NationStates Jolt Archive

Have you ever heard a song on the radio or elsewhere and thought you might sing along?
Perhaps you weren't even singing but just had the song running in your mind but little did you know you weren't even singing the song at all?
You had the words all wrong and you may have thought this doesn't make sense but how could it not be?

Well i bring you Radar Love by Golden Earring except i thought it was Red Eye Love.
Which actually got me thinking Red Eye Love???
What on earth could that be? i have heard of the brown eye and perhaps Red eye could be like Pink eye but then still why would you be singing about Pink eye and with some sort of affection towards it?
But then plenty of songs make little sense at all.

So i googled them just to make sure and nope it is Radar Love!:eek:
But even then it doesn't make much sense Radar Love
But still i like the song and perhaps some radar Love would be good, who knows?

ARTIST: Golden Earring
TITLE: Radar Love
I’ve been drivin’ all night my hand’s wet on the wheel
There’s a voice in my head that drives my heel
And my baby calls that she needs me here
It’s half past four and I’m shifting gear
When she gets lonely and the longing gets too much
She sends a cable comin’ in from above
We don’t need to talk at all
We got a thing that’s called radar love
We got a wave in the air
Radar Love
Radio’s playin’ some forgotten song
Brenda Lee’s coming on strong
The road has got me hypnotized
And I’m spinning into a new sunrise
When I get lonely and I’m sure I’ve had enough
She sends her comfort coming in from above
We don’t need a letter at all
We got a thing that’s called radar love
We got a line in the air
Radar Love

Solo
No more speed I’m almost there
Gotta keep cool now, gotta take care
Last car to pass here I go
And the line of cars goes down real slow
And the radio played some forgotten song
Brenda Lee’s coming on strong
And the newsman sang his same song
Oh one more radar lover gone
When I get lonely and I’m sure I’ve had enough
She sends her comfort coming in from above
We don’t need a letter at all
We got a thing that’s called radar love
We got a line in the sky
We got a thing that’s called radar love
We got a thing that’s called radar love

Have you ever stuffed up some lyrics?
What is the stupidest stuff up you have ever heard?
I hear "Smells Like Teen Spirit" gets ballsed up lots and of course the Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson is the "The Beat Of The Meat Ball"

I'm listening to system of a down. It's possible that even the lead singer doesn't know what the lyrics are.

I'm listening to system of a down. It's possible that even the lead singer doesn't know what the lyrics are.
Well they have that song the most loneist day.-Sounds like good engrish to me but, they can't help it being armenian.

Well they have that song the most loneist day.-Sounds like good engrish to me but, they can't help it being armenian.

It's "Vicinity of Obscenity" I'm listening to. It sounds like he's raving about a terracotta pie. This may or may not be the case.

American-Armenian. They were all born in California, and went to a school for Armenian ex-pats. They're possibly the most coherent people in rock or metal.

It's "Vicinity of Obscenity" I'm listening to. It sounds like he's raving about a terracotta pie. This may or may not be the case.
Yeah, the chorus is:
"Banana, banana, banana, banana, terracotta
Banana, terracotta, terracotta pie.
Vicinity of obscenity in your eye;
Terracotta pie, terracotta pie."

I do like that album. Not as good as their debut or Toxicity, but certainly their best since Toxicity.

I'm listening to system of a down. It's possible that even the lead singer doesn't know what the lyrics are.
I find that highly ironic, seeing as how there are maybe four System songs to which I can't understand at least 9/10ths of the lyrics, yet I have problems understanding what the hell the lyrics to some Gorillaz songs are. Same case with McLusky.

American-Armenian. They were all born in California, and went to a school for Armenian ex-pats. They're possibly the most coherent people in rock or metal.
Possibly...

I'm listening to system of a down.

Every time someone listens to system of a down, Jesus kills a puppy.

I get lyrics wrong all the time. I don't bother to go out of my way to learn them (unless I intend to perform them). Guessing is much more fun, and noone usually notices.

This thread reminds me of when a friend of mine was convinced the first line of Fear Factory's Linchpin was "God gave me a pie":p

Considering some of the music I listen to, its a wonder when I do get lyrics right.

For example, one Bad Religion song goes:

"The Ghost of Humanity is leading us this way
And I think we'd better heed it doncha know?"

and I always heard:

"The Goats of Insanity are leading us astray
And I think we'd bet a heed a dosido"

I now giggle whenever I hear that song.

I've played in bands and you would be amazed how often the lead vocalist forgets lyrics and either makes them up on the spot or garbles them intentionally so that they sound sort of like what they are supposed to. :eek:

Every time someone listens to system of a down, Jesus kills a puppy.
Why do you come up with this shit? :p

Why do you come up with this shit? :p

Because it's true.

There are a lot of songs that were so much cooler before I understood the lyrics. "Unforgiven", for instance, was better when I thought the chorus was "So I've done the unforgiveable", instead he's just whining about how everyone was mean to him, so now he is going to start calling people names.
Well fuck you, James Hetfield.

Every time someone listens to system of a down, Jesus kills a puppy.

Now it's Aimeé Mann. Ah, the strangeness of a randomly selected playlist.

If you ever listened to Wierd Al Yankovich's "smells like nirvana" it sounds like this is exactly how he came up with the lyrics for it.

Real lyrics

"And I forget
Just what it takes
And yet I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard
Its hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind"

Yankovich's Lyrics

"And I forgot
the next verse
Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The lyric sheet’s
so hard to find
What are the words? oh, nevermind"

Every time someone listens to system of a down, Jesus kills a puppy.

No, that's just some crazy biker dude. It's easy to make the mistake. They have identical hairstyles.

If you ever listened to Wierd Al Yankovich's "smells like nirvana" it sounds like this is exactly how he came up with the lyrics for it.

Real lyrics

"And I forget
Just what it takes
And yet I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard
Its hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind"

Yankovich's Lyrics

"And I forgot
the next verse
Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The lyric sheet’s
so hard to find
What are the words? oh, nevermind"

Indeed.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/WeirdAl.png

Theatricalis']I've played in bands and you would be amazed how often the lead vocalist forgets lyrics and either makes them up on the spot or garbles them intentionally so that they sound sort of like what they are supposed to. :eek:
Garbling can be very cool such as in Faith No Mores take on War Pigs by Black Sabbath...

Pardon me, while I kiss this guy.

"It's been awhile since I could say that I wasn't a dick head" ... who's to say that wasn't what Aaron Lewis really meant, eh? :D

Pardon me, while I kiss this guy.

Bah. It's "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" ;) :p

Bah. It's "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" ;) :p
But wasn't someone kissing the sky?
http://itpro.no/images/upload/lordagssnacks-stewie.jpg

Don't get me going on Lead Singers and misstating or forgetting lyrics. As a lyricist, I can say that there's not much worse than trying to explain that "Yes I realize that Africa's a continent, the lead singer's just a moron".

Since then I've realized I need to sing my own lyrics, for saftey's sake.

I buggered the poll.:eek:

The classic is, of course, a friend who misheard "Summer of 69" by Bryan Adam...

Proper lyrics:-
"Got my first real six-string,
played it till my fingers bled"

Misheard lyrics:-
"Got my first wet sex dream
played it till my fingers bled"

Of course there are these...
Never mind.-Stupid fall out boy.

The classic is, of course, a friend who misheard "Summer of 69" by Bryan Adam...

Proper lyrics:-
"Got my first real six-string,
played it till my fingers bled"

Misheard lyrics:-
"Got my first wet sex dream
played it till my fingers bled"
Hilarious.:D

Because it's true.That doesn't bother me, dogs suck.



Amusingly, the only songs I have known anyone to still haven problems recognising lyrics after a few listens have been:
- Break My Stride (Matthew Wilder)
- One Week (Bare Naked Ladies)

Most of my friends are good at getting lyrics correct the first time. I'm behind them at that, there's one word in Calypso Kangaroos (Tripod) that i'm still not sure on despite having tried about 20 times :headbang:

Well, I was one of the people who classically misheard the lyrics to "Tiny Dancer" as "Hold me closer, Tony Danza," but I think basically everyone has done that.

More contemporarily, for Muse's cover of "Feelin' Good," I thought that instead of saying "blossom in a tree, you know how I feel," he was saying "opossum in a ditch, you know how I feel."

If anyone can tell me the lyrics to Louie Louie, I'll be very impressed...

If anyone can tell me the lyrics to Louie Louie, I'll be very impressed...I suppose googling doesn't count?
snopes has an article on it

"So you are singing the wrong lyrics?"
I often sing, well mutter, in one of several variations of a made up non-language.. Which may either sound vaguely russian, or french or something else.
I've had people mistake it for an actual language once. :rolleyes:

I'm listening to "Sanity" by Alva Star and I have no idea what he hell he's saying after the chorus ("She gave up all her sanity laying low") but it sounds good, and even though Alva Star is apparently marketable enough for iTunes, they're not marketable enough for free lyric websites. (seriously, try to find the lyrics of even one song...occasionally they're listed in an artist's index, but if you actually go there and click on their name it's empty. Even google came up short)

To listen/download for free (legally):
http://www.garageband.com/artist/alvastar

"So you are singing the wrong lyrics?"
I often sing, well mutter, in one of several variations of a made up non-language.. Which may either sound vaguely russian, or french or something else.
I've had people mistake it for an actual language once. :rolleyes:
For years I thought my mother's favorite New Age song "Adiemus" by the band of the same name was in Hebrew because it sounded like somethng straight out of the Prince of Egypt soundtrack and because a part of the chorus (which gets phonetic lyrics [on websites]!) is "haye, waye" over and over and when the the end of "haye" blend together with "waye" it sounds like "yahweh", but I could never figure out why it's in there since Jews don't normally say that name aloud (my aunt says it'd bad luck?), so why would one sing it? Then years after my mom had moved on to country music (and I had moved on to ear plugs) it was played by the DJ at my catholic cousin's wedding reception from the "Pure Moods" CD, and I was astounded that the DJ could hit an even more inappropriate low (he had played Shaggy's "It wasn't Me" while everyone else basically either chatted/grinded/ passed out), so I decided to look it up to know for certain and I found out the whole song is in a made-up language of the artist's.

so I decided to look it up to know for certain and I found out the whole song is in a made-up language of the artist's.It happens more often then you might think. Either words or whole songs just being made-up language.
It's really interesting what people make of it, though :P

It happens more often then you might think. Either words or whole songs just being made-up language.
It's really interesting what people make of it, though :P
Sigur Rós use the made-up language Hopelandish in their songs. Works very well, especially with the singer they have. I swear that if you played some parts of some of their songs backwards, you'd find hidden messages in English.

If anyone can tell me the lyrics to Louie Louie, I'll be very impressed...

I'll try...without googling...I used the Sonics version

Louie Louie...We (me?) gotta go now.

A fine little girl, she waits for me
She'll get a ship across the sea
She'll sail the ship and i'm all alone
Never think i'll make it home

Louie louie... (etc.)

Three nights and days we sailed the sea
I think of girl, her company
And on the ship I dream she's there
I smell the roses in her hair

Louie Louie...(etc, plus howl, then guitar solo)

Me see Jamaican moon above
It won't be long to see me love
Take her in me arms again
I tell her that I dream her there

Louie Louie (etc.)

I make up my own lyrics to songs ALL the time...It is a thing that I have always done, and now my children do it too....we have great fun making them sound reasonable and fit together, whilst in no way the same as the original...my kids often sing 'Electric bee' as their own version of 'Let it be'
They especially like the bit that says 'sting your mum on her bum...electric bee, electric bee..' (speaking words of wisdon, let it be, let it be)

Another favorite of mine is 'Don't do that you wanker' for Oasis, 'Don't look back in anger'


Oh there are SO many possibilities if you only free your mind.....

Another favorite of mine is 'Don't do that you wanker' for Oasis, 'Don't look back in anger'


Oh there are SO many possibilities if you only free your mind.....
Here's what happened when I freed my mind:

"That ho Sally can wait,
She's fucking my mate
And I want her to die.

That arsehole cries today:
Don't do that you wanker,
I heard you're gay."

Here's what happened when I freed my mind:

"That ho Sally can wait,
She's fucking my mate
And I want her to die.

That arsehole cries today:
Don't do that you wanker,
I heard you're gay."

AMAZING!

I think you have an un-tapped talent, and the mind freeing thing just totally tapped you somehow......or something...

Bah. It's "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" ;) :p
Who'd of ever thought that Jimi went around kissing guys?

Every time someone listens to system of a down, Jesus kills a puppy.

*kneels*

oh speaker of truth, how have you been hidden?

*kisses shoes*

I realized a few days ago that there are about 6 words in the middle of the chorus to this (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Middle-lyrics-Jimmy-Eat-World/FDA58ED99C53970748256BA300203ECC)song, that I didn't know what they said...I know now, and I can understand it, but before it was like "it just takes some time little bit *mumble* alright alright"

Smooth Operator... when I was a kid i thought it was "Ooh bompa redda"

Here's what happened when I freed my mind:

"That ho Sally can wait,
She's fucking my mate
And I want her to die.

That arsehole cries today:
Don't do that you wanker,
I heard you're gay."
That is classic

I don't know... why does Macy Grey sing about goggles?

#She's got a chicken to ride
She's got a chicken to ride#

#My baby donkey#

And anyone who knows What Katie Did by the Libertines:

Shoot Shoot Shoot the Llama now

Seems like I hardly ever know all the words to a song anymore. When I was little, my dad used to listen to CCR, and I swear he used to sing "there's a bathroom on the right" instead of "there's a bad moon on the rise". Another one from when I was little, I don't remember who sings it, but the actual line is "lady in red, dancing with me, cheek to cheek" and I always heard "lady in red, dancing with me, piece of cheese".

Also, I heard a Kelly Clarkson song, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out one line in the chorus: "Since you been gone, I can breathe for the first time, mumble mumble, yeah yeah..." :confused:

Being half deaf, I do this ALL the time.

For the longest time I thought an oldies song's refrain was 'Oliver' instead of I'll be there.

Or "Dancing at a fry stand" (Dancing and a prancing)

Or "Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to take the train"

Or "Bring, bring, bring your flowered hat
We'll wipe down your father's mat"

The one my fiancee loved was a Japanese song that for the longest time I swore they were singing "Sake bananas".

"Bring, bring, bring your flowered hat
We'll wipe down your father's mat"



Kiss me out of the bearded barley
Nightly, beside the green, green grass
Swing, swing, swing the spinning step
You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress.

Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight
Lead me out on the moonlit floor
Lift your open hand
Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance
Silver moon's sparkling
So kiss me

Kiss me down by the broken tree house
Swing me upon its hanging tire
Bring, bring, bring your flowered hat
We'll take the trail marked on your father's map

Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer

I LOVE this song......

*dances*

-snip-
Sixpence None The Richer. Who would have thought a Christian band would have covered a song about a drug trip? (There She Goes by The Las)

What about Enter Sandman?