Misheard Lyrics

[wolversyr]

Tacoflavored you forgot the next line "and a rubber in the night." I could never figure out how a rubber would get wrapped up in a douche...

My favorite misheard lyric from That Other Site was
Precious and few are the moments we toucans share I still laugh over that daily.

I heard Seals & Croft's awful Summer Breeze a couple of weeks ago and realized that there was no "jazz bone in my mind" but that it was jasmine.

[tommytimp]

For a long time I thought it was the jazz band in my mind. Which does make more sense than the jasmine, for heaven's sake.

Manfred Mann's version of Blinded by the Light is a fest of misheard lyrics. Nobody who ever heard his version first would ever know it was a song about car racing. Cause what Mann sings doesn't sound anything like "Revved up like a deuce/Another runner in the night."

[dwanollah]

For a long time I thought it was the jazz band in my mind. Which does make more sense than the jasmine, for heaven's sake.

Wow! You mean I wasn't the only one?!

[summertan8]

For years, I believed the song "Whenever I Call You Friend" contained the line "Sweet love flowing on a Saturday night" instead of "Sweet love flowing on us every night".

As a college freshman (a thousand years ago) who had never ridden public transport, I was quite bemused by the big burly middle-aged man sitting across me. He loved the song "Stars" by Simply Red sooo much that he sang along with the radio...

"I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, I feel you
I hope you HOLD MY HAND!"

This last line was bellowed out at the top of his lungs. No one had the guts to correct the scary man.

[electricmayhem]

Summer said:

For years, I believed the song "Whenever I Call You Friend" contained the line "Sweet love flowing on a Saturday night" instead of "Sweet love flowing on us every night".

Wow...I had no idea that wasn't the line.

For years, I thought the line in "Piano Man" was "And the piano sounds like a carnivore" instead of "And the piano sounds like a carnival." I still like my mental vision of a snarling piano about to devour its player...

[wolversyr]

RE: Summer Breeze
I was worried that perhaps I struck out twice - that perhaps what I heard as jasmine was really now "jazz band."

I looked up the lyrics...it is jasmine. Thank God, I'm not a total slack-jaw after all.

[Brookie]

I'm Sure You Guys Have Heard of This Site
It's the "Kiss This Guy" site, where misunderstood and wacko lyrics are the thing (Named for the famous Jimi Hendrix lyric "S'cuse me while I kiss this guy").

Totally not worksafe, especially if you're sitting in a cube farm. Whenever I get on the site, I absolutely can't stop the giggles (and my work is great, but not THAT funny).

[aybee]

TacoFlavored said:

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.

My poor coworkers probably think I'm having a seizure over here, trying to stifle the giggles. Oh my God, that Prodigy mix-up is about the funniest thing, well, ever.

I think that the line in "Blinded by the Light" might as well be douche now. Who's actually sung the real lyrics - or known them without the aid of the Internet? There's a "shh" sound there, most definitely.

[Deleted]

You know that song from (I think) the 80's Rock You Like a Hurricane? Well, for the longest time I thought the refrain was, "Here I am! Raunchy like a hurricane!"

A friend of mine made me listen to the lyrics several times before I admitted it was "Rock you like" and not "Raunchy like." The thing is, I'd always loved my mis-heard lyrics! I thought it was a great imagery.

[adioscowboy]

I thought that line was "rocket in a hurricane" for the longest time.
I did catch "deuce" the first time, but I knew much more about gambling than feminine hygiene products at that age.