Song Lyric Malfunctions

[PaoloRossiJohnson]

Lenny Henry did a little sketch thing about Desmond Dekker's "The Israelites" - he thought it was "me ears are alight"...

I always heard an Edwyn Collins line of "Once I had a vision, and that vision was intense", as "Once I had a vision, and that vision was in tents"...

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

REM Sidewinder sleeps tonight "calling in Cheryl Baker" is what I hear, I think it's "call and try and wake her up"

I always heard it as 'Colin's a baker'.

 

[The Wookiee]

Get up to the post office, don't stop til you get enough !

 

[The Wookiee]

Could of been a bat, it's just an illusion

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

The chorus to E=MC2 by Big Audio Dynamite used to have me all kinds of confused.

'Virtual ideas, relativity', I got as 'Bet your life is perfect to a tee'. 'Magic imagery, oh oh' I had as 'magic in the G.O. home', whatever the flip that meant!

 

[Dr NBC]

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light - "Wrapped up like a douche." Real lyric is "Revved up like a deuce."

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I always heard it as 'Colin's a baker'.

Isn't it "calling Trevor Baker" - the old TV South (or whatever it was then) weather man.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

As a kid listening to the England 1982 World Cup song "This Time", I was convinced the lyrics said "This time, more than any other timw, we're going to find a way" thereby implying that they would win the World Cup. As they were were absolute toilet in that tournament I was clearly wrong. God knows what they were actually singing.

We were brilliant in that tournament. The only unbeaten side, drew with West Germany and Spain, and comfortably beat France, Kuwait and Czechoslovakia.

Still, your post made me laugh!

 

[King of Birds]

Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights:

"Heathcliff, It's me, it's Kathy, I've come home now,
Woah-oh-oh-oh, a beard at your window"

Don't know why but that made me laugh a lot.

The earliest one I can remember was sing "Roll Alley 4" instead of "You're all I live for" to Alvin Stardust's 'You, You, You'. I genuinely thought he was singing about how much he loved ten pin bowling.

 

[Buzzer]

"Last night a DJ saved my life from a road hog"


I got it in my head that the tune was about listening to the radio whilst driving behind a road-rager.

 

[Easy 10]

The Frankie Goes to Hollywood song War at one point goes

"Love, coupled with a mans pride"

which I heard as

"Love, coupled with a mince pie"

 

[Buzzer]

My all-time favourite misheard lyric just popped up on my iPod here at work. It's from Meatloaf's 'For Crying Out Loud' and the line at the end of the chorus that goes: "Open up the sky and let the planet that I love shine through..."


Listen carefully and you'll hear him actually sing "Open up the sky like a family set of lost shampoo.." Well, that's what I hear anyway.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Lenny Henry did a little sketch thing about Desmond Dekker's "The Israelites" - he thought it was "me ears are alight"...
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Actually it was a Maxwell tapes advert from the late 1980s

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[The Stout Yeoman]

Honey Honey by Abba went ....

I'd heard about you before
I wanted to know some more
And now I know what they mean, you're a lump of shit
Oh, you make me dizzy

 

[ezzoud]

As a child I was baffled as to why Chicory Tip's number 1 hit single was called "Son of My Father" because as far as I was concerned the first and third lines of the chorus are in fact "Boo, Eggy Puppet" - maybe it's because I had the cheap "Top of The Pops" session singers version

 

[ManxSeagull]

Lenny Henry did a little sketch thing about Desmond Dekker's "The Israelites" - he thought it was "me ears are alight"...

I always heard an Edwyn Collins line of "Once I had a vision, and that vision was intense", as "Once I had a vision, and that vision was in tents"...

I always thought "The Israelites" was "The hills are alive"

 

[joeinbrighton]

In the early 1990s, I misheard the lyrics of The Shamen's 'Love, Sex, Intelligence' as 'Love, Sex and Teletext'.

 

[BBassic]

I was a tad slow when I was younger and when I listened to "She's Electric" by Oasis I used to think they actually had a cousin who had someone in the oven....

She's got a cousin
In fact she's got about a dozen
She's got one in the oven
But it's nothing to do with me

I thought maybe he had a reputation for sticking people into ovens. Yeah, my younger self was an utter tool.

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Used to think Mungo Jerry's Long Legged Woman dressed in black was, "Every time I made a moose she told me no" Instead from "Every time I made a move"

 

[Knightsworld]

In the early 1990s, I misheard the lyrics of The Shamen's 'Love, Sex, Intelligence' as 'Love, Sex and Teletext'.

It probably was before Soccer Saturday first aired.