Misunderstood song lyrics?

[TDC Nala]

For years I thought Elton John (in "Tiny Dancer") was saying, "Hold me close, I'm tired of dancing."

There was that one, and the infamous "Hold me closer, Tony Danza/Count the head lice (it's headlights) on the highway."

I have friends with whom I go on Splash Mountain and sing "How do you do? Fine, how are you? Pretty good, show us your bone."

 

[LBelle]

What a funny thread! One of my misunderstood lyrics--Billie Jean by Michale Jackson, I thought he was saying Billie Jean is not my glove.

And what the heck is the real lyrics to this song anyways???

Billy Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl
Who says that I am the one
But the chazz is not my son

 

[LBelle]

Hooray, I get to post Hotel California again.

On a dock, there’s a highway
Cool Whip in my hair
One parapalegic
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
An ocean of light
My head grew hairy and my sack rolled in
I had to stop for the night
Dead fish stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
This could be Heaven or this could be Hell
Then she lit up a Ken doll
And she showed me the way
I heard some horses down the corridor
I thought I heard them say

Don’t go to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Renting a room at the Hoedown California
Any time you’re here
You can buy me beer.

Her mind was stiff and he twisted
She’s got the worst eighties band
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
That she calls Sven
How they dance in the courtyard
Swedes, some are sweat
Sundance to remember
Sundance to forget
So I come to the Hilton
Please bring me my wife
He said
We haven't had that spilled in here since 1969
And still those whatchamacallits from far away
We threw up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say

Wake up to the oat man, can’t afford ya.
Such a lovely Place
Such a lovely face
Many a room at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise
When you’re out of ice

He lives on the ceiling
Pictures of Jim Rice
And she said
We are all just prisoners here
Of our only vice
And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab them while they’re still in ice
But they just can't kill the thief
Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
Good night, said the madman
We are programmed to recede
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave

That was, without a doubt, one of the FUNNIEST things I have EVER reead.....ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[joshsmom]

Not mine, but funny just the same: When I was in college, Huey Lewis and the News were big. They came out with "It's Hip to Be Square." My roommate is dancing around singing " I Hit the Green Square!!!!!" I fell on the floor laughing at her (I know, it was NOT a kind reaction to someone who is lyrically impaired!!!)

 

[Tantor]

The Rolling Stones song "Angie" goes "Angie....An-g-ie"

I always sang it as "Injured.... I'm in-jur-ed" until my SIL asked "WHAT?" one day

 

[chell]

I hope I don't get into trouble for posting this one...

When Rob Thomas first released "Lonely No More" or when the CD first came out - I can't remember which came first - a friend called me all excited. She told me she REALLY wants to be Marisol's friend (Marisol is Rob's wife). I couldn't help but get tickled at her since she was SO excited about it. When I asked her why she wanted to know if I had listened to the song yet. I told her I had then she asked if I didn't hear the line where he says "Open up to me and I can do your girlfriends". I still roll on the floor every time I even think about it and really laugh out loud when the song is on the radio. The line really is "Open up to me like you do your girlfriends."

 

[chell]

Rob Thomas...."Lonely No More"

original lyrics: "open up to me......like you do your girlfriends"

what i first thought he said: "open up to me......and i can do your girlfriends"



i remember first listening to it like "WHAT did he just say!?!?"

Leigh Ann?

Guess I should have read all the responses first. Oops. I bet she will feel better knowing she wasn't the only one.

 

[TDC Nala]

That was, without a doubt, one of the FUNNIEST things I have EVER reead.....ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gosh thanks, it took me forever to put that together from the misheard lyrics website.

Try playing the song while reading along with it.

 

[LBelle]

gosh thanks, it took me forever to put that together from the misheard lyrics website.

Try playing the song while reading along with it.

Oh, trust me....I plan on it!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LBelle]

Here's one that, although it's not misunderstood lyrics, it never fails to stay with me!!!! When my oldest DS, who is now 21, used to watch Sesame Street, there was this Cookie Monster song that taought about the 'Letter B'...to the song of the Beatles "Let it B'

"Letter B, Letter B, Letter B oh Letter B"!!!!!!!!!!!

I will NEVER be able to hear that song for the rest of my life without hearing the Cookie Monster version instead!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TheGoofster]

Here's one that, although it's not misunderstood lyrics, it never fails to stay with me!!!! When my oldest DS, who is now 21, used to watch Sesame Street, there was this Cookie Monster song that taought about the 'Letter B'...to the song of the Beatles "Let it B'

"Letter B, Letter B, Letter B oh Letter B"!!!!!!!!!!!

I will NEVER be able to hear that song for the rest of my life without hearing the Cookie Monster version instead!!!!!!!!!!!

That reminds me of the spoof of Boy George's song "khama Chameleon" (sp).
The spoof goes:
"comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, quotation mark...period...apostrophe"

To tell the truth, I like the spoof better than the original.

 

[LBelle]

That reminds me of the spoof of Boy George's song "khama Chameleon" (sp).
The spoof goes:
"comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, quotation mark...period...apostrophe"

To tell the truth, I like the spoof better than the original.

That's another good one!!! Never heard it but I've just been singing away in my head..."comma, comma.......

 

[LadyyRedd]

And what the heck is the real lyrics to this song anyways???

Billy Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl
Who says that I am the one
But the chazz is not my son

LOL, I believe that's

"but the kid is not my son"

Kimya

 

[apirateslifeforme]

"She's got electric b**bs, her ma has two..." (Elton John, Bennie and the Jets ) - it's "She's got electric boots, a mohair suit"

And as a kid, I thought in Duran Duran's Hold Back the Rain they were saying "no time for wearing clothes, we're on the road again." It's "no time for worry cause we're on the roam again."

Or a bit of a literary bent on Bon Jovi's Bad Medicine - "Thoreau is like Ralph Emerson...Ralph Emerson is what I read..."

 

[LBelle]

]"She's got electric b**bs, her ma has two..." (Elton John, Bennie and the Jets ) - it's "She's got electric boots, a mohair suit"[/b]

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[Reflection]

Thought of another one, and now that we are in the season to be jolly...
The son of a friend of mine, when he was 4 or 5 sang the 5th day of Christmas (In the 12 Days of Christmas)

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Five onion rings......

Another child of friends sang part of the lyrics of Silent Night as

Round John Virgin, mothering chide

 

[LBelle]

LOL, I believe that's

"but the kid is not my son"

Kimya

How does he make 'KID' sound like that????

 

[MiAimee82]

Blinded the Light- I actually need help with this, the first line is: "Blinded by the light, wrapped up like......." What is the rest of this. Sounds like "wrapped up like medusa in the middle of the night." but I don't think that is right. Anyone know what it should be? Thanks !

 

[goofinoff]

My husband used to sing "I'll never be a pizza burning" instead of Beast of Burden. I had a friend who thought the Bee-Gee's were singing "Four Letter Woman" instead of "More than a Woman". And another who sang "Wolves and Owls" instead of 'Groove is in the Heart". Weird, huh!!!

 

[Beca]

Blinded the Light- I actually need help with this, the first line is: "Blinded by the light, wrapped up like......." What is the rest of this. Sounds like "wrapped up like medusa in the middle of the night." but I don't think that is right. Anyone know what it should be? Thanks !

I think it is:

Blinded by the light
revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night

My longest misunderstood song lyric was Willie Nelson's "On the road again". There is a line "While my lover's making music with my friends". I thought it was "While my lover's making me sit with my friends". I figured they were in a fight.