I thought that Anthony Kiedas was singing "fly away on my cell phone" in Zephyr (when he's really saying "fly away on my zephyr).

This thread reminds me of the T Mobile commercial, where the guy is belting out "Pour some shook up ramen" instead of "Pour some sugar on me" :D

i actually love that song too

what about the lyrics to some of the dave matthews song
i'm always sitting there saying 'ok, he didn't REALLY say that'

On a similar note, I always mishear the word "agents" in Creeque Alley by The Mamas and the Papas:

"Broke, busted, disgusted, Asians can't be trusted...."

There is a book called Excuse Me, While I Kiss This Guy. It's filled with the most misunderstood lyrics.

Secret Agent Man-Secret Asian Man, and Excuse Me. While I Kiss the Sky-Excuse Me, While I Kiss This Guy, and Bad Moon on the Rise-Bathroom On the Right are all in there.

about a week ago, my brother and I discovered that, although we both had thought it to be Buffalo Bill ever since we can remember, the Beatles song is actually 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill.'

If only we had ever looked at the track lists... oops. My mom was completely cracking up when she heard us singing along that day.

yeah, it's kissthisguy.com

and it's really funny....

How about "Slow walkin' Walter - the fire engine guy"

(generally known as "smoke on the water - and fire in the sky)

You have to sing them out loud for the most fun.;)

There was a lady who wrote a Depeche Mode concert review in one of our local papers a few years ago. Among the things she complained about was how, when they were singing the song "Everything Counts," she thought Dave Gahan was singing "Grabbing hands, grapple with clams" until she later realized he was singing "Grabbing hands, grab all they can."


Though, there was always one lyric which confused me. A friend and I were driving somewhere one day when the Everclear song "I Will Buy You a New Life" came on the radio. We weren't sure what he was singing at one point. My friend thought he was singing, "I know all about that other guy, the handsome man with athletic thighs."

I thought that sounded like a dumb thing to say (especially to the girl you want back so bad). So, I thought maybe he was saying, "I know all about that other guy, the handsome man with apathetic lies." That made more sense to me since it would seem like he wanted to put down the other guy. Funny enough, when I looked the lyric up, it apparently is "athletic thighs." Go figure! :)


.....Kelly :)

(P.S. - Yes, I know it's dumb, but when I was younger, I too thought it was "Secret Asian Man" until one day the real word just clicked in my head!)

omigosh i'm at work and when i read this, i howled. that was hilarious.

The only one I can think of that I always misheard was "Voices Carry" by either Aimee Mann or Til Tuesday. For YEARS, I thought it said "hush, hush, keep it down now, THIS IS SCARY" instead of "hush, hush, keep it down now, VOICES CARRY".

Now my little brother has come up with lots of funny ones.
"What is Love" (Fat Joe, maybe?), he thought was "What is up"
"Comfortably Numb", he thought was "Come for blue rum"
And then one day, we were again listening to Pink Floyd, and he says, "That song is so racist". I was pretty confused because I did not hear any racist lyrics in Pink Floyd. (He was about 7.) Where the song says "a lead role in a cage" he thought it said "a negro in a cage". Well yeah, that would be pretty racist! I corrected him and he now sings the correct lyrics.

Know the song called "As I Lay Me Down" by Sophie B. Hawkins? Well next time you hear it, there's one section in the chorus where it sounds like: "As I lay me down to sleep, yes i pray (do you like tacos?) that you'd hold me near." Something like that.

And for the longest time, my coworker and I have been wondering about certain lyrics to American Hi-Fi's "Flavor of the Weak." In the chorus section, do I hear the word "Nintendo???????????" Or are we just totally trippin?

Yes, they do say "Nintendo". The song is about how this girl has a boyfriend who doesn't treat her right. This boyfriend doesn't pay any attentin to her because he's "too stoned, nintendo." They're not singing in a complete sentence, but they're saying he'd rather do drugs and play video games than give her attention.

Here are the words:

Her boyfriend, he don't know
Anything about her
He's too stoned, Nintendo
I wish that I could make her see
She's just the Flavor of the Weak


.....Kelly :)

I thought I was the the only one who thought those were the words!!!LOL I feel SOO much better now!!

Aimee, the word is enunciate !! LOL

Ha AH! I was at the bar with some of my buddies last week and Missy Elliot came on
" is it worth it, let me work it, put my thing down flip it and reverse it"
Well after that she starts mumbling in backwards, but my buddy was singing along like " and kitty works the pity when wet"