‘Scuse me while I “Kiss This Guy”!
How many times has this happened to you: You’re driving with your friend and when they try to sing along with the tunes on the radio, they belt out the completely wrong words?
How many times has this happened to you: You’re driving with your friend and when they try to sing along with the tunes on the radio, they belt out the completely wrong words?
Well, there’s a Web site devoted to misheard lyrics called KissThisGuy.com, obviously referring to Jimmy Hendrix’s ‘excuse me while I KISS THE SKY.
There many thousands of songs posted here that you can browse through, seek out using the search engine or you can even submit your own favourite misheard lyrics. You can also check off if you think your version is better than the original and if you’ve ever convinced others that your version is the real one.
Have some time to kill? A handy random misheard lyric generator will give you a different lyric each time you click. For example, in the song "Sunglasses at Night" by Corey Hart, there’s a line that says "Don’t be afraid of the guy in shades, oh no," but it seems a couple of people thought it was "Don’t be afraid of the Diet 7-Up." Uh, whatever.
Or how about Sade’s "Smooth Operator." Instead of the chorus, "Smooth Operator," some folks thought it was "Goose on the River."
Do you have a favourite "misheard" lyric to share with us here at Sync?
Um, how about the Brian Adams smash hit "The Summer of 69":
Standing on your mama's corpse
You told me that you'd wait forever…
"God rest ye merry gentlemen" …
*cringe* I heard a semi-rock and roll version and thought it was a Spiderman song: "Gotta rescue Mary, gentlemen."
So, he's like, excusing himself from a conversation to go save MJ? Wha…? Then I heard the rest of the song and figured it out.
My good friend is in a band and had a request for "Slow motion Walter, and fire engine guy." We later realized he was talking about lyrics from "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple!
Remember the Melissa Ethridge song "i wanna come over"?
One of my sisters friends always sang "I wanna come over, to hell with the concert plans" instead of 'to hell with the consequence.' When I listen to it, I can see how she would think that.
Someday I'll be Saturday Night by Bon Jovi, I used to think it was "All the good ships gone" turns out it was another word that starts with sh and may offend some people.
How about: "I wanna rock and roll all night. And part of every day." Guess rock and roll was a lot to handle 24 hours so "part of every day was enough.
When I first heard "Fry like an igloo"
I thought it didn't make any sense. Then I figured out it was "Fry like an ego" which I didn't understand.
Then I figured out it was "Fry like a negro", which wasn't very nice, in fact, it was horrible, how can that even get on the air?
Then I was told it was "Fly like an Eagle".
I felt like an idiot!
How many years did people taunt me with "Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob-Boberan"…only to figure out this year that it's actually Barbara Ann?
I said to my friends when Janet Jackson's All for You came out, that I thought it was a little raunchy, because I thought she said "got a nice "package" all right, guess I'm gonna have to ride IT all night!"
My family lived in S.America for a while and heard all sorts of misheard english lyrics from my kids friends. My favorite was U2's "Nariz Horizonte".
Hey Erin…this IS what Janet says…
"Got a nice package alright
Guess I'm gonna have to ride it tonight"
"Little Red Corvette…baby you're much too fat."
Heh heh heh, yeah, I got that from another site, http://www.amiright.com which is also a site for this kind of thing.
My mother used to think that Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief
Peter Gabriel's Jeux sans Frontier sounded a lot like "she's so funky yeah" when they went to the chorus! I went to the ear specialist as soon as I read the correct lyrics.
Remember that song called "Deserts Miss the Rain" by Everything but the Girl? I had a very funny and special friend of mine thought the lyric was " Devils drink champagne". When I told her that was wrong she then said
"Yeah I know, it really Devils Masquerade!"
Here's one for yah..
Ozzy "Mama I'm Coming Home"
these lyrics are misprinted all over the Net…and ironically i had originally thought the line said
I've seen your face a hundred times
Everyday we've been apart
I don't care about the sunshine, yeah
'Cause Mama, Mama, I'm Coming Home
I'm Coming Home
but my friends pointed out to me the lyrics in the cd cover…it actually reads as
Everyday we've been apart
I don't care about Desertion, yeah
'Cause Mama, Mama, I'm Coming Home
I'm Coming Home
When I was a teenager, the song "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi was very popular. My boyfriend was singing it loud and proud one day…."You give love a Band-Aid!"
my favorite is "There's a bathroom on the right" does anyone know the correct line?
Patty,
Hmm, is it:
"Blinded by the light?"
Marc
The line is "There's a bad moon out tonight"
Good one, Patty! Got any more?
Marc