I just noticed a thread by Moe trying to figure out the lyrics to Styx's Mr. Roboto. This got me to thinking. Have there been any songs that you've listened to and sang the lyrics, but you had no freaking idea what they were singing? You know what I'm talking about... the song where you start out singing loudly, but when that verse you're clueless about comes up, you start mumbling and fitting in anything that happens to rhyme or fit the beat. One of the ones that annoyed the absolute HELL out of me was by Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light. I swear all I heard was : Blinded by the Light... Wrapped up like a douche, And then I rode her in the night" The actual lyrics I came to find out later were : Blinded by the Light... revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night. Boy was I miffed. Anyway, so I found the following link that proves I wasn't the only one who heard the call of the douche : http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/blindedbythelight.shtml Some of those "what I heard" lyrics are hilarious. So I ask you... what are you some of those songs you either found out the lyrics to later, or still have no clue as to what they're singing? Maybe we can clear up your jacked up singing in this thread (well, the jacked up lyrics anyway). ------------------ "Now it is more clear that it doesn't make sense." -- HeyPeeism at its convoluted best. [This message has been edited by Dr of Dunk (edited June 11, 2001).]
I actually like songs best immediately before I understand what they're saying. That way, I can sort of sing along in my head, but there's this terrific aura of mystery. Just seems more moving... then I hear the words, and it's never as great as I imagined . I read a list not too long ago of the "most misunderstood songs of all time." #1 was "There's a Bathroom on the Right" by CCR. The real song, of course was, "Bad moon on the rise." My uncle told me that's the only reason his parents would let him listen to it. They didn't like bad moons... but bathrooms were perfectly ok ! ------------------ Lacking inspiration at the moment... [This message has been edited by haven (edited June 11, 2001).]
there's the REM song ------------------ "The things I enjoy most, I suck at: 1) Sex: everything's fine until she makes noises." - Achebe Smegs Mock Draft
" 'scuse me while I kiss this guy" (Purple Haze - Jimi Hendirx) In actuality: " 'scuse me while I kiss the sky" ------------------
Ahhhh, but in concert, Jimi would say "guy" and point to a guy. ------------------ One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
Beatles-I Wanna Hold Your Hand: My take was-"I get high, I get high, I get high" Actually it is-"I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide" ------------------ One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
I found this site a while ago, and it's exactly this kind of thing -- what people's incorrect lyrics were. http://www.kissthisguy.com ------------------ blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
REM song is Sidewinder sleeps tonight... i think ------------------ "The things I enjoy most, I suck at: 1) Sex: everything's fine until she makes noises." - Achebe Smegs Mock Draft
I used to think Steve Miller was talking about the Pompatus of Love. Turns out that was the correct lyric, though (even though it makes no sense). ------------------ Houston Sports Board Film Dallas.com AntiBud.com
John Lennon: "Bob Dylan had heard one of our records where we said 'I can't hide', and he had understood. 'I get high.' He came running and said to us, 'Right, guys, I've got some really good grass.' How could you not dig a bloke like that? He thought that we were used to drugs." I'd always heard that Dylan introduced the Beatles to pot, but George debunks that: George Harrison: "We first got mar1juana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying 'This stuff isn't doing anything.' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man.'" (from my copy of Anthology)
Metallica - Carpe Diem Actualy - "So take this world and shake it" I heard - "So take this burlesque chicken" ------------------ CC.NET Sim League Web Page My Team (Sonics) Runnin', Ravin', Endin', Out.
Apparently, Miller ripped "pompatus" off a 1954 R & B song, "The Letter". And he also ripped "really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree, lovey dovey, lovey dovey ..." off a 1953 song called "Lovey Dovey" The Straight Dope on 'pompatus' [This message has been edited by jamcracker (edited June 11, 2001).]
jam- I read that a couple of years ago in one of the books about the Beatles. Guess it just goes to show, Great Minds Think Alike ------------------ One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
yeah, I had read that Straight Dope before, but the song still doesn't make any sense. ------------------ Houston Sports Board Film Dallas.com AntiBud.com
but it *does* make sense One song was "The Letter," Green's attempt to conjure up his dream woman. The mystery words, J.K. ascertained after talking with Green, were "puppetutes" . . . (Green wasn't much for writing things down, so the spellings are approximate.) ". . . Green told Cryer. And puppetutes? "A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children." Not real PC, but look, it was 1954. Totally makes sense in context.
At the end of the movie "Gladiator", Lisa Gerrard sings a beautiful piece called "Now we are free". I would love to know what language she is singing in. ------------------ "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning how to put food on their family while being put to death." It's back... Protrolls.com!
Anyone know what a "bad moon" is? ------------------ I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life my spirit measured out, in bits, spread over the roulette table, I recoup what I can nothing else to shove under the nose of the maître de jeu nothing to thrust out the window, no white flag this flesh all I have to offer, to make the play with this immediate head, what it comes up with, my move as we slither over this go board, stepping always (we hope) between the lines
It doesn't make sense in The Joker is what I meant, especially since Miller got (made-up) word wrong. ------------------ Houston Sports Board Film Dallas.com AntiBud.com
I have no idea what Eddie Vedder is singing in Yellow Ledbetter. Or is it Yellow Bed Wetter? ------------------
