Misheard Song Lyrics

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Gardens35

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22 Hilariously Misheard Song Lyrics That Are Better Than The Originals

It's not always easy to figure out what the singers of your favorite songs are actually saying. Case in point: these hilariously misheard song lyrics.
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From the home front, My wife and her girlfriends STILL hear the Chorus from Steve Miller's JETLINER not as "Big Ol' jet airliner...don't carry me too far away, Big ol' jet airliner...cause it's here that I've got to stay", BUT as "Big ol' Jam at the Lighthouse..don't carry me too far away, Big ol' Jam at the Lighthouse...cause it's here that I've got to stay".

Yep. They're Jammin at the Lighthouse.
 
 
Gardens35 said:
Some funny stuff here:

www.liveabout.com

22 Hilariously Misheard Song Lyrics That Are Better Than The Originals

It's not always easy to figure out what the singers of your favorite songs are actually saying. Case in point: these hilariously misheard song lyrics.
www.liveabout.com www.liveabout.com



From the home front, My wife and her girlfriends STILL hear the Chorus from Steve Miller's JETLINER not as "Big Ol' jet airliner...don't carry me too far away, Big ol' jet airliner...cause it's here that I've got to stay", BUT as "Big ol' Jam at the Lighthouse..don't carry me too far away, Big ol' Jam at the Lighthouse...cause it's here that I've got to stay".

Yep. They're Jammin at the Lighthouse.
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I thought that song was "big ol' jed and Lionel". Lol
 
Lousy list the easy #1 is missing, Blinded by the Light. Especially the Manfred Man version when they punch the misheard lyric multiple times to start the tune>

What everyone hears:
Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche when you're rollin’ in the night

The actual lyric:
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

 
I'm terrible with song lyrics. Most songs sound to me like the Charlie Brown teacher is singing them. Amazingly, all those lyrics in the article I never misheard (at least the one's that I knew, which was most).

For me, some of my more memorable misheard lyrics were:

"Our lips are sealed" (Go-Go's) - I heard "Honest I'll see you"
"Dark sarcasm in the classroom" (Pink Floyd) - I heard "Dogs of hazzard in the classroom"

I'll add to this as songs come up. Youtube with Closed-Captioning has been an eye opener for me.
 
Mondegreens!

Yappi said:
I'm terrible with song lyrics. Most songs sound to me like the Charlie Brown teacher is singing them.
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Right there with you. All I can say is, thank goodness for Google and those song lyric websites. I am the worst interpreter of lyrics ever. I suspect my brain processes songs differently, because all my friends would know instantly what the right words were. Here are a few examples:

Our lips are sealed - honest Lucille
She's got Bette Davis eyes - she's got better days aside
Big Old Jet Airliner - big hotel Carolina
ELO's Don't bring me down, promise - don't bring me down, Bruce
 
I always thought it was "Bruce". Really wondered what Bruce had done to him all these years.

Just did a little reading on it and apparently the word is "groos" - a made up word by ELO. Many also thought he was saying Bruce.

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Yappi said:
Just did a little reading on it and apparently the word is "groos" - a made up word by ELO. Many also thought he was saying Bruce.
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Wow. So many of my friends told me it was "promise", and I just accepted it.
 
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Yappi said:
I'm terrible with song lyrics. Most songs sound to me like the Charlie Brown teacher is singing them. Amazingly, all those lyrics in the article I never misheard (at least the one's that I knew, which was most).
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Me too. Makes me wonder what was wrong with the people who misheard these.
 
Back in High School we listened to a lot of Zepplin. Their song, Going to California, has a line that says, Goin' to California with an achin', in my heart. We changed the words to, Goin' to California with an eight gallon, in my car. It just seemed more fitting at the time.
 
When I went to the Def Leppard and Journey a couple of years ago I wanted to brush up on my DL songs so I went to youtube.
Rock of Ages opening line is : 'Its better to burn out, than fade away" and I always sang as a kid 'its better than a barrel of hounds.......'
 
bruker said:
Back in High School we listened to a lot of Zepplin. Their song, Going to California, has a line that says, Goin' to California with an achin', in my heart. We changed the words to, Goin' to California with an eight gallon, in my car. It just seemed more fitting at the time.
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I was probably even a little less legal than you in high school because I remember saying to a friend...
Way way down inside (the glove box) I gotta whole lotta bud.
 
"Freeze-frame" by J. Geils Band.....many people thought they were saying "replay". I know my sister did when she was belting it out at the bowling alley ? one Saturday evening in 1982.
 
Steely Dan song.... Bodhisattva .... I keep hearing "Sparkling Vagina"

Another one.... "tap devil on the freeze line" I think that is Bruce ...
 
It may be in that link but the most 'famous' one is In-a-gadda-da-vida by Iron butterfly.
Originally was in the Garden of Eden Baby but he slurred his words so much they made it in A Gadda Da Vida.......

Back in the day the first things I did with a new tape or CD was see if they had the lyrics inside!
 
Jumping Jack Flash. Several lyrics that, even to this day, you can mumble whatever words you would like and it sounds right.
 
Yappi said:
I'm terrible with song lyrics. Most songs sound to me like the Charlie Brown teacher is singing them. Amazingly, all those lyrics in the article I never misheard (at least the one's that I knew, which was most).

For me, some of my more memorable misheard lyrics were:

"Our lips are sealed" (Go-Go's) - I heard "Honest I'll see you"
"Dark sarcasm in the classroom" (Pink Floyd) - I heard "Dogs of hazzard in the classroom"

I'll add to this as songs come up. Youtube with Closed-Captioning has been an eye opener for me.
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LMAO@ "Dogs of hazard in the classroom"

*Although that IS an awesome lyric!
 
Louie Louie. I"m sure that this song originally had some obscene lyrics, but the Kingsmen slurred them so much that they became unintelligible.

"The FBI launched an extensive investigation of this song after Indiana governor Matthew Welsh declared it "pornographic" in early 1964 and asked the Indiana Broadcasters Association to ban it. The investigation spanned offices in several states, with technicians listening to the song at different speeds trying to discern any obscene lyrics. None were found; the FBI eventually figured out what happened when they contacted the FCC."

This excerpt is from

 
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Walk on the Wild Side probably wouldn't be released today..........................unless it was a rap song.
 
Gardens35 said:
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Walk on the Wild Side probably wouldn't be released today..........................unless it was a rap song.
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Ya, pretty sure he had the same song cleaned up in a few places for acceptable AM radio play, very quickly after its release.
 
Thank you for creating this thread and saving my sanity. I have bad hearing and figured it must have started in my youth because I just haven't 'heard' lyrics since forever. I thought it was only me. Having said that, I was astonished to learn one day that Redbone's Come and Get Your Love wasn't come and guitar love. ? What an idiot. ?‍♂️
 
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