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It's Been a Hard Day's Night and I've been Walking Like a Dog - Share Your Most Embarrassing Mondegreens
- Thread starter Falselogic
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I don't even want to know what the actual words are, those will always be the lyrics to me.
nosimpleway
(he/him)
I parsed it as "I can sing a song for all who we love" but I've never actually looked it up
A few more:
-When I was a kid, I used to hear the Doobie Brothers' "It Keeps You Running" as "Let's Be Two Robbers."
-In Radiohead's song "Sulk," the line "When the loving comes and we've already gone" always sounded like "When a man becomes a weevil, pray to God" to me.
-In Queen's "Somebody to Love," even though I know Freddie Mercury is singing "I just keep losing my beat," I can't help but hear "I just keep losing my beans."
-When I was a kid, I used to hear the Doobie Brothers' "It Keeps You Running" as "Let's Be Two Robbers."
-In Radiohead's song "Sulk," the line "When the loving comes and we've already gone" always sounded like "When a man becomes a weevil, pray to God" to me.
-In Queen's "Somebody to Love," even though I know Freddie Mercury is singing "I just keep losing my beat," I can't help but hear "I just keep losing my beans."
I'm not super familiar with the song, but most native speakers pronounce "rain" and "reign" the exact same way, so it's a pretty subtle difference.
I was thinking "all who feel love" but I'm not positive either.
My eight-year-old daughter told us a great one the other day: she thought the lyric in "Everybody Talks": "it started with a whisper; and that was when I kissed her" was "it started with a whisper; and then I hurt my keister." I don't even know where she learned the word "keister."
4-So
Spicy
Wrong: "Sweet dreams are made of these"
Correct: "Sweet dreams are made of this"
Got it wrong for years, which seems to be super common because of how much it sounds like Annie Lennox (or Marilyn Manson) is saying "these". The Weezer cover gets a little closer; the Emily Browning cover is clearly "this".
Another popular one:
Wrong: "I miss the rains down in Africa"
Correct: "I bless the rains down in Africa"
Correct: "Sweet dreams are made of this"
Got it wrong for years, which seems to be super common because of how much it sounds like Annie Lennox (or Marilyn Manson) is saying "these". The Weezer cover gets a little closer; the Emily Browning cover is clearly "this".
Another popular one:
Wrong: "I miss the rains down in Africa"
Correct: "I bless the rains down in Africa"
Doesn't help that the ends of the two following lines ("disagree" and "seas") both rhyme with "these", either.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
"This" makes no sense and I'm sticking with the original due to that rhyming issue
Another one: "I guess it rains down in Africa".
I always found one part of Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues" confusing.
Correct:
Correct:
How I heard it for over thirty years:
I figured it out on my own, but it took a couple times hearing it on the radio before I figured out what a "b-b-b-bunker face" was.
...I have stepped closer to enlightenment today.
...I have stepped closer to enlightenment today.
For some reason I'm almost incapable of hearing lyrics correctly on the first go. Nearly everything on the radio sounded like nonsense to me as a kid. I'll probably think of lots of things to add to this thread. The first one that jumps to mind is Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer." I always heard the lyric as
Which I still think is kind of cool.
I didn't have a mondegreen for this one, but I've heard at least one person talk about how they heard the lyric as "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief," and they always wondered who this mysterious Thunder Chief might have been.
Which I still think is kind of cool.
I didn't have a mondegreen for this one, but I've heard at least one person talk about how they heard the lyric as "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief," and they always wondered who this mysterious Thunder Chief might have been.
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
I suppose it would speak to you, Dracula.
-In The Zombies' "Time of the Season," for a long time I thought that the chorus was (appropriately enough) "It's the time of the season for zombies" rather than "it's the time of the season for loving."
-In Pink Floyd's "Pigs (Three Different Ones)," the singer mockingly addresses the subject of the song several times with the line "ha ha, charade you are." I had assumed that Roger Waters was singing "I should write you up."
-In Pink Floyd's "Pigs (Three Different Ones)," the singer mockingly addresses the subject of the song several times with the line "ha ha, charade you are." I had assumed that Roger Waters was singing "I should write you up."
I heard "For Your Love" this morning, and while I know the words are:
"To thrill you with delight
I'll give you diamonds bright"
I couldn't keep from hearing it as:
"To thrill you with delight
I'll give you diamond Sprite"
This has been the Yardbirds, on behalf of Coca-Cola Inc.
"To thrill you with delight
I'll give you diamonds bright"
I couldn't keep from hearing it as:
"To thrill you with delight
I'll give you diamond Sprite"
This has been the Yardbirds, on behalf of Coca-Cola Inc.
Yep, that's the one.
4-So
Spicy
I'm willing to petition for these to become the official lyrics.
nosimpleway
(he/him)
If we're going to do baffled interpretations of heavily-accented lyrics in DDR songs, Hot Limit is right there. "We chase salmon home; we drink Ritalin", indeed.
I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rinds
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
Swallow my doubt, turn it inside out
Find nothin' but faith in nothin'
Wallet for my tender
Heart in a blender
Watch it spin 'round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I'm through with you
I would choke on the rinds
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside
Swallow my doubt, turn it inside out
Find nothin' but faith in nothin'
Wallet for my tender
Heart in a blender
Watch it spin 'round to a beautiful oblivion
Rendezvous, then I'm through with you
ahh yeah, I forgot Hot Limit! A friend of mine in college attempted to invent a cocktail called "Ritalin" in honor of this. Unfortunately it was a "random stuff from my booze shelf" sort of concoction and it was terrible...
Another game from that era was Bust a Groove, one of whose songs had the line "as we race for the corner trying to come and go". Sounded to us like "As we race to find the cure for the common cold"!
John Mellencamp was a traditional element of family road trip soundtracks, and I've heard Pink Houses dozens of times. But I could not tell you with a shred of confidence what the man remembers his darling could do in the first verse. "I remember when you could start up love", maybe?