We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks I really need you tonight Forever's gonna start tonight Taken from bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart My understanding was; We’re living in a rusty Jag and giving off farts I really need you tonight etc Only now have I googled the ‘correct’ lyrics!
Bob Marley - Is this love "We’ll be together with a roof rack over our heads" should be "We’ll be together with a roof right over our heads."
I can see clearly now - Johnny Nash Misheard Lyrics: "I can see clearly now Lorraine has gone" Correct Lyrics: "I can see clearly now the rain has gone"
Paul Young -“everytime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you” should be “everytime you go away, you take a piece of me with you”
For many years my brother thought “Under the Boardwalk” was “I Never Bought One”. But then again he also stopped eating salmon at age 12 when he discovered it was a type of fish (before then he’d assumed it was something like a sheep). Apparently The Lightning Seeds are named after a mishearing of a line in Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” (“...thunder drowns out what the lighting sees”)
Beyoncé - all with chips and gravy (all the single ladies) destinys child - the shoes on my feet, Alf Garnett, the clothes I’m wearing Alf Garnett (still don’t know what it says) s’express - chicken fried (superflyguy)
For decades I used to sing - "Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a Dude, You know a Roller in the Night" Shoulda been "Blinded by the light, Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night"
as for the rest of "Blinded by the Light" - no fuckin' chance.... Madman drummer bummers Indians in the summer With a teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps As the adolescent pumps His way into his hat With a boulder on my shoulder Feeling kinda older I tripped a merry-go-round With this very unpleasing Sneezing and wheezing The calliope crashed to the ground
I remember when no one knew the lyrics to that song, or no one who knew them would share them. This went on for years and years. Radio shows would spend chunks of time discussing this issue and speculating : o D
Hotel California For years sang "Her mind is definitely twisted" Of course, it shoulda been "Her mind is Tiffany twisted" "Tiffany twisted means a mind twisted or intertwined with materialism and status. And colitas refers to the bud in cannabis"
"Massage in a brothel" "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" "After all the jets are in the boxes and the clouds have all gone to bed"
