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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by cosmictanya Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:56 am
‘You’ll be dancing once again, like a crème brûlée’ - until today, I thought that was the line from the Chiquitita chorus..
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by The Call of the Wendigo Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:58 am
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by Nightjar Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:41 pm
Actual lyric:
My misheard lyric:
One vision was life, the other was death
And life didn't give a f*ck if death took your last breath
Good God, if my lyric isn't the bomb!
One vision was of life, the other was death
Then I didn't give a f*ck if death took your last breath
My misheard lyric:
One vision was life, the other was death
And life didn't give a f*ck if death took your last breath
Good God, if my lyric isn't the bomb!
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by The Call of the Wendigo Wed Jun 28, 2023 6:36 pm
In Bennie and the Jets, I always thought Elton was singing, "She's got electric boobs," instead of, "She's got electric boots."
My version was better.
My version was better.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by cosmictanya Fri Jun 30, 2023 9:37 am
‘Your cheese is like a dipper’ is actually ‘you’re teasing like you do’ in Heart of Glass. Who knew.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by Nightjar Fri Jun 30, 2023 1:06 pm
I always thought the bit from Brown Girl in the Ring that goes "All had water run dry" was "old haired Walter Bruntry".
I am not convinced that my lyric is better than the original.
I am not convinced that my lyric is better than the original.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by cosmictanya Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:03 pm
According to a 70’s radio station I’ve got on, there is a song called ‘I was born under a wandering star’. Then they played it, and I recognised it as the song I’d always known as ‘I was born under a London sky’, which until this morning I took to be some old folk song.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by Nightjar Thu Oct 12, 2023 1:37 pm
That's sung by Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon.
The first film I ever walked out of.
The first film I ever walked out of.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by NDN1984 Thu Oct 12, 2023 9:52 pm
Skid Row - "18 and a life" (I love this song, and grew up with all these hair metal acts):
My misheard lyric:
He walked the streets a soldier
And he f--ked up on his loan and it's
18 and life, you got it
Actual:
He walked the streets a soldier
And he fought the world alone and now it's
18 and life, you got it
My misheard lyric:
He walked the streets a soldier
And he f--ked up on his loan and it's
18 and life, you got it
Actual:
He walked the streets a soldier
And he fought the world alone and now it's
18 and life, you got it
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by The Call of the Wendigo Sat Oct 21, 2023 4:23 pm
In the chorus of Pilot's Sky Blue, at 1:25, he's singing, "Like the marrow in your Bonio."
I always thought he was singing, "Like a modern day Romeo."
My version is definitely infinitely better. His version is a crime against lyric writing.
I always thought he was singing, "Like a modern day Romeo."
My version is definitely infinitely better. His version is a crime against lyric writing.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by cosmictanya Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:30 pm
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree. ‘Later we’ll have some pumpkin pie’ - I’ve just heard it accurately - all these Christmases I’ve thought it was ‘later we’ll have some f*ckin pie’, and thought of it as a very naughty Christmas song.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by Nightjar Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:39 pm
I always thought that the lyric in "Cymbaline" by Pink Floyd went:
Apprehension creeping like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end? Will the final cut be dry?
However, it seems that the lyrics is:
Apprehension creeping like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end? Will the final couplet rhyme?
Now, the actual lyrics aren't bad, but I always thought that "will the final cut be dry?" ("dry" being a synonym for clean) neatly foreshadowed the title of the band's last album The Final Cut*.
*it is their last album.
Apprehension creeping like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end? Will the final cut be dry?
However, it seems that the lyrics is:
Apprehension creeping like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end? Will the final couplet rhyme?
Now, the actual lyrics aren't bad, but I always thought that "will the final cut be dry?" ("dry" being a synonym for clean) neatly foreshadowed the title of the band's last album The Final Cut*.
*it is their last album.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:15 pm
AKTUALLY…
Is that the one with "Dr. Strange is always changing size", which I thought was, and would have been better with "Dr. Strange is always changing sides"
Is that the one with "Dr. Strange is always changing size", which I thought was, and would have been better with "Dr. Strange is always changing sides"
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by Nightjar Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:28 pm
So did I.
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Re: Songs where your misheard lyric is better than the original
by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:32 am
Apparently Ace of Spades
I thought it was
Devil takes a split
As in you're playing cards with the devil and he's just got a split, increasing his chance of beating you.
Snake eyes watching you
Double up or quit
Double stake or split
The Ace of Spades
The Ace of Spades
I thought it was
Devil takes a split
As in you're playing cards with the devil and he's just got a split, increasing his chance of beating you.
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