Well Yes lyrics tend to not make much sense a lot of the time, so that to me fits nicely.

Maybe not misheard but a buddy of mine would always make parody of lyrics, and for the Rush song The Weapon, he would sing the chorus as, "He's a little bit afraid of dyin', but he's a lot more afraid of your pet lion." We also had a running joke debate if The Enemy Within lyrics were, "experience two extremes," or "experience to extremes."

awaken77 wrote: This is the best and the nastiest one: "Son, cumshot my way!" - Dream Theater, Bridges in the Sky originally it was Sun come shine my way Let's healing waters bury all my pain

That is the best one, alrighty! Good job.

Having only heard it on radio for years after it came out, and never hearing the song title, my brain somehow translated to make sense to my ears the words "Eminence Front" as "Livin' in a rut". Which, after finding out the real words and learning the meaning of the song, wasn't terribly off base.

From ELP's "Bitches Crystal"

Roxy Music: Bitters End

Original: At last the crimson chord cascade

Misheard: At last the Crimson Court Cascade

Thought they were big fans of King Crimson!

Edited by A_Flower - July 07 2015 at 09:32

Thought "There's no whitewash victim, As the neons dim, to the coat of white," from Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway was "The snow whitewash slicked him, As the neons dim to the code of white."

garfunkel wrote: Something just as annoying/funny as misheard lyrics is incorrect or misspelled lyrics in a cd booklet. One that I always think of is misspelling fox as focks in the 2008 Genesis Foxtrot release.  The misspelling may be made as a little joke but whenever I listen to the cd I remind myself of it and for whatever reason, I cringe.  Does anyone else feel this way?

It was spelled focks in the original LP lyrics, so it must have been a private joke of sorts.

terakonin wrote: Not prog, but in Midnight Oil's song Blue Sky Mine, I SWEAR Peter Garret sings "who's gonna shave me" instead of "who's gonna save me." You can't hear it any other way. To make it worse, he's bald.

That’s how I’ve always heard it.  It does sound like he makes a point of saying shave.

 

 

 

Edited by AreYouHuman - July 01 2015 at 23:52

I'd like to add in Radiohead's "No Surprises".

VDGG - Killer

Original: Fishes gone by, fishes gone by, fishes gone by

Misheard: B****s gone by, b****s gone by, b****s gone by

I just got my Gentle Storm album, and on the first song there's a line that goes "What I'd give to hold you in my arms", but it just sounded as if the line was "What I'd give to hold you in my arse". Of course I immediatley knew what was suposed to be the correct line (and confirmed it in the booklet)... but then the line came again in the song, and indeed it souds as if she was singing arse instead of arms.