Misheard Lyrics

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I don't know the band (in my head it sounds like Hootie)so I can't look up the correct lyrics for this one:

Grease the landing with dignity,
Angelena's coming home.

I gotta assume I misheard that. Slippery landings are no joke and should be avoided at all costs.

[sumire]

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.

Wow, ditto. (But then, I didn't know the song was called "Whenever I Call You Friend," either.)

Knowing the song title might have helped me decipher the chorus of "Invisible Touch," which I always heard as "she seems a HALF-wit, easy on the TOP shelf." I used to think of it as the Phil Collins halfwit song.

An oldie from my late grandfather: there's this song, "Hello Walls," in which a lonely guy talks to the architecture, including "hello windows" and "hello ceiling." Granddad heard it as "Hello Walt/Hello Wendell/Hello Steven," which adds an amusing homoerotic touch to the lyrics (WARNING: link plays music).

[alrhino]

I, too, thought the line was "New York, New York" because, well, it just sounded good. It never dawned on me that it was NYstate, NYcity. Cool

In She by Green Day. The line is
Scream at me until my ears bleed,
I'm taking heed just for you.
but I always thought it was,
Scream at me but do my ears bleed,
I'm taking E just for you.

You know, he started taking E because she was into it and now she's giving out to him because he's way too into it or something.


This isn't really a misheard lyric but it's a funny story. Once, in piano class, it was near Christmas and to pass the time we were singing Christmas songs. So, my sister starts singing God bless you merry gentlemen but she did that thing where you mix up the first letters by accident and she ended up singing God bless you gerry mentlemen or as my sister and I would call it now:God bless you geri (as in geriatric) mentalmen.

[indygirl]

aybee said:

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.

I always thought it was douche until I heard the original version by Bruce Springsteen.

[Brookie]

Yep, Blinded by the Light

Dressed up Like a Douche
Another Bummer in the Night

Yipes.

[aims]

I love this thread ! I have been cracking up reading the whole thing.

I always thought it was "douche" too. I thought it was the dumbest song, or nastiest because of it.

When my sister sings that song by John Mayer "Your Body is a Wonderland" instead of
"swim in a deep sea
of blankets
take all your big plans
and break 'em
this is bound to be awhile"

She sings:
"swim in a deep sea
of blankets
tickle your big toe
and break 'em
this is bound to be awhile"
Hee !

[biondetta]

I've got a couple that I still have to think about to get them right.

First is The Police's "Everything She Does Is Magic". The correct line is
I resolve to call her up

but I heard
I resolve to corduroy

My other favorite is from Duran Duran's "Union of the Snake", although with Simon's lyrics, anything you mishear isn't that much weirder than what he wrote.

The correct (yet nonsensical) line is
Telegram force and ready

but I heard
Pelican force and ready

Oh, and my best friend in college had a great one from "Margaritaville" that still makes me giggle when I hear the song. She heard the line "stepped on a pop top" as "stepped on a pop tart". Totally different visual!

[Brookie]

stepped on a pop top" as "stepped on a pop tart". Totally different visual!

biondetta - OMG! Your friend stepped on Britney Spears??? Awesome - can I be next in line? Please?

[biondetta]

heh. I actually hadn't thought of it that way. She (and I) were thinking of the breakfast pastry food -- Poptart. I guess I should have paid closer attention to spacing/capitalization. But now I'll be thinking of stepping on Britney! That's even funnier!

[underjoyed]

There was a song out a couple of years ago by "Candi Station" (I just looked it up now), the first line of which I continually misheard.

The actual lyrics are:

Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you...

I always heard:

Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air

And all I could think was: why? And what is wrong with me that my feeling like I can count on someone never ever makes me want to semi-undress and throw my pants in any direction? I mean, think of the embarrassment potential if you have, say, particularly helpful colleagues or something...