THAT'S What They Said In The Song?: Lyrics You Got Wrong

[M.C. Guevera]

So you're listening to the Beastie Boys, you're bobbing your head, and you're singing along or rapping along to the words. You think you got the song down pat, but then, one day, you go on a lyrics website, or you listen to your friend or family member rapping or singing the song, or you just hear it better one day, and you realize that you got a lyric or two wrong. They actually said something that was different from what you thought they said, prompting you to think "THAT'S what they said in the song?"

So this is what this thread is about, Beastie Boys lyrics you have gotten wrong.Has this ever happened to you? Because I know this has happened to me more than once.

For example: from "Paul Revere"

Now my name is MCA I've got a license to kill
I think you know what time it is
It's time to get ill
Now what do we have here
An outlaw and his beer?
I run this land, you understand I make myself clear

But what I heard was:

Now my name is MCA I've got a license to kill
I think you know what time it is
It's time to get ill
Now what do we have here
An apple and his beer?
gjglfjfklfjkfljdlgjfglfgjf (This is to represent mumbling as that's what I heard when I heard this part)

This was what I thought I heard for a good year or so, before I heard the song one day and finally heard MCA say "Outlaw" and not "Apple". Boy was my face red!

Another example: From "Sure Shot"

I Keep My Underwear Up With A Piece Of Elastic
I Use A Bullshit Mic That's Made Out Of Plastic
To Send My Rhymes Out To All The Nations
Like Ma Bell, I've Got The Ill Communications

What I heard:

I keep my underwear rocking with a piece of elastic
No bullshit walking skate on me, skate on me
I send my rhymes out to all the nations
On my belt, I've got the ill communication

"Skate On Me Skate On Me" is what I actually heard. It was thanks to that damn echo effect that was used in that part of the song that made me think MCA was saying "Skate on me" twice. To this day, I STILL get that part wrong.

I've been wrong many times before, but those are just the two top extreme examples off the top of my head. You ever got a lyric slightly wrong or COMPLETELY wrong? Speak out (or type it out in this case) or forever hold your peace.

[KENNY GUIDO]

well, differnet lyrics were posted in various magazines on the lines to "the new style"

I read lyrics:

I've got money and juice - twin sisters in my bed
Their father had aids so I shot him in the head


this was in a magazine interview.

[kleptomaniac]

Paul Revere--"stick 'em up!" still sounds like "tinkerbell!" (!)

[ggirlballa]

hey ladies

"ladies flock like bees to a hive"

i heard: "ladies fuck like bees in a hive

[Mr. Smacktackle]

3 mc's and one dj

MCA: I grab a hold of a mic and let the words glide

I heard: I have a hole in the mic and let the words glide

It just made sense!!!!!:D

[ggirlballa]

my dad is mexican so his english is a lil bad but when i played Girls AdRock says "jockin Mike D to my dismay"

my dad said he heard "Jockin my dick to my dismay":eek:

hahahaha after i rewinded and explained we both had a good laugh:p :D

[Nomen Nescio]

Paul's Boutique - 3 Minute Rule

I heard:

Jump the turnstile never pay the tool
Doo wa diddy bust with the pre-roll
Customs jail me over an herb seed
Don't rat on your boy OH THAT'S rat weed (I pictured like he just saw or smoked some bammer)

Actual:

Jump the turnstile never pay the tool
Doo wa diddy bust with the pre-roll
Customs jail me over an herb seed
Don't rat on your boy over some rat weed

[razmatazern]

in brass monkey i always thought they said:

brass monkey, that funky monkey
brass monkey-chunky
that funky monkey

i just recently looked up the lyrics and realized they said "junkie". all my friends thought they said chunky also...i guess ben and jerry's made us think that (chunky monkey)

[KENNY GUIDO]

Paul's Boutique - 3 Minute Rule

I heard:

Jump the turnstile never pay the tool
Doo wa diddy bust with the pre-roll
Customs jail me over an herb seed
Don't rat on your boy OH THAT'S rat weed (I pictured like he just saw or smoked some bammer)

Actual:

Jump the turnstile never pay the tool
Doo wa diddy bust with the pre-roll
Customs jail me over an herb seed
Don't rat on your boy over some rat weed


actually, i think its "toll", no?

[freetibet]

1. I used to listen to some gig a lot, I think that was Loreley, or maybe Sydney '99. Anyways the Boys made same bullshit talk between songs and the they were about to count down before Time to get ill, and they had a 'quarrel'. Adrock yelled 'You coun't it down Mike!' and then some of them 'After the show we'll kick this out' [I thought it meant they were gonna kick each other asses and fight to see who was right]. I posted that and somebody told me it was like 'After the show we'll kick the sack' or sth. I know it makes little sense, what I've written right now.



2. This has been buggin' me since I learned Sure show by heart.

'So I'm Supposed To Sit Upon My Couch Just Watching My T.V.' ----

I fucking hear: 'So I'm sepd (...)'

:confused:

[Farrah]

in brass monkey i always thought they said:

brass monkey, that funky monkey
brass monkey-chunky
that funky monkey

i just recently looked up the lyrics and realized they said "junkie". all my friends thought they said chunky also...i guess ben and jerry's made us think that (chunky monkey)

i though it was chunky too.

[alexandra]

a chunky funky junkie with his brass monkey...

anyway, the only one i can think of right now is

i fucked around and then i lost my shoe (tooth) /Adrock in "Skills To Pay The Bills"

so i always imagined him walking around with only one shoe.

[beastieluver85]

a chunky funky junkie with his brass monkey...

anyway, the only one i can think of right now is

i fucked around and then i lost my shoe (tooth) /Adrock in "Skills To Pay The Bills"

so i always imagined him walking around with only one shoe.
LOL... my problem is not mis understood lyrics.There is times where I dont know what the say...(only like 1-2 times).

[Libby]

2. This has been buggin' me since I learned Sure show by heart.

'So I'm Supposed To Sit Upon My Couch Just Watching My T.V.' ----

I fucking hear: 'So I'm sepd (...)'

:confused:[/QUOTE]

yeah, that line pissed me off for the longest time, reads way different than it sounds....

[abcdefz]

hey ladies

"ladies flock like bees to a hive"

i heard: "ladies fuck like bees in a hive



Yup.

[Chicka B]

I got a lot. I hate it when I mishear lyrics. :(

I've always heard from Sounds Of Science "Rock my penis, never rock tequila" but it's actually "Rock my Adidas never rock Fila".

On Car Thief I heard "Homeboy go in the tower" instead of "Homeboy throw in the towel".

In Hey Ladies I heard "Took of my boxers, put on a bib" instead of "I took off her moccasins and put on my bib"

Also in Hey Ladies I heard "She snuck into a cannon (cannon)" instead of "She's talking to the kid to the kid", no wonder I was so confused. :rolleyes:

Whoa, those are all from Paul's Boutique. There might be more I just haven't discovered yet.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

On Hello Nasty (my favorite Beastie Boys record, and record of all-time) on the song "Flowin' Prose'" MCA says "Keepin' calm under pressure like a deep sea range". I thought he said "deep sea rain" and I thought the idea of under water rain was just cool.....so cool I made my board name "Deep_Sea_Rain".

:D

[alexandra]

^ a misheard username, gotta love it. :D it sounds good tho'.

[Lex Diamonds]

I've never had a problem hearing what the Beastie Boys are saying. I have been listening to much more incomprehensible rappers since I was a small thing, so I guess I've just developed an ear for rap lyrics or some shit.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

I've never had a problem hearing what the Beastie Boys are saying. I have been listening to much more incomprehensible rappers since I was a small thing, so I guess I've just developed an ear for rap lyrics or some shit.

Neither do I, and now its not a problem. But I made the username years ago...before I started listening to so much hip hop.

[jackrock]

Sure Shot... Mike D says, "To All The Party People That Are On My Bozack"
I thought he said, "To All The Party People That Are On My Ballsack"

Sure Shot again... Adrock says, "listen everybody cause im shiftin' gears"
To me it always sounds like, "listen everybody cause im shiftin' gizum"
still sounds like that actually.

[ggirlballa]

i always hear "listen evrybody cuz i'm the shit that givz them" ????:confused:

[kleptomaniac]

In Hey Ladies I heard "Took of my boxers, put on a bib" instead of "I took off her moccasins and put on my bib".

i heard that too! :eek:
and i like that version better mmhmm

[Chicka B]

i heard that too! :eek:
and i like that version better mmhmm

Yeah I do too. :D

[Jmoney77]

dunno?

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

Sure Shot... Mike D says, "To All The Party People That Are On My Bozack"
I thought he said, "To All The Party People That Are On My Ballsack"

Sure Shot again... Adrock says, "listen everybody cause im shiftin' gears"
To me it always sounds like, "listen everybody cause im shiftin' gizum"
still sounds like that actually.

Yep, Adrock adds an "I'm" after "gears" to make it sound like "gizum". The "I'm" is part of the next rhyme....

"Listen everybody 'cause I'm shiftin' gears I'm fresh like Dougy when I get my specs in, on the microphone I'm conquerin'."

[liberty_a320]

well, differnet lyrics were posted in various magazines on the lines to "the new style"

I read lyrics:

I've got money and juice - twin sisters in my bed
Their father had aids so I shot him in the head


this was in a magazine interview.

I've seen this, too.


Yep, Adrock adds an "I'm" after "gears" to make it sound like "gizum". The "I'm" is part of the next rhyme....

"Listen everybody 'cause I'm shiftin' gears I'm fresh like Dougy when I get my specs in, on the microphone I'm conquerin'."

It's "on the microphone I come correct" (looked it up to verify, too)... another misheard lyric? :D

[enree erzweglle]

This is not BB related, but it's my funny "got it wrong" lyric. Until just a few years ago, when John Lennon sang instant karma's gonna get you, I always thought he was saying, it's the cops they're gonna get you.