clue, so he asks me to sing it.
I sing the only part I know...
"30 theives and the Thunder Cheifs" he laughs for a few minutes and then tells me that it's AC/DCs "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap".
My sister has butchered hundereds of songs, but sadly I can't seem to think of any ATM. :scowl:
My mom's BF is a master at naming any classic rock song or band. Anything I don't know, he always knows...
So I have this song stuck in my head that I've heard a thousand times. I ask him, who sings it and he hasn't a clue, so he asks me to sing it.
I sing the only part I know...
"30 theives and the Thunder Cheifs" he laughs for a few minutes and then tells me that it's AC/DCs "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap".
My sister has butchered hundereds of songs, but sadly I can't seem to think of any ATM. :scowl:
ELO "Evil Woman" I heard "He's a woman".
"My Sharona" I heard "Dice your mother".
ELO "Strange Magic" I heard "I gotta shave my d**k".
Alan Parsons Project "where of we go from here now that all of the children are grown up" I heard "where of we go from here now that all of the children are throwin' up".
"My Sharona" I heard "Dice your mother".
ELO "Strange Magic" I heard "I gotta shave my d**k".
Alan Parsons Project "where of we go from here now that all of the children are grown up" I heard "where of we go from here now that all of the children are throwin' up".
One time Mr. Kotter ask me what's the definition of a pronoun. I told him it was a word that got paid to be in a sentence.
I was thinking back to my gigging days and a story that sticks in my mind from those "old days".
I recall one drinking establishment that we played in, required the band to play Saturday afternoon matinee and also to allow anyone in the audience, to join the band on stage for a song. Not the most enjoyable of requirements, but let's face it, if ya wanna get paid, you do the gig!
Well, we had played a set and during the break, a guy comes up to us, guitar in had and asks if he could join us for a song or two. We say, of course, what do you want to play?
He says" Do you guys know "Slow Moving Walter"?
Us, "uhmm... no who does that song?
"Not really sure but it's an old song, I'm sure you know it!"
Us... "ok, could you sing a bit of it for us?"
Sure he says, I'll do some of the chorus:
"Slow moving Walter, that fire engine guy"
We stare back a him in complete disbelief....trying not to laugh in his face, because the tune he sang those lyrics to was none other than.....
SMOKE ON THE WATER!!! I kid you not!!!
Smoke on the water ,a fire in the sky, was determined to be "Slow moving Walter, that fire engine guy"!!!!!
So anyone else have an misunderstood lyric stories! Good Friday entertainment I say!
fishheadjoe
Until I had to sing it, from The Police, Every Breath You Take: I thought "How my poor heart aches" was "I'm a pool-hall ace"
My personal favourite:
Nightwish - Wishmaster
Original:
Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th Seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the Wishmaster
Misheard:
Hamster
A dentist
Hard porn, Steven Seagull
Warrior
This rifle
In me the fish master
Nightwish - Wishmaster
Original:
Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th Seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the Wishmaster
Misheard:
Hamster
A dentist
Hard porn, Steven Seagull
Warrior
This rifle
In me the fish master
"In the Garden of Eden" was the original intended lyric, from what I once read, some time ago.
Ear wax removal might be a good thing for some of the more heinous misinterpreters out there.
For the life of me I could never fully understand any of the lyrics that Elton John sings... He's got some kind of accent he puts on the words that make most of them undecipherable.
The Misfits "We Bite"
Actual lyrics- I want your blood, I rip your throat out
What I heard-I want to go out with your daughter
Actual lyrics- I want your blood, I rip your throat out
What I heard-I want to go out with your daughter
OK so when I was like 9 or so, I was in the car with my mom. The radio was playing Gloria by Laura Branigan. In the chorus she sings "I think they got the alias". I belted out "got your anus!". I mean, that's what it sounded like.
To this day I don't know what possessed me. My mom backhanded me!
True story.
To this day I don't know what possessed me. My mom backhanded me!
True story.
Not sure if this one was mentioned, but a few months ago my 2yr old nephew was watching a cartoon which used System Of A Down's song "Bounce". I usually just skipped over this song. But it made me curious about the lyrics. So I listened to it today and, yep... it's about group sex :
"...Unannounced twister games,
All players with no names,
They lined up double quick,
But just one pogo stick,
Everyone gets to play,
Runaway, expose',
It was so exotic,
But just one pogo stick..."
Of course we sang "Ring Around the Rosie" as kids, which was just as odd. But i was an adult before I learned the song was about death from the black plague...
"...Unannounced twister games,
All players with no names,
They lined up double quick,
But just one pogo stick,
Everyone gets to play,
Runaway, expose',
It was so exotic,
But just one pogo stick..."
Of course we sang "Ring Around the Rosie" as kids, which was just as odd. But i was an adult before I learned the song was about death from the black plague...
