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Misheard Lyrics 22:17 - Oct 5 with 13706 viewsBrianMcCarthy

I've just found out this minute that one of my favourite bands The Cocteau Twins actually had full lyrics for their songs. I've been listening to them since I was found under a basket on the Nile and I always thought that bar the odd dictionary-proof phrase here and there the gorgeous voice of our Liz breathed heavenly Elfish. Or something. And I used to sing along like. In full nonsense-language!

So, admitting that I don't really listen to lyrics, am I the only one to have the Idiot-Eureka moment years down the line and finally realise that I've been mouthing or singing the wrong gibberish?


"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Misheard Lyrics on 10:45 - Oct 6 with 2596 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Some belters here.

My sister's a great one for dodgy lyrics. it's not that she mishears them so much as she doesn't hear them at all. She just belts out any oul' collection of words that scan in to the structure of the song. She's like a modern day James Joyce. Or a bit mad. One or the other.

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Misheard Lyrics on 10:55 - Oct 6 with 2584 viewsBrianMcCarthy

I'm not sure if this counts as misheard lyrics so much as misunderstood lyrics but back in the 80's I used to stand on the Loft and sing happily along to "Spunky, Spunk, Spunky..." as we greeted our goalie. Took me fuggin' ages to connect the words "Spunky" and "Seaman". Had to have a big chat with myself after that one.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Misheard Lyrics on 11:39 - Oct 6 with 2541 viewsMrSheen

During the glorious reign of Gigi, I took 9-year old Master Sheen to Selhurst for his first awayday. Despite Clinton F***ing Morrison's equaliser, he happily sang "Neil Warnock, your daughter's blunt" all the way home.
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Misheard Lyrics on 13:26 - Oct 6 with 2500 viewsFredManRave

Misheard Lyrics on 09:37 - Oct 6 by Monahoop

In the Stranglers song 'Peaches' there is a reference to clitares, an item of female French swimwear, but it also sounds like clitoris. JJ Burnell always maintained it was the former when questioned about the word, but the jury is still out on that one. A devious piece of wordplay if ever there was one.


Interesting. I'm going to have a fumble around to try and find it but knowing my luck I won't be able to.

I've got the Power.
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Misheard Lyrics on 14:46 - Oct 6 with 2470 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Remembered another one. None of us in school in Ireland could understand Weller. We used to spend hours with ears up against the speakers fiddling with treble and bass and still ended up guessing half of the lyrics.

The outro to Down in the Tube Station was any boy's guess.

The last thing I saw
As I lay there on the floor
Was Jesus sakes la la la
la la la nutter
Had a Brish rail bossory home and away day
A cheap holiday, a Jewish fruit day
A glass la la la mile
la la la la mile
Cuase they took cocoons
And she'll think it's me
etc

Actual lyrics, thanks to Google many years later:-

The last thing that I saw
As I lay there on the floor
Was "Jesus saves" painted by
An atheist nutter
And a British rail poster read "have an away day,
A cheap holiday Do it today"
I glanced back on my life,
And thought about my wife
'Cause they took the keys,
And she'll think it's me

Who knew?

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Misheard Lyrics on 14:51 - Oct 6 with 2466 viewsFredManRave

For years now I've thought U2s Vertigo starts with, "Uno, dos, tres, catorce".

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Misheard Lyrics on 15:04 - Oct 6 with 2457 viewsMick_S

Misheard Lyrics on 13:26 - Oct 6 by FredManRave

Interesting. I'm going to have a fumble around to try and find it but knowing my luck I won't be able to.


Just got that.

Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?

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Misheard Lyrics on 16:57 - Oct 6 with 2407 viewsMonahoop

Misheard Lyrics on 14:46 - Oct 6 by BrianMcCarthy

Remembered another one. None of us in school in Ireland could understand Weller. We used to spend hours with ears up against the speakers fiddling with treble and bass and still ended up guessing half of the lyrics.

The outro to Down in the Tube Station was any boy's guess.

The last thing I saw
As I lay there on the floor
Was Jesus sakes la la la
la la la nutter
Had a Brish rail bossory home and away day
A cheap holiday, a Jewish fruit day
A glass la la la mile
la la la la mile
Cuase they took cocoons
And she'll think it's me
etc

Actual lyrics, thanks to Google many years later:-

The last thing that I saw
As I lay there on the floor
Was "Jesus saves" painted by
An atheist nutter
And a British rail poster read "have an away day,
A cheap holiday Do it today"
I glanced back on my life,
And thought about my wife
'Cause they took the keys,
And she'll think it's me

Who knew?


You are not alone on this one Brian. Weller's lyrics are often hard to decipher and are best left alone to your own interpretations. Not that he's a bad songwriter, it's just he sings many of them with little clarity. That goes for loads of other musicians as we have already seen on this funny thread.

Another one that got me for ages was Desmond Dekkers 'The Israelites'. The opening line for me was 'Get up in the morning wait for my breakfast', when old Des in his Jamaican Patois was warbling 'Get up in de morning, slave for my bread sir.'

There aint half been some clever bastards.

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Misheard Lyrics on 17:04 - Oct 6 with 2398 viewsSonofNorfolt

in the same vain, at Xmas time, you can adapt the MSP 'Archives of Pain' to 'We three kings of orient are', as I used to sing to my boys.

If this doesn't mess your head up nothing will.

Give them the respect they deserve...................
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Misheard Lyrics on 17:12 - Oct 6 with 2385 viewsizlingtonhoop

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Misheard Lyrics on 17:17 - Oct 6 with 2383 viewsMonahoop

Before I hit my teens me and a mate quite fancied Suzi Quatro. He had loads of her records and we would sing along to her songs if rather haphazardly at times. One that springs to mind is Can The Can. We always thought the opening line to the chorus was, 'Put your jam in the bandstand', when it was really ' Well make a stand by your man,honey'. Christ, we weren't even close!

There aint half been some clever bastards.

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Misheard Lyrics on 17:29 - Oct 6 with 2363 viewsQPRSteve

Another one that got me for ages was Desmond Dekkers 'The Israelites'. The opening line for me was 'Get up in the morning wait for my breakfast', when old Des in his Jamaican Patois was warbling 'Get up in de morning, slave for my bread sir.'

I thought that too. Always thought he sang "my eyes are alight".
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Misheard Lyrics on 17:53 - Oct 6 with 2345 viewslarsricchi

A song ("Friends of Mine") on the first Duran Duran album had the passage

"When will you realise/I'm sick of your alibis?"

But as a kid, perhaps not knowing the word "alibi," or just a bit thick, I always heard "I'm sick of your out of ice," fully imagining Simon LeBon going to the freezer and finding empty ice trays and storming out of the house.
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Misheard Lyrics on 18:01 - Oct 6 with 2342 viewsngbqpr

Disco, I always thought Gabriel was singing "she's so f*ckin nice"...and wondered why Radio 1 didn't ban it

I remember a Weller debate at school going on for days about Eton Rfifes - was he singing "I was sick down my shirt" or "there was shit on my shirt" - split the class in two that one

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Misheard Lyrics on 18:33 - Oct 6 with 2323 viewsDannyPaddox

1978. I'm hearing the new Clash single for the first time and I'm wondering why Joe Strummer Is singing about birdlife, namely a ptarmigan. Oh! .... Tommy Gun you say!
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Misheard Lyrics on 18:46 - Oct 6 with 1806 viewsterryb

I still maintain that Hot Chocolate sang " I believe in Milko".

Not quite sure what that had to do with a sexy thing though!
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Misheard Lyrics on 18:59 - Oct 6 with 1795 viewsbrydesantis

Misheard Lyrics on 14:51 - Oct 6 by FredManRave

For years now I've thought U2s Vertigo starts with, "Uno, dos, tres, catorce".


Me too what do they actually say then? lol
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Misheard Lyrics on 19:03 - Oct 6 with 1793 viewsbrydesantis

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

I always thought they said "Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night."

To this day I still don't see how that sounds like deuce?
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Misheard Lyrics on 09:14 - Oct 7 with 1730 viewsqpr1976

Misheard Lyrics on 08:34 - Oct 6 by ElHoop

Rudie Can't Fail always went 'chicken brew for breakfast' in my little head.


Sh!t, me too ! What do they sing then ?
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Misheard Lyrics on 09:31 - Oct 7 with 1721 viewsqpr1976

Some are deliberate 'doubleys', Squeeze for example, masters of the odd entendres.

Pulling Mussels From A Shell ? Or.....

"Behind the chalets,
my hokidays complete,
And I feel like William Tell,
Made Marrion, on her tip toed feet.
Pulling Muscles For Michelle" !

Good work fellas.
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Misheard Lyrics on 09:57 - Oct 7 with 1712 viewsCanadaRanger

Somewhere over the rainbow, weigh a pie...
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Misheard Lyrics on 09:58 - Oct 7 with 1711 viewsCanadaRanger

Misheard Lyrics on 17:12 - Oct 6 by izlingtonhoop



Olive the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names...
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Misheard Lyrics on 11:24 - Oct 7 with 1690 viewsMoonshineSteve

Misheard Lyrics on 09:14 - Oct 7 by qpr1976

Sh!t, me too ! What do they sing then ?


Weren't they drinking brew?

My brother-in-law used to wonder who Phil was in Duran Duran's Girls on Film as he sang "forget about Phil" along to the chorus.

I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham.

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Misheard Lyrics on 11:41 - Oct 7 with 1679 viewsTacticalR

Misheard Lyrics on 19:03 - Oct 6 by brydesantis

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

I always thought they said "Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night."

To this day I still don't see how that sounds like deuce?


That song is pretty hard to understand even in this day and age when you can read the lyrics on the internet.

Air hostess clique

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Misheard Lyrics on 14:22 - Oct 7 with 1632 viewsBucksRanger

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