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[angel_of_L.A.]

Misheard U2 lyrics...

Every time I sing along to HMTMKMKM and I get to the part where Bono goes:

"You're a headache
In a suitcase
You're a star..."

I always sing:
"You're a Kennedy
in a suitcase
you're a star..."

Now I know that's wrong but when I first learned the song, that's what I heard and out of habit, I sometimes sing it in error. I know I'm not alone in this and that all of us have misheard a lyric or 2.

So my question is, what U2 song(s) have you guys and dolls misheard and what were your filler lyrics?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Re: Misheard U2 lyrics...

"You're a headache
In a suitcase
You're a star..."

I always sing:
"You're a Kennedy
in a suitcase
you're a star..."

 

[ylimeU2]

For the longest time, I thought I heard "Now we lie together in ribbons and bows" in Love is Blindness. The actual lyrics are, of course, "Now we lie together in whispers and moans". I couldn't figure out what the hell he meant by ribbons and bows, and finally I checked the liner notes, felt like an idiot, and thought whispers and moans makes much more sense.

 

[Cyril]

For the longuest time, I thought the words Bono sings at the end of One (the ones that are not in the booklet) were "Bacon, bacon, aaah", which I later found out was "Vacant, vacant heart". I am not kidding. Fyi, I was only 17 at the time, and English is not my first language ...

-Cyril

 

[The Sage]

For the longest time, I thought I heard "Now we lie together in ribbons and bows" in Love is Blindness. The actual lyrics are, of course, "Now we lie together in whispers and moans". I couldn't figure out what the hell he meant by ribbons and bows, and finally I checked the liner notes, felt like an idiot, and thought whispers and moans makes much more sense.

Surely that's Ultraviolet?

Im always mishearing lyrics but i don't think i've ever done that with a U2 song because Bono sings pretty clearly...well at least as far as i can remember right now...

 

[luvsU2]

The sweetest thing.
"I know I got black eyes
But they burn so brightly for her"
I thought he was saying Black guys which made no sense at all

I know I have others but that one pops immediately into my head. Silly me.

 

[forbonou2]

For me it was in the song....'SHFWILF...where he sings, I kissed Haughty lips..'..I thought he said..'Honey lips'! lol! Changes that from a 'G' rating to 'X' rating! lol!

 

[OnFire]

U2 version: just can't get enough of that lovey-dovey stuff.

my version: just can't get enough of that sub-atomic stuff.

They shoulda used my version dad-gummitt!

 

[ylimeU2]

Surely that's Ultraviolet?

Im always mishearing lyrics but i don't think i've ever done that with a U2 song because Bono sings pretty clearly...well at least as far as i can remember right now...

Yeah, it is Ultraviolet. I'm pretty out of it today. I noticed right after I posted, but I was kind of in a rush, so I didn't bother to edit. Besides, what can you really expect from a person who hears ribbons and bows instead of whispers and moans? Not to mention the fact that I have "Love is Blindness" stuck in my head today.

 

[ylimeU2]

For me it was in the song....'SHFWILF...where he sings, I kissed Haughty lips..'..I thought he said..'Honey lips'! lol! Changes that from a 'G' rating to 'X' rating! lol!

I think it is 'honey lips'. Thats what is says on the lyrics page (and most other lyrics pages I've seen). And I actually thought it was 'haunted lips' for the longest time.

 

[rivergoat]

Im always mishearing lyrics but i don't think i've ever done that with a U2 song because Bono sings pretty clearly...well at least as far as i can remember right now...

Umm..ummm... You speak Bongolese?

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[~*Buffalo*~]

Let's see, there's been quite a few for me ...

On ISHFWILF, I always think "I have spoke with eternal angels" instead of "I have spoke in the tongues of angels".

On Pride, "One man prayed with a kiss" instead of "betrayed".

On In God's Country, "dressed all in ribbons and bows," instead of "dress torn in ribbons and bows."

On SATS, "On a plane in suits and ties," instead of "armour-plated suits and ties."

Oh, there's many more, but I just can't think at the moment!

 

[ylimeU2]

Umm..ummm... You speak Bongolese?

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These are so much fun! I love hearing about what other people have misheard.

Here's another one of mine, I remembered it when I was listening to the UF last night. In "Pride", for the longest time, I thought he was singing 'One war, in the name of love', and the actual lyric is 'What more in the name of love'. When I hear the song now, I don't know what I was thinking.

 

[rivergoat]

My personal favorite is still the one I somehow misheard in 'Kite':

"There's a cat blowing out of control on the breeze."

Poor cat! }: )~

and of course, I'd have to advertise this parody that I made up after reading a misheard lyric: http://forum.interference.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84055

hmmm... hafta write another one soon...

}: )~

edit: grammar

 

[mofo82]

i confuse "a man makes a picture, a moving picture" with "a man paints a picture" from lemon

im an artist so i just go with my version

 

[U2girl]

The silliest one, definitely, for me is from Wild honey:

"yeah just blowing in a breeze"

I heard "Edge is blowing in a breeze"

 

[U2girl]

For the longuest time, I thought the words Bono sings at the end of One (the ones that are not in the booklet) were "Bacon, bacon, aaah", which I later found out was "Vacant, vacant heart". I am not kidding. Fyi, I was only 17 at the time, and English is not my first language ...

-Cyril

The falsetto right at the end?
I always thought that was just a "woah haaaaa-aah" random falsetto singing. Vacant heart? Will listen to the song again with that in mind...

 

[Tomer]

my brother thought I will follow was:

whop away la dubai, I will follow

 

[kevink]

From Bullet the Blue Sky:

"I can see those fighter planes" sounds a lot like "I can see those spider brains".

 

[Numbology]

Tomer,that was hilarious

The Sweetest Thing:
it's a horny kind of love

 

[Porter]

UTEOTW:
'in the garden i was playing guitar' instead of 'in the garden i was playing the tart'

 

[Tomer]

UTEOTW:
'in the garden i was playing guitar' instead of 'in the garden i was playing the tart'

same here

 

[radioskugga]

"we're still building and burning down low", when it should be "love" of course.

together with the line "i wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside" i started to believe the song had something to do with demolition...

 

[ylimeU2]

UTEOTW:
'in the garden i was playing guitar' instead of 'in the garden i was playing the tart'

ditto

 

[Tomer]

What IS a tart actually?

 

[MissMaCo]

What IS a tart actually?

a prostitute





BTW funny thread !

 

[Tomer]

mmmmm
interesting.......

 

[Ifeelnumb84]

On Ultraviolet, at the beginning:
"Sometimes I feel like chicken-ahhh!!!"

although it's really "checkin' out!!!"

 

[U2girl]

I heard it "sometimes I fee like chicken out"

 

[Macfistowannabe]

Same here. I actually used to think it was "chicken eye"... I know it doesn't make any sense.