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

I posted this on one of the similar threads on this topic. When Linda Ronstadt covered the song, she and her band played the song over and over to work out the lyrics. When she released it, Jagger commented that she got the words wrong, but he like hers better anyway.

 

David Bowie - Teenage Wildlife

“A broken nosed mogul, are you one of the new wave boys”

I always thought he was saying something about the Poconos and not “broken nosed.”

 

I always heard "this matter-of-fact chick's just put my spine out of place."

 

Where did "ants are my friends" come from?

 

I always thought it was "this mellow black chick..."

 

I posted this before but
Life In The Fast Lane by The Eagles

I don't know if this counts, cause didn't misheard the lyrics but I thought the song was about something completely different.

I thought it was about actually driving in the passing lane and all about the fun and adventurous it was and about the gangster couple in the back seat. "He was a hard headed man, he was brutally handsome and she was terminally vein"
The guy in the back ponding his fist into the palm of his hand.
She was this beautiful femme fatale.
It made perfect sense to me.
I always pictured Don Henley behind the wheel driving like a maniac. In the passing lane.
This gangster couple from the 1940s movies in the back seat.
She is shouting and pointing "Faster! Faster! The lights are turning red!"
And another time "Call the doctor, I think we're gonna crash!"
This was what I always pictured Everytime I heard this song. For a long time.

 

The ants are my friends
They're blowin' in the wind

 

"Behind Blue Eyes"

"Nobody knows what it's like to be the Batman..."

 

Ha good one I've never heard that before

 

I thought it was " a spoke " which doesn't even make sense....

 

That’s exactly what I thought, too.

 

Dylan has loads:

‘Situations have ended sad, relationships have all been bad/Mine have been like the lanes and rambled (‘mine have been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud’s).

‘Half asleep ‘neath the stars with a small dark look on your face (‘a small dog licking your face’)

‘You’re the other half of what I am/You’re the mess n’ peas (‘you’re the missing piece’)

My Iranian Beethoven once unwrapped the bed-roll (‘where Ma Rainey and Beethoven once unwrapped the bed-roll’)

 

I hadn’t heard it that way until someone suggested it but now I can’t listen to Air’s Sexy Boy without hearing ‘Sexy pudding’.

 

From Dylan's Tangled Up In Blue, for ages I heard "split up on that dark sad night" as "split up on the docks that night".

And in Blank Generation by Richard Hell & the Voidoids I head "it's such a gamble when you get a fix" instead of "it's such a gamble when you get a face".

 

Ooooh that's fascinating. I've always heard it as "Hooka tooka soda cracker, does your mama chew tobacca? If she choose tobacca, hooka tooka soda cracka".

 

The Four Seasons - Let’s Hang On

That little chimp a-dining on your hand,
The one I bought you babe,
Don’t you know it stands for our love.

I thought Frankie had bought her a tiny monkey that she was feeding .....

 

That's funny. Similar situation (possibly?) I did to myself. I had always heard/knew Paul McCartney's Bluebird from the radio ('74 onward) & when I owned Band On The Run in the very late '70s in H.S. No problem with it.
Until.... this year I vaguely thought I heard "Blooper" rather than "Bluebird" on my Ipod as it popped up on shuffle mode.Think it was the Live version of it. I laughed to myself about that "mis-hearing" incident but, found myself singing Blooper over Paul's Bluebird every-time the song's chorus would play as a joke lyric. Now, I can't get that out of my head when the song comes on.

"I'm a blooper, I'm a blooper,
I'm a blooper
Yeah, yeah, yeah...

You're a blooper, you're a blooper,
You're a blooper, you're a blooper
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You're a blooper, you're a blooper…"

 

Donovan:

Histories of ages past
Fun at night, and shadows cast

 

In "There, There My Dear" by Dexy's Midnight Runners, I thought he was singing "The only way to change things is for Chopin to arrange it," instead of "..if to shoot men who arrange things".

 

Neil Diamond, "Longfellow Serenade"

I thought for somewhere between three and four decades that he was singing "I'll weave this web of crime upon the summer night."

The actual lyric is "rhyme".

 

ABC, "When Smokey Sings"

"When Smokey sings, I hear violence..."
( real lyrics, "I hear violins")

 

for the longest time i thought the beatles were singing "take a bike ride sir" instead of "paperback writer"... heard through a transistor radio

 

Lennon, "Nobody Told Me"

"...There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs"

 

That's actually the lyric. It's on the Milk And Honey lyric sheet. Check Discogs.com -- it's there.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Milk And Honey

 

I always heard “the smell of fat chicks...”