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marianjela · Apr 29, 2005

Originally Posted by Yosemite

My husband is a musician part-time and he used to play with this one band where the singer would change the words to the songs (and usually make them a little riskÃ[emoji]169[/emoji]) and nobody in the crowd or on the dance floor would even notice! I'd be sitting there laughing like a fool and the band were cracking up.

Ummmm.... kinda like

Real Lyrics:
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty

heard:
where the grass is green
and the girls got (eh-hem)

maybe it's worse when it's unintentional.....

I'm never comin' out.

wellingtoncats · Apr 29, 2005

Originally Posted by Marianjela

Ummmm.... kinda like

Real Lyrics:
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty

heard:
where the grass is green
and the girls got (eh-hem)

maybe it's worse when it's unintentional.....

I'm never comin' out.

and the girls got sweaty?

clixpix · Apr 29, 2005

One of my favorites was from a friend of mine from college. She said when she first started hearing the Wham song, Wake Me Up Before You Go

She heard:
Chili Dog

Actual lyric:
Jitterbug

Even now, whenever that stupid song is on the radio, all I can think of is "Chili Dog", and that's the way I still (intentionally) sing it!

cheeseface · Apr 29, 2005

Originally Posted by Marianjela

Ummmm.... kinda like

Real Lyrics:
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty

heard:
where the grass is green
and the girls got (eh-hem)

maybe it's worse when it's unintentional.....

I'm never comin' out.

Woah 6 bags! It must be a pretty bad word!

Originally Posted by clixpix

One of my favorites was from a friend of mine from college. She said when she first started hearing the Wham song, Wake Me Up Before You Go

She heard:
Chili Dog

Actual lyric:
Jitterbug

Even now, whenever that stupid song is on the radio, all I can think of is "Chili Dog", and that's the way I still (intentionally) sing it!

I like your version better!

deb25 · Apr 30, 2005

I can't think of anymore off the top of my head, but this thread makes listening to the radio a whole lot better. Now I am hoping to hear songs where I mishear the lyrics!

cheeseface · Apr 30, 2005

Originally Posted by Deb25

I can't think of anymore off the top of my head, but this thread makes listening to the radio a whole lot better. Now I am hoping to hear songs where I mishear the lyrics!

Yeah me too. I know there are other songs I have totally screwed up. I'm so glad I can search the internet when I want to know lyrics now. That one Bangles song drove me nuts because I never had any CD's from them. I can't think of any other off the top of my head right now either. -Anyone else?

misscharlotte · Apr 30, 2005

Originally Posted by RoyalEnchntrss

Theres that blue song i think it was by moby???
I always thought he was saying "Im in need of a guy" lol and he supposed to be scatting? I cant find it anywhere on google.. so im going to bed... lol it late. maybe someone will have an answer for me tomorrow!

I think Eiffel 65 sings Blue. Here's a sound clip. Is this the song?

royalenchntrss · Apr 30, 2005

yea thats it.. i looked it up and it says Im blue da ba dee ba da ba... lol not im in need of a guy... haha

ttmom · Apr 30, 2005

I have crowd deafness which means I have a difficult time distinguishing things from background noise. This makes it almost impossible to get lyrics right so I always look them up. When Big & Rich first came out with "Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy" I went to look up the lyrics and I found a page where several people had posted their interpretations and they were absolutely hilarious! Try the lyric "took her out gigging frogs" and you get a million weird interpretations because most people don't know what gigging is. (It's hunting, BTW.)

Oh Adam Ant songs can get pretty darned weird too (not that they don't start out that way).

cheeseface · Apr 30, 2005

Originally Posted by TTMom

I have crowd deafness which means I have a difficult time distinguishing things from background noise. This makes it almost impossible to get lyrics right so I always look them up. When Big & Rich first came out with "Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy" I went to look up the lyrics and I found a page where several people had posted their interpretations and they were absolutely hilarious! Try the lyric "took her out gigging frogs" and you get a million weird interpretations because most people don't know what gigging is. (It's hunting, BTW.)

Oh Adam Ant songs can get pretty darned weird too (not that they don't start out that way).

"Crowd deafness"? Is that an actual diagnosis, or something that was made up? Maybe I have that problem.

captiva · Apr 30, 2005

Originally Posted by consumercity

My misquote of that song is close. I thought he said "excuse me while I kiss this guy".

ttmom · Apr 30, 2005

Unfortunately crowd deafness is real. I don't know the clinical term for it. It makes it really hard to hear people who mumble (like my husband and my dad).

katl8e · Apr 30, 2005

For many years, I heard the first line of "Chain of Fools" as:

"Train, train, train, train of fools", rather than "chain, chain, chain......."

cheeseface · Apr 30, 2005

Originally Posted by TTMom

Unfortunately crowd deafness is real. I don't know the clinical term for it. It makes it really hard to hear people who mumble (like my husband and my dad).

That makes it an everyday experience then.

Originally Posted by katl8e

For many years, I heard the first line of "Chain of Fools" as:

"Train, train, train, train of fools", rather than "chain, chain, chain......."

Nice!

marianjela · May 1, 2005

I racked my brain the other night to think of some of the sings I've misinterpreted in the past. Then today I was riding in car with hubby, and he was singing the lyrics to Foreigner's, "Double Vision" and I couldnt help to laugh.

The Lyrics:
Fill my eyes with that double vision

His Lyrics:
Feel my eyes with that double digits.

Doesnt make a bit of sense

who knows what goes through our heads sometimes.

1/2 bags for him. He was pretty aggitated with me for correcting him and laughing

cheeseface · May 1, 2005

Originally Posted by Marianjela

I racked my brain the other night to think of some of the sings I've misinterpreted in the past. Then today I was riding in car with hubby, and he was singing the lyrics to Foreigner's, "Double Vision" and I couldnt help to laugh.

The Lyrics:
Fill my eyes with that double vision

His Lyrics:
Feel my eyes with that double digits.

Doesnt make a bit of sense

who knows what goes through our heads sometimes.

1/2 bags for him. He was pretty aggitated with me for correcting him and laughing

katspixiedust · May 1, 2005

Originally Posted by Kellyyfaber

I'm bad.

This is an old song, I don't know who it's by.

What I thought the lyrics were:
Secret Asian Man

What the real lyrics are:
Secret Agent Man

Not to worry Kelly, my mom has told me before that she thought it said that exact same thing when it first came out!

deb25 · May 1, 2005

Ok, Toto has a song called "Hold the Line". You would think from the title I would be smart enough to know what the lyrics were, but that did not stop me from mishearing the same line in 2 different ways.......

Real lyrics
Hold the line, love isn't always on time

What my demented brain heard
Or the lie, love isn't always on time
and, worse yet,
Or the lime, love isn't always on time

deb25 · May 1, 2005

Toto has another song, Africa. I butchered that one, too.

Real Lyrics
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

Me hearing
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like a leopard above the Serengeti

Also:

Real Lyrics
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa

Me hearing
It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I guess it rains down in Africa

wellingtoncats · May 1, 2005

I love this thread!

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