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Have you ever humorously misheard a song lyric and then later found out what the real lyric was? Post them here 
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"I'll Be Your Cryin' Shoulder" (by the Goo Goo Dolls, according to Google)
The real lyric is:
"I'll be your cryin' shoulder
I'll be love suicide
I'll be better when I'm older
I'll be the greatest fan of your life"
It was playing on the radio, and I said to my then-girlfriend - "they should use this for a McDonald's commercial." She looked at me puzzled and said "why?" I told her the lyrics that I seriously thought I heard (and I had heard it several times before!):
"I'll be your giant soda
I'll be love supersized..."
Here's one that my mother did:
"Our Love's In Jeopardy" by Greg Kihn's Band:
The real lyric:
"Our love's in jeopardy...baby..."
My mother once heard:
"Our love is definitely...maybe..."
Okay, a little obscure here...
From the song "What Am I Waiting For?" from the Broadway musical "Parade":
The real lyric:
"Go on, Lucille
Bring him his coffee....
Straight from New York, Lucille
Isn't he smart, Lucille?"
For the longest time I heard,
"Go on Lucille
Bring him his coffee
Strengthen New York, Lucille"
What it's really supposed to be is that Lucille is having a flashback of what her mother said to her when she met her future husband, Leo. I thought that she was metaphorically referring to Leo as "New York", and she was bringing him coffee, thus "strengthening him."
Also, this isn't a lyric, but a movie line...
In "Beauty and the Beast", when Maurice and Belle have just successfully tested his wood chopping machine, he says,
"Hitch up Phillipe, girl! I'm off to the fair!"
(Phillipe being their horse, of course).
For years, I thought he said:
"It chops fully, girl! I'm off to the fair"
I always thought the vocal inflection sounded a little off, when I thought that was the line.
. "I'll Be Your Cryin' Shoulder" (by the Goo Goo Dolls, according to Google)
The real lyric is:
"I'll be your cryin' shoulder
I'll be love suicide
I'll be better when I'm older
I'll be the greatest fan of your life"
It was playing on the radio, and I said to my then-girlfriend - "they should use this for a McDonald's commercial." She looked at me puzzled and said "why?" I told her the lyrics that I seriously thought I heard (and I had heard it several times before!):
"I'll be your giant soda
I'll be love supersized..."
Here's one that my mother did:
"Our Love's In Jeopardy" by Greg Kihn's Band:
The real lyric:
"Our love's in jeopardy...baby..."
My mother once heard:
"Our love is definitely...maybe..."
Okay, a little obscure here...
From the song "What Am I Waiting For?" from the Broadway musical "Parade":
The real lyric:
"Go on, Lucille
Bring him his coffee....
Straight from New York, Lucille
Isn't he smart, Lucille?"
For the longest time I heard,
"Go on Lucille
Bring him his coffee
Strengthen New York, Lucille"
What it's really supposed to be is that Lucille is having a flashback of what her mother said to her when she met her future husband, Leo. I thought that she was metaphorically referring to Leo as "New York", and she was bringing him coffee, thus "strengthening him."
Also, this isn't a lyric, but a movie line...
In "Beauty and the Beast", when Maurice and Belle have just successfully tested his wood chopping machine, he says,
"Hitch up Phillipe, girl! I'm off to the fair!"
(Phillipe being their horse, of course
).For years, I thought he said:
"It chops fully, girl! I'm off to the fair"
I always thought the vocal inflection sounded a little off, when I thought that was the line
.
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