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  1. basso

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    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.
     
    #1 basso, Sep 21, 2004
  2. boomboom

    boomboom I GOT '99 PROBLEMS

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    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.
     
    #2 boomboom, Sep 21, 2004
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    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.
     
    #3 gifford1967, Sep 21, 2004
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    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
     
    #4 Castor27, Sep 21, 2004
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    Somewhere in Pennsylvania, BobFinn* just had a heart attack. :)

    It's Jimi Hendrix, btw. :)
     
    #5 Rocketman95, Sep 21, 2004
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    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."
     
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    not only Bob Finn, but Burt Cummings. guess who?
     
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    My ex used to think The Steve Miller Band "Big ol' Jet Airliner" was "We don't Leave the lights on"
     
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    Guilty as charged: Beck / Loser.

    The real lyrics were:
    Soy un perdedor

    But I misheard them as:
    Sold in a candy store
     
    #9 Mulder, Sep 21, 2004
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    Worst. Cover. Of. A. Good. Song.

    Ever.
     
    #10 RocketMan Tex, Sep 21, 2004
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    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!
     
    #11 Deckard, Sep 21, 2004
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