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Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:04pm
by Wolter
A few lines I've personally misheard in songs (and one from a friend in high school that I found hilarious):

My hearing: "Don't masquerade in the dying shades of love"
Real Lyric: "Don't masquerade with the guy in shades, oh no."
- Corey Hart, "Sunglasses At Night" (I like mine better)

My hearing: "It's time to be Jamaicans"
Real Lyric: "It's time to meet your makers"
- Fugazi, "Latin Roots"

My friend's hearing: "Gangway, Street Slave! I'll never behave!"
Real Lyric: "Langauge keeps me locked and repeating"
- Fugazi, "Stacks" (always cracks me up)

My hearing: "Lately one or two fully blooded Jews have been working for the Clampdown."
Real Lyric: "Lately one or two have fully paid their dues for working for the Clampdown."
- What do you think?

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:07pm
by eumaas
"Lately one or two fully blooded Jews have been working for the Clampdown."
Well, that lyric is flatly impossible...

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:07pm
by rcs
Wolter wrote:My hearing: "Lately one or two fully blooded Jews have been working for the Clampdown."
Real Lyric: "Lately one or two have fully paid their dues for working for the Clampdown."
- What do you think?
because of you, i always hear "blooded jews"... you bastard

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:09pm
by Heston
My hearing: A year has passed since I broke my nose.
Real lyric: A year has passed since I wrote my note.

Message In A Bottle - The Police

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:09pm
by Wolter
Heston wrote:My hearing: A year has passed since I broke my nose.
Real lyric: A year has passed since I wrote my note.

Message In A Bottle - The Police
I'd be willing to break Sting's nose if it will help.

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:10pm
by tepista
eumaas wrote:
"Lately one or two fully blooded Jews have been working for the Clampdown."
Well, that lyric is flatly impossible...
We can watch him make it on the nine o'clock news
Standing there in Palestine fighting the jews

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:11pm
by eumaas
tepista wrote:
eumaas wrote:
"Lately one or two fully blooded Jews have been working for the Clampdown."
Well, that lyric is flatly impossible...
We can watch him make it on the nine o'clock news
Standing there in Palestine fighting the jews
Listen, Brits don't see Jews.

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:11pm
by Wolter
Related note: I used to think the following musical titles were correct (as a child):

"The Best Little Warehouse in Texas"
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamboat."

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:14pm
by Heston
My hearing: "Oh, a funny hat!"
Real lyric: "Oh what fun we had."

Baggy Trousers - Madness

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:20pm
by Wolter
Heston wrote:My hearing: "Oh, a funny hat!"
Real lyric: "Oh what fun we had."

Baggy Trousers - Madness
That one made me chuckle. I'll probably hear that from now on.

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:22pm
by Heston
Wolter wrote:
Heston wrote:My hearing: "Oh, a funny hat!"
Real lyric: "Oh what fun we had."

Baggy Trousers - Madness
That one made me chuckle. I'll probably hear that from now on.
What, you chuckling instead of the lyric?

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:23pm
by Wolter
Heston wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Heston wrote:My hearing: "Oh, a funny hat!"
Real lyric: "Oh what fun we had."

Baggy Trousers - Madness
That one made me chuckle. I'll probably hear that from now on.
What, you chuckling instead of the lyric?
Maybe.

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:24pm
by eumaas
Heston wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Heston wrote:My hearing: "Oh, a funny hat!"
Real lyric: "Oh what fun we had."

Baggy Trousers - Madness
That one made me chuckle. I'll probably hear that from now on.
What, you chuckling instead of the lyric?
Why do I always feel like Moe when you're going all Curly at Larry over there?

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:29pm
by Silent Majority
Midnight to six man
For the first time from Jamaica
Villager and a Lee Right Smart
Do Right Wilson, a cool operator

Camp boots a UK pop reggae
With backing fine sound systems
And if they've got anything to say
There's many blacks in television

My body was fucked up so nice with uncool stage fright
Dancing from the bass line to the trouble
But onstage they ain't got no roots rock rhythm
Onstage they ain't got no...roots rock hello-ooooo

Vespa, vespa. This is a booby in a tank
'Cos it won't get you anywhere
Fooling with the cunts
The British Army is waiting out there
An' it weighs fifteen hundred tons

Re: Misheard Lyrics

Posted: 08 Apr 2010, 4:31pm
by eumaas
I know the proper lyric, but it always sounds like UK pop brigade and blues rock rebel to me.