well all right ... when i was living in Japan there was a fairly big to-do about the corrupting influence of two peculiarities of Japanese phonology
in combination with the popularity of Western pop/rock: most people know that in Japanese R and L are one phoneme;
it's less well known, but V and B are too - and as a result, whole generations of sweet Japanese kids grew up on songs that go like this:

everybody needs somebody to rub

and:

don't you want somebody to rub DON'T
you need somebody to rub
wouldn't you rub somebody to rub
you better find somebody to rub

or the heartfelt:

rub me tender, rub me true - all my dreams fulfill
for my darling i rub you and i always will

once you know they're there, you'll discover tons of beautiful rub songs - one of my personal favourites is the utterly debauched:

i don't like you, but i rub you
seems that i'm always thinking of you
ohhhhh you treat me badly -
i rub you madly
you really got a hold on me :E



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I always rub your comments

at first I've really heard "ass smells strange, ass smells sweet" in Dancing with Mr.D instead of "air smelles strange, air smells sweet"

I cannot remember some of the misinterpreted lyrics I have heard...
"Secret Asian Man" instead of "Secret Agent Man"
I think I saw these on "kissthisguy" awhile back:
For "Angie" some thought Mick was singing "I ain't Jed" others thought it was "I inject"

I always thought the line in "Rocks off" was "She traveled on the dirty road" rather than the "real" line, "Splattered on the dirty road." I actually like mine better *lol*


On a side note, here are a couple of links to maybe the most famous misheard lyrics of all time ("Louie, Louie") apparently provided by outraged parents:

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With that song, if you have it playing when you read these lyrics, you'll hear all of them *lol*

"Dont mind the faggots" on Shattered. Its "maggots".

On Rain Fall Down, I thought I heard, "Snake's in my nose." Then I figured out it's "stink is in my nose," I think, because I haven't bothered to read the lyrics yet and I've had the cd for months now!! You might say I'm lazy.

On Live with me, I thought I heard: I`ve got nasty habits, I take GI3! Like that was some kind of a strange drug or something. I was disappointed to find out that it was tea at three!

Also I remember my brother coming home from school and asking me: who is playing that song getno nanana, getno nanana.

Ray
15 and counting. No stopping. Stockholm next.

I was in a restaurant about two years ago and a woman seated next to me was singing along to one of Shania Twain's vapid tunes.

I had to actually listen to the song on the radio to catch the line that Shania was bleating out (didn't Steve Earl once call her America's most expensive table-dancer? Yes, I know she is Canadian) between all the yips and moans she makes. I'm never sure whether she is actually singing or masturbating based on the way she carries on.

The line was "when money grows on trees" The woman beside me was singing "when lovers smell like sheep" and seriously thought she had it right. I just about pissed myself laughing and had to get up and leave.

For a long time, I thought Eric Clapton's song "After Midnight" was "Captain Midnight"

When I was in Aruba, there was a local band playing at the resort. Unfortunately for all, they were playing Bob Segar's "That Old Time Rock and Roll".

To this day, whenever I hear that song I have to sing the guys lyrics because they were so funny. Instead of "I reminisce about the days of old" he sang,
"I rock-a-miss about the days of old". At first I thought I mis-heard him, but he kept saying it over and over. F*cking great!

I wonder what he thinks "rock-a-miss" means? I have no idea.

Ha Ha, just thought of another good one.

Long long drive, someone pulls out the shows tunes. We started singing a few songs from Hair.

There's this song that goes..

Masterbation, Fellatio, Cunalingus...

This chick is singing it at the top of her lungs, (and mind you, she was in her twenties so should have known better). She sings..

"Masterbation, Fellatio, Gun-a-ling-a"

HAHAHA - A few of the ladies pee-ed a little at that one.

From Street Fighting Man, I thought the line "from where I live the game we play is compromise solution".
I thought Mick was singing "from where I live, the game we play is far from life's illusion" - which I like better.
More recently, in Rain Fall Down, "feel like we're living in a battle ground, and everybody's jazzed." Initially, I thought Mick was singing "..and everybody's dead."

Well I first heard Jumping Jack Flash at the age of 13 and moreover I'm from Greece. My english wasn't that good back then, so that's what I really heard:

I was bored as I crossed a hurricane...

Hey, is it "I can't get no girlie action" or "I can't get no good reaction" in Satisfaction????

I always thought the latter, but my girlfriend hears the former.

The line I've always wondered about is the last line in Black Sabbath's "Paranoid":

"I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late"

I've heard it as "enjoy life," "endure life," and "end your life."

Each phrase works although each takes on a very different meaning.

Thief of the night:

"I'll take the drop for you" I thought he sings "well take the drugs with you"

"soften the blow" I thought he sings "something to blow"

According to the lyrics pages, the Stones sing, I'm a shattered. I always thought Jagger was singing...I've been shattered.

These lyrics were not understood, rather it was a "play on words"
There was a T.V. show several years ago, "St. Elsewhere" (some of you may remember). It was very well done, but not everyone appreciated it. They did "plays on words" many times in many episodes, but you had to be really paying attention to catch them. It was the last episode and the resident doctors were getting ready to go there separate ways . A doctor and a nurse named "Ruby" were rescusitating a patient. The doctor wanted to say good bye to the nurse and she asked him , "When are you leaving?" He replied, "Good bye, Ruby.....Tuesday".
There was another epsisode using the words to, "Our House" (Kenny Loggins?)
Someone was asking another person where he lived he replied, "Our is is a very, very fine house, two cats in the yard.....etc,etc.

Hey Marcia,
I remember St. Elsewhere but never really watched it much. Now I kind of regret not checking it out more because I enjoy television, and humor in general, that can be mentally stimulating. It sounds like the St Elsewhere writers were willing to challenge the viewers. To answer your question about a song, it was sung by Graham Nash in Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young, not Kenny Loggins. Good guess, though.

I used to watch St. Elsewhere every week. In fact, I once went to a taping of the Bob Newhart show in Hollywood, and on the studio lot was a facade of the front of the hospital. It was surreal.

Thanks all for this thread, some of the misheards had me crying tears of laughter on my keyboard.

Lukester Wrote:
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> Hey Marcia,
> I remember St. Elsewhere but never really watched
> it much. Now I kind of regret not checking it out
> more because I enjoy television, and humor in
> general, that can be mentally stimulating. It
> sounds like the St Elsewhere writers were willing
> to challenge the viewers. To answer your question
> about a song, it was sung by Graham Nash in
> Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young, not Kenny Loggins.
> Good guess, though.

Same era, I guess.
If they ever have re-runs of St. Elswhere...I will watch them all..I haven't enjoyed those new medical shows much..can't say I even watch them. St. Elsewhere was great..a lot of people in that show got a start, the biggest one being Denzel Washington.
Howie Mandel was the "Ruby Tuesday" Doc. Alfre Woodard was also in it.

Have a good one! " 'Scuze me while I kiss this guy!" It has been a good thread!

This thread reminds me of the story about Dylan meeting the Beatles for the first time and introducing them to their first-ever marijuana. When they told him they'd never gotten high before, he was astonished and said "But what about your song? The one about getting high?"

The Beatles had no idea what he was talking about, so he sang "and when I touch you I get high, I get high, I get high ..." The Beatles were embarrassed to tell him that the words (to a I Want To Hold Your Hand) are actually "I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide ..."



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ohnonotyouagain Wrote:
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> This thread reminds me of the story about Dylan
> meeting the Beatles for the first time and
> introducing them to their first-ever marijuana.
> When they told him they'd never gotten high
> before, he was astonished and said "But what about
> your song? The one about getting high?"
>
> The Beatles had no idea what he was talking about,
> so he sang "and when I touch you I get high, I get
> high, I get high ..." The Beatles were embarrassed
> to tell him that the words (to a Hard Day's Night)
> are actually "I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't
> hide ..."


good story ohno....did you see the clip of Dylan and Lennon in the back of the limo?....with Dylan zonked outta his gourde

Infamy Wrote:
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> On Live with me, I thought I heard: I`ve got nasty
> habits, I take GI3! Like that was some kind of a
> strange drug or something. I was disappointed to
> find out that it was tea at three!
>
> Also I remember my brother coming home from school
> and asking me: who is playing that song getno
> nanana, getno nanana.
>
> Maybe tonight she`s got it Infamy...
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The same for me only I thought it was a flight number GI3.

Nico




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Leonard Keringer Wrote:

> good story ohno....did you see the
> clip of Dylan and Lennon in the back of the
> limo?....with Dylan zonked outta his gourde

I haven't seen that one. Sounds like it would make a good poster!

Does anyone remember this one?

Just call me angel of the morning, Angel
Just smash my teeth before you leave me, baby.

ohnonotyouagain Wrote:
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> Leonard Keringer Wrote:
>
> > good story ohno....did you see
> the
> > clip of Dylan and Lennon in the back of the
> > limo?....with Dylan zonked outta his gourde
>
> I haven't seen that one. Sounds like it would make
> a good poster!


ohno.....it's on a Dylan bootleg video from the '66? tour........Dylan was so out of it...slurring his words horribly and about to puke....looks like he was gettin on Lennon's nerves



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When you mentioned the "high"-thing from I Want To Hold Your Hand, I suddenly remembered a Norwegian review of Their Satanic...
He thought the lyrics of a song there (suddenly, I can't remember which one, I don't listen to that album that much) was "the birds have a high". The real lyrics is "the birds hower high". That was an example of the "drug-influence" at that time!