Misheard Lyrics- Page 5

[dotmarie]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:06pm

I just today realized that the lyric in "Home" (from BatB) is "Build higher walls around me" NOT "Build firewalls around me." Oops.

I suppose if Belle lived in a computer...

[gravity87]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:10pm

qlmost nething sung by cheno is always a little unclear

[phantom_tenor]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 1:26am

In Stars in les mis, i always thought it was "the flames award" rather than "the flame, the sword". I couldn't work it out for ages, then i realised how obvious it was.

Also, in Smoke on the Water it sounds a bit like "slow talking Walter, the fire engine guy". It's not mine, but i thought it was funny.

[AbsolutKnight]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 6:37am

In Scarlet Pimpernel from the song "Where's the Girl?":
"Like two jewels in the sky sharing fire"

The first couple times I heard that I thought it was:
"Like two jews in the sky sharing fire" Updated On: 2/7/05 at 06:37 AM

[yarn769fink034]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 8:15am

In The wizard and I I thought she was saying and this sink or this curse i have inside.
took me forever to realize the lyric.I don't know why i didn't look in the little booklet that comes with the cd.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 5/15/05 at 11:24pm

A Weekend In The Country- A Little Night Music

she may hope to make a charm belt
(she may hope to make her charm felt)

I couldn't for the life of me figure out why she would want to make a charm belt.

[hrh_annette]

Posted: 5/15/05 at 11:49pm

Mine is a Disneyland one. On Splash Mountain I could swear the birds on the riverboat are singing "Little lady show us your bum." So firm in my convictions I have convinced some of my friends that they are hearing that, too.

[neelyohara]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 12:52am

The Last Five Years:
-"...and Mrs. Jamie Wellerstein, that's me!"
I kept thinking "Mrs. Jamie Willis Dean"...and then my best friend was like "It's WELLERSTEIN, you idiot."
-"I could lease a villa in Seville..."
I heard "I could be sevilla in Seville" which doesn't even mean ANYTHING.

Wicked:
-"...it's up that I fell..."
Sounded like "it's stuff that I felt" to me, and I thought those were really crap lyrics.
-"And I'll want nothing else till I die..."
Sounded like "And I'll walk on these hills till I die..."

And this has nothing to do with Broadway, but my mom randomly thought that Stevie Nicks was singing "sand bag" instead of "Stand Back."

Updated On: 5/16/05 at 12:52 AM

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 2:13pm

buffyactsing, until you posted that I had always thought it was charm belt. Never understood it, but figured - oh Sondheim, you silly man. My bad.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 2:19pm

I had a friend's mom who thought an Idina lyric in Here said "Hot dog in the middle of the snow is cold"
Actual lyric "Car stalls in the middle of the road in snow"

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 2:30pm

Oh, I thought this was the old thread...

Millie -
In "One Day More" from Les Mis (I forgot which cast recording) it sounds like Javert sings: "One more day to revolution/We will nip it in the butt/I will join these little schoolboys/They will wet themselves, La!"

'Tis the OBC, Terrance Mann. And the La = with blood.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 11:13pm

I decided to resurect this thread because I have a misheard lyric, that despite knowing exactly what is being said, everytime I listen to the recording I still hear the same wrong lyric.

On the Bat Boy off broadway recording during "Apology to a Cow" Bat Boy says "we had a chance at happiness, blissfully unaware..." every time I listen, I hear "we inter-transect at venus, blissfully unaware.."

it took be seeing the show (more than a year and a half after buying the recording) to realize it wasn't what i thought it was.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 11:35pm

Mine is completely non-Broadway, but you know that old cartoon pepper Ann? Well, in the theme song when it goes "Pepper Ann, Pepper Ann, marching in her own parade," I always heard "Pepper Ann, Pepper Ann, watching dinner on parade."

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 8/10/05 at 11:52pm

I have another Sondheim one.

"Yesterday I walked through the park to the gnome where we met."

It wasn't until the I saw the lyrics I could figure out it was knoll, though I was pretty sure Clara referencing a 19th century lawn Gnome as a romantic memory was unlikely.

[jaybrrd]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:58am

To go further with the POTO mistake, I always thought it was:

"Can it be? You're really not a bitch?
The caucus showed that once you were."

To be fair, it *was* an election year the first time I heard this.

[Theaterlover2]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 1:14pm

SticktoPriest (and everyone else who heard it)-
I thought that he said Bitch too in POTO. For several years actually. Then I read the lyrics and was like...oh oops.
good to know everyone else heard what I heard.
Theaterlover

edited after I read that everyone heard the line in POTO.

Updated On: 8/11/05 at 01:14 PM

[Sant]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 2:06pm

First time I heard "With One Look" by Barbra I thought she sang "With one look I lit night a place!" and I thought "what the h*ll...??" (The line actually goes "With one look I'll ignite a blaze")

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 2:20pm

Thenardier, my sister had a problem with the same part of One Day More, she thought Javert was saying "They will never see the butt" instead of "We will nip it in the bud." She said she thought he meant the butt of a gun. I made her listen to the London Cast which is much easier to understand.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 2:40pm

for the longest time i sang the first line of rent's title song as; "how do you documentry a life" as opposed to "document real life"

[Cheno'sBiggestfan]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 2:46pm

i am listening to popular right now and pal, a sis does sound like palasis! i have listened to the cheno sooo much that i get used to understanding what she is singing.(check my profile to see what im listening to) ohh and i thought in Phantom of the opera when cristine sings "ïn sleep he sang to me" i thought she said in sleepy sanctomy if that is even a word also i thought instead of "a strange duet" he said "a strange do where" i have bad ears

[Cheno'sBiggestfan]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 2:47pm

and also in phantom when they say our voices combined i thought it was our voices complined

Updated On: 8/11/05 at 02:47 PM

[AndiV]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:14pm

in the actual book Wicked, Madame Morrible tells both Glinda and Elphaba that they will be some sort of advisor-like people for the Wizard (not sure if the term is advisor). so, i tried so hard to make "palisis advisor" fit. this was before i saw the show...ha ha ha...that's a toughie.

i also had a hard time with "maybe at last I'll know why." i had no idea what it was...tee hee!

[forget regret <3]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:34pm

bahahaa.... i thought it was corkish girl in POTP too... doesn't it sound like that?

[DoogieB]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:47pm

I always thought in the opening number of DRS, "Give Them What They Want", Lithgow was saying "Yay steady" instead of "gaze steady".

[DoogieB]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:47pm

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Updated On: 8/11/05 at 04:47 PM