July 7, 2008
Dear Clusterflock
What song lyrics were you mistaken about?
Example:
Real lyric: A girl with kaleidescope eyes
Misheard lyric: The girl with colitis goes by
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What song lyrics were you mistaken about?
Example:
Real lyric: A girl with kaleidescope eyes
Misheard lyric: The girl with colitis goes by
19 Responses to “Dear Clusterflock”
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“We shall come rejoicing,
bringing in the cheese.”
Real Lyric: “L.A. Woman”
Misheard: “Alien Woman”
And I didn’t actually know this until like a week ago….
Real:
“Blinded by the light! Dressed up like a douche, another motor in the night.”
Misheard:
“Blinded by the light! Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.”
Whoops, swap the labels on those. Although, really, which one feels more real?
Also of note: Misheard Song Lyrics.
“…misheard song lyrics (also called mondegreens)”
And then I wikipedied it.
Real lyric: “Return to sender/Address unknown”
Misheard lyric: “Return to cinder/Address unknown”
I had a vague notion it had something to do with burning a love letter.
“Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you.”
Heart’s “Crazy on You” as “Gravy on You”. This might fit well with Cindy’s misheard Paul Young lyric.
Oh, and Nirvana’s Aneurysm:
Misheard: “She keeps a puppet string to my heart.”
Actual: “She keeps it pumpin’ straight to my heart.”
I like mine better.
Journey
So now I come to you, with broken arms
Nothing to hide, believe what I say
So here I am with broken arms
Hoping you’ll see what your love means to me
Broken arms
The Smiths “The Headmaster Ritual”
Misheard 1: “Please excuse me sergeant / I’ve got this terrible cold coming on.”
Misheard 2: “Please excuse me St . John / I’ve got this terrible cold coming on.”
Actual: “Please excuse me from gym / I’ve got this terrible cold coming on.”
I only figured out what it was after watching Radiohead’s version of the song here on clusterflock.
Alanis Morisette “You Oughta Know”
Line: I’m happy for you
My housemate thought: I have beef for you
misheard lyrics = mondegreens
A Toto classic:
Heard: “And I guess it rains down in Africa…”
Real: “I bless the rains down in Africa.”
The strangest revelation of Googling these lyrics, though, was that it really does say “There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.” I suppose great songs don’t need meanings.
And, Garret, thank you. That one has been bothering me for years, and I always forget it somewhere between the car and the computer.
Van Morrison (can’t come up with song title, but either from Into the Mystic or St. Dominic’s…
Heard - got a hormone high
Actual - got a home on high
Whoops - My Van Morrison example was Astral Weeks from Astral Weeks.
Garrett, I second the thank you, I was sure that it was douche!
Cold Chisel’s classic Khe Sahn: I can never work out if it’s the last train or the last plane out of Sydney that’s almost gone. I have deliberately avoided looking it up, because I kind of like not being sure.
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Sheila, your cinder reminds me of another…When I was young, really young, when I’d sing along at church, “And I’ll cherish the old rugged cross…”
I couldn’t fathom why a carpeted cross or why I should cherish it “until my burdens, at last, I lay down.” Or fathom “burdens” for that matter. Now, years later, I kind of fathom the burden thing.
Real Lyric: …”and I gave him a vegemite sandwich.”
Misheard: “and I a gave him a bit of my sandwich.”
Long before I knew what vegemite was.