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kcaz
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada387 Posts
December 15 2010 04:18 GMT
#1
Just wondering what some songs are that you later found out you had the lyrics completely wrong.

I used to think "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John actually said
"Hold me closer young Tony Danza", and I used to think "In the Air Tonight" by Genesis, actually said "Go Long" like a football term, me and my brother used to sing in the car when we were little, "Gooooo loooooonnnngggg"

So TL! CONFESS IT DAMNIT! What are some songs you had the lyrics wrong to?

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AyeH
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States534 Posts
December 15 2010 04:24 GMT
#2
almost every mainstream song i've listened to on the radio.
Is it in you?
Deleted User 50491
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
721 Posts
December 15 2010 04:25 GMT
#3
Karma police For a minute there I lost myself. I though it said Four minutes there I lost myself.

And the part "When you mess with us" Heard "When you mess with love" lol
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
December 15 2010 04:26 GMT
#4
On December 15 2010 13:25 Kuo wrote:
Karma police For a minute there I lost myself. I though it said Four minutes there I lost myself.

And the part "When you mess with us" Heard "When you mess with love" lol

omg i had that same mistake

btw relevant link: http://www.kissthisguy.com/
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Banteng
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States148 Posts
December 15 2010 04:31 GMT
#5
When the song "I Try" by Macy Gray was on the radio, I was a youngin, and quite into Pokemon. I always thought she sang "I say goodbye and Machoke." It blew my mind years later when I found out she was really singing "I say goodbye and I choke" >_<
eLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1039 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-15 04:37:00
December 15 2010 04:36 GMT
#6
We looked at this in an intro psych class. Apparently, people have misinterpreted purple rain where he says, "Scuse me while I kiss the sky" as "kiss this guy". Oh, lol. already mentioned in that link.

EDIT: thats a cool link btw
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Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
December 15 2010 04:37 GMT
#7
I hate when you get really really attached to the lyrics that were wrong and it ends up ruining the song for you. Can't think of an example atm.
blue_arrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1971 Posts
December 15 2010 04:57 GMT
#8
It would be very interesting to have a study done on the correlation between the accuracy of lyrics comprehension and how well the song does on charts.
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OmgIRok
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Taiwan2699 Posts
December 15 2010 05:27 GMT
#9
"I will go down with this shit, I'm in love" - White Flag by Dido Lol
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Mindcrime
Profile Joined July 2004
United States6899 Posts
December 15 2010 05:28 GMT
#10
On December 15 2010 13:36 eLiE wrote:
We looked at this in an intro psych class. Apparently, people have misinterpreted purple rain where he says, "Scuse me while I kiss the sky" as "kiss this guy". Oh, lol. already mentioned in that link.

EDIT: thats a cool link btw


Purple Rain was Prince. You mean Purple Haze.
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konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66355 Posts
December 15 2010 05:31 GMT
#11
lots of nightwish songs
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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
December 15 2010 05:31 GMT
#12
The first thing that came to mind was "Negaigoto hitotsu dake".

Negaigoto hitotsu dake kanaete kureru nara
Kizutsuke atta ai ga hajimaranai you ni...


I think I was wrongly influenced by someone that it meant "if I have only one wish I want love without pain.". But it takes only a rudimentary amount of Japanese to see the wish was to have the love to have never started in the first place.
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Ghin
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States2391 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-15 05:40:33
December 15 2010 05:36 GMT
#13
hold me close young tony danza joke got said in an episode of friends
excuse me while i kiss this guy joke got said in an episode of the simpsons

one of my friends calls the mars volta "the mars volvo"
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TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
December 15 2010 05:57 GMT
#14
So growing up I was a huge Pearl jam fan, and the song "Alive" always confused me. There is a line where he says "but I'm glad we talked". Growing up, what I thought he said was "but I played guitar". That line always confused the hell out of me. Listen to it, think played guitar, and you will hear it!
Also, in high school my buddy and I had an argument because of the Tool song "Eulogy". There is a line where Maynard sings "...at everything but his heart". My buddy swore up and down that he did not say heart, but, get this...forehead. "...at everything but his forehead"?!?!?!
WTF?

It took him years, but he finally admitted his error on that one.
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Zooper31
Profile Joined May 2009
United States5711 Posts
December 15 2010 06:02 GMT
#15
"Blinded by the Light" - Bruce Springsteen

Thought for the longest time that the chorus said "revved up like a doucher in the middle of the night". He actually saying duece, like the number 2.
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TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
December 15 2010 06:05 GMT
#16
On December 15 2010 15:02 Zooper31 wrote:
"Blinded by the Light" - Bruce Springsteen

Thought for the longest time that the chorus said "revved up like a doucher in the middle of the night". He actually saying duece, like the number 2.



A lot of people are confused by that one. It is even more evident in the Manfred Mann version of the song. He does say revved up like a deuce, but not referring to an old Deuce Coup car. I am always explaining that one to people.
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zOula...
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States898 Posts
December 15 2010 06:07 GMT
#17
that Alanis morissette song you oughta know...

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Gulabi
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada52 Posts
December 15 2010 06:09 GMT
#18
Mariah Carey - Touch my body

I always thought it was "I will give you plankton", but apparently its "I will give you plenty of joy".
NrG.NeverExpo
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2114 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-15 06:21:49
December 15 2010 06:17 GMT
#19
There is actually a term for this, misinterpreting a phrase from pop-culture (like a poem or lyrics to a song) is called mondegreen. Don't ask me how i know that, but it's cool :D

EDIT: [image loading]

This made me lol pretty hard, not really lyrics but its basically what it sounds like
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Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-15 06:40:16
December 15 2010 06:35 GMT
#20
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On December 15 2010 15:07 zOula... wrote:
that Alanis morissette song you oughta know...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcyTyilmYY
[image loading]


Omg I laughed so hard. I never really payed attention to the words in that song but that bear stuff fits perfectly. :O

Edit: I just checked the actual words and found that's pretty much what she actually says, just with "I" instead of "eyed" and "bear" and "cross" having different meanings. :/
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17009 Posts
December 15 2010 07:30 GMT
#21
That one Jimmy Eat World (The Middle) song when he says "everything, everything" in the chorus...I always heard it as "elbow to elbow" O_o
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prodiG
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2016 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-15 07:34:03
December 15 2010 07:33 GMT
#22
At like 1:19



+ Show Spoiler +

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infinitestory
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4053 Posts
December 15 2010 07:49 GMT
#23
On December 15 2010 15:17 NrG.NeverExpo wrote:
There is actually a term for this, misinterpreting a phrase from pop-culture (like a poem or lyrics to a song) is called mondegreen. Don't ask me how i know that, but it's cool :D

EDIT: [image loading]

This made me lol pretty hard, not really lyrics but its basically what it sounds like



Video of the song, for reference.
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Roe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada6002 Posts
December 15 2010 09:07 GMT
#24


deafhobbit
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States828 Posts
December 15 2010 09:20 GMT
#25
On December 15 2010 15:07 zOula... wrote:
that Alanis morissette song you oughta know...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcyTyilmYY
[image loading]


I thought this was the line for year, and that it was some weird metaphor i wasn't getting.
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Sebby Lebby
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
68 Posts
December 15 2010 09:29 GMT
#26
I thought that Macy Gray song was more like, "I keep my cool but I'm feeling [blue]" but I guess it's "I keep my cool but I'm fiending." I know she never actually says blue but it rhymes and made more sense to me, made the song kinda better. Also, I thought she said "My world crumbles when you are not here." But I guess she says "my world crumbles when you are not near" which again sounds a little less good to me. Those are the two main ones.
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ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
December 15 2010 09:49 GMT
#27
Maybe this one doesn't count because I've never found out the real lyrics...

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
December 15 2010 11:27 GMT
#28
I never could figure out most of the lyrics to November Rain until I Googled them.
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Espelz
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany819 Posts
December 15 2010 12:24 GMT
#29
Definitly New Noise from Refused... never got what the screaming was until i looked it up, which was pretty much about 2 years after regularly screaming along in clubs ... wrong, of course
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HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-15 13:10:58
December 15 2010 13:10 GMT
#30
On December 15 2010 14:31 konadora wrote:
lots of nightwish songs


Fishmaster?


Actually because I've read Dragonlance since I was 8, I never misunderstood this song.
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Trumpet
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1935 Posts
December 15 2010 13:41 GMT
#31
In that "I'm Blue" song, I always heard it as "I'm blue, if I was green I would die."



so sad to find out the real one.

Also, for the song "Peaches" I was 100% sure it was "Pigeons." As in, "moving to the country, gonna eat me a lot of pigeons."


Sorely disappointed by both.
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
December 15 2010 14:32 GMT
#32
Most songs by disturbed i need to actually look the lyrics up before the song makes sense, if i try to guess on my own it usually turns into gibberish lyrics.

EG:
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
December 15 2010 15:09 GMT
#33
Pretty much any song that I think I know is wrong =[
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
XazXio
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States356 Posts
December 15 2010 15:26 GMT
#34
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wrapped up like a what?
How does food become poo?
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