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re: Misheard Lyrics in Popular Songs

Posted on 1/21/19 at 11:58 am to
Posted by CAD703X
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 11:58 am to
And its FINNNNGER FUUUUUCKING
24 hour shoooooooopping

raaaapture...
Posted by cj35
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 12:43 pm to
quote:

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night.
Posted by wareaglepete
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Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 4:36 pm to
Gay people play, you take it or you leave it
Gay people play, in the middle of the night.

After the poison, summer has gone.
Posted by tarzana
TX Hwy 6-- the Brazos River Valley
Member since Sep 2015
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:01 pm to
It seems like Elton John songs are carrying the day!
Posted by tarzana
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Member since Sep 2015
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:05 pm to
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Desmond Dekker-The Israelites

Is that the one that starts out, "get up in the morning, same thing for breakfast"?
Posted by Dandy Lion
Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 10:01 pm to
Ooooooooooooooo, the Canaanites!











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Posted by Burlee
Memphis, TN
Member since Aug 2006
7324 posts
Posted on 1/22/19 at 9:07 am to
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Yellow Ledbetter. The whole song.



Yep. This video is old but it has always cracked me up - YelLow Ledbetter - Misheard Lyrics
Posted by MountainTiger
The foot of Mt. Belzoni
Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 11:18 am to
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Yep. This video is old but it has always cracked me up - YelLow Ledbetter - Misheard Lyrics

In the same vein. Joe Cocker - With a Little Help from My Friends
Posted by awestruck
Member since Jan 2015
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Posted on 1/22/19 at 8:50 pm to
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Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night.



yep

And in Country Road (James Taylor)

.."don't know nothing about wild wind blowin"
instead of ' don't know nothing 'bout the why or when but"
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 1/23/19 at 7:22 am to
When she was a kid, my wife used to think that they were saying, "too much dye on my hair" instead of "too much time on my hands".


Her friend used to think the lyrics of The Wall were, "The Dukes of Hazard in the classroom"


You can't make this stuff up.
Posted by randybobandy
NOLA
Member since Mar 2015
2112 posts
Posted on 1/24/19 at 9:41 am to
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A woman I know thought "Beast of Burden" was "Big Suburban."


I thought it was " I'll never be your pizza burnin'"
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 1/24/19 at 1:39 pm to
"A girl with colitis goes by"

Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Posted by link
Member since Feb 2009
19945 posts
Posted on 1/24/19 at 5:22 pm to
oasis - wonderwall

Liam actually has such a clear, distinct voice and enunciates so well that it's almost impossible to misunderstand him
Posted by rolltide32
Fort Payne, AL
Member since Nov 2013
6783 posts
Posted on 1/24/19 at 5:58 pm to
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I never could tell that he was saying “guy in shades.” I just kind of mumbled that part. Finally looked up the lyrics and it was to damn obvious with the song title.


It could just as easily be guy who shaves his mole instead of guy in shades oh no based on how his mumbling sounds
Posted by LuckySo-n-So
Member since Jul 2005
22639 posts
Posted on 1/24/19 at 7:13 pm to
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On highway to Hell I always thought they were saying, “She’s a n***** on a one night ride.”


In the same vein, but a little back story:

It was 1971/2, I was just a little fart knocker, barely out of diapers. Racism was a lot more out in the open back then, so I heard the N-bomb everywhere, especially from the older kids (6-7-8 years old...some older).

My favorite TV show was Sesame Street. It was every day appointment viewing. It was also probably the only show on TV that featured black people as "normal" everyday people. The kids, the grownups, etc. SO, when the song would play my little 4-year-old arse would be singing (at the top of my lungs):

Sunny Day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get?
How to get to Sesame Street

Come and play
Everything's A-OK
Friendly N*****S there
That's where we meet
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street

It made sense to me because that's what blacks were called by all the other kids. My parents never used it and told me to NEVER say it to a black person, but my 4 year old brain couldn't understand why the older kids said it and it was OK. Therefore, it must have been ok.

Imagine my kindergarten teacher's shock when, the first time she turned on Sesame Street for us, I started to sing "Friendly N****** there..."

That's when I learned the word was "neighbors".

OOPS.

Posted by 88Wildcat
Topeka, Ks
Member since Jul 2017
16984 posts
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:41 am to
Love Her Madly-The Doors

Seven horses seem to be under mud.
Posted by AlxTgr
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Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 1/25/19 at 9:13 am to
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don't know nothing about wild wind blowin
Wait, it's not this?
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 1/25/19 at 3:04 pm to
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"A girl with colitis goes by"

Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds



I thought that was what they were saying too, as a kid.
Posted by Tiger4Liberty
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2015
2437 posts
Posted on 1/25/19 at 11:59 pm to
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Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night.




Funny Sketch about this
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87347 posts
Posted on 1/29/19 at 1:45 pm to
So, Killer Queen. Been liking this song for forever. I can't really say misheard, because I simply had no idea, until I just looked it up, what the hell half of the lyrics were at all. I'll highlight what i did not know:

She keeps her Moet et Chandon(Thought Mohair was involved)
In her pretty cabinet
"Let them eat cake"(Quick little cakes), she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can't decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice
She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatin(thought a guillotine was in here somewhere)
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from China
Went down to Geisha Minah
Then again incidentally
If you're that way inclined

Perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally)
For cars she couldn't care less
Fastidious and precise
She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatin
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Drop of a hat she's as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild
She's all out to get you
She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatin
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try
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