Misheard Lyrics
I was looking through a book that my cousin gave me before she left for Alaska. The book title is “Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy and Other Misheard Lyrics” by Gavin Edwards. I’m sure that we all have interpreted lyrics differently than what they are really saying. These are pretty amusing so I thought I’d share some of my favorite funny ones with you in this format:
Wrong Lyric
Artist
Song Title
Right Lyric
Artist
Song Title
Right Lyric
Scuse me while I kiss this guy
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Purple Haze
Scuse me while I kiss the sky
It’s a hard egg
Bonnie Tyler
It’s a Heartache
It’s heartache
I got shoes, they’re made of plywood
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
You’re the One That I Want
I got chills, they’re multiplying
Sweet dreams are made of cheese
Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Sweet dreams are made of this
We are the Mormons
Asia
Heat of the Moment
The heat of the moment
Mice aroma
The Knack
My Sharona
My Sharona
And there’s a wino down the road/I should have stolen Oreos
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
And as we wind on down the road/Our shadows taller than our souls
Take your pants down and make it happen
Irene Cara
Flashdance…What a Feeling
Take your passion and make it happen
Everytime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you
Paul Young
Everytime You Go Away
…You take a piece of me with you
You need Kool-Aid, baby I’m not foolin
Led Zeppelin
Whole Lotta Love
You need coolin; baby I’m not foolin
Secret Asian Man
Johnny Rivers
Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
Baking carrot biscuits
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Takin Care of Business
Takin care of business
Like a drifter I was born to wear cologne
Whitesnake
Here I Go Again
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
I’m mad about food, you’re mad about cheesecake
Belinda Carlisle
Mad About You
I’m mad about you, you’re mad about me, babe
She’s got a chicken to ride
The Beatles
Ticket to Ride
She’s got a ticket to ride
I wanna eat Twinkies with you
Silk
Freak Me
I wanna get freaky with you
Alex the Seal
or
Olives have feelings
The Go-Go’s
Our Lips Are Sealed
Our Lips are sealed
Our Lips are sealed
She wore raspberries and grapes
or
She wore rags, very good rags
Prince and the Revolution
Raspberry Beret
She wore a raspberry beret
Last night I dreamt of some bagels
Madonna
La Isla Bonita
Last night I dreamt of San Pedro
La Isla Bonita
Last night I dreamt of San Pedro
Love will get you like a case of Ex-Lax
Gang of Four
Anthrax
Love will get you like a case of anthrax
Anthrax
Love will get you like a case of anthrax
Lice! Lice! Lice! Yeah!
Thompson Twins
Lies
Lies! Lies! Lies! Yeah!
Lies
Lies! Lies! Lies! Yeah!
She’s got electric boobs, her mom has two
or
She’s got a lot of booze, Samoan Sue
Elton John
Bennie and the Jets
She’s got electric boots, a mohair suit
We’ll keep on farting until the end
Queen
We Are the Champions
We’ll keep on fighting until the end
My anus is the centerhole
J. Geils Band
Centerfold
My angel in the centerfold
And doughnuts make my brown eyes blue
Crystal Gayle
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
And don’t it make my brown eyes blue
Tuna hot-dog
Van McCoy
The Hustle
Do the hustle
A rooster or maybe even an idiot cheese
Rose Royce
Car Wash
A movie star or maybe even an Indian chief
My anus will fix it, you’re addicted to love
Robert Palmer
Addicted to Love
Might as well face it, you’re addicted to love
Ain’t no woman like the one-eyed Gott
The Four Tops
Ain’t No Woman
Ain’t no woman like the one I’ve got
Four-legged woman
Or
Bald-headed woman
The Bee Gees
More than a Woman
More than a woman
Looks like tomatoes
Barry Manilow
Looks Like We Made It
Looks like we made it
The way she brushed her hair and farted
Paul Simon
Graceland
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
Everybody’s got a hungry horse
Bruce Springsteen
Hungry Heart
Everybody’s got a hungry heart
The ants are my friends/They’re blowin in the wind
Bob Dylan
Blowin in the Wind
The answer, my friends, is blowin in the wind
Lay down the salad
Eric Clapton
Lay Down Sally
Lay down, Sally
There are spirits eating my Cheerios
The Police
Spirits in the Material World
Wee are spirits in the material world
I’ll never leave your pizza burnin
The Rolling Stones
Beast of Burden
I’ll never be your beast of burden
posted by HotFudge | 12:32 PM
10 Comments:
Reminds me of a couple long conversations I had a couple years ago. There's actually a word for this: Mondegreen
Cool, a new brain wrinkle with "Mondegreen". Thanks.
If I had to pick my favorite out of the list, I must say that "My anus is the centerhole" made me laugh the most.
those are hilarious. i remember reading somewhere that the lyrics to "our lips are sealed" was misinterpreted as "islands of seals".
i always wondered about this song, "blinded by the light" by manfred mann. what is up with this lyric? -----"Blinded by the light....racked up like a douche another rover in the night?"
i know that's now the lyrics but it sure SOUNDS like he's singing that!
thane,
thanks also for the new wrinkle. i enjoy and live for this stuff.
i remember once when my dad's ship was in san diego (i was about 14). we were driving and the song "groovin'" came on. my dad said that there has been some controversy over whether the artist says,
"life will be ecstacy, you and me endlessly... groovin', on a sunday afternoon.."
OR
"life will be ecstacy, you and me AND LESLIE... groovin', on a sunday afternoon.."
it wasn't until years later that i realized he was just messin' with me - whcih is good because i recall being disturbed that i was biologically related to someone who could be THAT much off the obvious mark..
mulysa,
actually i've heard that too about 'groovin' and that it may have referred to a threesome!
From "The Jeffersons" theme song:
The correct line: "As long as we live, it's you and me baby..."
What I heard: "As long as we live, you chewin' me baby..."
You know the Paul Simon song, "Diamonds on the soles of her shoes"
What is a "rollie pollie little bat faced girl"???
Does anyone know what the hell Pat Benatar is saying on her "We Belong" song?
It sounds like to me she's saying:
"We belong to the light/or life, we belong to the Buzzards."
Or: "We belong to the light/or life, we belong to each other."
When I told my aunt that Pat sounds like she's saying "The Buzzards" she couldn't stop laughing and said....."We'll, technically we do belong to the buzzards when we die".....After that comment, I couldn't stop laughing.
okay i looked it up and it's
"we belong to the night
we belong to the THUNDER"
i liked buzzards better
Oh, thats what she's saying; sure did fooled me. I like Buzzards better too.
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