Matthew C. Clark Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I was listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" & the late Ronnie Van Zant says "Giving me home to see my kin" which I thought he said "Giving me home to see my kids". Another lyric says "A Southern Man don't need him around, anyhow" which I thought the group said "A simple man don't need him around, anyhow". Singer Lobo (Kent LaVoie) had a song called "A Simple Man" back in 1972. Also Lynyrd Skynyrd had a song called "Simple Man" but different song. In the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "That Smell" on the lyric sheet it says "The smell of death around you" which I thought the group said "The smell of gas around you". In the Young Rascals song "Groovin'" back in 1967, singer Felix Cavaliere sings "Life would be ecstacy, you & me endlessly" instead of the lyric "You & me & Leslie". Any one of you heard any more misheard lyrics? Matt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steveh Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Matt, Great topic! I often have trouble understanding lyrics, but I don't really care! I will be thinking about this as I listen, so I can give you some examples.Steveh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy K. Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 I can say that I thought that in the Young Rascal's song "Groovin'", the line went "you and me and Leslie"......which really is "you and me endlessly"....but a lot of other people thought that too.And on "American Pie", the first time I heard it, I did not hear it from the beginning...thought that Don McLean said "forward pass....Chester on the sidelines in a cast"....at that time Raymond Chester was playing for the Oakland Raiders....actually was "jester" not "Chester" And in "Smells Like Team Spirit", Cobain sings about "libido" and not "the Beatles" like I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy K. Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Oh yes, that Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Scar Tissue"........sounds like Kiedis is singing "with bird s--- is a lonely view".....what is he actually singing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuliaD Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 Scar tissue that I wish you saw Sarcastic mister know it all Close your eyes and IÃll kiss you Ãcause With the birds IÃll share With the birds IÃll share This lonely view With the birds IÃll share This lonely view Push me up against the wall Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra Fallinà all over myself To lick your heart and taste your health Ãcause With the birds IÃll share This lonely view... Blood loss in a bathroom stall Southern girl with a scarlet drawl Wave good-bye to ma and pa Ãcause With the birds IÃll share With the birds IÃll share This lonely view With the birds IÃll share This lonely view Soft spoken with a broken jaw Step outside but not to brawl AutumnÃs sweet we call it fall IÃll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and With the birds IÃll share This lonely view... Scar tissue that I wish you saw Sarcastic mister know it all Close your eyes and IÃll kiss you Ãcause With the birds IÃll share With the birds IÃll share This lonely view With the birds IÃll share This lonely view... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy K. Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 Thanks, Julia for clearing that up....and now I can really see what the song is about.......didn't think that what I heard was rightAnd for those of you who may be puzzled with some recent songs, I thought I'd pass a couple of items ........on Missy Elliott's "Work It", the one line that people get stumped on is a previous line--but played backwards--which the engineer did .....and in the case of Disturbed's "Stupified",that one section is sung in Hebrew, not in English...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetlin1 Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 I had a friend who swore CCR sang, "There's a back room on the right"!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy K. Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 How about "Warsaw" by Joy Division......is Ian Curtis singing "penalty"? if not, what is the word??And on "Good Times" by Chic, never understood the line about "roller skates"?I'm sure that someone has a Beatles songbook and can find the Italian(Spanish?)on that song on "Abbey Road"....right before "Mean Mr. Mustard"What is it, and what does it mean?Some songs get misunderstood, even if the lyrics are out front......and I, once in a while, hear DJs claim that Creedence's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" is an anti-war song.......where did they come up with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy whitefield Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 i have always thought for a long time that don mcleans "vincent" went "sorry sorry night" but it was "stary stary night".... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted June 29, 2003 Author Share Posted June 29, 2003 In the Blondie song "Heart Of Glass", Deborah Harry said: "Pain In The A--". I thought it was "Fill In The A--". Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 I had a friend in high school who sang along to everything on the radio--well, I guess we all did. Anyway, she always sang, "new mornin', newday" when singing along with Foreignor's "Blue Morning, Blue Day". It drove me nuts, because that was the name of the song. She still insisted she was right.....*sigh* Oh well, it made everybody laugh every time she did it. --Julie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy K. Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 One section of "Suite:Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby/Stills/Nash still puzzles me after all these years........The first part I get("getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore/I am sorry...."), but from there through the "doo doo doo doo" section, I still can't make out all the lyrics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted December 24, 2004 Author Share Posted December 24, 2004 When I hear the song called "Everybody Plays The Fool" by Main Ingredient from 1972 when I first heard it on the AM radio when I was 7 years old at the time (later remade by Aaron Neville back in 1991), I thought the song was called "Everybody Plays The POOL" because I had a pool table at my old house downstairs. My brother Mike sang "I Wanna Hold Your HAM" instead of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles. I thought to myself "what was my brother thinkin'?" Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAM Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Go to www.kissthisguy.com . Full of misheard lyrics!Merry Christmas everyone! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 If you saw John Fogerty on his recent A&E Live performance, when he did "Bad Moon Rising", he actually pointed to the right-hand side of the stage and enunciated "There's a BATHROOM on the right." John is quite aware of how the song's lyrics have been misheard.CSN's "Suite:Judy Blue Eyes" (about Judy Collins by the way), is full of aliterations - most of which make little sense. Stills' coda sounds like Spanish, but good luck trying to figure what he's saying. Even my Spanish-speaking buddy Andy is doubtful of how many of those 'words' are actually words.Marvin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Well, embarrasingly enough, all through the 70's and 80's, and maybe even some 90's, before I actually READ a lyric anywhere, I thought the lines in "I'm a Rocker" was I'm a Rocker, I'm a RollerI've been a boogie since I HITCHED the strollerSo c'mon, HONKY TONKAnd we can Rock the Night away ......OK, OK, I never REALLY THOUGHT about the lyrics. I mean, "I've been a boogie" is a strange enough lyric, so from a strange premise, other strange lyrics could follow But now I have exposed my embarrass card out to you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlene Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Jeff, This is great! *I* thought it was "I've been a boogie..." also, when I first heard it! I used to think "Eric can really get down and boogie, but the lyrics don't make a sensible sentence!" Haha. I'm glad someone else thought that too! --Darlene 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlene Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 My FAVORITE misheard lyric was misheard by Mr. Raspbernie on "All Through The Night." While reading the lyrics under the "music" section, I thought Bernie was trying to clean up Eric's lyrics by writing "You're gonna know my bed, take my hand, and hitchhike home in the morning." I thought, "Surely, Bernie realizes that 'bed' and 'hand' don't rhyme...he must be attempting to sanitize this." He *really* thought those were the lyrics, till Eric confirmed that the lyric in that line does indeed rhyme. --D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostControl Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 My uncle used to sing "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel" to the song "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers. Cracks me up every time I hear that song (which is fairly infrequently, thankfully!). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregkevinw Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 my father used to think crystal gayle was singing "doughnuts make your brown eyes blue"instead of "don't it"......... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sthom3521 Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 This one's BAAD. On Dave Smalley's "Making It Easy," I would walk around the house singing"well I left that town there all the same, I was doin' all right 'till Loretta came"(must have been thinking about Beatles "Get Back )" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannoman Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 This is a great thread.MAM, I have visited kissthisguy numerous time. It always cracks me up. Ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy K. Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 While on the subject, anyone familiar with Liz Phair's "Extraordianary"? Is that "everyday sane psycho" that she is saying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggiesjc Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 When I was about 10, I'd heard some Doobie Brothers song in which they sing "Where would you be now?" (in fact, that may be the song's title) and thought they were singing "We're gonna doobie now." At 10, that seemed logical - after all, they were the Doobie Brothers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sthom3521 Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 another one I was trying to remember... In REM's "Bittersweet Me," M. Stipe sounds like he is saying "I move across the earth in my new patterned shirt, I pass out a lot"Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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