The Alpha Male in Romantic Fiction vs. Real Life
December 1, 2008Starr Ambrose blogs with Wild on Books!
December 9, 2008
Recognize that line? For years I thought that the chorus to AC/DC’s hit song Dirty Deeds was “dirty deeds and the thunder chief”. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I found out it is actually “dirty deeds and their done dirt cheap”. Imagine my disappointment. I thought the ‘Thunder Chief’ sounded kind of hot. LOL Which is probably totally NOT what AC/DC was going for, I am certain.
But it doesn’t stop there – I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who wondered why in the world Manfred Mann was singing about a douche in the song Blinded by the Light. I now know the line in the song reads “blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night” but I STILL hear the word ‘douche’ in place of ‘deuce’.
Bonnie Tyler’s hit Total Eclipse of the Heart was one of my favorite songs once upon a time – I still love it, actually. But it took years before I figured out that ‘pollygag’ was actually ‘powderkeg’ in the line “we’re living in a powderkeg and giving off sparks”.
Of course, the most infamous misheard lyric ever is probably from Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze. “Scuse me, while I kiss this guy” is what many people heard – still hear. The line is actually “Scuse me, while I kiss the sky”, but it is rumored that Jimi Hendrix was known to fool around a bit with that line, feeding the ‘misheard’ lyric.
One of my favorite websites gets its name from that particular misheard lyric: http://kissthisguy.com. Sounds kind of dirty, right? But it is one of the net’s most long-lived archive of misheard song lyrics. Visitors to the site can submit their own misheard lyrics to be enjoyed by all who come. Or you can simply have a good laugh browsing through the crazy lines posted by the rest of us fools! LOL
So c’mon, sock it to me. Share some of your favorite misheard song lyrics in the comments here… You know you want to!
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LOL. Jennifer, you kill me! I knew the AC/DC lyric because I had the actual album, which came with lyrics. The song that stumped me for years was Rocket Man by Elton John. I know from looking it up that it’s: “Rocket Man, Burnin’ out a fuse up here alone.” But for years, I had no idea what it said. Something to do with heaven toward the end of the line, but I couldn’t get any farther that that. 😳
you had me laughing at this one and brought back some good memories. My dad used to think Fire lake by Bob segar went going to to fry an egg and would sing it loudly and badly lol.
These are really funny! I have been to kissthisguy.com many times and it is great! One of my favorites is a misheard for Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer. The actual lyric is “It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not” but a friend misheard it as “It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not”. I don’t let him live it down.
Jennifer, I love this! We were talking about this topic on the loooong traffic-filled trip home from Washington D.C. after Thanksgiving. (9 hours instead of the 4 it would normally have been.)
Shayla, I never knew what that lyric was, so now I do! Can’t wait to play ‘stump the husband’ with this one.
Okay, here’s one that has always cracked me up:
“I’ll never leave your pizza burnin'” instead of “I’ll never be your beast of burden.” from The Rolling Stones song. That one may be on the kissthisguy list.
Here’s one I made a mistake on myself: From the Chumbawamba Tubthumping song, if you know that one. Since it was about a tub, I thought the lyric was saying: “I’ve got no towel, so I get up again.” Later, I found out it was, “I get knocked down, but I get up again.” Those British accents fool me every time.
Hugs and happy holidays.