Comedically Misheard Lyrics- Page 3

[carolinaguy]

Posted: 2/19/19 at 10:30am

This is one from "Anywhere but Here" in Honeymoon in Vegas that someone on the board helped me with:

Thirty-one years I climbed that hill
Seventeen years I'm on the pill
Least I'm not beans on J-8's till [actual lyric: Lisa Levine's on J-date still]

 

[conealpetterson]

Posted: 2/19/19 at 1:56pm

When I first listened to Hamilton, I heard, “I remember those salty boys trippin’ over themselves just to win our praise.” My daughter asked me how that even made sense, and I told her I thought they were sailors.

For the longest time, I thought the line from Sonya and Natasha in Great Comet was “I hate you! You’re my enemy forever! I burst into song.”

[carolinaguy]

Posted: 2/9/21 at 9:19am

Thanks to Lea Salonga's crystal-clear diction in her Sydney Opera House concert, I realized I had been hearing this lyric in "Children Will Listen" wrong for years:

 

What do you leave to your child when you're dead?

Only whatever you put in its head.

 

I always heard it as:

What do you leave to your child when you're dead?

Only one avenue put in its head.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 2/9/21 at 10:45pm

From Phantom (though this only applies to the original cast recording, as the lyric has since been rewritten). I spent some time in my youth confused why Raoul was calling Christine a b*tch in "Think of Me." I didn't learn the reality until I got the double CD (not my dubbed cassettes from the library) and could check the lyrics.

Raoul: What a change
You're really not a b*tch
The gawkish girl that once I knew

(The correct lyric was "You're really not a bit")