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TheH 
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 Posted: January 26 2016 at 05:57 |
If you are able to understand German there is a whole category of song lyrics that can be easily misunderstood. Those Kind of Songs are called "Agathe Bauer" Songs, after the most famous excample of misunderstanding "I got the Power" from Snap. Just search for "Agathe Bauer" in YouTube.
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Skalla-Grim
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 07:24 |
One of my favourite German mishearings is "Zombie" by the Cranberries which totally sounds like "Zahnweh" (toothache).
 BaldJean wrote:
not to forget that "Kobaïa ïss dëh Hündin!" sounds like German for "Kobaïa ïs the female dog" and "Hortz ẁirt tlaït üts Mïtlaït" sounds like "Horch, wer teilt unser Mitleid" meaning "listen, who shares our pity"
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"Horch, wer teilt unser Mitleid" - great, I wasn't aware of that! I think "Hündin" doesn't really sound like "female dog" in German because they pronounce it "oo-ndin" (though it reads exactly like "female dog" in German).
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RoeDent
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 10:05 |
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Going back to a post I saw on page 1 of this thread, until a few weeks ago, I thought the high voice in Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers sang "She's...so popular".
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 10:23 |
Fjkpkwek wrote:
From Robert Wyatt's "Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road", I always thought that when Robert sings "Can you see them?" I always mishear it as "Count your semen".
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Roots can't hold me, Bugs calzoni. 
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dr wu23
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 11:58 |
Louie Louie.......by The Kingsmen
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Replayer
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 12:52 |
I misheard Jon Anderson singing "Alternate tune" on The Remembering (High the Memory) as "Alter your zoo". On Close to the Edge, I misheard "Down at the edge, round by the corner, Not right away, not right away" as "Down at the edge, round by the corner, Look high the way, Look high the way" Jon seems to be popular in this thread since his correct lyrics often don't any make more sense than the misheard ones...
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Meltdowner
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 12:56 |
Replayer wrote:
I misheard Jon Anderson singing "Alternate tune" on The Remembering (High the Memory) as "Alter your zoo". On Close to the Edge, I misheard "Down at the edge, round by the corner, Not right away, not right away" as "Down at the edge, round by the corner, Look high the way, Look high the way" Jon seems to be popular in this thread since his correct lyrics often don't any make more sense than the misheard ones...
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When I look at the lyrics it's never what I think he says, but it makes as much sense
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 13:03 |
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Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name. I heard , "You need a love band aide".
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 13:05 |
dr wu23 wrote:
Louie Louie.......by The Kingsmen |
The classic mis-heard lyrics song. No one has ever got that one right without the internet.
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RoeDent
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 13:38 |
During my first few listens of Dream Theater's Moment of Betrayal, I thought one of the first lyrics was "The noise machines last year tonight". I assumed it was wrong, but couldn't think of an alternative, so I just accepted it, despite the fact it made no sense, because prog.
(PS. I know the right lyrics now.)
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 15:45 |
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Has anyone commented on E.J.'s Benny and the Jets here. I mean, sweet Jesus!
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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dr wu23
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 16:57 |
emigre80 wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
Louie Louie.......by The Kingsmen |
The classic mis-heard lyrics song. No one has ever got that one right without the internet. |
In my defense I was only about 13 or 14 when I first heard it.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 17:25 |
In The Cars "Bye Bye Love"...I always heard the line:
"It's just a broken lullabye" as "It's just a f*&^'n alibi"...I like mine better |
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Upbeat Tango Monday
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Posted: January 26 2016 at 20:27 |
Try searching for the lyrics of We Have Heaven. Lyrics according to one page: "Tell the Moon-dog, tell the March-hare" another page: "Tell the moon - don't tell the march hare" and yet another one: "Tell the moon don't tell the marcher"
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Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.
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Replayer
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Posted: January 27 2016 at 11:09 |
Upbeat Tango Monday wrote:
Try searching for the lyrics of We Have Heaven.
Lyrics according to one page: "Tell the Moon-dog, tell the March-hare"
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Huh, although I read the lyric previously, I usually hear and remember them as: "Tell the Moon, go tell the March-hare"
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BaldJean
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Posted: January 27 2016 at 11:52 |
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Hawkwind "Robot". Instead of "Automated homunculus" I heard "Automaton, go monkey your loss"
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Rednight
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Posted: January 27 2016 at 14:26 |
Replayer wrote:
Upbeat Tango Monday wrote:
Try searching for the lyrics of We Have Heaven.
Lyrics according to one page: "Tell the Moon-dog, tell the March-hare"
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Huh, although I read the lyric previously, I usually hear and remember them as: "Tell the Moon, go tell the March-hare" |
I heard "Tell the moon dog, tell the marcher." Additionally, I heard "He is here" instead of the actual "He is clear" which always seemed a Christ reference in line with the title.
Edited by Rednight - January 27 2016 at 14:33
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: January 27 2016 at 14:41 |
Rednight wrote:
I heard "Tell the moon dog, tell the marcher." Additionally, I heard "He is here" instead of the actual "He is clear" which always seemed a Christ reference in line with the title. |
I'd interpret "He is clear" as a reference to scientology
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Posted: February 01 2016 at 11:00 |
AreYouHuman wrote:
Cream – Badge.
Actual: And I told you ’bout our
kid, now he’s married to Mabel.
Misheard: And I told you ’bout our
kid with the rotten tomato.
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I misheard the same line as "And I told you 'bout the sun is like a tomato" I still don't know how I ever misheard "kid" as "sun". It's a great line (the correct lyrics I mean), because it shifts the listener's perception of the relationship. Ironically, the song's title derives from George Harrison labeling the instrumental section that follows the line as "Bridge" and Clapton misreading it as "Badge".
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AreYouHuman
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Posted: February 17 2016 at 20:24 |
When Crazy World of Arthur
Brown’s “Fire” first came out, I’d hear the half-spoken word “fire” in the
lyrics and it immediately brought to mind Frank Sutton as Sgt. Carter on “Gomer
Pyle, USMC” berating Gomer in probably every episode with a “Pyle!” Some of the other lyrics vaguely sounded like
further lecturing, like “I’ll see you learn!”
Of course I knew it couldn‘t have
had anything to do with Gomer Pyle but it was still fun to play with it. 
Edited by AreYouHuman - February 17 2016 at 20:25
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