Misheard Lyrics- Page 6

Posted: 8/11/05 at 6:24pm

The whole Wicked and fiancee thing is totally what I was going to put!!! So jealous!! I thought that when i first listened to it and when i saw it and seriously thought they said "And Beyonce" instead of and fiancee!!! it was like two months ago that i realized that... Maybe i shouldnt admit that.

Also this is not a misheard lyric but misunderstood, and me just being dumb, but in Aida when Zazer is singing another pyramid, i thought that he was just singing about building another pyramid cause Egypt was prosperous and strong. It was two weeks later when i was sitting in class when i realized, oh he was killing the pharoh and thats why theyre building another pyramid to bury him in... wow im slow...

[ElphieZ]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 6:34pm

Oh my gosh I came across this thread and got the best laughs of the day. Thanks for the break guys. As for the Wicked Popular pallasis thing, as many times as I've heard the soundtrack (which must be in the hundreds by now), I didn't know what you guys were talking about. Pulled up the song on my iTunes and aha!

I had no idea it was a pal a sister either.

Thanks for the entertainment!

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 7:12pm

I always get into fight with my brother if in La Vie Boheme its mucho masturbation or mutual masturbation. I keep forgetting to look it up in the RENT book.

In Mama Says (You Can't Back Down) from Footloose, I thought he says "daddy says I love her son, but she's got martyr's syndrome" Aparently it's marbles missin', not martyr's syndrome (whatever the hell that even is).

[dotmarie]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 7:21pm

My sister and I watched the Tenth Anniversary Concert video of Les Mis countless times when we were younger, and she still didn't realize for the longest time that Cosette's lyric in A Heart Full of Love is "I knew it too", not "I'm Judy Kuhn."

She also picked up the lyric "regular Voltaire" in Master of the House as "regular bald hair."

[Theaterlover2]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 7:30pm

LytemyCanDyl(thats hard to type)-
for the RENT argument with your brother. It's mucho masturbation..just so you know.

[tagiunagi]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 8:49pm

doogie, I always thought John Lithgow was saying "gay steady." Little did I know it was "gaze steady." Not too far-fetched, but certainly misheard.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 9:23pm

"Meadowlark"
Real lyric: "Sing for me, my meadowlark..."
I heard: "Sing for free, my meadowlark..."

[WickedGeek28]

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

Okay, when i first got wicked i thought the line "look to the western sky!" was "the witch fo the west has died." Sad i kno.

[ElphieZ]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 1:48am

Not a broadway show (could be in one someday with the way pop musicals go), but I thought people would get a laugh out of this. My friend always thought the opening line of My Brown Eyed Girl was "Hey there amigo" instead of "Hey why don't we go!"

[kitkatt456]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 2:36am

from Out Tonight in Rent I thought Mimi said:
"When I get away from the doorman, do you know how lucky you'll be, that you're on line with the feline, of what value you'll be!"

Makes absolutely so sense lol. Theres alot of stuff in that song that I misread for the longest time until I finally got the Rent book and read the lyrics.

[elvenprincess971]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 2:50am

L5Y:

When Norbert Sings in "Moving Too Fast": "Im riding hot as a rocket blast" or something like that (I may still have it wrong, lol) I used to think it was "Im ridng hot as rocket glass".

Oh, and when he sings "my ego's swollen" I used to think it was something like "My eagle's flowing" or something like that...

lol.

[Prince Fiyero]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:01am

In Wicked, during Popular, I also thought it was Palasis! I never knew it was actually "Pal, a sister".

Also, in Defying Gravity from the Wicked Broadway Cast Recording:

What I thought: "I'm flying high, Defying Gravity, AND SOON I'LL MATCH THEM IN ME NOW!"

Actually: "I'm flying high, Defying Gravity, AND SOON I'LL MATCH THEM IN RENOWN!"

[thetheatrekook]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:24am

In Spelling Bee, I thought the lyrics in Six Languages were "All American and Honkey" instead of "All-American in hockey"

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 11:49pm

I had an experience with the Assassins parody in SVU... not so major, but for the longest time I thought it was:

"You are Stephen Sondheim. Um, hi, Stephen..."
Obviously, it's 'You are Stephen Sondheim ON HIGH."

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 9:44pm

hahaha i had to bring this thread back to life. I could never understand in Wicked, the spurn line during No One Mourns The Wicked, i thought it sounded like "sperm" and I still don't know what the line is....and some lines in spelling bee.

[renthead2005z]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 10:02pm

My friend thought the lion king song was "pink pajamas, penguins at the bottom"
I laughed my ass off

[guitargeek0624]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 10:14pm

When I first heard "La Vie Boheme," I thought Mimi was saying at the end:

"Life's too short, babe
Time is for lying"

Didn't really make any sense to me, until I listened closer and realized that she was saying, "Time is flying."

I also thought that (in Phantom), Christine was saying, "Angel of Music, cried and carton." Very strange.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 10:19pm

Piazza, in "Say It Somehow".

Real Lyrics: We'll play a game, you'll trace it on my skin
Do it any way, but let's begin

What I Heard: We'll play a game, you'll trace it on my skin
Do it to me with a Mexican

When I first heard that, I thought, "Where did they get a Mexican from.....?" Seriously, listen to it.

[Phantour]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 10:23pm

In RENT:

"When I get a wink from the doorman, do you know how lucky you'll be?"

I heard, "When I get AWAY from the doorman, do you know how lucky you'll be?"

[IsolatingAge]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 10:35pm

from the Rent New York Theatre Workshop Recording:

"Silence equals death. ???????? camal lights, Carmine Miranda, Nirvana."

Does anyone have any idea what they say there? Ive listened to the song 8000 times but i have no idea what they're saying.

[Celestial Entropy]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 10:52pm

I still have an issue with the Popular line "I'll teach the proper..."... is it ploys or poise? I've seen lyrics written out as "ploys", but I swear Cheno is saying "poise".
In La Vie Boheme it sounds more like "to hand cuffed beers made.." instead of "handcrafted".
Oh... someone made up a name, one time, for hearing the wrong words: chronic lyricosis. When it comes to musicals, I tend to have a serious flare up of chronic lyricosis of the Broadway strain.

Updated On: 12/20/05 at 10:52 PM

[thetheatrekook]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 10:57pm

in RENT, "ICY" for the longest time I thought it was "I've longed to discover something as true as the sea."

[liz328]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 11:01pm

I used to think "Out Tonight" was "get away from the doorman" too.

In The Last 5 Years' "If I Didn't Believe in You," Jamey/Norbert says:

Don't we get to be happy, Cathy
At some point down the line don't we get to relax
Without some new tsuris to push me yet further from you...

I had never heard "tsuris" before, so I always sang "nude saurus."

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 11:04pm

Oh thanks for the laugh guys!

[HeyYeah1988@comcast.]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 11:15pm

In "Popular" I hear Cheno sings, "I'll teach you the proper poise when you talk to boys..." the lyrics is written as "I'll teach you the proper PLOYS when you talk to boys.." I hear ever other Glinda say ploysbut for some reason I hear Cheno say POISE. To me it make a better rhymeand more sense.