Dorothy Parker wrote:Apparently, the pop group The Lightening Seeds were named after a misheard Prince lyric from the song "Rasberry Beret". The actual lyric is :
"the thunder drowns out what the lightning sees..." but this was misheard by singer Ian Broudie who named the group after the lyric.
x
You're a mine of useless information, DP!
Seriously, I never knew that...
One common misheard lyric that I remember from school is Roxy Music's "It aint on big thing" at the start of the song
Love is the drug
being taken for "Take no big Dick". I've met quite a few people who thought that this was what the song said.
My wife's cousin thought they were singing "Stretch my dick" instead of strange magic.
Youre sailing softly through the sun
In a broken stone age dawn.
You fly so high.
I get a strange magic,
Oh, what a strange magic,
Oh, its a strange magic.
Got a strange magic,
Got a strange magic.
Youre walking meadows in my mind,
Making waves across my time,
Oh no, oh no.
I get a strange magic,
Oh, what a strange
And we all know how painful that can be.
Our father who art in heaven
Harold be thy name,
............
I think I was 10 before I relised
I always thought it was "wrapped up like a douche..." too.
And she was blinded by the light
Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright
Manfred Mann's version
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Me too...
but I always thought that the Manfred Mann tune [which is the version that was a hit in the Uk] went
Revved up like a duece
You know I rode her in the night!
The same programme that inspired me to start the thread was on the radio again tonight.
Wish I could remember more examples they came up with but two that I do recall are Dionne Warwick supposedly singing "Why do you have to be a park ranger?" and Chic's Africa [which is really Ahh,,,Freak out! from the opening of Le Freak]
Turns out it's "There is a bad moon on the rise," not, "There is a bathroom on the right."
Though the latter is a much more useful piece of knowledge than the former, I think.
@patiodog,
It's only taken 45 years but I now realise Simon & Garfunkel did NOT sing that the "words of a crocodile" are written on a subway wall.
