Misheard song Lyrics

[luvmysuper]

And the last known survivor stocks his bread in the night

Survivor
Eye of the Tiger

 

[luvmysuper]

No Dukes of Hazard in the classroom

Pink Floyd
The Wall

 

[luvmysuper]

Bald-headed woman…
bald-headed woman to me

The Bee Gees
More than a woman

 

[Whisky]

Eddie Vedder told a story at a Pearl Jam concert that when he and Mike Mcready first met, Mike swore the lyrics to the Kiss song was., "I wanna rock n roll all night, and part of every day". Haha

Pearl Jam “Yellow Ledbetter.” Even Vedder has has joked about the lyrics being hard to understand. Even though I know the lyrics every time I hear the song I hear him singing something different. It doesn’t help that he frequently changes the lyrics during live shows.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

Louie, Louie, oh no
***** ** **** *** *********
** **** **** * ***** ***'* *****


Louie Louie
The Kingsmen

 

[Owen Bawn]

Louie, Louie, oh no
***** ** **** *** *********
** **** **** * ***** ***'* *****


Louie Louie
The Kingsmen

How many thousands of hours were spent trying to sort the supposedly filthy lyrics to that song?

 

[Seaotter]

My wife thought the phase “we like sheep” in the Messiah was the great white sheep and then said she didn’t remember any great white sheep in Xmas.

 

[tankerjohn]

Pearl Jam “Yellow Ledbetter.” Even Vedder has has joked about the lyrics being hard to understand. Even though I know the lyrics every time I hear the song I hear him singing something different. It doesn’t help that he frequently changes the lyrics during live shows.

Sometimes I wonder if Eddie actually intented his lyrics to be misheard, or at least infused with alternate interpretations depending how he mumbles... er... sings them. "Everything has chains" sounds like "Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed" in "Corduroy". I kind of like it the second way; it seems to be a more profound statement in that over-earnest 90's sort of way. And because that's how I heard the song for 20 years before I bothered looking up the lyrics on the internet.

 

[emwolf]

"My anus is the centerhole"
Centerfold, J. Geils Band

"She's So Popular"
Games Without Frontiers, Peter Gabriel (in my defense, I found out that line was in French)

"Bring me an iron lung"
Higher Love, Steve Winwood

"And I've made up my mind, I'm eatin' my baby. Gonna eat my baby."
Papa Don't Preach, Cyndi Lauper

"And quiche lorraine forever and ever."
Messiah, GF Handel

 

[Whisky]

Sometimes I wonder if Eddie actually intented his lyrics to be misheard, or at least infused with alternate interpretations depending how he mumbles... er... sings them. "Everything has chains" sounds like "Everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed" in "Corduroy". I kind of like it the second way; it seems to be a more profound statement in that over-earnest 90's sort of way. And because that's how I heard the song for 20 years before I bothered looking up the lyrics on the internet.

I think it was more of a “grunge” style of singing. All of those late 80’s early 90’s grunge bands have at least a few tracks that make you go what did he just say? Or maybe it was the drugs and alcohol. I saw quite a few of these bands come through Austin in the early/mid 90s and I can’t really remember any of them singing very coherently during the shows. Then again the entire shows are a little hazy, so maybe I’m the only one that couldn’t understand them.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

"I call for pizza"


Patsy Cline
I Fall to Pieces

 

[oc_in_fw]

But I'm ready yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my LTD

LTD is actually “my own two feet”. Another One Bites the Dust. I could stand on my 1978 LTD and never dent the sheet metal.

 

[TexLaw]

"And the rockets' wet glare!"

 

[Eben Stone]

I must admit my Spanish is terrible, but when I was a kid I always though it was intentionally Spanish and English...

You stole my dinero.

Los Lobos
La Bamba

 

[jackgoldman123]

I can see clearly now Lorraine is gone

 

[Alacrity59]

You are the Wizard of Oz

Olivia Neutron-Bomb and , John Revolting

(You're the one that I want from the movie Grease)

 

[Owen Bawn]

Listen to this...

 

[luvmysuper]

Listen to this...

Joe Cocker was the best! Love his stuff even if he could be cryptic!

 

[Neilzebub]

"Sweet dreams are made of cheese,
who am I to diss a brie..."

 

[luvmysuper]

"Sweet dreams are made of cheese,
who am I to diss a brie..."

I traveled the world and the cheddar cheese,
everybody's looking for stilton