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Favorite misheard song lyrics

Unabashed Greed
01-12-2006, 01:33
You know. Those song lyrics that either you or a friend hears wrong, and is end up being really funny.

A few of my faves...

The Beatles; Lucy in the sky with diamonds: "The girl with colitis goes by"

Steve Miller Band; Big old jet airliner: "Bingo Jed had a light on"

War; Spill the wine: "Spin around, big fat girl"

anyone got a few more?
Fleckenstein
01-12-2006, 01:34
You know. Those song lyrics that either you or a friend hears wrong, and is end up being really funny.

A few of my faves...

The Beatles; Lucy in the sky with diamonds: "The girl with colitis goes by"

Steve Miller Band; Big old jet airliner: "Bingo Jed had a light on"

War; Spill the wine: "Spin around, big fat girl"

anyone got a few more?

I see a bathroom on the right. :D

CCR FTW!
Morganatron
01-12-2006, 01:35
" 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" -Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze :D
Pyotr
01-12-2006, 01:35
"'scuse me, while I kiss this guy"

Teh Hendrix

Edit: Dammit Morganatron!
Rameria
01-12-2006, 01:36
I see a bathroom on the right. :D

CCR FTW!
For the longest time I really thought the lyrics were "there's a bathroom on the right." That's what my dad told me, and in my four year old wisdom I believed him. :p
Morganatron
01-12-2006, 01:38
"'scuse me, while I kiss this guy"

Teh Hendrix

Edit: Dammit Morganatron!

Tee Hee! :D
Unabashed Greed
01-12-2006, 01:41
Ahh another

The Rolling Stones; Start me up: "You take a deed and call"
JuNii
01-12-2006, 01:45
there was a commercial for a Phone that doubles as a MP3 player...

"Rock the Cash Box"
isn't that supposed to be "Stop the Cat Box?"
Swilatia
01-12-2006, 02:27
this (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4478915210983482765)
especially the part:
We don't got no refills
but we have guarantess
i will block your senses
you're on MTV
Carnivorous Lickers
01-12-2006, 02:31
"and cocksucking nights" And it cuts like a knife...Brian Adams

"board this plane" Walk this way Aerosmith


"wrapped up like a douche" blinded by the light
Smunkeeville
01-12-2006, 02:33
"My head smelled just like tuba lube."

what was actually said was

"My hands swelled just like two balloons."


Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb


:p

ah........some people are stupid.
Jello Biafra
01-12-2006, 02:34
"No fuchsia, no fuchsia, no fuchsia for you!"
AB Again
01-12-2006, 02:34
My wife, who is not a native English speaker, managed to turn Hawkwind into a group of tailors. A song of theirs apparently contained the line:

"I've got a sewing machine"
MrWho
01-12-2006, 02:40
Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers

Instead of "Secret Agent Man"

some people think its "Secret Asian Man":)
Chandelier
01-12-2006, 02:41
I didn't exactly mishear the lyrics, but I said them incorrectly, and it was really funny.

I was singing "Tell Me on a Sunday" and I accidentally said "cheese" instead of "trees", so that the line was "Take me to a park that's covered in cheese" instead of "Take me to a park that's covered in trees." :p
Norgopia
01-12-2006, 02:45
AC/DC's Money Talks

Come on, Come on, listen to the mommy dogs.
Ashmoria
01-12-2006, 02:45
hmmm have you ever heard the song "jambalaya" by hank williams?

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have good fun on the bayou

i always thought he had to go take the beatles down the bayou


that "who are you?" song that is the theme for CSI? i cant keep from hearing it as "new orleans boopboop, boopboop"
Soviet Haaregrad
01-12-2006, 03:31
I just discovered the lyrics to Campaign For Emo Destruction, if that counts...

dropping your mic to sing on the floor
that never was or will be hardcore
put on a show for little petty page
phony tears instead of rage
pretend you're sensitive so you get laid
you're a wolf in thrift clothing, they're your prey
spock can't get laid any other way
Hiemria
01-12-2006, 04:21
"All I Want"
as 'son of war'
Jello Biafra
01-12-2006, 04:22
I just discovered the lyrics to Campaign For Emo Destruction, if that counts...

dropping your mic to sing on the floor
that never was or will be hardcore
put on a show for little petty page
phony tears instead of rage
pretend you're sensitive so you get laid
you're a wolf in thrift clothing, they're your prey
spock can't get laid any other wayThese aren't misheard, they're miswritten...lol.
Pyotr
01-12-2006, 04:59
Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers

Instead of "Secret Agent Man"

some people think its "Secret Asian Man":)

That confused me so bad when I was 10,

"mommy, why are Asian men secret?"
Smunkeeville
01-12-2006, 05:28
That confused me so bad when I was 10,

"mommy, why are Asian men secret?"

yeah, when I was about 8 I made up a whole parody based on that, it didn't help my social status any:confused:

I guess that's what I get from listening to Dr. Demento though, parodies abound in my head.
Megaloria
01-12-2006, 05:41
Scare a moose, scare a moose, will you do the fandango?
Hallucinogenic Tonic
01-12-2006, 05:45
Your Song by Elton John

What he said: "Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen."

What I heard: Those are the sweetest guys I've ever seen.
UpwardThrust
01-12-2006, 05:58
AC/DC's Money Talks

Come on, Come on, listen to the mommy dogs.

Dirty deeds and the dunder chief !
Ralina
01-12-2006, 06:09
Your Song by Elton John

What he said: "Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen."

What I heard: Those are the sweetest guys I've ever seen.

Maybe thats what he was THINKING!
Harlesburg
01-12-2006, 06:36
The Beat of the meatball
Beautiful People.~Marilyn Manson
Boonytopia
01-12-2006, 10:46
Dirty deeds and the dunder chief !

That's what I used to think too! :eek:


Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden: I'll never be your big suburban.
Taki o Autahi
01-12-2006, 11:00
Looking Glass-Brandy
But he had always told the truth/Lonnie was an honest man

Brian Setzer Orchestra-Jump, Jive, and Wail
Ya gotta/drunk drive and/then ya bail
Rejistania
01-12-2006, 11:40
MC Sar & the real McCoy - 24h

that song... I have no idea how many idiotic things I interpreted into it... should listen to it again...
Le Franada
01-12-2006, 11:44
One of my friends in high school would sing "Let's pee in the corner, Let's pee in the spotlight" for R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion. I think she realised that those weren't the lyrics. I hope so at least. :D
GumpPong
01-12-2006, 11:56
Metallica-- "Harvester of Sorrow"
Heard as-- "Officer of Sorrow"
Soviet Haaregrad
01-12-2006, 12:44
These aren't misheard, they're miswritten...lol.

Well, on the CD it sounds vaguely like:

"How does a man get to be a pimp?"
RAHHHHRAHHHRAHHHH!!
RAHHHHHhhhhwill be hardcore!
RAHRAHRAHRAHRAHRAH!
RAH-LO-RAH-Lo-RAH!!!
RARRAW-RAHkoolaid!
I takeYARRAWRARRRR!!
RAH-LO-RAH-Lo-RAH!!!
"...he swore that a couple girls I know got very comfortable in that Spazz-mobile."

:D
New Domici
01-12-2006, 12:52
Billy Joel "baby you make the rice and I'll make the gravy." (baby you may be right I may be crazy)
Smunkeeville
13-12-2006, 21:10
totally sorry about posting........you know after this has been at the bottom of the list for a while, but today I was listening to AC/DC and my mom throws this big fit about how she really doesn't think that I should listen to it in front of the kids.

I was listening to Dirty deeds done dirt cheap and she thought they said........

"dirty deeds that are done with sheep"


:p :p

completely different meaning.
PsychoticDan
13-12-2006, 21:11
Blinded by the light.

Wrapped up like a douche another roumor in the night.
Siap
13-12-2006, 21:13
"You can blow your own way..."
-Fleetwood Mac
Maineiacs
13-12-2006, 21:30
"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits--

"We've got to insult microwave ovens,
Custom kitchen deliveries
We've got to moon these refrigerators,
We've got to moon these color TVs"


"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel --

"Children of the little mind"
Poliwanacraca
13-12-2006, 21:31
Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers

Instead of "Secret Agent Man"

some people think its "Secret Asian Man":)

I firmly believed that to be the case when I was a small child, though I wasn't particularly clear on why the fellow in the song didn't want anyone to know what continent he was from. :)



I was listening to Dirty deeds done dirt cheap and she thought they said........

"dirty deeds that are done with sheep"


:p :p

completely different meaning.

There actually exists a parody version of that song titled "Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep." And, yes, it is exactly what you'd expect.
Imperial isa
13-12-2006, 21:31
one of Jimmy Barnes songs
Swilatia
13-12-2006, 22:02
OMG! Zombie Thread!!
Rejistania
13-12-2006, 22:49
"Jamaican in New York" is so often misunderstood: "I'm illegal alien"
[NS]Trilby63
13-12-2006, 22:53
That Macy Gray song.. the one that goes..

"I wear goggles when you are not here.."
Mooseica
13-12-2006, 23:03
For the longest time - well, up until I looked in the little lyris bit inside the case - I could've sworn that the line in 'Otherside' by Chilis, which should be:

'I thought it up and brought up the past'

was:

'I thought an over roared up the path'

But then I am a very strange individual. :)