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Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:03 am**

I watched Samuel L Jackson get a bit of stick in the movie The Long Kiss Goodnight because he was singing the wrong lyrics to a song. I've done this a few times myself examples......

April Sun in Cuba by Dragon (Aussie Band)

Lyrics are "Take me to the April Sun in Cuba..."
I sang "...Take me to the Airport son....in Cuba.."

With Arms Wide Open by Creed

Lyrics are " with Arms Wide Open"
I heard "With Old Viduka" which I naturally assumed was a homage to the Australian soccer centre forward.

So who else has got cloth ears?

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:38 am**

Can't think of any specific examples, but I remember being totally confused when I read the lyrics to one of my faves, the Pogues album 'If I should fall from grace with god' cos they were definitely not what I was singing!

My excuse is Shane Mcgowans's lack of teeth.

I have to say, when I read the lyrics, they were even more bizarre than what I was singing!

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:57 am**

A girl I went to high school with was a classic. She loved the song Break My Stride, but instead of singing, "aint nothing gonna break my stride", she sang, "aint nothing but a great white shark".

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:48 am**

I think Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone" is one of the most confusing songs ever.

This is the actual lyric....
"Help, I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone
The place is a mad-house, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far"

This is what I've been hearing for the last 25 years or so....
"Now I'm steppin into the Twilight Zone (OK so far)
Listen to me house, feels like being stoned (not so good)
My feet just can't move now the moon is gone (WTF?)
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far (redemption on the last one!)

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:17 pm**

great one Cail.

Me, I always remember messing up Elton John's 'Benny & the Jets':
The real lyrics:

"She's got electric boots a mohair suit"

My interpretation:
"She's got electric boobs, and I'm on her soon"

.... yah, I was a horny guy back then ...

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:31 pm**

My feet just can't move now the moon is gone (WTF?)

LOL! that's what I've been hearing all these years, until your post Cail!

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:37 pm**

I like the song where the singer got it wrong.....

You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice

That's from 'Freewill' off the 'Permanent Waves' album by Rush. That's the lyric I hear, and certainly the lyric Geddy sings, but IIRC, what Neal Peart wrote was:

You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You CAN'T have made a choice

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:37 pm**

hubawah?....

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:34 pm**

Heh, I'm not joking! Geddy apparently changed it!

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:49 pm**

Purple Haze anyone? Escuse me, while I kiss this guy!

The misheard lyric that launched the website www.kissthisguy.com/.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:29 pm**

wayy back when Trooper's "Raise a Little Hell" came out, I thought it was "raise a little hound"...

yah, never much paid attention to lyrics...

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:44 pm**

Can anyone say "Rock the Casbah"?

Posted: **Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:05 pm**

when Lay Lady Lay came out, dylan's vocals were so garbled i thought he was singing french when he said "lay across my big brass bed".
i can't write what i thought he was saying cause i don't speak french.
or write it.

Posted: **Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:27 pm**

Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like shes singing...
Whoo... whoo... whoo...
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like shes singing...
Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

See, I could have sworn she was saying "One wing dove"....

Posted: **Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:05 am**

I was working overnight a couple of weeks ago when a song came on the radio - no idea what it was but the chorus went 'You're unstoppable, you're a machine!" I and the other four people in hearing range all heard "You're unstoppable, you're rubber sheets!"

..it was utterly hilarious at 4 AM, and it didn't help that he kept repeating it.

I have a long and rather embarrassing history of hearing lyrics wrong. For a long time (years) I thought Men At Work's Down Under started:

'Traveling in fait accompli,
On a hippie trailhead full of zombies'

Not:

'Traveling in a fried-out combie,
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie'

I have no excuse for the first line, but it is difficult to hear punctuation.

Err... Fire Deuce's Children of the Deuce:

My version:

wasted use
we're the fire deuce
we're the snakes in boots
while we rock for you

Actual lyrics:

wasted youths
we're the fire deuce
wear your snake skin boots
while we rock for you

I could probably come up with more and worse if I give it some thought.

Everybody got to evelate from the norm...

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:16 am**

Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen.

Why do I ALWAYS hear this song at the patriotic "I love oiur country" events? Does NO ONE listen past the chorus?

Born down in a dead mans town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog thats been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the u.s.a., I was born in the u.s.a.
I was born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the u.s..a....

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said son if it was up to me
Went down to see my v.a. man
He said son, dont you understand

I had a brother at khe sahn
Fighting off the viet cong
Theyre still there, hes all gone

He had a woman he loved in saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
Im ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to go

Born in the u.s.a., I was born in the u.s.a.
Born in the u.s.a., Im a long gone daddy in the u.s.a.
Born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a.
Born in the u.s.a., Im a cool rocking daddy in the u.s.a.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:13 am**

Hmmm, I've never heard that at patriotic events.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:06 am**

dlbpharmd wrote:Hmmm, I've never heard that at patriotic events.

*nod*

Around these parts, it's always Lee Greenwood.

*gag...gag...gag*

I think the most publicised artist's reaction to a song being misunderstood is Sting's dismay that listeners think of Every Breath You Take as a love song.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:12 am**

Reagan used "Born in the USA" during his '84 campaign.

Posted: **Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:02 pm**

I hear it all the time lol.

I'm just as guilty, I was a baby when the boss was big, I never really listened to it, all I knew was the Chorus too.

He is completely right, played all the time at patriotic events. (Personally I would LOVE to see a candidate play "America F*** YEAH!" at a campaign event.

I would say that Closer by Nine Inch Nails is pretty misunderstood, no one really listens past the provocative chorus.

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