***Mea Culpa: I've been teased that my posts are too long, so I apologize. I guess it's the writer in me; I have a hard time keeping things short. I guess if long posts really bug, you don't have to read them, right?***
Anyway, I digress. Do you butcher song lyrics? I do it all the time and even when I'm corrected, somehow I still sing the messed up version in my head. I was reminded of this today when Jennie and I were talking about how Katie wouldn't sing "l, m, n, o, p" for "The Alphabet Song", but would sing "uga, buga, p." Very cute for a little kid, not so much for an adult.
For The Cure's "Just Like Heaven." I sing "Show me, show me, show me how do you that trick -- the one that makes me scream she's sick." Months ago, Jimmy pointed it out that I've been singing it wrong for 20 years(!) and the lyric is actually "...'show me how do you that trick, the one that makes me scream' she said." Even though Jimmy corrected me, I'm still singing it my way.
I also thought John Mayer's song "No such thing" had the lyrics, "There's no such thing as a wiggle worm" instead of "...no such thing as a real world." At least The Cure mess-up kind of made sense.
This one is awesome. When John was young, he always thought Neil Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans" was actually "Reverend in Blue Jeans." That makes me Y him even more!
Another favorite is when Jennie thought the lyrics to Diamond Rio's "Norma Jean Riley" wasn't "Norma Jean Riley's going to notice me", but the completely non-sensical, "cama neiner neiner put your eyes on me!" Now, I know that sounds totally absurd, but my brother, Brad, started the "camaneiner" name to use instead of calling someone a swear word. It caught on and turned into neiner bucket head, which has evolved into bucket head (as I call Bailey) or neiner (as I call everybody). So I guess it kind of makes sense, in a totally random way. I still love to tease her about it (and she, in turn, mocks me about the wiggle worm).
I found this website with a bunch of misheard lyrics. http://www.kissthisguy.com/funny.php One I really liked was from Alanis Morrissette's "You Oughta Know."Misheard Lyric
It's not fair to deny me of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me...
Real Lyric
It's not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me...
So, just curious...what lyrics do you butcher?
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I don't know who sings this song but you know the slow song with these words..."tonight I need your sweet caress, hold me in the darkness." This song came on when I was at work and me and my friend started busting out singing this song. The next thing I know she says "hold me in your office." And the best part was she thought those were really the words.
Hands to Heaven! I loved that song. That's really funny.
I used to think the last line of I am a Child of God was "teach me all that I'm a stew to live with him one day." I still think of it that way.
Mark writes and plays his own music so he KNOWS the words. I love his music so I'll be singing it while I'm getting dinner ready or seranading him or something and I'll totally get it all wrong in the worst way and he'll just laugh and laugh. Odd is that sometimes my version makes more sense than his but he'll hear none of that! FUnny stuff Jude!
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