misheard lyrics

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Permalink Reply by melissa on November 20, 2007 at 7:24pm

blinded by the light...crept up like a douche another rudder in the night...
that's how i ALWAYS thought the lyrics went...my husband set me straight, that's why i had to marry him!

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Permalink Reply by Rissa on November 20, 2007 at 8:09pm

Oooh, good one!
That song has so many weird lyrics...did you know it was written by Bruce Springsteen?!

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Permalink Reply by melissa on November 20, 2007 at 8:17pm

my husband has the original version...i just found that out, right this second. i think that, maybe, i did know he wrote it.

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Permalink Reply by Maureen on November 20, 2007 at 10:07pm

I would sing, "wrapped up like a douche," but I'd sort of mumble it, because I knew that could not possibly be correct.

I also thought that Tom Petty was saying, "She likes cheeses..." instead of "She likes Jesus..." in Freefallin'. Oops.

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Permalink Reply by melissa on November 21, 2007 at 6:37am

and, i just figured it was 'wrapped up like a douche" so i would belt it out, my bad voice and all.
hilarious...cheeses! hil.ar.i.ous.

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Permalink Reply by Maureen on November 21, 2007 at 10:07am

I guess I was projecting, because I, for one, do love cheeses---and I'm not so much into the Jesus.

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Permalink Reply by chrisbookarama on November 20, 2007 at 7:47pm

I can't make out any of John (Cougar) Mellencamp's lyrics. In "Little Pink Houses", I would sing along:

"Hey Darling, I remember when you could blah blah blah" I seriously thought he just couldn't come up with a rhyme and threw in 'blah blah blah'

My husband informed me it was "Stop a clock" D'oh!

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Permalink Reply by somefatchick on November 20, 2007 at 9:48pm

Margaritaville - I always thought he was singing, "But I know...it's my own Grandpa". For years I sang it like this. Sometime during the teenage years I was set straight.

And my husband? During Crazy Train, I caught him singing, "Crazy, but that's how it goes, millions of people living as oooone." "Living as one? No, honey, it's living as FOES!" He didn't believe me. He was a much bigger Ozzy fan than me, so how could he possibly be wrong? I was right, of course, and I tease him about it to this day. We can't listen to the song without him mumbling, "Shut up!" I don't even have to say a word and he tells me to shut up, because he knows I"m still laughing at it. Can you blame me?

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Permalink Reply by srah on November 21, 2007 at 7:38am

I am terrible about mishearing lyrics. One of my NaBloPoMo posts was about misheard lyrics, although that one was in a French song.

http://www.srah.net/weblog/archives/2007/11/and_a_fellow_would_know...

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