Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:55 pm

Buffy Sainte -Marie - The Big Ones Get Away.

Hey, Baby, I just got back from town,
With the bride to be.
Nearly turned my offer down.
Said the deal's already made.

One step at a time,
Up Hilarity Hill.
If the bad guys don't get you, babe.
Then the good guys will.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:57 pm

The "correct" lyrics are:

Hey, Baby I just got back from town,
Where the bribes are paid.
Honey, they turned my offer down.
They say the deal's already made.

One step at a time.
Polarity Hill.
If the bad guys don't get you, baby,
Then the good guys will.

Colbert

by Guest Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:44 pm

Now that we, S*domy

https://youtu.be/DfQAhii0TzA?list=RDcGxn2jIKiR4&t=106

by Guest Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:22 pm

"I am an ARCH-I-TECT they call me Vulture"

Apparently he says Butcher. whatever

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:27 pm

Bob Marley - Is This Love?

"We'll be together, with a roof rack over our head."

by Nightjar Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:00 pm

Angel Olsen - "Chance".

Actual lyric - "I wish I could un-know some things that taught me so".

The lyrics as I thought/wish they were - "I wish I could un-know some things that told me so".

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed May 05, 2021 9:22 pm

I always thought Tim Booth was singing, "Stop stop talking about who's to blame when all the counties are to change."

It turns out he's singing, "Stop stop talking about who's to blame when all that counts is how to change."

Needless to say, my version was better. Colbert

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:35 pm

It's not a misheard lyric, as such, because I've always know what the correct lyric is but I genuinely can't sing the Beatles' And I Love Her without singing, "Dark are the stars that shine. Bright is the night." It's like some kind of mental block I have.

Needless to say, I prefer my version. It has a more sinister tone to it.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:34 am

♬ Don't you ever invite your bl*ck friend here ♪ ♫ ♬

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Nov 20, 2021 8:27 pm

"Wearing a fez that she keeps in a jar by the door."

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 01, 2022 6:37 pm

"I had some dreams. There were clowns in my coffee." ~ Carly Simon.

by cosmictanya Mon May 02, 2022 12:15 am

'Calling Jamaica' - REM, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight.

Only this weekend did I find out it is actually 'Call me when you try to wake her'.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 02, 2022 8:42 am

I've heard people sing, "Calling Cheryl Baker." scared

by cosmictanya Wed Jul 06, 2022 3:13 pm

Only today, when a DJ referred to your 'first six string' before the song came on, did I realize that 'Summer of 69' does not begin 'got my first real sex dream' but 'got my first real six string'.

All my life I've thought it was about a boy having his first real sex dream in the summer of his life. It played, and I still hear 'It was the summer of 69 when I got my first real sex dream'.

by Nightjar Wed Jul 06, 2022 4:10 pm

Your lyric is indeed better.

by Nightjar Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:39 pm

From the most recent Angel Olsen album, from the song "Right Now" (probably the best song on the record)...

Supposably the actual lyrics:

Some truth is never known
Until you've lost your hand
Until you've had to fight
And waited through the night

My misheard and better lyrics:

Some truth is never known
Until you've lost your mind
Until you've had to fight
And waded through the night

by Nightjar Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:44 pm

The juxtaposition of...

Until you've had to fight
And waded through the night

Is especially, poetically apt.

Fight (battling, striving) and wading (forging, striving against a murky current that silently wishes that you falter) through the night (the emotionally "dark" time).

The original/actual "Until you've had to fight, and waited through the night" is a meek and weak sort of speak.

Clause 1: fighty.
Clause 2: waity.

No, Olsen, no!

Olsen, no!

NoOH OLSEN NO!!

by cosmictanya Thu Nov 03, 2022 5:24 pm

Maniac, from Flashdance.

I always thought 'She's a maniac, maniac, maniac on the floor' was 'There's a maniac, maniac, maniac on the phone'. It's on the radio now, and it isn't what I thought.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:56 pm

England World Cup Squad - We've Got The Whole World At Our Feet (England - Mexico, '86).

"There's not a single team that we can beat." box

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:04 pm

"Why must you wreck all my phone calls? Are you planning a bootleg LP?'

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