How I heard it!

Mis-heard lyrics are always fun. As a child when I heard something and did not know the context or even some of the words I sang them as I heard them.

Here are some of the funny ones:

Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner" Lyric: "Big Old Jet Airliner, Don't carry me too far away".
At this point in my life I had not heard the term Airliner, I heard airplane but not Airliner.
I had at this point met someone named John, Fred and Lionel (from "The Jeffersons").
So I thought this was Steve Miller asking his friends not to carry him too far away, so I heard it as:
"Big John, Fred and Lionel, don't carry me too far away". If you sing it with those lyrics it makes sense. My brothers still rag on me about that one 30 years later.

Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon" Lyric: "Rhiannon,Rhiannon,Rhiannon,Rhiannon"
Ok at this point I had not met any one named Rhiannon. Becky? Sure, Carol? Sure, Rhiannon? Uh NO! So I thought the song was about someone unable to make up their mind, I heard the chorus as, "Yeaaaaaaaaaaa, No, Yeaaaaaaaaaa No, Yeaaaaaaaaaaa, No"

Elton John's "Your Song" Lyric "It may be quite simple" This one is forgivable and I think what I thought he said was quite poetic on my part. Elton(Actually Bernie Taupin) is talking about his love for a woman (or Man) and that this song was his way of expressing it. So I heard the lyric as "It may be a quiet symbol". A quiet symbol of his love, an easy, quiet song. Am I the crazy one here?

The Bee Gee's "You should be Dancing" Lyric: "Whatcha doin on your back?" I guess I never really listened that hard to the lyrics. I thought there was no vocal at that point beyond a kind of scat. So I heard it as "Skibbaditatditat, Ohhh, Skibbaditatditat, you should be dancin Ya" Yea I know, but this blog is called "Dave's Warped View"!

Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" Lyric: "There is no pain you are receding" Needless to say when listening to PF I was usually comfortably numb myself. But it made sense in the context of the lyrics for me to have heard, "There is no pain you are receiving". Oh well, I can't explain you would not understand, this is just how I am.

Boston's "More than a Feeling" Lyric: "Its more than a feeling, when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)" Now this is a mighty mushmouth song, I can't understand half the lyrics because Brad does not enunciate! Plus his voice is going through so many echoes and modulators how could you understand him? When this song came out I was a child that used to stay up late and watch TV. So I heard the lyric as "More than a feeling, well I'm livin' on Soul Train" Thanks Don Cornelius!

Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" Lyric: "Smoke on the Water" My best guess is, due to the way the lyric was sung, I heard it as "Slow coming home, Yah" I guess I didn't care there was a clue in the following lyric, "Fire in the Sky".

More To Come.............