The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve. My mum was convinced it was 'trucks' instead of 'drugs'. Made no sense
Yeah, it would lose its meaning somewhat (it's supposedly about Ashcroft witnessing his father's death from cancer rather than his dad losing his delivery job!)
"She's a muscular boy" A Must To Avoid - Herman's Hermits "Old Suzannah's bedraggled Budgie". The line is actually "Old Suzannah's bedraggled, but she...." Suzannah's Still Alive - Dave Davies.
Steve Winwood - Higher Love Although I knew it wasn't the right lyrics, I thought 'I could light the night up with my soul on fire' sounded like 'I don't like banana with my shoulder pie'.
I always throught the chorus to Independent Women by Destiny's Child was:
All the women who are independent Throw your like Batman All the honeys who makin' money Throw your like Batman All the mamas who profit dollars Throw your like Batman All the ladies who truly feel me Throw your like Batman
I only found it wasn't 2 years ago. I'd been singing that wrong for over 15 years.
My grown up sister was talking to a guy at a party only last year who was a mod... I heard her chit chatting small talk and then say to him yes I was listening to Paul Weller on a repeat of one of the old Top of the Pops recently, he was singing A Town Called Alice.
I'm a huge R.E.M. fan but deciphering Stipe's lyrics was a nightmare, partly because he mumbled so much. And, in the early years, he didn't bother with words at all. On the subject of Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, bassist Mike Mills summed up what it was like trying to understand what any of Stipe's songs were about.
"Half of the song is about somebody trying to get in touch with someone who can sleep on his floor. The other half...well, you're on your own there."
Comments
"If you like penis and lager"
Creole ladies with flashing eyes.
I thought was
3 old ladies with flashing eyes
Don't ya
My mum was convinced it was 'trucks' instead of 'drugs'. Made no sense
In the line about Harry Styles I thought she sang ' to the fella over there with the elegant hair' but apparently it is ' with the hell-a good hair'
Think my version is better!
A Must To Avoid - Herman's Hermits
"Old Suzannah's bedraggled Budgie". The line is actually "Old Suzannah's bedraggled, but she...."
Suzannah's Still Alive - Dave Davies.
"On a silver-black phantom bike"
I heard 'like a cilla black fan on ice"
I mean what the actual fuck was I thinking
Incidentally there is a word for this:-
Mondegreen: A misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of a song.
Bonnie Tyler - It's a hard egg, nothing but a hard egg
Is actually:
"To write off lines that don't make sense"
in Nirvana's On A Plain.
Although I knew it wasn't the right lyrics, I thought 'I could light the night up with my soul on fire' sounded like 'I don't like banana with my shoulder pie'.
That don't impress me much - Shania Twain.
All the women who are independent
Throw your like Batman
All the honeys who makin' money
Throw your like Batman
All the mamas who profit dollars
Throw your like Batman
All the ladies who truly feel me
Throw your like Batman
I only found it wasn't 2 years ago. I'd been singing that wrong for over 15 years.
I actually wanted the floor to open up myself...
Women blow and men chunder.
Always wondered why there wasn't a radio edit.
Call me when you try to wake her
Sounds to me like
Call me Cheryl Baker
"Half of the song is about somebody trying to get in touch with someone who can sleep on his floor. The other half...well, you're on your own there."