Misheard Lyrics
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Same here, except it was "my linen", as in "I'm not talkin' about going to bed with you".
Same here!
Same here! But I finally figured out that didn't rhyme correctly.
It's the Go-Go's and their hit single "Alex the Seal"!
Sarah McLachlan "Possession"
some people hear the lyrics as "horses trapped in urine"
some people hear the lyrics as "horses trapped in urine"
I always heard it as 'Honest Lucille', thinking they were singing about Lucille Ball.
Here's another one from 'Sweet Home Alabama'.
'In Birmingham they love the gun now.
Now we've all seen what it can do.
A woman's gaze does not bother me.
Does your conscious bother you?
Tell the truth'.
I figured the narrator was involved in a murder/cover-up and he was paranoid the he'd been seen by someone and/or he might let slip what he'd done.
'In Birmingham they love the gun now.
Now we've all seen what it can do.
A woman's gaze does not bother me.
Does your conscious bother you?
Tell the truth'.
I figured the narrator was involved in a murder/cover-up and he was paranoid the he'd been seen by someone and/or he might let slip what he'd done.
Kenny Rogers singing about a racing accident:
"You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel..."
Yeah, I thought the same thing for years:
On another related note, the song "Groovin' (on a Sunday Afternoon)" by the Young Rascals was a stumper for me for awhile:
One time I did hear someone singing the wrong lyrics to AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N Roll)":
Was that song Joanie's got a gun or Jodie's got a gun?
Scuse me while I kiss this guy!
"The Green Green Grass of Home" by Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, Porter Wagoner, many others:
As a kid I heard:
I thought it was like a preacher in a Western or something.
"There's a guard, and there's a sad old padre..."
As a kid I heard:
"There's a guard, and there's a saddle padre..."
I thought it was like a preacher in a Western or something.
Anyone mention Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" yet?
"Inside the inner man" seems redundant, not that redundancy is not present in many songs... in fact, some songs are a redundancy of the silence.
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