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Misheard song lyrics

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OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 04/10/2023 09:10

Inspired by the song lyrics that bug you thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4907942-song-lyrics-that-bug-you?page=1

I thought it would be fun to do a misheard lyrics one.

Mine: Taylor Swift It looks like a perfect night to dress up as hamsters.

Which caused sufficient confusion I had to Google what the actual lyrics are.

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LauraNorda · 04/10/2023 16:58

Funkyslippers · 04/10/2023 16:22

LauraNorda you're probably right but I found 2 sources that say it's "a vision of love"

@Funkyslippers The lyrics insert that comes with the album the song is on says 'ambition and love'

https://www.discogs.com/master/36433-Aztec-Camera-Love/image/SW1hZ2U6MzYyNDI2MTU=

Aztec Camera - Love

Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Love by Aztec Camera. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.

https://www.discogs.com/master/36433-Aztec-Camera-Love/image/SW1hZ2U6MzYyNDI2MTU=

JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam · 04/10/2023 16:58

My favourite is one I saw on a Peter Kaye reel is Pat Benetar’s Hit me with your best shot….as Hit me with your pet shark.

I still sing hit me with your pet shark when I hear the song 😂

InMySpareTime · 04/10/2023 17:00

I'm always mishearing lyrics, I'm easily distracted and just sing any old shit if I don't know the words.

The Boxer
"Just a come on from the horse on seventh Avenue"
Firework
"Like a fart that you light"
Can't hold us
"Like the ceiling can told us"
Shape of you
"Last night sheep were in my room, now my bedsheets smell like ewe"

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Latenightreader · 04/10/2023 17:03

Like a Limestone camel (Like a Rhinestone Cowboy)

Just to come home from the war zone, 7th Avenue (just a come on from the whores on 7th Avenue) - Homeward Bound

and my favourite hymn at school “Don Sept, whoever he may be. “I am the Lord of the dance” said he.” I’d. Pictured a pied piper type figure leading people in a long conga line type dance as he played a pipe. Getting a hymn book in junior school was a bit of an eye opener.

Bbq1 · 04/10/2023 17:05

incognito50me · 04/10/2023 15:28

Charlie Puth's Attention. I could not for the life of me figure out what "You've been runnin' 'round, runnin' 'round, runnin' 'round throwin' that turtle on my name" was supposed to express.
(it's "that dirt all on my name" - not a natural expression, either)

Edited

Hah Our ds heard this as turtle on my knee at the time. Myself and dh listened and heard the same so you've just enlightened us all!

InMySpareTime · 04/10/2023 17:07

@Latenightreader he was always the Lord of the Damp Settee round here.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 04/10/2023 17:10

This reminds me of DD's friend, who is adamant that Lauv's "I like me better when I'm with you" is actually "I like meat better when I'm with you"

Don't forget Michael Jackson's "You're just another pot of meat" !

Also, Christina Perri and her jar of farts! She could sell those on eBay Grin

Picklemeyellow · 04/10/2023 17:16

I always thought Sister Sledge He’s the Greatest Dancer lyrics went ‘I wonder why, he’s the greatest dancer?’ When it’s actually ‘Oh, what, wow. He’s the greatest dancer’

I also can not hear Jason Derulo’s Want to Want Me without hearing ‘I’ve got the shits sheets on the floor’ 😂

And since watching Peter Kay’s clip on misheard lyrics, now all I hear is ‘Just let me staple the vicar’ when listening to We are Family!

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Funkyslippers · 04/10/2023 17:20

LauraNorda oh I used to love the lyrics inserts with tapes/records/CDs! Anyway, I stand corrected. Great song too

justasoul · 04/10/2023 17:22

DH is really bad at lyrics but a couple of weeks ago we were listening to music when eye of tiger came on and he sang with conviction “it’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight” Grin

Clawdy · 04/10/2023 17:22

I loved "Running Scared" as a teenager, but thought the last line was so sad, as he watches his love walk away with her ex. Years later when I saw the lyrics written down, I saw that last line was "You turned around and walked away with me!" I'd always heard it as "You turned around and walked away with heeeeeem!!"

menopausalmare · 04/10/2023 17:27

Queen, One Vision, end of extended version. "Gimme, gimme, gimme fried chicken".

ErrolTheDragon · 04/10/2023 17:28

WhatWillEyeCallMyself · 04/10/2023 15:05

The best mishearing of lyrics is Alanis Morissette's Oughtta Know. I can't hear the line "the cross I bear that you gave to me" without hearing "the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me" and imagining some angsty teen screaming into her hairbrush about a wonky looking teddy.

She nicked that from a hymn, the one featuring 'Gladly, my cross-eyed bear'.

JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam · 04/10/2023 17:29

menopausalmare · 04/10/2023 17:27

Queen, One Vision, end of extended version. "Gimme, gimme, gimme fried chicken".

That is the ending 😆

ErrolTheDragon · 04/10/2023 17:31

The weird break in 'after the boys of .... summer' meant that for years I heard it as 'after the poison' and then couldn't figure out what the rest of the line was.

randomrandom · 04/10/2023 17:31

Macy Gray, 'I Try'

I try to say goodbye and I choke
Try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try to hide it, it's clear
I wore goggles when you are not near

Instead of
My world crumbles when you are not near

InMySpareTime · 04/10/2023 17:34

@randomrandom in this house it's "I make crumbles when you are not here" in memory of a time I made and ate crumble before DH got home and left him only the washing up.

paulhollywoodshairgel · 04/10/2023 17:36

My DD thought the Taylor Swift lyric 'you look like my next mistake' was 'you look like a nice big steak'

Kate Bush I thought it was 'sweet heathcliff swept in cheese'

Bohemian Rhapsody-- 'bealzebub has the devil got a sideboard'

InMySpareTime · 04/10/2023 17:37

Summer of '69 was a whole lot ruder in my head "had my first real sex dream, oh when I was five and nine, played it 'till my fingers bled, was a summer of 69"

InMySpareTime · 04/10/2023 17:38

Bat out of Hell
"Cilla Black fan on a bike"

Latenightreader · 04/10/2023 18:03

justasoul · 04/10/2023 17:22

DH is really bad at lyrics but a couple of weeks ago we were listening to music when eye of tiger came on and he sang with conviction “it’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight” Grin

I read that and thought “yes, and?”

I now need to go and see what the real lyrics are…

justasoul · 04/10/2023 18:07

Latenightreader · 04/10/2023 18:03

I read that and thought “yes, and?”

I now need to go and see what the real lyrics are…

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DD laughed at DH and he did the same, straight to google Grin she informed him it’s thrill of the fight.

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OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 04/10/2023 18:09

Glad it’s not only me that has to goggle lyrics. Bit of a rubbish day so these have really cheered me up.

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TM1979 · 04/10/2023 18:16

Thank you for clearing this up for me, I thought it was ‘Young girl with eyes like San Pietro ’!

Also my mother used to sing that Cornell’s song 74/75 but with the lyrics…Said it before, said it be five 😁 What does that even mean?