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[EFLtrainer]

Messed up lyrics are some of the funniest things you'll ever hear, right? Here's a website devoted to the subject. I'm going to try to brainstorm and admit some of my whoppers over the years, if I can remember 'em...


But here are a couple samples from the site:

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/

Steely Dan's, "Reelin' In The Years"

Misheard Lyrics:

Are you really in the yeast?
Stowin' away the tide
Are you gatherin' up the cheats?
Have you had enough of mime?

Original Lyrics:
Are you reelin' in the years?
Stowin' away the time
Are you gatherin' up the tears?
Have you had enough of mine?

U2's, "Bullet The Blue Sky"

Misheard Lyrics:
Billy, the Boy Scout

Original Lyrics:
Bullet the blue sky.
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Bullet The Blue Sky"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bully Babushka

Original Lyrics:
Bullet the blue sky.
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Bullet The Blue Sky"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bully the blues guy

Original Lyrics:
Bullet the blue sky
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Bullet The Blue Sky"
Misheard Lyrics:
I can see those spider brains.
Yes, I can see those spider brains.

Original Lyrics:
I can see those fighter planes.
Yes, I can see those fighter planes.
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Bullet The Blue Sky"
Misheard Lyrics:
I can see those spider veins.

Original Lyrics:
I can see those fighter planes.
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Bullet the Blue Sky"
Misheard Lyrics:
And we run into the arms of another man

Original Lyrics:
And we run into the arms of America
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U2's, "Bullet the Blue Sky"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hollywood blue sky

Original Lyrics:
Bullet the blue sky
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Bullet the Blue Sky"
Misheard Lyrics:
I can see those spider brains

Original Lyrics:
I can see those fighter planes
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Bullet the Blue Sky"
Misheard Lyrics:
See them driving nails
Into the souls of the chia pet.

Original Lyrics:
See it driving nails
Into the souls on the tree of pain.
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Crumbs From Your Table"
Misheard Lyrics:
And you speak of the sons of wonders.

Original Lyrics:
And you speak of signs and wonders.
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Desire"
Misheard Lyrics:
And the evil
when I'm beside her

Original Lyrics:
And the fever
when I'm beside her
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Desire"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bluebird, I'm on the street
or
BLUBBER!" I often scream
or
BLUBBER!" I often scream

Original Lyrics:
Lover, I'm on the street
(Make Correction) (Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics)


U2's, "Desire"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bluebird, I'm on the street
Back on the breadline
With the big city's meat
Silhouette will return...on fire
Desire

or

Blue boy, I'm on the street
Back on the breadline
With the big city's meat
Silhouette will return...on fire
Desire.

Original Lyrics:
Lover, I'm on the street
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar...on fire
Desire.

[jajdude]

I guess we all have misheard lyrics before.

One I recall was Bob Dylan's "Jokerman". I thought part of the song went, "....with a small dark look in your face..." and found out, perhaps years later, it is actually, "a small dog lickin' your face".

Some song it is hard to hear the vocals clearly. Try early R.E.M. or 10,000 Maniacs, nearly impossible to pick out the words.

A Korean kid I taught a good while back was singing "who left the doors out"....over and over....(heard a few good ones from the kids here)

(Who let the dogs out?)

[gdimension]

"There's a bad moon on the rise" - misheard by a friend in elementary school as "There's a bathroom on the right".

"Paperback writer" - misheard by same friend as "Take the back right turn".

[little mixed girl]

you make me feel like a man you're a woman!

[squat toilet]

Hold me closer Tony Danza...
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
you had a busy day today

[kermo]

Here's a couple Beck lines I bet y'all had some weird theories about:

"Soy una perdidor... I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me."
"Where it's at! I've got two turntables and a microphone..."

My ex-boyfriend's dad was a burnt-out old hippie who had a memorable first impression of that famous anthem by Bob Dylan:

"The ants are my friends,
They're blowing in the wind.
The ants, they are blowing in the wind."

[manlyboy]

My nephew misheard Alanis Morissette's "the cross I bear that you gave to me", as "the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me".

When I was his age, I misheard a lot of the lyrics from my Mum's John Denver albums.
"Take me home country roads" = "Take me home crunchy rolls".
"West Virginia" = "Western ginger"

[kermo]

[ddeubel]

I once had a good friend who insisted that the Tom Cochrane tune, "Lunatic Fringe" was "Let me take French"!!!!! I had to finally produce the lyrics (not easy in those pre-internet days) but he still sings it with a scream of "Let me take French"!

DD

[Dazed and Confused]

my sister would sing "Sneaky Snake"
sneaky snake goes dancing
a wiggling and a kissin'

well.......she was 4

I also taught some little korean kids who studied the TunTun series. one day they were singing
1 little,2 little, 3 little underpant
4 little, 5little, 6 little underpant
.......
I asked them why they were singing about underpants. They tried to explain their meaning but ended up screaming at the top of their longs "NO NO NO PANTIES, teacher!"
I took me forever to figure out they'd mixed up 10 little indians and another version of the same song.
they should have been singing
1 duck, 2 duck, 3 ducks on the POND