Misinterpretations, Double Entendres and Misheard Lyrics

[Jaythulhu]

Anyone who ever played drunken networked carmageddon should know the difficulty of yelling out "cunning stunt bonus".

Also, as a young child I was perpetually confused as to why Elton John would sing about "Looking like a chewed koala, feeling like a rissoled pig" in the song I'm Still Standing.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Family guy theme- when Stewie says "laugh and cry" it sort of sounds like "effin cry"
Blinded by the Light- "wrapped up like a deuce/douche"

It's "Set loose like a Deuce." A deuce is a car, you know, a deuce coop. Springsteen talked about how, when people covered the song, they said douche, and said "I imagine that's why the popularity of the song rose considerably." Note, he said it as a joke.

In Reptilia by the Strokes, it sounds like they say "Please don't slow me down if I'm going too fast," but according to RockBand it's "Please don't slow me down, only if I'm going too fast," which changes the meaning considerably.

 

[implodingMan]

The girl with colitis goes by...

This doesn't really fit the topic, but I'm listening to Louie Louie right now and I have no clue what the hell this guy is saying.

 

[Same River New Water]

I was about to start a topic about misheard lyrics, but the forum search turned up this dusty old thread. Commence accusations of thread necromancy in ten! Nine! ...

my all time favorite: "Hold Me Close Young Tony Danza"

That was actually what made me think of this topic.

"Hold me closer, Tony Danza!
Count the head lice on the highway!
Baby darling she's a lemon!
Had a busy lay to weigh!"

Another classic is Eskimo Joe's Black Fingernails, Red Wine. That song repeats the same line over and over, but it wasn't until I saw a comedian make a joke about it that I realised the line wasn't: "The argument over god continues!/ I can't understand the point of fingers!" (The actual line is: "All of us stand and point our fingers.")

The singer from Tool uses a lot of unusual phrases ("Weeping shades of cozened indigo"?) and isn't exactly the clearest of vocalists, so there are some great ones for them. There's a youtube vid of illustrated misheard lyrics to the song The Pot - stupid but funny:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=KV3WjGpkdOA

Some other highlights!

The line:
"Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones."
Sounds like:
"Fuck all these cupboards, I'm covered in clothes."

The line
"I am just a worthless liar, I am just an imbecile."
Sounds like:
"I am just a worthless lawyer, I am just a window sill."

And:
"Vicariously I live"
Becomes:
"Bicuriously I live"

 

[not_tragedi]

Master of Puppets by Metallica.....it sounds like he's saying "Master! A Dentist! Hardcore Steven Seagul!"

 

[wewontdie11]

I love early Trivium, particularly the stuff off Ascendancy, but it has got to be impossible to understand what Heafy is screaming on about in most of the tracks. My favourite is The Deceived [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N21uofKjQaU]

 

[Fire Daemon]

I best all of you misheard the lyrics to the Super Smash Brother Brawl intro video, didn't you? I bet you even thought it was in Latin!

 

[Malkavian]

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Master of Puppets by Metallica.....it sounds like he's saying "Master! A Dentist! Hardcore Steven Seagul!"

I think you are reffering to Nightwish - Wishmaster
There is a hillarious youtube video somewhere...


You know Coldplay? That song, Yellow... In danish, where he sings
"Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones"

it sounds like he is singing:
"Jeg sked
Åh ja jeg sked en bums"

Which shouldn't make any sense to you, since it's danish.
It translates into:
"I shat
Oh yeah, I shat a zilt"

I was prompted to listen for that sentence the first time I heard the song, and now can't hear it any other way...

 

[forever saturday]

well one of my favorite songs ever is "sabotage" by the beastie boys. theres one part where they say either "its so loud" or "its all blood", though according to one site they are saying "its a mirage", and that last one is bs but the other two are a problem for me.

 

[stormcaller]

I can't remember any at the moment but my uncle said when he was younger he was convince "The Final Countdown" was "The Fine Old Countdown"

 

[Hippobatman]

The Wishmaster - Nightwish (misheard lyrics) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ]

A couple of my friends had some;

Brothers of metal - Manowar. It goes: "Standing together with hands in the air", my friend sang:"Standing together with pants in the air". And didn't see anything wrong with that.

Highlander (The One) - Lost Horizon. At "When lightning reached out for him", another friend of mine sang "When lightning was shouting him"

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

The entire freaking song of "Louie Louie."

 

[Revernd Awesome]

Haha, a while ago I was walking through a crowed corridor with an ex, and playfully shoved her, she then shouted;

"Don't push me I'm fragile!"

which I heard as;

"Don't push me I'm a Fat-Child"

I was 5 minutes late to my lesson because i was laughing so hard.

 

[Jonathan Hexley]

Family guy theme- when Stewie says "laugh and cry" it sort of sounds like "effin cry"
Blinded by the Light- "wrapped up like a deuce/douche"

I thought that was what he said.
Weezer's "Hash Pipe"
'You got your problems... I got my ass wipe"
It seriously sounds like that.

 

[Jeronus]

Ren and Stimpy's "Happy Happy Joy Joy" Song
Two particular lines stand out:

"I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!"
"I told ya I shoot but you didn't believe me! Why didn't you believe me!"

This song is featured in a kids show by the way. I actually heard this song when I was kid and didn't even think twice about those lyrics til I heard the song again at the age of 21.

 

[Jovlo]

Ricky martin: She bangs...

He sings: She looks like a flower but she stings like a bee.
I heard: She looks like a flower but she stinks like a beast.

And then there's Jimmy Hendrix: 'scuse me while I kiss this guy.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

An then there's Jimmy Hendrix: 'scuse me while I kiss this guy.

Still find it funny that that is misheard so often, Jimi Hendrix himself sometimes said it in live concerts. For example, the live cut used on Guitar Hero: World Tour has him clearly saying "Scuse me while I kiss that guy."

 

[QuadrAlien]

I think I've got an example that's the wrong way round...

The lyric booklet for Helloween's song "Just a Little Sign" claims that the lyrics are "Something's growing in my plans". Listening to the song, however, will reveal that what is sung is quite clearly "Something's growing in my pants". Alas, with "...as she looks into my eyes" as the next line, the version heard makes more sense, as well.

Also, if you're wanting deliberately misheard lyrics, the fanimutations are often good examples - look at Andrew Kepple's "Colin Mochrie vs Jesus H Christ" trilogy, for example.

EDIT: Damn, knew there was another power metal-related example I'd forgotten about - from Iron Savior: "Let it push you to the limits, to bang like a battering ram!" No excuse at all is made this time - and Battering Ram is the name of both the song and the album.

 

[Shivari]

Well, here in the US (for those of you who don't know) there have been quite a few of those TV offers for products of Barack Obama on plates, coins, etc.

Well I saw one where they took both a $1 bill and a $2 bill, and put a gold image of Barack Obama on top of it. Now, the commercial said "never before has any US President been so elegantly displayed across US currency".

What I heard was "never before has any US President been so arrogantly displayed across US currency." I just thought it was a hilarious summation of the whole marketing of something with Obama's face on it products.

Although, I am enjoying my "Yes We Can-of-Energy-Drink". [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/215962/january-14-2009/p-k--winsome---obama-collectibles] as I wear my "Yes, I Thought I'd Live To See This Day" shirt. [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/216581/january-20-2009/p-k--winsome---inauguration-merchandise]