Misunderstood lyrics.
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a-ha's Take Me On
Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone, and I don't want to . . .
Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun:
What in the world can they get done,
Oh, girls, they wanna have fun.
It wasn't until I watched a concert video of her on PBS with closed captioning that I found out it was "When the working day is done, oh, girls, they wanna have fun..." This was TWENTY years after the song came out.
Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone, and I don't want to . . .
Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun:
What in the world can they get done,
Oh, girls, they wanna have fun.
It wasn't until I watched a concert video of her on PBS with closed captioning that I found out it was "When the working day is done, oh, girls, they wanna have fun..." This was TWENTY years after the song came out.
I'm guilty of this one, too - for about the same amount of time. Except I thought she was saying:
What in the world can make them stop?
Oh, girls, they wanna have fun.
In our defense, they didn't sell good New Joisey to English translators back then.
Same here. This thread is the first time I've actually found out what the real lyrics are.
"You're so lame, you probably think this song is about you."
From the same song: You have one eye in the mirror as you watch yourself go by.
Which made more sense to me than the real lyric, "You have one eye in the mirror as you watch yourself gavotte," until I realized that a gavotte is a dance. Nice imagery, totally lost on me.
"She's My Man" by Scissor Sisters has a line "Well my girl eats a wounded preacher 'tween two loaves of bread". I misheard that as eating 22 loaves of bread.
Heh. I thought it said, "watch yourself cavort."
"No, I can't forget the semen on your face as you were leaving,
But I guess that's just the way the story goes..."
But I guess that's just the way the story goes..."
Song: FlashdanceActual: "Take you passion and make it happen"What I heard: "Take your pants off and make it happen"Song: More than A WomanWhat I Heard: Bald headed woman
My faves:
The Who's Eminence Front. A guy called in to my rock station when the song was initially released, and he requested it by the wrong name. He wanted to hear the new Who song, Living In the Bronx!
An ex-gf told me how she messed up the lyrics to Hot Chocolate's I Believe In Miracles, as "I believe in miracles. Wear your bra (instead of "where you from"), you sexy thing!"
Red Ranger
The Who's Eminence Front. A guy called in to my rock station when the song was initially released, and he requested it by the wrong name. He wanted to hear the new Who song, Living In the Bronx!
An ex-gf told me how she messed up the lyrics to Hot Chocolate's I Believe In Miracles, as "I believe in miracles. Wear your bra (instead of "where you from"), you sexy thing!"
Red Ranger
The Who's Eminence Front. A guy called in to my rock station when the song was initially released, and he requested it by the wrong name. He wanted to hear the new Who song, Living In the Bronx!
That reminds me of an 80's band called "Living In A Box" which had a hit single called...wait for it..."Living In A Box".
I didn't read all 5 pages, so I don't know if it's been mentioned. But, ...
Back in the 80's Kenny Rogers had a song (yes, I lived in Texas at the time, so what) called "Lucille" and Lucille, apparently, left Kenny with 4 hungry children and a crop in the field.
For the longest time I thought she'd left him with 4 hundred children.
And, my 5 year old loves Smash Mouth's "Allstar". He sings I hate the sharpest tool in the shed ...
Back in the 80's Kenny Rogers had a song (yes, I lived in Texas at the time, so what) called "Lucille" and Lucille, apparently, left Kenny with 4 hungry children and a crop in the field.
For the longest time I thought she'd left him with 4 hundred children.
And, my 5 year old loves Smash Mouth's "Allstar". He sings I hate the sharpest tool in the shed ...
Before Prince came to belief in God who wrote and recorded a song by the title of Erotic City. It seemed as if every mix DJ on the radio used te song during their commercial free mega mixes. I was sure that Prince kept using number one of George Carlins seven deadly words but for years I heard it on the radio during drive time.
After convincing myself that Prince was actually saying Funk, after all none of the stations were sanctioned by the Federal government so it had to be Funk, on a station with new ownership suddenly a version with the Funk beeped out started being played on that station alone.
After convincing myself that Prince was actually saying Funk, after all none of the stations were sanctioned by the Federal government so it had to be Funk, on a station with new ownership suddenly a version with the Funk beeped out started being played on that station alone.
^ I knew the word was "fuck" 'cuz when I was in college, there was a jukebox in our cafeteria which had it, and people would always play that song, seems like 4 or 5 times a day. We all knew it was "fuck".
You are going to give him the talk about how it's not cool to listen to Smash Mouth when he's old enough, right?
Star Wolf, apparently it's debated whether or not it was fuck or funk.
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