Misheard Lyrics — Page 8

Thanks for this thread, guys... probably the most I've laughed all week. I'm guilty as charged for most of these... "hoi palloi," "pal, a sis..." yeah. There's probably more that I can't think of right now.

CatsNYrevival, that is exactly what I thought!!!!

When ALADDIN first came out a lot of older kids around me were singing the lines from "A Whole New World" "Unbelievable sights/Indescribable feeling" as "Unbelievable SIZE/Indescribable feeling." Since I was just a kid, the sexual reference went over my head and I didn't realize that they were being humorous. For the longest time, the latter lyrics were the ones I sang whenever I listened to the soundtrack. No one bothered to correct me.

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Um... excuse the super-duper bump here, but I thought of a couple.

On the Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Mis, during the Confrontation, I always think Javert is saying "My duty's to velour" as opposed to "My duty's to the law". Why would he have a duty to a fabric??

Also, in the Rent OBCR, it sounds like "Take your brown eyes, your pretty smile, your silverware!" in Another Day. I can understand hypodermic needles for heroin, but cutlery?

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

I would guess, from reading your interp that it might be something like -

"Camera lights, Carmina Burana, Nirvana."

Carmina Burana is a classic symphony/choir/opera piece. I'm going to assume that one anyway. I'll have to get ahold of a copy of the recording to say for sure.

I RESURRECT YOU, O MOST ANCIENT OF THREADS!

ANyway, I just heard this one, and it was too funny for me to bear, so I thought I'd share it. It's not *exactly* a misheard lyric, but it's possibly not funny enough to start its own thread, so I figured it'd fit well in here.

See, the Japanese have just started an anime of 'Les Miserables' (which was what started the conversation with my friend), and it was also referenced in an older series called 'Sakura Taisen 4'. And Japanese pronunciation of western terms and names can be a bit off. My friend has come across 'Les Mis' in 'Sakura Taisen', but never bothered with the show or the novel, so he's had some issues working out what the character names are actually meant to be. And he just confessed that for the longest time, he thought the protagonist was called Jumble John.

Go on, just try singing a few lines of 'Who Am I?', and substitute that name in. It's BRILLIANT. XD

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StageManager - sounds like "A Whole Nude World" which has the alternate (and alternative) lyrics: "Unbelievable size/Indescribable squealing"

Updated On: 1/13/07 at 08:15 PM

Haha! This is hysterical!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who heard "nude saurus" TL5Y "If I Didn't Believe in You." I was like "Is that some kinda...dinosaur?" Haha!
I finally learned that it's "tsuris" which means difficulty or trouble in Yiddish.
However, I still prefer the idea of a naked dinosaur keeping Jaimie and Cathy apart. Haha!

Sorry to post two almost right in a row, but I was listening to the Assassins revival recording and during "The Gun Song", Booth is singing and then at the end Czolgosz comes in and sings "I hate this gun" but I heard "I hate this guy" and I was thinking "What does Czolgosz have against Booth?" I thought it seemed random.
Not that funny, I know, but I felt like sharing. :)

Lovely Ladies from Les Mis:

Me: Costs a little extra if you wanna tickle here

Real: Costs a little extra if you wanna take all year.

Hey. both work.

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"You know that old TLC song, "Waterfalls"?

I thought they were singing "Don't go, Jason Waterfalls!"
I thought it was a person.

(They're actually singing "Don't go chasin' waterfalls"... which I'm sure everyone else already knew.)

*looks sheepish* "


OH MY GOSH ME TOO!

and for more TLC.. i thought for the longest time.. up until august that is.. that they were saying "i'm a freak, yeahh" instead of the actual words "so i creep, yeah"

i am ridiculous.

in south pacific i thought mary martin sang; [a wonderful guy]
what i heard: i'm hormonal as blueberry pie
actual lyrics: i'm as normal as blueberry pie

haha wow, silly me.

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