Misheard Lyrics

[Kor]

It's only been a few months since the last comment, so hopefully it's okay to bump this...
I remember a high school acquaintance thinking that the Metallica song "Ain't my B!*%#" was saying "It ate my b!*%#."

Edit: Whoops, looking back at past pages in this thread, it looks like I already mentioned this one. Carry on.

Kor

 

[Vanyel]

I had thought of one a while ago but it's mentioned before too.

 

[scotpens]

The song "Roundabout" by Yes.
The line is - "In and around the lake. Mountains come out the sky".
I've always sang it as "In and around the lane. Marlins fall out of the sky".

That sounds like a bad Syfy movie.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Taylor Swift, Antihero:

"I had a dream my daughter-in-law kills me for the money ..."

What I heard:

"I had a dream my daughter-in-law keels before the money ..."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Paul Simon song "you can call me al"

There is a line in one verse that sounds like he's singing "bone digger bone digger"

 

[think]

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I thought she was saying that my eyes have no hue but the lyrics in the yt description it's really..

My eyes have no view.. different I used to listen to the album when it came out in 1987.. so all that time I was hearing it wrong..

 

[think]

Sorry about double posting but I can't add quotes in an edit..

Paul Simon song "you can call me al"

There is a line in one verse that sounds like he's singing "bone digger bone digger"

I thought that was what he was saying??

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Sorry about double posting but I can't add quotes in an edit..


I thought that was what he was saying??

You are correct...... I thought I was mishearing the lyrics but it is exactly what he sings.

A man walks down the street
He says, "Why am I soft in the middle, now?
Why am I soft in the middle?
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"
Bonedigger, Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away in my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al

A man walks down the street
He says, "Why am I short of attention?
Got a short little span of attention
And, whoa, my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family?
What if I die here?
Who'll be my role model
Now that my role model is gone, gone?"
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along, along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al
Call me Al

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the third world
Maybe it's his first time around
Doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound, the sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says, "Amen and Hallelujah!"

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al
Call me

Na na na na, na na na na
Na na na na, na na na-na na-na
Na na na na, na-na na-na na na
Na na na na, na na na na

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can call you Betty
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can call you Betty
If you'll be my bodyguard

 

[Velocity]

You mean it isn't "roly poly little fat faced girl"?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

You mean it isn't "roly poly little fat faced girl"?

Me too....... I thought he sung that but nope "bat faced girl"

 

[DarrenTR1970]

You are correct...... I thought I was mishearing the lyrics but it is exactly what he sings.

For the longest time I thought when he sang "Amen and Hallelujah" he was saying, "Hey I live here,' meaning that he's finally found himself and he's comfortable with his lot in life.

 

[scotpens]

I used to think the chorus of the Stampeders' "Sweet City Woman" was just nonsense syllables:

Bomp, see bomp, bomp bomp see bomp bomp
Bomp, see bomp bomp bomp, bomp bomp.

Turns out it's actually French for "it's good" repeated multiple times!

Bon, ci bon, bon bon, ci bon bon
Bon, ci bon bon bon, bon, bon.

 

[Elder Knight]

See the Pyramids along the Nile;
Watch the sun set on a crocodile ...

That's how I remembered that 1960s lyric for years!



(Edit: I think it was "Watch the sun rise ...", though it hardly matters!)

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

See the Pyramids along the Nile;
Watch the sun set on a crocodile ...

That's how I remembered that 1960s lyric for years!

Thanks. Now I'll never hear that song the same again

 

[BK613]

I never saw the title of the song written out and had only heard it on the radio, etc, but for the last fifty years or so, I thought Paul McCartney was singing 'Jess' instead of 'Jet.'

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The song lump, does she sing "see my lady lump?" it just sounds weird

 

[Nerys Myk]

Penny Lane
Thought the line was "In Penny Lane there's a bar for showing photographs"

 

[Nerys Myk]

The song lump, does she sing "see my lady lump?" it just sounds weird

"My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

"My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas?

That makes it sound worse

 

[Silvercrest]

Penny Lane
Thought the line was "In Penny Lane there's a bar for showing photographs"

I always thought the title line was "in Elaine", Elaine being the name of the village. Saw references to "Penny Lane" for years and years (including a record store by that name in Lakewood, WA where I was living) and it still took forever to make the connection.