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What is a song lyric that you misheard completely?

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  • E [email protected]

    Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

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    • zombiepirate@lemmy.worldZ [email protected]

      I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."

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      I mean, partying every day just results in Slurms McKenzie.

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      • pandantic@midwest.socialP [email protected]

        I used to sing Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong as “Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids, pyramids can’t be wrong”.

        Also, in Africa, I definitely thought they said “rises like a lepress (like a female leopard) above the Serengeti”. The real lyric is “Olympus”.

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        I love that lyric, it's so supid.

        I know that I must do what's right, sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

        Mount Olympus (assuming we're talking the one in Greece and not the one on Mars) is like 3,000 feet tall, Kilimanjaro is 7,000 feet tall. Kilimanjaro would put Olympus to shame, except Olympus is whiter than Kilimanjaro.

        Also, you can't see Kilimanjaro from the Serengeti. There's a small area where the summit is above the horizon but the air is too hazy.

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        • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

          I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

          My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

          Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

          Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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          Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?

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          • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.worksC [email protected]

            I love that lyric, it's so supid.

            I know that I must do what's right, sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.

            Mount Olympus (assuming we're talking the one in Greece and not the one on Mars) is like 3,000 feet tall, Kilimanjaro is 7,000 feet tall. Kilimanjaro would put Olympus to shame, except Olympus is whiter than Kilimanjaro.

            Also, you can't see Kilimanjaro from the Serengeti. There's a small area where the summit is above the horizon but the air is too hazy.

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            Even more reason why it should have been a lepress!

            Also, if he knows he must do what’s right “as sure as Kilimanjaro rises… above the Serengetil”, and it doesn’t, I guess that means that he must not do what’s right? Or only a little bit, and it’s a bit hazy… 😋

            Thanks for the great info!

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            • pandantic@midwest.socialP [email protected]

              Even more reason why it should have been a lepress!

              Also, if he knows he must do what’s right “as sure as Kilimanjaro rises… above the Serengetil”, and it doesn’t, I guess that means that he must not do what’s right? Or only a little bit, and it’s a bit hazy… 😋

              Thanks for the great info!

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              I think I've read that it was either intentionally written kind of dumb, like it sounds poetic but it's the kind of thing a white guy who has never been to Africa would say.

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              • E [email protected]

                Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

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                • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

                  I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

                  My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

                  Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

                  Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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                  Nirvana, On a Plain
                  "The finest day, I ever had, was when I learned to cry like a man."

                  It's supposedly "cry on command."

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                  • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

                    I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

                    My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

                    Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

                    Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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                    I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

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                    • canopyflyer@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

                      Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded by the Light has entered the chat. Probably the most misheard lyrics in the entire history of modern music.

                      It's "Revved up like a deuce."

                      Wait... Manfred Mann's version is a cover? Yep, Blinded by the Light was originally performed Bruce Springsteen.

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                      And the Springsteen version very clearly says deuce which means Manfred Mann had to deliberately change it.

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                      • W [email protected]

                        We like to joke about non Spanish lyrics that sounds like Spanish. I love Apolocatv channel for that and 🐱 costumes.

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                        In yoga, they have us sit in "sucasana" (also known as criss-cross applesauce) and I always t hear it as the polite form of tu casana, and Namaste also sounds like a Spanish word to me, every time. Tu Namaste tambien!

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                          I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

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                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gazNwzC4H0

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                          • S [email protected]

                            Nirvana, On a Plain
                            "The finest day, I ever had, was when I learned to cry like a man."

                            It's supposedly "cry on command."

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                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c023U4oQGr4&t=23

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                            • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.worksC [email protected]

                              Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?

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                              https://genius.com/Michael-jackson-smooth-criminal-lyrics

                              "Annie, are you okay?"

                              etc

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_D3VFfhvs4&t=100

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                              • R [email protected]

                                Oh I was singing loudly along with Elton John one day, "Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another maaaan" as I had done every time I heard the song when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't something someone would sing in the 1970s, looked it up and the NAME of the song is Love Lies Bleeding.

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                                https://genius.com/Elton-john-funeral-for-a-friend-love-lies-bleeding-lyrics

                                And love lies bleedin' in my hands
                                Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man

                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REfKNbNndzo&t=377

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                                • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                                  "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!" - Jimmi Hendrix

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                                  https://genius.com/The-jimi-hendrix-experience-purple-haze-lyrics

                                  'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoDaYjdfSg&t=45

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                                  • quazatron@lemmy.worldQ [email protected]

                                    "Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"

                                    I always wondered what a dunder chief is.

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                                    https://genius.com/Ac-dc-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap-lyrics

                                    Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap

                                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsjdjWGDvFk&t=59

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                                    • J [email protected]

                                      Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"

                                      If you know, you know.

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                                      https://genius.com/Blink-182-whats-my-age-again-lyrics

                                      This state looks down on sodomy

                                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7l5ZeVVoCA&t=49

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                                      • dan1101@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

                                        Instead of the Go Go's saying "Our lips are sealed" I thought they were saying "Honest, Lucille."

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                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M&t=70

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                                        • B [email protected]

                                          “Blinded by the light.

                                          Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”

                                          Turns out is actually deuce.

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                                          https://genius.com/Manfred-manns-earth-band-blinded-by-the-light-lyrics

                                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzk3x3HZbJI&t=10

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