Misheard Lyrics

[Gryffindorian]

I like Sia's Unstoppable.

What I thought I heard:

I put my arm around and show you that I am ...

The actual lyrics:

I put my armor on, I'll show you that I am ee yem ee yem ee yem

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

There's a stupid song that happens on the radio all the time and I always here the lyrics as

It's time to run from the image of the sun oh oh

Of course they cut the song off before it ends because it's longer then 3 minutes and I never get the song title

 

[Gryffindorian]

Is it Sheryl Crow's Soak Up the Sun?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Is it Sheryl Crow's Soak Up the Sun?

I'll have to look that up, no not the song but hey it's Sheryl Crow so it was cool

 

[Malicia]

Just heard GALA - Freed From Desire on the radio and realised the entire chorus is calling someone a nana (banana)

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

The dude may indeed look like a lady, but all my ears could make out was ''doody funky lady.''

 

[Velocity]

The dude may indeed look like a lady, but all my ears could make out was ''doody funky lady.''

That might even be better!

 

[Jack Wolfe]

From one of my favorite Santana songs -
"She's a black magic woman, and she's gonna take a pebble out of me."

 

[Avro Arrow]

Misheard Lyrics: The Christmas Edition

I forget who sings it (as with many Christmas songs, there is more than one version out there), but I think it's called "No Place Like Home for the Holidays", or something like that.

One of the lyrics I had always heard as:

If you want to be happy in a million ways
for the holidays, you can't be home sweet home

Which I thought, yeah, that actually tracks, but it seems a bit contradictory to the message from the rest of the song.

Took me forever to realize the line was "can't beat home sweet home".

 

[Gryffindorian]

Misheard Lyrics: The Christmas Edition

If you want to be happy in a million ways
for the holidays, you can't be home sweet home

That's true for a lot of folks.

 

[Victoria]

I was in the supermarket vaguely listening to the taped music with a chorus of "Release Mommy Duck" repeated several times. Thought this seemed a bit odd...could this be the latest "Baby Shark"?...although, as a lyric, it's hardly child-friendly...

Listening properly, the words turned out to be "Feliz Navidad"...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Listening properly, the words turned out to be "Feliz Navidad"...

I heard that song on the PA system at my store the other day. Quite a lame remake. It was NOT the Johnny Rodriguez version.

The dude may indeed look like a lady, but all my ears could make out was ''doody funky lady.''

I wonder if Aerosmith is even allowed to perform that song anymore. There'd probably be a hundred protests about it being "transphobic".

Even though the actual imspiration for the song was a dude - Vince Neil of Motley Crue!

 

[Malicia]

I heard that song on the PA system at my store the other day. Quite a lame remake. It was NOT the Johnny Rodriguez version.



I wonder if Aerosmith is even allowed to perform that song anymore. There'd probably be a hundred protests about it being "transphobic".

Even though the actual imspiration for the song was a dude - Vince Neil of Motley Crue!

I liked the song when it was released because Aerosmith are no strangers to glam rock themselves so it seemed like a humorous send-up of the genre rather than targeting transgender which would have been very out of character for the band.

I used to think the singer from Mr. Big was a woman. In almost every photoshoot of the band the singer, Eric Martin looks feminine with seemingly very little effort.

 

[scotpens]

From one of my favorite Santana songs -
"She's a black magic woman, and she's gonna take a pebble out of me."

Maybe she can remove kidney stones with psychic surgery!

I was in the supermarket vaguely listening to the taped music with a chorus of "Release Mommy Duck" repeated several times. Thought this seemed a bit odd...could this be the latest "Baby Shark"?...although, as a lyric, it's hardly child-friendly...

Listening properly, the words turned out to be "Feliz Navidad"...

That reminds me of the umpteen misheard versions of the song "Guantanamera."

I heard that song ["Feliz Navidad"] on the PA system at my store the other day. Quite a lame remake. It was NOT the Johnny Rodriguez version.

I'm only familiar with the 1970 original by José Feliciano (who also wrote the song). Can't say I've ever heard of Johnny Rodriguez.

I used to think the singer from Mr. Big was a woman. In almost every photoshoot of the band the singer, Eric Martin looks feminine with seemingly very little effort.

A lot of us thought Nick Gilder's "Hot Child In the City" was sung by a woman. Turned out it was a long-haired, skinny, androgynous-looking guy with a high voice!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm only familiar with the 1970 original by José Feliciano

OOps. I got the name wrong. We're talking about the same version.

This is embarrassing. I've heard the song a thousand times but I've had the wrong name in my head all that time. My bad.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oddly not a full song but the theme to Chico And The Man that song gets stuck in my head sometimes and it's just great

 

[Random_Spock]

Maybe she can remove kidney stones with psychic surgery!


That reminds me of the umpteen misheard versions of the song "Guantanamera."


I'm only familiar with the 1970 original by José Feliciano (who also wrote the song). Can't say I've ever heard of Johnny Rodriguez.


A lot of us thought Nick Gilder's "Hot Child In the City" was sung by a woman. Turned out it was a long-haired, skinny, androgynous-looking guy with a high voice!

I heard that song one too many times in Spanish class in 8th grade. Couldn't listen to it for years, since I was so tired of it. It's a good song, it just got to be a little old.

 

[scotpens]

From Paul McCartney's "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey": "Admiral Halsey notified me / He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea . . ."

Which I thought for decades was "Admiral Halsey notified me / He had to have a bath or he couldn't get to sea."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Still amazing that Sir Paul - who wrote such butt-kicking rock songs with the Beatles - was somehow taken over by a pod person and started churning out weasel shit like that.

 

[Commander Troi]

From Paul McCartney's "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey": "Admiral Halsey notified me / He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea . . ."

Which I thought for decades was "Admiral Halsey notified me / He had to have a bath or he couldn't get to sea."

I thought it was "he had to have a bath or he couldn't get to sleep."