Your favourite misunderstood lyric?

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Your favourite misunderstood lyric?

Post by devin » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:50 am

I know there's websites and stuff devoted to this fair topic...but have YOU personally misunderstood any famous lyrics?When did you figure it out?For the longest time, I thought Stevie Nick's "Edge of Seventeen" contained "just like a one winged dove". It wasn't until a friend bet me a beer, and then forced me to open the CD cover that I realized it was supposed to be "White Winged Dove"...
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Post by ncc1701 » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:04 am

My husband cracked me up by singing along with Mr. Mister in the '80s:"Carry a laser down the road that I must travel" Kathleen

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Re: Your favourite misunderstood lyric?

Post by ibanez468 » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:09 pm

mojo, you & milfus have got me crackin' up over here! "Slow-motion Walter the fire engine guy" That is freakin' hilarious! "excuse me, while i kiss this guy" It does sound like he's sayin' that though. I-468PS -- If ya' really wanna' hear some funked up lyrics, listen to some Black Oak Arkansas (Jim Dandy). When I looked up the lyics to some of their songs on their live album (Raunch N' Roll Live) I was like, "Damn, is that what he's sayin'?" Then it all made sense, cause I couldn't tell what the hell he was sayin' in most of the songs. All I knew is they were kickin' ass with their sound, and that's all that mattered at the time.

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Post by liamkelly » Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:38 pm

My wife swears that the first few times she heard a certain Bryan Adams song she thought he was singing 'I got my first real sex dream....' Liam

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Post by hummingbird » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:46 pm

Jun 17, 2008, 10:42pm, milfus wrote:oh man, my all time favorite is my momwe are in the car, and rob thomas is on, and she sings out "open up to me, so i can do your girlfriends"I couldn't stop laughing.ROTFL!!!
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Re: Your favourite misunderstood lyric?

Post by linziellen » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:08 am

I seem to remember my first boyfriends mum singing Brimful of Asha "Everybody needs a good STRAW pillow"

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Re: Your favourite misunderstood lyric?

Post by Casey H » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:16 am

Creedence..."There's a bathroom on the right"Shirelles/Carole King: In "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"...Can I believe the magic of your size? ('sighs')... A little risque for the 60's the way I heard it... Casey

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Re: Your favourite misunderstood lyric?

Post by jchitty » Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:10 am

This is so BAD, (sorry, hehe) but for years, my husband would sing the lines to Hall and Oates, "Kiss on My Lips" as, 'because your piss, your piss is on my lips, because your piss, your piss I can't resist, because your piss is on my lips when I turn out the lights. "Of course, it wasn't misunderstood on his part, he was just being naughty. (and gross)

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Re: Your favourite misunderstood lyric?

Post by ibanez468 » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:19 pm

I can see all "popsicles" in my way... Give me the "Beach Boys" and free my soul... Those are hilarious too. I'd like ta' share some, but I can't think of any right now. DANG!I-468

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Re: Your favourite misunderstood lyric?

Post by devin » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:51 am

Jun 19, 2008, 2:51pm, lyle wrote:Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul...Donuts make my brown eyes blue...I can see clearly now the rain has goneI can see all popsicles in my way... Sugar fried honey butt...Bwahaha! Good posts everyone.... Donuts make ya feel like dancingDonuts make ya feel all right (Donuts make ya feel alright!)...Donuts. Donuts.
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