Misheard 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"     

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. 

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")


Edited by BaldJean

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

"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".

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 !!!

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

isn't the most famous one in pop anyway "Alex The Seal" instead of "Our Lips Are Sealed" The Go-Gos I think.

Here's some more from the Finnish publications:

"I love my style" (our love must die; Queen: Who Wants to Live Forever)
"So much goes on" (Queen: Show Must Go On)
"Life is a lasagne" (Jethro Tull: Life's a Long Song)
"Who you gonna call? Those bastards!" (Ghostbusters)

"I got my first real sex-dream (...six-string; Bryan Adams: Summer of '69)
"My lady dumped on me" (Cat Stevens: My Lady d'Arbanville)
"Lady Bee" (Beatles: Let It Be)
"Liquid on bidet" (Iron Maiden: Be Quick Or Be Dead)
"Babe, I hear you came" (...I'm here again; Take That: Babe)
"Wet golden dreams" (red, gold and green; Culture Club: Karma Chameleon)

"I got no eyeholes" (Juliana Hatfield: I Got No Idols)
"Butcher of the karate" (Bad Religion: Portrait of Authority)
"Girl, I'm leading you to my room" (...leaving you tomorrow; Faith No More: Easy)
"You can have your cake and Edith too" (Bob Dylan: Lay Lady Lay)

Dream Theater:

If you think you heard:
You really heard:

"I want to blow you now"
"I want to know you now" (from "Status Seeker")

"Watching mortality, I mow the lawn"
"Wanting mortality, I'm all alone" (from "The Killing Hand")

"I touched with Juan"
"I touched with one" (from "Afterlife")

"This world is spinning in sodomy"
"This world is spinning inside of me" (from "Pull Me Under")

"They took pictures of our trash"
"They took pictures of our dreams" (from "Another Day")

"The vulture has stood on his head"
"The fortune lies still in his hands" (from "Take the Time")

"Death is the first dancing turtle"
"Death is the first dance eternal." (from "Metropolis Part 1")

"She's been trying to leak again"
"She's been trying to link again" (from "Wait for Sleep")

"Nobody knows what they want, till they're fondling little girls"
"Nobody knows what they want, till they finally let it all go" (from "6:00")

"Sharing flashlights and vacations"
"Sharing flesh like envy in cages" (from "Innocence Faded")

"F*** this whore"
"Thought Disorder" (from "Voices")

"Sex is right here on my crucifix"
"Says it right here on my crucifix" (from "Voices")

"I feel the leg, I feel the breast, sex is death, death is sex"
"I feel elated, I feel depressed, sex is death, death is sex" (from "Voices")

"Let's start a party, it's Friday night"
"Let's stare the problem right in the eye" (from "The Mirror")

"Breaking delicate winds"
"Breaking delicate wings" (from "Lifting Shadows off a Dream")

"Won't let them feel me with their elastic rubbernads"
"Won't let them fill me with fatalistic remedies" (from "Scarred")

"And my son's not so bright"
"And my sun's not so bright" (from "A Change of Seasons")

"I was blinded by a pair of dice"
"I was blinded by a paradise" (from "A Change of Seasons")

"You ask me where's my hairspray?"
"You ask me why my hair's gray" (from "Burning My Soul")

"Strike up your best X-rated posture"
"Strike up your best angst-ridden posture" (from "Just Let Me Breathe")

"They invite your hands to feel their knees"
"They invite your hands to fill their needs" (from "Anna Lee")

"Offer the madman your seat"
"Open your mind and you'll see" (from "The Glass Prison")

They all work, I checked myself!