LYRICS Mixup - ever had it?

[StreetAngel95]

Well i know everyone has SOMETIME in their life, but I'm asking this question regarding Mac/SN:

you know the scenario: You're jamming out to this great song, singing along, when you realize you've been singing the wrong lyrics for years!

My personal experience with this has been on "That's All For Everyone"

the line: "Must be just exactly what i need"

i always thought was, "Must be just too sexy for my dreams"

and i was like, "Yeah Lindsey, Stevie's too sexy EVEN in YOUR DREAMS!" :lol::lol:

what are your Lyric mixups??

-Miranda

[ButterCookie]

Yah, on Dreams :o

I thought it was, for years; Have you any dreams you'd like to share

[Sahara]

I only worked out the right words to I Know I'm Not Wrong when I had Lindsey singing it three feet away from me!
I had been singing: "Her lips were waiting, her eyes looked set, the dreams of a lifetime, they ain't gone yet..."

Hope he didn't spot it :o

On a similar note, in the infancy of my fandom, I thought it was Stevie singing the chorus of Come, not Lindsey.

[nailatixela]

On a similar note, in the infancy of my fandom, I thought it was Stevie singing the chorus of Come, not Lindsey.


That's funny, because I thought it was Christine. :o

[Sahara]

That's funny, because I thought it was Christine. :o
Oh wow! :lol: I feel much better now! :xoxo:
I knew very little about either of them at the time. What's your excuse? :p

[nailatixela]

Oh wow! :lol: I feel much better now! :xoxo:
I knew very little about either of them at the time. What's your excuse? :p

Uhhh I guess the same excuse? I only casually enjoyed The Dance, and SYW. So maybe I was expecting to hear Chris on SYW as well. And I guess that sounded like Chris' voice, more so than anything else on the album. :laugh: I was surprised she would write such a song though.

And I was like 12 years old. :laugh:

[StreetAngel95]

I only worked out the right words to I Know I'm Not Wrong when I had Lindsey singing it three feet away from me!
I had been singing: "Her lips were waiting, her eyes looked set, the dreams of a lifetime, they ain't gone yet..."

Hope he didn't spot it :o

On a similar note, in the infancy of my fandom, I thought it was Stevie singing the chorus of Come, not Lindsey.

NO WAY?!?!? that's the lyrics of IKINW? I always thought it was,: "licks for a white guy, dried in sand, dreams of a lifetime, a year gone...bad!"

speaking of Come, (wow that sounded wrong), i always thought it was, "cursing off, everyone's doing it!"

and of course, i'm 8 yrs old and my mom's like, WTF?!?!?:lol:

[Erin]

Paper Doll- I thought it was beautiful lies, when it's beautiful eyes. I like mine better! I enjoy the thought of someone telling beautiful lies.

[StreetAngel95]

Yah, on Dreams :o

I thought it was, for years; Have you any dreams you'd like to share

nu-uh! it's "Dreams you'd like to SHED!"

haha jk:]

[Sahara]

NO WAY?!?!? that's the lyrics of IKINW? I always thought it was,: "licks for a white guy, dried in sand, dreams of a lifetime, a year gone...bad!"


No, the lyrics I posted were my incorrect ones ... the real ones are "Her lips were waiting, her eyes looked sad, the dreams of a lifetime, a year gone bad"


And I was like 12 years old. :laugh:

Okay, you're off the hook! :laugh:

[StreetAngel95]

No, the lyrics I posted were my incorrect ones ... the real ones are "Her lips were waiting, her eyes looked sad, the dreams of a lifetime, a year gone bad"




ohhh haha....i still had the wrong ones anyway....whoops!:o

[Fiver]

Well i know everyone has SOMETIME in their life, but I'm asking this question regarding Mac/SN:

you know the scenario: You're jamming out to this great song, singing along, when you realize you've been singing the wrong lyrics for years!

My personal experience with this has been on "That's All For Everyone"

the line: "Must be just exactly what i need"

i always thought was, "Must be just too sexy for my dreams"


I thought he was saying "Must be just too sexy without me." which makes no sense.. when that happens I consult the internetz for the correct lyrics. Happens to me alot. :laugh:

[michelej1]

On Red Rover, before I read the liner notes I thought he was talking about Christine leaving the group and that the lyrics were:

"Christine you were dying and no one was crying."

There's this Cadillac commercial that plays now that was driving me crazy, because I couldn't understand what they were singing in it. I remember at Thanksgiving I was playing it and asking everyone at dinner what they thought was being sung. Finally, I went online and found out they are using a song by Phoenix called 1901 and that the words on the commercial are "fold it, fold it, fold it."

That had been driving me crazy. After I heard the original song, I decided I liked the music in the commercial better!:lol:

Michele

[StreetAngel95]

On Red Rover, before I read the liner notes I thought he was talking about Christine leaving the group and that the lyrics were:

"Christine you were dying and no one was crying."

There's this Cadillac commercial that plays now that was driving me crazy, because I couldn't understand what they were singing in it. I remember at Thanksgiving I was playing it and asking everyone at dinner what they thought was being sung. Finally, I went online and found out they are using a song by Phoenix called 1901 and that the words on the commercial are "fold it, fold it, fold it."

That had been driving me crazy. After I heard the original song, I decided I liked the music in the commercial better!:lol:

Michele

haha i love both those songs actually....i always thought 1901 was: fallin', fallin', fallin'.....i was close, eh.

[hippilil86]

Can we just say;

dreams of wine, loves the state of mind

You have to admit, it makes sense!

[StreetAngel95]

Can we just say;

dreams of wine, loves the state of mind

You have to admit, it makes sense!

ohmygosh yes!

[goldustsongbird]

Even though I know the lyrics, I still hear the opening lines of Gold and Braid as
"Oh she said
Some old shadow"

[Nikolaj]

I fell in love with 'Sleeping Angel' immediately but it took my friend Rea to tell me it was 'heavy spells' that Stevie was singing, I just didn't hear that correctly, I thought she was singing 'these love affairs are very scarce for a woman and a man'... "heavy spells" and "very scarce" shouldn't have sounded alike to me, but I blamed it on hearing with Euro-ears.
"Angel" from 'Tusk' was even more of a puzzle a few years earlier. 'Track a ghost through the fog' stumped me for the longest time. I didn't know what she was singing, but sort of settled on 'that we hold" for the first part, and 'through the fog' sounded, I thought and don't know why, like she was singing 'beautiful'.
(charmed hour and a haunted song...that we hold as beautiful")
I was so far off! When I eventually saw a 'Tusk' songbook with the lyrics, I was like, "oh, 'track a ghost through the fog'...I guess that's why the words 'Track a Ghost' are listed on an inside album sleeve with a bunch of other song titles."
For how elaborate the original 'Tusk' vinyl packaging was, the album really should have had the lyrics included!

[ButterCookie]

For how elaborate the original 'Tusk' vinyl packaging was, the album really should have had the lyrics included!

Word to this.

[StreetAngel95]

Word to this.

you can say that again! after finding my dad's old vinyls i fell in love with them! but it took me 20 minutes just to put TUSK back together....my love for vinyls was short lived...:laugh:

[ButterCookie]

I only play Vinyl, which I blame partly for me getting Dreams mixed up, dirty grimy records. When I first got Tusk I just turned to the shopkeeper and asked 'Is there reaaaaly any need for all this card?' and he replied 'Well, it's one album that the dust won't be able to get to' :laugh:

[goldustsongbird]

Do you ever find yourselves singing the ad-libbed or demo lyrics when listening to the finished tracks? I'm so used to the live versions of Rhiannon, that I always end up throwing in extra lyrics when I sing along. Or again with Gold and Braid - I prefer the "his eyes, his fantasy" lyrics. Then all the versions of The Dealer...

[tilthefirefades]

Honestly, for the first year or so of my fandom, I thought that the majority of Stevie's songs sounded a big slurred mess :o Especially on Stand Back..

But now I can basically hear every word she says haha

[michelej1]

you can say that again! after finding my dad's old vinyls i fell in love with them! but it took me 20 minutes just to put TUSK back together....my love for vinyls was short lived...:laugh:

That thing was horrible. Once you opened it, you could never put everything back the way it was. They should warn you to take pictures before you undo the packaging, because it will never be the same again. I love FM memorabilia, but there's just so many sleeves I can deal with for one album!

The enhanced SYW is just as bad. You just open the book and things fall out. I want to throw it against a wall.

I stopped using the Tusk album packaging for years. I just stuffed it under a bed, but then I started thinking as a "collector" rather than as someone who just wanted to hear the doggone record and I began to treat it with more care after that. Michele

[StreetAngel95]

Do you ever find yourselves singing the ad-libbed or demo lyrics when listening to the finished tracks? I'm so used to the live versions of Rhiannon, that I always end up throwing in extra lyrics when I sing along. Or again with Gold and Braid - I prefer the "his eyes, his fantasy" lyrics. Then all the versions of The Dealer...

oh absolutely! one time my family visited my dad's very best friend and our favorite thing to do was sit around the fire, singing Mac songs.....he was like, "Miranda sing Rhiannon!" so i did, but i did the live version from the Dance and i never went for the high notes....actually i can't remember the last time i even listened to the studio version of "Rhiannon"...or "Dreams" for that matter.....ohmygod....

[SteveMacD]

FUNGI only happens when it's raining...

[vivfox]

after finding my dad's old vinyls i fell in love with them! but it took me 20 minutes just to put TUSK back together....my love for vinyls was short lived...:laugh:

I always felt the Tusk album was made for left handed people.

[vivfox]

I only play Vinyl, which I blame partly for me getting Dreams mixed up, dirty grimy records. When I first got Tusk I just turned to the shopkeeper and asked 'Is there reaaaaly any need for all this card?' and he replied 'Well, it's one album that the dust won't be able to get to' :laugh:

They wasted so much space that could have been filled with lots of photos of the Band.

[StreetAngel95]

I always felt the Tusk album was made for left handed people.

Dude im a lefty and it's STILL hard to put together! Lol

[goldustsongbird]

oh absolutely! one time my family visited my dad's very best friend and our favorite thing to do was sit around the fire, singing Mac songs.....he was like, "Miranda sing Rhiannon!" so i did, but i did the live version from the Dance and i never went for the high notes....actually i can't remember the last time i even listened to the studio version of "Rhiannon"...or "Dreams" for that matter.....ohmygod....

I hear one or the other (sometimes both) at least once a day. I'm one of the three people who still listens to the radio. ;)

[vivfox]

Dude im a lefty and it's STILL hard to put together! Lol

LOL:xoxo:We will never forget tonight.

[Musicman408]

Well i know everyone has SOMETIME in their life, but I'm asking this question regarding Mac/SN:

you know the scenario: You're jamming out to this great song, singing along, when you realize you've been singing the wrong lyrics for years!

My personal experience with this has been on "That's All For Everyone"

the line: "Must be just exactly what i need"

i always thought was, "Must be just too sexy for my dreams"

and i was like, "Yeah Lindsey, Stevie's too sexy EVEN in YOUR DREAMS!" :lol::lol:

what are your Lyric mixups??

-Miranda

I always have thought he was saying something about "sexy". Go figure!

[thatgirlwasme]

For a long time I thought that On SYLM Christine was singing "I must say, baby, it's an honor for a girl like me."

A

[StreetAngel95]

^^me too! Or she had a speech impediment and she just mumbled there. "adhskxjshskdodif poor girl like me"

P.S. Just reached senior ledgie status- go me! *happy dance*

[Nikolaj]

For a long time I thought that On SYLM Christine was singing "I must say, baby, it's an honor for a girl like me."

A


I really like that! "I must say, baby, it's an honor for a girl like me."
--- 'to be falling, falling, falling at your feet!"
I think I like it better than the correct lyric!

[michelej1]

Do you ever find yourselves singing the ad-libbed or demo lyrics when listening to the finished tracks? I'm so used to the live versions of Rhiannon, that I always end up throwing in extra lyrics when I sing along. Or again with Gold and Braid - I prefer the "his eyes, his fantasy" lyrics. Then all the versions of The Dealer...

I find myself singing the live versions of songs a lot and then when I hear the studio version, I have to catch myself.

It's embarassing to blurt out "Well-l-l, I don't think you do!" And have people look at you and conclude you just don't know the words to the song, even though you call yourself a fan.

I know when Lindsey's UTS tour started, I was used to singing Show You How one way and he changed the vocal arrangement for the live show. I hadn't lived with that single very long, because the album had only recently been released, so he easily tripped me up at the concert. Then, after I saw a few shows and downloaded a boot, I found that I started messing up the words when singing along to the record, because I was so used to the live version.

Michele

[SuiteShangriLa]

Paper Doll- I thought it was beautiful lies, when it's beautiful eyes. I like mine better! I enjoy the thought of someone telling beautiful lies.


oh, its not beautiful lies?? i thought thats what it was too

[SuiteShangriLa]

The enhanced SYW is just as bad. You just open the book and things fall out. I want to throw it against a wall.



haha! same here.

[PutTheBlameOnMe]

I always thought that Stevie sang "And you reached out your HEART for me" on Seven Wonders.

... Obviiiiiously not! :p

[ButterCookie]

For a long time I thought that On SYLM Christine was singing "I must say, baby, it's an honor for a girl like me."

A

I read this and said aloud, 'She's NOT singing honour?!'

I like honour better :o

[Sahara]

Do you ever find yourselves singing the ad-libbed or demo lyrics when listening to the finished tracks? I'm so used to the live versions of Rhiannon, that I always end up throwing in extra lyrics when I sing along. Or again with Gold and Braid - I prefer the "his eyes, his fantasy" lyrics. Then all the versions of The Dealer...
All the time! My friend suggested lately that I should sing Go Your Own Way on RockBand ... but it was the original version, so I hadn't heard it in years and I probably would have got it all wrong! Some weird mash up of The Dance / Live in Boston / Mirage / Unleashed / various bootlegs. Definitely would have failed it!

[holidayroad]

For many, many years, I misheard the lyrics for 'Edge of Seventeen'. Even though the lyric sheets say differently, I still think she says 'I've been searching for an answer, I've been standing down the hall'

[APerfectLie]

I used to always think in Rooms On Fire she said, "It seemed to be the only thing that's died in the light." instead of "left out in the light".
And still to this day, I swear she says "that's died in the light" even tho I know the lyrics say differently.

[chazlightyear]

I always thought in Sara it was "And i knew it, ooh places i'm going places" instead of "undoing laces" and all that. I blame my substandard tape deck:shrug:

[WarmSir3]

I always thought in Sara it was "And i knew it, ooh places i'm going places" instead of "undoing laces" and all that. I blame my substandard tape deck:shrug:

I thought it was Spanish!!

[ButterCookie]

Pahaha. I just caught my sister singing 'Just like the one winged dove'

[PutTheBlameOnMe]

Pahaha. I just caught my sister singing 'Just like the one winged dove'


*Embarrassement at the fact that I used to think she sung the above*

[ButterCookie]

*Embarrassement at the fact that I used to think she sung the above*

It does sound like she's singing it though :laugh:

[StreetAngel95]

Pahaha. I just caught my sister singing 'Just like the one winged dove'

i thought it was either that or "wide-winged" dove

haha and also:

for "Gypsy" i always thought it was..."she was just a witch"

i mean, it makes sense right? Stevie and all?:shrug:

[thatgirlwasme]

My best friend thought it was "one winged dove" and I pointed out to her how silly that was, and then in college when we heard the song, she would do this stupid dance like she was flapping one wing.

Anyway, as far as SYLM goes, the real lyric is "Have mercy, baby, on a poor girl like me" but I'm glad some of you like my lyric better!

A

[Artemis]

for "Gypsy" i always thought it was..."she was just a witch"

I only just stopped singing "she was just a witch" last week. I was gobsmacked when I found out it was "wish" :shocked:

[Sahara]

speaking of Come, (wow that sounded wrong), i always thought it was, "cursing off, everyone's doing it!"



Unfortunately, there's no way of mentioning that song without it sounding wrong. Oh Lindsey :(:o:rolleyes:

[StreetAngel95]

Unfortunately, there's no way of mentioning that song without it sounding wrong. Oh Lindsey :(:o:rolleyes:

i know.....but my god that song is soooo hot....like i could bake cookies on it it's so hot!;)

uh......yeah...

[Sahara]

i know.....but my god that song is soooo hot....like i could bake cookies on it it's so hot!;)

uh......yeah...
I have found a kindred spirit :xoxo: :wavey:

Miranda, we should put together a CD of Lindsey's sexiest songs. Come, Slow Dancing, Tango in the Night ... what else belongs on there?

[StreetAngel95]

I have found a kindred spirit :xoxo: :wavey:

We should put together a CD of Lindsey's sexiest songs. This, Slow Dancing, Tango in the Night ... what else belongs on there?

hm.....pretty good list...i'm also gonna go with "Lola (My Love)" and "Big Love" and "Caroline" ----"she's so cagey...keeps on comin'..."

holy crap! looove themmm:nod:

[goldustsongbird]

I find myself singing the live versions of songs a lot and then when I hear the studio version, I have to catch myself.

It's embarassing to blurt out "Well-l-l, I don't think you do!" And have people look at you and conclude you just don't know the words to the song, even though you call yourself a fan.


Then you have to convince them! Especially since there are lyric and tempo changes in Rhiannon, you end up singing a completely different song.

All the time! My friend suggested lately that I should sing Go Your Own Way on RockBand ... but it was the original version, so I hadn't heard it in years and I probably would have got it all wrong! Some weird mash up of The Dance / Live in Boston / Mirage / Unleashed / various bootlegs. Definitely would have failed it!

I thought it was Spanish!!

Como esta usted? :laugh:

[vivfox]

Pahaha. I just caught my sister singing 'Just like the one winged dove'

Speaking of Edge. At the beginning when Sharon and Lori sing,"everything's up." I always thought they were saying "everything sucks."

[holidayroad]

hm.....pretty good list...i'm also gonna go with "Lola (My Love)" and "Big Love" and "Caroline" ----"she's so cagey...keeps on comin'..."

holy crap! looove themmm:nod:

As for solo 'I Want You' from Go Insane!!!!

[michelej1]

I have found a kindred spirit :xoxo: :wavey:

Miranda, we should put together a CD of Lindsey's sexiest songs. Come, Slow Dancing, Tango in the Night ... what else belongs on there?

Not That Funny live on the Mirage video.

Michele

[PutTheBlameOnMe]

I have found a kindred spirit :xoxo: :wavey:

Miranda, we should put together a CD of Lindsey's sexiest songs. Come, Slow Dancing, Tango in the Night ... what else belongs on there?


"Oh Well" from the Unleashed tour!
At Birmingham he was doing some majoooooor thrusting.

[Sahara]

Not That Funny live on the Mirage video.

Michele
Is that some kind of twisted joke?? :mad: :mad:

....:p Okay. That's our bonus track!

[nailatixela]

Speaking of Edge. At the beginning when Sharon and Lori sing,"everything's up." I always thought they were saying "everything sucks."

I thought they are saying everything stopped.

[StreetAngel95]

Wow i love this thread so much!

[seekerj]

Ok, this is not Mac-related, but I still laugh about this all these years later... The Creedence song "Bad Moon Rising"... one day about twenty years ago, I was driving in the car with my ex-girlfriend's sister, and that song came on the radio, and instead of singing "there's... a bad moon... on the rise", she sang "there's... a bathroom... on the right" !!!!

[ButterCookie]

Ok, this is not Mac-related, but I still laugh about this all these years later... The Creedence song "Bad Moon Rising"... one day about twenty years ago, I was driving in the car with my ex-girlfriend's sister, and that song came on the radio, and instead of singing "there's... a bad moon... on the rise", she sang "there's... a bathroom... on the right" !!!!

LOL! Off the topic of FM, I always used to sing Blondie's Island of Lost Souls as 'So f*ing near, can you help me put my truck in gear' instead of the real lyrics, 'Oh Buccaneer, can you help me put my truck in gear' :laugh:

[Fiver]

Ok, this is not Mac-related, but I still laugh about this all these years later... The Creedence song "Bad Moon Rising"... one day about twenty years ago, I was driving in the car with my ex-girlfriend's sister, and that song came on the radio, and instead of singing "there's... a bad moon... on the rise", she sang "there's... a bathroom... on the right" !!!!

Ahahaha! That reminds me of a guy I know who thinks Hendrix is saying "Scuse me while I kiss this guy" instead of "sky" in Purple Haze.

I remembered one that I heard wrong.. My Little Demon


My little demon's makin' me shoes
instead of
My little demon's makin' me choose

This is what sends me runnin' to the lyric sheet, I always have trouble with Lindsey and Stevie's pronunciation. Christine, not so much, though I did think she was saying "Cover your eyes, don't look at the day" in Don't Stop for a bit.

And Go Your Own Way, I thought he was saying something about thunder at first, like, "You can call it thunder, and go away" :laugh:

[Erin]

Ok, this is not Mac-related, but I still laugh about this all these years later... The Creedence song "Bad Moon Rising"... one day about twenty years ago, I was driving in the car with my ex-girlfriend's sister, and that song came on the radio, and instead of singing "there's... a bad moon... on the rise", she sang "there's... a bathroom... on the right" !!!!

John Fogherty actually acknowledges that it sounds like bathroom on the right. I saw him in concert and he actually sang bathroom on the right and pointed for us.:p

[candlebright86]

And Go Your Own Way, I thought he was saying something about thunder at first, like, "You can call it thunder, and go away" :laugh:

Imagine how much more epic it would be if that WAS the lyric... in DIRECT response to Stevie's Dreams "Thunder only happens when it's raining"

I think I'd die from over-excited drama! :laugh::laugh:

[StreetAngel95]

Imagine how much more epic it would be if that WAS the lyric... in DIRECT response to Stevie's Dreams "Thunder only happens when it's raining"

I think I'd die from over-excited drama! :laugh::laugh:

ohmygod! yes! but sometimes they do that in their lyrics intentionally - i love it!

and another lyric boo-boo:

"Sisters of The Moon"

"any black willow, spider-man...."

instead of " and a black widow spider makes..."

and this isn't messing up lyrics, but i anticipate lyrics in songs...

for example, in "Whenever i Call You Friend"

"day by day, we can see..."

i hear the "day by day" and then just the "We" sound, so i logically think "week by week" and i sing that! It's so annoying cause i'm like, "Miranda that's not it!" so i kinda just make up lyrics to songs all the time! :lol:

[Fiver]

I know, I always wanna say "night by night" after day by day

I have another one, in the original Go Insane

He REALLY sounds like he's saying:

Two kinds of people in this world
Womenz, losers

[StreetAngel95]

I know, I always wanna say "night by night" after day by day

I have another one, in the original Go Insane

He REALLY sounds like he's saying:

Two kinds of people in this world
Womenz, losers

thank you! yes me too, i actually will sing it that way just to annoy my dad...haha....but he shouldn't be talking!!!!! Though my father introduced me to the Mac, he only knows, like 4 songs

the other day we're in the car and "Gypsy" comes on the radio......

DAD: *pounds fist on the wheel, excited* WHOOO YEAH "SARA"!

ME: *stares at him, and looks away*

"OH daddy, you know you make me cry...."

:laugh:

[nailatixela]

thank you! yes me too, i actually will sing it that way just to annoy my dad...haha....but he shouldn't be talking!!!!! Though my father introduced me to the Mac, he only knows, like 4 songs

the other day we're in the car and "Gypsy" comes on the radio......

DAD: *pounds fist on the wheel, excited* WHOOO YEAH "SARA"!

ME: *stares at him, and looks away*

"OH daddy, you know you make me cry...."

:laugh:

That reminds me - on the Philly unleashed bootleg once Lindsey is starting to play big love a guy yells: "Woooorrrrrlllld TurrrrrNIN!"

Even now I still realize lyrics to certain songs. In Don't Stop, I thought it was "a lullaby for all the things that you've done" instead of "and not about.." And in Dreams I thought it was "in the stillness of her memory" instead of "remembering."

[WarmSir3]

Como esta usted? :laugh:

Soy bien!

Another one of mine... "Everyone stays close to the fireplace" :sorry:

[StreetAngel95]

ok so you know in "I Can't Wait" around 3:05 Sharon and Lori are singing something i can't quite make out....

...it's weird but i think it's "how do we reach the Salvation Army?"

yeah i doubt that's it, but....what are they saying?!?!?!?!:shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug:

any thoughts???

[michelej1]

Is that some kind of twisted joke?? :mad: :mad:

....:p Okay. That's our bonus track!

Well, the song isn't sexy, but the way he was whispering "don't make me wait," was pretty sexy, I thought.

Michele

[thatgirlwasme]

ok so you know in "I Can't Wait" around 3:05 Sharon and Lori are singing something i can't quite make out....

...it's weird but i think it's "how do we reach the Salvation Army?"

yeah i doubt that's it, but....what are they saying?!?!?!?!:shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug:

any thoughts???

I've always thought it was "How will we feel 10 years from now"

A

[goldustsongbird]

Speaking of Edge. At the beginning when Sharon and Lori sing,"everything's up." I always thought they were saying "everything sucks."

In the context of the song, it almost works. :laugh:

Ahahaha! That reminds me of a guy I know who thinks Hendrix is saying "Scuse me while I kiss this guy" instead of "sky" in Purple Haze.

I remembered one that I heard wrong.. My Little Demon


My little demon's makin' me shoes
instead of
My little demon's makin' me choose

This is what sends me runnin' to the lyric sheet, I always have trouble with Lindsey and Stevie's pronunciation. Christine, not so much, though I did think she was saying "Cover your eyes, don't look at the day" in Don't Stop for a bit.

And Go Your Own Way, I thought he was saying something about thunder at first, like, "You can call it thunder, and go away" :laugh:

I thought the same thing about GYOW! I thought it was "You can call it thunder on a lonely day"

It didn't make much sense, but I figured Stevie must have written it.

Soy bien!

Another one of mine... "Everyone stays close to the fireplace" :sorry:

:D If I had been drinking something, I would have spit it out.

[Fiver]

Soy bien!

Another one of mine... "Everyone stays close to the fireplace" :sorry:

:] That's gold.



I thought the same thing about GYOW! I thought it was "You can call it thunder on a lonely day"

It didn't make much sense, but I figured Stevie must have written it.


:nod: Yeah, half of the time, when I hear her lyrics wrong they make MORE sense to me.

Except when I first heard Sara..


"Said you'd give me light, but you never told me bout papaya."

This thread has me going back and listening to alla the songs that I had to look up lyrics for, and now I'm relearning them the wrong way. :laugh:

[PenguinHead]

:]

"Said you'd give me light, but you never told me bout papaya."



:lol: Love that!

[kokoro]

Most of the lyrics that I mishear are just small things that vaguely resemble the actual lyrics. For instance, in Dreams, I only just now discovered it’s not “in the stillness of the memory of what you had” but rather “in the stillness of remembering.” And Gypsy, of course, gave us “she was just a witch,” which has been mentioned.

But there are times when I’ve misheard things that are not particuarly in the ball park.

Ironically enough, in Paper Doll I always hear “we were Oscar Wilde,” but only in the first verse where she sings “we were off the wall.”

I couldn’t understand much of the lyrics in Fireflies at first, though I really liked the song. Best mishearing is “what caused the threesome voice in the night” instead of “fearsome” and “divorce.”

The first time I listened to I Don’t Want to Know I heard “finally naked” instead of “finally baby.”

Angel once gave me “I still hook up, I try hard not to hook up” rather than “look up.”

And even if I know the lyrics in Big Love are “in the night so still,” I keep hearing "looking out for love in a nice hotel."

[holidayroad]

ohmygod! yes! but sometimes they do that in their lyrics intentionally - i love it!

and another lyric boo-boo:

"Sisters of The Moon"

"any black willow, spider-man...."

instead of " and a black widow spider makes..."


In the next line after that, I always thought it was something about 'satin sheets' instead of 'more sound than she'.

[StreetAngel95]

In the next line after that, I always thought it was something about 'satin sheets' instead of 'more sound than she'.

Yeah i can definetly see that...

[APerfectLie]

ok so you know in "I Can't Wait" around 3:05 Sharon and Lori are singing something i can't quite make out....

...it's weird but i think it's "how do we reach the Salvation Army?"

yeah i doubt that's it, but....what are they saying?!?!?!?!:shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug:

any thoughts???

LMAO! They secretly donate all of Stevie's chiffon to the Salvation Army when she's not looking. :lol:

But the lyric is "How will you feel twenty years from now?"

[seekerj]

:] That's gold.


:nod: Yeah, half of the time, when I hear her lyrics wrong they make MORE sense to me.

Except when I first heard Sara..


"Said you'd give me light, but you never told me bout papaya."
This thread has me going back and listening to alla the songs that I had to look up lyrics for, and now I'm relearning them the wrong way. :laugh:

LOL!!!!

OMG, that is too funny!

[Fiver]

Hehehe, and she sings it with such emotion too. :nod:

Seriously, unless I'm listening to it with headphones that's exactly what I hear.

Her accent makes this way too much fun.

"Give to me your leather, take from me, my legs."

[goldustsongbird]

The first time I listened to I Don’t Want to Know I heard “finally naked” instead of “finally baby.”


Goes well with the misheard lyric for Everywhere: "I wanna be in your underwear"

[vivfox]

So far the best missed lyric I have heard in this thread, and I'll be laughing about forever is: Everyone stays close to the fireplace:]:laugh::blob1:

[Nathan]

These are all really funny.

I hope no one has said this one yet -

"Weeeeeell, I hope you make it" ... "Weeeeeell, I hope you're naked"

[goldustsongbird]

These are all really funny.

I hope no one has said this one yet -

"Weeeeeell, I hope you make it" ... "Weeeeeell, I hope you're naked"

I knew her resentment re: the Buckingham Nicks cover was fake!

[Meowi]

I've always thought it was "How will we feel 10 years from now"

A

Yeah, thats a hard verse to work out.

[liamtgallagher]

LMAO! They secretly donate all of Stevie's chiffon to the Salvation Army when she's not looking. :lol:

But the lyric is "How will you feel twenty years from now?"

No matter how many times I listen to it, I can't hear that. It sounds so much like 'Salvation Army'.

[RockAlot]

For many, many years, I misheard the lyrics for 'Edge of Seventeen'. Even though the lyric sheets say differently, I still think she says 'I've been searching for an answer, I've been standing down the hall'


For the longest time I thought she said "Everything Sucked nothing else mattered" :shrug:

[Sleepless-Child]

My sister just sang Gypsy. "She was just irish"...

[StreetAngel95]

My sister just sang Gypsy. "She was just irish"...

haha thats pretty funny!:D

[Meowi]

When I first started listening to Stevie/Mac two years ago - I though the lyrics of EO17 were, Just like the white-winged girl
Also, in Gypsy I always though it was, She was just a witch, a witch

[Sleepless-Child]

haha thats pretty funny!

And I was serious. No kidding. But I forgive her, we're from France you know. French and foreign languages...


I sang "And he was just like, a great DOVE wing" for months. I thought it was logical..you know, "white winged dove", "great dove wing"..And I think I still don't know what is the exact beginning of "Sara".

[ButterCookie]

And I think I still don't know what is the exact beginning of "Sara".

Well there's definatley nothing to do with Papaya in there :lol:

Admittedly, I have taken to singing the papaya version for my own amusement.

[Sleepless-Child]

Well there's definatley nothing to do with Papaya in there


:lol: Right, now we're gonna sing "Sara (Papaya Version)". This was pretty damn hilarious, thanks Fiver :thumbsup:

[seekerj]

Well there's definatley nothing to do with Papaya in there :lol:

Admittedly, I have taken to singing the papaya version for my own amusement.

Me, too! That's my favorite one in this whole thread!

[bluefox4000]

Not me but my little cousin used to sing sick of this food for second hand news:rolleyes:

Mick

[StreetAngel95]

Not me but my little cousin used to sing sick of this food for second hand news:rolleyes:

Mick


hehe that's pretty funny!

whenever my family gets chinese food, we always sing Rooms On Fire, "she dreamed of a wonton luxury"

BTW, welcome to the LEDGE!!!!:wavey:

[bluefox4000]

thanks:wavey:

[ButterCookie]

Oh god. No lyrics this time, just a huge effing BAND FAIL!

My sister just walked past and asked Oh My God, Is this Stevie?!

I'm playing the Pretenders :|

[StreetAngel95]

Oh god. No lyrics this time, just a huge effing BAND FAIL!

My sister just walked past and asked Oh My God, Is this Stevie?!

I'm playing the Pretenders :|

looove the Pretenders! What song?

[ButterCookie]

looove the Pretenders! What song?

Playing their Get Close album through :D

[StreetAngel95]

Playing their Get Close album through :D

hehe......guess what i'm listening to right now? :p:rolleyes:

[ButterCookie]

hehe......guess what i'm listening to right now? :p:rolleyes:

Pork Chop by The Jazz Passengers? :shrug:

[DefDumbandBlond]

Pork Chop by The Jazz Passengers? :shrug:

A HEH!!

......Oh Debbie <img src="http://i47.tinypic.com/j64b3n.png">

[StreetAngel95]

Pork Chop by The Jazz Passengers? :shrug:

YES!


lolz no.....but you did inspire me to take out all my pretenders lps!

[blondyy-x]

YES!


lolz no.....but you did inspire me to take out all my pretenders lps!

Not Tusk then, no? :p

I remember when i was younger and sneakily looking at my dad's lps... then opening Tusk and nearly taking a panic attack that i couldn't get it back together. :shocked:

[StreetAngel95]

Not Tusk then, no? :p

I remember when i was younger and sneakily looking at my dad's lps... then opening Tusk and nearly taking a panic attack that i couldn't get it back together. :shocked:

don't you hate that??!?!?!? i converted my copy of TUSK to mp3 so i wouldn't break it in the process of putting it back together----so confusing!

[Moz]

"Said you'd give me light, but you never told me bout papaya."



"how do we reach the Salvation Army?"


:lol: Right, now we're gonna sing "Sara (Papaya Version)". This was pretty damn hilarious, thanks Fiver :thumbsup:

"she dreamed of a wonton luxury"


This is the funniest fxking thread ever. I've had Sara on repeat for the past five minutes and I can't make it past the papaya line without giggling and starting it over again.

[Nikolaj]

These are all really funny.

I hope no one has said this one yet -

"Weeeeeell, I hope you make it" ... "Weeeeeell, I hope you're naked"


That's funny. Reminds me of how on TheNicksFix in the 90s they had a misheard lyrics page, and one listed was the song-title 'Enchanted' as 'Aunt Janet' and for a decade now, I always hear 'Aunt Janet' and not 'Enchanted' when I hear the song.
Now there's your addition to make it even more fun.
"Aunt Janet, you thought you saw something in my eye, Aunt Janet, it's a shame that you wanted me, you didn't try...Aunt Janet, Well, I hope you're naked."

[goldustsongbird]

That's funny. Reminds me of how on TheNicksFix in the 90s they had a misheard lyrics page, and one listed was the song-title 'Enchanted' as 'Aunt Janet' and for a decade now, I always hear 'Aunt Janet' and not 'Enchanted' when I hear the song.
Now there's your addition to make it even more fun.
"Aunt Janet, you thought you saw something in my eye, Aunt Janet, it's a shame that you wanted me, you didn't try...Aunt Janet, Well, I hope you're naked."

LOL for real. :laugh:

[Fiver]

That's funny. Reminds me of how on TheNicksFix in the 90s they had a misheard lyrics page, and one listed was the song-title 'Enchanted' as 'Aunt Janet' and for a decade now, I always hear 'Aunt Janet' and not 'Enchanted' when I hear the song.
Now there's your addition to make it even more fun.
"Aunt Janet, you thought you saw something in my eye, Aunt Janet, it's a shame that you wanted me, you didn't try...Aunt Janet, Well, I hope you're naked."


This is already hilarious but.. if anyone knows the series Avonlea (a pseudo spin-off of Anne of Green Gables) I immediately thought of the character from that show. And now I will always associate the two. :]

[cristochango]

all of my friends thought it was "just like the wide window sings a song sounds like its signin"

and before i was a real fan i thought it was

"just like the one winged dove"
^like it was some bodily challenged dove that couldnt fly correctly :P

[Fiver]

^That seems to be the one song from Stevie that all my friends know, and they all seem to think she's saying 'one-winged dove', except for one of em who thought she was saying 'wandering girl'. I probably would have thought one-winged dove, if I hadn't been looking at the lyrics the first time I heard it.

Off topic a bit, but I just found out that the Beatles aren't saying "I get high, I get high, I get high!" in I Wanna Hold Your Hand. It's "I can't hide" :shocked: Mind is blown.

[StreetAngel95]

After going on the Nightbird Apprectiation thread, i thought of one,

"Fever touch, the touch that you want so much!"

i always thouht she was saying FEVER TOUCH and i actually like that better, but whatevs!


OH! and in the demo version of "Cecilia" i definetly hear, "slap my arm, Cecilia"

[Artemis]

For the better part of a year, I've been singing "how dare they coincide" whenever I've heard Storms. I've only just looked up the lyrics now to find out it really is A deadly call inside... I feel clever.

[goldustsongbird]

For the better part of a year, I've been singing "how dare they coincide" whenever I've heard Storms. I've only just looked up the lyrics now to find out it really is A deadly call inside... I feel clever.

:laugh: When I first heard Storms I thought she was saying, "and then I go inside."

[amberlemegan]

In Gypsy i thought the line went...
"Well you know that it just rained lightning strikes maybe once maybe twice"
Were it actually goes...
"Well you know that it does. Well lightning strikes maybe once maybe twice"

It made sense to me :)

[BrokenHearted]

Dreams:

"Well, it's only me... The world's too wrapped around your dreams"
Well, it's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams"


Bella Donna:

"And the woman be some hustler, and the woman may truly care" :p
And the woman be so awestruck, and the woman may truly care

[Phoenixgypsy]

Good friend of mine wondered WHY Stevie would sings about a "One Wing Dove"....

[ButterCookie]

Casually walking to school today when I was stopped in my tracks by Liddy's hauntingly futuristic lyrics to The Ledge...
'Writing it on Facebook, posting it online'

(No, ears, it's Buy another fixture, tell another lie :o )

[APerfectLie]

Bella Donna:

"And the woman may be so lonesome, and the woman may truly care."
And the woman may be so awestruck, and the woman may truly care.

[StreetAngel95]

oh look at me, shamelessly bumping my own thread=

today i was singing "Love Will Show Us How" in the shower, and sang:

"...and so we break our vows." - it's not funny, but i was laughing so hard at my own mistake that i slipped in the shower!

[holidayroad]

When I first heard the Fritz song 'Louisa Joy', I thought he was saying 'The Wings of Joy'.

[Sahara]

:laugh: When I first heard Storms I thought she was saying, "and then I go inside."
I've been hearing "A deadly calm in sight."

[RickRobert]

Does anyone know what Lindsey's singing towards the end of The Challenge? Sounds like... so you don't *something*... :confused:

[holidayroad]

Does anyone know what Lindsey's singing towards the end of The Challenge? Sounds like... so you don't *something*... :confused:

I always thought it was 'so alone' or 'so lonely'.

[mylittledemon]

I still think, in Stand Back, it sounds like Stevie is saying "Black or yellow, I can bend!"

[PenguinHead]

In the song 'Real Tears' many people hear "an always hanging mirror." An always misconstrued lyric!

I don't understand that, except for the fact that "mirror' is in Stevie's venacular. That assumed line makes no sense, even within her strange range of phrasing.

If you considered the context around the phrase you can figure it out.

"Through the rain and the fog....and an always hanging MIST!"

Weather conditions: Rain. Fog. Mist. Mirrors???

[vivfox]

In the song 'Real Tears' many people hear "an always hanging mirror." An always misconstrued lyric!
"Through the rain and the fog....and an always hanging MIST!"


I hear the word Mists (plural).

[holidayroad]

In the song 'Real Tears' many people hear "an always hanging mirror." An always misconstrued lyric!

I don't understand that, except for the fact that "mirror' is in Stevie's venacular. That assumed line makes no sense, even within her strange range of phrasing.

If you considered the context around the phrase you can figure it out.

"Through the rain and the fog....and an always hanging MIST!"

Weather conditions: Rain. Fog. Mist. Mirrors???

I've always heard it as 'and her always hanging mirrors'.

[APerfectLie]

In the song 'Real Tears' many people hear "an always hanging mirror." An always misconstrued lyric!

I don't understand that, except for the fact that "mirror' is in Stevie's venacular. That assumed line makes no sense, even within her strange range of phrasing.

If you considered the context around the phrase you can figure it out.

"Through the rain and the fog....and an always hanging MIST!"

Weather conditions: Rain. Fog. Mist. Mirrors???

Stevie writes a lot in her bathroom. Rain= shower, fog= fog on your mirror after a hot shower, mirror= bathroom mirror. She goes around the country and world touring, "walking a thousand miles in a few weeks." But when she goes home, very little love exists there. As she is writing this in the bathroom she finds herself alone in this mirror, she is haunted in her mirror, because even thru the "rain" and the "fog", her mirror still hangs there showing her that she's the only one in the mirror, that she is alone. And this is when she cries "real tears". Or you could look at it from the perspective of this song being about drug rehab. There was very little love in the rain and the fog= her drug addiction. And her always hanging mirrors is the being constantly forced to look at herself and inside of herself in rehab to understand her addiction. And since she is constantly looking at herself, it is overwhelming and still burdensome and, but she is noticing "there was another girl, she was much like you" which is her starting to see in her the girl she was before the drugs. :shrug:

I honestly can't make out what she says, mists or mirrors, but I do believe Stevie is such a beautifully insane poet that "mirrors" could definitely make sense to her.

[RickRobert]

I always thought it was 'so alone' or 'so lonely'.

"So lonely" sounds right! Cheers, this has been bugging me for yonks :wavey:

[jaycee]

This day last week was the first time I realised that the phrase "bang the drum" was actually in the song "Bang The Drum" from Lindsey's Go Insane! :laugh: For whatever reason, I always thought he was saying "I was wrong... I was right...", not "bang the drum... bang it louder..."! :rolleyes:

[PenguinHead]

Stevie writes a lot in her bathroom. Rain= shower, fog= fog on your mirror after a hot shower, mirror= bathroom mirror. She goes around the country and world touring, "walking a thousand miles in a few weeks." But when she goes home, very little love exists there. As she is writing this in the bathroom she finds herself alone in this mirror, she is haunted in her mirror, because even thru the "rain" and the "fog", her mirror still hangs there showing her that she's the only one in the mirror, that she is alone. And this is when she cries "real tears". Or you could look at it from the perspective of this song being about drug rehab. There was very little love in the rain and the fog= her drug addiction. And her always hanging mirrors is the being constantly forced to look at herself and inside of herself in rehab to understand her addiction. And since she is constantly looking at herself, it is overwhelming and still burdensome and, but she is noticing "there was another girl, she was much like you" which is her starting to see in her the girl she was before the drugs. :shrug:

I honestly can't make out what she says, mists or mirrors, but I do believe Stevie is such a beautifully insane poet that "mirrors" could definitely make sense to her.


Wow, you read alot of layers of depth into the lyrics; but I don't think Stevie ever thought that deep of those concepts/metaphors.

Here's my thing: In 1989 I bought a Japan-issued mini cd single of 'Long Way to Go because it included 'Real Tears." I don't dispute that some people hear and think that the lyric in question is the absurdly strange "always hanging mirrror." But as I stated before, look at the context of the verse! It describes an atmosphere -rain, fog and a hanging mist.

I just took the above stated cd and played with my headphone on, several times. Mirror or Mist? It's very clear that she sings a one syllable word (slighly pro-longed as she sometimes tends to do)...and at the end you hear an "s." There is absolutely no hint of an "r."

Strangely while I have been writing this, the TV weatherman mentioned the word 'Mist.' lol! So, I take this as cue as I get ready to walk a thousand miles, to be prepared to encounter rain and fog and an always hanging... mirror. ?

[StreetAngel95]

I've recently been singing "Cast Away Dreams" as:

"keep yourself OCCUPIED..."

[Bm7th]

From Frozen Love Stevies verse
"Life gave me you there, the change was made"

I thought she sang " Life can be used if the change was made"
&
"If you go foward, I'll meet you there"
I thought it was 'If you go foward, I may trip ya there"

[vivfox]

From Frozen Love Stevies verse
"Life gave me you there, the change was made"

I thought she sang " Life can be used if the change was made"
&
"If you go foward, I'll meet you there"
I thought it was 'If you go foward, I may trip ya there"


Even though I owned the gatefold cover with the lyrics in it:
In Frozen Love I thought Stevie was singing, "Fate gave me you for a lover."
When in fact she was singing, "Hate gave me you for a lover."

[liamtgallagher]

For a while, in Candlebright, I thought Stevie was singing 'Well, you know me, I'm an old man.' Only once I found out the demo was called Nomad, I realised what she was singing.

[StreetAngel95]

ok, well this isn't one about FM, but...

the Glenn Fry song, "You Belong To The City"

..."it's in your moves, it's in your blood."

i always thought it was:

..."it's in your boobs, it's in your butt."........yeahm that one's really weird, but i swear to god i heard that..

[MissLadyLoki]

Here are the 2 FM ones that come to mind, but I have tons:

Go Your Own Way

Real line: "You can call it another lonely day"
What I heard: "You can call it thunder along the way"

You Make Loving Fun (my dad made fun of me so much when I heard this one)

Real line: "Don't break the spell
What I heard: "Don't break this bed"

I also got a few non-FM ones that are too funny to pass up. I tend to mishear tons of Van Halen lyrics (Dave or Sammy, it doesn't matter). Here's one to start:

Dance the Night Away

Real line: "Fooled me with her syle and ease"
What I heard: "Boobie with the stylin' ears"

[PenguinHead]

My sister just sang Gypsy. "She was just irish"...

:] That is so funny. I remember my young sister singing 'Rock the Boat.' In the signature line 'And I'd like to know where you got the notion? my sister would sing 'And I'd like to know where you got the nose job.'

That still cracks me up.

[Sahara]

Bump!

I was reminded of possibly my worst ever lyrics mix up when I listened to Go Insane this week.

The real lyrics to I Must Go are:

"If you're aching ... heart's braking"

I heard:

"If you're aching ... for (a) spanking"

:o

[RickRobert]

Bump!

I was reminded of possibly my worst ever lyrics mix up when I listened to Go Insane this week.

The real lyrics to I Must Go are:

"If you're aching ... heart's braking"

I heard:

"If you're aching ... for (a) spanking"

:o

Wait wait wait... it's NOT "for a spanking"? I've always heard that too :lol::lol:

[TerraRhiannon]

"Just like the one-winged dove" 'Nuff said.

[caroline79]

bump!

"When the rain washes you'll clean your clothes"...:shrug:

took me FOREVER to learn the right words!

[YoungAmericans]

jesus, I've learned a lot from this thread...

[Silylily]

Well i know everyone has SOMETIME in their life, but I'm asking this question regarding Mac/SN:

you know the scenario: You're jamming out to this great song, singing along, when you realize you've been singing the wrong lyrics for years!

My personal experience with this has been on "That's All For Everyone"

the line: "Must be just exactly what i need"

i always thought was, "Must be just too sexy for my dreams"

and i was like, "Yeah Lindsey, Stevie's too sexy EVEN in YOUR DREAMS!" :lol::lol:

what are your Lyric mixups??

-Miranda

For a long time it was "You must be just too sexy for my knees.":shocked:

[RickRobert]

and i was like, "Yeah Lindsey, Stevie's too sexy EVEN in YOUR DREAMS!" :lol::lol:

:eek: So THAT's what "In Your Dreams" is supposed to mean! Miranda was psychic...

[Artemis]

Waitwaitwait. You mean in That's All For Everyone he's NOT singing "Must just be too sexy for me" ? :shocked:

[RickRobert]

Waitwaitwait. You mean in That's All For Everyone he's NOT singing "Must just be too sexy for me" ? :shocked:

I still hear that too :shrug: And worse yet, I still hear "if you're aching, for a spanking" on I Must Go!!

[WildHearted]

"I would f*ck with an age old desire to be on the edge of 17."

And then, the ever popular "She was just a witch, she was just a witch." Even my little sister thought she was saying that haha.