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I'm sure you've all thought you knew the words to a song only to look them up and find you are way off. In the song Blinded by the Light by Manferd Mann Band, there is a part that goes " little early pearly came by in his wurly curly and asked me if I needed a ride." I always thought the lyrics went, "little early birdie gave my anus curl a whirlie and asked me if I needed a ride."
Talk about getting it all wrong.
 

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That's too funny!!

Are you kidding, though? I am SO bad at understanding the words, and I never know who wrote the song or it's title. So, bottom line is, I'm so bad at it that half the time I CAN'T look it up!


For example, there's this one song that I think goes "One, two, what is he good for?" Or something. And someone told me I'm wrong, it's something about war instead... Never did figure that one out!
 

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There's a Bob Marley song that says something like "so I put put my cards on the table"...I always thought it was "I drove my car across your table"
 

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Extra credit question:

Allthough Manfred Mann had the hit, who actually wrote "Blinded By The Light?"
 

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Originally Posted by BelongsToEvie

That's too funny!!

Are you kidding, though? I am SO bad at understanding the words, and I never know who wrote the song or it's title. So, bottom line is, I'm so bad at it that half the time I CAN'T look it up!


For example, there's this one song that I think goes "One, two, what is he good for?" Or something. And someone told me I'm wrong, it's something about war instead... Never did figure that one out!
it is.. it's called "War, Whatizzit Good For, Absolutely Nothing", performed by Edwin Starr, & written by Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong.

Originally Posted by CarolPetunia

Extra credit question:

Allthough Manfred Mann had the hit, who actually wrote "Blinded By The Light?"
i know! [wasn't unduly surprised, either] but i had to look it up

 
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Originally Posted by CarolPetunia

Extra credit question:

Allthough Manfred Mann had the hit, who actually wrote "Blinded By The Light?"
Well the version I downloaded is by Foreigner
 

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in blinded by the light the part where he says reved up like a deuce my co-worker and I thought it said revved up like a douche


I like your version better luvmycat
 
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Originally Posted by Mer636

in blinded by the light the part where he says reved up like a deuce my co-worker and I thought it said revved up like a douche


I like your version better luvmycat
I thought it said reved up like a douche too.
 

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Originally Posted by Mer636

in blinded by the light the part where he says reved up like a deuce my co-worker and I thought it said revved up like a douche


Reading that made me laugh out loud.


 

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at least i'm not the only one laughing out loud at my PC


I suppose it's one of those songs that makes you laugh out loud anyway since you make up your own lyrics

but i'm still laughing about the little early birdie who dave my anus curl a whirly
makes me think of huskey's since they have curly tails
 
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Originally Posted by Mer636

at least i'm not the only one laughing out loud at my PC


I suppose it's one of those songs that makes you laugh out loud anyway since you make up your own lyrics

but i'm still laughing about the little early birdie who dave my anus curl a whirly
makes me think of huskey's since they have curly tails
My Mom and I were in the car today when that song came on. I said, "Mom, what's an anus curl?" She's like, "what?" I'm like, "that's what he says." Little early birdie gave my anus curl a whirly. My Mom was like "No it's not."
She didn't know what he said either so I looked it up.
 

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Originally Posted by luvmycat1

I thought it said reved up like a douche too.
So did I

I used to think that Dire Strait's "Rockin' the Casbah" was "Rocking the Cat's Box" - I was working in a shipping department and complained outloud that only real jerks would find rocking the cat's box entertaining - my co-worker almost peed his pants laughing
 

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anus curl
thats still the best


Hah rock the cat box
 

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Originally Posted by catsknowme

I used to think that Dire Strait's "Rockin' the Casbah" was "Rocking the Cat's Box"
I thought was by the Clash and called Rock the Casbah...


I'm always mishearing lyrics, mostly because the vocalists have accents or just plain pronounce things wrong in English.


A common one that a lot of people mishear, including myself, is Sonata Arctica's The Cage.
The lyrics are "Empty the stare, innocent and unaware, dragged out from my home ,my lair." but everyone hears "Empty the stare, innocent and in underwear, dragged out from my home ,my lair." ....though they occasionally have some odd lyrics anyways.

I always mishear Vintersorg's E.S.P. Mirage lyrics "I intersect the shining pulsator" as "I intersect the shining potato"



DH always mishears (first unintentionally, now on purpose) KMFDM's Flesh. Instead of "Press my flesh" he'll sing "That's my fish" along with it, he even did this when we saw the band live a few years ago and were near the front.



Also, if anyone searches there's an old old thread that's several pages long about misheard lyrics. I saw it revived for a short period several months to a year or so ago.
 

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my bf is notorious in hearing things from songs that arn't there

instead of big o'l jet air liner he heard we go jet air liner

and my co-worker in the song tiny dancer he thought it was "hold me closer tony danza"
 

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Originally Posted by Mer636

in blinded by the light the part where he says reved up like a deuce my co-worker and I thought it said revved up like a douche


I like your version better luvmycat
thats how rob & i sing it, even though we both know it's "revved up like a deuce". it just sounds SO much like "revved up like a douche"

my mom and i both had crazy lyrics to "edge of seventeen"'s chorus.
 

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I think everyone says revved up like a douche
but I still loves the anus curl
 
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Originally Posted by Mer636

my bf is notorious in hearing things from songs that arn't there

instead of big o'l jet air liner he heard we go jet air liner

and my co-worker in the song tiny dancer he thought it was "hold me closer tony danza"
Tony Danza.
DH laughed at me once for getting lyrics wrong. The song is called Master of Puppets by Metallica. He says, "chop your breakfast on a mirror." I thought he said, "time your breath mist on a mirror."
 
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I'm not gonna live that anus curl thing down am I?
I have hold me closer Tony Danza stuck in my head now.
 
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