Misheard lyrics

[Aimee Wilbury]

Has anybody else here ever misheard lyrics? I have.

For example, in American Girl, he goes...
"Like the waves crashing on the beach."
I kept hearing it as:
Microwaves crashing on the beach.
:eek::eek::eek:

Here's a good site of them. I linked to the search results. because they go under several names...
http://www.amiright.com/artists/search/search.php?input01=Tom+Petty&SearchTerms=2&Start=0

[Mary Jane 49]

Golden Earring ---Radar love

The real lyrics were:

It's a half past four and I'm shifting gears

But I misheard them as:

It's a half-assed Ford and I'm shifing gears

[AndreaM]

Well, the only one I can think of right now is when the TPATH album Southern Accents came out. One of the first songs I loved off that album was 'Spike'. I thought it was great, the way he sang it, the lyrics, the music, everything. There was one small problem: I could NOT figure out the lyrics near the end of the song, and it drove me crazy! I remember actually listening to the song on headphones (it was an LP record) trying to figure out the words, and I also wrote down lines and lines of what I thought the lyrics were, but I knew they weren't, i.e., "I might need me a dust-colored tool box!" I just could not figure out what he was saying there, until a year later, when the 'Pack Up The Plantation' live album came out, and TPATH released a few singles from it. If I recall correctly, a live version of 'Spike' was the B-side to 'Needles and Pins', which went absolutely nowhere on the radio singles chart. I know either Stevie or Tom actually kinda mucks up the words in that one in one section, and I thought it was a pretty lazy effort at having them duet again, but whatever . . . The B-side live version of 'Spike' was absolutely phenomenal! I think they even have the f- word in that one. And Tom BARKS! And HOWLS!:077: And best of all, I finally found out what that elusive line was: "I might need me a dog collar too, boy." It's no wonder that I've always been a cat person! If I'd been a dog person, I'd probably have had that line figured out the first day!

[EpiphanyDH]

^^^ Seeing Tom do Spike live on the Plantation tape is still one of my all time favorite performances by him. "I might need me a dog collar too, boy." OH my God...

WOOF indeed. LOL! :003:

[Mary Jane 49]

"I might need me a dust-colored tool box! http://www.websmileys.com/sm/happy/1204.gif

[agirl]

^^ lol lol

[Lindorie]

In 'Kings Highway' (...)left for us to believe sounds like Polish word. ;)

[Wildflower]

^^^ Seeing Tom do Spike live on the Plantation tape is still one of my all time favorite performances by him. "I might need me a dog collar too, boy." OH my God...

WOOF indeed. LOL! :003:
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[Wildflower]

Has anybody else here ever misheard lyrics? I have.

For example, in American Girl, he goes...
"Like the waves crashing on the beach."
I kept hearing it as:
Microwaves crashing on the beach.
:eek::eek::eek:



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[Aimee Wilbury]

Yeah, I had a picture in my head of a bunch of microwave ovens falling from the sky onto a beach and breaking.

[Wildflower]

Oh, Aimeeeeeee!!!!!http://planetsmilies.net/happy-smiley-620.gif (http://planetsmilies.net)

[AndreaM]

Oh, I thought of another one, today. This isn't really a misheard lyric . . . I mean, the word, the song, is 'Breakdown'. But I've been working for the U.S. Postal Service for WAY too long (20 YEARS), and there's this place in New Jersey called . . . Brick Town! And I swear, I can't hear that song anymore without hearing him say that!:095:

[MJ§LastDance]

Oh, there are so many words I get wrong... I hear words which don´t even exist... if you heard me singing some of their songs, you would laugh at me...:icon_neutral: lol
Before I was going to this site, I even thought it is Mudcrotch! :icon_laugh:

[Aimee Wilbury]

Even though I know the real lyrics, I can't help but hearing the song Refugee as:

"Don't have to live like you wrecked your jeans."

;)

EDIT:

Mom is singing it as "I walk back down"!!! What the heck!

[jessepop]

and you just can't imagine how hard it is for a french guy !

[Wildflower]

I´m always waiting for someone who can figur out all the words from "Wild eyes"......:rolleyes:

[Ladywiz]

The first time I heard the Wildflowers album I thought Tom was singing, "Cabin Down the Road."

[wildgator]

I think I remember Tom admitting that he needs to enunciate sometimes! LOL!

[Aimee Wilbury]

Me and my friend have been listening to Depot Street, she noticed something....There is another language I think, just before he goes "She's my baby, she's my girl." I can't find it on any lyrics site.

Anyone know what it is and what it means? LOL thanks.

[Barnburner]

I think I saw in some collection of misheard lyrics that some people heard "Running down a dream" as "Running down a drain".

From my own experience, I thought for years that the line in the second verse of American Girl was "That old Ford forty-one". It's only in the past couple years that I found out it was "Out on four-forty-one"...

[Aimee Wilbury]

You know what's worse? I thought it was "Be-bop-a-lula" or something similar. (I sometimes have trouble understanding human speech)

[MJ§LastDance]

Ok, maybe it´s just my dirty mind, but I always understand:
"I guess somebody else has knocked upon your door
See somebody elses sex line on your floor" instead of "socks lying"... I swear he´s saying that! :p
But I don´t know what he means by that!? :017: :icon_lol:

[Aimee Wilbury]

Here's a couple of Wilburys lyrics I've misheard. ;) This is embarrassing to post!

"Handle With Care"
Misheard Lyrics:
I've been f***ed up and I've been fooled.
Original Lyrics:
I've been fobbed off and I've been fooled.

"If You Belonged To Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
You look so sad
You're going so mad
Can a fruitcake see?
Original Lyrics:
You look so sad
You're going so mad
Any fool can see.

"She's My Baby"
Misheard Lyrics:
She can build a boat
But she can't make it float.
Original Lyrics:
She can build a boat
She can make it float.

"End Of The Line"
Misheard Lyrics:
Every day is just one day
Original Lyrics:
Every day is Judgment Day

;) Here's a few other funny ones.

"End Of The Line"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well it's all right
Even if they see your thong.
Original Lyrics:
Well it's all right
Even if they say you're wrong.

"Handle With Care"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I wee with care.
Original Lyrics:
Handle me with care.

[Mary Jane 49]

My son just told me that he thaught Runnin Down A Dream was Running Out Of Drink LOL

[MJ§LastDance]

"Handle With Care"
Misheard Lyrics:
I've been f***ed up and I've been fooled.
Original Lyrics:
I've been fobbed off and I've been fooled.

Haha, I understood exactly the same! :D

[Aimee Wilbury]

I once saw those lyrics on a guitar chord sheet. I was looking it up for a friend.

[Wildflower]

Haha, I understood exactly the same! :D

Me too.....:003:

[Wildflower]

First times I´ve heard "End of the line" I understood: "And it´s alright riding along in Ostfriesland......." - which is a landscape in Lower Saxonie / Germany where we were going for holyday that time.....:icon_lol::rolleyes:

[Marleen]

Down South - "Impress All the Women, Pretend I'm Samuel Clemens, Wear seersucker and white linens..." .. I know all about that creased fabric but I still thought he was going on about looking like a sucker in white linens (TP seems to wear blue jeans only and some gym shoes (not sur how you call those bi-colour laced ones)... I have never ever seen any picture with him in white)... sometimes my brain leads me too far ....!

[Wildflower]

I have never ever seen any picture with him in white)... ....!

I have! But I don´t know where. I will looking for it

[Wildflower]

What´s about that one? It´s MJ´s "wedding photo":003:
http://www.mudcrutch.com/photos/data/506/medium/kurzvorderhochzeitrl9.jpg

[Marleen]

Cute.. very elegant indeed... What's that look saying ? "Are we done with these pictures ?" Thanks Wildflower

[MJ§LastDance]

What´s about that one? It´s MJ´s "wedding photo":003:
http://www.mudcrutch.com/photos/data/506/medium/kurzvorderhochzeitrl9.jpg


OMG, lol, I even called that picture "Kurz vor der Hochzeit" http://bildrian.com/n/b/f49031c7e54561e6.gif :icon_lol:
Oh my dear God, he looks so HOT in WHITE!!! :118:
Oh yeah, what a great wedding day and night that was! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :o


Here it is in bigger & better quality:


http://bildrian.com/n/b/8e13d8c275d644ff.jpg

[MJ§LastDance]

What's that look saying ? "Are we done with these pictures ?"

Yes, he couldn´t wait to get married with me! :045:

[Wildflower]

OMG, lol, I even called that picture "Kurz vor der Hochzeit" http://bildrian.com/n/b/f49031c7e54561e6.gif :icon_lol:



Here it is in bigger & better quality:




And as a precaution you haven´t titled it, right?......:rolleyes::003:

[Aimee Wilbury]

When I first heard Jammin' Me, I was wondering why they were going on about tow trucks in Iran. LOL.

"Take back your Iranian tow truck" :eek:

[Orphan_of_the_storm]

You took my breath away - since 1990 i always heard:

'You took this song of mine,
and changed a little bit'

since last year it sounds to me like:

'You took this song of mine
and changed the middle bit'

still don't know whats right or wrong,
because the lp don't carry any words an it's sleeve.

[Beamish]

I always thought Jimi Hendrix was saying "excuse me while I kiss this fly"...

[nurktwin]

^LOL. i guess i was like john lennon growing up and made up my own words when i didn't know the real ones. for a while i sang 'superbulous skies' on 'penny lane' instead of 'suburban skies'......lol.

[MaryJane]

On George Harrison's Dream Away...
I always used to sing
"Oreo cookie...oreo cookie...oreo and kitty cat..."
when it was something like
"Or-rye-in-eye-a....Or rye in eye a...or eye in ah kee oo lay..."

and theres another part where I swore he was saying 'Barbasol..."

[Succatash]

There is a truly wonderful song by Del Amitri called "Driving With the Brakes On", its about a couple who have just opted to have an abortion and are dealing with the emotional aftermath. There's a line that says 'Drivin thru the long night/ Trying to figure out who's right and who's wrong/ Now the kid has gone...'

:rolleyes: Until I read the liner notes, I thought he was saying 'Now the cat has gone.'

Clueless Succatash!

[heartbreakergirl]

Me and my friend have been listening to Depot Street, she noticed something....There is another language I think, just before he goes "She's my baby, she's my girl." I can't find it on any lyrics site.

Anyone know what it is and what it means? LOL thanks.


*waves* I haven't exactly read the rest of this, so it might be answered, but.
I think he says
"Can't get 'em cuter"
but like.......kinda stuttering like
"c-c-can't":rolleyes:
like that took me forever as well, so I know how you feel ^^

[heartbreakergirl]

oh.
well.
My worst one would be "I Need To Know!"
lol.
Even my mum knew that before I did......

ok, heres what I thoughgt It said,

"A good friend of mine says your leaving,
baby, don't"

(skip the bits I got right)

"'Cause I don't know how to love,
I can't hold on."

I thought it was that for ages...
then theres Too Much Ain't enough. (the only reason I know is 'cos im reading the lyrics.

"And ever since I founds you there"
And I still sing it like that.
Who knew it was "And ever since that bathroom scene." (not me)
AND.
"Little miss queen who thought she was straight,
stay away,
why you wanna stay so vague."

I could find lodes. But i cant find any massive mistakes yet... ( I made the Handle With Care one as well :D )
They seem to all be on "You're Gonna Get It" at the moment".
For example "no second thoughs"
instead of "Dreams fade" I sang "Jeans fade"
oh and "Hard Promises" I know I make mistakes on that.
I might put a part 2 up ^^

[orngebunny]

i used to think he say "Baby gained weight" in hometown blues but then i realized he was not saying that

[Softanimal]

Alcazar - " Crying at the Discoteque " :
I thought they song " You are a tie like Richard Gere ."
But it was " Wore a tie. "

[EPettyhead]

American Girl: instead of "And if she had to die trying, she..."
I used to hear "...And if she had to try drying sheep...". thinking perhaps she was on a farm somewhere.

[poppiesgal]

CCR - Bad Moon Rising - "there's a bathroom on the right" - correct lyrics being "there's a bad moon on the rise".

My great nieces and nephews (ages 3 to 7) LOVE that song - they get the biggest kick out of the wrong lyrics and I refuse to correct them. What is it with little ones and even the mere mention of a potty? This little crew just laughs up a storm - and I LOVE that sound! :heart::icon_laugh::icon_laugh::icon_laugh::icon_l augh::heart:

[agirl]

^ :icon_laugh: That's cute.

[Beamish]

When I heard "One Headlight" for the first time, I swore it sounded like Jakob was singing "Juan's headlice".

[Softanimal]

I heard " Man on the Moon " by R.E.M on the radio.

They sang " Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp ", and to me it sounded like :
" Each of them was troubled by the horrible ass "...