TuNesDay's Misheard Lyrics 2024

Hey, it's Waters from the Waters' Wake Up Call.

Always a fun Tuesday when we're talking about misheard lyrics.

Clear water, revival, bad moon rising.

For bathroom on the right?

Yeah.

I was eight years old when that was popular and I would go around singing it that way and my sister told me, no, that's not what it means.

They're not singing about a bathroom on the right?

No.

No!

But I said that's what they're saying!

Right!

There's all this apocalyptic stuff going on.

Don't come around tonight.

You're bound to lose your life.

Oh, and by the way, there's a bathroom on the right if you need to wee-wee or if you need some time by yourself because of all the crap that's going on.

No kidding.

So I guess it would make sense if you think about it that way.

Well, it did to an eight-year-old.

Well, anything makes sense to an eight-year-old.

You know nothing.

You know nothing.

Either everything makes sense or nothing makes sense.

That's kind of how it is.

Exactly.

I just had

a

subject I wanted to bring up on a random Wednesday.

That's

tomorrow, you

know.

Oh.

Well, the number of songs that are about chewing tobacco.

Yeah?

How many are there?

Quite a few.

Really?

I

can't name one.

I'll name the big ones.

Okay.

You too.

I want you.

I want... I want to...

I got that wrong, the Beatles.

I want you.

Oh, I want you.

And they always refer to their chewing tobacco as she, because it's always a big canister.

That's why the other line is she's so heavy.

And the U2 one, I can't live with or without Chew.

Right, yes.

He's not trying to quit, but he doesn't want

to.

You're turning me on to a whole new thing, man.

It's the same thing with... You can use that tomorrow for a random Wednesday.

I can do it today!

It's Mr. Lyrics, man!

You got me all confused!

In Big Shot by Billy Joel, I always thought he said, Big Shot Teacher.

Teacher?

Did it?

Yes.

Instead of didn't ya?

Yes.

You thought you were a Big Shot Teacher?

You listen to it, you'll hear

it.

You know, I have no doubts.

So that'll be the next song I play, Big Shot Teacher.

And how about we dedicate it to all the Big Shot teachers?

Yes.

I wouldn't want to do

all those screaming kids and and becoming teenagers and still screaming No, I like the the peace and quiet of my little studio here I can crank the tunes if I want loud I can turn them down.

That's what kids need a volume knob Yes, and a mute little mute switch

would be great

Yeah, I'm gonna invent that.

I'm gonna invent that and make a trillion dollars.

I'll make it for parents, I'll make it for grandparents, I'll make it for teachers, pediatricians, all that.

Good morning.

Good morning.

How are you?

I am good.

I got a, um, I got a song lyric thing that's pretty funny from a few years back.

Oh, good.

I had a friend was in the, in the car with her and the nothing, uh, nothing's going to stop us now from Starship comes on.

Yeah.

So it gets to the point where they're supposed to sing or they do actually sing standing strong forever.

Right.

And he's belting out, um, stand, stand in store forever.

And because she was so insistent because it was from the movie Mannequin, that she was right.

Well, she

was.

I thought that was pretty classic.

That's funny.

Stand in store.

Yeah, you would think, what the hell does that mean?

But then you realize in the movie Mannequin, they're in the store.

They're locked in the store all night.

Right.

She was pretty sure she was right.

I was like, no.

Yeah, she's still not right, but

that's not it.

But

yeah, but I thought it made me drive into work.

And I thought when I get to work, I got a call.

Strong store, same

thing.

I can't unhear it now though.

I mean,

when it comes on, I go, that's what I hear.

And then I think of her, so.

Yeah.

Well, that's good then.

That's good.

And you probably laugh a little bit.

I do.

I do.

Thanks for the memory.

Hey, what's going on?

Hey, man, I'm Dino from Dyersville.

Dino from Dyersville.

Well, how are you there, Dino?

I'm pretty good today.

Good.

You're talking about misinterpreted lyrics.

Yeah, or misheard lyrics or Monday.

greens as they're

called.

When I was in the service back in the day, I had a guy from Spain that was in our outfit.

And there were two songs that were out at that time.

One was Elton John's Island Girl.

Okay.

And he would go around singing, I like girls.

And I said, Tony, Tony, it's not I like girls.

It's Island Girls.

Like we were stationed in Hawaii.

The other song was The Eagles, Lying Eyes.

And he would go around saying Hawaiian eyes.

There ain't no way to hide your Hawaiian.

And it was so funny.

And then the third one is my own mistake when Genesis came out with Invisible

Touch.

I would sit there and think they were saying she seems to have

Just the way he said it and then finally I bought the record.

I thought how could I make such a mistake?

Yeah, it doesn't sound anything like invisible touch No, but that was my own fault.

But

yeah, I still think about that today and I laugh every time I hear the songs on the radio But I wanted to share it with you and I'm a first-time crawler and I enjoy listening to you every day Well,

thank you Dino and thank you for your service, of course

You're welcome.

Keep up the good work.

I enjoy the radio station.

All right.

Well, thank you, Dino.

It's good to hear from you finally.

Thank you.

Take care.

All right, you too, man.

Thanks.

Bye-bye.

My daughter was 12 now.

When she was four, we were listening to Bon Jovi.

Yeah.

And she was sitting in the backseat.

And all of a sudden, we heard, whoa, living on air.

That's kind of a joke.

And I kind of figured out that she figured out the meaning of life.

going well, you're living on air, and if it's not, you're just living on a prayer.

Well, yeah, you pray you stay up in the air and not fall down on your bottom.

You know what I mean?

For

sure.

It's got to be the cutest thing in the world to hear a four-year-old from the back seat singing Bon Jovi, and the wrong lyrics are just makes it cuter, I guess.

Yeah.

And still to this day, we still sing her lyrics when it comes on the radio.

And I think I'm going to now as well.

Live on the air.

I think

you should too.

Because I do.

I am living on the air.

That's what I do all morning.

That's true.

I've got a misheard lyric by me at least.

Yes.

That I just realized here like in the last month.

Yeah.

I was watching a video of Steve Miller.

Apparently, I can't understand Steve ever.

I guess.

Fly like an eagle.

And the lines, you know, he talks about...

about how's the people living the streets, be the children that need to eat, all that sort of thing.

And

it ends with a line of, oh, revolution, the revolution, or something like that.

I always thought, you get that line, he said, oh, there's a solution, which makes perfect sense to me.

Well, I think the actual lyric is there's a solution.

That's why I heard all those years.

I never even heard revolution in it.

The lyric is, I want to feed the babies who can't get enough to eat.

I want to shoe the children new shoes on their feet.

I want to house the

people living in the street, oh, there's a solution.

That is the right lyric.

I was hearing it right.

Yeah.

So you said you saw a live version of Steve Miller doing that.

Musicians will change the lyric on a song that they've been singing the same way for decades and think, well, you know, I think I'd rather turn that word into this word.

So solution became a revolution for at least that particular live show.

Well, then I heard the, I think it was a studio version later on.

It's the 20th revolution that won a left-point in it.

Yep.

That

should be Mount Vernon's song.

That's great.

I love that one.

Okay.

Have

you tested this?

Have you listened to it and heard Ted Nansen?

You know,

it can be a practical warning at times, really.

Yeah,

that's what I

thought.

Yeah, I think... Two songs, I'm gonna do the

words.

Basically, your mind is gonna sit on somebody, you know?

The mind is on you.

So, sitting on...

The thing is, even now, I sing it that way, until I catch

myself.

It's like your brain is programmed now, because that's the way you first heard it, and probably for years, I might sit on you is what you were singing with George.

That's great and silly and awesome all at the same time.

Right.

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