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Title: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Pentagrimes on July 02, 2025, 10:57:41 PM

I was listening to this again a few days ago

https://youtu.be/WK7DGwCqH6k?si=hoiG4uJDi0dQN1N2

and I can still only hear the chorus as "Hello Babyman", perhaps a greeting someone (maybe a member of Clawfinger) might say to Trump

A mate of mine told me a hilarious story about being at a gig some.years ago (possibly Bon Jovi?) where a cover of "The Boys are Back in Town" was aired, and a woman stood near him was belting it out to the chorus..except she thought it was "We're frozen back in time"  :laugh:
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Eoin McLove on July 02, 2025, 11:05:33 PM
Maybe she was an Obituary fan.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Ducky on July 03, 2025, 10:38:23 AM
  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

I swear that the first line of For Whom The Bell Tolls is "minkers fight on the hill in the early days".
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: The Great Cull on July 03, 2025, 11:09:25 AM
On Machine Head - A Thousand Lies where he sings "fed up of this whole system, it's gone on for too long" it sounds like he's singing "fed up of this horses dong..."
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Vom on July 03, 2025, 11:14:09 AM
Slough Feg, "I am a space parrot, you know my name"
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Circlepit on July 03, 2025, 02:58:09 PM
For years I thought Axl was saying " I'll have another cigarette cos I can't sing " on Paradise City.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Brodent on July 05, 2025, 10:51:21 AM
The evil Kathmandu. I used to think he was singing about a mysterious eastern wizard.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Pentagrimes on July 05, 2025, 11:41:45 AM
"Can I play with madness, the perfect steed at the Christmas ball"
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: ldj on July 05, 2025, 12:08:34 PM
Thought for ages Mastodon's Oblivion went
"Leaving you behind with this awesome song".

Admired the confidence to be honest.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: mickO))) on July 05, 2025, 04:11:17 PM
An old one, Necros Christos - Hathor of Dendera sounds like Hater of Pantera
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: John Kimble on July 05, 2025, 04:22:42 PM
"this ain't no Crystal Rodgers neighbourhood"...so sang Mike Muir on You Can't Bring Me Down or at least I thought so for many years. Had no idea who Crystal Rodgers was, nor indeed had I any clue who Mr. Rodgers was for that matter.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: M.Hopkins on July 07, 2025, 06:44:49 AM
Sheemo, the mysterious whale by U2  :abbath:
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Pentagrimes on July 07, 2025, 09:03:22 AM
Quote from: ldj on July 05, 2025, 12:08:34 PMThought for ages Mastodon's Oblivion went
"Leaving you behind with this awesome song".

Admired the confidence to be honest.

I thought this as well actually.

Not mine, but a favourite I've heard is people mishearing the chorus of Deicide's "Dead by Dawn" as "PET MY DOG"
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Ducky on July 07, 2025, 11:51:37 AM
The title to Crowbar's "All I Had I Gave" sounding far too like "Motorhead are gay" in the song itself.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: jobrok1 on July 07, 2025, 01:44:56 PM
Quote from: Brodent on July 05, 2025, 10:51:21 AMThe evil Kathmandu. I used to think he was singing about a mysterious eastern wizard.

And the song title itself didn't set off any alarm bells?


My sister loved skid Row's 18 & Life back when it was in the charts.
But she kept sing, "Ain't seen a life"... even though she knew the name of the song.

Fucking stupid, like!
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Bigmac on July 07, 2025, 03:43:03 PM
1st line in Incarnated Solvent Abuse by Carcass: "Yes I'm delicious, yes I'm sexy."

Chorus for Traitors by Misery Index: "SHITE ARSE!"
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Brodent on July 07, 2025, 09:24:30 PM
Quote from: jobrok1 on July 07, 2025, 01:44:56 PM
Quote from: Brodent on July 05, 2025, 10:51:21 AMThe evil Kathmandu. I used to think he was singing about a mysterious eastern wizard.

And the song title itself didn't set off any alarm bells?



The penny may have dropped alright had I known the song title at that age of 9 or 10.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: 0ricky7 on July 07, 2025, 09:25:41 PM
Metallica's fuel starts with turn on I see red but it sounds like "turd on icy rail",you won't unhear that every time you listen to it
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Pentagrimes on July 07, 2025, 11:06:17 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl39yHH9yQM&list=OLAK5uy_koILK3WDLqZbQfXrcoTAGkWZbwZVNMa9o&index=8

Definitely thought the chorus (which crops up at 27 seconds in for the first time) was just him going "ooooh  and  aaaaah!" for an embarassingly long time before reading the lyrics and realising he's saying "oaken heart"

Is Bolzer still a thing incidentally?

Quote from: Brodent on July 07, 2025, 09:24:30 PM
Quote from: jobrok1 on July 07, 2025, 01:44:56 PM
Quote from: Brodent on July 05, 2025, 10:51:21 AMThe evil Kathmandu. I used to think he was singing about a mysterious eastern wizard.

And the song title itself didn't set off any alarm bells?



Fully cogniscent of that Iron Maiden's song is called "Fear of the Dark", doesn't stop me hearing "fear of the duck" every time.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Eoin McLove on July 07, 2025, 11:38:45 PM
Bölzer recently finished recording a new album.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 08, 2025, 09:15:04 AM
Quote from: 0ricky7 on July 07, 2025, 09:25:41 PMMetallica's fuel starts with turn on I see red but it sounds like "turd on icy rail",you won't unhear that every time you listen to it

So...never?  :P
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Bürggermeister on July 08, 2025, 12:42:59 PM
 :laugh:

Always sounded like Gimme foo, gimme fah, gimme dah bee dah bee dah to me
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Maggot Colony on July 16, 2025, 04:54:52 PM
I always thought Varg was singing "I wonder why life must be a life that lasts in Germany" in Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Pentagrimes on July 19, 2025, 02:12:33 PM
Opening line of "Gum, meet Mother" by Virus: "Ya, I've a farmer's tan"
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Anvil on July 19, 2025, 06:25:19 PM
Fist few times I heard Manowar - Manowar I thought he sang "So we call on Protestants" in the second verse. 
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: open face surgery on July 21, 2025, 07:37:16 PM
Always thought it was 'I'm thinking of good vibrations' turns out it's 'picking up...'
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: son of the Morrigan on July 22, 2025, 02:33:46 PM
"My lovers got no money, he's got his trumba leaves"
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Carnage on July 22, 2025, 03:38:28 PM
I thought it was a trombeleese.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: son of the Morrigan on July 22, 2025, 04:22:11 PM
 :laugh:, neither of which make the remotest bit of sense.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Carnage on July 22, 2025, 04:29:40 PM
Jesus lad, how have you gotten this far in life without a trombeleese? I'd be lost without mine.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: open face surgery on July 22, 2025, 04:34:25 PM
Strong beliefs?
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Carnage on July 22, 2025, 05:23:57 PM
Aye.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: The Great Cull on July 22, 2025, 05:59:20 PM
Not so much a misheard lyric as opposed to a "never copped what the fuck he was saying" but in Def Leppard - Rocket, I wad probably an adult by the time I realised he was singing "Satellite Of Love"

Even going to see them live, I was happy to sing "Rocket. Yeah. La na na na na"

In fairness Joe Elliott has a knack of being an English man, singing in English that is hard to understand most of the time.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: jobrok1 on July 22, 2025, 06:29:30 PM
Quote from: The Great Cull on July 22, 2025, 05:59:20 PMNot so much a misheard lyric as opposed to a "never copped what the fuck he was saying" but in Def Leppard - Rocket, I wad probably an adult by the time I realised he was singing "Satellite Of Love"
Even going to see them live, I was happy to sing "Rocket. Yeah. La na na na na"

Yeah! I'm with you on this one.
had no clue what the fuck he was saying for that line... until 2mins ago  :laugh: .
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Thorn on July 22, 2025, 07:40:58 PM
I always sang it as 'Rocket Yeah, Say in the name of love', Probably too late too change now!
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Pentagrimes on July 30, 2025, 09:35:21 AM
The end of Fear FActory's "Body Hammer" - "I am a DUUUUUUUUUUUCK"
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: jobrok1 on July 30, 2025, 08:46:36 PM
Got reminded of this one the other day while spinning some old Ozzy.

"Miracle Man... No bullshit"

Sang this away to myself for years.
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Giggles on July 31, 2025, 08:13:14 AM
A lad I used to live with had Paranoid on one day he starts singing the chorus "can you help me, thought you were my friend"?

We later fell out over some money he owes me. The signs were there!!
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: ResidentOfBok on January 16, 2026, 07:59:18 PM
Running Wild - Slavery

"CELERY...the bane of the sea!
CELERY...and humanity!"

Quote from: Giggles on July 31, 2025, 08:13:14 AMA lad I used to live with had Paranoid on one day he starts singing the chorus "can you help me, thought you were my friend"?

We later fell out over some money he owes me. The signs were there!!

:laugh: I never really thought about it, but always assumed he said 'Can't you find my brain?' Halp I am unbrained
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: The Butcher on January 23, 2026, 09:19:45 PM

At 0:40 "In the jizz that burnt the light"  :-X
Title: Re: Misheard Lyrics thread
Post by: Barnacle Billy on January 23, 2026, 09:38:53 PM
Quote from: The Butcher on January 23, 2026, 09:19:45 PM

At 0:40 "In the jizz that burnt the light"  :-X
Ah here hey  :laugh:

Is right