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

Stones "Sympathy for the Devil"

I always heard
"Made damn sure the pilot
Washed his hands and sealed his fate"

Like wait a minute, Jesus was involved in a plane crash?

 

Cherub Rock by the Smashing Pumpkins:

Actual: "Who wants that honey?"
My Oops: "Who walks behind me?"

 

When I first heard Love Potion No. 9 (The Searchers' version) in the first line I heard Madam Roue (not Ruth), and I heard the next line as:

You know that gypsy with the cockatoo.

 

when I was a kid I thought Lennon was singing "biting my tie" not "biding my time" in Norwegian Wood

 

In Bohemian Rhapsody:

"Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (let him go)"

I always misheard Bismillah as "This little lad".

If I hear the song I still sing it in my head as this little lad

 

And I always have to tell myself it's not "sealed his face". Same with "All of My Heart" by ABC. Always found that a weird lyric... "Your lipstick and your lipgloss seals my face".

 

I've never known whether Jim Morrison sings "China, we can only lose" in Light My Fire.

 

As a teen I misheard Bowie's the line in "Diamond Dogs" "You'll catch your death in the fog" as "You've got your (another name for Richard) on the phone." It made no sense and probably had a great deal to being in junior high, where much time was spent trying to figure out "stuff." Although with smartphones maybe my misheard line makes more sense.

 

Flight to Egypt?

 

The ABC one almost makes sense in your version

 

i thought it was "you know that gypsy with the gold tattoo"

 

Back in the USSR:

"All the way the paperback was on my knee..."

Because, you know, it was a long flight and he needed something to read.

 

David Bowie, "Starman"

"Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children dookie..."

 

"You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and sleeeee-ee-eep together"

No kidding. I thought that was the real lyric for decades.

 

What song is that?

 

"Wouldn't It Be Nice" by the Beach Boys

"Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong?
You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together"

 

This one - I can't even hear the correct lyrics with them in front of me.

Even Taylor Swift's mom thought it was 'Starbucks lovers'

 

oh I should have known that one, my all time favorite pop album

 

A lyric I continue to "mishear" is the "Fight the sorrow!" chorus on Suedes "No Tomorrow".

I swear on some of these lines Brett is actually singing "Fok the sorrow!"

 

That's nice.

 

He’s a paperback writer. Makes sense.

 

Jackson Browne’s “Before the Deluge”:

“And in the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings
And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow
For the glitter and the rouge
And in a moment they were swept before the deluge.”

When I first heard the song I thought he was singing “For the glitter and the glue”. Which kinda makes sense too, not to mention the alliteration.

 

Also:

"Give me hope
Hold me coat.."

 

When Bill Haley's "Shake Rattle and Roll" came out I was about ten - and I was convinced the song was called "Shake Marilyn Monroe".

 

Everybody's Talking says Skipping Over The Ocean Like a Stone. I thought for years it was Skipping Over the Ocean Like a Storm. Which for me was a more realistic and powerful image. My dad said he thought the same for more years than I did.