Misheard Lyrics That Have Left You Puzzled — Page 5

AHHHH!

See, I always heard "poppin' Nina's stock options", so I'm happy to find out what it really is. XD

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So I got Mamma Mia as an early Chanukah present and watched it, having seen it once before in theaters. I put on that Sing-Along feature, otherwise known as subtitles in most films (though the follow-along did remind me of those old-school Disney Sing-Along Songs). And although I did not sing along, I was ashamed to realize I have been singing incorrect Abba verses for years. Like - not even close. And what's sad is most of what I thought was said doesn't even make sense, it just is what it sounded like when I first heard it and thus has been ingrained as the correct way for so long. For instance, in "Take A Chance On Me" I have always been positive the line was "Listen to some music / Maybe do some coke and...you'd get to know me better" - it really sounds like they say this. But more importantly, most of the chorus I even sang incorrectly. I always thought
If You're All Alone / When the pretty birds have flown.
was
If You're All Alone/ And it really hurts ....something.
But certainly not "pretty birds".

So yes. Some rather recent musical indiscretions.

When I first heard "Lovely Ladies" I mistook "Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!" as "Cost a little extra if you want it in the rear!" (which I guess makes sense, considering it's a song about prositution). And "Quick and cheap is underneath the pier!" as "Weekend cheapies underneath the pier!"

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I think I've posted this before, but I always thought the Sailor in "Lovely Ladies" said "Seven days at sea can make you hungry for a bloke." Which, of course, semmed perfectly fine to me.

"I Know Its Today" on the Shrek website.

Real lyric (someone had to point this out to me): "The prince is good at kissing and melting Snow White's heart."

What I heard: "The prince is good at pissing and melting Snow White's heart."

There was just the lyric about how does Snow White pee, and I was thinking there was some sort of theme going on....

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This didn't leave me puzzled, but I always thought it was funny that in the Sweeney Todd movie, it sounds like Lucy says "that's the great Judge Turpin's ass that is" instead of house.

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In BATB in Home Reprise when Mrs. Potts sings "If anyone can make the most of living here then Belle, it you"

I always thought it was "If anyone can make the most of living here THAN Belle, it you"

Which made no sense, because she's talking TO Belle.

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In "Breathe" from 'In the Heights', Nina says:

"First to college, how do I tell them why?"

and it seriously sounds like she's saying

"First to go to college, how do I tell the wife"

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this is more misheard dialogue, but it's on the cast recording. in Grey Gardens, when the Edies are arguing about the program during "Mother, Darling," Big Edie says that she and Gould had been slaving away like a couple of Phoenicians. I always heard her say they'd been slaving away like a couple of Venetians. and now the line makes 100% more sense.

(ha! looking back, I see someone had the same problem and learned the real line 2 years before I did.)

and I still swear in "The House We Live In," Edie's saying "march to my old woman," and not "march to buy a war bond" or whatever the "actual" line is.

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Updated On: 5/22/09 at 01:39 AM

givesmevoice, I totally thought the exact same thing about those two things until I read your post. And it still sounds like "March to my old woman" to me.

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What the hell does Alice say in Wish I Were Here at 0:56 on the recording? I think the phrase ends with 'austere' but I have no clue what comes before that.

Updated On: 5/24/09 at 12:29 AM

Ohhh it was the 'exuberant' I wasn't catching. I hear it now lol. Thanks!