My husband insists that I am the QUEEN of mis-heard lyrics. When we are in the car, I (#1) am in charge of the radio, and (#2) sing at the top of my lungs, so he is forced to hear my "mistakes" quite often.
I LIKE my versions way better than the originals. Here are a few of my favorites:
Example A: In the opening music of "Lion King", when they are singing tribal words that I cannot understand, I sing, "pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom" over and over. Try it. It fits PERFECTLY.
Example B: In the song "Manana", by Jimmy Buffett, there is a line that says "she's got a plan hidden up her shrewd sleeve", but my husband and I always sing "she's got a plant hidden up her shirt sleeve". We think it makes much more sense that way. After all, it is by Jimmy Buffett and The Coral REEFERS. We're just being logical.
Example C: This is a pretty common one, but in "Bad Moon Rising", I prefer "there's a bathroom on the right" to the correct lyrics "there's a bad moon on the rise". Of course, the only time I really ever hear this song is when we go to Ernie Bigg's , so maybe I've just had too many jello shots and really need to get to a bathroom.
Example D: I don't know what I THOUGHT it said, but I seriously just discovered about four days ago that in the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up", they sing "you make a dead man come". Whoa! And I've listened to that with my MOM.
Now. Make sure and tell me any of YOUR favorite mis-heard lyrics so I can be armed with infinite ways to annoy my husband on our next road trip.
The scene: Husband and I driving home a few nights ago, listening to The Eagles, kids asleep in the backseat.
Me: Did you know that "Hotel California" is totally about drugs?
Husband: Uh, are you REALLY just now figuring that out?
Me: Not JUST now. I mean, I've been thinking about it for a while.
Husband: *sigh*
Me: (singing)...there were horses in the corridor, I thought I heard them saaaa-ay...Welcome to the Hotel California...
Husband: That is NOT what they're saying. It's "voices" in the corridor.
Me: Whatever. I like my version better. I have a picture in my head of the creepy, candle-lit, psychedelic colored horse faces lining the corridor.
Husband: You're crazy.
Me: (singing)...so I called up the Captain, please bring me my wife...we haven't had that spirit here since 1969...
Husband: It's WINE. WINE, NOT WIFE.
Me: But I figure he's at the hotel looking for his dead wife. You know, she died from the drugs, and he's taking drugs now too, to try and connect with her, or something. But her spirit is gone. He's too late.
Husband: God.
P.S. We saw the Eagles in concert in 2002...and I totally sang "horses in the corridor" with as much passion as my seven months pregnant self could muster.
P.S.S. And just for hubby's information, and yours, I went to www.kissthisguy.com and found that there are other people out there who think it says "horses". So there.
I LIKE my versions way better than the originals. Here are a few of my favorites:
Example A: In the opening music of "Lion King", when they are singing tribal words that I cannot understand, I sing, "pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom" over and over. Try it. It fits PERFECTLY.
Example B: In the song "Manana", by Jimmy Buffett, there is a line that says "she's got a plan hidden up her shrewd sleeve", but my husband and I always sing "she's got a plant hidden up her shirt sleeve". We think it makes much more sense that way. After all, it is by Jimmy Buffett and The Coral REEFERS. We're just being logical.
Example C: This is a pretty common one, but in "Bad Moon Rising", I prefer "there's a bathroom on the right" to the correct lyrics "there's a bad moon on the rise". Of course, the only time I really ever hear this song is when we go to Ernie Bigg's , so maybe I've just had too many jello shots and really need to get to a bathroom.
Example D: I don't know what I THOUGHT it said, but I seriously just discovered about four days ago that in the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up", they sing "you make a dead man come". Whoa! And I've listened to that with my MOM.
Now. Make sure and tell me any of YOUR favorite mis-heard lyrics so I can be armed with infinite ways to annoy my husband on our next road trip.
The scene: Husband and I driving home a few nights ago, listening to The Eagles, kids asleep in the backseat.
Me: Did you know that "Hotel California" is totally about drugs?
Husband: Uh, are you REALLY just now figuring that out?
Me: Not JUST now. I mean, I've been thinking about it for a while.
Husband: *sigh*
Me: (singing)...there were horses in the corridor, I thought I heard them saaaa-ay...Welcome to the Hotel California...
Husband: That is NOT what they're saying. It's "voices" in the corridor.
Me: Whatever. I like my version better. I have a picture in my head of the creepy, candle-lit, psychedelic colored horse faces lining the corridor.
Husband: You're crazy.
Me: (singing)...so I called up the Captain, please bring me my wife...we haven't had that spirit here since 1969...
Husband: It's WINE. WINE, NOT WIFE.
Me: But I figure he's at the hotel looking for his dead wife. You know, she died from the drugs, and he's taking drugs now too, to try and connect with her, or something. But her spirit is gone. He's too late.
Husband: God.
P.S. We saw the Eagles in concert in 2002...and I totally sang "horses in the corridor" with as much passion as my seven months pregnant self could muster.
P.S.S. And just for hubby's information, and yours, I went to www.kissthisguy.com and found that there are other people out there who think it says "horses". So there.
19 Comments:
I swear they are really singing, "there's a bedroom on the right", in Bad Moon Rising. In the early eighties, I heard this scary presentation about backmasking and secret messages in rock music. Presenter claimed that Hotel California was about Satanism. I like your drugs explanation better.
ouch! i hurt from laughing so hard!
I never knew those were the lyrics to "Start Me Up." Wow.
We have a Jazzercise routine to Jessica Simpson's "Public Affair." She says "all the cameras come out for a public affair" but it sounds like "all the camels come out for a public affair." She really threw me with that one. I didn't know why the hell she was talking about camels.
I thought "Secret Agent Man" was "Secret Asian Man."
I know I have some other ones b/c I sing stuff wrong all the time, but I can't think of anymore.
Huey Lewis and the News
"I want a new DRUG."
My 4-year-old self used to sing "I want a new TRUCK."
My mom never corrected me.
The first thing that came to my mind was a song by Bush called Come Down....there is a part in it where he's saying "shoot up, shoot up, shoot up you're high", and I like to sing it as if he's saying "Sheila, Sheila, you're high" because well, I love Gavin Rossdale and it sounds like he's saying my name, I swear.
You are a crack up. I'm pretty good with lyrics---it's my husband that always gets them wrong and put on the spot, I can't think of any examples.
This is not one he says or I say but I remember Phoebe from Friends doing this and it cracks me up every time I hear "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John...
"Hold me closer, Tony Danza..."
I thought the same thing about the CCR lyrics until college.
Also, for Hilary: my sister thought the same thing. She still sings "Secret Asian Man"!
Jason sings the wrong words too and that DRIVES me crazy so I can soooo sympathize with SC here.
That being said, I thought as a child that "Our house, in the middle of our street" meant that there really was a house that sat in the middle of a street, with a lane of traffic on each side!
Oh crap, I think you just made me pee my pants.
The only song I can think of off the top of my head is some A-ha one, where I insisted it said "grabs a pile of lettuce from the briefcase" instead of the much more logical letters.
This my friend is why I love you two. He thinks you're crazy and loves even more because of it! I can't ever get the words right either, just one more thing that drives Jamie crazy! Andrea
You are so funny!
I have messed up waaaay to many to list!
I love this post about misheard lyrics! If your a you tube addict like me check out a video called misheard fall out boy lyrics this aint a scene you'll love it!!!
You know the song "Panama"? Well, I didn't even know that was the name of the song until I was in the car with my hubby screaming "Cannonball." He'll never let me live that one down!
Lindsay
My mom used to do this all the time. I find myself doing it too. Recently I wrote an entire blog post about how Jessica Simpson says the "camels" are coming out for a public affair.
I totally do this, too! My iPod has such an interesting mix on it, but one of my favorite songs is "I've been everywhere" that lists all sorts of places. Well, I've always wanted to memorize this song, but instead, I just start rambling places that I've been or would like to go. It doesn't even have to be cities. I list SeaWorld, Hollister, Bass Pro, etc. It doesn't matter to me. Even if I know exactly what they're saying, I'll make up something that sounds more interesting!
On a similar note, there's a local commercial for "EXTREME WINDOW TINTING" but if you don't know any better, it sounds JUST LIKE "EXTREME WEINER TANNING" I don't know if it's on purpose or not, but it's really funny!
I used to think that the OMD song "Don't Look Back" was "Donnez La Plage" (which is French for "Give me the Beach"--pretty bad French, too.)
omg!!! you ARE out of your mind!! i love you and you totally crack me up. "Start Me Up" isn't a bad song really. Listen to "Brown Sugar". your brother used to sing "takin care of biscuits" (business) and i corrected him gently, but he said he would just say "takin care of biscuits"!!! that cracks me up. Mom says I sang Johnny and Jill, the song was Johnny Angel. lol mom
omg, the bring me my wife explanation just about made me pee myself.
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