A Lyric You Misheard ( Not The Usual Suspects , Please )

Just finished reading a great book, Wounds to Bind by Jerry Burgan, one of the guitarists in We Five of "You Were on My Mind" fame. Deals not only with the genesis of that great record and the band that recorded it, but also more broadly with the transition between folk, folk rock and psychedelic.

I never realized till now that the lyric in "You Were on My Mind" was "I got troubles, I got worries, I came home again." Somehow, all these years I thought the last line was "I can't hold your hand"!

 

Yeah, it was while reading the liner notes for the two-cd version of Please that I noticed it, and they mention the Stalin lyric there.

"From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station" is about Lenin as well. The Pet Shop Boys have several songs that reference Eastern European history.

 

As a little kid, the first time I heard Carly Simon's Anticipation was on a commercial for Heinz Ketchup, so I thought the words were (everybody sing along now):

Heinz is the patient
Heinz is the pay-yay-tient
It's making me wait
It's keeping me way-yay-yay-yay-yay-ting
[For my ketchup ...]

 

"What's love, but a second handy motion?"

 

When this thread first came up the couple I immediately thought of were too embarrassing to post (and still are, to me)
but recently I wondered if I was the only one who heard,
in the Doors' Break On Through,
instead of hearing "she gets....", I always heard "she gives...."
this gave why "everybody loves my baby" a wholly different meaning to me.

(It explained why everybody loved his baby so much.)

The 2007 version with the "she gets high" was a revelation for me.

(I just thought of a second one which brought me here that I forgot! Well, anyway...)

 

Many years ago, when I was in my teens or maybe earlier,
I thought that the Dave Clark Five song "Catch Us If You Can" went
"we were young with all of our might."
For many years I thought this was the lyric, not "we will yell with all of our might."

I saw a comic by underground cartoonist Peter Bagge in the '80s and he clearly misheard it the same way.

 

When I was a kid I heard:

"Money, it's a fart
Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my part"

 

Springsteen often sings with marbles in his mouth and that's why I was certain the first line in I'm Going Down was:

Wasted in my car
Outside your house

 

What comes after "she gets"? Never could get that last word

 

When I was a kid, I always thought the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday" lyrics were "Here it's not a simple land," only to realize much later they were singing, "Here in status symbol land"

 

And except for an unconnected later post, that was the termination of the speculation! It was left unresolved.
I have to admit to a small feeling of panicking.
My whole life I thought the lyric was
"Big boys don't cry"
I never doubted it for a second.
If it wasn't, then what the heck was it?
So I looked it up, because someone had to.
According to Genius Lyrics, which is wrong just about as often as all the other lyrics sites (and that's very often), the lyrics are:

"Be quiet, big boys don't cry
Big boys don't cry
Big boys don't cry
Big boys don't cry"

This time I'll take it.

 

Boom! Yes! Exactly! 100 %! I had to double- and triple-check to make sure this wasn’t my post.

 

dayum. I thought it was sassy too.

 

I thought it was “Her mind is definitely twisted” until right now.

 

Totally heard it and understood it your way too.

 

Same here.

 

Beck's "Loser"... "Saw you walk in the door, I'm a loser baby..."

 

Balloons or the dunes?

 

I'm with you by on that one I thought the same thing

 

When I Was A Boy, I always heard...

"The police just came and left
They wanted Keith and no one else!"

~ The Who, I Don't Even Know Myself

 

I recently made a post containing quite a few examples in another thread on here, compiled from myself, people I've known, and a few websites dedicated to the topic: Before the internet could quickly settle disputes: Your most frustrating music argument

I also misheard "show me 'round your fruit cage" from Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" as "...fruitcakes", which I took to refer to a girl's buttocks. And contrary to what several people I've seen have thought, Metallica's "One" does not contain the line "tied to machines that make me pee", nor does their "Enter Sandman" have anything to do with dreams of baked apple pie (YEAH!); "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana also has nothing to do with Skittles or beetles.

"I remove umbilicals...where ya from...you sexy thing..." (Hot Chocolate, "You Sexy Thing" (1975))
"And there's a wino down the road" (Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven" (1971))
"Why don't you show up, naked, all right?" (Led Zeppelin, "Fool in the Rain" (1979))

 

"Who talked to Frodo?" repeated at the end of Kings of Leon's "King of Rodeo" from Aha Shake Heartbeat. Was really "Good time to roll on." Great album!

 

“Michelle, my bell, Sunday morning you go play piano son, play piano, son!”

 

I thought it was “fruitcakes” until this very minute. I had a, uh, different interpretation, however.

 

"Play piano song" for me.