Misheard Lyrics

[shapeshifter]

Both have charms of their own.

 

[Gryffindorian]

As for "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"...I wonder, does Aerosmith even still perform that song live? In this day and age, a song like that... [/QUOTE]

I loved that song from Mrs. Doubtfire.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

^ It has been scientifically proven, through rigorous testing, that the Beach Boys' version is superior.

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[Australis]

'Vienna', Ultravox.

"A man in the dark in a picture frame,
With lipstick and soul food..."

Suitably mysterious, I thought.

 

[J.T.B.]

Billy Joel's "Piano Man" has a character "making love to his tonic and gin." When I was a kid I thought it said "Tom McAn gin," Tom McAn being a chain of shoe stores.

 

[Velocity]

Billy Joel's "Piano Man" has a character "making love to his tonic and gin." When I was a kid I thought it said "Tom McAn gin," Tom McAn being a chain of shoe stores.

I've heard (and tasted) sloe gin, but never "shoe gin".

 

[ED-209]

Informer

“icky boom boom down”

“lick your bum bum down”

I was about 10 at the time.

 

[Commander Troi]

I am thankful for the Internet so I can LOOK UP lyrics now.

Elton John songs, for some reason, were my worst for misheard or just "I got nothing" lyrics.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

From Yes' "Leave It"...

Real line: "Uptown, they're diggin' it out".

What I always used to hear: "Uptown, they're diggety-dow". I'm like, what the fuck is a diggety-dow?

Informer

“icky boom boom down”

“lick your bum bum down”

I was about 10 at the time.

Ah yes, "Informer"....the only song with lyrics so garbled that the video has to have SUBTITLES.

 

[Random_Spock]

Billy Joel's "Piano Man" has a character "making love to his tonic and gin." When I was a kid I thought it said "Tom McAn gin," Tom McAn being a chain of shoe stores.

I've heard it as 'making love to his tonic engine' I do not know where my mind got that from.

 

[Australis]

"Pay no mind tom what they say,
Doesn't matter anyway, ay-ay-ay,
As long as I see you..."

-The Go-Gos, 'Our Lips Are Sealed'
(yes, I got the title wrong)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Also known as "Alex the Seal".

 

[J.T.B.]

^Jane's "Quiet, angel" is so much a better lyric than Fun Boy Three's "Guardian angel."

 

[DarrenTR1970]

^ Also known as "Alex the Seal".

I always sang the line as 'Honest Lucille', as in Lucille Ball.

 

[Random_Spock]

From the J. Geils Band song... Freeze Frame

I thought it was Flea Spray

Instead of

Freeze Frame




I just heard...

Love is just a surface

Instead of Love was just a circus



I'm still standing by Elton John

 

[Velocity]

The song Denise by Randy and the Rainbows (who thought that was a good name for their group?) I always thought he was singing "Darling" when it was "Denise". Okay, "Duh-neece", but my sound system must have been really crummy.

 

[Commander Troi]

The song Denise by Randy and the Rainbows (who thought that was a good name for their group?) I always thought he was singing "Darling" when it was "Denise". Okay, "Duh-neece", but my sound system must have been really crummy.

I have a song? I need to find that!

 

[Random_Spock]

One I've misheard before from Policy of Truth by Depeche Mode.

Misheard lyric: It's too late to change your pants

The actual lyric: It's too late to change events

 

[scotpens]

I've heard it as 'making love to his tonic engine' I do not know where my mind got that from.

I have no idea what a "tonic engine" is, but it sounds very steampunk.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I went to see Paul McCartney Monday night and he opened with 'Can't Buy Me Love'.

During the the chorus I was singing, "I don't care to watch my money".

The people around me corrected me; saying it was, "I don't care too much for money".

40+ years I've been singing the wrong lyric.