Misheard Lyrics- Page 3

[erikaamato]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:38pm

Hi, guys -

This thread is making me giggle! =) I have misheard lots of lyrics, but they're mostly in pop songs...

Like, in "Our Lips Are Sealed" by the Go-Go's, I really, really thought it was:

Can you hear them? They talk about us.
Telling lies, well that's upper crust!
(It's actually Well, that's no surprise.)

And what the heck was my version supposed to mean, anyway? Oh, well, I was only ten, after all! hehehe

BTW, "calumnies" are just fancier "lies." Specifically, lies told to slander someone. :-P

[staticradar]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 9:52pm

My friend thought in Bare when Ivy sings "is that life i see stirring in your jeans how obscene" was "is that MICE i see stirring in your jeans how obscene"

We still tease her about it today!

[me101]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 10:44pm

Last year, when my school did The Secret Garden, there's a line before "Come Spirit, Come Charm" where Dickon says to Colin "The longer you stay here, the stronger you'll be" and our Dickon would say "The stronger you stay here, the longer you'll be" every time.

[MrBungee7]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 11:02pm

In "Miss Baltimore Crabs" from Hairspray, could never get the line after "so I bought this station, so all of the nation could see..."
I've been told it's supposed to be something about "baby Amber," but I will never listen to it and not hear something about Bea Arthur

Posted: 1/28/05 at 11:27pm

In Popular:

Glinda: "I know Clamdestiny"

I heard. "I know from Destiny."

[KateMusic]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 1:16am

Best. Website. Ever.

http://libretto.musicals.ru/letter.php?language=1

It has all the lyrics for every musical I've wanted to look up.

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 1:21am

Theaterguy2, it's "I know, clandestinely..." which means "secretly"

[MissMommy]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 10:52am

In "Would You Like To Swing On A Star?", I always thought the second line ("Carry moonbeams home in a jar") was "Carrie Moonbeam's home in a jar". I thought Carrie Moonbeam was like Eleanor Rigby whose face was, for some reason, home in a jar by the door. Don't ask me why, I thought that in songs people hung out in jars.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 11:04am

Kristin doesnt say "clandestinely" though. She says "clandestiny"

[Letty2]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 12:16pm

I still don't know what they say in this part of Avenue Q

in "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist"
"if we all could just admit/ that we are racist a little bit/ and everyone stop being so diseeaaaaasseedd"???

[LightMyCandle125]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 6:23pm

the real lyrics are: "and everyone stopped being so PC."

[Letty2]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 6:33pm

ohh ok! thanks! what does PC mean?? haha sorry..

[Kimmygonbefamous]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 6:35pm

It means politically correct.

[playbill_signer_05]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 9:57pm

I ALWAYS have trouble with lyrics. I usually have at least one per song XD. One really funny one was in "The Producers," in the song "When You Got it, Flaunt It." At the end, she sings "Now, Ulla belt!" and then "Don't think twice!" - I could never, ever figure that part out! I was thinking "Taunting Spice?" "Don't take spice?"

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 10:15pm

When I was younger, I totally thought the Beach Boys Little Deuce Coup was Little Loose Poop or Little Loose Tooth.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 1/29/05 at 10:42pm

In 'Last Five Years,' "See, I'm Smiling" --

"Yes you and you, marvelos, novelist JEW YOU?" or is it "marvelous you"??

[RumTumTugger22]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 1:14pm

doesn't she say manogomous?

or somethign like that. Maybe its a different song.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 1:36pm

(The Phantom of the Opera OLC: Think of Me)

Real Lyrics: What a change/you're really not a bit/the gawkish girl that once you were
What I Heard: What a change/you're really not a bitch/the corkish girl that once you were


(Assassins OBC: How I saved Roosevelt)

Real Lyrics: First I was figuring I kill Hoover/I get even for the stomache/only Hoover up in Washington/it's wintertime in Washington/too cold for the stomache in Washington/I go down to Miami- kill Roosevelt
What I Heard: I just didn't understand what he was saying...


(Little Shop of Horrors OBC: Dentist!)

Real Lyric: Who wants their teeth done by the Marquis de Sade?
What I Heard: Who wants their teeth done by the barkeeper's son?


There are probably more, but these are the only three I could think of off the top of my head...

[Phantom Chicken]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 1:44pm

but...they....clearly...say...Marquis de Sade

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 2:22pm

I wanted to take this time to threadjack this hilarious thread (which has had me cracking up for the past 15 minutes) to say that I absolutely adore MissMommy's avatar.

Teacher's Pet is awesome. I wish that show was still on tv...

Okay, back to your regularly scheduled topic.

~Jessica

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 2:22pm

You know that old TLC song, "Waterfalls"?

I thought they were singing "Don't go, Jason Waterfalls!"
I thought it was a person.

(They're actually singing "Don't go chasin' waterfalls"... which I'm sure everyone else already knew.)

*looks sheepish*

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 2:23pm

::eats sheep::

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 2:28pm

Millie - the Les Mis is the OBC (terrance Mann sings butt instead of bud)

La Vie Boheme - inform me - how old are you? JW - by your hoy malloy comment...

I mean, it comes with a booklet AND you can look it up in the dictionary...

[brandonm]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:11pm

Wicked-
Defying Gravity
actual: so if you care to find me
i thought it was: so if you cant find me

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:16pm

as long as you're mine

real: It's up that I fell
me: It's something I felt