Misheard Lyrics- Page 3

[erikaamato]

re: Misheard Lyrics#50

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#51

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!

You're always sorry, You're always grateful, You hold her, thinking: "I'm not alone." You're still alone.
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company

[me101]

re: Misheard Lyrics#52

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.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. -Dorothy Parker

[MrBungee7]

re: Misheard Lyrics#53

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

What's pink and green and flies all over?

[Unknown User]

re: Misheard Lyrics#54

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

In Popular:

Glinda: "I know Clamdestiny"

I heard. "I know from Destiny."

[KateMusic]

re: Misheard Lyrics#55

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.

Some people analyze every detail/ Some people stall when they can't see the trail/ Some people freeze out of fear that they'll fail/ But I keep rollin' on/ Some people can't get success with their art/ Some people never feel love in their heart/ Some people can't tell the two things apart/ But I keep rollin' on

[LaeloftheLakes]

re: Misheard Lyrics#56

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

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

"I am special, I am special! Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!" ---Louisa, The Fantasticks --- --- Intolerant of intolerance.

[MissMommy]

re: Misheard Lyrics#57

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#58

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

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

[Letty2]

re: Misheard Lyrics#59

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#60

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

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

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

[Letty2]

re: Misheard Lyrics#61

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

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

[Kimmygonbefamous]

re: Misheard Lyrics#62

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

It means politically correct.

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you." - Maya Angelou

[playbill_signer_05]

re: Misheard Lyrics#63

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#64

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.

Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

[iluvtheatertrash]

re: Misheard Lyrics#65

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"??

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[RumTumTugger22]

re: Misheard Lyrics#66

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

doesn't she say manogomous?

or somethign like that. Maybe its a different song.

CAGES OR WINGS? WHICH DO YOU PREFER? ASK THE BIRDS. FEAR OR LOVE, BABY? DON'T SAY THE ANSWER, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

re: Misheard Lyrics#67

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#68

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

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

"I think Harvey [Fierstein] wishes he were a black woman. I say he's the largest black woman in the show. I wish Harvey were straight, cuz I'd do him in a minute. I like big burly mother f***ers like him." ~Mary Bond Davis on Harvey Fierstein Thanks to Mistress @ spouzic.com

[ProducersFan]

re: Misheard Lyrics#69

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

"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure." ~Roger Bart

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

re: Misheard Lyrics#70

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*

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

[BSoBW2]

re: Misheard Lyrics#71

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

::eats sheep::

[BSoBW2]

re: Misheard Lyrics#72

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#73

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

"Let the little girl go, and that poor little dog? Dodo." That's my favorite line in the whole show (Wicked). My next favorite line is "Oh! It seems the artichoke is steamed."

[BSoBW2]

re: Misheard Lyrics#74

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