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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2003, 05:50:06 am »
So wait...

You thought the line was:

And curse the walls around you HE was such a stupid get?

Really?

He (the walls) was?

I think it doesn't help that they sing "Raleigh" as "Rally," but I can't imagine anyone actually thinking that it was "the walls around" as opposed to "sir walt".

The and Sir sound nothing alike.

Now I think you're just making your mishearings up.
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« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2003, 03:46:03 pm »
Another one that occurred to me today: in R.E.M.'s "Begin the Begin," I consistently misheard "the only vote that matters" as "the only bird that matters." And honestly, I still prefer mine -- it repeats earlier bird-hand symbolism of the song and simultaneously means virtually nothing, which means it's a pretty good early R.E.M. lyric.
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« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2003, 04:52:01 pm »
Here's a few lame ones:


My best friend's twin sister was convinced that "Mirror in the Bathroom" by the (English) Beat was "meet her in the bathroom."

Before I knew the title, thought that Primus "Too Many Puppies" was in fact "Too Many Poppies."  I dunno, it seemed to make sense at the time.  Maybe I thought it was some sort of anti-heroin message (cut me some slack, I was still pretty naive at 17).  "Too many poppies/re trained to kill"?
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« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2003, 03:02:00 am »
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So wait...

You thought the line was:

And curse the walls around you HE was such a stupid get?

Really?

He (the walls) was?



Actually, the exact way I misheard it was And curse the walls around me for such a stupid git
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« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2003, 05:01:30 am »
Looking at that link for misheard lyrics JL posted, I could list about three hundred alone from By The Way that I misheard. But then that's because Keidas never sings that clearly, and his lyrics tend to make little sense anyway, let alone poetic sense.
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« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2003, 07:06:37 pm »
Well, I was thinking this morning that we haven't flogged this particular dead hoss again, and in the interests saving time I thought I'd post this odd site, which in addition to detailing misheard song lyrics ad nauseum (and in some cases, inducing nausea with a single entry) has catalogued them in a way that allows some ranking and scoring!

And so we have the most misheard song of all time - "Blinded by the Light"
and many, many of the most creative misheard appropriations of the word "douche" imaginable.

This the same site JLD Posted earlier, but a page dedicated to my favorite misheard lyrics of all time -

Enjoy!
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« Reply #21 on: October 20, 2003, 08:39:24 pm »
I had actually never heard of Blinded By the Light until I was watching the Vacant Lot and one of the sketches was about a group of guys getting into a huge fight over the lyrics. Apparently my lack of culture knows no bounds.
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« Reply #22 on: October 21, 2003, 12:08:50 am »
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I had actually never heard of Blinded By the Light until I was watching the Vacant Lot and one of the sketches was about a group of guys getting into a huge fight over the lyrics. Apparently my lack of culture knows no bounds.

I feel your pain (well, sort of), since I am apparently the only person on the planet Earth who hears the first few lines of "Help Me Rhonda" as intended and not as "since she put me down, there're owls puking in my bed."

(How do you get that, anyway? Or is this a thing I will never, ever get?)
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« Reply #23 on: October 21, 2003, 02:08:01 am »
Although I am not sure what the real words are, I did not picture large birds pelting me with pellets of fur and bone from the first line of the song.

That said: What the hell are the real words?
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« Reply #24 on: October 21, 2003, 02:49:44 am »
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What the hell are the real words?


Well since she put me down I 've been out doin' in my head
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« Reply #25 on: October 21, 2003, 03:19:28 am »
Huh?

"Since she put me down I have been out doing in my head"

Does he mean out doing-in my head? Like heavy drinking? or doing her in his head? out-doing in his head?

Knowing the real words doesn't help here. The owl puking makes more sense to me.
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« Reply #26 on: October 21, 2003, 03:50:19 am »
I always thought it was "since she put me down, I've been all through it in my head." Like he's been working through it, you know?

... Okay, who has Brian Wilson's phone number? Let's settle this.
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« Reply #27 on: October 21, 2003, 04:03:58 am »
Oh- um, I can't vouch for any reliability of those lyrics.

If you can find better ones, please post them!
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« Reply #28 on: October 21, 2003, 04:32:18 am »
According to the lyric sheet in the "Ultimate Beach Boys" collection CD, the lyrics are exactly as V-Adore posted.

That site is just plain WRANG, yo.
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« Reply #29 on: October 21, 2003, 06:19:31 pm »
It IS the only one that actually makes sense...
Not that I expect the Beach Boys to make sense.
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