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Muddled Lyrics

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:15 am
by red x red
My wife is notorious for not paying attention and messing up lyrics. Its sort of a running joke now.
My favorites are:
1) "One of our Big Marines is Missing" for Thomas Dolby's "Submarine"
2) "Only shooting stars wake up old" for Smashmouth's "All Star."
Anyone have any other favorites?

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:59 am
by scramjet
Boston - Four Letter Feeling
Peter Gabriel - She's so funky, yeah
Kiss - I wanna rock & roll all night and part of every day.
And my personal favorite:
Talking Heads - And she could see an earmuff factory...

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:15 am
by rogmagog
Join in the Chant- Nitzer Ebb "Russel Has Aids"
Doctorin the Tardis-Timelords(KLF) "Dr. Ruth"

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:29 am
by ben_at_work
When I was younger I thought that the rupert Holmes song " If you like Pina Colladas" was "If you like Bean Enchilladas" probably because I didn't know what a pina collada was.

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:38 am
by Cerebrus
I thought that "Paperback Writer" by the beateatles was "Take the Back Right Turn"

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:40 am
by ben_at_work
[quote][i]Originally posted by Cerebrus[/i]
<br>I thought that "Paperback Writer" by the beateatles was "Take the Back Right Turn"
<hr hei

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:54 am
by mygreen
[quote][i]Originally posted by ben_at_work[/i]
<br>When I was younger I thought that the rupert Holmes song " If you like Pina Colladas" wa

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:50 am
by design_femme
[quote][i]Originally posted by rogmagog[/i]
<br>Join in the Chant- Nitzer Ebb "Russel Has Aids"
Doctorin the Tardis-Timelords(KLF) "Dr.

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:57 am
by KYYX4ever
ha ha.
You know that song by the Primitive Radio Gods called "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth..." from a few years ago? How it has that sample of an old Blues lyric singing "I been downhearted, baby" ? For the longest time I thought he was saying

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:17 pm
by LovePlusOne
Ok...in my salad days, in "Games Without Frontier" by Peter Gabriel I thought he was saying "She's so popular"

Posted:
Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:58 pm
by hexicon
My S.O. always thought there was a pro-Vatican reference in "Rock the Casbah" because of the reference to "Catholic radio blare" (really "cockpit radio").
And I first thought "C'est Impossible" by the Catholic Girls was "Celibacy." And "Mental Hopsc

Posted:
Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:14 am
by mygreen
[quote][i]Originally posted by LovePlusOne[/i]
<br>Ok...in my salad days, in "Games Without Frontier" by Peter Gabriel I thought he was say

Posted:
Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:14 am
by Otters Walk Among Us
He's saying "jeux sans frontieres," nothing more exciting than the title in Cheese-eating Surrender-monkeyese.

Posted:
Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:30 am
by edisonoside
Manfred Mann's "Blinded by the light"-racked-up like a doucher in the middle of the night?
All the words in that song sound muddled to me.

Posted:
Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:38 am
by mygreen
Jimmy Hendrick's 'cuse me why I kiss this guy.