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Did I hear that correctly?

posted 7 years ago by godewey (16472)
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A fun thread about song lyrics that you may have misheard.

I'll start with a guy I knew a long time ago who used to be in a pool league.
He always wore a "Pool Shark" hat.

Whenever he heard The Police sing Every Breath You Take and heard the lyric
"My poor heart aches" he thought they were saying "I'm a pool hall ace" and would point
to his hat and get a shitty grin on his face. Still cracks me up.

What are you're favorite music lyrics that you've misheard ?

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72969) 6 years ago

Fun!

Mannfred Mann's Earth Band
Blinded by the Light

The actual lyric is...
Blinded by the Light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night

I ALWAYS here...
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night

And now you will too😁

[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

That's a classic.

I just heard this song the other day and just looked it up to see what it actually was.

Should be
I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa
Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa

I heard
I'm blue in need of a guy, in need of a guy.....

GF loved that one!

[–] TexasJack (12515) 6 years ago

I had to look up who the original artist was when you named it as one of your favorite covers. I had no idea.

[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

The Boss is great but this song will always belong to Manfred Mann.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72969) 6 years ago

Too funny
Sometimes what we hear is actually way better than the real thing!

I forgot about this thread (you mentioned it the other day and id forgotten)...this is a real goody right here!

[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

From what I've seen what we hear is almost always better than the real lyrics.

There are so many we can't remember or don't even know were singing wrong.

[–] twinA (4827) 6 years ago

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[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

Could you imagine the recruiting process with this song.
We may all be nuns!

[–] twinA (4827) 6 years ago

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[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

Or Innocence Lost by Lana del Rey.
I would watch that show in a heartbeat!

[–] twinA (4827) 6 years ago

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[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

The show wouldn't last long but it would be worth even an hour!

[–] twinA (4827) 5 years ago

My original response to Dewey:

Can you imagine a nun being asked out of the audience to perform a song on the spot at a singing competition and the one that gets played is Van Halen's "Runnin' With the Devil?"

~~/o/

[–] twinA (4827) 5 years ago

My original comment to Dewey:

Hear about the covenant of nuns partying to "Kool and the Gang?"

They were singing "Celibate good times, c'mon!"

~~/o/

[–] GlenEllyn (21172) 5 years ago

🤣👍 Good one, twinA!

[–] twinA (4827) 5 years ago

(^o^)

It could have been somber.

It could have been The Temptations - "Papa Was A Rolling Stone!"

~~/o/

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72969) 6 years ago

😂awesome

[–] twinA (4827) 6 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

The song "Love Is A Battlefield" by Pat Benatar has the lyric: "We are strong"

The first time I heard the song I thought she said: "We are scum"

[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

After I read this I sang it that way and it would actually work.
I almost have to sing it this way from now on.

[–] somesunnyday (2078) 6 years ago

Pretty much all of Australian Crawl's back catalog. The Aussies here know what I mean

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

The Stones:

"I'll never be your pizza burnin'!"

😎

[–] godewey (16472) 6 years ago

I think that's a beautiful sentiment.

I'll never be your moldy peach.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

😎

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. I always thought she said "The Pink Paradise put up a parking lot." In fact she says "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I heard Nova Heart from the Spoons today. For years I thought they were singing "I sleep in your loving arms" instead of "I sleep in your Nova Heart"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA5CEUZH1AA

[–] TexasJack (12515) 5 years ago

I would have thought the same.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

In Wonderful Life by Black it sounds like he sings "No need to love" when he sings "No need to laugh."

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I will check this out.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Maybe it doesn't to a native english speaker, but that is what i hear XD

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

he is not saying either

No need to run and hide
It's a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to hide and cry
It's a wonderful, wonderful life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXkgSNWPq8

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

"Here I go out to see again
The sunshine fills my hair and dreams hang in the air
Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes
You know it feels unfair, there's magic everywhere
Look at me standing here on my own again, up straight in the sunshine
No need to run and hide, it's a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh or cry, it's a wonderful, wonderful life
The sun's in your eyes, the heat is in your hair
They seem to hate you because you're there
And I need a friend, oh, I need a friend
To make me happy, not stand there on my own
Look at me standing here on my own again, up straight in the sunshine
No need to run and hide, it's a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh or cry, it's a wonderful, wonderful life
Mmm, mmh, mmh, mmh, mmh"

These are the lyrics when i google it at least.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

there seems to be two sets of lyrics. it is difficult to determine what he is singing.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

It really is. It would make sense if he said laugh though since he says cry afterwards.