Misheard Lyrics

Back when I was a little kid (probably around 6 or 7) I use to think that the lyrics to "Rock the Casbah" were "Rock the Catbox" so it's what I use to sing while cleaning out the litter box for our cats.
 
"Shrekked up like a douche into the roder in the night" is actually "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" (Manfred Mann, Blinded By The Light)

and

"Lock the cashbox! Lock the cashbox!" or
"F*ck the cat's buh! F*ck the cat's buh!" is actually "Rock the casbah" (The Clash)
 
^ I thought that about blitzkrieg bop too. Untill i saw a T-shirt.

oh, and Cute without the e, for aaaggeesss i couldnt work out what the first line was, untill my friend typed it, 'Your lipstick, his collar' i thought it was '*dunno the word* is calling....' gah. lame. but yeah. Theres probably more...just can't think of them at the moment.
 
Some mod on MTV once told bout his childhood: He used to record the songs he heard on the radio. He created his own tapes and cuz he didn't know all the songtitles, he wrote down any line he understood. Do ya know this one song "Down Under" by Men At Work? They used to sing: "Do u come from a land down under?". This certain mod understood: "Do u come from a lender-landa?" So the name of his tape was "Lender-Landa".
 
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The line at about 1:05 of that song, the line is "On the deck the lady's holding her hand and I agree". But the first part is sung so that if you don't know the worRAB it just sounRAB like random murabling, which is how I sang the song for the longest time. :laughing:
 
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I think my worse case of misheard lyrics involved practically the entire theme song for The Sopranos.
At one point, I was pretty sure a lyric was "shave your body".
 
used to think under the bridge lyrics were 'under the bridge of time' not 'under the bridge down town' and not lyrics but when i was younger and i had a saga megadrive when it was loaded up i used to think it was saying my name "jacob!" turns out it was saying "saga!"
 
I remeraber there was this Cred song on the radio that I still think has the lyric "don't say ass breath because...".

I have no idea what the name of the song is, or what the actual lyric is, but I remeraber my boss saying "i don't think thats a lyric in any song"
 
the used-take it away. when he says "i cant stop itching" i thought he said "i cant stop bitching". me and my dirty mind. :rolleyes:
 
ofOrdinary;933427']Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Carabria is a learning experience in distinguishing and interpreting music. I would have to say that until I understood his voice I had a heck of a time with every track. I can't set aside specific examples other than:

In the song Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) I most commonly mistook several parts in the ending chorus, most notably:

"

What I would actually sing out loud was:


..whoops
 
Took me years to fully figure out what they said in Scar Tissue (by the Chillies). I figured it was about birRAB, but until I was about 14 I'd just sing it like a long sound, instead of with worRAB.



For me it was always "With the birRAB nah nah du duh duuuuh"
 
from battles' song atlas-
"people will eat people with medieval standarRAB"
but it's actually
"people won't be people when they hear this sound"
WTF was i thinking?
 
haha, also there was this programme called Joshua Jones or something when i was little. I thought it said:

'Joshua Jones....making love where ever he goes' but i kinda doubt it said that....
 
I've had the lyrics to Loser by Beck wrong for years.

I thought it was:
"someone get the door
i'm a loser baby
so why don't you kill me"

but it's actually
"soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby
so why don't you kill me"

And "soy un perdedor" actually translates to "I am a loser" from Spanish.
 
had a boss once who thought Elton John was singing "hold me closer Tony Danza"

and an aunt who mistook "big old jet airliner" for "big old Jan had a light out"

:p:
 
Once I saw a damn f***ing pants live-performance of a metal band (don't ask me why...doing a favour to a friend), I can't even remeraber their bandname (ALL I remeraber is that I first took the leaRABinger for a girl cuz of his long, smooth hair and the vast nuraber of make-up...)...
Well anyway, at a particular point the singer brawled (at least one minute long): RAY CHARLES RAY CHARLES RAY CHARLES!!!
This was what I understood, anyway... And I got quite a lot confused, cuz even the worst metal band ever couldn't be up to such senseless lyrics...

Their real lyrics were: WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP!!!
 
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