Tears in Heaven
[chorus]
I must be strong == I must destroy
Lets hear em
Pearl Jam; Daughter
Center of a Rhododendron = Center of he own attention.
Always loved Eddie making fun of Mike for thinking the Kiss lyrics were, “I wanna rock n roll all night, and part of every day.”
Pearl Jam feels like cheating.
Here’s the classic Yellow Ledbetter
I still don’t know the full lyrics of even flow. Every time I hear it fucks with my head and I forget the words.
Yellow Ledbetter doesn’t count. It’s mumbled in recordings because the lyrics change over time to adapt to whatever conflict we’re currently wasting life on.
“Gimme fries”
How have I never heard this. That was great.
From high school until two or three weeks ago, I thought the lyrics for Limp Bizkit’s “Just Like This” were concerned about John Goodman’s weight.
“…and we make sure that John Goodman beats fat”
The song randomly popped into my head a few weeks ago, and I was like “wait, that can’t be right”. So I looked up the correct lyrics which are “And we made sure that John kept them beats phat”
I just breathed a sigh of relief that John Goodman is not the subject of a Limp Bizkit song…
I was once listening to The Pillows’ “I Think I Can” around a friend. Japanese band, lots of their songs are in English but you’d never know through the singer’s heavy Japanese accent. He repeats the titular line a lot in the song and my friend thought he was singing “I lick my cunt.”
That was 15 years ago and it’s still all I hear when I listen to the song.
Golden Earring - Radar Love
We’ve got a thing that’s called
red hot loveWe’ve got a wave in the air
Red hot loveIn my defense, I was hearing this over sometimes-fuzzy analog radio rather than off a tape or CD where the track title might clue me in. Less defensible: not noticing the other words that make more sense when talking about radar.
I always thought it was redeye love, in the same context as a redeye flight.
SureSure
I always thought that song was “Red Alert”
Acting funny, but I don’t know why… 'Scuse me while I
kiss the skykiss this guyHendrix. Purple Haze
There’s gotta be, like a separate… Thing… For when the lyrics you misheard make more sense than what the lyrics actually are.
If there is, the word for it is definitely German
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I used to work with this guy who swore the lyrics to Beast of Burden by The Rolling Stones were, “Don’t wanna be, your pizza’s burnin’”.
I will never accept that it’s not. I would say that the correct lyrics are “pizza burner”, though.
I can’t believe this is 15 years ago. Still hear these in the song today. https://youtu.be/VWqC4KKiVbU
Twenty years ago, Buffalo, NY. The Fat of the Land by Prodigy was still huge. A dancer in a strip club thought “Smack my Bitch Up” was “Snap my Picture”. True story.
Freed from desire - Gala Rizzatto. I always thought it was “My love has got no money, he’s got his trumbalyse” and I never knew what a trumbalyse was.
Also Peter Kay did a great bit around misheard lyrics.
Israelites is a classic.
Me ears are alight.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Ni**asfight on the hill in the early day…” == Make hisThe Toadies “Possum Kingdom”
I’m not gonna lie
I’ll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I’ll show you mydark secretdashikiThere this French fold band, Skáld that usually sings in Old Norse language. In the song Hross, the first line of the chorus is “Hverir eru þeir tveir?”. The way they sing those first two words sounds like “Fevereiro”, which is the Portuguese (my native language) word for February.
