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  • Only just realised the opening line to Born to Run" isn't "in my favourite sweater"
  • Way down yonder in New Orleans by Freddy Cannon.
    Creole ladies with flashing eyes.
    I thought was
    3 old ladies with flashing eyes
  • Don't ya wish your boyfriend was short like me,
    Don't ya

    Wishful thinking: )
  • The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve.
    My mum was convinced it was 'trucks' instead of 'drugs'. Made no sense
  • The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve.
    My mum was convinced it was 'trucks' instead of 'drugs'. Made no sense

    Yeah, it would lose its meaning somewhat (it's supposedly about Ashcroft witnessing his father's death from cancer rather than his dad losing his delivery job!)
  • Taylor Swift - shake it off

    In the line about Harry Styles I thought she sang ' to the fella over there with the elegant hair' but apparently it is ' with the hell-a good hair'

    Think my version is better!
  • The classic 'Sami Hyppia save me right now' from Beyonce's 'Crazy in Love'.
  • Ferret ears, ferret ears, what took us so long.
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  • "She's a muscular boy"
    A Must To Avoid - Herman's Hermits
    "Old Suzannah's bedraggled Budgie". The line is actually "Old Suzannah's bedraggled, but she...."
    Suzannah's Still Alive - Dave Davies.
  • Madonna definitely sings 'drop a goolie' on La Isla Bonita.

    Incidentally there is a word for this:-

    Mondegreen: A misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of a song.
  • Nick Lowe - I love the sound of breaking legs

    Bonnie Tyler - It's a hard egg, nothing but a hard egg
  • "The lift goes up where we belong"
  • Not me but have heard one or two people singing we are Charlton coming in instead of covered end.
  • "Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who don't make sense."
    Is actually:
    "To write off lines that don't make sense"
    in Nirvana's On A Plain.

  • Steve Winwood - Higher Love
    Although I knew it wasn't the right lyrics, I thought 'I could light the night up with my soul on fire' sounded like 'I don't like banana with my shoulder pie'.
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  • My lover's got no money, he's got his trombone lease.
  • "I cant believe you kiss your cock at night" instead of "kiss your car good night""

    That don't impress me much - Shania Twain.
  • "I fell in love with San Pedro"....Maddona.....La Isla bonita.

    Always thought she was saying "I fell in love with some deigo"!

    Next time you hear it you'll get what I mean.



    Incidently anyone ever been to San Pedro.....(the one in Belize of course)....images on the web look fantastic.

    Is that the the Island where the 'girl with eyes like potatoes' lives.

  • edited July 2017
    I always throught the chorus to Independent Women by Destiny's Child was:

    All the women who are independent
    Throw your like Batman
    All the honeys who makin' money
    Throw your like Batman
    All the mamas who profit dollars
    Throw your like Batman
    All the ladies who truly feel me
    Throw your like Batman

    I only found it wasn't 2 years ago. I'd been singing that wrong for over 15 years.
  • My grown up sister was talking to a guy at a party only last year who was a mod... I heard her chit chatting small talk and then say to him yes I was listening to Paul Weller on a repeat of one of the old Top of the Pops recently, he was singing A Town Called Alice.

    I actually wanted the floor to open up myself...
  • Men at Work, Land Down Under:

    Women blow and men chunder.

    Always wondered why there wasn't a radio edit.
  • "I fell in love with San Pedro"....Maddona.....La Isla bonita.

    Always thought she was saying "I fell in love with some deigo";!

    Next time you hear it you'll get what I mean.



    Incidently anyone ever been to San Pedro.....(the one in Belize of course)....images on the web look fantastic.

    Ditto.
  • danny777 said:

    Nick Lowe - I love the sound of breaking legs

    Bonnie Tyler - It's a hard egg, nothing but a hard egg

    But "glass" sounds nothing like "legs"! I think you must have been a mob enforcer in a previous life.
  • The line REM's The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight:

    Call me when you try to wake her

    Sounds to me like

    Call me Cheryl Baker
  • The line REM's The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight:

    Call me when you try to wake her

    Sounds to me like

    Call me Cheryl Baker

    I'm a huge R.E.M. fan but deciphering Stipe's lyrics was a nightmare, partly because he mumbled so much. And, in the early years, he didn't bother with words at all. On the subject of Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, bassist Mike Mills summed up what it was like trying to understand what any of Stipe's songs were about.

    "Half of the song is about somebody trying to get in touch with someone who can sleep on his floor. The other half...well, you're on your own there."

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