Misheard Lyrics- Page 8

[AngelofAvenueB]

Posted: 12/26/05 at 5:04pm

gumbo, the lyrics you're missing are: "now i know you can rent it, a new lease you are my love, on life, be my life..." etc.

and does anyone else find the third verse of "come to your senses" from ttB really hard to understand? I read the lyrics and intellectualy I know them, but I still can't understand what amy spanger says...

[elphatine]

Posted: 12/26/05 at 5:13pm

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.

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/26/05 at 6:54pm

haha - I thought it was "Stuck on the wall with a PIT in my ass" for the LONGEST time!

The other one, not as funny, but I always misheard the title of the song "In a simple way I love you" as "Innocent poet, I love you."

[SpellRENT777]

Posted: 12/26/05 at 9:34pm

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

[greeneyed_one]

Posted: 12/26/05 at 9:49pm

In Avenue Q (If You Were Gay) I didn't know Pal Joey was a musical so I thought there was another character named Joey... yeah I'm an idiot.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 1:13pm

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.

[renthead112305]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 1:31pm

When i first heard Out Tonight (RENT) and Mim sings "of Avenue B" i heard how fast/fat can you be....

and in La Vie Boheme when Roger says "Lenny Bruce" i hear Let it Roost....

[waddledee524]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:20pm

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?

[brdwybound2]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:27pm

Hahah my friend used to think the movie RENT lyrics were: "Cold hands.. yours too... bare, like my father's." Haha I made her listen to the OBCR to convince her it was big hands, not bare.

[PaintWordPictures]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:56pm

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.

[RuprechtJr.]

Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:56pm

EVITA: A New Argentina

Real Lyric:
PERON: Dice are rolling

What I Heard:
PERON: Rice-a-roni

I did a double-take when I heard that song. I looked in the lyric book and realized what an idiot I was.

[Weez]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 5:41pm

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

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 5:45pm

This is misheard lyrics is from Spring Awakening in The Song of Purple Summer

The lyrics is:
And mares will neigh with
Stallions that they mate
foals they've borne

I heard:
And BEARS will neigh with
Stallions that they mate
foals they've borne

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 8:15pm

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

[Jon]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 8:42pm

PaintWord - Carmina Burana is most famous for the booming chorus piece "O Fortuna", which has been used in about a million TV commercials and movies, or at least movie trailers. It seems to be the "go-to" piece of music when you want a big Gothic "devil music" sound.

[The_Jackal2]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 9:59pm

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!

[broadway_socialite]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 10:04pm

I've never been able to tell whether the lyric is
"I'll take the grand, sugar, you take the spinnet"
or
"I'll take the brown sugar, you take the spinich"
from "Could I leave you?" from Follies. They both kind of make sense?
I could look it up, but I'm way too lazy

[The_Jackal2]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 10:16pm

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. :)

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 10:20pm

As much as I am obsessed with WIW, for some reason a lyric has always sounds different to me, despite me knowing what it's really saying.

"All for Laura,
that's how I'll live
till I save you,
till you forgive me!
I dedicate my life,
I swear upon my soul,
I'll find a way to set you free!
All for Laura,
till my dying breath,
long as you'll believe in me"

That final line is really "long as you're in need of me."

Updated On: 1/14/07 at 10:20 PM

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 12:37am

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.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 7:04am

in Oklahoma: (all 'er nothin')

(actual)
"he better look alot like me!"
"your spitting image"

(I heard)
"He better look alot like me!"
"don't spit near me!"

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:28pm

"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.

[Zimmy]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:36pm

OK I think that I have posted this before, but just in case I did not:

In The Last 5 Years "Nobody Need to Know" I always thought Jamie said "I'll Write the Panic Reciepts"

But it really is "All right the Panic Receeds"

I always thought it was brillient but never knew what it ment. Probably because they were the wrong lyrics! - Didn't figure it out until I did a production of it!

I'm dumb!