Aunt_Acid Posted November 6, 2004 Author Report Posted November 6, 2004 There is no Elton John song that I understood all the words the first, second or third time I heard it. Yet Taupin's lyrics are splendid and deserve to be understood. I am convinced Elton John sits down and thinks up ways to completely distort the lyrics so nobody can understand them.
OLD 55 Posted November 6, 2004 Report Posted November 6, 2004 How about "and there's a wino down the road" from Stairway To Heaven (and as we wind on down the road). Anyone else hear it that way?
edna Posted November 6, 2004 Report Posted November 6, 2004 This one is real and told by Smokey Robinson. He wrote "A secondary motion" and sang it to Berry Gordy, boss of Motown. Gordy was excited about that song, it was a real hit-to-be... but he had understood "I second that emotion", and so the lyrics had to be changed a little bit.
Earth-Angel Posted November 7, 2004 Report Posted November 7, 2004 I just realised I've been singing RHCP's Fortune faded wrong! When Anthony sings "come on God, do I seem bulletproof?" I've been hearing and singing "Come on God - your a** aint bulletproof!" Like he's taunting... Yah.
SoulGirl Posted November 7, 2004 Report Posted November 7, 2004 ooh i get rhcp lyrics wrong all the time, like 'with the birds i'll share this lonely view' i was always singing some unintelligible mess of syllables somewhere along the lines of 'with the birds in the shade it's so lonely of you.' i tend to make up stuff if i don't know the real words. i once went to a morrissey concert and ended up in the front row with all the die-hard fans - managed to mouth along to every song when i only knew the words to about four - i even fooled my best friend who was there with me!
edna Posted November 8, 2004 Report Posted November 8, 2004 Beatles... "We´re on our way back home... we´re on our way home"... I thought the first time it was "runnaway from home... runaway home"
_Laurie_ Posted February 28, 2005 Report Posted February 28, 2005 What's everyones favorite misheard lyric?...my two favorite ones are "excuse me while I kiss this guy" real lyric"excuse me while I kiss the sky"...jimi hendrix "there's a bathroom on the right" real lyric"there's a bad moon on the rise"...ccr
edna Posted February 28, 2005 Report Posted February 28, 2005 "there's a bathroom on the right" real lyric"there's a bad moon on the rise"...ccr ...I didn´t know this one! there´s one site... go to google, search AmIright.misheard lyrics... I can´t find the name in my files.
RyanTurtle Posted February 28, 2005 Report Posted February 28, 2005 You can't talk about misheard lyrics without mentioning the most famous of all. "Scuse me, while I kiss this guy." Real Lyric "Scuse me while I kill the sky." PEACE OUT JIMMY JAZz :happybanana:
bazooka Posted February 28, 2005 Report Posted February 28, 2005 Hey, let's add some fuel to this debate. (<) In the song The Weight by The Band is it Take a load off Annie or Take a load off Fanny ?
Danielj Posted February 28, 2005 Report Posted February 28, 2005 In that new greenday song boulevard of broken dreams (I hate it dont worry) i think they say "I wish a wonderbear would find me" When he really says "I wish someone up there would find me"
Mairi Posted February 28, 2005 Report Posted February 28, 2005 In that new greenday song boulevard of broken dreams (I hate it dont worry) i think they say "I wish a wonderbear would find me" When he really says "I wish someone up there would find me" I dislike it greatly and i love Green Day, it was a good album track but don't condemn them for that Daniel.
TrampledUnderFoot Posted February 28, 2005 Report Posted February 28, 2005 The first time I hear the song "somebody Told Me" by The Killers, I thought I for sure misheard the lyrics: "Somebody Told Me, That You Had a Boyfriend, That Looks Like A Girlfriend That I Had In Feburary Of Last Year" haha but I heard the lyrics just perfect...
_Laurie_ Posted March 1, 2005 Report Posted March 1, 2005 Bruce Springsteen's "tenth avenue freeze out"....I thought he was saying...."tell the devil to freeze out" and in the song Drops of Jupiter...it sounds like he's saying "Van Halen's over rated"...but he's really saying "and that heaven is over rated"....
Tenacious_Peaches Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 I just realized that in "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc the woman is whispering "Big boys don't cry". I always thought she was saying "Be poised and quiet", like she was giving him a pep talk or something. What a nincompoop I am.
Aunt_Acid Posted March 4, 2005 Author Report Posted March 4, 2005 In Whole Lotta Love, I still swear Robert Plant is saying "You need Kool-Aid".
nobody_home Posted March 4, 2005 Report Posted March 4, 2005 Before I found out the song's name, I thought the chorus to Pure Prarie League's Amie went, "Hey Lee, what you wanna do? I think I'm in love with you." Put the song in a whole different perspective
InsaneTim Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 I thought for a long time that the line "And as we wind on down the road" from Stairway to Heaven was "And there's a wino down the road".
edna Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 I guess that if I listened to CCR now I could find tons of stuff for this thread!
invisible_r Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 when i first heard 2+2=5 from "hail to the thief" (radiohead) i thought he was saying penetration and i was wondering why he is shouting so passionately about it! it actually said pay attention. my boyfriend often makes fun of me cos i hear the wrong thing all the time and sing the lyric ive heard, which sounds quite stupid i guess
_Laurie_ Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 i use to think bruce springsteen was saying "tell the devil to freeze out" on the song tenth avenue freeze out i use to think that on the drops of jupiter song by train, that they said "VanHalen's over-rated" when he was saying "heavens overrated" and then on benny and the jets, there's alot of words i cant understand in that song, but i really thought he was saying "she's got electric boobs" when i think it's boots ::
Aunt_Acid Posted March 7, 2005 Author Report Posted March 7, 2005 Yeah, my mom thoughts that what he was saying. Elton John speaks with the worst English I've ever heard. He has the weirdest enunciation.
nobody_home Posted March 8, 2005 Report Posted March 8, 2005 I still don't know what that first line is in Canned Heat's On the Road Again. What does he see "on the road again"?
johnnyguitar Posted April 15, 2005 Report Posted April 15, 2005 After the lovely example (see Jethroe Tull thread) of a person realising they had misheard a lyric for 30 years and now discover the song was about something TOTALLY different to what they had thought....are there any other good examples? The advent of CD clarity must have opened up the ears after years of dodgy Dansettes...go for it. ::
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