Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello.
i’m listening To Stereophonics. I probably shouldn’t because I find listening to music doesn’t help me emotionally, it often makes me worse.
But a particular song came on and it got me thinking about misheard lyrics.
Do you have any funny misheard lyrics?
Graffiti on a train by stereophonics my dad thought he was singling, “little fitty on a train” now I can’t unhear those lyrics whenever that song comes on....
In Build me up Buttercup, by the zFoundationsI used to think they sang 'I'll be home, I'll bring my xylophone waiting for you".
And Copacabana by Barry Manilow I used to think was Co-op banana.
And I'm still convinced Gareth Gates sings he's " gonna deep fry now,"
I used to think that there was a line in that Evita song that went, "just a little bit of salt water tea" turns out its star quali-ty!
I always shout along with him, dear old Freddie
Had to go to youtube for this, really does sound like it
In Queen, another one bites the dust, I'm convinced he shouts "I'm not adopted!" in the speaky part.
And we also have misheard names.
My sister's best friend from childhood is a girl called OKSANA.
My mother spent her entire life, forty years, calling her BOX ANNA.
Except on 'Joker.'
And Gary Glitter has been written out of pop history. And is never mentioned these days
The Lostprophets were the Welsh band I was trying to mind.
I knew that the frontman is in jail for abuse. The video of the song was about a kids' show which was decadent off-screen.
It made me a bit uncomfortable.
Thanks for the.correction.
It's years since I heard the 'Sue Lawley' song.
'A Year has passed since I wrote my note.'
Message in a Bottle. (my favourite seventies song as a ravenous kid from the Britpop generation)
There is also So lonely. "Sue Lawley!"
The song from 2006 by a Welsh Emo band (forget their name) 'A town called hypocrisy'. I heard, "A town called Linford Christie!"
Another one is the Police song, message in a bottle, they sing, 'it's a year since I wrote my note.' I hear, 'it's a year since I broke my nose.'
I'm hopeless at thinking of examples of this kind of thing, even though I know it has surely happened to me. So I'll just add that if anyone fancies finding plenty more funny examples, Google "mondegreen", which is the jargon that linguists often use for it (from "laid him on the green" -> "lady mondegreen").
Fall out boys song, grand theft auto. When I listened to the bit where he sings "Where is you boy tonight" I thought he said "Where is your border knife"
Spent a solid two weeks trying to find out what a border knife was, until someone told me the actual lyrics
Partly due to old and worn club sound system, 'I predict a riot' became 'I call it tourette's' to my ears for a long time. I'm used to many lyrics making little sense to me anyway, so didn't realise until years after when I say youtube version with lyrics written out.
Chicken Tikka"!
Just remembered another one, I once heard my daughter singing the Ghostbusters theme tune, including the line "Who're you going to call? Those b*****ds." But I'm not sure whether this counts as misheard lyrics or being deliberately rude.
Another ABBA song, Super Trouper, has the line "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow..", and I always thought it was "when I called you last night from Tesco's." It still sounds like that to me.
Many,
ABBA singing Chiquitita, I heard, 'Chuck your teeth out.'
'I lost my heart to a starship trooper. ' Starship trooper? I'm sure they were singing draft excluder.