Misheard Lyrics- Page 7

[perfectlypink3]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 11:25pm

I have to tell you all that i haven't laughed this hard all week. I actually had to get up and go to the bathroom so i wouldnt pee my pants. I have MANY of these but I will post later. lol thanks for this

[Prisoner 24601]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 11:46pm

What about in Les Mis during "Look Down" when the two women get into a fight and a man says,

Leave the poor old cow.
Move it, Madeleine.
She used to be no better
till the ---- got to her brain.

What does he say?

[MissMonika]

Posted: 12/20/05 at 11:51pm

lol. whenever i can't understand the lyrics i'm hearing, i just make it up myself. i've done it with Christmas Bells (Rent) and At the End of the Day (Les Mis). hehehe

[thetheatrekook]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 12:00am

isn't it the clap? "till the clap got to her brain"? (aka gonorrhea)

[Prisoner 24601]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 12:08am

aaaaahhh.... thanks, kook!

[rent_nodaybuttoday]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 12:19am

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

I thought it was that too!! is it really "I've longed to discover something as true as this seems?

[jasobres]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 7:21am

I have a book of misheard lyrics called 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy. One of them is "My heels are alive with the sound of music."

Incidentally, a little off-topic, but my father is still convinced that what Sting says in "Every Breath You Take" is "I'm a pool hall ace," but it's really "How my poor heart aches."

Updated On: 12/21/05 at 07:21 AM

[Sant]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:31am

Well first I have to say that English is not my first language, so maybe that explains some of this...

When I first heard the POTO song "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again", I wasn't reading the lyrics - just listening the song.

The line "...Too many years fighting back tears..." I thought she sung "...too many years fighting bacterias..."

And I thought "WHAT THE H*LL...?????"

Updated On: 12/21/05 at 10:31 AM

[Anakela]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 4:02pm

I love this thread!

Both from Wicked: I used to think that "a pal, a sister.." in Popular was "a power sister." And from Thank Goodness I used to think "like some terrible green blizzard, throughout the land she flies" was "like some terrible green lizard..." :)

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 4:06pm

Yes, it's clap.

Terrible disease - those poor French prostitutes.
Thank G-d there's a union today to protect them from clap damage!

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 4:07pm

for quite a while a lot of rent heads insisted, despite the written lyrics on the page, that the line "nevers and maybes" from "Out Tonight" was really "neverson babies". there was a website and everything devoted to trying to figure out who the neverson babies were...

holy poop i just realized what the real lyrics are!

My line is in Wicked in WWOTE Boq: And this ball that's being staged; announcing Glinda is engaged."
I always thought it was "fter all being exchanged, saint glinda is engaged."
Read the book, you'll get the SAINT part

[JLSatUD]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 4:10pm

hahaha ... I was just going to post the "neverson babies" thing. I never did figure it out til I read the lyrics. I figured I was hearing it wrong but I couldn't figure out what it possibly could be :)

[roquat]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:56pm

Several people I know have made this mistake--

"Flashdance"

What a feeling
Bein's believin'
I can have it all, now I'm dancin' for my life
Take your PANTS DOWN
And make it happen.
Pictures come alive, now I'm dancin' through my life"

I believe it's supposed to be "Take your PASSION", but some people actually don't believe me--they're convinced it's "PANTS DOWN."

[Phantomerik15]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 6:00pm

in Phantom:
Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer:

Christine: Please, Raoul, it's useless.

i thought at first,
"He's Raoul, he's useless"

...sorry if it's been posted...didn't read every message.

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 6:37pm

This isn't really a lyric, but it is misheard...in the Sweeney OBC, I thought the whip sounds during the Judge's "Johanna" was a staple gun. I was like, "What the HELL is he doing with a staple gun?!" And then...I got smart.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:07pm

ICY from Rent, I'm still not exactly sure what the words are..."I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love, now I know you can rent it, something something something."

Also it took me forever to figure out what they were saying in What You Own, "I escape and ape content" and "for once I didn't disengage"

And (yes, I'm slow) in "Wizard and I" i never knew until I read this thread that the words were "This gift or this curse I have inside". I thought it was like, I haven't sighed, which didn't really make sense.

[guitargeek0624]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:09pm

"in Phantom:
Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer:

Christine: Please, Raoul, it's useless.

i thought at first,
"He's Raoul, he's useless"

...sorry if it's been posted...didn't read every message."

Oh man, that's great! Mostly because my friends and I hate Raoul...hehe.

[waddledee524]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:34pm

"... and all the scars of the Mexican babies DIE!"
I figured there must be scarred Mexican babies along with the crying Spanish babies. It could make sense.

Also, in La Vie Boheme: "Mutual masturbation" as opposed to "Mucho masturbation". I honestly think 'mutual' would work better, but that's just me.

In Wicked, the Wiz-o-Mania part of "One Short Day" is just plain unintelligible. And it bugs the hell out of me.

[Trina55]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:57pm

"Who's the mage
whose major itinerary
is making all us merrier

who's the sage
who sagely
sailed in to save our posteriors

whose enthuse for hot air ballooning
has all of us honeymooning"

Kind of clever, I think. Doesn't make up for the scary bobblehead clowns, though.

My biggest misheard lyric was in Aida. Radames' father (I don't remember his name) says "summon Egypt's greatest builders re: another pyramid." I heard it as "summon Egypt's greatest builder, me!" and consequently thought for the whole show that he was the royal architect or something. ha!

Thanks for "hoi polloi," whoever provided that one. I always thought it was some nonsense phrase.

Updated On: 12/21/05 at 09:57 PM

[Phantomerik15]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:02pm

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

haha..Raoul's line in Think of Me were actually very unclear in the OLCR. i saw one with "gawkish" and now "corkish"...there's another going around with "cockish."

[Phantomerik15]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:06pm

and when i was like 5 or 6, when the 10th Anniversary of Les Mis came out, i had thought at the time in the beginning w/ the chain gang that the guy (one of the prisoners) sung: "Sweet cheeses hear my prayer" instead of "Sweet Jesus hear my prayer" ...my parents always laughed when ever i sung the misheard lyrics. i never recognised my mistake until like when i was 11.(that's when i ventured out to Bway again to see the musical since i was 4)

[cubbiegirl]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:41pm

Well first off, I have a misread misheard lyric. I've been sitting here trying to figure out how I missed a song called ICY in rent. And then it hit me. ICY=I'll cover you and not ICY as in "Damn, it's icy outside, don't slip!"

My 9 year sings the following:

"One short day in the amazon city"
"Find the prettiest girl..in the world.."
"Let's go down to the ozfest ballroom"

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:42pm

When I first got the OLC of Miss Saigon, where Gigi sings "stuck on you wall with a pin in my ass", I spent the longest time wondering what she was doing with a pen in her ass.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:49pm

I like my "America" misheard lyric:
"Everything free in America / Pour us coffee in America."

Or "Momma Look Sharp" -
"Them soldiers, they fart / Oh, Ma, did we run..."
"Then I went under / Oh, Ma, am I dumb..."

[renthead2005z]

Posted: 12/26/05 at 4:52pm

In the obc of the last five years i couldn't understand what sherrie was saying when she said "the savior of writing" so i would say " the same garabody" it wasn't until i saw it at the everyman theatre in Baltimore when i realized it was savior of writing.