I'm horrible with lyrics. I'll be the first one to admit that. Matt loves to make fun of me for it. The other night we were talking about some doozies of lyric mess-ups and it got me thinking, what are some of yours?
Matt thought the lyrics to a Fray song were "It's too late to call the judge" when it's really "It's too late to apologize." Tomato, Tamato.
We sing to Liam usually every night before he goes to bed. One night we were singing "I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ." I sang, "We'll follow Him in Vain." Matt quickly corrected me that it's "We'll follow Him in Faith." We follow Him in faith, not vain.
One of my friends thought the words to a Destiny Child's song were "throw your hands up Batman" instead of "throw your hands up at me." Close but no cigar.
My parents were singing along to a song one night to a Dobbie Brothers song called "Dark Eyed Cajun Woman." They had to stop singing and figure out the lyrics because it sounds like "Cockeyed Asian Woman."
And my personal favorite is Matt had a Korean companion who thought the song "All by myself" was really a Korean song that said the phrase "opah mahn say" which means hooray older brother. Just sing hooray older brother to the tune of the song and I guarantee you'll be laughing.
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That's ok, Dale doesn't know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, and he tried to teach our 3 year old the wrong words to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star :) I regularly have to correct him on lyrics to most songs.
I love things like this! My recent one is from the song "Bullet Proof" by La Roux. I always sing "Listen, baby, I'll be your neighbor". My husband corrected me. It's "This time, baby, I'll be bullet proof." It still doesn't sound like bullet proof to me!!
i thought it was follow him in vain, too!!
Ditto to Lisa... totally always sang follow him in vain. HAHA!! Ryan and I just got a kick out of this post.
That's so funny cause my niece thought it said "I'll follow him in space!". We still use her version.
I think my favorite mess up though is a friend's mom who thought that song "oh what a night" was "oh butterknife".
I could not for the life of me figure out what Macy Gray was saying in her song "I Try" in the last line of the chorus. Turns out a local radio station was having a hard time, too. The thought it was "I blow bubbles when you are not here". They even played audio of rolling bubbles over the song. Turns out the real lyrics are "my world crumbles when you are not here"
Oh man! I am seriously laughing out loud, because I also totally used to sing "in vain" too. I remember a few years ago thinking that didn't quite match up... Haha. How were all of us such confused children? hahahah ha
Oh, I am so glad I'm not the only one who messes up songs!! The worst one for me was Creedence Clearwater.. Went to the Revival concert, and I am singing with all my might to Bad Moon Rising.... "There's a bathroom on the right." Oops!
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