Misheard lyric

[rodak]

There's a whole website devoted to this:
KissThisGuy.com - The Archive of Misheard Song Lyrics

(named for the line in "Purple Haze")

 

[MrAB4003]

The "Squeeze me" makes it even funnier!

 

[Alkali Ike]

In CCR's "Bad Moon Rising": "There's a bathroom on the right."
The best part is that when I watched John Fogerty sing the song during a televised concert, I could swear that he sang the "bathroom" version, with a twinkle in his eye.

There's definitely a recorded version of him singing the line that way in a live show.

 

[MrAB4003]

No kidding! TIL!!! Thanks for the link lol

TIL for me too! Now I can't unhear it!

 

[sleddogn]

in the sky with diamonds instead of Lucy

 

[elliestradiol]

in quicksand by the story so far, i always hear parker singing "lose all the french toast" even though i've known it's "lose all and face death" ever since i started listening to them. i blame jarrod alonge

 

[JGP]

From goofy book 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy'

Bacon Carrot Biscuits'

BTO - TCB

 

[dougjwray]

An old girlfriend of mine heard "I'm not talking 'bout movin' in..." in England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" as "I'm not talking 'bout the linen..."

 

[Jaycat]

"And it appears to be a golf ball..."

Long Time Gone - CSN

That would have been one of their more erudite lyrics.

 

[Wood and Wire]

We're the young generation, and we've got Saddam Hussein.

- The Monkees

 

[L Anthony]

I want someone else/To help me through this/Second-hand kinda life

- Third Eye Blind

 

[dougjwray]

How about the grand prize winner:
"I buried Paul"-- Actually, "Cranberry sauce."

 

[Michedelic]

An old girlfriend of mine heard "I'm not talking 'bout movin' in..." in England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" as "I'm not talking 'bout the linen..."

It always sounded like "I'm not talking 'bout millenium" to me.

 

[Salem6127]

I used to teach a ton of guitar and bass lessons. A young student once asked me if I could show them how to play Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief...

I haven't heard it the same way since.

Well hey, that's better than childhood me thinking it was Dirty Pete & the Thunder Chief

Also genuinely thought for decades it was "Money talks!

walks!"

 

[Salem6127]

 

[bass12]

"I just want you to know that you... are in my sister" ("You Are In My System" by The System).

 

[BigBoneRed]

THE BEATLES~

Song: "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

Real Lyric: I can't hide

Misheard Lyric: I get high

 

[roccobass]

Not a world shaker, but I misheard this lyric for decades. Always loved this song.

Heard it: I had too much to drink last night.
Actually: I had too much to dream last night.

 

[Alkali Ike]

"Beetle-head woman ain't got no soul"

Zeppelin, Black Dog

 

[ezstep]

I'm 63, and up until this very moment I still thought the line was "you and me and Leslie"!

I thought perhaps it was some sort of, shall we say, complicated relationship...

In my young mind, Leslie was always another girl in the mix. Leslie could be a guy...???