― Jay K (Jay K), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 19 December 2002 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Count Violence, Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
...not that THAT makes any sense either
I was just thinking about this earlier, about how sometimes what you think the lyrics are is sometimes better than the actual lyrics, like I thought this System of a Down lyric: "pushing little children/with their fully-automatics" was "pushing little children/with the folly of their madness".
Um, yeah.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 19 December 2002 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
ahahahahahahahahahaha
― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 19 December 2002 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
And I still can't figure out the lyrics of 'Remember Me' by Blue Boy. Is it "I'm the one who hurt you, baby, aight", "I'm the one who had your baby's sight"or "I'm the whore who hurt your baby's eye"?
― jot eff pe, Thursday, 19 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― man, Friday, 20 December 2002 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Every picture tells a story, Tony. Every picture tells a story, Tony.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 December 2002 00:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ferg (Ferg), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
aaliyah's we need a resolution
"snoop video, looks at the ceiling"(really: stupid yo? looks are deceiving)
― minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
* "Microphone Fiend:" I thought Rakim was describing his love of rapping as "sort of an addiction/magnetized like Nixon." Hmm, I thought, clever allusion to Watergate. It turns out he was saying "magnified by the mixing." Honestly, I prefer the former.
* "Whip It:" "Go forward! Move ahead! Run to the taxi! It's not too late!" That one isn't mine, but I like it all the same.
* "Goodbye Stranger:" "to Rabbi Josen/every day." It was actually "is the life I've chosen/every day."
* The Cars' "Bye Bye Love:" "Substitution asked Confucius, 'What's inside your head?'" It was actually "Substitution, mass confusion, clouds inside your head."
* speaking of The Cars: "Let's Go" takes on a more sinister tone when you think Ric Ocasek's singing "she never liked the Jews." (Again, not mine, but I've never heard it the same way!)
― mike a (mike a), Friday, 20 December 2002 02:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jot eff pe, Friday, 20 December 2002 10:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
La Isla Bonita
― Rick, Friday, 20 December 2002 11:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 20 December 2002 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
I believe that was Maxell tapes (before they got Pete Murphy looking windswept).
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 December 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rick, Friday, 20 December 2002 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― meg, Friday, 20 December 2002 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― minna (minna), Friday, 20 December 2002 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
"I like juice and that's the truth!!"
― original bgm, Friday, 20 December 2002 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 23 December 2002 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― phil-two, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 10:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Darren, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
anyone, my all-timer -- when i was a little kid, i used to think that the buggles' "video killed the radio star" was "vinnie, don't kill the radio star" (and listening to the song, it never made sense why "vinnie" wanted to kill the radio star)
and i used to think that the line from "le freak" by chic that goes "le freak, c'est chic" was "bo-beep, go sheep!"
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 December 2002 06:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
'He met Marmalade down in old New Orleans/Struttin' her stuff for Mister Heath'
― Fred Nerk, Thursday, 26 December 2002 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also googled as:"Wrapped up like a deuce""revved up like a deuce" (Seems to be the consensus on the Manfred Mann version.)
Wrapped up like a goose in the middle of the night Held up by a ...deuce... another ruler in the night ...douche... ..."dooshent"... Slapped up by a dude... Knocked up by...
..From "The Straight Dope" :"Bruce's lyrics were no paragon of clarity, but at least you could understand the words: "Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night." Some claim the "deuce" being referred to is the 1932 Ford Coupe beloved of hotrodders (cf. the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe"). Maybe, but when you're talking about a song whose opening line goes on about madman drummers, bummers, and Indians in the summer, I'm not making any definite claims.
The Manfred Mann's Earth Band ("Quinn the Eskimo") did a cover version of the tune in 1976. It became a hit, no doubt because the band made the lyrics even more opaque than they already were. They changed the line in question to "wrapped up like a deuce."
What's it mean? I'm barely on speaking terms with my own subconscious. Don't ask me to explain someone else's."
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 December 2002 14:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 December 2002 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 December 2002 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Celeste (Celeste), Sunday, 29 December 2002 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― pete porchos, Monday, 30 December 2002 13:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Everlast, watching the Discovery Channel.
― jot eff pe, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
(NERD - Provider)
― man, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
also an ex-gf thought that brand new heavies - you are the universe was "you are my unicorn".
― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Truer words were never misheard.
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 1 August 2003 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Prude (Prude), Friday, 1 August 2003 03:05 (twenty years ago) link
― man, Thursday, 27 November 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link
My first exposure to 'Wild Horses' was hearing the Sundays' cover back in my teen years, and because enunciation wasn't always Harriet Wheeler's strong suit, I heard her sing something like
Oh, let's do supperBut don't ache and painA lovely disorderJust like Lois Lane
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 October 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
I always heard the woman’s voice in the refrain of Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money as “Feed my little baby”.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
I was just listening to a podcast yesterday where the host had (in childhood) heard it the same! It was on Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs that Explain the 90s, but I can't remember which episode I was listening to at the time.
― peace, man, Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
the woman in question: Ronnie Spector!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
that was the part I only just learned like a year ago, or that the lyric before was "just like Ronnie sang" (though Eddie Money sings so mush-mouthed sometimes that's probably why)
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 November 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
it is the 'My Heart Will Go On' episode, and the thought of it made me die laughing. that you, Rob?
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
SaraSaraStop operatin’ your eyes
― epistantophus, Saturday, 1 January 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link
For years I thought that the line in Dylan's 'Jokerman' about "a small dog licking your face" was actually "a small dark look in your face".
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 1 January 2022 09:47 (two years ago) link
I discovered a few minor Dylan mishearings on "Isis" while watching the Scorsese Rolling Thunder film the other day. A song I've been singing along to for 25 years, mind you."where the creek used to rise" I had as "where the creek hits the rise.""You mystical child" as "Oh, I missed ya, good child.""In the drizzlin' rain" as "with your dress all in rags."
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 1 January 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
I used to hear the lyrics of "Tangled Up in Blue" wrong and have never quite reconciled the written lyric vs. my sense of what the lyric *ought* to be. E.g.:
We drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out westSplit up on the docks that night, both agreein' it was best
vs.
Split up on a dark sad night, both agreein' it was best
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 1 January 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
For years I thought that the line in Dylan's 'Jokerman' about "a small dog licking your face" was actually "a small dark look in your face".Huh… I guess I did too, until just now.
― best BASSMAN sticker on Etsy (morrisp), Saturday, 1 January 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
I used to hear the lyrics of "Tangled Up in Blue" wrong and have never quite reconciled the written lyric vs. my sense of what the lyric *ought* to be. E.g.:We drove that car as far as we could, abandoned it out westSplit up on the docks that night, both agreein' it was bestvs.Split up on a dark sad night, both agreein' it was best― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:46 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:46 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Damn, I've thought it was "docks that night" for decades.
― peace, man, Saturday, 1 January 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
woah. also in the "docks" camp.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 2 January 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link
I feel obligated to inform the Swedish Academy.
― peace, man, Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
Lol
― A Little Bit Meme, a Little Bit URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
For 25 years I thought the line in "Maybe Partying Will Help" was "what about the people who don't have what I ain't got" but apparently it's D. Boon's singing "what I have got" with a weird inflection?!?! I always thought the double negative was purposely opaque.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 06:41 (two years ago) link
Cheese On FireAnd Cheese Burnin'
Amy Holland - Cheese On Fire
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
Ramones - Somebody Put Something in My Drink
Another night out on the streetStopping for my usual seatThe bartender bleats
(Oh, bartender, please)
― peace, man, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
Suzi Quatro - Shine My Machine
You can't knock the rock 'n' roll rocketIt's what keeps this city alive
but really:
You can't knock a rocker for rockin'It's what keeps this city alive
Hers is good too, but I think I'll cling to what I've been hearing for 15 years. After typing it out, I also think "rock 'n' roll racket" might do even more favors for the rest of the song's lyrics.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
At the drive-in/In the old man's barn Ford
― peace, man, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
Gorillaz - Rhinestone Eyes
I got a feeling now my heart is frozenAll the birdseeds and Michael Rosen
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
In XTC's "Easter Theatre," I'd always heard one line of the chorus as:
"If we all breathe in and roll away the stone"
...which makes a semipagan springtime song actually about Easter.
― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Monday, 27 February 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
Faith No More - Death March
It's Dove Bars Death March, baby!
― peace, man, Monday, 27 February 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
I just discovered today that the Climax Blues Band sang "Kept on looking for a sign in the middle of the night"
I always heard "Kept on looking for the sun in the middle of the night"
Which I think I still prefer.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
I wonder whyHe's the greatest dancer
― ledge, Monday, 13 March 2023 09:47 (one year ago) link
Oh, what, wow
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 March 2023 09:55 (one year ago) link
I don't blame myself for not hearing that unusual exclamation correctly.
― ledge, Monday, 13 March 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link
You and I and everyone, aliveWe can run into the fireI’m a trust fund babyYeah, I’m a trust fund baby
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 May 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
I went down to Miami,I let a girl name a salmon.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
I remember long ago thinking the “you know I’m such a fool for you” line in Let it Linger by the Cranberries as “I’m searching for food for you” which gave me a pretty skewed wilderness-survival impression of the song
― ed.b, Thursday, 1 June 2023 03:04 (one year ago) link
loooool
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 June 2023 04:00 (one year ago) link
so that's where they got their band name!
― peace, man, Thursday, 1 June 2023 10:29 (one year ago) link
I know of a Cranberries cover band called the Craisins.
― Landfill Collins (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 June 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
For years I thought the "it's a game, it's a game, well let's call it a shame" couplet in "Goin' Through The Motions" by Blue Oyster Cult was "it's a girl, it's a girl, well let's call it a-Shirl."
― henry s, Thursday, 1 June 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
higher and higher and higher and higher and higher and higherkissing the spider
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 18:19 (eleven months ago) link
For as long as I’ve been alive, I thought the lyric was “my regal robes of the forest / would be satin, not cotton, not tinse”.
I always thought that “tinse” was some actual fabric, or a reference to tinsel. The word Bert actually sings is “chintz”.
― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 21 August 2023 22:22 (nine months ago) link
I had always heard it as chintz, but had no idea what that meant until looking it up just now. I knew that the adjective "chintzy" usually means cheap/lousy. Actually refers to woodblock-printed cotton originating in India. It's one of those things where I'm scrolling through GIS results like, "ohhhhh, so that's what that's called."
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― peace, man, Monday, 21 August 2023 22:57 (nine months ago) link
Bob Marley - Jammin'
Jah seated in Mount ZionAnd rules all creationhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/26/58/78/26587861afe4afbd77f92ff00f99eff5.jpg
(yeah, we're...)
― peace, man, Monday, 23 October 2023 15:16 (seven months ago) link
from green earrings by steely dan"the rings of randy's eyes"― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:11 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
"the rings of randy's eyes"
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:11 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Came here to post this, glad I ctrl+F'd first. Though I hear "Randy's eye" singular lol
― J. Sam, Friday, 27 October 2023 22:33 (seven months ago) link
I always thought the line in The Pet Shop Boys "Being Boring"--"We dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'"--was "We dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends". I was wrong, but I still think mine is better.― The Illiterate (moriarty), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I also thought it was "we dressed up in thoughts and thoughts make amends" for the last however many decades I've been listening to this song for, and it was always one of my favourite PSB lyrics, but their official website says "dressed up and fought and thought 'make amends'", so I guess that must be what Neil is actually singing
― soref, Friday, 15 March 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link
I was part of a hip hop channel on mIRC (DALnet) once and the 'summary' for the room that loaded up when you entered was this quote from a member of the channel from like a year or two earlier, where they had thought the lyric to The Real Slim Shady was
I'm Slim ShadyYes, I'm the real ShadyAll you other Slim Shadysare justin my teddy
and were still being clowned for it years later
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 March 2024 19:34 (three months ago) link
Justin, my teddyI love it
― kinder, Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:13 (three months ago) link
Neil Young sings to his car:
When you're old enough to repaintBut young enough to sell
― Brad C., Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:22 (three months ago) link
Prong - Prove You Wrong
Heard: Dependence on no one, I just trust animalsActual: Dependence on no one, I distrust and oppose
― peace, man, Sunday, 21 April 2024 20:32 (one month ago) link
lol yours is better!
At a music festival last year my friend heard
We'd be lucky to survive, wrapped up in a dreamasWomen are here to survive not to penetrate
― ledge, Monday, 22 April 2024 14:22 (one month ago) link
Brandy, you're a fine girlwhat a good wife you would bebut my life, my lover, my ladyis deceased
― Lee626, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:54 (one month ago) link
doo doo doodoo doot doo doo doot doo
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:57 (one month ago) link
As I write this, I do not know if in ETBG's "Each and Every One", Tracey Thorn is being offered:- the same thing in a different guise- the same thing in different guys- or maybe something else entirely?
― Lee626, Friday, 3 May 2024 08:35 (one month ago) link