Misheard lyrics thread

One of the best bits of the Boxer live album is Matt addressing this very thing.

Hmm, Google is still resolutely saying Lemon.

Could have sworn the CD lyric booklet did too but I haven’t seen it in years

Haha nice, haven’t heard that yet

I heard it as MASCOT for ages… like what the fuck would mascot bullshit be!?

My Dad often listened to Thin Lizzy in the car when I was little and for many years I thought they had a song about the exploits of The Boys of Beckintown, who I imagined were a Robin Hood-esque band of medieval rapscallions.

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I’ve checked the lyrics.
What you’ve written is definitely what he sings.

Slowdive - Alison

“”Alison," I said, “We’re sinking”
There’s nothing here but that’s a Wookiee”

Randomly remembered about a plasterer singing ‘Street lights!’ along to the chorus of Street Life by The Crusaders a few years ago.

Couldn’t work out if he was being daft or thought those were the words.

Spare him his life for his pork sausages

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ABBA is on heavy rotation in our house at the minute. Only just noticed that this sounds exactly as follows:

Super trouper, beans are going to blind me.

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

The opening line I hear is “A fake plastic watering can, from a fake chinese Robert Plant”

So not only is Robert Plant chinese after all, but he’s faking being chinese and he works in a garden centre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5h0qHwNrHk

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I seem to have forgotten how to embed youtube vids. Swear I’ve done this before…

used to think the chorus of Airbag by Radiohead was

“Ain’t interested in birds, I’m back to save the universe”

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Kendrick Lamarr - DNA.

There’s a sample with some dude shouting what sounds like “GIMME FOCACCIA”. Found out recently it is Rick James, “Gimme some ganja”.

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Haha brilliant.
That’s your “Ken Leeeee, libbadibbadoubtyou” moment.

I apologise in advance for even mentioning Cher Lloyd but my other half and our daughter always hear the lyrics of With ur Love as

“All of them other boys can walk away, they CAN EVEN END UP GAY”

Rather than the correct

“…they ain’t even in the game”!

Just remembered one. In Lithium by Nirvana my brother used to think the lyric was:

I’m so horny, but that’s okay, my willy’s good.

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I think your brother is right on this one :rofl:.

You mishear a lot of lyrics, huh