‘You’ll be dancing once again, like a crème brûlée’ - until today, I thought that was the line from the Chiquitita chorus..

Actual lyric:

Quote :

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!

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.

‘Your cheese is like a dipper’ is actually ‘you’re teasing like you do’ in Heart of Glass. Who knew.

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.

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.

That's sung by Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon.

The first film I ever walked out of.

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

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.

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.

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.

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"

So did I.

Apparently Ace of Spades

Quote :

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.