(When you thought the lyric was one thing but it turned out to be totally different)
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Brian Adams - Summer of '69
Actual lyrics to start the song: I got my first real six-string, bought it at the five and dime
What I always hear, sung so proudly and nostalgically: I got my first real sex dream down at the five and dime
For some reason when I was a kid, I thought the song “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield said “You know I wish that I had Tootsie Rolls” instead of “You know I wish that I had Jessie’s Girl”.
I still don’t know why i thought he was singing about tootsie rolls, but that’s how I used to sing along to it
I forever thought the chorus of Billy Squire’s song The Stoke was “Slow dance jug band.”
That’s how I sang it when I was a kid and I simply never reevaluated it as I grew up.
A friend thought “Pretty Vacant” by the Sex Pistols was “Streaky Bacon”. Another thought “Battery” by Metallica was “Bakery” (pronounced BAK-A-RAY). In keeping with the food theme I thought the lyric “fingernails, cigarettes; a lousy dinner” in the Replacements ‘I Will Dare’ was “bacon and cigarettes” for longer than I care to admit.
Oh, adjacent: when I was a child I saw Grease and thought ‘Greased Lightning’ was the rippingest song around. I had a little comic book that was stills from the film and word bubbles overlaid with the dialogue and song lyrics. My mother caught 4yo me singing the word shit and tuned me up. I had no idea what I had done wrong. Unable to sing my favourite song because of one pesky word i decided to make up a placefiller word that would solve my problem. The nonsense word I invented ? CLIT. BingPowClunk
My SIL thought Battery was backdoor-raid. I still can’t unhear it
Oh man, reminds me of kissthisguy.com. Back when the internet was still run by humans.
Tell you one I recently realized: Chattanooga Choo Choo. I don’t know who the “original” artist of that one was, it’s been a country-western staple for awhile. Came back into my attention recently because I was rewatching Hyce & KaN’s Let’s Podcast of Railroads Online, and one of several backing tracks is an instrumental version, so the song got stuck in my head. Singing it while doing dishes, I got to a lyric I never understood, and looked it up.
The lyric I heard:
There’s gonna be a certain party at the station
Satin and lace, a hustacauphanie face
I…didn’t know what “hustacauphanie” meant. My brain did that thing where I assume a word exists I’m not familiar with. Like, you know how sometimes women’s skin is compared to alabaster? Hustacauphanie might have been dead people talk for some luxurious or exotic material or…something. So I looked it up. The actual lyric is:
There’s gonna be a certain party at the station,
Satin and lace, I used to call ‘funny face’
The songwriter managed to pack the entire second act of It’s A Wonderful Life into half a lyric. We don’t have compression algorithms that good anymore.
Apparently when I was two or three years old, I insisted the lyric was “If you’re gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a parallelogram.”
There is a famous one here in Germany that everyone gets wrong.
The original line being sung: “Es tobt der Hass da vor meinem Fenster”, meaning “Hatred is raging in front of my window”.
What everyone hears: “Es tobt der Hamster vor meinem Fenster”, meaning “The hamster is raging in front of my window”.In Belle and Sebastian’s "Me and the Major’ my brain will simply not hear anything except
“Me and the midget don’t see eye to eye”
Which I find funny on a couple of different levels.
ha!
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
I always heard… Hold me closer, I’m tired of dancin’.
Also, I knew I was forgetting the best one. I sang this with my whole heart and soul from the time it came out ~1997 until somebody corrected me ~2020 pandemic:
“I believe in the sand beneath my toes The beach gives a feelin’, an earthy feelin’ I believe in the faith that grows” …
“And the four eyed goats can make me cry” right?
Wrong! It turns out it’s “And the four right chords can make me cry”
The only song about crystal meth to make it into a Disney film.
Wrapped up like a douche
Actual lyrics
Revved up like a duece
- Blinded by the light
I mean the actual lyric makes me think about someone straining on the toilet.
Bruce Springsteen is probably the hardest english language singer to understand in history. At least in his more energetic songs.
I always heard it as “ran off like a douche” which made way more sense
Excuse me, while I kiss this guy! 😘
wicked guitar fill
I used to hear “Honest, Lucille” instead of “Our lips are sealed” from The Go Gos.
12 year old me is at the dentist in the middle of getting a cavity filled when Benny and the Jets comes on.
I’m trying not to laugh while the radio keeps saying “She’s got electric boobs!”
This was mine too, lol
