Lyrics that sound like something else...

for a long time I thought that the Stone Roses had a song called "I wanna be a dog"
 
A friend of mine thought (correctly if you like) that No Limits (by Snap or Black Box or someone) was No Lyrics :)

I thought Anthony Keidis had a problem in 'Under The Bridge'.
"Under the bridge down town is where I drew some blood.
Under the bridge down town, I could not get it up (get enough)" :)
 
Still on the Chilli peppers theme
"In the bird shed it's a lonely view"
... should be with the birds share this lonely view (I think)
 
few year ago there was a song with the line I wanna fish in the sea, sounded like I wanna p*ss in the sea.
 
Bananarama's Venus always sounds like 'I'm your penis, I'm your fire, your desire' to me, even after all these years. Every time that ad comes on, I have a dirty little giggle to myself.
 
Dolly Parton's and that other guy can't think of his name might be Kenny Rogers used to sing about "Ireland's Industry"

Took ages before I realised it was really "Islands In The Stream" :D
 
The other zag used to have a regular slot on the radio in the mornings and a friend of mine taped a whole lot of them - he had some new-fangled tape-deck with a built in radio-alarm thingie which turned itself on at just the right time every mornning.

Anyway, here's a few of the ones I remember

Chris de Burgh was painting his living room and ended up 'High on Emulsion'
Mick Hucknall had a bit of plastic surgery and ended up 'Holding Back the Ears'

My memory is fading. I'll have to see if I can dig the tape out again and dust off the old-fangled tape deck to get a few more.

Ah, it's a funny old hip-hop-happening-how-did-we-all-end-up-here rock and roll world, really isn't it ?

z
 
AlastairSC said:
Dolly Parton's and that other guy can't think of his name might be Kenny Rogers used to sing about "Ireland's Industry"

Took ages before I realised it was really "Islands In The Stream" :D
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"And we rely on sugar ah-ha....."

(Should have been 'on each other")

God that was an awful blody song!
 
I'm still reeling from the revelation that the lyric in Golden Brown doesn't mention mancherons.
 
Once heard about a biker/rocker who went into a record shop in Dublin looking for a copy of 'The Lift' by Joe Cocker.

Puzzled staff couldn't find what he was looking for and asked him if he could sing a bit from the song to help them recognise it and he said yeah it goes like this....



"The Lift is up where we belong...."



:D (Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes actually sang 'They lift us up where we belong').
 
zag said:
The other zag used to have a regular slot on the radio in the mornings and a friend of mine taped a whole lot of them - he had some new-fangled tape-deck with a built in radio-alarm thingie which turned itself on at just the right time every mornning.

Anyway, here's a few of the ones I remember

Chris de Burgh was painting his living room and ended up 'High on Emulsion'
Mick Hucknall had a bit of plastic surgery and ended up 'Holding Back the Ears'

My memory is fading. I'll have to see if I can dig the tape out again and dust off the old-fangled tape deck to get a few more.

Ah, it's a funny old hip-hop-happening-how-did-we-all-end-up-here rock and roll world, really isn't it ?

z
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I loved that slot in the mornings! I was going to post another of my favourites that zig and zag did (Queen, One Vision) but I've just looked up the lyrics and it seems that they do actually sing 'just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.......fried chicken' at the end!
 
Continuuing the Paul Young theme back many moons ago when I was a little U2Fan as opposed to a (way too-)big U2Fan I thought the opening line to Love of The Common People

"Living On free food Tickets, water in the milk from a hole in the roof"

was

"Living on free food tickets ordering the milk ...."
 
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