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« on: April 13, 2007, 04:34:07 PM » |
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I think we had a thread for misheard lyrics a long time ago, but I thought it'd be fun to start a new one, because I have a hilarious one that just struck me today.
Matisyahu, "Dispatch the Troops"
What it says: "No address and penniless"
What I heard: "No dress and panty-less"
I am so going to hell for that one.
OK, you guys got any good misheard lyrics for me?
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« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2007, 07:43:13 PM » |
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Nothing so recent or memorable:
Smashing Pumpkins - "Disarm"
actually says: "Inside of me is such a part of you"
what I thought it said: "Sodomy is such a part of you"
I think I've mentioned this one before, but, again, nothing real recent to report. Usually, with me, I don't hear wrong, I just don't understand what is being sung at all.
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2007, 11:45:46 PM » |
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« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2007, 07:25:11 PM » |
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"(The Symphony of) Blase" Anberlin
What it says: "I don't want to be here even now."
What I heard: "I don't want a beer even now."
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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2007, 11:06:07 PM » |
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Muse - Time is Running OUt
Now that you know I'm trapped sense of elation
You'd never dream of
Breaking this fixation
What I heard:
Now that you know I'm trapped, since ovulation
You never dreamed of picking asphyxiation
Yeah... I win.. or is it lose?
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« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2007, 01:51:13 AM » |
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Muse - Time is Running OUt
Now that you know I'm trapped sense of elation
You'd never dream of
Breaking this fixation
What I heard:
Now that you know I'm trapped, since ovulation
You never dreamed of picking asphyxiation
Yeah... I win.. or is it lose?
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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2007, 07:39:56 AM » |
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In Mass Romantic by The New Pornographers I heard "bitch" instead of "beat" for some reason..
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I was at a resteraunt. I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. Cuz she said "how would you like your eggs?". So I tried to answer her anyhow, I said incubated, and then raised, and then beheaded, and then plucked, and then cut up, and then put on a grill, and then put on to a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while! I don't have time - scrambled! -- Mitch Hedberg
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2007, 03:22:15 PM » |
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"One More Girl" by The Wreckers
What it says: "One more car out on the road that you might pass on your way home"
What I heard: "One more corral on the road there, you might piss on your way home"
Seriously, Michelle Branch needs to work on her enunciation.
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« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2007, 09:14:34 PM » |
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I still always hear "best be saving your panties" for "best be saving your pennies" in OtR's song Little Blue River. what's with pennies and panties?
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« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2007, 03:35:04 AM » |
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I still always hear "best be saving your panties" for "best be saving your pennies" in OtR's song Little Blue River. what's with pennies and panties?
It probably has to do with our tendency to not enunciate the "t" in words like that. |
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« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2007, 04:35:29 PM » |
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Not a misheard lyric from a song, but still a funny mixup of vocal sounds - one of our church's interns showed the college group a video this weekend featuring a youth pastor who, in the middle of a sermon where he wanted to say that Lot "pitched his tents", accidentally said "pinched his tits". It's the guy's gradual realization of what he said, and the potential consequences, that made it truly hilarious.
One classic misheard lyric that I can't believe I forgot to mention:
"Television" by Dryve
What it says: "She likes making pictures"
What I heard: "She likes naked pictures"
Even now, when I listed to the song, the enunciation really does make it sound like "naked", and pretty much everyone else who's ever listened to the song in my presence has thought that, too.
Another classic from my college days:
"The Mezzanine Floor" by Delirious?
What it says: "I'm at this bolted door"
What I heard: "I'm at this bullshit door"
Martin Smith's enunication has never been the greatest.
NP: "Mirror", Rebecca St. James
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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2007, 07:16:31 PM » |
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I finally thought of another one. I have this concert recording of Ryan Adams with Gillian Welch, and on at the line on "16 Days" that goes "can't sleep when the bedsheet fights" I always hear "can't sleep when the bedsheet farts". <_<
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« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2007, 07:28:14 PM » |
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I finally thought of another one. I have this concert recording of Ryan Adams with Gillian Welch, and on at the line on "16 Days" that goes "can't sleep when the bedsheet fights" I always hear "can't sleep when the bedsheet farts". <_<
The John Mayer song "Split Screen Sadness" is like that for me. When he says "I just wish you'd fought me", I always hear "fart" instead of "fought". Though that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. One of my favorite mistakes in church is to confuse the placement of common words like "faith" and "heart" when singign worship songs that I think I know backwards and forwards. This results in me correcting myself mid-word and singing "fart". (I've also addressed the Almighty as "Gourd" a few times.) The Skillet song "Take" says "Laid out on my face" in the chorus, but a college friend mis-heard it as "Lay down on my face", and assumed it was about oral sex.  |
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« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2007, 02:29:25 PM » |
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This one from Modest Mouse keeps throwing me off, even though I've listened to the song a ridiculous number of times recently and you'd think I'd have the right lyrics committed to memory right now.
"Dashboard" by Modest Mouse
What it says: "Well, the windshield was broken, but I love the fresh air, y'know"
What I heard: "Well, the windshield was broken, but I love the fresh A-hole"
NP: "Divine Design", Steve
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« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2007, 07:11:16 PM » |
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nothing racy or atrocious, but these have been persistent even though I know better.
Bright Eyes, "Classic Cars"
what it says: "the whole world, it loves you if you're a chic chameleon"
what I keep hearing: "the whole world, it loves you if you're a sheep chameleon"
(I think the wool from a sheep chameleon would have amazing qualities. such animals would have my love for sure.)
Bright Eyes, "No One Would Riot For Less":
what it says: "so love me now, hell is coming; yeah kiss my mouth, hell is here...he says help me out, yeah, hell is coming; could you do it now? hell is here"
what I keep hearing: "help" for "hell". kind of very different.
and it's not the same thing, but my brain gets lyrics mixed up and adds stuff to "I Don't Want to Grow Up". I guess it's a Ramones song but I've only heard Tom Waits' version.
my made-up cobbled verse sometimes goes like this: "I don't wanna get married in June, I don't wanna live in a big old tomb on Grand Street". the song does have something about a tomb on Grand Street and getting married, but not in June, and the two ideas aren't next to each other. xD
or sometimes it goes like this: "I don't wanna get married in June, I don't wanna be a big baboon on Graaaaaaaand Streeeeeeeeet, hey!"
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« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2007, 04:07:02 PM » |
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Here's a great one from the new Lifehouse album:
Lifehouse, "Broken"
What it says: "I have lost my way now"
What I heard: "I have lost my weiner"
Seriously, that's practically the way Jason Wade pronounces it. The mush-mouth thing isn't doing him any favors there.
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« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2008, 03:22:53 PM » |
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raising this thread from the dead...
I have a live recording of Gillian Welch singing Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, and for the longest time I couldn't figure out what one particular verse was. it sounded like "I'm looking for the child upon this page" or "the childhood on this pain", neither of which made any sense. I had only seen the lyrics for the Grateful Dead version of the song and it didn't have this verse. just now I came across the lyrics to the Woodie Guthrie version. it's "I'm looking for a job at honest pay". (I guess the Grateful Dead weren't.)
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« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2008, 06:55:25 PM » |
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Do you think the artists are sometimes singing them as we're hearing them on purpose, having the lyrics wrong in the booklet just to mess with us?
It'd be funny for an artist to do several songs in an album like that.
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« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2008, 06:58:22 PM » |
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Do you think the artists are sometimes singing them as we're hearing them on purpose, having the lyrics wrong in the booklet just to mess with us. There's a lyric on the new Barenaked Ladies album that's kinda like that, because the song in general is based on puns. "When I make mistakes, I use a lot of salt, 'cause salt makes my steaks taste great." Hearty. Har. Har. NP: "In My Arms", Plumb |
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« Reply #19 on: July 23, 2008, 09:37:29 PM » |
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I actually thought of this thread a couple days ago, because I was listening to Pillar's "Echelon" and a part came up that I've never known the lyrics to, so I just sing what I hear. I just looked them up.
What it says: "And like a green beret we will lead the way"
What I heard: "And like a creamery we will lead the way"
I know it makes no sense, but that's what I heard. >_>
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« Reply #20 on: July 23, 2008, 09:51:36 PM » |
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On Radiohead - Idioteque, I always hear "Eww, I'm alive," instead of "Here I'm allowed." Actually, there are quite a few cases were it's hard to get what Thom's singing.
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« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2008, 10:56:57 PM » |
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On Radiohead - Idioteque, I always hear "Eww, I'm alive," instead of "Here I'm allowed." Actually, there are quite a few cases were it's hard to get what Thom's singing.
Really? All this time I thought it was "Here, I'm alive", because that rhymes a little better with "Anything all of the time" than "allowed" does. |
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« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2008, 01:43:42 AM » |
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i just happened to stumble across this page while being at work...I just wanted to say this had made my night! This page was the funniest thing I have read in a very long time!!!! I wish I had something to add. I know that I have made errors like this a million times, but when put on the spot I can't think of 1. Any-who I just wanted to tell all of you thank you for making my overnight at work go by a lot better!!!!!  |
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« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2009, 10:18:30 PM » |
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there's a line in Eleni Mandell's song "Right Side" about the color of someone's eyes: "not turquoise like a swimming pool, but calm and gray like morning." the phrase always gets stuck in my head as "common gray like morphine". how flattering.  |
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« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2009, 12:44:57 AM » |
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Since chrisnu brought up PfR in another thread, I'll mention this little misheard gem from their song "Gone":
What it says: "I didn't ask to be over you"
What a friend of mine heard: "I didn't masturbate over you"
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« Reply #25 on: March 22, 2010, 12:45:46 PM » |
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Fun fact: When misappropriating a Beach Boys lyric from "Fun, Fun, Fun" for my own purposes in the title of the fun. review that I wrote last night, I discovered for the first time that I had been mishearing the lyrics for pretty much all my life.
What it says: "Fun, fun, fun, 'til her daddy takes the T-Bird away"
What I heard: "Fun, fun, fun, 'til your daddy takes your ticket away"
I could never figure out what the ticket was for...
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« Reply #26 on: March 22, 2010, 05:20:45 PM » |
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Radiohead "Street Spirit"
What it says: "Cracked eggs, dead birds scream as they fight for life. I can feel death, can see its beady eyes."
What I hear: "Cracked eggs, dead birds scream as they fight for lie. F*ckin feel death, can see its beady eyes."
Live, Thom enunciates this line better. phew...
Pixies "Debaser"
what it says: "got me a movie ha ha ha ho slicing up eyeballs"
what I hear:
"got me a movie ha ha ha ho slicing off my balls"
Er......Black Francis is bizarre, but not in that way. And in "Cactus," I always mishear the way he pronounces "cement." I usually pronounce it "suh-MENT."
NP: "Crackity Jones," Pixies
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« Reply #27 on: March 22, 2010, 05:26:44 PM » |
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What it says: "Cracked eggs, dead birds scream as they fight for life. I can feel death, can see its beady eyes."
What I hear: "Cracked eggs, dead birds scream as they fight for lie. F*ckin feel death, can see its beady eyes." Anything with an "f" sound before "I can" or "I could", often comes out sounding like "f*ckin'". This distracts me sometimes when listening to the Violet Burning's "Already Gone" (in which the first words of nearly every line of the chorus start with "If I could make you...") 'Cause, you know, Christian bands don't say bad words.  |
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« Reply #28 on: March 29, 2010, 04:04:28 PM » |
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Speaking of Christian bands saying bad words, here's one from Flyleaf's "Beautiful Bride":
What It Says: "Unite and fight all division"
What I Heard "Unite and fight, all deep in shit"
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« Reply #29 on: October 11, 2010, 03:10:07 PM » |
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Sorry to play Frankenthread, but this amused me yesterday. A friend and I were eating at a Chipotle, and they were playing Berlin's The Metro (a song which I have an unreasonable amount of sentiment for). What it says: you were waiting there / swimming through apologies What he heard: you were waiting there / swimming through a pot of cheese |
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« Reply #30 on: February 25, 2011, 09:02:02 PM » |
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Resurrecting a dead thread again, because the first line of Mew's "156" is too amusingly mispronounced to pass up.
What It Says: "From my boat, I can see your house."
What I Heard: "From my butt, I can see your house."
I know he's not a native English speaker, but seriously, of all the words to get wrong...
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« Reply #31 on: July 23, 2011, 12:47:14 AM » |
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just now bits of Over the Rhine's song Sleep, Baby Jane was stuck in my head, but with words that aren't even in the song being repeated. dramamine, dramamine; cassowary, cassowary; superstar, superstar. oh, brain.
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« Reply #32 on: March 19, 2012, 11:28:58 AM » |
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My minion informed me today that for most of his youth, he assumed the refrain of CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" was, instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise", "There's a bathroom on the right".
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #33 on: March 19, 2012, 01:08:47 PM » |
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My minion informed me today that for most of his youth, he assumed the refrain of CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" was, instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise", "There's a bathroom on the right".
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