doing a lot of listening to KD Lang's wonderful new album, "Hymns of the 49th Parallel, which opens with Neil Young's After the Gold Rush. I played the namesake album constantly in the early-mid '70s, but there was one line i never could quite figure out. got me to thinking about other mis-heard rock lyrics, and i'm sure there have been threads on this in the past, but i wondered what some of the less obvious ones (not "scuse me while i kiss dis guy") are. i mean, like Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Gifted, and Black as much as the next guy, and i was a big Cowboys fan back then, but the line "Thinking about what Effren had said, I was hoping it was a lie" never made much sense.
I know it's not less obvious... Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light ... I still swear he is saying something about a woman's cleansing product.
I believe that song was written by Springsteen and the word in question is "deuce" as in Deuce Coupe, not "douche". I heard it the same way you did.
It is blocked at work so I can't check it but I think kissthisguy.com used to have a bunch of misheard lyrics listed. And before anyone says anything, the site name comes from a song (lenny Kravitz I think) that said "excuse me while I kiss the sky" but the site creator always thought it was "excuse me while I kiss this guy". edit: I posted this before I finished reading the first post
Oh yeah, that's right. Kravitz wrote "American Woman." He is soooo cool in those Gap ads btw... My wife used to think "Rock the Casbah" was "F*** the Gas Pump."
Guilty as charged: Beck / Loser. The real lyrics were: Soy un perdedor But I misheard them as: Sold in a candy store
Did people really think (some of them) that Hendrix sang... 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy?? Seriously?? I guess I missed it. Is the thread about misunderstood lyrics? Then some of you weren't listening! Here's the lyrics of Purple Haze, a song about a "brand" of acid going around back then: Hendrix Are You Experienced? (1967) Purple Haze {cough?} Purple haze all in my brain Lately things just don't seem the same Actin' funny, but I don't know why 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky Purple Haze all around Don't know if I'm comin' up or down Am I happy or in misery? What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me Help me Help me Oh, no, no [faint, spoken lyrics...all questionable] Hammerin' Talkin' 'bout heart 'n'...s-soul I'm talkin' about hard stuff If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if So far out my mind Somethings happening, somethings happening Ooo, ahhh Ooo, {click} ahhh, Ooo, ahhh Ooo, ahhh, YEAH! Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh Don't know if its day or night You got me blowin', blowin' my mind Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time? Ooo Help me Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah Oh, no, oh Oh, help me Purple haze, Tell me, baby, tell me I can't go on like this Purple haze You're makin' me blow my mind...mama Purple haze, n-no, nooo Purple haze, no, its painful, baby http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?lyrics=zkxiltpo And, yes, I saw Jimi do the song at least 3 times with The Experience. I can't remember right now if he did it when he toured with Band of Gypsies. I don't think so. (man, he was going into such a great direction then... damn.) I gotta say that Blinded by the Light from Manfred Mann's Earth Band is one of the harded things to understand, in places, of just about anything I've listened to. And there are times when I really think Springsteen is a douche bag... then I remember how he was when he played at small clubs like Liberty Hall in Houston. Wow!
