Generic Misheard Lyrics

Franzanna

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Seeing as we have the specialised Smiths/Morrissey misheard lyrics, why not have mondgreenes(spelling?) for every single other band? :p

Two of my classics (first misheard at about three years old):
'I fought the Law' by The Clash -
'I fought the Lauren, the Lauren' instead of 'I fought the law, and the law won'
'Parklife' by Blur -
'All the people,/ So many people./ Oh! Stop! Pelican!' instead of 'All the people,/ So many people./ The all walk hand in hand.' :lbf:

I have plenty more. :D
 
Me too - being a non-native speaker is always a good excuse for misheard lyrics.

"Let me see your beauty when the winter sales are gone" (by a shopaholic) instead of "Let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone" (by Leonard Cohen)
 
Me too - being a non-native speaker is always a good excuse for misheard lyrics.

"Let me see your beauty when the winter sales are gone" (by a shopaholic) instead of "Let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone" (by Leonard Cohen)

:D That's a good'un!

'Spoilt Victorian Child' by The Fall kind of got misheard as 'Small Victorian trowel', except I did know it wasn't actually that because that's the title. The same with 'I Wanna Be Adored/ a Door' by The Stone Roses. :p

I always thought the first line of 'Just Like Heaven' by The Cure was 'Show me show me show me how you do that trick,/ The one that makes me scream seasick', but it really ends with 'she said'. :p
 
:D That's a good'un!

'Spoilt Victorian Child' by The Fall kind of got misheard as 'Small Victorian trowel', except I did know it wasn't actually that because that's the title. The same with 'I Wanna Be Adored/ a Door' by The Stone Roses. :p

I always thought the first line of 'Just Like Heaven' by The Cure was 'Show me show me show me how you do that trick,/ The one that makes me scream seasick', but it really ends with 'she said'. :p

I Wanna Be A Door is going to get stuck in my head now! :D

Same kind of thing, my friend (massive Doctor Who fan) said that in Timebomb by Chumbawamba it sounds like 'Time Lord'...now I can't hear that song any other way and it always makes me laugh..
 
Here's some that spring to mind;

UB40 - Homely Girl (Oh, Miguel)
Duran Duran - Notorious (Make your seat adjustments) (seedy judgements)
 
I Wanna Be A Door is going to get stuck in my head now!

Haha, same here. Brilliant. It does sound like that's what he's saying.

I can't recall any of my own at the moment (there have been many), but these aren't limited to us mere listeners. For example, Megadeth (in their cover version of Anarchy in the UK) famoulsy misinterpreted the original line "Another council tenancy" as "And other c***-like tendencies". :lbf:


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I thought that the first line of 'She Sells Sanctuary' by The Cult was 'Guess who's back', but apparently it's 'The heads who turn'. :o
 
The same with 'I Wanna Be Adored/ a Door' by The Stone Roses. :p

Hahha, Do you know that part "You a door me, you a door me? "
I'll bet you thought the song was a bit strange.

The Who 'Pictures of Lilly' I always thought he was singing 'Bitches are leaving'...didn't know the name of the song though.
 
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In the cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Counting Crows, I always thought it said "Paved paradise to put up a f***in' lot", instead of "Paved paradise to put up a parking lot" when I was younger. My parents listened to that song constantly and I couldn't seem to believe it was saying "parking" instead of "f***in'".
 
Hahha, Do you know that part "You a door me, you a door me? "
I'll bet you thought the song was a bit strange.

The Who 'Pictures of Lilly' I always thought he was singing 'Bitches are leaving'...didn't know the name of the song though.

Well, I always knew it was 'adored' really. :p It just sounded like 'a door'. :p It's the same with 'The Rockafela Skank' by Fatboy Slim, where that bit in the middle sounds like 'get off, get off, get off, get off', but I know it's 'now' repeated very quickly. :p
 
This line from Pulp's "I Spy"..

"Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah."

I always heard as...


"Your apple crumble turns me on, yeah."

Mutt and Jeff, but not so much anymore :)
 
I've been listening to a lot of Stiff Little Fingers over the past 24 hours. This morning I decided to look up the lyrics to Alternative Ulster, and was not really surprised to discover that what I heard was not what was being sung.
What I heard:
'Seventy-four hours in Belfast,
Wear pants on their toupée,
Of kisses chapped with anger,
Then you walk back to the sea.'

Real lyrics:
'There's nothing for us in Belfast,
The punds so old, it's a pity.
Ok, there's the Trident in Bangor,
But then you walk back to the city.'
 
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