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Taking random musings a hop to the left and a step to the right...
I'll admit to the following misunderstood lyrics in my life... (though not necessarily sung wrong by me)
Take the back right turn (Paperback Writer) Shake, Shake, Shake your water (Shake Sonora) I think they got your Elliot (Correct line, "I think they got your alias" from Gloria)
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lock the cashbox. hehe. real line is Rock the Casba. theres a lot there, but I cant think of any others right now...
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I'm fond of spotting bad or redundant grammar...I'm fondest of the example in Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die": "...if this ever-changing world in which we live in..."
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You could get some Bob Dylan live tracks, and play "guess what song Dylan's singing before he gets to the chorus."
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From the Wallflowers' "One Headlight" I always thought it said "the incinerator" instead of "me and Cinderella" until I heard my husband singing along to it a couple of years ago.
Man did I feel dumb!
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I could put up what I thought the lyrics to "Hotel California" were, but one of the words is obscene---actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure they're not singing that word.
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have you ever listened to a song and realized that it would sound pretty much the same backwards?
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Ten Years Gone- Led Zeppelin In Your Eyes- Peater Gaberial In My Time Of Dieing- Led Zeppelin
were did the last 10 years go? last thing i remember i was stoned and tosted in VA and trippin on a little LSD and i wake up its 2009 i was like what just happened? damn time for being so fast.
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Whenever I hear the line 'I can't hide" from "I want to hold your hand", I keep hearing: "I get high"...
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OK I've had this argument 1,000 times. In the chorus of Nirvana's Rape Me, does he say "Am I the only one" ? or does he say "I'm not the only one" ?
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Let's get it started...(which is actually corect in the PC version.) Uncensored version doesn't really make sense, it is: Let's get retarded.
Not really a misunderstood lyric, but closest thing I got. Paperback writer is a great song. Shame on you, JohnMac, for misunderstanding the lyrics. Shame.(Rubs one index finger along other tsk tsking.)
Is Tiny dancer what that misunderstood lyric comes from? Could it be a fruedian slip. Perhaps you want Tony Danza to hold you? Or perhaps Elton John does? I dunno.
Do you know who killed Laura Palmer? I do, but I'm not saying.
I love Twin Peak's.
Oh, and music... Well, my son sings I'm a child of God where the lyric says "with parents kind and dear" he sings "with parents kind of weird." which is true so I don't correct him. ~Sheena
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I've seen three different sets of lyrics for "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" (The Hollies), and I believe none of them.
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I finally heard it correctly the other night on the radio, discovering to my surprise that he said Dreadlock Rasta, which makes a lot more sense than what I'd always thought: Travell'd across tha...
I guess it's my whole not-bothering-to-really-listen thing when it comes to music on the radio.
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In the Metallica cover of the Misfits's Green Hell, on Garage Days ReRevisited, there's a break in the song in which I heard: "God of Po-ta-toes...Green Hell" (the real line is "Gonna Burn in Hell...Green Hell").
And Ozzy's Bark at the moon, I thought (and it really didn't make sense) "Knows what the beast is looking for; listening for and you'll hear him, Bark at the Moon"--the real version makes much more sense: "Those who the beast is looking for, listen in awe and you'll hear him...Bark at the moon."
My mother used to freak when I'd play Testament's Low (which is about punishing child molesters). She always heard "Lu-ci-fer Saves...", but the line was "Show some mercy."
My cousin thought the Green Jelly (Jello for all of us old-schoolers) song Cereal Killer was talking about "Folow your nose, it always knows, the flavor of derbs wherever it goes. Toucan the Son of Sam...", when it was actually, "Follow your nose, it always knows, the flavor of death, wherever it goes. Toucan the Son of Sam..."
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Here are a few of my faves. I always sing (badly) the wrong lyrics any time I hear these songs. Although I now know better, it's just so much fun.
“Death is the first dancing turtle” - should be “Death is the first dance, eternal” from Metropolis Pt. 1 by Dream Theater
“She’s so popular” - should be “Jeux sans frontieres” from Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel
“I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day” - should be “... and party every day” from Rock and Roll All Nite by KISS
and finally (cover your eyes kids)
“Me shoot a wad into her hair” - should be “I smell the rose in her hair” ...allegedly... From Louie, Louie by the Kingsmen
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