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Originally posted by topographicbroadways topographicbroadways wrote:

Originally posted by ten years after ten years after wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Not particularly funny but on ELP's 'KE9 3rd impression' I always heard ''Guardians of a new clear dawn'' as ''Guardians of a nuclear zone''.
 
Isn't it "Guardians of a Nuclear dawn" ?

in the third impression i always misheard "No man yields who flies in my ship"
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"NO MAN YIELDS HIS FLIES IN MY SHED" 

I always heard it as "No man yields to flies in my ship," which seemed pretty ridiculous.  Didn't seem much of a brag.  I mean how surly are such sailors who might even give in to bluebottles?  
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Do you wanna be an angle? Do you wanna be a star? Do you wanna watch some porn on my VCR.

This was actualy: Do you wanna be angle? Do you wanna be star? Do you wanna play some magic on my guitar? By ELP
How I misheard these extremely simple lyrics is beyond me but it has made for some great laughs
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I have misheard all meshuggah songs xD
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For those who understand German:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjr0bIsxLtE
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Points: 65592 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2011 at 05:09
Originally posted by Ronnie Pilgrim Ronnie Pilgrim wrote:

Sometimes I hear the lyrics correctly, but make up my own anyway:

Led Zeppelin "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Hey lady
You've got a bug on your sleeve
Maybe more than one
Oh darling darling darling
Wave your arm wildly


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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2011 at 07:11
Waaaay back when I first started learning English, I was über sure that the lyrics in Do It! on Soft Parade by The Door were: Please please listen to me tuna! Instead of Please please listen to me CHILDRENLOL -And in listening to this weird shaman of the west, - you wouldn´t necessarily weed out the possibility that the guy actually was addressing the buggers beneath the waves. 
-I still hear it though....
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Originally posted by Jörgemeister Jörgemeister wrote:

this i heard it in a pearl jam show ( yeah, the grunge band)
Kiss "i wanna rock and roll all night and party every day"
heard as "i wanna rock and roll all night and part of every day"



Funny, and please take no offense to this, but "Grunge" is the last word I think of when I hear the name Pearl Jam.
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Thick As A Brick: So! Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?
And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
 
I thought it was: So! Where the hell was giggles when you needed him last saturday?
And all you morning glory seekers will use his name in doubt.LOL
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My friend still refused to acknowledge that the Claypool song is HENDERSHOT.  He constantly says it's Hearhshot and will find versions and keep playing it back to me saying things like "see right there they're definitely saying hear shot", but I listen and it definitely says Hendershot.  I make the syllable argument but it's to no use......No Steve, I think I'M right, you know since the song is called what I think they say.
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Like some others here, I misheard Games Without Frontiers very closely to what you all had, but I heard "She's So Popular" which makes more sense than Fun-clear or whatever. Stupid introduction of French.

As for the Beatles which someone mentions on the first page, like Bob Dylan I also hear "I get high" instead of "I can't hide" in I want to hold your hand. Dylan was supposedly therefore shocked when he found the Beatles weren't already using "the stuff", so he helped them out. True story.
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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2011 at 00:20
I always heard the lyric in Close To the Edge as:
 
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace
 
Which I must have mis-heard, surely.


Edited by jammun - April 01 2011 at 00:20
Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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VDGG - sleepwalkers:

The columns of the night advance,
infectiously, their cryptic dance
gathers converts to the fold -
in time the whole raw world will pace"

The colours of the night advance,
Infectiously, their cryptic Dam.
Carries toilets to the foul
In time the Horror World will pace etc...

I used to sing it like that when i first listened ahaahah, even though it didnt make any sense.


Edited by silcir - April 01 2011 at 11:28
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One of the funniest I've heard is from Creedence Clearwater Revival:
 
Don't go out tonight
It's bound to take your life
There's a baboon on your eyes.
 
But the best was when my brother was little and would walk around the house singing that great Deep Purple hit
"Slow Cousin Walter". I still tease him about it decades later.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

One of the funniest I've heard is from Creedence Clearwater Revival:
 
Don't go out tonight
It's bound to take your life
There's a baboon on your eyes.
 

There's also:

Don't go out tonight
It's bound to take your life
there's a bathroom on the right. 
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Points: 2822 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2011 at 12:39
Originally posted by Takeshi Kovacs Takeshi Kovacs wrote:

For some unfathomable reason I always used to sing...

"Who was broken by trained personnel" from Dogs by Pink Floyd, as:

"He was taken by train to Seville".

Confused


Me too!
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Originally posted by TheGazzardian TheGazzardian wrote:

In Games Without Frontiers, I thought the female voice was saying, "She's so Funk-u-ler" instead of "jeux sans Fron-ti-ers"


I thought it was "She's so frustrated".
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by zachfive zachfive wrote:

KC - One More Red Nightmare:
Actual lyrics - "Sweat began to pour down, my neck as I turn round"
Misheard - "Sweat began to pour down, my knickers as I turn round"
that is the funniest so farLOL

Wait what!? I thought this is what it was!
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Originally posted by DisgruntledPorcupine DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:

Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Correct: You radiate cold shafts of broken glass.
Misheard: You really ate cold shaft and broken glass


Correct:  Pig stain on your fat chin, what do you hope to find?

Misheard:  Pig stain on your fat chin, I know you're ultra-fried


(I am a big collector of misheard song lyrics.  I don't think I have too many that are prog though.)
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^ Give them anyway, they are funny.
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Points: 12810 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2011 at 20:36
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:


Originally posted by Takeshi Kovacs Takeshi Kovacs wrote:

For some unfathomable reason I always used to sing..."Who was broken by trained personnel" from Dogs by Pink Floyd, as:"He was taken by train to Seville".Confused
Me too!


Another one. I hadn't payed attention to the lyrics on the booklet, so until now I thought that was the right one.
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