Misunderstood Lyrics

[starguard]

Here is a list of many songs that we all "thought" we knew the lyrics to, but later found that this was simply not so. Check out this list and see how many of them you thought you knew but later learned otherwise

Strange Misunderstood Lyrics


K D Lang "Constant Craving " / "God Save Gravy"

Til Tuesday "Voices Carry" / "Bush Is Scary"

Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart" / "Totally, Clips of the Heart"

Kenny Rogers "Lucille" / "You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille. 400 Children and a crop in the fields"

Ray Parker Jr. "Ghostbusters" / "Who ya gonna call? Those Bastards!"

John Mellencamp "Authority Song" / "I frighten Dorothy, and Dorothy always wins"

Bobby Fuller Four "I Fought The Law" / "Grape skins rot in the hot sun"

Steve Miller Band "Jet Airliner" / "Ego Jan and the Rhino"

Sir Douglas Quintet "She's About A Mover" / "She's a Bottom Mover"

Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal" / "Eddie, get your house key"

Starship "We Built This City" / "We built this city on the wrong damn road"

Billy Joel "You May Be Right" / "You make the rice, I'll make the gravy"

Knack "My Sharona" / "Mice Aroma"

U2 "Electrical Storm" / "Electric Mustard"

Steely Dan "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" / "We can all lose that number"

Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville" / "Stepped on a Pop-Tart"

Creedence Clearwater Revival "Lodi" / "Oh no, suckin' an old eye again"

Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" / "We got the Flintstone Microwave Ovens"

Deep Purple "Smoke on the Water" / "Slow talkin' Walter, the fire engine guy"

Beatles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" / "The girl with colitis goes by"

Police "Spirits in the Material World" / "We are upstairs in the material room"

Beatles "Paperback Writer" / "Pay for that Chrysler"

Elvis Presley "Suspicious Minds" / "Calling a trout"

Police "Message In A Bottle" / "I'll send an SOS to a squirrel"

Police "Spirits in the Material World" / "Aspirins into my cereal bowl"

Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" / "I want a piece of date bread"

Ohio Players "Love Rollercoaster" / "Call the Coast Guard"

Monkees "Daydream Believer" / "Cheer obscene bikinis"

Led Zeppelin "All My Love" / "Olive, my love"

Elvis Presley "Return to Sender" / "Big Bird descender"

Elton John "Tiny Dancer" / "Hold me closer, Tony Danza"

Beatles "Lady Madonna" / "Knee deep in donuts"

Madonna "La Isla Bonita" / "Last night I dreamt of lumbago"

Paul Young "Everytime You Go Away" / "Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you"

Steppenwolf "Born to be Wild" / "I like smoking ice cream"

Maria Muldaur "Midnight At the Oasis" / "Midnight after you're wasted"

Beach Boys "California Girls" / "I dig a french bikini on a wild albatross"

Creedence Clearwater Revival "Bad Moon Rising" / "There's a bathroom on the right"

Wham! "Careless Whisper" / "Gimped-up feet ain't got no rhythm"

Bachman Turner Overdrive "Takin' Care of Business" / "Baking carrot biscuits"

Temptations "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" / "And when he died, all he left us was a lawn"

Ace of Base "All That She Wants" / "All that she wants is another bagel"

Santana "Oye Como Va" / "I live on your block"

Aerosmith "Dude Looks Like a Lady" / "Do the lucky lady"

Merrilee Rush "Angel of the Morning" / "Just cross my feet before you leave me"

Merrilee Rush "Angel of the Morning" / "Just smash my jeep before you leave me"

Starland Vocal Band "Afternoon Delight" / "Pineapples in Flight"

MC Hammer "Can't Touch This" / "King Tut Says"

Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze" / "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"

Van McCoy "The Hustle" / "Use the hacksaw!"

Bee Gees "More Than A Woman" / "Bald-headed woman"

Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes" / "She's got 30 days to die"

Bob Seger "Night Moves" / "Working on a knife wound"

J Geils Band "Freeze Frame" / "Flea Spray"

Who "Pinball Wizard" / "A pinball wizard's got suction cups for wrists"

John Travolta "You're the One That I Want" / "I got shoes, they're made of plywood"

Beach Boys "Good Vibrations" / "Good, good, good, goodbye raisins"

Mike Reno and Ann Wilson "Almost Paradise" / "All those Parrot Eyes"

Culture Club "Karma Chameleon" / "Become a comedian"

Til Tuesday "Voices Carry" / "This is Larry"

Bruce Springsteen "Hungry Heart" / "Everybody's got a hungry horse"

 

[Sarek]

Starguard "Too Much Time on My Hands" / "Too Much Time on My Hands"

 

[The Question]

Funny.

 

[Friday]

Jimmy Buffet..MargaritaVille..."Stepped on a Pop Tart"

OMG! I thought that's what it was! The whole time while on vacation on Sanibel Island, I was singing it on the beach...

"Stepped on a pop tart, blew out my flip flop...."

LOL :lol:

 

[Conchaga]

Manfed Mann's Earth Band, "Blinded by the light" / "wrapped-up like a douche, another roller in a night"

 

[starguard]

This one is my Favorire from the list:

"Deep Purple "Smoke on the Water" / "Slow talkin' Walter, the fire engine guy":roll:

 

[jack]

"Louie, Louie" anyone?

 

[jack]

In late 1967 I saw Jimi Hendrix perform for six concerts (two on Saturday night) over five nights in-a-row, at Washington, D.C.'s "Ambassador Theater", in the Adams-Morgan section of the city. The theater was just that -- a movie theater which had been gutted of seats, with the stage remaining, leading up to a huge screen onto which oil-pan psychedelics were projected live from the projection room, above and behind the performers' heads. Concerts were scheduled six nights a week and the admission price for each concert was ONE DOLLAR (!!!).

At the time, the "Are You Experienced?" LP had just been released. Hendrix had a loyal following in the U.K. and a growing group of fans on the West Coast of the U.S., but was basically unheard-of on the East Coast. The concert opened with a house band (at the time, the Mosaic Virus -- basically a Jefferson Airplane clone) which played for about an hour; then the "headline" act.

Then Hendrix walked onto the stage, with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. He wore an outfit similar to (if not the same) as the orange ruffle-collared, psychedelic-eyed outfit, as appears on the cover of the "Are You Experienced?" album cover! What a sight!

Most of the people there had never even heard his music before coming to the concert! The word had gotten around the freak community that you HAD to go see this guy who could really play guitar! He plugged in his guitar and the Experience began to play "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- Reprise" (from the second side of the Beatles album of the same name...the fast-paced version which begins with the rapid count-off...1, 2, 3, 4, etc.). The general crowd reaction was almost one of disinterest..."Ho hum, another Beatles imitator!"

Little did the crowd know that Hendrix traveled with a studio mixing engineer, who was seated just below stage level, in what would have been the "orchestra pit" of a traditional theater. After finishing his bombastic version of "Sgt. Pepper", Jimi launched into a full-fledged performance of almost the ENTIRE "Experienced?" album, beginning with an ultra-sonic "Purple Haze". The crowd was completely mesmerized, to say the least!

Now, to the point. While performing "Purple Haze", for six performances in a row, Hendrix, standing to the left of the stage, clearly pointed directly at Noel Redding standing to the right, and they both laughed and made a "thing" out of it, each time the phrase came up, "...scuse me while I kiss this guy." This was not a mistake or a "misheard lyric". The two of them were clearly "goofing" on and with the crowd and having a great time! Hendrix even walked over to Redding during one or two of these performances, and mimed kissing him!

I also saw Hendrix perform this song twice in 1968, at the "Washington Hilton", in D.C., and the same on-stage gestures and pointing occured. Since seeing these performances live, going back and carefully listening to the original recording, I've always believed that he intentionally slurred his diction on the studio take, to achieve the same effect -- just to "goof" on the audience.

 

[Tyrant]

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