meagemini2 said:

Starfish and coffee 'Made with serpent jam' - I thought this wa logical since the kids thought there was a witch in her lunchbox.

C'MON - I can't be the only one that thought this? anyone?

Oh Lawdy! I'm dyin' ovah here!!! "Made with serpent Jam" LOLOLOLOLOL!!! I wonder what that would taste like? Scales?

I mentioned this incidently on another thread, but for years I thought on I wanna B your Lover he said "the only one U comfort". I thought, how clever, as Prince is getting away with something that could be misinterpreted as "come for". I never entered my mind that radio back then would play a song by someone like him actually singing "come for". When I realized it years later, it made me respect his boldness even more for that to be his breakthrough song.

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GaryMF said:

In Kiss, I'm still convinced he's saying "my love, will be your FOOL", though some lyric sites say "Food".

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I realize "food" is a better rhyme with "atittude" but "Fool" makes more sense. It's an expression.

Oh yes, I thought this too! for a long time

bigbrother said:

Guitarhero said:

LBrent said:

bluegangsta said:

Those song books are generaly filled with mistakes.

The lyric is 'love it isn't love, until it's had'. You can hear this clearer on live versions of the song.

Actually, I not only heard him sing "past" with my own ears in concert, but if you Google his P&M tours you can hear him clearly sing "past", which would be correct grammar as well.

On the musicology acoustic thing he did on MTV, he clearly sings "had".

So this is really, really dumb...... but hwen I was a naive teen and had yet to learn about James Brown etc...... and saw some of the PR and Parade era live shows, when he'd "stop on the 1,", and then he'd cue the band to pick up again, I thought he was saying "Cut Chord!" indstead of 'Good Gawd!"

GaryMF said:

So this is really, really dumb...... but hwen I was a naive teen and had yet to learn about James Brown etc...... and saw some of the PR and Parade era live shows, when he'd "stop on the 1,", and then he'd cue the band to pick up again, I thought he was saying "Cut Chord!" indstead of 'Good Gawd!"

I don't know why but until just recently I sang the first line of "I Could NEver Take The Place Of Your Man" as "Saw her last June when her old man ran away" instead of "It was only last June when her old man ran away".

I used to think the line in "Kiss" was "Maybe we can do the world" instead of "Maybe we can do the twirl".

My brother was convinced back in 1984 that Prince was a cokehead because he was sure that Prince was singing "Got a line in my pocket" in "1999", and was referring to cocaine.

RodeoSchro said:

I don't know why but until just recently I sang the first line of "I Could NEver Take The Place Of Your Man" as "Saw her last June when her old man ran away" instead of "It was only last June when her old man ran away".

I still think that's the line !

beige don't age

bass don't age

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still don't know

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Daisy Chain

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I could swear that it is She was steppin' out again

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But metrolyrics and all the others say that it is out a gown

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Which makes absolutely no sense at all.

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I think that this time I am right and the websites are wrong.

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A page one thread about It's Gonna Be Lonely reminded me of a lyric I used to fuck up when I was a bug. At the end of the first verse, P allegedly sings "I'd be in a messed up state of blue." Though, to my ears, I thought he was saying "I'd be in a mustard state of blue." It never made sense, except at that age I really didn't like mustard so maybe the idea of mustard leaving one in a blue condition felt right to me, I dunno.

Incense and Candles

What I heard: "Once you try to seduce me it's gross and gross"

What the lyrics actually are: "Once you try to seduce me it grows and grows"

Somebody's Somebody

What I heard: "There's a hot guy deep inside him, me ohh how the fire burns"

What the lyrics actually are: "There's a hunger deep inside of me, how the fire burns"

Rasppberry Beret!

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When it first came out I thought the line was: "Find yourself down by the lightning seas."

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It wasn't until many years later that I learned it was "Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees."

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Embarrasing to admit. LOL.

Thinking about this topic I've come to the realization that printed lyrics, even from Prince, aren't necessarily what he's singing.

Case it point...in "Let's Go Crazy" the lyrics say "sex sex is all I heard." Well he's clearly not saying the word "sex."

Listening to Little Red Corvette.

My co-worker asked me "how do you pop your collar side-ways?".

I fell on the floor laughing!

I used to sing "Lets look for the purple banana til they throw us in the trunk" instead of truck and I was confused. Why would they throw you in the trunk for finding a purple banana?

LadyLayla said:

Here's a goody! First few times I heard Controversy on the radio...couldn't catch the name of the song:

Am I black or white?

Am I straight or gay?

Count your blessings

LMAO! That's the exact thing my mom thought he was saying on that part, until I corrected her. I, on the other hand was getting the other part wrong I thought the song went:

Am I black or white?

Am I straight, okay?

Controversy...

Looking back, it's hilarious!

Little Red Corvette was another one where I got the lyrics wrong. I thought he said: "I guess I should have known by the way you parked your car outside, ways that it wouldn't last". Just recently, I found out he was saying: "I guess I should have known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn't last. Smh...

I remember hearing Erotic City on the radio when I was younger and I thought the first line was"If we cannot eat babies maybe we can make some time" instead of "If we cannot make babies, maybe we can make some time"

Sometimes I still sing "eat" instead of "make" and I always catch myself and start laughing like the idiot that I am

DarlingKris said:

I remember hearing Erotic City on the radio when I was younger and I thought the first line was"If we cannot eat babies maybe we can make some time" instead of "If we cannot make babies, maybe we can make some time"

Sometimes I still sing "eat" instead of "make" and I always catch myself and start laughing like the idiot that I am

I know right, Same thing here with those lines from Controversy and Little Red Corvette.

LadyLayla said:

Here's a goody! First few times I heard Controversy on the radio...couldn't catch the name of the song:

Am I black or white?

Am I straight or gay?

Count your blessings

I had a friend that thought it was "count your pussy."

Inasenselost said:

Embarrassed to say, but for waaayyy too long after first hearing "1999", my mom and I agreed that Prince was saying, "Two thousand zero zero/ my deodorant's outta time!" We rationalized that by thinking of when we'd sweat in the heat of a party ("like it's 1999..."), or maybe outdoors in summer heat and had the feeling that deodorant wasn't going to do the work...it would be "outta time". That became a running joke in our family [Edited 10/6/16 18:03pm]

I'm wheezing

DarlingKris said:

oceancrayon said:

In the song Vicki Waiting, the first few times I listened I swore the line was: Taco Children still frighten me I thought it was a weird and kinda racist line lol

So funny!!!!

Inasenselost said:

Embarrassed to say, but for waaayyy too long after first hearing "1999", my mom and I agreed that Prince was saying, "Two thousand zero zero/ my deodorant's outta time!" We rationalized that by thinking of when we'd sweat in the heat of a party ("like it's 1999..."), or maybe outdoors in summer heat and had the feeling that deodorant wasn't going to do the work...it would be "outta time". That became a running joke in our family [Edited 10/6/16 18:03pm]

Cant take it. hillarious!!!!