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Points: 571 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2006 at 20:26
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

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


Peter Gabriel was one hell of a lyricist.
How wonderful to be so profound
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Points: 382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2006 at 20:51

My sister was playing System of a Down and a song came on that says 'Spirit goes through all things' and my mum thought it was saying 'spherical droppings' because it rushes the middle words
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Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Heard as: Let me sleep on air
Real: Let me sleep on it

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name

Heard as: Shut the f*** up
Real: Motherf***er

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Heard as: Africa comfortably numb
Read: I have become, comfortably numb


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Points: 8543 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2006 at 23:38
Who has misheard all of these lyrics?  The brain damaged?  "Africa, comfortably numb"????  That doesn't even make sense.  I gotta call bulls**t on that one.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2006 at 23:46
No no, I did when I was in my teenage years.  I always have had difficulty hearing lyrics properly.  I guess I just hadn't listened close enough.

All of mine are genuine misheard lyrics I have heard, not just off a website.
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Cranberries "Zombie":

"In my hair" instead of "In my head"
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2006 at 01:49
Originally posted by NecroManiac NecroManiac wrote:

We don't need no fornication
We don't need no thought control
No stark pervasion in the churchroom
Preacher leve them kids alone


NO WAY!
 
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Originally posted by gr8dane gr8dane wrote:

Yes there are 2 books out here in North America, full of them.

 

Hendrix

'Scuse me while I kiss the sky'.

 

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'Scuse me while I kiss this guy'


I always misheard it as 'scuse me as I touch the sky'.
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I was always amused by This Mortal Coil's version of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren". Obviously unable to decipher his lyrics, they sang "were you hare when I was fox?" as "where you here when I was fossil?".
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Van Der Graff Generator - Killer

Actual lyrics:
On a black day, in a black month, at the black bottom of the sea
Your mother gave birth to you and died immediately
'Cause you can't have two killers...

Misheard lyrics:
'Cause you cut her to kippers
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Yes - America

real: "Michigan seems like a dream to me now"

misheard: "The Chicken seems like a dream to me now"
"my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III")
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The Box Tops - The Letter

'Give me a chicken or an aeroplane' - actual lyric 'Give me a ticket for an aeroplane'

Phil Collins - I Missed Again

'Am I pissed again? Looks like I'm pissed again, uh huuuh' - actual lyric 'Did I miss again?'. In the UK 'pissed' describes being in a state of profound alcoholic relaxation, btw.

 
'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom


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Points: 376 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2006 at 15:11
Yes - Sound Chaser

Actual line is:
"And what touches our souls".
But with Jon Anderson's Lancashire accent it sounds like:
"And what touches arseholes"
"It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt
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Points: 31361 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2006 at 09:01

Slayer - South of Heaven - 03 - Live Undead (1988):

Real lyrics:

A cannibal's desire feeds the fire
that burns in your head.

Misheard as:

A cannon's desire feeds the fire purse in your head.
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2006 at 10:21

Originally posted by Drachen Theaker Drachen Theaker wrote:

Yes - Sound Chaser

Actual line is:
"And what touches our souls".
But with Jon Anderson's Lancashire accent it sounds like:
"And what touches arseholes"

 "our souls" is always a very dangerous phrase to use in a song.
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Points: 1043 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2006 at 10:43
For many years in Animals House Of Rising Sun I heard:

There is a house in New Orlean"

as:

There is a house and you are in"

I know what I like and I like what I know...

Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul...
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Points: 88 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2006 at 10:51

There are 2 that really stick in my head from when I was a kid.

In Quiet Riot's Cum on Feel the Noize, me and my friends sat around the speakers for hours debating whether they said "Girls rock your boys" or "Girls F*&K your boys".  We never did figure it out for sure.

And this one is all me: for the longest time, I heard "no dogs or cats are in the classroom". I thought it was terrible that Pink Floyd wouldn't let kids bring their pets to school!

Also, at the end of Queen's One Vision, I still swear that Freddie Mercury sings "Gimme gimme gimme...Fried Chicken"

Love this thread!

 



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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2006 at 12:31
Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

TOTO-Africa

Real lyrics:

I bless the rains down in Africa

Misheard as:
I've led some raids down in Africa

 

 I always heard: "I guess the rain's down in Africa"...
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Points: 362 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2006 at 05:57
Originally posted by viperjr98 viperjr98 wrote:

Also, at the end of Queen's One Vision, I still swear that Freddie Mercury sings "Gimme gimme gimme...Fried Chicken"

Love this thread!

 

You didn't misheard!!! He actually says "Fried Chicken"!!!!

"my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III")
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Points: 376 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2006 at 07:19
Originally posted by porter porter wrote:


You didn't misheard!!! He actually says "Fried
Chicken"!!!!



I also heard a version where he sings "one sex
position" instead of "one true religion"!
"It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt
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