This is a list of Queen song quotes where people have heard the wrong words, be it due to lack of foreign language knowledge and having no lyrics sheet, or just listening and never thinking about looking into the lyrics sheet, or wrong lyrics in a book (wasn't there an Argentinian one? Or take a look at the Starfleet songs on the Japanese 'Resurrection' mini LP...), from someone who doesn't know too much about Queen, or just for being funny, or whatever...
Or maybe in some places, Freddie (or whoever sang a particular song) was
making fun and singing deliberately 'wrong'...??? :)
(There's a story of something like that about Jimi Hendrix acting like
kissing one of his band members on stage to the line "kiss the sky" -- see
www.kissthisguy.com, a
collection of lots of misheard lyrics of many artists.)
They are collected from threads on the Queen Mailing Service (QMS) in 1996 to 1998, and some added later, ordered chronologically after the songs'/albums' release dates, with solo songs after that. Some are pretty funny, some so-so -- anyway, if you've got any more, post them to the QMS, or e-mail them to me if you're not on the QMS.
Thanks to all for your lyrics!
(I generally don't give individual credits here -- if you *really* *need* that
and otherwise want me to remove your line, or if you want yours to be removed for
whatever other reason, write to me.)
>>> Many new additions (Feb. 2006) are written bold - thanks to Alexa from Queen Romania (www.queenromania.co.nr)!
| Song: | Misheard Lyrics: | Correct Lyrics: |
|---|---|---|
| pre-Queen: | ||
| Step On Me | you're just a fat man, worry | you're just a bad memory |
| Going Back | I think of you in my eyes, of those days I heard so well in my youth | I think I'm going back to the things I learned so well in my youth |
| No more cummering (?!) moves, no Christmas with no jive | No more coloring books, no Christmas bells to chime | |
| I have a laundry bag to rule reality | Then everyone debates the true reality | |
| Queen: | ||
| Keep Yourself Alive | I ate a million tennis balls... | million dinners brought [to me on silver trays] |
| Well, I loved a million women and a Belly Dancer Caze | ...in a belladonic haze | |
| in a bed of Donnie Kay's | ||
| Monty grow a little wiser... | Am I to grow a little wiser... | |
| Well I saw a million mirrors in a shopping alley way | Well I sold a million mirrors in a shop in Alley Way | |
| now they say: you're concentrating you, be a superstar! Can you keep me satisfied? Stay back right where you are! |
now they say your folks are telling you Be a super star But I tell you just be satisfied Stay right where you are |
|
| Doing All Right | fairy time in all the world | there ain't time in all the world |
| Doing all night | ||
| Ogre Battle | Where the mighty doggie catcher flies | With a mighty tongue he catches flies |
| with the palm of his hands, incredible thighs | ...incredible size | |
| When the piper is gone and the sweep is folding the table | ...and the soup is cold on the table | |
| The ogre men are still inside the two way mirror fountain | ...mountain | |
| You go blow that trumpet cry | Bugle blow let trumpet cry | |
| Son And Daughter | You said you'd need cool any man for having your fun | You said you'd equal any man... |
| Now didn't you feel surprised to find the Captions didn't Fit | ...the cap just didn't fit | |
| Try to be a solid door to roll into | Tried to be a son and daughter rolled into one | |
| Try to be a teacher and a preacher of men | Tried to be a teacher and a fisher of men | |
| Will you lead the son of sam | Well you lead us all the same | |
| See What A Fool I've Been (live versions) | an outrageous torture | a train to Georgia |
| Father To Son | a warrior ear | a word in your ear |
| White Queen | I want my brown and life is kiss | Upon my brow the lightest kiss |
| Fairy Feller's Master Stroke | Pedagogue quinting where's the crown? And a saytr pees under ladies' gown |
Pedagogue squinting wears a frown And a saytr peers under ladies' gown |
| March Of The Black Queen | we'll find the monkeys playing in the dead of night | blue powder monkeys... |
| here comes the black queen poking in the fire | ...in the pile | |
| the black queen tattoos on her thighs | ...all her pies | |
| Seven Seas of Rhye | I challenge the mighty Titan and his stupid horse | ...and his Troubadours |
| Some of us Americans like drive-thrus | Storm the master marathon I'll fly through | |
| Brighton Rock | He got mustard on his pants | Nothing can my love erase |
| Killer Queen | She keeps on moaning and chanting in a pretty cabinet | She keeps her Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet |
| she keeps her mower and shovel in a pretty cabinet | ||
| a built in remedy to quit his job and leave the scene | a built in remedy for Krushchev and Kennedy | |
| Building a remedy | a built-in remedy | |
| gun fighter, jellybean, tiny mite with a laser beam | gunpowder, gelatine, dynamite with a laser beam | |
| What a drag! | Wanna try? | |
| Though a boy conversation, she never kept the same address | To avoid complications, she... | |
| Middle man from China, conjugation minor | Met a man from China, went down to Geisha Minah | |
| Particular, set and precise | Fastidious and precise | |
| absolutely dry | absolutely drives you wild | |
| reversed in etiquette | well versed in etiquette | |
| your planet went high | If you're that way inclined | |
| Achoo! | she's out to get you | |
| Flick Of The Wrist | Prostitute your selfish sense | prostitute yourself he says |
| Now I'm here | Down in the city just new ball and me | ...just hoople and me |
| Down in the dungeon, just preachers and me | Down in the dungeon, just Peaches and me | |
| Down in the dungeon, just bitches and me | ||
| Death On Two Legs | You break the law and you preach | You break the law and you breach |
| You break the law and you breed | ||
| fools of the first edition | fools of the first division | |
| a new toy to neglect me | to replace me | |
| so no one gives you advance | so no one gives you a damn | |
| you're just an older grown schoolboy let me tell you white talk with disease |
over-grown schoolboy let me tan your hide a dog with disease |
|
| Oh, my!!!... Noooo | Mr. Know-all | |
| was to feed on the back part of the team... Shock! | was the fin on your back part of the deal... (shark) | |
| I'm In Love With My Car | boy race aroma | boy racer rollbar |
| rather buy me a new car Beretta | rather buy me a new carburettor | |
| You're My Best Friend | I'm happy, happy groundhog | ... at home |
| Good Company | Now Mary's in an institution | Now marriage is an institution |
| Love Of My Life | when this is got over and everything's old, by the way | when this is blown over and everything's all by the way. |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Bohemian Rap City | |
| Bohemian raspberry | ||
| bahium rapcity | ||
| Is this the real life, is this just Battersea | ...just fantasy | |
| hit me where the wind blows | any way the wind blows | |
| Mama, too scared of death | Mama, just killed a man | |
| Body's aching of a child ("I actually thought the line was about his mother who was pregnant and had a bad time because of it") |
Body's aching all the time | |
| Gotta leave it all behind and take a cruise | ...and face the truth | |
| Caught a moose, caught a moose | Scaramouche, Scaramouche | |
| Spare him his life for his pork sausages | ...from this monstrosity | |
| Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard | Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me | |
| The algebra has a devil put aside for me | ||
| So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye | So you think you can stone me... | |
| just gotta get right out mama mia | just gotta get right out of here | |
| Sail Away Sweet Sister | You wanna stop like a lady | You're all dressed up like lady |
| Tie Your Mother Down | Take your little brother, swing him, and break him (that's all right) | Take your little brother swimming with a brick (that's all right) |
| ...swigg him with a brick... | ||
| Somebody to Love | I'm alright, I ain't got my face in my feet | I'm alright, I ain't gonna face no defeat |
| Each morning I get out my diary | Each morning I get up, I die a little | |
| Good old fashioned lover boy | I look my passion in the good old fashioned screwed-up lover boys | I learned my passion in the good old fashioned school of lover boys |
| Come on and see my heart, see the blood | Come on and sit in my hot seat of love | |
| Drowse | I think I'll become a policeman. (Unintelligible line.) Follow me in the squad car. Now who else do I like. |
Maybe I'll be Clint Eastwood Jimi Hendrix, (he is great) John Lennon, Paul McCartney Now who else do I like? (?) |
| We Will Rock You | kickin' your cat all over the place | kickin' your can all over the place |
| Blood on your face, big disc brakes | Blood on your face, big disgrace | |
| We Are The Champions | We'll keep on farting 'til the end | ...fighting... |
| Spread Your Wings | Seven year old, just watching the show | Sammy was low, just watching the show |
| Louie was tired, he made up his mind... | Knew it was time... | |
| Fat Bottomed Girls | never knew no good from bad, but I knew life before I left my first degree | ...before I left my nursery |
| I seen ev'ry blue-eyed floozy ALL the way | I seen ev'ry blue-eyed floozy on the way | |
| take me to them lardy ladies every time | take me to them dirty ladies every time | |
| Take me to those lordly ladies all the time | Take me to them dirty ladies every time | |
| You made a fat boy out of me | You made a bad boy out of me | |
| I've got syphyllis in my bones | I've got stiffness in my bones | |
| I've got more to lose than home, I've got stiffness in my bones, Ain't no beauty queen or dislocality |
Now your mortgages and homes, And the stiffness in your bones, Ain't no beauty queens in this locality |
|
| Bicycle Race | You say black, I say white You say bark, I say fight You say shock, I say him And George was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars |
You say black, I say white You say bark, I say bite You say shark, I say hey man Jaws was never my scene, and I don't like Star Wars |
| You say coke, I say cake You say jump, I say wait Hot dog, I say cool it man I don't want to think of razatat up on America You say smile, I say cheese Go yank, leave! Income tax, I say gee I don't want to be a candidate for a Vietnam or a Watergate |
You say coke, I say caine You say John, I say Wayne I don't wanna be the President of America You say smile, I say cheese Cartier, I say please Income tax, I say Jesus I don't wanna be a candidate for Vietnam or Watergate |
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| Don't want to be a candidate, or be at number 1 again | Don't want to be a candidate, for vietnam or watergate | |
| George was never my scene ("I always thought it was about George Lucas :)") |
Jaws was never my scene | |
| give me your toy | give me a choice | |
| you say shock | you say shark | |
| form your models | on your marks | |
| I want to ride it well, I like | I want to ride it where I like | |
| If You Can't Beat Them | Keep your big ass off of my money | keep your fingers... |
| Let Me Entertain You | The engineer's in traction... we gotta play some chess | The S and M attraction... we've got the pleasure chest |
| The Internet attraction | The S and M attraction | |
| In Only Seven Days | my luggage changed | my luck had changed |
| Leaving Home Ain't Easy | Disenroll the hair | There's a road ahead |
| Don't Stop Me Now | I feel light | I feel alive |
| I close my eyes in ecstasy | floating around in ecstasy | |
| verging to the sky | burning through the sky | |
| just wanna call me Mr. Fahrenheit | that's why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit | |
| I get religion cos I'm a satellite | on a collision course I'm a satellite | |
| like a Rolling Stone | like an atom bomb | |
| More Of That Jazz | Can of paint | Kinda thinking [I've heard that line before] |
| Another One Bites The Dust | Steam rolls verily down the street | Steve walks warily down the street with his brim pulled way down low |
| Steamboats rarely down the street | ||
| steamboats barreling down the street the simple way I know |
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| Steamboats walking down the street Oo ee i oh. |
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| where the bullets wrestle | [door]way the bullets rip | |
| I wanna buy a Datsun | Another one bites the dust | |
| Another one bites the nuts | ||
| My mother lung fights the bus | ||
| Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Shakes all over like jelly beans (also on Japanese 7" lyrics sheet...) |
Shakes all over like a jelly fish |
| Shakes all over I can tell you too | ||
| She gives me heart-blowin' fever | She gives me hot and cold fever | |
| Save Me | To start again with some budding youth | To start again with somebody new |
| Sailing | Save me | |
| Dancer | [unintelligible] are too big for them | "Guten Morgen, Sie wünschten geweckt zu werden" (German wake-up phone call near the end of the song) |
| Back Chat | You stand so tall, you don't FLATTER me at all | ...frighten... |
| big chest | back chat | |
| Body Language | You got red legs, sparks in your eyes Long body, great thighs |
You got red lips, snakes in your eyes Long legs, great thighs |
| You caught the cutest bass I've ever cleaned | You got the cutest ass I've ever seen | |
| Las Palabras De Amor | What foolish words, so many songs | One foolish world, so many souls |
| Speak any term | Speak any tongue | |
| this room is bad | this room is bare | |
| and then my love will may whisper once more | and then my love we may whisper once more | |
| Radio Ga Ga | background notes | background noise |
| A backed up phone for the girls and boys | A backdrop for the girls and boys | |
| I just don't know, I just don't care and just don't pray | who just don't know, who just don't care and just complain | |
| you find the stars | you've yet to have your finest hour | |
| so sneak around, cos we will miss you when we grow tired of all this vision | so stick around, cos we might miss you when we get tired of all this visual | |
| It's a Hard Life | This is a grave situation | This is a tricky situation |
| Machines | Mushrooms | Machines |
| Hammer To Fall | Let your fires be washed away | Lift your face the Western Way |
| Let the Addams Family cover it all! | Let the anaesthetic cover it all | |
| The Flintstones voices can be heard | convinced our voices can't be heard | |
| just a runner and it won't hurt at all | Just surrender and it won't hurt at all | |
| Let your world be famous But I'm thru it's all the same, Like your dog I'm famous Through the will, the pain |
Rich or poor or famous for Your truth it's all the same Lock your door but rain is pouring Through your window pane |
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| Is This The World We Created? | (not misheard, but) interpreting the line as a reference to Freddie on the Toilet | Somewhere a Wealthy Man Is Sitting On his Throne |
| One Vision | One heart, one soul, just one sore loser | ...just one solution |
| A Kind Of Magic | The day will dawn - it's saturday | The day will dawn of sanity |
| This day will dawn on Saturday | ||
| No model man can win this day | No mortal man can win this day | |
| No modern man can win this day | ||
| no more romance than in this day | ||
| It's charming - the doors of time | It's challenging the doors of time | |
| Challenging the dawn of time | ||
| This RAVE that lasts a thousand years | This rage... | |
| this ray that lasts a 1000 years | ||
| I'm here in secret harmony | I'm hearing secret harmonies | |
| I'm here in secret, I'm alone | ||
| One Year Of Love | It always a-raining down without you | It's always a rainy day without you |
| Who Wants To Live Forever | touch my wart with your fingertips | touch my world with your finger tips |
| Don't Lose Your Head | don't lose your hair | don't lose your head |
| Princes of the Universe | I have been syphoning blood of kings | I have inside me blood of kings |
| Blood!! I'll kill! | blood of kings | |
| I am a mortal, I have inside me pork and beans. I have no mival, no sand candy my evil, take me to the future at the mall! | I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings. I have no rival, no man can be my equal, take me to the future of your world! | |
| I Want It All | A turtle picker | adventure seeker |
| anti-cleaver | Just an alley creaper, light on his feet | |
| Just a man named Cleaver | ||
| Just an alley cleaner, Lying on his feet | ||
| Breakthru | your face feels like mine | ...fills my mind |
| Your face falls on mine | ||
| Your smile speaks books to me - I wake up with each and every one of your lips to read | ...with each and every one of your looks at me | |
| grapefruit | breakthru | |
| The Miracle | Mothers, fathers, dead and gone, it's America | ...it's a miracle |
| Golden Gate and touch my heart | ...and Taj Mahal | |
| Invisible Man | Ronatello | Rrrroger Taylor |
| Rapid Hedgehog | ||
| I'll bite your head off | ||
| RRRRATTATERO | ||
| Buy Me! Buy Me! | Brian May, Brian May | |
| Right-left Right-Left | ||
| Let my fat unfurl | Let my flag unfurl | |
| I am mean non-stop | I'm your meanest thought | |
| I'm your meanest song, I'm your darkest film | I'm your meanest thought, I'm your darkest fear | |
| When something sits - at the end of your beard | ...at the end of your bed | |
| Innuendo | Surrender your eagle | Surrender your ego |
| Surrender your evil | ||
| Show yourself, destroy our fears, "Police!" you may ask! | ... release your mask | |
| Headlong | Anti-Russian Eggnogg | And you're rushin' Headlong! |
| auntie Russian eggnogg | ||
| anti-Russian hedge-hog | ||
| and you're Russian hedgehog | ||
| Put your russian hat on! | ||
| get your russian hands off | ||
| bite your russian hands off | ||
| horny | 'headlong' backwards (at the end) | |
| Don't Try So Hard | Pauly Shore is shining buttons | Polish all your shiny buttons |
| Mad The Swine | I woke up on the water just like before | I walk upon the water just like before |
| The Show Must Go On | I must be woman now | I must be warmer now |
| Heaven for Everyone | This could be habit-forming | This could be heaven... (over and over again pretty fast at the end of the song) |
| smooth my eyes | Smooth my ride | |
| I was born to love you | I was bone to love you (on one of the verses on the Japanese 3" CD single) |
I was born to love you |
| Too much love will kill you | Idiot | In the end |
| Freddie: | ||
| In My Defence | I'm just a swimmer with a thong | I'm just a singer with a song |
| Living On My Own | Three Old Ladies | chorus "dee do de de" |
| rumpy bumpy Bob Dole | rumpy bumpy bup oh (or so) | |
| Brian: | ||
| Driven By You | piss wine | this ride |
| I'm Scared | hab's g'hert (German dialect for "hab' es gehört" = "heard it" -- from my mother...) | I'm scared (esp. when repeated often and fast) |
| China Belle | I met a man who knew her Dad, he said "You know who I am" | I met a man from Abu Dhabi said ... |
| On My Way Up | Well I'm naked, I'm telling you | But I'll make it, I'm telling you |
| I totally suck | I'm totally sussed | |
| life totally sucks | ||
| Wilderness | Fashion a dream of Heaven Holy cows again... | Fashion a dream of Heaven Hold it close again |
| Roger: | ||
| Is It Me? | I'm not for you | And I feel |
| Believe In Yourself | Elvis, they said you were straight | Elvis, deciduous trees |
Note: I've moved those few with sexual references to a separate file (as I've been asked by someone), so those who might be offended can choose whether to read them (or maybe try to block it from their children).