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Just for a bit of fun, the following is a collection of misheard lyrics. What I'd like you to do is comment with the title, artist and the correct line for each of them. After the mishap that was the translated lyrics meme, this is all just filtered through the somewhat lacking ears of the average listener. The ten songs are all from my Winamp playlist, if you're after special inspiration to play with your own flist.
- Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple (guessed by
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Misheard: Slow-talkin' Walter, the fire-engine guy
Original: Smoke on the water, fire in the sky - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 (guessed by captainsblog)
Misheard: I like wine and clear fountains/But I really like lemon peels
Original: I have climbed the highest mountains/I have run through the fields. - Space Oddity - David Bowie (guessed by fireyfox)
Misheard: Clown control to Mao Tse Tung
Original: Ground Control to Major Tom - Breathless - The Corrs (guessed by etymological)
Misheard: Go home, go home, but leave me breakfast
Original: Go on, go on, come on, leave me breathless - Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf (guessed by crackedwraith)
Misheard: On a magic coffee grinder
Original: On a magic carpet ride - ...And Justice For All - Metallica (guessed by mrpyro)
Misheard: All the dust is painted green, money talkin'
Original: Halls of justice painted green, money talking - Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (guessed by fireyfox)
Misheard: There's a wino down the road
Original: As we wind on down the road - Piano Man - Billy Joel (guessed by fireyfox)
Misheard: And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore.
Original: And the piano, it sounds like a carnival - Suffragette City - David Bowie (guessed by whobunkyboo)
Misheard: Down in Chocolate Chip City
Original: I'm back from Suffragette City - Beautiful Day - U2 (guessed by etymological)
Misheard: It's a beautiful day / The skys full of felines
Original: It's a beautiful day / The sky falls, you feel like
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Date: 2005-06-01 09:53 pm (UTC)Misheard: Clown control to Mao Tse Tung
Original: Ground control to Major Tom
7: Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Misheard: There's a wino down the road
Original: As we wind on down the road
8:Piano Man - Billy Joel
Misheard: And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore. (correct, if you're referring to how my sister plays...)
Original: And the piano, it sounds like a carnival
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Date: 2005-06-01 09:55 pm (UTC)#1- Deep Purple
SMOOOOOKE on the WAAAAA-terrr.... and Fi-er in the skyyyy!
Hehe... I can sing online.
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Date: 2005-06-01 10:00 pm (UTC)There's one other that leaves me wondering how you missed it...
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Date: 2005-06-01 09:59 pm (UTC)Oh god, yes. Many points and an e-*hug* for you.How exactly does a carnivorous piano sound?
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Date: 2005-06-02 10:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-02 05:16 pm (UTC)demandsasks nicely forhuman sacrificesa brief text description.no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 10:30 pm (UTC)5: Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Misheard: On a magic coffee grinder
Original: On a magic carpet ride
iGrinder. Spiffy colors and magic.
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Date: 2005-06-01 10:32 pm (UTC)Is there an iGrinder Shuffle?
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Date: 2005-06-01 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 10:38 pm (UTC)(Found your journal from Metaquotes. Couldn't resist playing.)
Date: 2005-06-04 11:37 pm (UTC)Misheard: Go home, go home, but leave me breakfast.
Original: Go on, go on, leaving me breathless.
#10: Beautiful Day - U2
Misheard: It's a beautiful day / The skys full of felines
Original: It's a beautiful day / Sky falls, you feel like...
(Hello. I don't exactly hide. It's a fun game.)
Date: 2005-06-04 11:52 pm (UTC)#10: It surely is.
Number nine...
Date: 2005-06-12 10:38 am (UTC)Back from Suffragette City
Re: Number nine...
Date: 2005-06-12 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-03 06:09 am (UTC)Still Haven't Found (what I'm looking for). Except I don't hear the "really" no matter how many times I try to reverse-engineer this mondegreen.*
* mon-duh-green
And as if these don't get weird enough? The misheard line in your first one, about Walter the fire engine guy? That reappears as an actual line in BNL's "The Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel."
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Date: 2005-07-03 06:15 am (UTC)I can get either 'really' or 'but', but never both. Some people just have amazing anti-talent.
You owe me the actual lines, too. :)
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Date: 2005-07-03 06:21 am (UTC)I have climbed the highest mountains, I have run through the fields.
The "but" I can hear, cause he kinda double-pumps on the second "I," but the really still shakes me.
And yes, I was one of the people who, until quite recently, thought the line in "Groovin'" by the Rascals was "you and me and Leslie."
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Date: 2005-07-03 06:30 am (UTC)I was kinda guilty of [number 6], from when I first heard the song. Context soon set me straight.
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Date: 2005-07-03 10:15 pm (UTC)OH... and also, there's They Might Be Giants' "Ana Ng"... the correct version of the line is "we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence," but it mutates itself into things like "we still haven't walked in the world of conceptual science." Eeg.
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Date: 2005-07-03 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-04 03:52 pm (UTC)I don't know why it would be conceptual science, other than that the video for the song is very odd and involves synchronized jumping. The other thing I thought it was at one point was "perpetual silence"... considering that it's part of a song, that makes even less sense.
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Date: 2005-07-04 04:26 pm (UTC)Very, very odd.
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Date: 2005-07-07 09:24 am (UTC)6: Metallica - ...And Justice for all
"Halls of Justice painted green, money talking"
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Date: 2005-07-07 09:26 am (UTC)And, yes. Perfectly done, up to and including the ellipsis.