Wrong Lyrics

[Udaman]

I know Wayne's World did a great skit back on SNL about the top 5 incorrect song lyrics (#2 was "There's a Bathroom on the Right" by CCR, and to this day, that's how I sing it)...but driving today, I heard a Bruce Springsteen song that I always had wrong until the radio guy said what the actual title was.

I always thought it said

"Is that you, baby, or just a bridge in disguise?" Never made much sense. Guess I know why now.

Any others out there that were singing the wrong lyrics for years at a time?

[throatybeard]

I know Wayne's World did a great skit back on SNL about the top 5 incorrect song lyrics (#2 was "There's a Bathroom on the Right" by CCR, and to this day, that's how I sing it)...but driving today, I heard a Bruce Springsteen song that I always had wrong until the radio guy said what the actual title was.

I always thought it said

"Is that you, baby, or just a bridge in disguise?" Never made much sense. Guess I know why now.

Any others out there that were singing the wrong lyrics for years at a time?

Tina turner, I always think is singing "Stop! In the neighborhood."

[devildeac]

Tina turner, I always think is singing "Stop! In the neighborhood."

Wasn't that the Supremes?

[devildeac]

Good idea for a thread.

How about "let me be you pizza burnin" instead of "let me be your beast of burden" (the Stones)

[wilson]

Good idea for a thread.

How about "let me be you pizza burnin" instead of "let me be your beast of burden" (the Stones)

Actually, it's "I'll never be your beast of burden." A girl I knew at Duke went with "I'll never be your big Suburban."

[snowdenscold]

I had huge gaffes for numerous parts of "Open Skies" by the David Crowder Band - but I doubt many of you have heard that song...

Oh, I also screwed up "Lightning Crashes" pretty bad for about a decade.

[Stray Gator]

The Motherlode of Misheard Lyrics:

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Enjoy!

(You're welcome. )

[colchar]

From Springsteen (and Manfred Mann).

Sounds like:
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night


But the real lyrics are:
Blinded by the light,
Revved up like a deuce,
Another runner in the night

[knights68]

Lost in your eyes:

I get lost in your thighs....

[wilson]

Lost in your eyes:

I get lost in your thighs....

Never has your signature been so appropriate.

[aimo]

"There's a Bathroom on the Right" by CCR, and to this day, that's how I sing it

Saw Fogerty at Walnut Creek July '06 and that's how he sang it the last verse. Really funny!

[dkbaseball]

From Springsteen (and Manfred Mann).

Sounds like:
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night


But the real lyrics are:
Blinded by the light,
Revved up like a deuce,
Another runner in the night

These are the first lines that popped into my head, and you've solved a mystery my brother-in-law and I were pondering a couple of years ago.

Actually, I found the written lyrics on a Springsteen CD and the line was "cut loose like a deuce." This would make a lot of sense from the standpoint of customary Springsteen themes -- discarded by society for low assigned value and thus joining the Boss's cavalcade of alienated night folk. But clearly "cut loose" isn't being sung in either version I've heard, and I too always thought it was "wrapped up." So, back to the drawing board on meaning. I suppose it's short for "revved up like a deuce coupe."

[knights68]

"Barbara Ann" (Beach Boys)
Ba ba ba ba ba, Bopper Ann.
or "Bobber Ann"
Real Lyrics: "Barbara Ann"

"Armeggedon It" (Def Leppard)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm a gettin it!
Original Lyrics:
Armeggedon it!

"Always" (Bon Jovi)
Lyrics:
I'll be there where the sun don't shine
Really it says:
I'll be there 'till stars don't shine

"Blaze Of Glory" (Bon Jovi)
Misheard (And I do it ALL the time!):
I've got an old colt for a pillow.
Really it is:
I´ve got an old coat for a pillow.


Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Wrong lyric: I'm blotto and bravado/I'm a scarecrow and a Beatle
Right lyric: A mulatto, an albino/A mosquito, my libido

Steve Miller Band, "Jungle Love"
Wrong lyric: Chug-a-lug, strawberry man
Right lyric: Jungle love is drivin' me mad

Bush, "Glycerine"
Wrong lyric: Batman watergun
Right lyric: Bad moon wine again



And my personal all time favorite:
Sherry don't like it/Rock the catbox -- from The Clash's "Rock the Casbah"
It is really "Sharif don't like it/Rock the casbah"

[EarlJam]

For a long, long, time, I thought David Bowie was singing "Silver Jet City" instead of "Suffragette City."

You know, I thought he was just singing a song about the big city, with its bright, shiny silver jets and all.

Idiot.

-EarlJam

[YmoBeThere]

Springsteen joked about that song on his VH-1 Storytellers show. It was the first song he penned that went to #1. He of course atributed it to the douche line...yes, he meant deuce like "little deuce coupe".

[allenmurray]

Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Wrong lyric: I'm blotto and bravado/I'm a scarecrow and a Beatle
Right lyric: A mulatto, an albino/A mosquito, my libido

The wrong lyric makes more sense

[TillyGalore]

The line I always heard incorrectly was "we're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks", but what I heard was "we're living in a polygag..."

Even though I know the correct lyrics, I still hear it incorrectly.

[Bostondevil]

Not that mishearing early REM lyrics is anything new, but when I bought the album I really wondered why the "Your Brown Eyes" song was called "Pilgrimage".

I had a friend at Duke that thought Tears for Fears was singing everybody wants to fool around. That's probably more true than the actual lyric.

How about "Pompatus of Love", it's a cover of misheard lyrics. I once heard what the actual original lyrics were but I've forgotten them, anybody else know?

I always use the bathroom on the right, I'm not talking about the linen or movin' in, and excuse me, while I kiss this guy. Louie, Louie, ooooohhhhh, me gotta go now.

[BluDevilGal]

Nickelback, Rockstar

I heard...
hire eight body guards who like to beat up vassals

[blazindw]

"Shook up ramen?"