Misheard Lyrics

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bagofbones said:

Hee! Another one I just figured out from that song is, “Lookin’ for my lost shaker of salt.” I thought the line was, “Lookin’ for my lost sugar and salt,” until, like, yesterday. Duh, me.

And I just found out right this minute that it's not
"Lookin’ for my lost shaker of salt" (though it was "long lost" rather than just "lost" for me).

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Margaritaville Lyrics

"Nibblin' on spongecake..." Oh! Ok. Duh, again.

[schmoosie]

You know that Go-Gos song, "Our lips are sealed?" Well, he thought it was "Oh, let's be seals!"

As a kid I thought it was "our legs are sealed" and I thought it was an anthem to abstinance.

Who sings the song with the lyrics (done with Santana). "Walking 'round with little wangs on my shoes"? I found out it's wings, but still..it sounds like wangs.

I thought Rob Thomas was singing "and I'll do your girlfriends" too. And I thought...gee and the rest of the song he comes off so nice.

[Shalamar]

"Walking 'round with little wangs on my shoes"?

Bwah! I like those lyrics!

[jynni]

tutts said:

In Rob Thomas' new song Lonely No More, I heard:
Open up your heart and I can do your girlfriends.

I was like, uh Rob? Proposing an orgy to a girl with her girlfriends might not be the best idea!

But the lyrics really are:
Open up your heart like you do your girlfriends.

Thanks for clairifying that - it makes so much more sense now. It has been driving me nuts because I was thinking there was no way that "do your girlfriends" could be right but I couldn't think of what the line should be. I was going to post it here but was thinking someone had to have mentioned it first so I read the whole thread like a good girl.

Also to toss out a musical here - it would take forever to list the wrong lyrics I heard when I listened to the "Phantom of the Opera" cast recording for the first few times.

One of the most glaring being "She was again with me, a strange jewel" in place of "Sing once again with me, our strange duet".

[dwanollah]

Before I'd heard the title, I thought the Go-Gos were singing "Honest I feel...." And for some incomprehensible reason, I thought "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was something like "Dirty deeds! Dun! Der cheap" like "dun!" was some sort of exclaimation and "der" was "there" but made to start with "d" like most of the other words....

On the other hand, I thought I was mishearing the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" with "if you wanna be my lover, you gotta get wit' my friends" but, turns out, that's what they said. Bad application of US lingo, chicas.

[goggle]

Moldy, that is the best avatar EVER.

My actual misheard "Wannabe" lyric is "Tekken is too easy" in place of "taking is too easy." I know it's "taking" but every time I mishear it and get mad at them for dissing my favorite fighting videogame.

One of my weirdest ones was in "Never Too Far" by Mariah Carey, I heard "I'm only Tommy Ray's woman of yesterday." I kept wondering who Tommy Ray was until I found out the real lyrics were "I won't let time erase one bit of yesterday."

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I'm horrible at deciphering lyrics, which makes this little anecdote odd. You know that song, "Get It On?" ("You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl") Well, one time I was driving along with my then-boyfriend and that song came on. He laughed and said "Okay, when I tell you, listen carefully and tell me what the guy's saying." So I listened right when he said, and I told him, "Well, it sounds like he's saying, 'You're built like a car, you got a hub cap diamond star halo.'"

This blew him away. Apparently at one point a radio station challenged callers to call in and tell them what that line was, and no one could get it. It sounded like complete gibberish to everyone. So it was a minor miracle that I, of all people, picked it up correctly.

That was o/t big-time! So here's a mis-heard:

That song "The Wanderer" ("Well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down...") When he sings "With my two fists of iron and I'm going nowhere..." my friend came up with some garbled thing about "My shoes fit divine so I can go anywhere." I think she just wanted to sing along with the song so she just kind of babbled something as close as she could get. So now, of course, when I hear that song I get an image of this tough-guy type smiling down happily at his "divine fitting" shoes.

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Did anyone else ask for the Beach Boys when singing Dobie Gray's "Drift Away"?

[squsie]

Deep Purple at L8 reminded me of a friend who thought "Smoke on the Water" was

Slow talkin' Walter, the fire engine guy.

To me, the first line of the Messiah (I think), "Comfort ye," always sounds like an invitation: "Come for tea."