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Kerrah Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Jan 1st 2012 at 5:53:06 AM

This is what I hear when I listen to CCR's "Down on the Corner":

Early in the evening
Just about suppertime
Over by the courthouse
It's starting to unwind
Four kids on the corner
Trying to spring the books
Telling to the moon-out
And he blows it on the hawk

Down on the corner
Howdy in the street
There the folk boys a-playing
Bringing knitter with the fleet

Hoohaa hits the whappo
People just gotta spra
Whoopping in the what-where
And solo for a while
Folk are playing the fiddle now
Own is call of do
And Willie goes into a dance
Double's on the loose

Down on the corner
Howdy in the street
There the folk boys a-playing
Bringing knitter with the fleet

Down on the corner
Howdy in the street
There the folk boys a-playing
Bringing knitter with the fleet

You don't need a pinhead [I swear this one is correct]
Just to hang around
But if you've got a nickel
Won't you nail one it down
Polo on the corner
There's a happy good
People come from all around
To watch the magic pool

Down on the corner
Howdy in the street
There the folk boys a-playing
Bringing knitter with the fleet

Anyone got their own hilarious examples?

Landstander God Of Cake from Somewhere else Since: Jan, 2001
God Of Cake
#3: Jan 1st 2012 at 7:34:53 AM

In Jumping Jack Flash, I always heard "Drove a spike right through my head" as "drove a spice rack through my head"

Emperor Wu liked cake, but not exploding cake!
InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
'80s TV Action Hero
#4: Jan 1st 2012 at 7:36:19 AM

[up] I'd like to see the video for that.

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Ozbourne Part-Time Omen of Death from if it fits, I sits (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
Part-Time Omen of Death
#5: Jan 1st 2012 at 7:45:13 AM

In Daughtry's "Crawling Back to You" (I think that's what it's called) I once heard "I see your face and it's hard to fake it" as "I see your face in a pound of bacon".

Is that anything like seeing the Virgin Mary in a cheese sandwich?

Stupid doomed timeline...
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#6: Jan 1st 2012 at 10:21:14 AM

[up]Depends, is it a religious song otherwise?

I think the worst for me is "Play That Funky Music", which I have always misheard ever since I was a little kid as "Play that f*cking music, white boy!"

edited 1st Jan '12 10:21:47 AM by 0dd1

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ToolsOfDestruction Since: Jul, 2012
#7: Jan 1st 2012 at 10:24:32 AM

In Katy Perry's Firework, there's the line "You've just got to ignite the light."

I've always heard it is "You've just got to deny the light."

Ozbourne Part-Time Omen of Death from if it fits, I sits (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
Part-Time Omen of Death
#8: Jan 1st 2012 at 10:27:10 AM

Nah, it's not a religious song at all.

The one I used to mishear all the time is "Absolutely (Story of a Girl" by Nine Days, where I heard "...When you look in the mirror/So how do you choose" as "When you look in the mirror/Say hi to your shoes".

Stupid doomed timeline...
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#9: Jan 1st 2012 at 10:29:29 AM

A minor one, but with that same song, I never knew what that one word in that one line was, "I absolutely love [her/it] / when she smiles."

edited 1st Jan '12 10:29:44 AM by 0dd1

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InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
'80s TV Action Hero
#10: Jan 1st 2012 at 10:33:37 AM

'Blinded by the light, roll up a cartouche another runner in the night...'

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#11: Jan 1st 2012 at 10:35:14 AM

AKA "Wrapped up like a douche"?

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InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
'80s TV Action Hero
#12: Jan 1st 2012 at 10:36:27 AM

That's the one.

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#13: Jan 1st 2012 at 10:44:46 AM

I still can't see how it can be heard at all as "revved up like a deuce."

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drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
Street Writing Man
#15: Jan 2nd 2012 at 9:25:28 PM

I have a whole bunch of examples regarding Led Zeppelin...but then again, I've looked up the lyrics to several songs on the Internet and it seems that in some cases no one has a fucking clue what Robert Plant was yabbering on about.

In "The Safety Dance" I hear "Doin' it for the LO Ls" and "Everybody look at your pants (rather than "hands")", despite knowing better.

If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
ATC Was Aliroz the Confused from The Library of Kiev Since: Sep, 2011
Was Aliroz the Confused
#16: Jan 4th 2012 at 11:00:51 AM

She's got a Check at to wriiite. She's got a Check at to wri-i-ite. She's got a Check at to write, and she dunk hair!

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#17: Jan 4th 2012 at 12:32:34 PM

[up]And when I touch you, I feel happy inside,
It´s such a feeling that, my love, I get hives.

edited 4th Jan '12 12:32:42 PM by SeanMurrayI

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#18: Jan 4th 2012 at 5:17:09 PM

Funny story, Bob Dylan thought they were saying "I get high," which resulted in him unintentionally introducing them to pot.

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Belfagor from Nonantola, Italy Since: Sep, 2010
#19: Jan 5th 2012 at 9:43:57 AM

She's a maniac, maniac at the phone...

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Belfagor from Nonantola, Italy Since: Sep, 2010
#21: Jan 6th 2012 at 5:14:19 PM

The first time I watched 'Frannie 911', the refrain of Cool Change suddenly sounded like: "Light falls, who cares..."

edited 6th Jan '12 5:30:06 PM by Belfagor

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wuggles (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#22: Jan 6th 2012 at 5:25:53 PM

I always thought the words to "Winter Wonderland" were: "In the meadow we can build a snowman/And pretend that he is Charlie Brown". Also, I thought the song "Smooth Operator" by Sade was "Smooth Barbados, Smooth Barbados/Across the coast L.A. to keel over, western ways/Across the north and south to keel over, love to say". The actual words are "No need to ask. He's a smooth operator, smooth operator, smooth operator, smooth operator. Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male. Across the north and south, to Key Largo, love for sale".

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#23: Jan 7th 2012 at 2:51:49 PM

[up] When I was a kid I thought "Smooth Operator" was "Spook On The Radar". Not "spook" in the racist sense I was probably too young to know about, I just thought it had something to do with a ghost.

I was listening to a song called "I Hate The Unseen" by Darkbuster the other day - basically it's a Take That! to another Boston punk band. Anyway, my mom came in and said "Yeah, I hate Beyonce too..."

edited 7th Jan '12 2:52:55 PM by MikeK

randomguy321 Since: Nov, 2011
#24: Jan 7th 2012 at 2:53:48 PM

We already have a thread for this in the music section (in case you didn't know that).

Catfish42 Bloody Fossil from world´s favourite country. Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Bloody Fossil
#25: Jan 7th 2012 at 3:00:30 PM

Regarding Down On The Corner:

Actual singing starts about three minutes in, if you want to skip him talking about how no one knows the lyrics.

[up] Well... the music section...

A different shape every step I take A different mind every step of the line

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