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

Yeah I thought the song was about a fugitive that had to suddenly skip town.

 

he's sort of a fugitive skipping town, more of a cookie monster

 

The 1st few times I heard "The power of love" by Jennifer Rush I thought she was singing "The whispers in the morning of love asleep in time" when what she was actually singing was "The whispers in the morning of lovers sleeping tight".

 

In the Shoes' "Your Very Eyes" from 1979, I always thought they were singing "I don't want to become your Audubon." I found out the line is actually "I don't want to become your idle pawn."

I figured they were making some sort of bird analogy with "Audubon." I like my version of this line better, even if it doesn't quite make sense.

 

Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio

"I'm a little bit horny"

 

I’ll never get that out of my head now.

 

Two from the Dead, specifically Weir and Barlow

“A pizza place or so it looks from space”

yum

“Mike and Gloria gonna be my name”

So the song is really about All In the Family.

 

with closed caption always on my TV, except for sports, i'm learning all kinds of Beatles lyrics

which is fun because i know every note and word by sound for everything they released

for example.... So why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you alone


funny how some bands i can grasp lyrics effortlessly yet some (like Cream) don't sink in at all

 

Daft Punk, Lucky.
I hear
"We're up all night to get Stoned (repeat, repeat)
We're up on Mexican Lucky
actual,
We're up all night 'til the sun
We're up all night to get some
We're up all night for good fun
We're up all night to get lucky.

 

Speaking of ' Exile On Main Street ' ...
There 's a line in ' Casino Boogie ' that I used to think went : ...kissing cotton candy "
Well, I got the kissing part right but could not have been further off on the rest of it.

 

yeah, that one can swing in mighty directions

Tumbling Dice has the effect that you never hear the garbled words the same way twice in your lifetime

and Working with Fire and Steel snuck in an eff-shot that seemed clear enough, must have heard it 100 times on CFNY and CFMU (Mac)

 

When The Levee Breaks From the very early '70s on FM radio to when I eventually bought LZ IV on LP at 10 years old in '73 all the way through the '90s( well into my '30s), I always thought the line towards the end of the song was "Crime won't help you,Crime won't do you no good..." instead of the words Cryin' & Prayin'. To this day, I hear the song from time to time on my Ipod (Led Zeppelin playlist) and still want to hear "crime..." in my head more than what I now know Plant really sings there as I just heard it yesterday and was reflecting on my mental habit to still easily hear crime in there lol. Saw this thread & laughed to myself thinking, "this is the perfect place to post this

 

I totally dig that album. Lost classic.

 

Ha ha ha ha!
I love it!

 

You've already got a few variations in this thread, but for me it was "the smell of fat chicks just puts a smile on my face".

 

That's how I hear it. Or that 's how I want to hear it anyway.

 

I thought Daft Punk's "I'm up all night to get lucky" was "(something something) Mexican monkey."

 

There's a line on the Beatles' 'The Inner Light' that I always heard as 'Your father won't travel' - it transpired to be 'The farther one travels'.

 

When we were doing the Uriah Heep thread, I was listening to this song, and I was hearing "praise Lord Jesus" and thinking, well that's nice....
When i stopped driving i thought, i need to check out what that song is, because i really wasn't expecting that ....
I was so wrong though.... the track was "Rainbow Demon" .... @Zeki had a good laugh

 

I knew someone who thought the Bee Gees' "Tragedy" was "Pack It In":
Pack it in
When the feeling's gone and you can't go on
Just pack it in.

The same person had a friend she went to Jazzercise with who'd somehow never heard of Ghostbusters. In 1984 that was something like, in 1942, never having heard of the Second World War. When they were working out to the title song, and everybody else was shouting out "Ghostbusters!" on cue, she'd scream, "Those bastards!" I don't know which bastards she had in mind, but it must have been very cathartic.

 

Probably the ones who killed Kenny.

 

Related to this lyrical mishearing thing is spoof renaming: a couple of members of Mahavishnu Orchestra Mk1 (Jerry and Jan) had fun with John McLaughlin's elaborate and portentous tune titles. Their alternative to 'A Lotus on Irish Streams' was rather good - 'A Locust on an Irish Extremist'.

 

In the past few years, my better half got into running (jogging) big time, so she was happy when she heard the song The Running Girl on the radio one day.

Turns out it was Elvis Costello - Veronica.

 

John Mellencamp -- Cherry Bomb

For 30 years, I thought the first line of the chorus was "That's when a smoke was a smoke." Was recently informed that the line is actually "That's when a sport was a sport." I didn't think that was right, so I checked the lyric sheet on the album. Sure enough -- "sport." Kinda weird. I prefer my original take.