A fun thread about song lyrics that you may have misheard.
I'll start with a guy I knew a long time ago who used to be in a pool league.
He always wore a "Pool Shark" hat.
Whenever he heard The Police sing Every Breath You Take and heard the lyric
"My poor heart aches" he thought they were saying "I'm a pool hall ace" and would point
to his hat and get a shitty grin on his face. Still cracks me up.
What are you're favorite music lyrics that you've misheard ?
Ha !
A lot going on here.
Is Dave the Tiger Roo's name or are they separate ?
I have a feeling you weren't the only one with this lyric.
Total Eclipse of the Heart. A girl in my class got offended by this song.
She said "How can you listen to that song ?" We asked "What are you talking about"
"It's got that word in it" We asked " What word"
She wouldn't say it so she wrote it down.
Real lyric-We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
She heard-We're living in a powder keg and giving off farts
She couldn't believe they would allow such words on the radio.
We all died laughing.
Hahahahhahhh!! I can't stop laughing at that one -- yes, a Number 1 charting international hit talks about farts!
I can't decide if Tiger Roo Dave is actually one person, or maybe three people, or two people. . .
The Tiger and Roo part is suspiciously similar to the Winnie the Pooh characters Tigger and Roo -- and maybe Dave is the replacement for Christopher Robin.
So in conclusion, the Beatles wrote a song about a Winnie the Pooh type of story but didn't want to get sued by A.A. Milne, the wily thieves!
That's the first thing I thought of too- Winnie the Pooh.
I also heard if you play the 45 version of Revolution backwards it's actually the entire
story of Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
I also heard that Tigger was based on the 5th Beatle.
The signs are all there and you're the one who opened the door. Well done.
Also, not many people know that the whole "Paul is dead" thing was actually about Ringo's next door neighbour's cat, Paul. John accidentally ran over Paul the cat on his bicycle in 1959. ;)
The cat was on a bicycle at the time, that is -- not John.
This would totally make sense.
I remember hearing Paul the cat used to do all sorts of crazy things.
He used to steal Ringo's bike and go "downtown" to the square and just get weird.
I remember an interview in the early 70's I believe where it came that Hey Jude was
actually Hey Roo.
Hey Roo, don't make it bad
Take some honey and make it better
Remember to let Pooh into your heart
Then you can start to hop much better
OK, so I just Googled it, and it turns out Clapton was in Derek and the Dominos. Doh, I didn't know that. But he doesn't sing on that one, does he? It doesn't sound like him. There's also a later version where's just him, as far as I know, so I guess that's what I mean by "both"...
Maybe he misheard his own lyrics and got inspired! lol
Yes, they are both him. He was the singer and lead guitarist of Derek and the Dominos. His voice changed a bit over the 20 years between the two versions.
Yeah, that's an old song that's been done a few times I would say.
I had a bunch of songs that I was singing wrong for many years.
Now you can just google it.
Back in the day you just sung what you heard unless you got the album or the cassette with the lyrics.
As you can see from this post there some funny ones out there.
Yes this is a great thread. I remember one of the earliest websites I would frequent was kissthisguy.com, a compilation of misheard lyrics named after the line from Purple Haze, kiss the sky