1.) You'll say anything to a butterfly (If this is It)
2.) I wanna new drug, wetherwall made me sick
3.) They say the heart of rock and roll is forbidden
I guess I can make another Louie Louie reference today...
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I wondered why you didn't hear more about Ian Curtis being gay.
― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
the stones, of course
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Thursday, 28 September 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Sunday, 8 October 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Poor guy.
― musically (musically), Friday, 3 November 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
As cited in Mojo as one of the best lyrics of all time!
(I hear "I look ill but...")
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Misheard Lyrics:I'm in love with excremental torture.Original Lyrics:I'm in love with extreme mental torture.
Story about this misheard lyric by: Steveritt
A rock journalist in the UK went to press with these misheard lyrics.
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scorpion Tea (Dick Butkus), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Not a misheard lyric per se, but for the longest time I refused to believe that Morrissey was actually singing, "No, I'm gonna kill my dog" on "Unhappy Birthday." And for the life of me I still cannot figure out how that has anything to do with the rest of the song.
And there is a line in "Summer's Last Sound" by Disco Inferno that I always hear as "..Which would tell you if you'll spend the next few years/Free from Laffy Taffy petrol bongs."
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
It's black humor, obviously:
Loved and lostAnd some may sayWhen usually it's NothingSurely you're happyIt should be this way ?I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog"
Like when you're in a bad mood and someone says, "How many dogs did you kick on your way to school today?"
― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
"Three lions on a shirt, jewels remain still gleaming"
!!!!
― musically (musically), Friday, 12 January 2007 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link
What I heard: "I trust the boys in the government".
Real lyrics: "I trust the police and the government".
― GLC (ZakAce), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Luke Slater (Alan Bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
i like my version much more!
― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
We then realised they're singing "there's a conflicting sound". I liked the other version better.
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Great tune either way, though. The Faint are face-rockingly awesome.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
i always wondered what tom did to piss them off.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link
i thought of another one
ben harper's 'diamonds on the inside'
"she was a horrible liar"
for ages i was hearing "she was a whore and a liar"
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
NIN, Hurt - not misheard but I prefer to sing it this way:
"What have I become, my Swedish friend?"
― ledge, Thursday, 12 July 2007 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm surprised no one's mentioned it upthread, but Radiohead's "No surprises" had my brother fooled for a while, doubting the merits of the song:
"such a pretty ass / on such a pretty girl"
when my bro criticized this, my brother-in-law responded "well maybe he's just calling it like he sees it"
― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
As a teen one of my friends had "Dreadlock Holiday" (you know, the one that goes "I don't like reggae / I love it") on tape, and after we'd listened to it about a kazillion times, another friend said, "You know, this is a great tune, but why does the singer say he doesn't like cricket?". Holy god did we laugh!
-- Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:22 (1 year ago) Link
He does actually sing "I don't like cricket". One of the most popular sports in the West Indies is cricket, so it makes sense.
― Chriddof, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Mark Clemente, Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
I could never figure out if tired_nhappy in the liner notes meant tired AND happy or tired/unhappy. hmm?
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
"I miss my little Danish friend" :' (
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
(I looked around pretty hard for a picture of Mustaine. The emoticon above will have to suffice.)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
lol I thought I was the only who sang it that way. It's even better on the Cash cover. Also, I always picture him singing it to the sSwedish chef from the muppets.
― l, Thursday, 12 July 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
that scene with mustaine is one of the most surreal things i've seen on screen the guy recalls 1982 like it was a week ago
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 July 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Just realised that James Carr is not singing 'Sugarplums all dancing in my mind/ everyday you whip me it feels like valentines' in You Got my Mind Messed Up.... (it's 'everyday you're with me')
― sonofstan, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
My brother thought Billy Jo was saying "sell doughnuts at my door" on 'When I Come Around'.
This girl insisted that the lyrics to Positive K's "I Got a Man" were "I'm not tryin to head out sea", and claimed it was a 'metaphor'.
one of my friends in middle school thought James Hetfield was saying "to constipate his grace" in Metallica's 'Unforgiven'
Someone on Internet Relay chat thought the chorus to "The Real Slim Shady" went "I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the Real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are justin my teddy".
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and this foreign guy who spoke broken english on IRC was convinced that the chorus to Metallica's 'One' went "Hold my breathless, I wish go dead"
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
british nobodies freerunner have a song called 'friday don't need it' and it sounds exactly like "fried egg, don't eat it" which amuses me somewhat
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
vegan anthem
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
my brother used to think one of the lyrics on Shaquille O'neals debut was "Rhymin is like poopin, I'm already a legend"...
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I knew someone who thought it was "Oh, my breath is Irish for death".
― chap, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
that just made me lol
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh my breath is Irish for death....Oh please Zod spank me.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Split Enz 'I See Red'
hurt my penis walking down the street I see red I see red I see red
Still no idea what the actual lyric is.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i always used to hear the Big L line "you see what happened in my last fight friend?/aight then" as "you see what happened to my last white friend/ aight then"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
just mis-heard again today, as I have forever, the Hollies "Bus Stop"
"By all goods she was mine" (instead of) by August she was mine.
― Soren Kierkegaard Existential Light Orchestra, Thursday, 3 January 2008 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
can't believe that i am the 1st to mention this one (b/c i'm not the only one whose misheard this song), but anyway:
the cocteau twins, "sugar hiccup on cheerios"
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link