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Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:50 am
by JAS
Have you ever misheard a song's lyrics...in the way that Whoopi Goldberg does with the Rolling Stones in the film Jumping Jack Flash?

I've heard Empire State of Mind played on the radio quite a bit and I was convinced that instead of 'concrete jungle where dreams are made of' Alicia Keys was singing 'concrete jungle wet dreams and mayo' :roll: #-o

See if you think so too :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm61weFrK4c

Anyone else want to fess up to mishearing any lyrics???

Regards
JAS

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:10 am
by Pseudo

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:42 am
by JK

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:55 am
by JK
And then of course there's Samuel L Jacksons effort in The Long Kiss Goodnight :D

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:02 am
by JAS
I had thought it might be interesting if you'd managed to come up with your own examples...oh well so much for that idea :lol:

Regards
JAS

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:42 am
by Wedgie
My workmates son thought Bon Jovis hit was Living on a Chair until recently.

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:44 am
by CK
Until recently, someone I know thought that America had ridden through the desert on a horse with no mane.

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:06 am
by Ian
I can remember when "Rock the Casbah" was released I thought they were singing "F*** the Casbah"

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:42 am
by Q.
"Cheap wine and a three leg-ged goat"

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:27 am
by TEX07
When i was younger i was singing the song Gloria and when i should be singing "Gloria, G-L-O-R-I-A" i was singing "Gloria, seeing the one i am"

Another one i would sing was Princes Rasberry Beret, i thought he was singing "Last miricle wave"

Both times i sang this someone pulled me up and asked me to repeat! I then said nothing! :oops:

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:31 am
by maxyoz
Ian wrote:I can remember when "Rock the Casbah" was released I thought they were singing "F*** the Casbah"


Along a very similar line, Ian, I thought it was "F*** the cats @ss" and thought it seemed a bit strange.

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:30 pm
by zipzap
I'm sure I make up half the words to songs I sing along to at top volume. I was bopping along to the Stone Roses the other night, quite conscious of the fact that I was 'singing' complete gibberish to I Am the Resurrection. Didn't matter though. Made doing the dishes a whole lot faster :)

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Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:31 pm
by zipzap
Ian wrote:I can remember when "Rock the Casbah" was released I thought they were singing "F*** the Casbah"


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Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:46 pm
by brod
I was sure that Eskimo Joe didnt "understand the point of fingers" in Straight Down

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:04 am
by smithy
Surely we've all mistaken this song at least once.

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Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:20 am
by Pseudo
smithy wrote:Surely we've all mistaken this song at least once.

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"Better watch out for the skimmed bee" :lol:

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:06 pm
by fisho mcspaz
"There goes my hero, he's old and hairy" ;)

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:16 pm
by A Mum
For years I thought cold chisel was singing...

"The last train out of Sydney's almost gone"

Then one day it clicked that they were 'landing' in Hong Kong - :oops: :oops:

LOL :lol:

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:55 pm
by fisho mcspaz
When I was in Year 8 we went on a school camp and for some reason one of the girls had brought a Natalie Imbruglia CD along, and they all insisted on singing along with 'Torn'. I didn't like that song then and I don't like it now and I didn't know all of the words, but because it was Year 8 and I was still getting used to high school I thought I'd better at least pretend to sing it. Bitches knew straight away I didn't know the words so they all stopped at once and there was me mumbling gibberish. :oops: In the end I had to be honest though and tell them that Natalie Imbruglia sucked.

Re: Misheard lyrics

PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:36 pm
by gadj1976
smithy wrote:Surely we've all mistaken this song at least once.

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Guilty as charged your honour. Although my missus, who's not an officianado on matters as such mentioned said I was 'taking the pi$$' when I said it was Skin Deep. Took me ages to convince her that it was Skin Deep and since has questioned whether I've somehow influenced all internet users to persuade them to believe that it's Skin Deep. "what does that mean" she keeps saying.... WHO CARES!!!!

Anyway, the two oft heard mislyrics of mine are "alex the seal" (our lips are sealed, the Go Go's) and "where's my asian friend" (what's my age again, Blink 182).