MERGED-->Misheard U2 lyrics...+ The Bono mispronunciation/misinterpretation thread.

[Meghan]

i heard
"Your trouble is your head can't rule your heart"

instead of
"the jungle is your head can't rule your heart"

i think my version makes alot more sense.

And Answer Guy reckons he heard
"its alright, its alright, its alright, Shamu, the mysterious whale!"
in Mysterious Ways"
but i have an odd feeling thats his smart arse half talking...

 

[popmart86]

"The night is bleeding like a cut"

thinking it's "the night is bleeding like a "

 

[lady luck]

My version doesn't make much sense either, but i usually hear:

"Check it out, i'm swinging it hot"

The only other version i've managed to get is

"Check it out I'm spinning a top"

That probably doesn't help you much, but imagining Bono forgetting about the song completly and just getting caught up in a spinning top makes me laugh.

check it out and speaking out loud... but maybe I'm soooo wrong!

 

[Meghan]

check it out and speaking out loud... but maybe I'm soooo wrong!

Even if you are wrong, your version sure makes a whole lot more sense than mine!

thanks for clearing that one up (a little bit)

 

[Lil'Bono]

I think its check it out, i'm speaking it hot.
I used to think it was check it out, i'm peeing in a pot!!!

 

[Lisiane]

A friend of mine used to think it's "hello, hello, may I please call Vertigo?"... I thought it was hilarious!

 

[Meghan]

 

[lady luck]

from Hold me thrill me:

"and you're turning things, with your CUT and FIX"
instead of

you're turning things with your crucifix....

 

[lady luck]

And i am still wandering what the hell Bono says in the sweetest thing, the softly spoken part just before the lines "Blue eyed boy, this brown eyed girl/you can saw it up but you still see the tear"...

 

[BassTrap82]

I always thought that Bono sung "Between the horses of love and lust there is shampoo on the floor" instead of "between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot" in "So Cruel"!

 

[BEVERLY56]

Isn't it "You can sew it up, but you still see the tear" ? ?

 

[AttnKleinkind]

See the choonafeets clearing the sea out

 

[MacPhistoPT]

There are so many... one of them, probably the more ridiculuos:

ONE TREE HILL
instead of "I don't believe in painted roses)

"I don't believe in Axl Roses"

what a shame... too much bad to be true

 

[LemonMelon]

I've never understood the I Will Follow chorus. All the lyric sites say "If you walk away walk away, I will follow"

But it sounds to me like,

"If you walk-a-well-a-do-way,oh walk-a-well-a-do-way, I will follow"

Which one's right?

 

[lady luck]

Isn't it "You can sew it up, but you still see the tear" ? ?

of course... just a mistake while writing...

 

[BlackElectric]

That part at the end of One I think someone said he's saying "vacant heart." It sounds to me like he's saying "making it...making it...making it HOT!"

 

[Meghan]

"Make it... Make it... HIGHER"

Is what I hear. Maybe he's encouraging himself into that falsetto.



And here's a couple more i just remembered.
Walk On
"What you got they can't steal it,
No aching evil feeling"

"And if you last heart should crack"

 

[U2girl]

I've never understood the I Will Follow chorus. All the lyric sites say "If you walk away walk away, I will follow"

That is the right lyric.

 

[LightMyWay60]

The first version of "40" I heard was from Red Rocks and I thought he was singing "Betty will see, Betty will see and fear"

 

[lady luck]

"Make it... Make it... HIGHER"

Is what I hear. Maybe he's encouraging himself into that falsetto.



And here's a couple more i just remembered.
Walk On
"What you got they can't steal it,
No aching evil feeling"

"And if you last heart should crack"

I've always thought is a sorta "scat-singing". IMO, he says
"Baby, baby ahhhhhhhhhh"

 

[LemonMelon]

"Make it... Make it... HIGHER"

Is what I hear. Maybe he's encouraging himself into that falsetto.

Well, let's expand that a bit. If that's what you hear, here's the bridge part...

"Ooh...make it higher....oh you make me higher....ooh....make it higher....oh you make me higher..."



Actually I like that very much.

 

[Meghan]

Glad i made someone happy.