When I was around 7 or 8, I'd hear The Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun" on the radio ("...'till her daddy takes her T-Bird away) and having no idea that a T-Bird was a car, I'd wonder why the girl's father would take her pet bird away as a punishment! I always imagined it being a parrot in particular because those are really cool birds and I'd be disapointed if someone took one away from me!
In 'Don't Be Cruel' I thought Elvis sang "please, did I forget my pants?". It does sound like that with the extra sylables he adds to "please lets forget the past". I was nine and had that occasional pantsless dream.
One of my first 45s was Dusty Springfield's You Don't Have to Say You Love Me. Even though it didn't make any sense, I thought the first two lines in the chorus were: You don't have to say you love me Just because of him I found out years later she was singing: You don't have to say you love me Just be close at hand
I never had a problem with this lyric. But I've heard from so many friends who had, I'm sure it belongs in this thread. "You and me and Leslie" from the Rascals 'Groovin'. When it is in reality, 'You and me endlessly'.
not as a kid, but Neil Young's "For The Turnstiles," I always thought it said "All the great explorers are now in granite lake," instead of "laid." I still think my interpretation of it is a better lyric.
When I was very young I used to hear The Eagles' "Lyin' Eyes" as "Hawaiian Eyes". Made perfect sense to me because I thought Hawaiian women were beautiful (still do).
Elton John's "All the Young Girls Love Alice" and "Sweet Painted Lady." Took a few years to figure those out. In the end, I learned quite a bit about life from Elton and Bernie's songs.
The Beatles song "We Can Work It out" used to confuse me, I always heard something like: While you see it your way, you could be right or right or wrong". I still don't know what Paul is singing to this day! With The Doors "Soul Kitchen", I always thought Jim was singing "learn to forgive and then learn to forget". Or Hendrix singing "Scuse me while I kiss this guy" in Purple Haze. It didn't seem weird to me at all. There were a bunch of Monkees songs where used to hear them wrong too, but I don't recall which ones. I think 'Through The Looking Glass" used to throw me.
Misheard rather than misunderstood, but it's humorous enough for inclusion: Gunhill Road's "Back When My Hair Was Short" I thought the line "Hid Playboy 'neath my bed" was: "If Playboy needs my bed."
When I first starting listening to the Beatles back in the mid 1990s, I always thought that in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Lennon was saying "the girl with colitis goes by" instead of "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes." I use to think poor gal .....
When I first starting listening to the Beatles back in the mid 1990s, I always thought that in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Lennon was saying "the girl with colitis goes by" instead of "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes." I use to think poor gal .....
Misheard lyrics? We submit for your approval Louie Louie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Louie Judy In Disguise with Glasses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_In_Disguise_(With_Glasses)
Creedence: "There's a bathroom on the right" Lay Down Sally: "Way Down south". actually, these were requests written on napkins when i was playing the steak house circuit. remember those days? Victoria Station and that kinda thing....
OMG. 35 years later, after hearing the Galactic Cowboys cover of Junior's Farm, I realized what Paul was saying, even though I had been slurring the words together without knowing what they were! "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go - Down to Junior's Farm WHEN I WANT TO LAY LOW..." D'0h! I always sang: "when ah wunna-la-low'
it is laid though, which i don't think is as poetic. I always thought "granite lake" was an amazing metaphor for the dead.
I always thought it was "right on and lay low" - doesn't make sense, but that's what it sounds like! To this day I have no friggin' clue what he sings after that: "whole life, half life, go let's go"???
Heard a kid asking in the record department of 2 guys departent store for the song-I'm not Joe Pepitone -Instead of -I'm not your steppin stone....
Layla came on the radio the other day and my 16 year old son asked if Layla was a real person. Before I could answer, my 11 year old piped in Layla? I thought he was singing "Gay Love" ...lucky I didn't have to explain "you got me on my knees."
