Butchered Lyrics

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Pearl Jam
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Ten

To this day, in his chorus for 'Even Flow', Eddie Vedder is barely comprehendable to me. Apparently he says: "Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies". In middle school, I used to incoherently mumble "Even flow, round and round my red-light farley" when singing along.

After a few months of my fake lyrics going undetected, one of my friends turned the car stereo down during a routine Pearl Jam Ten listening sesh and called me out, asking me "Wait... What are you singing?" while everyone else awaited my reply in morbid curiousity. For whatever reason, this lyrical butchering became so legendary in my circle of friends that I still hear about it to this day.Ever caught your friends, or been caught yourself, completely butchering the lyrics to a particular song (so badly that you still remember it to this day)? What was the tune, what are the actual lyrics, and what were you/they singing instead?

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david hyman says as a child i could have sworn elton john was saying "faggot, faggot, faggot" insteaad of "bennie, bennie, bennie" in bennie and the jets. i also thought that octopuses were much bigger than whales.

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Joxley says I once heard knew a woman who said she was a big fan of the Weather Girls' hit track "Israeli Men"

Permalink posted 11/02/2006
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Manos says Song: Jungle Love (Steve Miller) Lyrics: Jungle love, etc. etc. What I heard: "Juggernaut" (my friend heard "chugalug") Song: Strange Magic (ELO) Lyrics: "Got a strange magic..." What I heard: "Gotta stretch my dick..." Wow. What's more embarrassing - that I misheard these lyrics or that I was listening to Steve Miller and ELO?!

Permalink posted 11/02/2006
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Lord Helmet says These are absolutely great! LOL I've got another one (on the pervy tip). When I was 5 years old, the song 'Nothin Gonna Break My Stride' by Mathew Wilder(?) was getting a lot of radio play. In a verse he says something like: "I found my way to China, with the little bit of hope to find ya" I sang along: "I found my way to China, in the middle of your vagina". Hey, I was only 5...

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Anna says If I begin to list, I will never cease..

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Dale says My best friend from HS was well known for butchering lyrics, even when clearly sung. No amounts of dirty looks or corrections would sway him. Unfortunately, I cannot come up with any (funny) examples.

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etcvisitor says i swear that at some point in the CCR song sweet hitch-hiker he says "sweet hitch-hiker come on and sit on my face" but apparently he says something like "wont you ride on my fast machine". any lyric in that song is unintelligible. also, i heard a story about someone thinking the chumbawumba lyric "i get knocked down, but im an opera fan" instead of "but i get up again"

Permalink posted 11/02/2006
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Hattie says I've never been caught singing the wrong lyrics because I'm usually the one catching my family and friends singing the wrong lyrics (tori amos, Michael and Janet Jackson, and Mariah Carey excluded, right?). I keep my lyric-unknowns on the down-low because I would getâ€”and deserveâ€”my come-uppings if anyone ever caught me. However, my grandmother once told me that in the '70s she loved the Andy Gibb song "I Just Want to Be Your Everything." Well, one day at work, she started singing it to herself. One of her co-workers stopped and asked her what she was singing. She replied, â€œYou know, that Andy Gibb song, 'I just wanna be your little red rooster.'" I donâ€™t even know how she thought that â€œI just wanna be your little red roosterâ€ even made sense. One of my sister and my friends told us that she used to think Elton John was singing "hold me closer, Tony Danza" instead of "tiny dancer."

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Lord Helmet says Hahaha! I always sang "hold me closer Tony Danza" as well!!!

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jessicattivo says My older sister had just bought Ten (Pearl Jam) and she got me out of my room and took me downstairs and said "what do you think he is saying?" and played Jeremy a couple of times over. I was humiliated for not knowing (quite young also) and when she forced me to come up with something I said "turtle be spoken class today?" which made no sense at all, but was a decent stab. I just remember feeling soo uncool.

Permalink posted 11/02/2006
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blueone51 says â€œHold me closer Tony Danzaâ€, thatâ€™s going to haunt me for sometime. Thereâ€™s a website dedicated this topic. Check out http://www.kissthisguy.com/ and the rest of your afternoon will be shot. Doing what I can to help lower productivity world-wide.

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Lord Helmet says "kissthisguy.com"... I'm betting that's from Jimi Hendrix "scuse me, while I kiss the sky" -- that's what I used to think he said when I first heard it

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etcvisitor says an ex girlfriend of mine when she was a kid used to sing "i can see clearly now the rain is gone, i can see all the popsicles in my way". another friend of mine was driving on a foggy night singing along with that song and the minute "i can see all the obstacles in my way" was sung the fog cleared and their were several deer in the road which the car promptly hit... hows that for obstacles. luckily everyone survived... except the deer... sad sad day for deer.

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chucky says â€œI found my way to China, in the middle of your vaginaâ€. That actually made me laugh so hard I started choking.

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lemontwist says Ha! I started singing Hold Me Closer Tony Danza out of the blue one day to Chris as a joke. :)

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gollygee says I had a friend in high school who thought Sheryl Crow sang "cup full of lard" instead of "Santa Monica boulevard" in "All I Wanna Do".

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jeffatwar says Maybe this isn't a butcherd lyric but I've always wanted to work "Al Roker" somewhere into the chorus of Steve Miller's The Joker

Permalink posted 11/03/2006
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dangercat says In high school, a friend of mine related a fantastic butchered lyrics story: The only time his mother took interest in his musical preferences was to ask him, "What do you think that meatball song is about?" He was confused. What meatball song? "Oh, you know," She sang, "The pitiful meatball, the pitiful meatball..." He burst out laughing. She was singing "The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson.

Permalink posted 11/05/2006