The stock martket will not crash nor will the world end just because people do not listen to the lyrics of songs.Some of them, like this one:
I have a hard time really believing. Are people really that stupid?
But the Blinded By the Light is the one that really gets me. I think it speaks bounds of people's immaturity as well as their stupidity.
For starters, it's a freaking Springsteen song! Anyone who listens to it should be able to clearly understand what he's singing. And, yes, Chris Thompson has a very think Kiwi accent, but you can still tell what he's saying.
Misunderstood lyrics.
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"I'm Like A Bird" - Nelly Furtado.
First line:
"It's getting real lonely in Santa's bed."
First line:
"It's getting real lonely in Santa's bed."
Isn't that from "Turn Off The Light" by Nelly Furtado?
Re: Misheard lyrics.
By the way, shouldn't this thread be called "Misheard Lyrics"? If I wanted misunderstood lyrics I'd listen to "Stairway To Heaven".
By the way, shouldn't this thread be called "Misheard Lyrics"? If I wanted misunderstood lyrics I'd listen to "Stairway To Heaven".
Oh wow, I thought I was the only one who heard it like that! Those are the exact lyrics I thought it was.
when I was a little girl I thought "For Your Eyes Only" was "For Your'e A Zombie." Sheena Easton singing about turning into zombies, plus that creepy synth in the background, the song always scared the crap out of me. 
Funny, sometimes I can't even make sense of the lyrics I just mumble them.
"Wah. I just died in your arms tonight, muzzah muzzah muzzah mozzay."
Or I make up my own lyrics.
"Calling all the fat girls, calling all the fat girls." --Gwen Stefani
"You can't plant me in your penthouse, I'm going back to my plow. Back to the capital loud, hunting the horny backdog."
"Take on me. Take me on. I'll be gone, until I dooooo."
I swear I didn't know some of the lyrics to my favorite songs until I tried karaoke years ago.
"Wah. I just died in your arms tonight, muzzah muzzah muzzah mozzay."
Or I make up my own lyrics.
"Calling all the fat girls, calling all the fat girls." --Gwen Stefani
"You can't plant me in your penthouse, I'm going back to my plow. Back to the capital loud, hunting the horny backdog."
"Take on me. Take me on. I'll be gone, until I dooooo."
I swear I didn't know some of the lyrics to my favorite songs until I tried karaoke years ago.
Elton John has the strangest way of pronouncing words sometimes!
So goodbye, yellow brick road
With the dark brown sorority house (Where the dogs of society howl)
You're cat just peed in your penthouse (You can't trap me in your penthouse)
I'm going back to my frau (I'm going back to my plough)
Back to the I-don't-know out in the woods (Back to the howling old owl in the woods)
Back to the heart attack town... (Back to the horny-backed toad)
^ A couple of those are my misheard lines and the rest I read about in a Gavin Edwards book. (Not gonna admit which are mine!)
When I first heard "Burn Down the Mission", I was very confused about a particular line. It sounded exactly like:
Take your family down by the riverside
Back to the eastern sea where the fags start to hide.
I knew that couldn't possibly be right, but I had no clue what the words really were. I recall looking it up once. I believe it says something about "the fat stock".
So goodbye, yellow brick road
With the dark brown sorority house (Where the dogs of society howl)
You're cat just peed in your penthouse (You can't trap me in your penthouse)
I'm going back to my frau (I'm going back to my plough)
Back to the I-don't-know out in the woods (Back to the howling old owl in the woods)
Back to the heart attack town... (Back to the horny-backed toad)
^ A couple of those are my misheard lines and the rest I read about in a Gavin Edwards book. (Not gonna admit which are mine!)
When I first heard "Burn Down the Mission", I was very confused about a particular line. It sounded exactly like:
Take your family down by the riverside
Back to the eastern sea where the fags start to hide.
I knew that couldn't possibly be right, but I had no clue what the words really were. I recall looking it up once. I believe it says something about "the fat stock".
Belle & Sebastian - Roy Walker
Real lyric:
Like a fresh manifestation of an old phenomenon, the breeze whips through the trees
Misheard lyric:
... the priest whips through the trees.
Real lyric:
Like a fresh manifestation of an old phenomenon, the breeze whips through the trees
Misheard lyric:
... the priest whips through the trees.
Pink Floyd's "Money", I thought he said:
"Money... isn't Rudolph all evil today?"
"Money... isn't Rudolph all evil today?"
I know the lyrics now, but I sang them wrong so often as a kid I still revert back to what I thought it was:
"Blinded by the light. Wrapped like a deuce another rumor in the night".
You mean those aren't the real lyrics?!
Just kidding. I've known they aren't, and yet, I still sing them that way sometimes. Except Blinded By The Light goes like this:
"Blinded by the light. Wrapped up like a douche, another odor in the night."
Again, isn't that the real line?
When some people are listening to music in the background while doing other things, their minds can make strange associations that might only make sense in the context of the other things they are doing, but that stick with them nonetheless. And, many singers play their vocals more like an instrument than like they are doing public speaking - so they sound good, but aren't necessarily clearly understood.Some of them, like this one:
I have a hard time really believing. Are people really that stupid?
Immature and stupid = any joke you aren't in on, apparently?
In reality, immature = calling a bunch of people stupid for things said in a conversation that no one else is taking all that seriously. Chill out.
Yes. Because we all know that if there is one thing Bruce Springsteen is famous for, it is how clearly his New Jersey accent allows him to enunciate.
That last line is "I'll be gone, in a day or two." I just learned that a few months ago, but I still refuse to sing along with it that way. For many years I thought it was "I'll be gone, in a dreeeeeam" and I still think that sounds better.
Also, have you seen this?
A few of my other mishearings:
"A heart needs a second chance, when love makes a salvage" from Second Chance by .38 Special. The real line is "...when love makes it sound bad", which I don't think makes sense, really. Either way, I frequently sing it, "when loves makes a salad" or "a sandwich", screwing around with it on purpose.
"White skin in a lemon, perfume on my wrist" from These Dreams by Heart. It's "in a linen" in reality.
"Who's gonna take away the tears you've cried? Who's gonna run your fear's coup de tat?" from Who Will You Run To by Heart. "Who's gonna love you baby as good as I" is the real second line, there.
I still think Heart is awesome, but in Jr. High I was giving them credit for some major poetical work that was really only in my head, apparently.
My wife thought that the line "Make Time Stop" from Not Enough Time by INXS was "Big Time Stuff" until the first time I caught what she was singing and busted up laughing. I pick on her with it whenver the song plays, even though I think it's cute and actually fits rather well, too.
One last thing - not a mondegreen, but a perversion. Next time you hear To Be With You by Mr. Big, sing along, but replace the word "with" with "in". Just that one word whenever it appears. Watch what it does to the whole rest of the song.
You really think that it's immaturity that makes people hear douche when the word is deuce? "Lighten up, Francis".But the Blinded By the Light is the one that really gets me. I think it speaks bounds of people's immaturity as well as their stupidity.
For starters, it's a freaking Springsteen song! Anyone who listens to it should be able to clearly understand what he's singing. And, yes, Chris Thompson has a very think Kiwi accent, but you can still tell what he's saying.
There was a scene in the movie "The Long Kiss Goodnight" with Geena Davis that I always thought was funny. The England Dan and John Ford Coley song I'd Really Love to See You Tonight was on the radio and one of them screwed up the lyrics the same way I always did in my head. The line sounded like: "I'm not talking about the linens..." and it's supposed to be: "I'm not talking about movin' in...".
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Apparently Sting once claimed "I'm a pool hall ace"...
(yes the rest of the actual lyrics, once heard properly, are pretty much misunderstood too.
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(yes the rest of the actual lyrics, once heard properly, are pretty much misunderstood too.
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"But the chair is not my son.""Billy Jean ate my lover...She is a caravan..." Huh?
"But the chair is not my son.""Billy Jean ate my lover...She is a caravan..." Huh?
No, the blanket is!
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