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I am very bad at hearing what words are being sung in a song until I've read the lyrics through. More often than not, I'll get it wrong first time. Do you do this too? As an example of what I mean, see below (these aren't mine, by the way):
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Addicted To Love
Might as well face it, you're a dick with a glove.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
Spare him his life from this pork sausagery.
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"There's a bad moon on the rise." (Credence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon Rising) - "There's a bathroom on the right."
"And as we wind on down the road, Our shadows taller than our soul ..." (Led Zepplin, Stairway to Heaven). "There's a wino down the road, I should have stolen Oreos ..."
Originally thought Beyonce's "All the single ladies" was "I want a cigarette" (I don't smoke so not cravings :))
"Blinded by the light...wrapped up like a douche, another moaner in the night..."
I just found out recently that it's "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night...", but I think I prefer the misheard lyrics.
Nirvana song having a brain block on its name. It'll come to me someday. :p anyway all alone is all we are misheard as oh no! The zombie hour. In my defense I was ten.
Yeah thanks. Total duh moment on my end. I've failed failed as a Nirvana fan. Ugh hate brain cramps :)
Awww, of course you've not failed. I love Nirvana and the bit of Smells Like Teen Spirit that goes:
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
I didn't understand at all because of Kurt pronouncing the T sound as D. Mulatto sounds like "my laddo". Mosquito sounds like "mosque-eedo" rather than how I say it: "mosque-e-toe". I used to sing along but I was just making noises, not words. :)
Yes it happens. For years i was convinced that the guy in that song say nintendo in stead of to know.
Like too stoned Nintendo.
when really its too stoned to know.
Wiley - Heatwave
"My name's Wiley, I'm causing a heatwave"
The kick drum beats loud on the 'c' of 'causing' so me and my bro kept saying,"My name's Wiley, balls in a heatwave, balls in a heatwave, balls in a heatwave"
No joke lol listen to it
"Light Ranger" (Actual song title: "White Winged Dove" by Fleetwood Mac)
"I'll be your Crygen Soldier" (Actual Lyric: "I'll be your cryin' shoulder", from "I'll Be" by Edwin McCain)
"Fucking Lie" (Actual song title: "Parking Lot" by Counting Crows)
"I'll make a wish, send it to heaven, and make you unto Christ" (Actual lyric: "I'll make a wish, send it to heaven and make you want to cry", from "Truly, Madly, Deeply" by Savage Garden)
"I can't explain just how it feels, the fucked-up mind, premature burial" (Actual lyric: "I can't explain just how it feels, the thought of my, premature burial" from "Buried Alive" by Creature Feature)
"Welcome to Canada..." (Light another candle...)
"Penetration, penetration" (Paying attention, paying attention)
"Renegades of fuck" (Renegades of Funk)
In Eddie Money's "Shakin'" I always think I hear him saying "Her tits were shaking 'til the middle of the night" as opposed to what he's REALLY saying, "and did some shaking 'til the middle of the night." I'm glad I'm not the only one who's heard this. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4sF5uAEIaU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4sF5uAEIaU</a>
The Joy Division song "Disorder".
"I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand, / Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?"
But I swear it sounds like;
"I've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand, / Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of another man?"
Like other people on this post, you've made me realise something. Joy Division are from the same city as me and I don't think I've ever misheard their lyrics or any other band from my city. I know accent supposedly disappears when you are singing (unless you are The Proclaimers) but maybe it doesn't. Also, Oasis do sing with my accent to an extent (although they put it on to sound tough).
I heard,"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose, and if you ever saw it, you would even say it blows"(like blow your nose).
The song golddigger from Kanye, when the other guy goes "I needa leave"
I heard it as "I needa pee"
all the time.. I couldn't hear/comprehend so well as a kid (still have some trouble with that) so most songs on the radio I still hear the words I did as a kid. I though the song that says "just like the white winged dove" is "just like the one we know" and that "big ol' jet airliner" is "we don't shed any light on". There's this site called amiright.com that has a bunch of 'mondegreens' (misheard lyrics), it's pretty funny. For that last song, one of them thought it was "Bacon cheddar lighthouse" and one of my favorites is from "Mrs. Robinson" they heard the hook as "She's a slutty Mormon you will know" (instead of 'Jesus loves you more than you will know')... if you hear the song it actually does sound like that lol.
Ha! For the *longest* time I had three for Mrs. Robinson. Until I just looked up the lyrics now, I thought I had two but I've just found a third. These are mine:
"Put it in your panties with your cupcakes"
"Oh, won't you please Mrs. Robinson?"
And the one I've just realised, the lyric says it is:
"Joltin' Joe has left and gone away"
Whereas I thought it said "Joe di Joe has left and gone away" and I thought Joe di Joe was American slang for Joe diMaggio. I've only found that out by posting this story and seeing your reply.
It's probably happened to every song I've ever heard. Well, let me just give one example. The Stevie Wonder song, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered". "Signed, sealed, delivered; I'm yours!". I thought it was, "I'm still a-livin', I'm yours!". Ridiculous.
Well I'm German and German lyrics are most of the time easy to understand and I rarely mishear some of them but as I mostly listen to English music and I'm not a native speaker I don't understand much of the lyrics at all...
All the time. It's sad because it happens to me with both English and Spanish songs. I'm used to it, though. Whenever I hear really messed up lyrics that hardly make any sense I'm able to notice I'm probably hearing the wrong words.
This happened to me with Pink Floyd, funnily enough.:D The first time I heard "Young Lust", I immediately had to look up the lyrics. The mistake wasn't too weird, I just thought that the first line was "I am just a new born", which isn't too different to the original. But then I got really confused when the new born wanted a "dirty woman".:P I was flabbergasted!
Hahaha! Didn't know Addicted to Love was about Michael Jackson then:P. I'm exactly the same, both with songs and just anything else. I'm not very good at hearing. There are too many, pretty much every song I've ever heard I would have got at least one line wrong. I now sort of want to listen to a song I've never heard before, write down what I think the lyrics are and compare them to the actual lyrics!:D
Weird thing is, I had a Michael Jackson lyric in this post originally and then got rid of it. When I saw your comment, I thought I'd messed up somehow and left it in. I was temporarily freaked out, Dave.
Haha, no, I just thought Michael Jackson was a dick with a glove. I'm not a fan:P. The longest lyric mistake I made was with Feeling Good (Muse cover, not the original). For years I thought "scent of the pine" was actually "son of a pie" (although the way he sings it does sound like that!)
Edit: I just read the comments, and I had no idea the Jimi Hendrix lyric was wrong either. I would have never have noticed that one.:S