Misheard lyrics that are better than the actual lyrics

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by dbone828, Nov 4, 2016.

  1. MGSeveral

    MGSeveral Augm

    "Kangaroo Dave... Yeah!
    Ommmmm"
     
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  2. bRETT

    bRETT Senior Member

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    Sunday monkey funky been on some...
     
  3. BillyMacQ

    BillyMacQ Forum Resident

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    The title of this thread should really be "Spot the ***** - People who think misheard lyrics are better than real thing"
     
  4. classicrockguy

    classicrockguy Forum Resident

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    I actually had to look the lyrics up for this one before posting, the Byrds line in "My Back Pages" that goes:

    Rip down all hate, I screamed

    always sounded to me like

    "We shout all hate ice cream", never could figure out what he was singing there :D:D

     
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  5. tkl7

    tkl7 Agent Provocateur

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    Lewis Center, OH
    When I first heard Donna Summer's Last Dance, I thought she was singing "'Cause when I'm bad
    I'm so, so bad." It wasn't until later on I figured out what she was really singing.
     
  6. classicrockguy

    classicrockguy Forum Resident

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    What was she singing? I though that was the lyrics
     
  7. Joker to the thief

    Joker to the thief Forum Resident

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    For years I was convinced the line in Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry was ‘My fear is my only courage, so I’ve got to push on through’ which I found deeply profound until I discovered it was actually ‘my feet is my only carriage...’
     
  8. Joker to the thief

    Joker to the thief Forum Resident

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    He actually did sing it as ‘excuse me while I kiss this guy’ a bunch of tones in live versions, usually while jokingly pointing at Noel
     
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  9. Michelle66

    Michelle66 Senior Member

    “Oooh-oooh, I’m a rebel with a kickstand...”
     
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  10. bRETT

    bRETT Senior Member

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    John Fogerty also sings "There's a bathroom on the right" pretty often these days, pointing to stage right in case anyone misses the joke.
     
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  11. crustycurmudgeon

    crustycurmudgeon We've all got our faults, mine's the Calaveras

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    "Fakin' It", Simon & Garfunkel--the actual lyric is:
    Is there any danger? No no, not really
    just lean on me"

    My version:
    Is there any danger? No no, not really
    just mean ol'me"
     
  12. sadchel

    sadchel Forum Resident

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    When I was a teenager I thought John L was singing

    'and when I awoke I was alone, whispered a fool' NOT this bird had flown
     
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  13. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

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    New Mexico USA
    I used to mis-hear Bob Seger singing "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" (you can come back baby, rock and roll never forgets) as

    You can't come back baby, rock and roll never forgives

    — and think it's a much more intense and truthful song my way.
     
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  14. thos

    thos Forum Resident

    How about ; "Just like a one winged dove..."
     
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  15. Drifter

    Drifter AAD survivor

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    Vancouver, BC, CA
    I used to think it was that too.
     
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  16. MarcS

    MarcS Forum Resident

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    My roommate in college thought Last Night by the Travelling Wilburys was "Gladys Knight": "Gladys Knight, thinking about Gladys Knight"
     
  17. Drifter

    Drifter AAD survivor

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    Vancouver, BC, CA
    I used to think Aerosmith's "Crazy" went "What can I do, honey? I feel I've become unglued", but it's actually "What can I do, honey? I feel like the colour blue." [​IMG]
     
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  18. nikh33

    nikh33 Senior Member

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    Liverpool, England
    Yours is better
     
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  19. Egg Crisis

    Egg Crisis Forum Resident

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    "Oh the pirate and the rabbi..."
     
  20. bunglejerry

    bunglejerry Forum Resident

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    So it turns out that on "Losing My Religion", Michael Stipe is saying "like a hurt, lost and blinded fool."

    Since day one I've always heard it as "like a hurt, lost and blinded foal", and the image of a little baby horse, powerless and desperate, struck me as really poetic.

    The real lyrics don't do anything for me.
     
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  21. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

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    Normal Island
    Space Oddity. I always used to hear the line as "and the papers want to know who shot you where"

    As in, shot in a rocket, space shot. I reckon it's better than that stuff about shirts anyway.
     
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  22. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

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    You're not the only one.
     
  23. lazydawg58

    lazydawg58 Know enough to know how much I don't know

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    Lillington NC
    Sarah Shook and the Disarmers - Dwight Yoakam

    She said he likes to make love when he’s smokin’
    And he don’t walk around like he’s broken
    And he sings just like Dwight Yoakam

    But what I hear and think is the better line is:
    "And he's anxious like Dwight Yoakam"

    I'm told her that on twitter and got a chuckle out of her.

     
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  24. SMc

    SMc Forum Resident

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    Austin TX
    Eddy Grant: deep in my heart I abhor ya'.
     
  25. Michael Rose

    Michael Rose Forum Resident

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    Davie,Fl
    Queen - Radio GaGa

    The real lyric from the Pre-Chorus:

    "You had your time, you had the power
    You've yet to have your finest hour
    Radio (radio)"

    What I heard for a long time:

    "You had your time, you had the power
    You gave to Hell, your finest hour
    Radio (radio)"

    I still will sing my version once in awhile cuz I like it!
     

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