Misheard Lyrics Game

[LoudmouthLee]

In honor of my puzzle, The Ballad of Maxwell Control, a game that some of you might find fun.

I'll list a commonly (or not so commonly) misheard lyric, your goal is to figure out what song it came from and the correct lyric.

When you post the right answer (you really don't need to be told you're right), list another one for people to play...

You might as well face it, you're a dick with a glove.
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I'm sorry. I have no desire to talk to you.

[dethwing]

Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer

"There's a bathroom on the right."

[Sentran]

[bgg1996]

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

"On board the train"
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[Sentran]

Actually bgg, the correct lyric (I believe) is "In the Garden of Eden"
but everyone knows the song as "Inna Godda Davida" (or In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)
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[bgg1996]

[Coyote]

Well, it's been two months with neither a guess nor a hint for bgg1996's entry, so I reckon this is up for grabs now.

It seems I've always had a gift (or curse?) for mishearing song lyrics. The following six specimens are actual, real examples of what I honestly thought was being sung in their particular songs, sometimes for more years than I'm willing to admit.

I don't consider any of these songs to be obscure, (that is to say, I've heard each of them numerous times on the radio) and most of them should be pretty easy to guess. A couple may be somewhat less easy, and one is so far off the mark that it may present a real challenge (I still occasionally get harassed by my friends for it, and I have no good explanation for how I could have heard it that way).

I think two hints are in order here, one open and one invissed. The open hint is that these are all songs from the 70's and 80's:

1. All I want is to have a piece of pie.
2. And the free dog will run.
3. Do the lucky lady.
4. I ain't your livin' centerfold.
5. She's so confident.
6. You gotta stop and consider it.

For the invissed hint, here are the groups/artists responsible for each song, in no particular order. Don't peek until you get stuck!

Aerosmith
Boston
David Bowie
J. Geils Band
Peter Gabriel
Van Halen

[j_s*]

3. Dude looks like a lady
4. My angel is a centerfold

[A guy from England*]

5. Jeux sans frontières - Peter Gabriel, "Games Without Frontiers" (the French version of the phrase was the title of a popular game show).

[Coyote]

I'm not surprised that a guy from England would guess the lyric written in french, but I am a little surprised no one's gotten the first entry yet--I thought it would be first to go. Needless to say, all three guesses are correct. I'll hold off on giving anymore hints for awhile, as invissed artists + process of elimination should provide extra help now.

Amusing anecdote time: I'd thought of giving the following as a bonus puzzle illustrating a misheard lyric of unusual length:

Where you going when the mice are brown, and I feel what I feel when the dogs begin to smell her?

...because I knew damn well that couldn't possibly be what they were actually singing. But out of curiosity, I thought I'd do something I'd never bothered to do before, which is to look up what the actual lyrics were supposed to be. You can probably guess the result. While there are in fact no mice present, it turns out the dogs do indeed begin to smell her.

W
....T
.......F???

So I was left without a bonus puzzle. Fortunately I always carry around a backup bonus puzzle for just such an emergency. I'm not really into country music, but when you live in Eastern Oregon you learn to endure its constant presence, and digging back in my memory I recalled one song in particular that was frequently played on the jukebox at the local watering hole. Inevitably this song would be accompanied by someone asking 'Did he really just say he had pickles in his head?' (This question, by the way, was often asked by people who were into country music. Sometimes it was asked by the person who actually played the song.) The question was never successfully resolved.

So I thought it might make a good substitute puzzle, but after the dog-smelling debacle, I figured I'd better check the lyrics just to make sure. And so, after many years, if ever I'm presented that question again, I can finally answer in complete confidence "No. No, he does not have pickles in his head."

So...what does he have?

I've got heartaches in my pocket, and I've got pickles in my head.

[MNOWAX]

-

AHAHAHA That is a thousand miles from nowhere by Dwight Yoakam
He has ECHOES in his head, It took me many years to figure it out, but it took me listening to the lyric after it to really get it "all that I keep hearing are those cruel cruel things that you said" -

Theres nothing a hundred men on Mars could ever do.
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MNOWAX

[j_s*]

There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

I dont have a good one right now. I ll try to post one later.

[Quailman]

One that family used to puzzle over was Why do they always semaphore?, though my wife told me I had it wrong. She and my sons insisted it was Why do they always sell my car?

[Sentran]

[MNOWAX]

- perhaps AC/DC would like their lyric transcribing done Dirt Cheap.-

Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.
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MNOWAX

[Sentran]

Correct MNO!

Yours is Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix

She seems to have that physical attraction...
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[carrier_of_the_arch]

Hahahahaha I think that might be "Invisible Touch", Phil Collins

Posting this one because its funny
The algebra has a devil for a sidekick eeeeeeee

[Suspence]

carrier_of_the_arch's seems to be Bohemian Rhapsody - Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me

From my personal favorite misheard lyrics song of all time - And I called and I said I don't know what I said - although those might be the actual lyrics since no one really knows.
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[carrier_of_the_arch]

Yes, that is correct! No idea for the new lyric though

[Suspence]

Another hint on the same song - I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag. It certainly sounds like this is the correct lyric, but given what the song is supposedly about, it's almost certainly not.

Sad, because I've always thought that was a cool analogy, not knowing whether you were to boxer or the punching bag...
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[MNOWAX]

yellow bedletter by Pearl Jam. he was one of those guys that you jsut could not understand.

It's a half-assed Ford and I'm shifting gears

according to Top Gear UK, one of the best driving songs of all time.
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MNOWAX

[Sentran]

Golden Earring - Radar Love

I heard a grunge song on the radio today about Andy and Buddy.
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[Suspence]

That's In Bloom by Nirvana - He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, ANDY likes to sing along, ANDY likes to shoot his gun, BUDDY knows not what it means

How about Trashy was my wife?
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[Suspence]

Seems like we need a further clue for Trashy was my wife, so here goes. The main part of the chorus is Everything's In
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[Suspence]

I guess I should also have mentioned that the corrected version of "Everything's In" is also the title of the song.
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[Sentran]

That gave it away (for me).
Everything Zen, by Bush
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