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How I initially heard a line from "Stairway To Heaven":

 

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be a lawman; it's just a sprinkling from the bakery"

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One of the biggest lyric mistakes was from "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" by England Dan & John Ford Coley. I can't count how many people thought the line was "I'm not talking 'bout your linen," when it was actually "I'm not talking 'bout moving in."

 

So much so, that they even used it in the movie "The Long Kiss Goodnight," with Samuel L. Jackson singing the wrong lyrics.

 

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Ha! OK, maybe I'm a bit of a pop recluse, but JUST YESTERDAY I finally heard "I'm All About That Bass" in it's entirety. It's NOT about bass [frequencies]!

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I recall some of that early teen adolescent unease when I realized Elton John was gay and all of those songs that I loved to play weren't romantic in the way I had thought they were.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

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I'm not sure if the original thread intent was misheard lyrics or just songs whose meaning was not apparent when you were young.

 

Regarding the latter, the biggest one for me would have to be Billie Jean. I was a kid when Thriller was released and sang along, completely oblivious to what the song was about.

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We're talking misunderstood meanings, not misheard lyrics I think.

 

So... probably the most infamous: Tutti Frutti.

 

And I'm thinking there must have been a lot of :facepalm: in certain places when it was covered by Pat Boone.

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In the misheard lyrics category: the 8 year-old French-speaking kid that I was thought Stevie Wonder sang "À Jessica, to say I love you" (means "to Jessica"...) I figured he was trying to reach her on the phone and was leaving a message on her answering machine.

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I recall some of that early teen adolescent unease when I realized Elton John was gay and all of those songs that I loved to play weren't romantic in the way I had thought they were.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

 

If only the guy that wrote the lyrics were gay, I might have thought so too...

 

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I thought the lyrics to "Precious and Few" went "Precious and few are the moments sweet toucans share..." when I was a kid. If I ever do some kind of beach oriented band, I'm gonna call it Sweet Toucans for that very reason.
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"No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on"
?? Isn't that the correct lyric?
Yes, I believe so.

You know, I still don't get what it means. I understand the literal meaning, but if it implies something else, that eludes me. As for the literal meaning, it paints an amusing image, but Steely Dan lyrics usually go a bit deeper than that. Maybe not in this case.

 

 

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I was little and had no idea what story of Last Train to Clarksville was. I just thought it was another happy go lucky Monkees tune with fast perky beat. It kind of reminded me of Paperback Writer.

 

 

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You know, I still don't get what it means. I understand the literal meaning, but if it implies something else, that eludes me. As for the literal meaning, it paints an amusing image, but Steely Dan lyrics usually go a bit deeper than that. Maybe not in this case.
I was always under the impression it was about condoms....
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You know, I still don't get what it means. I understand the literal meaning, but if it implies something else, that eludes me. As for the literal meaning, it paints an amusing image, but Steely Dan lyrics usually go a bit deeper than that. Maybe not in this case.
I was always under the impression it was about condoms....

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"I wanna be your holy man" is a reference to missionary.

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You know, I still don't get what it means. I understand the literal meaning, but if it implies something else, that eludes me. As for the literal meaning, it paints an amusing image, but Steely Dan lyrics usually go a bit deeper than that. Maybe not in this case.
I was always under the impression it was about condoms....
Ok, that works. I've thought that before, but always thought, no, that couldn't be it, for some reason. But I guess it is

 

 

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Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen" I always thought she was singing one-winged dove instead of white-winged dove.

 

Wow... To this day I thought it was "one-winged dove". :)

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It took me forever to figure out what Phil Collins was saying in "Against All Odds"...

 

"You're the only one, who really knew me at all..."

 

The way he says "really" is hard to heard on a bad sound system.

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In The Spinners song "Games People Play", the singer says "12:45" as in the time but I've heard people sing it as Colt 45. :laugh::cool:

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