Misheard Lyrics (Mondegreens): There's A Bathroom On the Right

[grisgris]

Sandman87, thanks for the link. Yep. There it is in black and white, except.

 

There is a live version of "Dream On," and instead of singing "Dream on. Dream on. Dream until your dreams come true," Steven Tyler very clearly sings, "Dream on. Dream on. Dream until your balls turn blue."

 

OK, so we'll give ST a little "creative leeway" with the lyrics!  LOL!

[AntiBeeSpray]

Oh my gosh! I just stumbled on this site and have been laughing so hard I'm crying.  So if you're getting new "likes" for posts that are a couple of years old, that's why.

 

Here are some of mine:

 

Counting Crows:

 

"She talks to angels. The color of my name."

 

I think it's:

 

"She talks to angels. They call her by her name."

 

Rolling Stones "Heartbreaker:"

 

"Napoleon in New York City" (Thought it was some type of misguided political statement.)

 

"The police in New York City."

 

Def Leppard's "Hysteria" I thought Joe Elliott was singing "Wisteria."

 

Add me to the "Blinded by the Light" crowd with "rolled up like a douche you know the roller in the night."

 

And that one by Steve Miller, "and I speak of the pompitice of love."

 

Here's one I've read about regarding Aerosmith's "Big Ten Inch Record"

 

Steven Tyler seemed ticked that people thought he was singing "suck on my big 10-inch record," when it's really "'cept for my ... " (yeah, right...)

 

I thought it was 'pompitice of love' too!

[Cobalt Stargazer]

And that one by Steve Miller, "and I speak of the pompitice of love."

 

That's The Joker, and according to this site

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/stevemillerband/thejoker.html

 

it's 'pompitous', but apparently the spelling varies, because Wiki says it's 'pompatus'. So who knows?

[DeLurker]

That's The Joker, and according to this site

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/stevemillerband/thejoker.html

 

it's 'pompitous', but apparently the spelling varies, because Wiki says it's 'pompatus'. So who knows?

With either spelling, it is a made up word.

[amaranta]

Up until this past Saturday night, when a misguided and slightly inebriated friend chose it during karaoke, I thought it was "Kiss from a rose on a grave."  

 

Oh well.

[AntiBeeSpray]

Up until this past Saturday night, when a misguided and slightly inebriated friend chose it during karaoke, I thought it was "Kiss from a rose on a grave."  

 

Oh well.

 

I thought it was that too for years!

[Archery]

Up until this past Saturday night, when a misguided and slightly inebriated friend chose it during karaoke, I thought it was "Kiss from a rose on a grave."  

 

Oh well.

OMG. I just looked it up. I . . . don't know what to do with myself now.  I'm doubting everything I thought I knew.

[AntiBeeSpray]

Finally found out some lyrics from Bob Seger's song, "Beautiful Loser".

 

I've thought that the lyrics...

 

He wants to dream like a young man

With the wisdom of an old man

He wants his home and security

He wants to live like a sailor at sea

 

Were...

 

He wants to dream like a young man

With the wisdom of an old man

He wants his homeland security

He wants to live like a sailor at sea

[DeLurker]

and now Beautiful Loser will be on a loop in my head all day...I don't mind.

[VCRTracking]

In Warren G's rap song "Regulate"(w Nate Dogg), this lyric

 

"I'm gettin jacked, I'm breakin myself
I can't believe they're taking Warren's wealth"

 

for years sounded to me like:

 

"I'm gettin jacked, I'm breakin myself

I can't believe they're taking Lawrence Welk."

Edited February 19, 2016 by VCRTracking

[Jeebus Cripes]

Just figured out some lyrics to Stone Temple's Pilots song, "Creep"

 

I thought they were...

 

I'm half the man I used to be

This I feel so doughnut faced

It fades to gray

 

Can't stop laughing at this!

 

Up until this past Saturday night, when a misguided and slightly inebriated friend chose it during karaoke, I thought it was "Kiss from a rose on a grave."  

 

Oh well.

 

I used to think so as well, and IMO, it's a better lyric that way.

 

For the longest time, like since the song was released until a few days ago when I suddenly turned closed captions on my TV, I would sing this:

 

Down by 311

 

What I heard:

We drink a lot of gin - thumbs up

 

Actual lyrics:

We've changed a lot and then - some, some

 

Don't know what this says about me, or my thoughts on 311...

[Archery]

For the longest time, I thought The Beatles' A Day In The Life included:

 

I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand ho's in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the ho's were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many ho's it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I'd love to turn you on.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with being a ho, but four thousand seems a bit excessive. 

 

(In my own defense, though, it IS harder to picture holes filling a room than ho's.  I think I'm too literal minded.)

[shang yiet]

Charlene's 'I've never been to me'  - for  a long time, I thought she said 'The man you fucked with tonight' but I think what she actually said was 'The man you fought with tonight'.

[AntiBeeSpray]

Was just listening to some Disturbed (Just Stop) and I heard this:

 

All I wanted was a meal with salsa on it and compassion.

 

instead of...

 

All I ever wanted was to be a real source of compassion
From the moment that we found ourselves drowning in
All I ever wanted was to be a real source of compassion
From the moment that we found ourselves drowning in

 

Thank you David Draiman and your strange way of singing sometimes. It makes some lyrics just indecipherable lol.

[DeLurker]

Mugs just for this thread...

[bluwater]

When I first heard Radioactive, I thought he was saying, "ready to rock you, ready to rock you!"

Edited March 9, 2016 by bluwater

[BatmanBeatles]

I finally got this one lyric right from The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals

 

Wrong lyric: My mother was a tailor

She stole my new blue jeans 

My mother was a gamblin' man

Down in New Orleans

 

Right lyric: My mother was a tailor

Sewed my new blue jeans

My father was a gamblin' man

Down in New Orleans

 

Note that the old misheard lyrics make absolutely NO sense XD. Been thinking they were them too up until last night.

Whaaaaat?

 

In the 30 Seconds To Mars song "Kill", I keep hearing "Marry me" instead of "Bury me".

Edited April 1, 2016 by BatmanBeatles

[Shannon L.]

Ugh....I just posted in another thread how I hated how Live and Let Die included the lyric "if this ever changing world in which we live in" only to have it pointed out that it's probably "if this ever changing world in which we're living".  I looked it up and yep, that's the real lyric.  On one hand, I'm glad to hear that Paul McCartney has better grammar than I initially thought, but on the other hand, I'm a little embarrassed to have talked about it so often over the years (although, since no one has corrected me, I can only assume that many people have thought he was being redundant).

[BatmanBeatles]

No joke, this is what I thought the lyrics of Angel In The Morning used to be:

 

"Just brush my teeth before you leave me"

[Jeebus Cripes]

For at least the first half of my life, I thought Don Henley's The Boys of Summer was Poison Summer. "After the poison summer has gone." 

[Tabbyclaw]

For at least the first half of my life, I thought Don Henley's The Boys of Summer was Poison Summer. "After the poison summer has gone." 

 

There is an urban fantasy novel in my head that will never be completed that was inspired by that exact mishearing.

[AntiBeeSpray]

Just heard a good one today while shopping, via Christopher Cross's song, Sailing.

 

What I heard:

 

Flailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free

 

 

What the actual lyrics are:

 

Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free

[Sandman87]

When I was little I would have sworn that "You're So Vain" had a line that went:

I had a dream there were clowns in my coffee

 

But it was actually:

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee

[potatoradio]

This thread still cracks me up.

 

One I remembered today.

 

Correct lyrics to "SexyBack" include a backup vocal that warbles, "Take it to the bridge." and "take to the chorus." As in, OK, sing the bridge. Sing the chorus.

 

I remarked to someone once, "I don't get it. Why do they sing 'take it to the fridge' and "take it to the corners.'"? Are they going for a beer before they have sex in a corner? And what, exactly, are they supposed to take to the fridge and the corner?

 

[Princess Sparkle]

That reminds me of one I had for a long time:

 

Actual lyrics of Justin Timberlake's Rock Your Body: "I want to rock your body, please stay."

What I heard: "I want to rock your body, basically."

[DeLurker]

In Twenty One pilots' Stressed Out I hear: 

My name's furryface and I care don't what you think.

 

It actually is: 

My name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.

[ketchuplover]

"You Should Be Dancing"-Bee Gees

Actual lyric is "What you doing on your back,aah?

I heard "Much sooner than you would've expected" 

Next real line is "You should be dancing,yeah"

I think my lyric fits better.  

[AntiBeeSpray]

Just heard this one earlier while listening to Survivor's song, "I'm not that man anymore"...

What I heard:

One look is all it took to tell me your love was made of lies, 
Madness to think that I believed your reasons, your alibis, 
Bodega, when I turned to look the other way girl, 
I realized the game you were playin' was breakin' my heart, 
I can see it plainly, time has changed me. 

The real line:

One look is all it took to tell me your love was made of lies, 
Madness to think that I believed your reasons, your alibis, 
The day girl, when I turned to look the other way girl, 
I realized the game you were playin' was breakin' my heart, 
I can see it plainly, time has changed me. 

 

I think I need to clean my ears out better lol...

[spaceytraci1208]

Years ago, I was listening to a Robin Thicke song called Brand New Jones with a friend; the opening lyrics are:

"Some like to keep heat on; some are never hot enough"

My friend hears

"Some like to get peed on..."

I haven't been able to un-hear it ever since LOL

[Sandman87]

Tonight I had the TV tuned to one of Dish's "radio station" channels, specifically the one that's all music from the 1940s, and I heard a song (Dick Haymes & Sonny Burk Orchestra, if anyone's interested) start up:

The old masturbator from the far-away hills...

Turned out that it's actually:

The old master painter from the far-away hills...

[Winipo75]

My turn!

"Love Yourself" -- Justin Bieber

Real lyrics:

Was I a fool to let you break down my walls?

What I heard (and still sing)

Was I a fool to let you break down my balls?

Hey, it still makes sense!

"I'm a Believer" - The Monkees

Real lyrics: 

When I needed sunshine, I got rain.

What I heard (and what a childhood friend and I sang for years and years):

When I needed sunshine at my brain.

"When I Grow Up" - Pussycat Dolls

Real lyrics:

When I grow up

I wanna see the world

Drive nice cars

I wanna have groupies.

What I heard:

When I grow up

I wanna see the world

Drive nice cars

I wanna have boobies.

Well, what little girl wouldn't want those when she grew up?

[AntiBeeSpray]

An oldie I've misheard for a long time:

From Bruce Springsteen's song, Dancing in the Dark

 

What I thought I heard:

I ain't nothing but fire

 

Instead of:

I ain't nothing but tired

 

And...

 

What I thought I heard:

Stay on the streets of this town
And they'll be carving you up alright
They say you gotta stay hombre (this is what I heard since I was a kid and it makes no sense)
Hey baby I'm just about starting tonight
I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
Come on now baby gimme just one look

 

Instead of:

Stay on the streets of this town
And they'll be carving you up alright
They say you gotta stay hungry
Hey baby I'm just about starving tonight
I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
Come on now baby gimme just one look

--------------------------------------------------

And now... that whole part makes sense. In more ways than one.

[DeLurker]

When my niece was about 3 and I was taking her home, I had a Bob Marley CD in.  She listened carefully and seemed to like it so I felt I was not only babysitting, but providing her cultural enrichment.

Next time she was in my car, she asked "Can we listen to the pajama song again?"  I asked her to clarify and she said we listened last time so I figured it out.  I played the CD again and she happily sang

Wear pajamas,

Wear pajamas in the name of the Lord

[Sandman87]

Blessed Underoos!

On Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 8:31 PM, potatoradio said:

Correct lyrics to "SexyBack" include a backup vocal that warbles, "Take it to the bridge." and "take to the chorus." As in, OK, sing the bridge. Sing the chorus.

I remarked to someone once, "I don't get it. Why do they sing 'take it to the fridge' and "take it to the corners.'"? Are they going for a beer before they have sex in a corner? And what, exactly, are they supposed to take to the fridge and the corner?

I was looking over the thread just now, and your post reminded me of this web 'toon:

[DeLurker]

I've recently started to hear a song on the car radio and thought they were saying:

He-hemophiliac, you've been on my mind....

Turns out it is Ophelia by the Lumineers. 

[Bastet]

I keep coming across a song while going around the dial that I know can't actually be an ode to an "electric eel," but that's what I hear.  So I did a Google search for "electric eel song" and learned it's Electric Feel by MGMT.  Clearly, by the suggested search terms (I typed "electric eel" and "electric eel song" popped up), I am not the only one whose ears need cleaning.

[Bill1978]

A Christmas one that I only realised I was singing wrong probably last Christmas, funnily enough it's from Last Christmas:

What I heard:

A crowded room,
Friends with tie-dyes.

 

Instead of:

A crowded room,
Friends with tired eyes.

[Jeebus Cripes]

Heard "My Hero" by Foo Fighters and was reminded that only until recently I heard this:

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
Sergeant Harry

Actual lyric:

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

[BatmanBeatles]

For years I thought a line in Cold Play's song Clocks went like this:

 

Confucius that never stops 

Real words: Confusion that never stops

[DeLurker]

I always thought The Way We Were started -

Mem'ries,
Like the corners of my mind

Just found out it was

Mem'ries,
Light the corners of my mind

[Cobalt Stargazer]

Stabbing Westward's Shame:

I always heard the lyric as, "How can I have sex without you?" and considering what the song is about it doesn't entirely not fit, the real words are, "How can I exist without you?"

[SirOsisOfLiver]

One of my faves a friend used to mis-sing, by Deep Purple: Smoke on the water, and fire in the sky, right? Nope.

Slow talking Walter, the fire engine guy.

[LilWharveyGal]

11 minutes ago, SirOsisOfLiver said:

Slow talking Walter, the fire engine guy.

Whooooooa.  That's an actual lyric in BNL's "Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel," that makes sense in context but that I always thought was still a little funny.  It must have been a nod to this particular mondegreen.  Mind blown.

[WendyCR72]

6 hours ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

Stabbing Westward's Shame:

I always heard the lyric as, "How can I have sex without you?" and considering what the song is about it doesn't entirely not fit, the real words are, "How can I exist without you?"

OMG! This one! Totally forgot about it, but I always heard "have sex" without you!, too.  :-)  Found out the real lyric years ago and was surprised. LOL!

[AntiBeeSpray]

From Queen's The Show Must Go On:

What I heard: 

I'll top the bill, I love to kill (or I love a kill).

What it really was: 

I'll top the bill, I'll overkill.

 

That sounds much better than what I was thinking it was.  XD

[Yokosmom]

I was a kid when Sgt. Pepper came out and I always heard

a girl with colitis goes by

instead of 

a girl with kaleidoscope eyes

It took 25 years for the penny to drop on the real lyric.

[topanga]

A recent one:

From Bruno Mars's 24K Magic:

"Wearing Cuban links, designer minks"

what I heard:

"Wearing Cuban lifts, designer mist" --And I thought, hey, if short Bruno Mars admits to wearing lifts with his designer cologne, more power to him."

[bilgistic]

"Designer mist" makes me think of that knockoff line of perfume and body spray that was popular in the late 1980s. It was "designer" something... There was a fake Giorgio that was enormously popular. My mother had some. I thought it smelled awful.

[Popples]

My Chemical Romance "Famous Last Words"-

What I heard: Is it hard understanding, why men compete

Actual lyrics: Is it hard understanding, I'm incomplete

[topanga]

On 4/6/2017 at 8:44 PM, bilgistic said:

"Designer mist" makes me think of that knockoff line of perfume and body spray that was popular in the late 1980s. It was "designer" something... There was a fake Giorgio that was enormously popular. My mother had some. I thought it smelled awful.

Yes. I had the Giorgio mist, too. It was bad-- worse than the actual perfume. Which smelled like spicy cat pee. But I didn't care. That was THE scent when I was in high school. 

7 hours ago, Popples said:

My Chemical Romance "Famous Last Words"-

What I heard: Is it hard understanding, why men compete

Actual lyrics: Is it hard understanding, I'm incomplete

I don't know the song, but I still love your interpretation. 

Were the men competing for a woman's love, or were they competing in sports? Or something else?