Are there any misheard lyrics that you actually like better than the actual lyrics to songs? For me, I used to think that the opening line of the Monkees' Goffin-King-penned hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday" went "The local rock group down the street is trying hard to learn this song." I was rather disappointed when I realized that the actual lyrics were "...trying hard to learn their song."
"Little T & A" - I originally thought Keith was referencing rough sex, i.e., her tits and ass are sore baby! In actuality the lyric was the vanilla "tits and ass with soul."
Re: Pleasant Valley Sunday. I thought it was THIS song until just now! I still think it's the better lyric.
It's really not better is it? Mine is the Beach Boys lyric : if everybody had a ocean, which I always thought was ...if everybody had a notion.... I think that's better don't you? It's just a little more existential, shall we say. I thought I was the only one who heard it that way, but Dave March did too and wrote about it. I'm still claiming it as original though. In Tangled up in Blue, I think that split up on a dark sad night is not as good as split up on the docks that night. I prefer the location rather than the circumstance.
Well it's more transgressive and fits the image they were trying to put across with album titles like Black & Blue and Tattoo You. But overall, I agree that the message isn't a positive one. But we're talking about the Stones who've reveled in their outlaw status and provoking outrage.
Pearl Jam's "Alive": Eddie sang "I-eee, blurrrgh! I'm still alive!" For years, I thought he sang "I-eee heard I'm still alive". Only found out it was "blurrgh" when I played "Rock Band" and saw the lyrics onscreen. "Heard" works better than "blurrgh"!
I can only submit a couple that I think are funny. When I first heard 'Elected' by Alice, I thought he was saying 'I wanna be your lady.' My wife used to think the line in 'Big Yellow Taxi' was 'The day federal guys put up a parking lot.'
Paranoid- And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state I tell you to end your life I wish I could caladulate Wondered from age 13-18 what the hell caladulate was. Never knew it said 'enjoy' instead of 'end your' until last year
Ne'er believe Rock Band: "Oh I-I, woah- oh I'm still alive..." is what he's actually saying. You're right though, heard is better than blurgggh ;-)
The first line of Seven Witches' "Metal Tyrant" goes "He decapitates the night, resilient power, burning bright..." ...which I always hear as "...Brazilian power, burning bright," which is definitely a better lyric because it's funnier...
Don't you mean "I'm so unparalyzed"? (that's what I thought it was and I think it is better) Cliff Richard "Carrie had a date with a rock band of eight"-Carrie Weezer "In the garage/I feel safe/No one cares about my weight"-In The Garage Offspring "You know you can always go on and get laid"-Pretty Fly For A White Guy Modern Lovers "Like at church she sits with another man"-She Cracked Doobie Brothers "I'd like to hear some funky Styx and Manfred"-Black Water And my personal favorite from Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke "And the bassy man he got to go and there came along Sir Duke/And with a voice like Dallas ringing out there's no way the band could lose". Well OK, that's not actually better-but it is weirder!!!!
My wife is convinced "travesty, it was my way" is better than "try to see it once my way" in "Would" by Alice in Chains. I recently found out the line in Frank Black's "Los Angeles" is "sailing and shoring" and not "selling insurance", and I was a little disappointed.
Alice Cooper no more, Mr. Nice Guy, no more Mr. Klee (ee-ee-ee) no more, Mr. Nice Guy, he's sick, he's a seed (ee-ee-eed) I think the 'bad seed' image was working here in my 12 yr old brain. Thought this was the lyric for more than a few years
I always thought the line from Watchtower that turned out to be "plough men dig my earth" was "Come and dig my herb"
I don't know if it makes it better - and I knew it wasn't the actual lyric because I'd heard the song many times before - but I listened to Cyndi Lauper's version of "I Drove All Night" once and it sounded like she was singing: I drove all night Crapped in your room And now I can never hear the correct lyric (crept) when the song plays, and it always cracks me up. I guess all the gas stations were closed or something. When ya gotta go...
I always thought the lyric was"and only love can congregate" which if I do say so is a brilliant lyric. Marvin Gaye's What's Going On "only love can conquer hate"
Lol I always thought it was "No More Mr. Clean (ee ee ee)" Speaking of which on that same album, the opener "Hello Horray" I had always though the lyric was "Ready is this audience, who's caught up in a dream", which "Caught in a Dream" was a track from their album Love It to Death and I thought it tied in to that song. But nope, that's not the lyric On Judas Priest's "Exciter" I always heard "Stand up for Exciter" not "Stand by for Exciter". I thought the former was cooler. Megadeth "Take No Prisoners" where Dave Mustaine says "War is peace, sure man" I hear "War is peace, you're a man" I prefer my version! On UFO's "I'm a Loser", I actually kind of already knew he said "Euston Station" but I like to pretend he says "Houston Station" because... well, look at my profile All of the websites for lyrics that I see on Diamond Head's "Am I Evil" claim the lyrics say "like a double dozen before you", but I am convinced that the lyrics are "like a devil dancing before you". Not a lot of info on this song, but I'm 99% sure it's "devil dancing".
