Monicatholic and puzzleannie: you guys will love this site

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In the “puking owls” thread, you two said this:
monicatholic said:
years ago, I read one of the funniest commentaries ever written-- a piece by Dave Barry about comically imprecise song lyrics. Most notably and hilariously, he’d mentioned his version of the opening lines of the Beach Boys "Help Me Rhonda.’ I never forgot it.

" Ever since you put me down there’s been owls puking in my bed.…"
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puzzleannie said:
CCR has my favorite:

there’s a bathroom on the right

there is another song I have never deciphered, from the 80s I think by a group I don’t remember

blinded by the light
wrapped up like a boot with a boulder in the night

now I know that is not the lyric, but what are they really saying?
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I have this site on my favorites menu, and it is hilarious: kissthisguy.com/

In the instance of the songs you guys listed, apparently the real lyric in “Help Me, Rhonda” is Well since she put me down, I’ve been out doin’ in my head… Other people heard “Healthy Rhonda”, “Help Rwanda”, “Happy Rhonda”, and “Help me get around the park”. 🙂

“Blinded by the Light” was by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, and the actual lyric is Revved up like a duece, another runner in the night (the song was actually written by Bruce Springsteen, again revealing his constant obsession with cars). Other people heard “Dressed up like a dude another roller in the night”, “Wrapped up like a doofus throwing snowballs in a fight”, and “Wrapped up like a loofah by the foreman of the night”.

One that I could never decipher was “Heart of Glass” by Blondie. All I ever heard was “What’s it turned out, we’re makin’ a pass; Love turned out, he had a mass”. The actual lyric is “Once I had a love and it was gas. Soon turned out he had a heart of glass”. Another lyric in the song is “Love is so confusing there’s no peace of mind”, which somebody else misheard as “Love is so amusing when there’s peace of mind”.

You can have hours of fun with this site, but be prepared to laugh yourself sick. 🙂
 
Loved the site. My son loves Hendrix, and I purposely sing “kiss this guy” to him all the time just to annoy him. 😛

And OT: Wolseley, LOVE your signature! 👍 👍 👍
 
oh thank you for this hillarious site.

we’re having too much fun. it’s just criminal, i think.

“when i was a child, i had a bleeting blimp, out of the corner of my eye…” dontcha just love pink floyd?
 
I’ve checked that site out, too. My favourite is my interpretation of the lyrics to Smooth, by Santana.

Well, it’s just like the ocean, under the moon,
It’s the **stainless steel emotion **that I get from you,
you got the kind of loving that can be so smooth,
Gimme you heart, make it real, or else forget about it.

According to the official lyrics, it should be “the same as the emotion”. I still hear “stainless steel”, and besides, it sounds more interesting that way! 👍
 
I mishear lyrics all the time.

As I child I heard, in The Smurf Song:

“Can you get through a smokey hole?”

… at which my child companions laughed uproariously and told me the true lyrics were:

“Can you get through a small key-hole?”.
 
I’ve asked you before, please don’t make me laugh this hard while I am drinking my coffee
 
I love Mondegreens. We usually have Sirius set on the 60s station and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve exclaimed “So, THAT’S what those lyrics really said!” It’s only taken me 40 years to figure some of them out. It’s only in the last week or so that I’ve figured out the words to “The Way You Do the Things You Do”.
 
Heart of Glass is hard to figure out. Debbie Harry doesn’t enunciate. Rush was unintelligible. So was Hendrix. It bothers me when I think a song has what I would consider imaginative words and then I hear it produced better and it just has boring words, or totally different ones. Golden Earring’s song Twilight Zone says, “Somewhere in a lonely motel room there’s a guy starting to realize eternal fate’s turned its back on him again. It’s two a.m…it’s two a.m…It’s two a.m. and the fear is gone, sitting, waiting, the gun’s still warm.” Later it says, “there’s a storm on the loose, sirens in my head” and “Well the night plays heavy on his guilty mind, this far from the borderline.” I took it to be, “Somewhere in a lonely motel room a guy wakes up and turns the lamp on again”, which to me is more interesting, because why does he do that? “It’s two a.m. and the fear is gone, somewhere, out there, a gun starts to warm” as if someone is now loading and holding a gun, it seems suspenseful. “There’s a storm on the loose, something rings in my head”, so the source of the noise is left to the imagination. “Last stop before the borderline,” like he has to get gas or something and can’t make it across in time. OK. I know. Way too many cop shows as a kid.:o
I never knew Louie Louie was considered to have dirty lyrics when I was a teenager listening to it obsessively. I heard it as a sweet ballad.🤷 And I was right after all.
 
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