Misheard lyrics

[DaveGYNWA]

* The Pink Elephant**, maybe?

That was the name of the club night in the Zoo Bar, wasn't it? I seem to recall that was the name, but then.....I was very, very drunk (Zoo Bar....Saturday afternoons....2 for the price of one cocktails before Bruxelles)

[JayzusB.Christ]

Weird... I used to go to Bruxelles quite a bit back then too. He must have hidden whenever he saw me coming.

EDIT: I've just remembered the Zoo Bar! I did have a cocktail or three in there back in the day.

[Tiplodocus]

My missus singing along to Bon Jovi in the car:

Shot through the heart,
and you're to blame,
You need love the bad way!


I had my hopes up for a second.

[CalHab]

David Mitchell's novel "Black Swan Green" (which I'd recommend) features the teenage protagonist singing along to Elvis Costello's classic "Olive's Salami".

[DaveGYNWA]

Finally got around to actually paying attention to the video for the absolutely stonkin' "In walks Barbarella" by Clutch, to find that it's not:

"Heard you got detention three times this week
Playing with the bad kids, damned by the clique"

But is actually:

"Heard you got detention three times this week
Playing with the bad kids down by the creek"

Have a video too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ9GSFZZY6c

[Dandontdare]

I prefer your version!

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Don't want to start a new thread, but I am chuckling at hearing a Scottish commentator repeatedly refer to Boris Johnson as Maurice Johnston.

[Jacqusie]

...singing along to Elvis Costello's classic "Olive's Salami".

mmm... Salami... thanks that's brill and will now be sung along to good old Declan MacManus...   

[Hawkmumbler]

Not so much a misheard lyric as a fascinating lyrical mystery....

The most mysterious song on the internet.

[sheridan]

Don't talk to me about heroes,
Most of those men sing like Smurfs

[JayzusB.Christ]

Don't talk to me about heroes,
Most of those men sing like Smurfs

Classic!

The original line was 'most of these men snort cocaine', I believe, before they were forced to change it.

EDIT: Feckin crikey, I've just discovered that I've had the lyrics wrong the whole time too - even wronger than Sheridan in fact. Until 3 minutes ago I'd thought it was 'most of these men sink like subs' 😳

[Funt Solo]

UB40 Food For Thought

I heard:

I'm a prima donna, dining in the dusk


They sang:

Ivory Madonna dying in the dust


In either case, I had no idea what they were on about until it was explained to me that it's an anti-war protest song about famines.