Misheard song lyrics?

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Confessedly, I was sure that such thread would have already existed since there seem to be so many lists of misheard lyrics on the net. So I searched the forum and apparently there is nothing yet. Well now there is :slightly_smiling_face:

I got this idea when I was reading through @CATMAN62 's “Guilty? Pleasure” thread and @SDKissFan mentioned Don Henley’s “The boys of summer”. I immediately thought, wait that’s not correct, it’s “Voice of summer” :grinning: Turns out I misheard the lyrics of this song my whole life :grin: I still believe, however that “Voice of summer” sounds much more poetic :slightly_smiling_face:

I have two more examples. One is Hot Chocolate’s “Sexy thing”. While I learned several years ago that they are not singing about chocolate (Milka) but miracles, it’s hard to hear the correct lyrics. Meaning every time I hear this song somewhere (luckily not often) I still hear them sing about Milka. This gives the song a different dimension, since Milka is also a valid first name for females here in Finland (and yes, every time I meet someone called Milka, I immediately associate her with chocolate …)

My last example is Leonard Cohen’s “Take this waltz”. I came across the song only this year, but was immediately fascinated by the lyrics. In the first verse I heard him sing about a tree, where dogs go to die.
I am a dog person, so I found this line very poetic. I literally saw old dogs (animals, not the old dogs here in the forum… ) walk towards an old, old tree located on a beautiful meadow. They would settle down there and die peacefully. I loved those lyrics and thought Leonard Cohen was indeed somebody who knew how to write song lyrics. At some point, I started thinking: Hmm, if there is really such tree, the area around it must not look nice anymore because of all the dog skeletons there. That made me check, whether I heard the song lyrics correctly. And I didn’t… He is not singing about dogs but “doves” :dove::dove::dove: Whereas that maybe makes the skeleton situation a bit better, for me it takes away from the lyrics. Thus, every time I hear the song I decide that I want to keep hearing him sing about dogs and not doves :slightly_smiling_face:

Do you have similar experiences? Are there any song lyrics you have always misheard and maybe were disappointed when you found out about the real song lyrics?

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Excuse me while I kiss this guy.

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LOL, when I first saw the title of the thread it was the first thing that came to mind!

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@hobart and @LunaRocket … Admittedly, I had google what is behind this, I wasn’t too familiar with the song lyrics of “Purple Haze” :smile:

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I am comfortably known.

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That’s a good one :slightly_smiling_face: Sounds so much more positive than “comfortably numb” :slightly_smiling_face:

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ELO - Don’t bring me down, Bruce.

Tod

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I am hearing exactly the same :slightly_smiling_face:. What are they actually singing?

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Bohemian Rhapsody “Spare him his life for his pork sausages” - always gets a giggle from me.

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OH, OH, Nichole! I have been misinterpreting rock and roll lyrics for almost 58 years. :rofl: So numerous, and I would be SO embarrassed to repeat some of them, lol. I also will keep misinterpreting them, I assume, for years to come, though nowadays, it is easy to pull up most lyrics.

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Don’t bring me down, groose… not sure what a groose is, though.

Back when that was a top 40s hit, hardly anyone put lyrics on the liner sheet & there was always a big debate going on in that cafeteria at school what the lead singer was saying when new songs came out.

ELO sparked at lot of arguments… American teens had a lot of problems understanding what Jeff Lynn was singing about!

Tod

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A groose is ( …Nicole disappears down the Google rabbit hole and reappears not much more clever) according to some articles about ELO a made up word that happened to sound similar to the German word “Gruß” ( greeting). Does not make too much sense… :slightly_smiling_face:

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There’s a bathroom on the right. Bad Moon Risin’, CCR.

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So did folk in the UK !! :rofl:

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It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not :flushed:

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“I didn’t come this far to go to Tallin” - Jon Bon Jovi from the song “Janie, don’t you take your love to town”. What he actually says “I didn’t come this far to throw the towel in”.

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That’s true, at least for us here in Finland :slightly_smiling_face: it was the most normal thing on earth that they had a sauna at the festival where I was last Sunday. Of course you see random naked people while getting something to eat or drink in a break between gigs. But as you say " it doesn’t make a difference" :upside_down_face:

Bon Jovi as well?

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Been listening to LA Women for 50 years and I still don’t know what Jim Morrison says in his intro! I refuse to google it:) Love the song btw.

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It still sounds like that to me! What the heck ARE they saying?

ETA: Well, I see it was answered before I hit submit. Grouse? Weird.

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Been waitin’ for the bus, olé!