Do you, like me, sometimes have trouble making out the words to a song?

Question

And hear something that is totally daft, such as on Bohemian Rhapsody there is a line that sounds to me like"Saving your life for your warm sausages".
Anyone else have similar experiences?

Answer 1

oh sure yeah ..it frustrates the hell outta me..i still dont know what the words are in the chorus to smells like teen spirit.
i get the same in movies too sometimes when some one says something and i dont understand it and im on the remote rewinding the video cassette over and over til it dont make sense anymore and i give up..ive done that before.

Answer 2

yep. all the time. when i used to listen to a Nirvana song for the first time. i could bearly decipher any of the words because, well, Kurt Cobain didn't exactlly ARTICULATE any of his words, so i'd always be looking up lyrics on the internet.

I remember hearing somthing like 'i'll cuddle banannas for you' or somthing like that in a Nirvana song, but whether those the actual lyrics, i dunno.

i know what you mean about the sausages line in Bohemian Rhapsody! great song!

Answer 3

Hi I dont, if I cant hear the words I look them up,

But I know my dad sings the price lyrics of Raspberry Berat totally wrong.
I have told him the chorus goes '' Raspberry Berat, the kind u find in a second hand store''

But for some reason his says Brass ferical rain, I havent a clue what he is hearing but after years of me telling him the right lyrics he still argues with me that its not Raspberry Beret, even thought thats the name of the song lol


I think its old age creeping up lol

Answer 4

Boy, can I relate to this one. There was a song by the Ohio Players in the mid to late 70's called "Roller-coaster" and they kept saying, "roller-coaster" over and over but I could have sworn that they were saying "only Khrushchev." Go figure. Anyway, it must have been at least 10 years later, sometime in the mid-80's, before I figured out what they were really saying. But it never bothered me because I've always been a "tune-guy" as opposed to a "lyric-guy."

Answer 5

Not normally, but an ex of mine thought for years that Errol Brown from Hot Chocolate sang 'I believe in Milko' as the first line of You Sexy Thing, without even questioning why it made no sense. I think I quite upset her strange little word when I pointed out to her that Milko was in fact, Miracles.
Some song lyrics that sound like something else are:

The Israelites - Desmond Dekker, sounds like My ears are alight.
Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney, sounds like My leaking Tyre.
Teddy Bear - Elvis. The backing singers are repeatedly singing bop ba da da, but it sounds like hot bananas.

Answer 6

There has to be a website somewhere for these. Some of the more famous ones:

"There's a bathroom on the right." (There's a bad moon on the rise) 'Bad Moon' - CCR

"'Scuse me while I kiss this guy. " ('Scuse me while I kiss the sky.) 'Purple Haze' - Jimi Hendrix

"She's so popular." (Jeux sans frontieres.) 'Games Without Frontiers' - Peter Gabriel

Answer 7

Quite often. Latest one was Mika's song. I swear he sang 'Get on down to the Butterfly club and buy yourself a big nightie' xx

Answer 8

I think the line is "Spare him his life from this monstrosity"

But yes...especially a lot of new stuff.
Maybe that's a good thing, since it all seems to be about sex lately!

Answer 9

'I Don't Want To Set My A ss On Fire, I'm Not In The Mood, For Mexican Food.' was a lyric I completely misheard in my youth.

Answer 10

Yes all the time