Don't Bring Me Down, BRUCE! Misheard Lyrics UPDATED

On Fridays here at aka Chesty Larue I have decided to be a complete slacker and simply reprint some of my favorite posts from my old blog.  These are those stories. (You can hear the DUN-DUN in your head, can't you?)

Because some of my previous posts have not been very cheerful, I am guaranteeing a fun post today.  SO!  A fun post that is guaranteed to be fun.  Really.  If you are not happy I will send you a dollar.

I was driving in the car the other day and listening to my 80's Mix CD which was kindly provided by Cheap Chick over there on the left,  (TURN UP THE RADIO!)  and found myself having lyrics issues again.  Some are common to others, some are LaRue-Specific.  Let's share, shall we?

He was so fabulous.

1.  (Hee.  I tried to type "Another One Bites the Dust, but inserted "Bust" instead.  Turns out its a real song.  Who knew?)  Did you know the beginning is 'Steve walks warily down the street?'  No?  Did you always think it was "she walks way long down the street?"  You would be in good company.  And the line "Hey, Oh take it, Bites the dust, Bite the dust, hey!"  Always sounded like "Hey!  Oh take it!  I'm adopted!"  Which really makes no sense to me.  But hey!  According to http://www.kissthisguy.com, I am NOT the only one who heard this!  YES!  (You may insert "Another One Rides the Bus" if you so choose.)

That is a lot of permed hair, right there.

2.  There is the Classic S, which is that she thought "Evil Woman" (e-e-e-vil woman!) was actually "Medieval Woman".   Which apparently is quite common, and also apparently did NOT occur to me until she said it.

When bad tanning happens to good people.

3.  OK, this is not a LaRue misheard Lyric, but is damn funny.  I was looking up "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go!", which someone thought was "Wake Me Up and Throw Your Cocoa".  Hee.  CHOOSE LIFE! GO-GO!  (Not an abortion thing, a George Michael thing.)  I love Andrew Ridgeley.  Probably more than my label-maker.   

"I am so regretting not using that Ben-Gay about now."

4.  "What a Feeling!  Bees are Beating!'  Um no, that would be "Bein's Believing".  Which I NEVER would have got.  (All alone I have cried, silent tears full of pride!)

"Do you think we should stop and ask for directions?"

5.  Reach out and touch faith! I'm really not certain how people can confuse the lyrics to "Personal Jesus" with "Personal Cheez-Whiz" as the words are the TITLE.  As for the video, I don't remember there being a lot of Old West action in the Bible.  Maybe it was in the Apocrypha.

"Ok guys, look totally pissed off.  No, more than normal."

6.  "Rockstar" by Nickelback, G's new fav song.  (Although I do not particularly like to hear her sing about joining the mile high club.)  "Gonna cut a lot of grass (or do a lot of grass) so I can eat my meals for free".  Yeah, not so much.  Should be "Sign a couple autographs".  Much better sense.  Love this video. 

"We should name ourselves after a food - how about Hot Cocoa?"

7.  Did you know that "I Believe in Miracles" or "You Sexy Thing" was sung by a band called Hot Chocolate?  I SO want to hear more of this band now.  Just because of the name. (Also, check out the video - its a Pixar dancing mouse.)

Just look at those sexy mullets.

8.  CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" goes from "There's a bad moon rising" to "There's a bathroom on the right". Um, helpful, but no.

"Aren't I pretty?"

9.  "Building a Mystery" by Sarah Mac.  My thoughts, "You strut your ass to wear in a suicide pose".  The real lyrics, "You strut your rasta wear and your suicide poem".  Um, ok.  Sorry all you rastas.  Whoops.  (And seriously?  The song makes no sense, so my lyrics could have been correct.  I love her, but she's up there with Duran Duran on non-sensical lyrics.)

She is the love child of Frida Kahlo and Carmen Miranda.

10.  B-A-N-A-N-A-S!  I honest to God did not get that "Hollaback Girl" meant as in hollering back to a boy.  I thought it was just some random Gwen Stefani thing.  Like dancing with the Harajuku girls and dressing up like she was Japanese.  But she does have a HOT husband.  (Incidentally, my SIL who is Japanese, likes her music but thinks she's weird. And Gwen, you need to pronounce Kawaii correctly.)

You totally want a Vegemite sandwich, don't you?

11.  Men at Work and the Immortal Classic, "Land Down Under"  Turns out it really isn't "where women blow and men blunder."  It is IN ACTUALITY (that's a shout-out to my brother there, love him) "where women glow and men plunder..." Just so you know.

"Go-Kart Mozart was checking out the weather..."

12.  I was only briefly confused by the lyrics to "Blinded By the Light".  My Dad had the album and showed me the real lyrics.  So I can tell others when they are wrong.  Its a nice little superiority complex I've got going on.  I am sharing them now with you:  "She was blinded by the light.  Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night."  There is no douche involved, I assure you. Don't you feel smarter already?

Confess - you love the commercial where the models randomly attack sleeping men in lawn chairs and make them over to look like the models.

13.  Not me, but damn funny.  "Might as well face it you're addicted to love" becomes "might as well face it, you're a dick with a glove."  HEE!

He needs someone to hold him, whoa-o-oh... and to cut him out of those tight pants. Sheesh.

14.  This is also a shout-out to my brother, who when he was a young 3 year old, thought that Air Supply's "You are every woman in the world, to me!" was somehow directed to him - "You are every woman in the world, Timmy!"  Which just gets funnier as time goes by.

BRUCE!

15.  And now to the title.  Contrary to popular belief, this song does not go, "Don't Bring Me Down, Bruce!"  what it says is "Don't bring me down, Groos!" which is a made-up word, and supposed to be similar to the German word 'Gruþ.'  However, so many people heard it wrong that the BAND ACTUALLY CHANGED THE LYRICS and now they sing 'Bruce.'  This is such a common misperception in words that my favorite website, the afore-mentioned www.kissthisguy.com does NOT even have this listed as a misheard lyric. 

I think everyone should go to that website.  You will have a fabulous time reading and laugh at your own silly mis-hearings. 

I'm just going to continue on my way, singing Starship's "We built this city on the wrong damn road!"  (Isn't Grace Slick kind of scary?)