Misheard Lyrics That Have Left You Puzzled — Page 3

I had a friend who always thought that Raoul was shouting " Christine-- Hangnail!" instead of "Christine-- Angel?!" in the transition to the "POTO" boat scene... she thought his concern for her was purely for her personal grooming.

First time I heard What You Own from Rent, I misheard "Angel's voice is in my ear" as "All those voices in my hair." I thought Mark was slightly mad.

As for the Neverson babies line... I didn't hear either "Neverson babies," or "nevers and maybes." That section was a jumble of meaningless noise until I thought to look it up in the lyrics booklet.

Another one from POTO I just remembered:

Raoul (in Think of Me): What a change, you're really not a bitch, the gawkish girl that once you were.

Dan- I used to think the same thing! I always thought "bitch" was a bit out of place.

In the Wedding Singer during "Not that Kind of Thing" when she sings "I shop you carry", I thought it was "I Shot Bucarry" and it dind't make sense and I always wondered who Bucarry was..

Mine has been a small section of "Ain't No Party" from DREAMGIRLS.

Mind you, since 1982 I assumed the lyrics in question were:

"...even though my man's balls could fit in my face"


Shortly before the film version came out, I finally learned the correct lyrics are:

"...even though my man throws confetti in my face"


I remember thinking (back in 1982 -- when I was 16 years old) that Tom Eyen was really way out there to use the lyrics I thought were correct.

bad connection. triple post.

Updated On: 7/10/07 at 05:07 PM

Think_Of_Me, I never heard it that way but I LIKE it that way!!

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Edit: WHOA! Someone else heard it too (the "Desperate whore" line)! Honestly, I STILL hear it as that. It's a better line, anyway.

LBB has diction issues. I confuse a lot of what she says in the recording. For instance, in "What You Want" when she's singing "right here" it often sounds like she's singing "not here." And I had to look up the "Is he not hot?" line in "Take It Like a Man."

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Updated On: 7/10/07 at 07:41 PM

On the Sweeney revival recording, I could never understand anything Lauren Molina's saying during the "Kiss Me" quartet.

Actual lyric:
"It never leaves my side, it's the only thing my mother gave me"

I heard:
"Reticules aside, it's the only thing my mother gave me"

Actual lyrics:
"It was a gate!
It's the gate!
We don't have a gate.
Still there was a — Wait!
There's another click!
You must have heard that —"

I heard:
"It was a gate!
It's the gate, it's not a lot of gate
*garbled mumbling*"

Also, it's not a showtune, but during "Pumping Up the Party" by Hannah Montana, I always mishear "Having fun without a plan" as "Having fun without a van" or - my personal favorite - "Having fun with Adavan." (Yay for Disney-sanctioned drug abuse!)

Not a terribly funny mix-up, but in Mother Darling in Grey Gardens I always thought Edith's line:

"Gould and I have been slaving away like a couple of Phoenicians."
was:
"Gould and I have been slaving away like a couple of Venetians."

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I misunderstood a lot when I first heard RENT. For instance: "AZT break" I heard as "Easy tea break?" and Roger goes, "You?" etc. etc. And I thought, 'gee the guy must really like tea...this makes no sense.'

And THAT'S why I have www.stlyrics.com bookmarked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi41LkV6hmM

Here's a link to a YouTube video that a friend of mine made
that has a number of ambiguous lyrics. The best one (and my favorite) is the first one from Suessical ("Horton Heard a Who"):

Real lyric: "So gently, and using the greatest of care, the elephant streched his great trunk through the air."

Misheard lyric (though it TOTALLY sounds like this): "So gently, and using the greatest of care, the elephant streched his great shlong through the air."

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