Misheard prog lyrics

[devoidzer0]

The Flower Kings - "Love Supreme" (from Adam and Eve)

@ the 14 minute mark:

"I'm just a shitter in the wind!"

I've heard it that way since it was released in 2004, and I can't NOT hear it now. It takes me right out of the song, but it's funny as hell. For the record, the real lyric is "just a shimmer in the wind."

https://youtu.be/xnbVMwd07uI?t=840

What are some of your humorous/silly/stupid misheard prog lyrics?

[ProgArtist]

"A weevil in the web that he made". Tarkus by ELP

"Marmots come out of the sky and they stand there". Roundabout by Yes

I both cases I was disappointed when I found out the real lyrics.

[miamiscot]

"I'm the scab of the Earth" which, I guess, is really "Armies scatter the Earth."

For years I thought Jon Anderson had a sense of humor.

Not so.

[GuitarGeek]

If we trust the lyric sheet for Close To The Edge, apparently line at the end of the piece is "Now that you find, now that you're whole". I always thought it was "Now that you find, now that you're home".

I always heard "silly human race" as "see the human race".

And in Sound Chaser, I swear when I first heard that album, I could have sworn the word "imbecile" (with the last syllable pronounced like the word "aisle") somewhere in there, but when I hear it now, I can't suss where or why I thought that word was in that song.

The first verse of Afterglow, I had totally wrong. I thought it was something like:

As the dust settles around me
I must find a new home
Raising hopes
That you'll still give me shelter

That's what i get for trying to learn the lyrics off a live album.

Speaking of live albums, I swear I couldn't discern one single word on Space Ritual, save for the spoken word pieces. I got the words for Master Of The Universe from the lyric sheet that was in In Search Of Space, but the other songs, most of them, I had didn't find out what the words were until I got that lyric book Hawkwind sold on tour during the early 90's. And I think even that didn't have Born To Go and one or two other songs in it.

[JKL2000]

"She was in a bathroom
full of strange aromas"

Marillion, "The Party" (it's "She was in a back room...")

And there was some vinyl Marillion bootleg where the song "Charting the Single" was miss-written as "Catering the Single." LOL. That's a whole other job.

"A weevil in the web that he made". Tarkus by ELP

"Marmots come out of the sky and they stand there". Roundabout by Yes

I both cases I was disappointed when I found out the real lyrics.

LOL. You were like "They think weevils spin webs?"

[GuitarGeek]

And there was some vinyl Marillion bootleg where the song "Charting the Single" was miss-written as "Catering the Single." LOL. That's a whole other job.

I have a Genesis bootleg on LP where the band's name is rendered as "Gensis" on one of the handwritten labels, with a note acknowledging the spelling errror.

[thos]

It's actually "Armies gather near"

[flowerking]

Karn Evil 9 3rd impression: Guardians of a nuclear dawn - I thought it was "a new clear dawn" until I saw the lyrics.

[thos]

I seem to remember that on the original LP of Brian Salad Surgery, the lyrics read "new clear dawn" but Lake pronounces it more as "nuclear". I think that was a deliberate pun.

[mozo-pg]

I always heard "silly human race" as "see the human race".

Ditto.

[Progbear]

“A dinosaur urged the sailors on...” (Genesis: “Firth of Fifth”)

“Living in the Fish Islands...” (Rush: “Limelight”)

[AncientChord]

I don't know about prog, but when I first heard Jimi Hendrix singing Purple Haze I thought he was gay. "Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

[mozo-pg]

Manfred Man - wrapped up like a douche instead of revved up like a deuce.

[lak611]

Manfred Man - wrapped up like a douche instead of revved up like a deuce.

"another Roman in the night"

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[Vic2012]

Rush - Circumstances

This is right: All the same we take our chances, Laughed at by time, Tricked by circumstances, Plus ca change, Plus c'est la meme chose

What I thought I was hearing: All the same we take our chances, like pie pie pie, tricked by circumstances, we lose our shorts, loosen the mention.....the more that things change .....

[rdclark]

"Go, Stanley Snail" rather than "gold stainless nail."

The Keneally/Gilbert/D'Virgilio tribute act Stanley Snail is famously named after this misheard lyric from Siberian Khatru.

[Soc Prof]

Manfred Man - wrapped up like a douche instead of revved up like a deuce.

David Letterman and Paul Schafer once joked about that line because so many people hear "douche."


Genesis--"Return of the Giant Hogweed"

What I heard: Part-time evil creature stirs
Actual lyrics: Botanical creature stirs

[Halmyre]

Supper's Ready - "Can't you see arseholes ignite"

[Dana5140]

[progfan915]

In Marillion's Sugar Mice, I always thought it was:

"So if you want my address, it's number one at the end of the bar, where I sit with the broken angels, clutching at straws and nursing a scotch"

The real lyrics of course, being "nursing our scars"

...

I still like mine better!

[A. Scherze]

"A weevil in the web that he made". Tarkus by ELP

I always heard it as: "They wiggled in the web that they made."

[kenschwartz]

oy my flambe!

after hearing/seeing this video a couple of years ago, this is now what i hear every time. not completely convinced it isn't accurate.

[Jubal]

I seem to remember that on the original LP of Brian Salad Surgery, the lyrics read "new clear dawn" but Lake pronounces it more as "nuclear". I think that was a deliberate pun.

Agreed.
A nuclear device would definitely bring forth a new clear dawn (with everything cleared out of the way).

[pb2015]

The line from "Thick As A Brick" "he coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win." Not surprisingly this line was a bit strange to people in the Midwest like a friend of mine who misheard it as "coughed up his dinner."

[A. Scherze]

"coughing up pieces of his broken luck."

That's how I heard it, too.