NationStates Jolt Archive

I was looking up some song lyrics the other day and I ran across the "Am I Right" site. There are some hilarious misquotes of lyrics and some pretty funny real lyrics. Since I was looking at Ten Years After, I'll get it started with this.
Misquote:
Everywhere it's
Freaks and Herods
Like Tim Ferris
Tear away my sanity.

I never heard it that way, but this is what the song says. It's probably better than the misquote.
Every where is
Dykes and Fairys
Freaks and Hairys
Tell me where's their sanity?

didn't jimi hendrix sing something about excuse me while i kiss this guy? purple haze

Blinded by the Light

"Revved up like a douche, another runner in her thigh"

Blinded by the Light

"Revved up like a douche, another runner in her thigh"

To be fair though, the real lyrics don't make a great deal of sense either - "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" seems relatively coherent on its own, but Springsteen surrounds it with a sea of unrelated lines.


Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard.

To be fair though, the real lyrics don't make a great deal of sense either - "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" seems relatively coherent on its own, but Springsteen surrounds it with a sea of unrelated lines.


Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard.

First you need to know what a "Deuce" is. Here, may this Beach Boys song title will help "'Lil Deuce Coup." A Deuce is a Hot-Rod. A runner in the night is a street dragger (not a cross dresser).

I only really know the standards, the Hendrix one already quoted and "There's a baboon on the rise"

Bad Moon

Song: Whole Lotta Love


The real lyrics were:
I need cooling
baby I'm not fooling

But I misheard them as:
I need kool-aid
baby I'm not foolin'

First you need to know what a "Deuce" is. Here, may this Beach Boys song title will help "'Lil Deuce Coup." A Deuce is a Hot-Rod. A runner in the night is a street dragger (not a cross dresser).

Yeah, yeah, I understand the line in itself, but looking around it for context to make sense of the lyrics (which aren't the most clear in the LP version) won't give you any hints as to what they may be. Look at the first verse:


Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground
Some all-hot half-shot was headin' for the hot spot snappin' his fingers clappin' his hands
And some fleshpot mascot was tied into a lover's knot with a whatnot in her hand
And now young Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand
And some bloodshot forget-me-not whispers daddy's within earshot save the buckshot turn up the band

There aren't many clues to lead you towards the correct words if you can't make them out, are there?

I hadn't bothered to think what the N-Trance "Staying alive" lyrics actually were for a long time. I heard it "Studio line" or "Save a life" or "[seida'lai]" (that's in phonetic spelling), or something.

Yeah, yeah, I understand the line in itself, but looking around it for context to make sense of the lyrics (which aren't the most clear in the LP version) won't give you any hints as to what they may be. Look at the first verse:


Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground
Some all-hot half-shot was headin' for the hot spot snappin' his fingers clappin' his hands
And some fleshpot mascot was tied into a lover's knot with a whatnot in her hand
And now young Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand
And some bloodshot forget-me-not whispers daddy's within earshot save the buckshot turn up the band

There aren't many clues to lead you towards the correct words if you can't make them out, are there?
rap is crap and "real" music is gibberish!

This ones from K.I.S.S.

real lyrics:

I wanna rock and roll all night,
and party every day.

misquoted lyrics:

I wanna rock and roll all night,
and part of every day.

Song: Whole Lotta Love


The real lyrics were:
I need cooling
baby I'm not fooling

But I misheard them as:
I need kool-aid
baby I'm not foolin'
Speaking of Led Zepplin, who would have ever thought that they had written the Cadillac theme song -- "Rock and Roll"
Almost makes me want to go out and buy one. One with big fins, that is.