Singing all by Myself

Have you ever been singing loudly with your friends, or a group of people and suddenly everyone stops.  If they aren't staring at you, they are laughing.   

It happens to me quite frequently.  There are only two reasons.  One is because I cannot sing and the second is I often mishear lyrics.    

Here are a few of my favorite misheard lyrics by me (and the correct lyrics in case you don't know the words, either.  You are welcome!)

Probably the worst misheard lyric I claim is from Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.  

The lyrics are:

"And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
'Cause we'll never be wrong"

I totally blame my Catholic education for what I've been singing for 30+ years:

And we'll only be naked in Christ

  

Then there is Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins.   Apparently the lyrics are

"Ride into the danger zone"

Other people hear

Highway to the danger zone

What I hear

I wave to the danger zone

Close, I guess.

I've loved Frankie Valli's  December '63 since I was in 6th grade.  I've never known the words to a certain part.

"And I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder
Spinning my head around and taking my body under
Oh, what a night"

I have always just covered my mouth, sneezed, yawned - anything to keep from singing that part.

  

Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar was popular in high school.  We would type the lyrics in typing class.

"You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around with me"

I prefer my version

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, drug taker

Don't you mess around with me

Who doesn't sing along with Bohemian Rhapsody?   Until someone hears your take on the lyrics.....

"Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me"

My lyrics:

The Algebra book has a devil for a bride for me, for me, for me

Oh oh oh oh no no no no no no no.   Mama Mia Mama Mia!

Hot Chocolate had a great song that has been in several movies, TV shows and commercials.   The correct lyrics to You Sexy Thing are:

"I believe in miracles

Where you from

You sexy thing"

I am not the only person that heard the lyrics as:

I believe in miracles

Where's your bra

You sexy thing

Madonna has great clarity when she is singing and her lyrics are not hard to understand.    Except for me.   The lyrics to La Isla Bonita are:

"I fell in love with San Pedro"

Not

I fell in love with soft bagels    (no matter how true it might be.)

Until I actually read the lyrics to this song for this blog entry, I truly did not know the words to Beast of Burden by the Rolling Stones were not

"All this sickness, I could suck a duck"

The lyrics are actually

All this sickness, I just suck it up

All this time I thought Prince had a chilly father in When Doves Cry.

Maybe I'm just like my father, too cold.

Actually, Prince sings

"Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold"

In fairness, in the movie Purple Rain, his dad seem awful cold and distant.

And lastly - this is not a misheard lyric - but a close but no cigar song title.

Before Adele was super popular, she had a song titled "Chasing Pavement."  It was kind of a haunting tune, but had a great lyrics and I loved to hear it.  I would ask people if they had ever heard it - and no one ever claimed to know the song.  I thought I was really a pioneer in the Adele game.

Turns out I was asking people if they knew the song "Chasing Concrete."   

Pavement....Concrete....Potato....Potato......Close enough!

What songs have you misheard?    Let me know!   I'd love to hear them!

In addition to eating all by myself, I will be singing all by myself, too.

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