Misheard lyrics

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[b]papermoon wrote: [/b]

I have a friend who told me she for a veeery long time thought
"When love must die"
in Who Wants To Live Forever was
"I love my style!"

Suitably, right? XD[/QUOTE]

Thats exactly what I thought was said there as well

[b] YourValentine[/b] wrote: 

  - or when people cannot make any sense of the unusual words they hear and think up something similar - closing the gap from their own vocabulary.

examples:

Well I loved a million women and a Belly Dancer Caze ( .. in a belladonic haze "Keep Yourself Alive")

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Or, if you're me, "Well, I loved a million women in a bed of Danny Kaye's."

Which, of course, is utterly ridiculous.  [img=/images/smiley/msn/confused_smile.gif][/img]

"Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking"

Saturday night under pressure at burger king


And it wasn't until I heard Paul Rodgers sing AKOM that I realise it was "I'm hearing secret harmonies" I always heard I'm hear in secret harmony. Oh well!!

For the Dutchies: 

The last line of Mustapha clearly says: "Allah coupe soleil, hey!" Or maybe not....

This was the most wonderful and hilarious topic on this board for ages! OMG, I laughed my guts out!

I add my contribution: "Rrrrrrrrrroger Taylor" in "The Invisible Man" = "Donatello"

I still have problems with the back vocals on "Ride the Wild Wind", at some point they sing "hey, hey, hey" but then they sing something else, which I still don't know what it is. It sounds like "BCP", which is a local communist party, which is utterly ridiculous.

and "mamma, life has just begun" sounded just as "seichas" begun, which is the same but in Russian.

im going down to eat the Lords cheeses

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[b]A_WintersTale wrote: [/b]

This was the most wonderful and hilarious topic on this board for ages! OMG, I laughed my guts out!

I add my contribution: "Rrrrrrrrrroger Taylor" in "The Invisible Man" = "Donatello"

I still have problems with the back vocals on "Ride the Wild Wind", at some point they sing "hey, hey, hey" but then they sing something else, which I still don't know what it is. It sounds like "BCP", which is a local communist party, which is utterly ridiculous.

and "mamma, life has just begun" sounded just as "seichas" begun, which is the same but in Russian.
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This topic rocks. Haha. Problem is exactly what you said: once we get the wrong lyrics in our heads, it's just damn hard to get rid of them, it still lingers on the mind. I think in many cases because, having misheard the lyrics, we try to make sense of what we listen to and we begin to relate to this meaning we have ourselves created through the song, so it's hard to get rid of the thing. Some of the misheard ones posted here are actually better than the original...hehehe.

There's a hardly a single Queen song I haven't misheard. 

Funny things: get bugged down in the same verses as many other people:  of "Keep Yourself Alive", for instance. It begs to be misheard, it seems. 

I'd never have guessed: "I loved a million women in a belladonic haze". So I made "I loved too many women and I'm better fornicated" out of it, given the information I had: Freddie was gay and so on. 

It never ends. For instance: "Man on the proud" instead of "Man on the prowl". I thought: "The man on a proud mood, thinking he's the best..."...hahaha. The extent to which I went to give the lyrics some meaning simply because I had no idea of the existence of the word "prowl". 

But I didn't fill all the gaps. There were things I couldn't get at all, and I didn't make anything out of it - I just sang a "da-da-da" along and that was it. Hehe.

Freddie Mercury line in invisible man-for years i thought they say FREDDIE KRUGER

For the longest time I thought the line in "Hammer to Fall" of "let the anesthetic cover it all..." was "let the ass bandit cover it all..." That actually stayed with me until I got the karaoke dvd that had the words on it to correct myself.

These are hilarious btw.

I thought the same about Who Wants To Live Forever, I thought he said "Ohh I love my style." Haha.


Ogre battle:
Now once upon a time, an old man sold me a bagel. =P

LOL! LOL! LOL! This is hilarious! Thanks for posting guys! [img=/images/smiley/msn/regular_smile.gif][/img]

I thought the line "Screw My Brain Till It Hurts" from the song "Death On Two Legs" was "Cool My Brain Till It Hurts"! Whoops!! LOL! [img=/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif][/img]

Just bumping this up as this is really hilarious! LOL! [img=/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif][/img]

Glad you all like the thread, and glad it's not just me that mishears lyrics then!  I forgot to mention in the original post about Killer Queen the "middle man from China" which I always thought made the song seem mysterious :)

And I'm STILL convinced it's "they say she pulled an appetite".  Well, it is, isn't it ...?  [img=/images/smiley/msn/whatchutalkingabout_smile.gif][/img]

Tim

when i first had a listen to headlong, i mis-understood the "hoop-diddy diddy"-part for:
[/QUOTE]"who did ? he did it ! who did him do ?"[/QUOTE]
[/QUOTE]very odd indeed :-D[/QUOTE]
[/QUOTE]but i was 16 years of age and not an native english-speaker.[/QUOTE]
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