Misheard Song Lyrics.

[Sigmund]

May all be well or on the mend.

The "Misheard Song Lyrics " thread on the little board "SKMB Closed. Meet At the Dark Tower" group was really cool. And freaking funny!

What are your Misheard Song Lyrics?

I'll start.

"Hey! You! Get off of my clown!" OR "Get Off Of My Lawn!"

(The Rolling Stones. " Get off My Cloud!")

Ha!

Peace.

 

[Grandpa]

"Sunday monkey don't play piano song, play piano song."

Michelle, the Beatles.

"Laughing and dreaming,
and I send all the a$$h0|e$ away."

More Than a Feeling, Boston.

And of course

"'Scuse me! While I kiss this guy."

Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix.



But here's something that's always bothered me, and it's not misheard. It's a problem with phonetics and word boundaries. When Billy Joel sings Keeping the Faith, does he refer to "a nice cold beer in the shade" or "an ice cold beer in the shade"?

Yes, I am weird. Sorry.

 

[not_nadine]

• Hold me closer, Im tired of dancing.

 

[Grandpa]

• Hold me closer, Im tired of dancing.

That beats, "Hold me close now, Tony Danza."

 

[not_nadine]

Ha.

My friend was singing out loud..... Someday maybe Someday.. all happy in an open jeep.

I said no.. not a happy song..

It was Bloody Sunday

 

[Grandpa]

This is not really "misheard," but in the fairly nonsensical Incense and Peppermint by the Strawberry Alarm Clock**, it starts with the lines:

"Good sense, innocence, cripplin' and kind.
Dead kings, many things I can't define."

Which I always heard as, "Get sense, innocence, trip of the mind," and I never got the second line. So when they repeat this same verse later on in the song, when Grandma was listening, I'd sing,

"Get sense, innocence, trip of the mind
Dirt can't hide from new improved Tide"

which never failed to get a guffaw from her.

Which was frankly rather ridiculous, because 1) it wasn't that funny, and 2) something cannot be new and improved.





**I am not apologizing for these titles. It was that kind of time. If you remember the Sixties, you weren't really there.

 

[not_nadine]

misheard lyrics - pearl jam yellow ledbetter - YouTube

 

[Sigmund]

Grandpa

I had a thing, and Mr. D. (John Dalglish) loved me doing it. (I was playing.)

(It's difficult to convey written as opposed to spoken??? But I'll try it with you.)

"You put the en-PHAsis on the wrong sil Lable "

Please try guessing what I was trying to say BEFORE you watch the clip.

Spoiler: Ha!

Peace.

 

[not_nadine]

• What is he saying; Black by Pearl Jam - YouTube

 

[Grandpa]

Grandpa

I had a thing, and Mr. D. (John Dalglish) loved me doing it. (I was playing.)

(It's difficult to convey written as opposed to spoken??? But I'll try it with you.)

"You put the en-PHAsis on the wrong sil Lable "

Please try guessing what I was trying to say BEFORE you watch the clip.

Spoiler: Ha!

Peace.

Here's an insight into our family that you didn't ask for and undoubtedly don't want.

Between blood and in-laws, there was a mini-debate. Is caramel pronounced "car-mel" or "care-a-mel"?

It could not be resolved. I stepped in with a solution. "Of course, it's ca-RAM-el."

We say "ca-RAM-el" to this day. At least, when no one else is around.

 

[Sigmund]

Ha!

Sorta like

peKan, PEEkan or pechan pie?

 

[not_nadine]

now I want peee kon pie and car a mell. That's the way I say it.

 

[Dana Jean]

I've told this a kazillion times on here, but my biggest misheard song lyric was,

She's got a tick in her eye, and she don't care.

It was supposed to be, She has a ticket to ride by the Beatles.

I was always horrified that someone could have a tick in their eye and not care about it. I sure as hell would care about a tick in MY eye!

 

[BeverleyMarsh]

I'm a little alien I'm a little alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

(actually picturing a little ET walking down the street in New York)

 

[CriticAndProud]

When I first heard it, I could not tell what the hell was being said at all in "Paranoid Android". Especially the line " the yuppies networking", with my old dodgy earphones, it just sounded like "yuuahhahshjsnhjs never leave".

Didn't stop me loving Thom Yorke's voice.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Misheard Rock Lyrics

 

[HollyGolightly]

My daughter said to me, one day in the car about 16 years ago
"Mom, will you play the Beautiful Meatballs? I like that scary song!"

Marilyn Manson's Beautiful People.

 

[fljoe0]

I mentioned this in another thread a week or so ago but when I was around 13 "Bennie and the Jets" was a big hit on the radio. There are some lyrics that I thought were, "She's got electric boobs and a mohair suit." Of course boobs turned out to be boots. I actually remember discussing this with a friend of mine at the time and we were convinced it was boobs until one of us bought the album and read the lyrics.

Electric boobs and a mohair suit sounded like a pretty snazzy outfit.

 

[not_nadine]

My mom came home from work one day and said I just heard the most wonderful song
I think it was the Beatles.

Will you still love me will you still need me, When Im 6 feet four.

 

[Moderator]

When my daughter was about 10 or 11, she wanted to know why the Beatles were singing about "freezer burn". The song was Free As A Bird.