Misheard Lyrics

[harkesiemcgee]

Mr. McGee never failed to ellicit laughter during "Every Breath You Take" with Oh can't you see, you belong to me....I'm a pool hall ace with every step you take until his brother finally couldn't stand the humiliation and corrected him with ...My poor hear aches with every step you take. Poor thing, he really thought Sting recovered from break ups in the billiards halls like he did.

Not that I'm a lyrical genius either. Definitely guilty of Secret Asian Man[/i] as opposed to the real "Secret Agent Man", thinking DMX was rapping about Pumkinhead instead of Up in here[/b].

And that little crapper Jesse McCartney had me wondering for days why he don't want another pretty face, or your city of gold....[/b] Yeah. Um. It's just anyone to hold.

<---- am dumb.

[woopdedoo]

The Black Crows had a song I swore went:

I need some lemonade, lemonade, lemonade

when it is actually I need a remedy, remedy, remedy

Or something to that effect. Either way makes sense, I figure.

Count me in as a Secret Asian Man listener!

[tinyshoes]

When I used to listen to "Groovin' on a Sunday Afternoon" I always thought they were singing "You and me and Leslie", when the lyrics were "you and me endlessly." For the longest time I thought the song was about threesomes.

[dramaqueen]

My sister always loved the song "Every Time You Go Away" by Paul Young when she was a child. My mom finally asked her why she liked the song so much and her response was "because it's about steak, and I love steak!" She thought the lyrics were "every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you" instead of "me with you." Yeah, we're all still laughing about that one!

[baseballgirl]

Can't forget the ever-popular CCR tune "Bathroom on the Right."

Don't go 'round tonight, well it's bound to take your life/There's the bathroom on the right
rather than 'bad moon on the rise'

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When I was a much younger, single dork, I took great comfort from the line: "It's like I told you, only the lonely get laid."

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HarkesieMcGee said:

And that little crapper Jesse McCartney had me wondering for days why he don't want another pretty face, or your city of gold....

[/b] Yeah. Um. It's just anyone to hold.[/quote]

That's another lyric I misheard when I first heard it. I thought he was saying "another silly one to hold".

Don't go 'round tonight, well it's bound to take your life/There's the bathroom on the right
rather than 'bad moon on the rise'

Is it sad that I still sing "bathroom on the right" when I hear that song?

[forgetful]

tinyshoes said:

When I used to listen to "Groovin' on a Sunday Afternoon" I always thought they were singing "You and me and Leslie", when the lyrics were "you and me endlessly." For the longest time I thought the song was about threesomes.

You just blew. my. mind. I had NO idea those were the actual words to that song. Wow, I guess it makes a little more sense though. I always felt bad for Leslie being the 3rd wheel.

[tacoflavored]

A favorite of mine from the old thread was a poster's friend dancing and singing along to Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in a club. The lyric was interpreted as "Snap My Picture" and the poor soul was dancing around, making camera "click" motions all over the club. On a related note, I find that generally, when I mishear lyrics, I can go back after correction and hear the right words being sung, but when it comes to Manfred Mann's "Blinded By The Light" I am incapable of hearing the lyric as "rolled up like a deuce." It really does sound like "douche" and no amount of mental gymnastics can change that for me, such is the singer's poor enuciation.

[mcat15]

My fave misheard lyric was courtesy of my college roommate. The song was The Metro by Berlin and she heard swimming in a pile of cheese instead of swimming in apologies. Of course, she thought the place where they kept all the books was called the "liberry."