Misheard Lyrics

a good and most certainly intended one is on "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway":
"Caryl Chessman sniffs the air and leads the parade.
he knows, in a scent, you can bottle all you made".
"in a scent" sounds like "innocent". Caryl Chessman was convicted of being the "Red-light bandit" in 1948 and finally executed in 1960, although there were serious doubts about his guilt. he died in the gas chamber ("in a scent").  read about the Caryl Chessman case at these sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryl_Chessman
http://www.prisonsucks.com/carylchessman/
http://cwis.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/scandals/chessman.html

gr8dane wrote: Yes there are 2 books out here in North America, full of them.   Hendrix 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky'.   heard as 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy'

I heard that there was a site dedicated to misheard lyrics called www.kissthisguy.com in 2001 .... don't think its functional now though.

One of my frnds actually thought Hendrix was gay after hearin these lyrics !!!

"Life is a lasagne" (Jethro Tull: Life's a Long Song)

Surely life is a minestrone, not  a lasagne?

I've just remembered the famous Whitesnake mis-quote "Anal love in the heart of the city".

I have an Italian book of Pink Floyd's lyrics, it's really crammed with
mistakes. A funny one is from San Tropez:
"making a date with Rita Pavone" (Rita Pavone is an Italian light pop
singer, she was pretty famous here in the 60s and 70s)
real lyrics:
"making a date for later by phone"
I swear I really heard Waters sing that line until I found a site
with the correct words

Citanul wrote: Matti wrote: Wow! Another example of Peter Gabriel's gift of playing with word meanings! (I'm really starting to think he's No 1 of prog lyricists, if I had any doubt before.) If you enjoy wordplay in lyrics, you should take a look at some of Skyclad's lyrics.  I don't know what your taste in music is, so I don't know if you'd like them, but you can find a list of the puns in their lyrics here.

I just looked at the Skyclad puns, and the first (The Great Brain Robbery) was used by Amon Düül 2 already on their album "Made in Germany" in the song "Metropolis" ("But Fritz (they mean Fritz Lang, director of "Metropolis"), don't trust in me, beware of the great brain robbery")


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Citanul wrote: Matti wrote: Wow! Another example of Peter Gabriel's gift of playing with word meanings! (I'm really starting to think he's No 1 of prog lyricists, if I had any doubt before.) If you enjoy wordplay in lyrics, you should take a look at some of Skyclad's lyrics.  I don't know what your taste in music is, so I don't know if you'd like them, but you can find a list of the puns in their lyrics here.

 Thanks, I may check 'em sometimes (never heard), but actually lyrics are not the reason whether I like some band/artist or not. If I don't like it musically, great lyrics don't help. I enjoy wordplay in general (done palindroms, anagrams, crosswords etc myself) but it's only a part in Gabriel's great lyrics. 

VdGG, Lemmings: What cause is there left but to die?

Misheard as: What causes a leppard to die?

Another very commen mishearing is: "brick in the wall" as in "all in all you're just another brick in the wall" Misheard as "breaking the wall" without taken into consideration that in context it would make absolutely no sense.

Another good one in the PF vein:

ABitW pt. 3: "We don't need no thought control"

Msheard as: "We don't need no birth control"     

Genesis - Invisible Touch

Real lyrics: "She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah."

Misheard lyrics: "She seems to have an invisible duck sh*t."

Prodigal wrote: Genesis - Invisible Touch Real lyrics: "She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah." Misheard lyrics: "She seems to have an invisible duck sh*t."

Or this one:

"She seems to have an invisible cu*t, OH!!"

Paul Young on the song “Every Time You Go Away”

 

I hear:   Every time you go away

             You take a piece of meat with you

 

It says:  Every time you go away

             You take a piece of me with you