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26 Mar 2016, 1:33 pm

RE: "Blinded by the Light", Springsteen has gone on record joking that the song wasn't a hit until the Manfred Mann Band made it about female hygiene products. :P The mondegreen is mostly associated with the MM cover.

RE: "Crush", I used to mishear that line as "Not like I bleed, every time we touch".

Another common one is in Toto's "Africa":

The line "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti" is commonly misheard as "rises like a leopardess" (which people suppose is a female leopard) or "rises like a leperess" (which would be interpreted as female leper).

Instances such as Taylor Swift's ex-lovers line in Blank Space being misheard, are due to unconventional diction and pacing of certain lines; more specifically, the words are stressed in an unusual way. "Got a LONG list OF ex LO-vers", the mind thinks that the OF syllable, which is stressed, must surely be a more important word than 'of', which usually remains unstressed. So you get "STAR bucks lovers", "STAR crossed lovers", etc

As coincidence would have it, "Crush" was just now played on the radio as I was typing this post. :)


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26 Mar 2016, 1:36 pm

Whoops! The line in the Toto song is actually "rises like Olympus", not "rises like an empress". Just goes to show! :)


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26 Mar 2016, 2:33 pm

CyclopsSummers wrote:
Whoops! The line in the Toto song is actually "rises like Olympus", not "rises like an empress". Just goes to show! :)


I genuinely thought it was "rises like a memphis" I've only just realised that makes no sense. I've been singing that wrong for 30 years!

When I was a kid I thought they were singing "there's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do."

My favourite misheard lyric is from Feeder's Buck Rogers.
I heard "drinking cider from a lemon"
should be "drinking cider from eleven"
My way sounds way more decadent and kinda mental.

Another favourite I heard on the radio was the dj saying he misheard Kiss's Rock n Roll all Night as
"I'm gonna rock and roll all night and part of every day" and he thought, that's not very rock n roll if you're only going to rock n roll for part of the day.



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26 Mar 2016, 5:13 pm

"True Faith" by New Order

Misheard Lyrics:
I used to think that the day would never come
when I'd see the light in the shade of the morning sun

Original Lyrics:
I used to think that the day would never come
when I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun

Misheard Lyrics:
To the trout I lost, replaced right here.

Original Lyrics:
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear.


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27 Mar 2016, 2:44 pm

@hurtloam: here's the kicker: you can't even see Mt. Kilimanjaro from the Serengeti. The band just chose those two because it sounded good (and let's admit it, it does!). So the line ends up making as much sense as any of the misheard versions. :)


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27 Mar 2016, 4:08 pm

I've got a funny one from the classic Losing My Religion by REM.

Misheard Lyric:

"Let's pee in the corner. Let's pee in the spotlight"

Actual Lyric:

"That's me in the corner. That's me in the spotlight"



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27 Mar 2016, 4:14 pm

Kenya wrote:
I've got a funny one from the classic Losing My Religion by REM.

Misheard Lyric:

"Let's pee in the corner. Let's pee in the spotlight"

Actual Lyric:

"That's me in the corner. That's me in the spotlight"


IMO, I think many people, fans of REM or not, know about this misheard lyric. :lol:


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27 Mar 2016, 4:38 pm

"In The Air Tonight"

Misheard Lyrics:
I can feel you combing in my hair tonight.

Original Lyrics:
I can feel it comin' in the air tonight.

Misheard Lyrics:
If you told me you were drumming, I would not lend a hand.

Original Lyrics:
If you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand.

Misheard Lyrics:
It's all been a pack of lice.

Original Lyrics:
It's all been a pack of lies.


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28 Mar 2016, 4:31 pm

From Rune Factory 3: Opening Song
Misheard Lyrics: Fry higher and higher! Rare rings of love fry *unintelligible*
Real Lyrics: Fly higher and higher! Let wings of love fly over me!

From Within Temptation [my favourite band]: Our Solemn Hour
Misheard Lyrics: Santas in speedos! We demons run on solar power! [Apparently a fair number of people thought those were the actual lyrics, but I, thankfully, have the lyric booklet with the CD... :lol: ]
Real Lyrics: Sanctos Espiritos Redeem us from our solemn hour
[My ability to spell in Latin is not so great...]


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29 Mar 2016, 9:06 pm

From Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville" song:

An actual line: "Searching for my lost shaker of salt"

What I heard: "Searching for my lost chigger saw" (whatever that is, LOL)


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30 Mar 2016, 1:44 pm

mattarga wrote:
From Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville" song:

An actual line: "Searching for my lost shaker of salt"

What I heard: "Searching for my lost chigger saw" (whatever that is, LOL)


In the same vein, Come Monday isn't "I spent 4 lonely days in a brown yellow haze", as many first thought. :lol:

LA haze. :wink:


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01 Apr 2016, 5:59 am

Well...

If Tony Bennett can leave his "heart in San Francisco" then why couldn't the lead singer of Toto "leave his brains down in Africa"? :D



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13 Jun 2017, 8:26 pm

NSYNC's It's Gonna Be Me: "It's Gonna Be MAY!"



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14 Jun 2017, 2:32 pm

"I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys

Misheard Lyric:
Ain't nothing but a big steak

Real Lyric:
Ain't nothing but a mistake


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01 Jul 2017, 3:27 am

In the song All Over You by Live. Instead of hearing

Quote:
our love is like water
pinned down and abused for being strange
our love is no other
than me alone for me all day
our love is like water


I hear
Quote:
I love beans like walter
pinned down and abused for being strange
I love beans no other
than me alone for me all day
I love beans like walter



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01 Jul 2017, 6:44 pm


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sr1pkAoa-E

Misheard lyrics
My goat knows the bowling score, hallelujah
My goat knows the bowling score, hallelujah
Sid's new hair is in the mail, hallelujah ...

Original lyrics
Michael, row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Michael, row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Sister, help to trim the sail, hallelujah ...


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