-- Songs you heard in your youth in which you got the lyrics wrong?
 

Which songs did you all foul up the lyrics to as a young-ling?

Here's one of mine:

"I'm not talking about Bolivia - and I don't want to change your mind."


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I'll bet that someone still tries telling me that it's not Secret Asian Man

Hold me closer Tony Danza

Every. Word.

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That teddy bear that Marky Mark hung out with was right as this is one of the many songs by bands of the nineties where ya can just use vowels to sing along

Lover boys “heat of the moment” I always thought was pee out the corners when I was a kid.

That's just good advice

The only one that really stuck with me was I just assumed that Jack and Diane were counting on the bottle bounce to save their soul.

Probably because I knew they were two American kids livin' in the heartland, and always assumed that the bible belt was further south. So I never made the connection.

Or when a guy ya work with alters the lyrics to "A little ditty 'bout Joseph Stalin"

Changes come 'round real soon make you swimmin' for land.

Nice. Or a supervisor from years ago singing "Millions of bitches, bitches for me"

ROFL That's excellent!

Carry a laser down the road that I must travel

my parents said when I was like 4 years old, i was singing along to music on the radio. some song with lyrics "Why did you leave me Lucille", but I was singing it as "Why did you leave me, loose wheel".


my dad used to replace the lyrics from George Strait's "Fool Hearted memory"; instead of Foooooool, hearted memory" etc, he would say "Whoooooo farted, next to me"?
to this day, I still sing it like that if I ever hear it.

Steve Miller Band

"Oh, big ol' jet airliner..."

Those are the lyrics. :spock:

For YEARS, I thought this line in Runnin' With The Devil:

I got no love, no love you'd call real

Was this instead:

I got no love, no love in Korea

I am the pool guy by Kid Rock. I think that it's actually bull god

It DOES sound like that!

Aerosmith - DooDoo's like a lady...

Bullet Boys - Smooth Opinion

I, like everyone I grew up with thought this. Some people even today don't believe me when I correct them.

Just pack my teeth before you leave me.....

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Get your money for nuthin' and your chips for free.

yup lol

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Had a friend who thought Metallica song was "Crazy clown King nothing"

It's the way he says real, like "ree-al".

I always thought it was “Big ol Jed had a lighter”

+1

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LMAO

Literally every word of every song sung by Sting.

Can't believe nobody mentioned 'wrapped up like a douche'

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=/= Baking Carrot Biscuits

He was mumbling the words through his songs long before the Boss started doing it

https://youtu.be/CwAhuEVuM7c

ROFL

Every girls crazy bout a shot glass man...

Pretty much ALL of them!!!

Play that ****in' music, white boy

What what in the butt
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"Only the lonely get laid"

The Cars Bye, Bye Love

I can't feel this way much longer
Expecting to survive
With all these hidden innuendoes
Just waiting to arrive

It's such a wavy midnight
When you slip into insane
Electric angel rock and roller
I here what you're playing

It's an orangy sky
Always it's some other guy
It's just a broken alibi (just a ****ing alibi)

Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love

Substitution mass confusion
Clouds inside your head
Involving all my energies
until you visited

With your eyes of porcelain and of blue (porcelain and banana blue-I know-WTF?)
They shock me into sense
You think you're so illustrious
You call yourself intense

Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love

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I can feel it coming in the air tonight...roll on

I dont care what anyone says, he's saying douche

:harumph:

Did Springsteen sing it the same way that they did, or was he able to pronounce deuce in the right way?

Gimme some lovin

Always thought it was “give yourself a moment” LMAO

I was guilty of that one as well...

Manfred Mann sang it 110 percent differently than Springsteen.

As for misunderstanding lyrics, I always thought Henley was saying “after the poison summer has gone”.

Summer is one of the few words that are distinguishable

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'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy. :thailor:

It's the name of the song.

This one.

Suicide Blonde - INXS

I thought it was Soup and Salad Bar

Same song when he said you want to make her, I thought that he said you want to rape her the first time that I heard it

Beck - Girl

"My southern girl"?

"My summer girl"?

No, it's "My sun eyed girl".

Never could really understand many of the other lyrics in this song either.

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P.S. Not really from what I would call my youth.

I honestly thought I heard Linda Ronstadt sing in "You're no good"

"I can not **** you baby cause I'm leaving today"

Never told anyone though thank God.

The real lyrics

Forget about me baby, 'cause I'm leaving this day


Say it fast it sounds like it.

This one was probably mentioned. When I was a teenager I was in a car with some friends/acquaintances listening to music. Purple Haze comes on and one of the guys in my car was like "Man, change it. I hate this ****ing song! I don't want to hear some pillowbitergot singing about kissing guys!"

The filter will catch it, but you guys know what he said. I know others have made this mistake, but man he was MAD and mostly just trying to let everyone know how totally not cool he is with gay.

Wow!!

Huh, never paid much attention, but despite listening to 'Wake Me Up [Before you Go-Go]' thousands of times, I took it for granted that the lyric was

'you make the sun shine brighter on the darkest day'

then I actually paid attention, just once

'you make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day.'

Doesn't even really make much difference to the meaning, other than to fittingly make the song even gayer. ;)

For years I had no idea what was being sang....


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....then at a party a guy sang what was really being said, yep.....dirty.

Listen for.....I felt my bone ah in her hair

After the guitar break....stick, stick, my finger in her hole of love

Wasn't a kid when I discovered Charlie Patton, actually knew all about his legend before ever hearing him. I was stunned.....


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....huh?

I love this guy and was so sorry to hear of his passing, but damned I love his music!

Sorry - won't embed.....

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They had another song in which I was sure they were singing, "glorified virgin on a pelican", but was disappointed when I learned it was "glorified version of a pellet gun".