Spyke
don
lemm.ee

🎶Wrapped up like a douche, another owner in the night🎶

🎶Hold me closer, Tony Danza🎶

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I like to sing, "Wrapped up like a douche, another rubber in the night" but yours sounds closer. That song is great for this. "Blighted by the right, wrapped up like douche, another Romney in the fight"

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donreply
lemm.ee

the full line from the song is

Yeah, she/he was blinded by the light

Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night

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lemmy.world

"It's too late to roll the dice" instead of "it's too late to apologize" sounds much more meaningful.

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Flummoxedreply
lemmy.today

Ooh, I like this one! I thought it was, "it's too late to call the job" when I first heard it and was pretty unsure what he was going for...

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TexasDrunkreply
lemmy.world

He's sad because he was going to call in sick but waited too long.

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Flummoxedreply
lemmy.today

Yes! Of course. I now have a whole music video of someone hideously hungover, driving to work singing this... Kind of like the "everybody hurts" video but like crazy shit is happening.

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TexasDrunkreply
lemmy.world

So you're picturing me every morning back when I had to drive in to work. Got it.

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Flummoxedreply
lemmy.today

Ah, so you are a Bexar drunk? I'm further down i10 myself, not sure I could go through that interchange every day.

Edit: I am being too literal again, I think.

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I do know her well! Hi neighbor! I hope you don't have to suffer the i10 610 interchange daily!

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discuss.online

What the hell do you mean "like a kiss from a rose on the gray!?"

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It was but they had to change it for Shrek and the G-rated version became the canonical one.

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I always think of Metallica's Saint Anger:

🎶 Medallion noose, I hang myself

Saint Anger 'round my neck

I feel my world shake

Like an earthquake

Hard to see clear

Is it me? Is it fear?

I'm not even angry with you

I'm not even angry with you

I'm not even angry with you

I'm not even angry with you

🎶

Yet the real lyrics are:

I'm madly in anger with you

I'm madly in anger with you

I'm madly in anger with you

I'm madly in anger with you

... sigh...

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discuss.tchncs.de

Damn it, Mr.Ingle. Can you not sing "in the garden of eden" without sounding like you have a mouth full of pudding?

Fuck it. We'll just change the name of the damned song. Who the hell makes a 17 minute long song, anyhow? You're a damned idiot!

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Cortreply
lemmy.world

Huh, thought it was the pamplemousse of love

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At a punk gig once I heard:

“Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake!“

They were actually singing about “Tinnies (Aussie for beer) on Tuesday”. Not as good IMO.

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Liz
midwest.social

'Cause I'm in too deep
And I'm trying to keep
up above in my head
All the thoughts in my head
'stead of going under

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Thomradereply
lemmy.world

Holy shit.

I saw them live last year for the finale tour and even live, I heard "up above in my head"

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GoosLifereply
lemmy.world

Yeah, those are the actual lyrics. It's "all the thoughts in my head" that's misheard.

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Lizreply
midwest.social

Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person's mind though.

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Lolseasreply
lemmy.world

Omfg. I bought All Killer No Filler the first week it was in stores. And I heard your interpretation ever since. Hot damn, thank you so much for chiming in. And fuck.

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To be clear "up above in my head" are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.

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Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up

I always heard:

Picture yourself (At) the MGM Grand Murphy's fighting how come You're in the stands?

I loved this line as it was calling out the assumption when you picture something big, why are you in the crowd and not the star of the show? It felt motivating and a fun play on the way people imagine themselves in the world.

It's actually:

Picture yourself The MGM Grand Murphy's fighting Occam You're in the stands

Which, just doesn't do any of the things the misheard lyric does. So disappointing.

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not always. I saw this in a forum meant years ago, I wish I had saved a screenshot or something...

the forum thread was about the dumbest lyrics in songs and someone said sanitarium by metallica had these lyrics:

Got some death to do
Mirror stairs back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word

and complained it's nonsense. why would stairs be made of mirrors, and what did that have anything with the rest... also what does stairs back hard even mean, etc ...

as you may have guessed even if you don't know the song, the lyrics are "mirror stares back hard", which means the person is talking about their own reflection having a look in their eyes.

not only were the misheard lyrics dumb, but I always admired the sheer confidence of the person who, upon hearing these nonsense lyrics, instead of using their internet access to look it up to confirm, used it to complain how stupid it was without thinking twice about whether they could have misunderstood.

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There's a break-up song on Chvrch's debut album called Tether. One line, frequently repeated, goes "I'm feeling capable of... seeing the end." A fine lyric, very breakup, much hopeful.

Except, I can't tell when listening that she isn't saying "I feel incapable of..." I don't know if it's intentional but I think the ambiguity really elevates the song from semi-empowering breakup song to powerfully-relatable song about the chaos of seeing a relationship end; simultaneously believing you can get through it while also having no idea how you'll ever get through it.

It's just fun wordplay too: feeling capable/feel incapable. Makes me want to use that structure more in my own writing.

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The ambiguity might be intentional too! It would allow different ways of reading into the emotions

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That reminds me of Night Sky, which has "I will ne'er be free" but it sounds a lot like "I will now be free"

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It's a relatively minor difference, but for decades, I thought the lyric in Smashing Pumpkins' Muzzle went

🎵 My life has been extraordinary blessed and cursed at once 🎵

and it's been one of my favorite lines in any song. Except I was wrong. It goes

🎵 My life has been extraordinary blessed and cursed and won 🎵

It's not a favorite anymore.

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Someone once told me that they thought the line in Uptown Funk was, "I'm too hot, hot ham!" and I've been hearing it that way ever since.

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Like a dog without a bone, like an actor OUT OF ROLE

For fuck's sake Jim, actor out on loan, pff! What had he been smoking?

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I just learned that in Collective Soul's Shine, he's not saying "you haven't let your light shine down". But it's actually a Jesus song and 'heaven let your light shine down." Over 30 years I was wrong lol

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in my mind, the lyrics of no surprises by radiohead will always be

no one laughs and no surprises

rather than

no alarms and no surprises

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And I'll sing all night and in the mornin' light

When your shades are on and your head's on ice

You'll know you've seen the redneck sodomy

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"'E' for very, very, extra ordinary." VS "'E' for very, very, extraordinary." The way I heard it performed always sounded like two separate words. I was like, "damn, she couldn't just be nice the whole song?" I finally read the lyrics when I was older.

"I don't want another heartache at my door, don't want another heartache on my list" VS "don't want another heartache on my lips."

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Probably a tad obscure, but at the end of Set (Extended Mix) there’s a section where they repeat “converge” but I can’t help but hear ‘you’re a virgin’ XD

Then again I don’t like that better than the original lyric per se, it’s just different

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A classic. Funny how the DJ was able to decipher that. I believe the guy asked: essos es Reebok or son Nike ( is it Reebok or is it Nike)

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I don't know any misheard lyrics, because I refuse to believe the way I hear the lyrics isn't correct.

(Actually I used to have a list, but I'm old and I forgot it 😢)

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In lay me down by the dirty heads, the line:

But they were seen by the good eye of the mean billy green

Should have been:

But they were seen by the keen eye of the mean billy green

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I heard it properly the one time I heard the song on good speakers, but I always heard "I hope you dance" as "I want you dead"

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There used to be a greater power alone on the sea:
You became a light on the dark side of me. Love became a draw that I could not appeal. But did you know that when it snows, My eyes become alive, and the light that you shine can be seen?

Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey...

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Looking back on when we fisted
I cannot escape and I cannot forget
Baby, you're the one, you still turn me on
You can make me whole again

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‘Carry a laser down the road that I must travel
Carry a laser through the darkness of the night’

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Superchunk has a song hyper enough. It sounds like they say "Laughter guns" but it's actually "Lofter winds"

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Arrow in my head, arrow in my head, arrow has flew right trough my head, arrow that caused me this great pain, arrow that ruined my day!...

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I've always heard promises promises give an end to those promises in the bridge of Lady Gaga's Pokerface

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Bad Romance - "Want you in my rear window, baby, you're sick"

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