I will say that one example for all is Abba’s “Mamma Mia” which I interpreted the beginning of chorus “Mamma mia, we are collagen” and the beginning of the second part of it “He’ll something broken hardly”. Don’t ask past me why I had to make it about intercellular matrix.
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The Wham song Careless Whisper, I thought it was “filthy feet and I got no river” for the longest time.
My wife thought it was
“All we are is ducks in the wind”
-dust in the wind
This is just delightful.
Blinded by the light - Bruce Springsteen
“Like a douche in the night”
I was all set to correct you. Never realized the Manfred Mann version was a cover.
Blinded by the light . To me it always just sounds like he is saying dressed up like a douche , I can’t even remember what the actual lyrics are.
Revved up like a Deuce, another runner in the night.
I always hear “ripped up like a douche”
I always heard wrapped up like a douche another roamer in the night
Don’t tell your friends about the tour bus.
I left some brains down in Africa.
She was a fax machine she kept her modem clean.
She was a fax machine she kept her modem clean.
That’s a legit start to a Weird Al song right there!
… She was the best damn printer that I EVER seen!
Real lyrics? I guess the second is Toto’s famous ‘I bless the rains down in Africa’, but the others?
The third one is AC/DC. You shook me all night long.
The first is “don’t tell your friends about the two of us” from I’m not in love, 10cc.
Might just be my humour, but I do wonder why he didn’t their friends to know about the tour bus. What did he do it it?
https://youtu.be/STugQ0X1NoI?si=ml0PbGS76M9sqky0
The last one was already guessed - AC /DC - You shook me all night long.
“I’m blue, da ba de da ba die…”
“I’m blue, I would beat off a guy…”
You’ll hear that every time now, you’re welcome.
A Seattle radio station had a PSA at the time after listener feedback: “He is not saying ‘I’m in need of a guy’… not that there’s anything wrong with that kind of lifestyle”.
Dirty deeds THUNDER CHIEF
Dirty Jeans and the Thunder Chief
Thunder cheeks works as well and is dirtier.
I’m suddenly feeling revved up like a douche.
That one Taylor Swift song about being Starbucks Lovers
Omg. I thought I was the only one that heard that!
Even on Taylor’s Version, it still sounds like “Starbucks Lovers”.
Blank Space. And she does have a ‘lovely Starbucks lovers’, as least as I first heard it. For anyone who doesn’t know, it’s actually a ‘long list of ex lovers’.
Holy shit… Are you telling me it’s not “gotta love those Starbucks lovers, they’ll tell you I’m insane?”
I have a serious problem with understanding lyrics in songs. I look them up when I don’t quite understand what is being said and I realize I didn’t even fully comprehend half of the verses to begin with. It’s like musical dyslexia or something.
It’s really common, it’s not just you. Singers sing much more indistinctly than they talk, and it’s common enough it’s been given a name.
Jimi Hendrix - “‘scuse me while I kiss this guy!”
Hold me closer, Tony Danza / Countin’ head lice on the highway.
Maybe no one else will find this funny, but I do. My parents were Cuban immigrants to the USA. My uncle in particular was in his prime dating age when I was a little kid, so he would play the hits when I was around. Since he didn’t know English yet, he would just guess the sounds the singers were making when he sung along. For that reason, I thought the chorus to a song was “spoon apurataaaa” and that songs didn’t need to make sense. The singers could just make noises representing their feelings rather than use actual words. It wasnt until much later and a bunch of bullying in middle school that I learned almost all popular songs are based on words and “spoon apurataaaaa” was actually “smooth operator”. Til this day, I still think of a spoon when I hear Smooth Operator by Sade.
Digimon
Digital Monsters
Digimon Garlic Champions
There was a series of bumps for Digimon marathons during the summer once when I was a kid that went
“Beat the heat with a digi-beat.”
My siblings and friends and I would instead say “beat your meat with a parakeet.” I still sometimes think about it and hum it to myself lol
thereeeees the bathroom, on the right
ccr, bad moon rising
There’s a bad moon on the rise
