Comments on: Contest: Your favorite song, but better

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:35:14 +0000

OMG I am not alone! I was lured here by the famous line: “wrecked up like a douche”, and now I have to admit that when I was maybe 4 years old, I heard the Elvis song, “Return to Sender” thinking it was “Return to Cinder”. This made perfect biblical sense as a paraphrase of “ashes to ashes, dust to dust”. Returning to cinder would be about the same as returning to ashes, I figured…thanks for all the other misheard music lines.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:25:09 +0000

INXS’s “Suicide Blonde”

You wanna make a
Soup and salad bar
Love devastation
Soup and salad bar

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:28:27 +0000

My version of the Pretender’s song, Brass in Pocket:

Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sausage
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination

By: Nirav

Nirav — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:10:19 +0000

One friend misheard Sade’s “Smooth Operator” as “Smooth on the Radar”

I thought Corey Hart’s line in “Sunglasses at Night”…
“cuz you got in bed with a guy in shades, oh no”
sounded like
“cuz you got in bed with a Diet Shasta and Coke”

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:23:53 +0000

I’ll never forget my aunt singing along with Cher to “If I could turn back CRIME…” – woops!!

By: curlzcat

curlzcat — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:31:50 +0000

Here’s my 3:
1) in the song “Living Well” George Strait sings “…and a thousand red sunsets” but listen to it one time as “…a thousand wrestling sets” and you’ll never hear it right again.
2) My sister thought the song “Dust on the bottle,” the chorus of which starts “might be a little dust on the bottle…” was actually “my feet, a little dust on the bottom ” (makes perfect sense in the song, believe if or not.
3) and the old standby “in the garden of eden, baby” – instead of “Innagadadavida, baby”

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:06:37 +0000

I have two!
1) In “Drift Away”, I had to laugh when my sister burst out with “give me the Beach Boys and free my soul” instead of “give me the beat boys”. Hey, maybe the Beach Boys do have that power.
2) In Lou Rawls “Double Trouble”, there’s a part where he does a long monologue about having to hide the fact that he’s messing around. At the end, he says that he’s “scared to death!” but we always said “skib-a-dip” and assumed that it was a cool word we hadn’t learned yet. (Of course, we weren’t too sure of the meaning of the song either)

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:27:01 +0000

My youngest sister thought the lyrics to “Winter Wonderland” were “… walking in and wonderin’ where I am.”

By: Sheila

Sheila — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:54:55 +0000

My nine year old daughter is a big Beatles fan. When she was about six, she thought the lyric to “The Night Before” (Original “treat me like you did the night before”) was “treat me like you did when I was four”.

By: DataSpice

DataSpice — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:42:49 +0000

My daughter was quite a fan of “Who’s the Boss” reruns when she was 9 or 10. She was perplexed when she learned that Elton John sang these lyrics (as heard by her): “Hold me closer, Tony Danza”… She’d always assumed that the song, actually “Tiny Dancer”, was sung by the lead female character “Angela”.