Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 17:04     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

Anonymous wrote:Growing up my dad used white rain hair spray. When I was little I thought Bob Marley was singing "rain rain white" and not "red red wine" and I couldn't figure out why he mixed up the name of the hair speay


UB40?
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 17:03     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

Anonymous wrote:"Revved up like a deuce" always sounded like 'wrapped up like a douche' to me. from Blinded by the Light. That's what I sang along with.


Lol, exactly what I was about to write.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 17:01     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

Anonymous wrote:"Revved up like a deuce" always sounded like 'wrapped up like a douche' to me. from Blinded by the Light. That's what I sang along with.


Me too. When I finally heard the real lyrics in my 20s, it was like a revelation.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:57     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

"Amadeus" was "Hot Potatoes"
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:30     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

Anonymous wrote:From the recent past: I kept hearing "got a long list of ex-lovers" from Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" as "got a lot of Starbucks lovers," which made no sense.

Apparently, I'm not alone, though.


Oops, forgot the link.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/25/taylor-swift-starbucks-lovers-mom
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:30     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

Growing up my dad used white rain hair spray. When I was little I thought Bob Marley was singing "rain rain white" and not "red red wine" and I couldn't figure out why he mixed up the name of the hair speay
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:30     Subject: Re:Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy. -- Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze ('scuse me while I kiss the sky)

I had a one-a-day calendar of these many years ago.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:29     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy."
- Jimi Hendrix
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:29     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

From the recent past: I kept hearing "got a long list of ex-lovers" from Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" as "got a lot of Starbucks lovers," which made no sense.

Apparently, I'm not alone, though.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:28     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

In your thighs the light the heat your thighs I am complete in your thighs in your thighyeyes

Peter Gabriel In your Eyes

Made everyone at the slumber party laugh with this one in the 80s
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:27     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

Lynrd Skynrd- Simple Man. I always think he's saying "a simple condom man" instead of simple kind of man. hah
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:25     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

Thompson Twins: hold me now whoa oh warm my car oh my whole entire car oh oh oh stay with me
i/o heart
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:22     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

There's a bathroom on the right i/o there s a bad moon on the rise


Mary Poppins ...all around the cathedral, the saints and apostles...my DD used to belt out saints and oppossums!

Elton John: Hold me closer, Tony Danza i/o holde closer tiny dancer
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:18     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

"Revved up like a deuce" always sounded like 'wrapped up like a douche' to me. from Blinded by the Light. That's what I sang along with.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2015 16:02     Subject: Favorite wrong lyrics-either misheard or intentional

I was just thinking abou this when my sister and I were tsalking about the words to Louie, Louie by the Kingsmen

My favorite (misheard by another person): last night I dreamt of some playdough (instead of last night I dreamt of San Pedro) from Las Isla Bonita by Madonna

My favorite intentional one (made by me): My Name is Felix (instead of "I've Got a Feeling" by the Black-Eyed Peas