Misheard Lyrics- Page 4

[bobbysworld]

re: Misheard Lyrics#75

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#76

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

I miss Bobby's World

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

re: Misheard Lyrics#77

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"

Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"

[gertiecummings]

re: Misheard Lyrics#78

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#79

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#80

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.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

[staticradar]

re: Misheard Lyrics#81

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

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

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

[BSoBW2]

re: Misheard Lyrics#82

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

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

[wickedrentq]

re: Misheard Lyrics#83

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!

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: Misheard Lyrics#84

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

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

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[Johnnytoc]

re: Misheard Lyrics#85

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#86

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#87

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

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

[RumTumTugger22]

re: Misheard Lyrics#88

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?

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

[rice and beans AND cheese]

re: Misheard Lyrics#89

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!

"It's a long story, althought it's kinda-of a short one." ~~ Wolfwood

[lvpblues]

re: Misheard Lyrics#90

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#91

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#92

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

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

[Sophi Noey]

re: Misheard Lyrics#93

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#94

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#95

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#96

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!

"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.

[superperson]

re: Misheard Lyrics#97

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#98

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]

re: Misheard Lyrics#99

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.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611