Lyrics repair thread

[RedCloud]

Sometimes we listeners got the lyrics wrong, sometimes the artist, sometimes the songwriter messes up...

Madonna did not sing "Gonna mess you up with my love." Which is what I thought the first time I heard it and it seemed to be a moment of candor on her part.

A few other "oldies" here:

Carly Simon in "You're so vain" proceeds to mention "him" in the form of subject and possesive pronouns an eyestaggering 67 times. (Smart money says the song is about him.)

Sometimes languages create problems too:

"desesperado" becomes desperado and we lose one beat from the "cha-cha-cha" to only the "cha-cha".

What are some messed up lyrics you recall?

[ChoralScholar]

1. Well, you always have the classic

"There's a bathroom on the right"

but I remember when I was a teenager, trying to figure out the words to Damn Yankees' "High Enough"

Yesterday is just a memory I was runnin'
I was runnin' for the door
Huh-na-na-na-da-na-naaaaaa
I was running back for more!

We thought it was:

"I say another number"
"I just say now or never"
"Confessing na-na-na-naaaaa"

It was only after I was grown that I found out the lyrics were "The next thing I remember"

Oh, and another honorable mention - "Hard to Handle" by the Black Crowes

'Hey little thing let me light your candle cause a-mama I'm sha-nuh-nah-da-da-nah da-da-da"

[Bertha Venation]

2. From "You Make Me Feel Brand New"

my love

I'll never find the words, my love

to tell you how I feel my love

mealworms could not express...

[KamaAina]

3. Excuse me while I kiss this guy

um, "Kiss the sky". :-)

[ReggieVeggie]

10. +1

[KamaAina]

4. Wrapped up like a douche, another rumor in the night

Please. "Revved up like a deuce". :spank:

[RedCloud]

5. You need Kool Aid, baby I made Kool Aid- Led Zep

You need coolin'

Baby I'm not foolin'

[RedCloud]

6. Cherry Pie, Cherry Pie he cant read my poker face-Lady Gaga

The problem is that my parrot over heard me "singing" and now sings Cherry Pie all the time.

[LaurenG]

7. Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you sounded like

every time you go away you take a piece if meat with you, to my then 4 year old niece.

[Richardo]

8. "Why don't you ... Build me a (build me a) buttercup baby.... "

I never stopped to think that that made no sense whatsoever :crazy:

[geardaddy]

9. I remember when Letterman

tried to figure out what Michael Jackson was singing in Billie Jean.

He kept saying "...the chair is not my son..."

[ReggieVeggie]

11. Blinded by the light

wracked up like a douche, you know the roamer in the night

[bif]

12. "Let's get naked and get under the sheets"

From a song by The Guggenheim Grotto. On stage they told the story about how the singer's nephew thought the lyric was: "Let's get naked and get under the sheep".

[RedCloud]

13. That's hilarious! maybe they were going to get the wool pulled over their eyes!