Misheard Lyrics- Page 4

[bobbysworld]

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

my best friend always thought the words to Billy Joel's Shameless was----

"and I'm shaaaavin..."

gotta love him :)

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:20pm

I miss Bobby's World

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:21pm

I thought "let us rejiocify that goodness" from no one mourns the wicked was "let us rejoice to find that goodness"

[gertiecummings]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 4:44pm

Defying Gravity

Me: As soon as I'm defying gravity
Real: I'd sooner buy defying gravity

I still cannot believe Stephen Schwartz wrote a lyric that cheesey.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 5:52pm

Phantom Chicken: *sigh* I know. After I found out the real lyrics, I couldn't see how on earth I could have misheard it.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:06pm

Another Avenue Q question. In "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist," Christmas Eve after singing about whites having money and Jews having power, says "I'm Always In Taxi Cabs With Live Hula Showers." or something like that. I never understood that! Can someone tell me either what it is or explain it? Thanks.

[staticradar]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:10pm

it's "i'm always in taxi cab with driver who no shower"

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:15pm

ya, she doesn't say anythign about Hula showers - which doesn't even mean anything

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:17pm

Oh, okay thank you soo much! Well, there's a big misheard lyric, makes a lot more sense now!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:20pm

all that jazz and the trial scene in Amour (WTH are they saying? Emperor Tiberius?)

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:22pm

On the Wicked recording, when Kristen is singing Good News, I never got that and thought she was responding to the chorus of "No one mourns the wicked...." with an "I do!", but no, it's Good news.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:24pm

I never got that in Wicked (KC's opera)

AND

A few lines (other than what I mentioned) in As Long As You're Mine ....

Idina, love her, but REALLY needs to work on her announciation

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:25pm

BSoBW2: and her breathing.....that gasping can't be right.

[RumTumTugger22]

Posted: 1/30/05 at 7:27pm

as for the Avenue Q lyric the taxi driver. I originally heard it as livah. I was like who's livah? Then i realized it was driver.

BSoBW why do u want to know everyone's age?
How old r u?

[rice and beans AND cheese]

Posted: 2/2/05 at 5:32pm

Someone heard "And all the scars of the nevers and maybes die" in "Out Tonight" as "and all the screams of the Mexican babies fly". I could not stop laughing!

[lvpblues]

Posted: 2/3/05 at 2:46am

For me, I had a little trouble with 'C'est Magnifique' from the OBC of "Can-Can":

Me:
He whispers, "Shut the door"

Cole Porter:
He whispers, "Je t'adore"

Took a year and a half when I looked at the sheet music to realize my error. I had just figured La Mome Pistache got around...

~Kev

[scotty]

Posted: 2/3/05 at 9:45am

In 'The Money Song' (Avenue Q). Nicky sing's "It's time to stop begging, it's time to start giving". But sounds like "It's time to stop BAKING"

I still laugh when I hear it. Long live Rick Lyon! Updated On: 2/3/05 at 09:45 AM

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 2/3/05 at 1:03pm

I thought Kristen was singing "Ohhh Nooo!" not "Goood Neeews"

[Sophi Noey]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 5:53am

ok off MT but.........
I thought that in "We are Family" there was a line that went "Just let me staple the vicar!" when instead it is "Just let me stay for the record!" swear to God its my version!
In Bohemian Rhapsody I thought the first line went
"Is History a life?" yeah I think I don't listen very well!
Sophi Noey

[Jim Colyer]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:12am

The classic misheard lyrics from the pop charts were those of "Louie Louie," a song by The Kingsmen in late 1963. There were the "clean lyrics" and the "dirty lyrics." Which of the two sets you heard when listening to the record depended on which one you had in mind at the time. It worked either way.

Beatle fans still ponder John Lennon's comment at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever." Does he say "I am very bored" or "I buried Paul?'

The Bee Gees had a hit from Saturday Night Fever called "More Than A Woman." I thought they were singing "Bald Headed Woman" until my ex-wife set me straight.
Jim Colyer Updated On: 2/6/05 at 07:12 AM

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 2:33pm

Real lyric: Woe to those who spurn what goodnesses they are shown

I heard: Goodness knows who spurn what goodness is, they are shunned.

Not as funny as some of yours, but..

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:25pm

I always thought that line was "Woe to those who spurn what goodness is, they are shown..." wow, you learn something new everyday!

[superperson]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:35pm

I used to think in H2S "Gone was the sense of enterprise" was "God is the sense of enterprise". I thought that was a thrilling line, until I found out I heard it incorrectly.

[Barnaby12345]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:31pm

In "The Confrontation" in Miss Saigon, I always thought Chris said "I shat at Kim" by actually says "I shattered Kim"

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:07pm

Sorry to bring this up again, but Kristin does say "clandestinely":

http://libretto.musicals.ru/text.php?textid=566&language=1

Scroll down a bit.