One of my faves is from "Wishmaster" by Nightwish, in which the line "7th seeker" sounds like "Steven Seagal". Another of my faves is from "Gold Rush" from Beatmania IIDX, in which the line "It's my treating" is misheard as "It's my twinkie". Anyone else?

Too many!!!

I suppose I could point out several of them myself in Amiright...but I don't know where to start.


How about "Raunchy Like A Hurricane" instead of "Rock you like a hurricane", from the Scorpions. :D

How about "Raunchy Like A Hurricane" instead of "Rock you like a hurricane", from the Scorpions. :D


Good one! I misheard that the same way, believe it or not! More of my faves:

"The jet pilots chew to the Catholic Radio bear" originally "The jet pilots tune to the cockpit radio blare" from The Clash's Rock The Casbah.

"Raise your hard-tailed voices now!" originally "Raise your hearts and voices now!" form Power Quest's hearts and Voices

"The jet pilots chew to the Catholic Radio bear" originally "The jet pilots tune to the cockpit radio blare" from The Clash's Rock The Casbah.


Yeah, that song has a lot of mishearings. Especially in the chorus, whose correct line is "Shareef don't like it; Rock the casbah, rock the casbah." But I come across lots of mishearings when I view the existing entries. To name a few: "Sherie don't like men"... or, "Sorry, we don't like them; Rock the catbox, lock the cashbox".


Also, many people probably mishear the title line of the Simple Minds' "Alive & Kicking" as "I Like It Kinky"!

I always thought it was "Charlene's on lightning, lock the taskbar, lock the taskbar". If you were to listen to nearly any song by Credence Clearwater Revival, you'd get dozens of misheards. Like in "Down On The Corner", the line "Bring your nickels, tap your feet" sounds like "Bringin' Hitler's happy feet".

If you were to listen to nearly any song by Credence Clearwater Revival, you'd get dozens of misheards. Like in "Down On The Corner", the line "Bring your nickels, tap your feet" sounds like "Bringin' Hitler's happy feet".

Or "Bad Moon Rising". A classic example from that song is the last line in the chorus: "There's a bathroom on the right (or rise)", which was so commonly used on Amiright in its early years.

Yeah, that's a good one. I could go on all night about these misheard lyrics... here's a more obscure one. It's from "Yozora No Muko" by Eurobeat Lovers" The lyric says "You have tried to say something to me, holding my hands so tight". But the first time I listened to it, I thought they were saying "You have tried to say something to me, holding my hairstyle". More good misheards can be found in the animutations "We Drink Ritalin" and "A Sticky Night Of Love".

Like I said, there's a whole bunch of them on Amiright.com; I've come across several which I thought were pretty funny, yet I don't know the actual songs. One example is "Freak on a Leash" by Korn. I've never heard that song, but I do know that there's a certain line in it that contains a swear word, "A cheap {f-word} for me to lay". I've seen lots of crazy mishearings for it which involve a certain character from All In The Family, such as "Archie Bunker mutilate" or "Archie Bunker meathead." :D


You know DJ, you should register as a member; then you'll be able to check out lots of members only threads such as the Playful Penguin Place!

I would register, but I don't have an email address, and I probably won't till I get my own computer. I'm 15, BTW. I heard Freak On A Leash the other day and the line "Something takes a part of me" sounded like "Something hippopotamus".

I would register, but I don't have an email address, and I probably won't till I get my own computer. I'm 15, BTW. I heard Freak On A Leash the other day and the line "Something takes a part of me" sounded like "Something hippopotamus".

sorry about that. I used to not have an email address either, but that all changed in '99.

Yeah, that "hippopotamus" line sounds funny. I bet others have misheard lines in other songs that say "part of me" as "lobotomy"

sorry about that. I used to not have an email address either, but that all changed in '99.

Yeah, that "hippopotamus" line sounds funny. I bet others have misheard lines in other songs that say "part of me" as "lobotomy"


Is that so? I was listening to the Japanese techno-rock song "Shining Collection" by Iceman and misheard one of the Japanese lyrics as "My jiggle pantaloons"! Japanese songs get crazy misheard lyrics. BTW, I do parodies too.

Yes, I've seen parodies by you as well. ;)

Speaking of which, there's a parody from 2005 of Nirvana's "All Apologies" which illustrates a mishearing of every line in the song. It's pretty hilarious, especially at the end.

http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/nirvana213.shtml

Yes, I've seen parodies by you as well. ;)

Speaking of which, there's a parody from 2005 of Nirvana's "All Apologies" which illustrates a mishearing of every line in the song. It's pretty hilarious, especially at the end.

http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/nirvana213.shtml


Hilarious!! I've done the entire misheard lyrics for "Gold Rush" and "Yozora No Muko" and uploaded them as parodies. Hmm... more misheards.... "Temperature" by Sean Paul is full of 'em. I seriously thought he was saying something about tearing up Spock and Picard in that song!!!

have you checked to see if anyone else has submitted the same misheard lyrics?

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/paulsean.shtml

If not, why don't you submit them?

have you checked to see if anyone else has submitted the same misheard lyrics?

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/paulsean.shtml

If not, why don't you submit them?


Good idea! I've posted quite a few misheard lyrics and they never got published... but, I'll try some more sometime.

Good idea! I've posted quite a few misheard lyrics and they never got published... but, I'll try some more sometime.


If you posted them recently don't give up hope yet.  There's a back-log of entries and it takes a few months to get through the editing.

If you posted them recently don't give up hope yet.  There's a back-log of entries and it takes a few months to get through the editing.

I was just going to say that. It's been awhile since the last new batch of entries appeared on the site. Are you still reviewing new ones?

If you have ever seen the Stones in concert, anything Jagger sings is pretty much a misheard lyric.

My fav...

From Bohemian Rhapsody, "Spare him his life from this monstrosity" heard as "Sparing his life for his own sausages".

Thanks for the plug, Jeff.  8)

DJ Blaze, I've made a few other misheard lyric parodies: you can see them here.

My favorite one has to be of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus". The original line is "Reach out and touch faith!". The misheard is "Reach out and suck face!".

If you look on Youtube, you can find some really funny misheard lyric parodies of Pearl Jam: this one is my favorite.

Ant

Fav misheard title when sung in the song is "Irish Industry" for Islands In The Stream by Kenny Rogers And Dolly Parton

Karen: I won't give up hope. I've posted lyrics 3 months ago and they aren't up, but I won't give up.

Nally: It's been about 8 days since misheard lyrics have been updated.

Frank: Yeah! Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a mustache dance! Or, "I was raised by two lesbian hags!"

Philip: Good one. BoRap has tons of 'em. And "Irish Industry"? Never heard it.

Red Ant: I'll have to check those out. Pearl Jam have quite a few good ones like in Yellow Ledbetter "Once I saw her, on a pizza without cheese"!

More of my fave misheard bands are Power Quest and John Desire. Oh, and Rhapsody. "Face me evil b*stard" was misheard as "Fizzy evil mustard!" in their song "Holy Thunderforce".

My favorite one has to be of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus". The original line is "Reach out and touch faith!". The misheard is "Reach out and suck face!".


That line has also been misheard as "Richard, touch me!"

Then, the line containing the title: "Your round, personal Cheez-Its"

Your own personal Cheez-its? Awesome! I was listening to the English version of BeForU's "Red Rocket Rising" and misheard the line "In this tiny palm of mine" as "Indy's tiny power line"! To quote Indiana Jones about this lyric "IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!!!"

I was just going to say that. It's been awhile since the last new batch of entries appeared on the site. Are you still reviewing new ones?


I am, though not as often as I perhaps should.

A three week vacation didn't help!

In "Games without frontiers" by Peter Gabriel, He says "Games without frontiers" in french (Jeux sans frontieres), but you think he's saying " She's so funky yeah"

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/dalleyamy.shtml

I have listened to that song a few times and I think the 'misheard' line sounds like it is correct.

It's been about 8 days since misheard lyrics have been updated.


Are you sure about that? I didn't see a new update at all in July; the calendar even went blank again.




In "Games without frontiers" by Peter Gabriel, He says "Games without frontiers" in french (Jeux sans frontieres), but you think he's saying "She's so funky yeah"

oh yeah, that's a funny one too! :D There are other mis-hearings of that line too...including one that's kinda naughty.

Are you sure about that? I didn't see a new update at all in July; the calendar even went blank again.



I last did them 10 days ago

Also Jason is an editor for them

I'll check today to see if they're updated. Another great misheard lyric is from the song "Temple Of Fire" by Power Quest. Since you guys most likely don't know it, I'll explain: it's a fast, melodic, and epic metal song from an Anglo-Italian (English-Italian) band. The lyric "Pilgrim come see your heart's desire" is misheard as "Boyfriend come see your artist's hair". LOL!!!

For me, it would one be the chorus to Kenny and Cleo by the Black Market Flowers.

Until I finally found the song on Youtube, I thought he was singing "Kitty and Cleo" instead.

For me, it would one be the chorus to Kenny and Cleo by the Black Market Flowers.

Until I finally found the song on Youtube, I thought he was singing "Kitty and Cleo" instead.


LOL! I listened to "Haruka Kanata" by Asian Kung-Fu Generation and misheard some lyric in Japanese (it was the 2nd line in the chorus if you want to hear it) as "Chidori duct tape!". Yeah, I can definitely see Sasuke fighting Naruto using a Chidori attack with duct tape.

I last did them 10 days ago

Also Jason is an editor for them

yeah, I knew that the both of you had been reviewing new submissions...but now it's been almost a month since the last update was done. I'm pretty sure there are a multitude of submissions awaiting approval.

Anyways, I'm sure that the Beach Boys have plenty of mishearings to their songs. For example, "Barbara Ann" (originally performed by the Regents in the early 1960s) sounds like "Bob Moran" (for the longest time I thought they were singing about a guy named Bob). And the line "Martinique, the Monserrat mystique" from their comeback hit "Kokomo", sounds somewhat like "Want to eat the mounds of rotten steak" which I crack up at. :D

The Go-Go's, Our Lips Are Sealed.

No, not Honest Cecile.  That's an obvious one.

No, I'm talking about the verse that starts "There's a weapon / that we must use / in our defense / silence?"

Just because they put the ac-CENT on the wrong syl-LA-ble in "weap-ON", doesn't mean the lyric is "There we were born / as grievous Jews / in occupied / silence", and the song was not about WW2 with a cheap shot at the French.  For chrissakes, we're talking about the Go-Go's here!  You want ambiguous references to totalitarianism, go listen to ABBA's The Visitors.  A solid track in its own right, but ABBA at least occasionally pretended to be something serious. 

High-school girl gossip?  Sure.  But the Go-Go's singing a tribute to The Diary of Anne Frank?  Didn't happen in 1981.  Hasn't happened by 2009.  Don't hold your breath for 2037. 

The only weird part is that if you do misinterpret just those four lines, the misinterpretation actually makes some sort of twisted sense. 

^the title of that song has also been misheard by some folks as "Alex The Seal" or "Olive Cecile." Those are kinda funny too. :D


I thought of another:
From "Breakfast In America" by Supertramp, there's a line that says "Take a jumbo across the water". I noticed in the archive at Amiright that there's an entry that says "Take a junkboat across the water." I actually think that makes sense to some degree (and have sorta heard it that way myself), since the word "junk" can refer to a certain kind of boat, which is of course used in the water.

Just thought of another one:

From Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl", the first line is "Hey, where did we go?", but it has often been misheard as "Hey there, amigo!"; sometimes I think it kinda sounds like that too!

The Metalocalypse theme song. The line "doodily ding dong tick tock" sounds like "do anything for Dethklok", which is funny because Dethklok is the band in that show!

Lauryn Hill's version of Killing Me Softly:

I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a Style....

What I thought: And So I came to see him, and lived sin for a while.
What it REALLY is: And So I came to see him, and listened for a while.

Lauryn Hill's version of Killing Me Softly:

I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a Style....

What I thought: And So I came to see him, and lived sin for a while.
What it REALLY is: And So I came to see him, and listened for a while.

When Lauryn Hill sang that, she was a member of the group The Fugees. Yeah, I kinda hear it that way too. ;)

Or "lived in sin for a while..."

LOL! I listened to "Haruka Kanata" by Asian Kung-Fu Generation and misheard some lyric in Japanese (it was the 2nd line in the chorus if you want to hear it) as "Chidori duct tape!". Yeah, I can definitely see Sasuke fighting Naruto using a Chidori attack with duct tape.


Is that from the Shippuden arc?

I think I might have heard it when my nephew listened to it.

I never actually knew the title of "Kenny and Cleo" until I tried a "and Cleo" search on Youtube.

I have a parody idea for it too, I just haven't found the lyrics.(None showed up on Google)

Is that from the Shippuden arc?

I think I might have heard it when my nephew listened to it.

I never actually knew the title of "Kenny and Cleo" until I tried a "and Cleo" search on Youtube.

I have a parody idea for it too, I just haven't found the lyrics.(None showed up on Google)


No, the song I mentioned is actually one of the older Naruto themes. I'll try to get the YT for you eventually.

Okay then. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1n0M6p3fJ0

Here's Kenny and Cleo, I have no idea what they're saying in the verses(and choruses besides Kenny and Cleo. When I heard it on the radio I thought it was Kitty instead, as I mentioned in my original post).

not sure on the first line
then its before I kill you
and after all true love is just a game

I got lost trying to hear those words(Or are you responding to a different song)... I'll have to try with headphones on.(I wish there were lyrics posted for it)

I got lost trying to hear those words(Or are you responding to a different song)... I'll have to try with headphones on.(I wish there were lyrics posted for it)


no it was the Kenny and Cleo song I was on about

no it was the Kenny and Cleo song I was on about


Okay, cool...

I listened again, and did here a some of the words you posted though.

You've definetly got more of it than I have. ;)

I've been trying to listen to it too.

? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Now I'll kill you
After all ( heard about the 5th time)
if all that matters


can you ??
can



can you fe el

If there are lyrics out there , they aren't easy for me to find.

Out of brain power for the night.  I have to stop it for each line as well as listen to it at least three times

I cant be the love of the one
Now I'll kill you
After all that, It's all another da ay
If all that matter, all the love you can get
Would be the love of the ?
              ins

If there lyrics aren't readily available on the web its worth us trying to work on them here.  That way people searching for the lyrics will find this thread (or another thread about the Kenny and Cleo song alon) and maybe be inspired to join the site

Well I wanted to see how close I actually got, but I couldn't find any lyriics on the first page and I'm not signed up for any music sites that might have the lyrics.  I've already listened to it 20 times now and got the tune in my head.  I wouldn't ming going through the rest of it.

I am so glad I'm no longer going to a school that I'm using up all my energy to hear the teacher, kids, learn, and then come home with 2 hours of homework ( which was nearly done in time).     

If there lyrics aren't readily available on the web its worth us trying to work on them here.  That way people searching for the lyrics will find this thread (or another thread about the Kenny and Cleo song alon) and maybe be inspired to join the site


True, true.

:)

Chorus:

Kenny and Cleo
Say it's okay
Kenny and Cleo
Kenny and Cleo....


Bolded what I think they might be saying.

What I have of the second verse so far:

(?)Sit at home for all of the day(?)
Waiting for time to slip away.. a.. a..







On a side note, my POS speakers have a short in them that makes this an even bigger pain, the only way to produce the sound through the headphones is to have something pressed against it, namely the keyboard, making the chances of the sound staying on low when I type.

not sure on the first line
then its before I kill you
and after all true love is just a game



Out of brain power for the night.  I have to stop it for each line as well as listen to it at least three times

I cant be the love of the one
Now I'll kill you
After all that, It's all another da ay
If all that matter, all the love you can get
Would be the love of the ?
             ins



Here's what I heard in the first verse when I listened to it a few times:

??
??(I do have something here, but I'm not certain enough that's correct enough, I need to listen to it some more)
That true love is all a game
Before you ?? I was nothing
??




I'll come back later and listen and try to transcribe so more.

I cant be the love of the one
Now I'll kill you
After all that, It's all another da ay
If all that matter, all the love you can get
Would be the love of the da ay
              ins
Can you free your love
know I know it
Can you free your love
Can you free you love
              ins

That's two different interpretations of the chorus. :o

I wrote what I interpreted earlier(most of it is in my earlier posts).

Yeah well based on the sounds I hear and breaking up them by Syllable, this is what I've gotten so far.  The video shows clips with the girl with the apple and  later on,  the guy has a curly mustache on his face in the pool.  I may be wrong, but I may be right.

I hear "Kenny and Cleo", but the "Say it's okay" line I only around 70% certain. So the second could be something that's inbetween what we're thinking.

Here's what I'm picking up so far, I'll bold any words that I'm not 100% certain are right.

How can I be dumb
Now I'll tell you
That true love is all a game
Before you ?? I was nothing/looking??
?? ?? ??

Kenny and Cleo
Say it's okay
Kenny and Cleo
Kenny and Cleo

Sit at home for all of the day
Waiting for time to slip away
?? ?? ??
Pictures of myself, turning grey