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Udaman
11-05-2007, 08:34 PM
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
11-05-2007, 08:47 PM
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
11-05-2007, 09:25 PM
Tina turner, I always think is singing "Stop! In the neighborhood."

Wasn't that the Supremes?

devildeac
11-05-2007, 09:27 PM
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
11-05-2007, 09:41 PM
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
11-05-2007, 09:45 PM
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
11-05-2007, 09:49 PM
The Motherlode of Misheard Lyrics:

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Enjoy!

(You're welcome. :D )

colchar
11-05-2007, 10:18 PM
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
11-06-2007, 07:58 AM
Lost in your eyes:

I get lost in your thighs.....
:eek: :D

wilson
11-06-2007, 08:17 AM
Lost in your eyes:

I get lost in your thighs.....
:eek: :D

Never has your signature been so appropriate.

aimo
11-06-2007, 08:51 AM
"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
11-06-2007, 09:23 AM
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
11-06-2007, 09:25 AM
"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
11-06-2007, 09:27 AM
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
11-06-2007, 09:29 AM
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
11-06-2007, 09:44 AM
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
11-06-2007, 09:47 AM
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
11-06-2007, 10:03 AM
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
11-06-2007, 11:15 AM
Nickelback, Rockstar

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

blazindw
11-06-2007, 11:19 AM
"Shook up ramen?"

wilson
11-06-2007, 11:21 AM
Nickelback, Rockstar

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

That's what you get for listening to Nickelback.

EarlJam
11-06-2007, 11:45 AM
That's what you get for listening to Nickelback.

I second that. Nickelback sucks.

-EarlJam

BluDevilGal
11-06-2007, 12:34 PM
That's what you get for listening to Nickelback.

Well, I can't help what comes on the radio.

I do like some of Nickelback's songs, though others are just ridiculous.

wilson
11-06-2007, 02:21 PM
Well, I can't help what comes on the radio.



That's what you get for listening to the radio.

DevilAlumna
11-06-2007, 02:50 PM
I never understood why Evita Peron was so beloved when she kept singing,

"Don't cry for me, Argentina. The truth is, I never loved you."

YmoBeThere
11-06-2007, 03:25 PM
I never understood why Evita Peron was so beloved when she kept singing,

"Don't cry for me, Argentina. The truth is, I never loved you."

I certainly didn't love Madonna as Evita, but I like the stage more than the big screen in this case.

...left you

MrBisonDevil
11-06-2007, 06:06 PM
Group: The Atlanta Rhythm Section
Song: "So Into You"
Year: 1976

Actual lyrics:
When you walked into the room
There was voodoo in the vibes

The lyrics I sang (for the first 10yrs):
When you walked into the room
There was doodoo in the back

Clipsfan
11-06-2007, 07:22 PM
This song isn't in English, but the (English) subtitles are hilarious attempts to put English words to the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw

I busted up watching it, and some of the phrases towards the middle are ridiculous.

devildm
11-06-2007, 07:45 PM
Here are a couple of my favorites from Pearl Jam:

Yellow Ledbetter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU

Even Flow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNINw1wNdno

Also, for the longest time I though "Lyrical Gansta" was "Leprechaun Gangsta"