Misheard Lyrics

[thribs]

That song where the chorus is just something that sounds like Tuvok. I call it the Tuvok song

 

[Discofan]

A somewhat obscure one: In the Beach Boys' song "Our Car Club" (a filler track on the Little Deuce Coupe album), there's the line "And you can bet that we'll have our jackets on for every cruise." I used to hear it as "And you can bet that we'll have a tracking song for every cruise." I always wondered what the hell a "tracking song" is.

A song that allows you to follow someone at a distance...

 

[Velocity]

Honestly, I just found this out recently. One of my long ago boyfriends used to play Black Sabbath's Paranoid turned up really really loud on his 8-track in his car. He told me (and I thought I heard it too) that the line "Can you help me occupy my brain?" was "Can you help me f**k you from my grave:" We were teenagers...and it was an 8-track. That's my excuse. (cringe)

 

[Discofan]

Honestly, I just found this out recently. One of my long ago boyfriends used to play Black Sabbath's Paranoid turned up really really loud on his 8-track in his car. He told me (and I thought I heard it too) that the line "Can you help me occupy my brain?" was "Can you help me f**k you from my grave:" We were teenagers...and it was an 8-track. That's my excuse. (cringe)

Yes, zombie porn is rather unusual...

 

[Random_Spock]

This is an older one:

A mishearing from Def Leppard's song, Animal.

What I thought I heard -- White light, on a stormy ground

What the lyric actually was -- A wild ride, over stony ground

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

This is an older one:

A mishearing from Def Leppard's song, Animal.

What I thought I heard -- White light, on a stormy ground

What the lyric actually was -- A wild ride, over stony ground

So I'm not the only one I keep hearing "stormy ground" too

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Yes, zombie porn is rather unusual...

Rule 34, though.

 

[Discofan]

Rule 34, though.

I had to google that one.

 

[Random_Spock]

From Chicago's song 'Look Away'

What I thought: If we meet on the streets of Neigh

What it really was: If we meet on the street someday

 

[CommanderRaytas]

How about What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)?

Actual lyrics: The dark, sacred night.
Me: The dogs say goodnight.

I was a kid, though.

 

[Obsidian7]

My favourite misheard lyric is 'want John Barrowman' from Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

My favourite misheard lyric is 'want John Barrowman' from Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.

And who doesn't?

Google tells me that I'm by far not the only person who mishears that stupid Daft Punk song as "Mexican lucky".

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

This song, listen and tell me you don't hear "Suzy's flashing the Death Star it seems"

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Actual lyrics are "Suzy's flashing the dance floor"

 

[CommanderRaytas]

A weird, inverted example for me is Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer". I was so sure I was hearing that "Show me round your fruit cakes" line wrong, but that's really what he says.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I know what the song is really about but I can't get this version out of my head:

I wanna be...Sledge Hammer!

 

[Discofan]

A weird, inverted example for me is Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer". I was so sure I was hearing that "Show me round your fruit cakes" line wrong, but that's really what he says.

The first time I heard "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" I was wondering what it was about, and I still am since apparently it's not about an LSD trip... I mean if not that then what the hell it is?

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I think they said it was based on a picture one of their kids drew. That may or may not be an urban legend.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think they said it was based on a picture one of their kids drew. That may or may not be an urban legend.

The actual lyrics of the song are obviously about a drug trip, but the NAME of the song is not (it's a complete coincidence that the initials L S D are in the name). Here's how it went down:

John's son Julian had brought home a picture he'd drawn of a classmate named Lucy. The boy had drawn her face surrounded by diamonds. John said "What's that you've got there?" and Julian replied "It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds, daddy." John went "Fantastic!" and immediately set to writing the song.

 

[Discofan]

The actual lyrics of the song are obviously about a drug trip, but the NAME of the song is not (it's a complete coincidence that the initials L S D are in the name). Here's how it went down:

John's son Julian had brought home a picture he'd drawn of a classmate named Lucy. The boy had drawn her face surrounded by diamonds. John said "What's that you've got there?" and Julian replied "It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds, daddy." John went "Fantastic!" and immediately set to writing the song.

Was she a girl with kaleidoscope eyes?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Mama mia mama mia mama mia let me go, Be el zibab has a devil put a sideboard me, and me, and Meeeeeeeeeeee....lol