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The mixture of elaborate lyrics and Billy's vocals in the Pumpkins' songs makes it easy to mishear a lyric. Here are a few of mine:

We don't even care to shave things that are blue
(We don't even care to shake these zipper blues)
- 1979

Judy, your face!
(Dirty your face)
- Rotten Apples

We can smell the mangroves
Arrive with Steve, unafraid
(We dismiss the back roads
To ride these streets unafraid)
- Age of Innocence

Do you have any? If so, post them here!

[Toerag]

JACKALS LICK THEIR BALLS

CLOWNS IN MY SHOWER

WIPE A MOTHER'S TEARS BROWN COW

[mattsevrens]

"All hands on dick" - Neverlost

[Toerag]

http://www.thepumpkins.net/content/view/19/36/

[MachinesOfLight]

despite all my rage i am still just ah ready to cage!

[killer_in_me]

Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
to wither in denial
LIBIDINOUS like one who's left alone

[DandyJon]

.if it takes my life, my heaven, MY UNDERWEAR...

If it takes my life or heaven unaware - Again, Again, Again (the Crux)

[gargoyle socks]

sodomy is such a part of you

Inside of me and such a part of you

[directorfitzy]

my personal favorite misheard lyric...and it comes from Rocket.

Actual Lyrics: "No More Lies!"
What I thought I heard: "Miller Light!"

[mattsevrens]

I totallly thought it was sodomy is such a part of you forevs

[themadcaplaughs]

"I wanna feel you up...I wanna rape you"

instead of the real lyrics "I wanna fill you up I wanna break you." from "X.Y.U."

[AsRomeBurns]

I want to scratch my balls with the moments of your life of tonight, tonight.
The indescribable monents of your life tonight, tonight.


BEST. ONE. EVER!

[Liquid_Peppermint]

[explodingkid]

funniest thread I've read in a loooong time

[tampaSPfan]

first time I heard 'Today' all I could hear was...

"Judy (pronounced Jew-Day) is the greatest dame I've ever known."

Painfully embarrassing to admit, especially because I knew the name of the song was Today.

I agree with the above comment about X.Y.U too...it sounds like he's saying 'rape you' for sure...but of course he's not...but I always hear it that way, even knowing otherwise. Weird.

[floydtheater07]

"Rhinoceros"

Actual line: "Open your eyes, to these must I lie?"

What I honestly thought I heard: "Open your eyes to these mustard eyes."

[AsRomeBurns]

"Rhinoceros"

Actual line: "Open your eyes, to these must I lie?"

What I honestly thought I heard: "Open your eyes to these mustard eyes."

I THOUGHT THAT TOO!

[StarlasLastKiss]

"i went bowling" funny that its mentioned in billy the egomaniac..

"i used to be a little boy, so eat my shoes"

[metocusheadocus]

These have to be some of my favorite misheard lyric animations:
http://www.thepumpkins.net/content/view/24/36/

http://www.thepumpkins.net/content/view/18/36/

http://www.thepumpkins.net/content/view/25/36/

Although to be honest I couldn't begin to name off the various lines I've heard in their songs

[tampaSPfan]

I THOUGHT THAT TOO!

Yep, me too.

I actually like it better as mustard eyes. Mustard eyes is a cool concept.

[DustinDanielRay]

my personal favorite misheard lyric...and it comes from Rocket.

Actual Lyrics: "No More Lies!"
What I thought I heard: "Miller Light!"

This is a magnificent thread and this response is king.

"I wanna feel you up...I wanna rape you"

instead of the real lyrics "I wanna fill you up I wanna break you." from "X.Y.U."

He CLEARLY says rape you in x.y.u. The lyric sheet is wrong. It is 100% rape.

[Liquid_Peppermint]

Real Love is bitchin' instead of Real Love is riches.

And I still maintain that it's "Forever young, forever BRIGHT, into the stars, we rock tonight" not BLIND.

[Cundinama]

yudyKDSw9wU

[SiameseTwinsAtTheWrist]

From Bullet, the first Pumpkins song I ever heard:

Lyric:
"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage"

What I thought I heard:
"Spyin' on the rain, I yam steel just a bat on a cage"

I have a hard time hearing the lyrics the first time I hear a song.

[AlienCloak]

"Despite all my rage I am still just ready to cage."

[DustinDanielRay]

Always thought in 'to forgive' instead of saying "I feel nothing" Billy was just saying "I feel the same" with a childish lisp.

[GhostNight]

When I was 6 and Mellon Collie came out I musta had some seriously effed up hearing. I remember thinking this when I was a kid. Don't remember the exact part I confused for that, just remember it was the chorus:

1979 (what I thought)

"And we don't need pudding ties, always count on me with you."

Actual:

"And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues. And we don't know just where our bones will rest, to dust I guess. Forgotten and absorbed into the Earth below."

[dgreenwolf]

In the Zwan song Soul Machine he says "I'm a soul machine" a handful of times, and it sounds like he's saying "I'm a sewing machine."

Only Billy could make sewing machines rock.

yudyKDSw9wU

LOL, too true...

[afroguy10]

First time, I heard Cherub Rock I thought it was...

Hipsters unite,
Come align for the bear fight to rock for you,

I actually sang it at gigs, on stage as "bear fight", god did I feel like an ass when I was corrected lol.

[SiameseTwinsAtTheWrist]

Also, the first few times I heard "Thirty-Three", I thought that instead of "And for a moment I lose myself, wrapped up in the pleasures of...", it was, "And for a moment I lose myself, wrapped up in my pleasure zone...". LOL :-)

[Trizesta]

Thru The Eyes Of Ruby

Actual line: "So speak your peace in the murmurs drawn."

Kind of sounds like: "So stick your penis in the murmurs drawn."

[SiameseTwinsAtTheWrist]

Hey, I knew the correct version of this first, but I've been thinking about this for a while:

X.Y.U.

Correct Lyric:
"I bleed for me and mine!"

Alternate:
"I bleed for Myanmar!"

Couldn't have guessed Billy was a foreigner. LOL :-)

[HereIsNoY]

Rhinoceros

Misheard: "She knows, she knows, she knows ho's and she knows"

Actual: "She knows, she knows, she knows, how's it she knows"

[andrewface]

im siren
im sireeeeen
coming home snailllllllll that you wait for

[marigold]

Today:

"Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these deep warts"

thats what he's singing....right??? It's definitely not "regrets"... unless its "reeegrawwwrrts"?

[Dontgetangryitsjustagame]

Thru The Eyes Of Ruby

Actual line: "So speak your peace in the murmurs drawn."

Kind of sounds like: "So stick your penis in the murmurs drawn."

I actually thought that line sounded like "So speak your peace in the woman's drawl"

And hes definitely saying "Regrets" in Today, knew that having never looked at the lyrics.

[ae37jr]

At the :58 second mark it sounds like he says "when the cocks grow"

[marigold]

And hes definitely saying "Regrets" in Today, knew that having never looked at the lyrics.

must be an accent thing..... or my SD CD has a warp (wart) in it..........

[marigold]

actually.... I listened to the Rotten Apples version and I can hear "regrets',,, but on the SD version it is definitely warped....

[link343]

I thought for a while that "graceful swans of never topple to the earth" was "graceful swans of never taco to the earth"

[Account Deleted]

i thought "to the whore of my tears" in set the ray to jerry was "to the horror of my tears" until i saw the appreciation thread.

[killer_in_me]

sodomy is such a part of you

Inside of me and such a part of you

Yep listening to Disarm used to really mess me up til i read the lyric book! I heard this too...

my personal favorite misheard lyric...and it comes from Rocket.

Actual Lyrics: "No More Lies!"
What I thought I heard: "Miller Light!"

And i heard this one also!

Actually i had a big problem deciphering SD lyrics in general. Listen to this from Quiet (at the end):

Behind me theres a fallen sun
Come and rock me hoodlum
Come save me from the autumn sun
I'm nutty


As you can see, pretty messed up...

Also in Soma where he sings "so let this sadness come again" i though he sang "so let me sign this card again".

And finally, the first verse of Geek USA to me until a couple of years ago sounded like this:

Round round lets pretend
We will bum an inner scent
Crashed into the world where rapper lies

Then for a final giggle, verse 2 started:

Kiss kiss olive vest
The hysterectomist
And undress hand that candy understood


Again goodness knows how i got this, but thought you might enjoy these.

[tampaSPfan]

Yep listening to Disarm used to really mess me up til i read the lyric book! I heard this too...
And i heard this one also!

Actually i had a big problem deciphering SD lyrics in general. Listen to this from Quiet (at the end):

Behind me theres a fallen sun
Come and rock me hoodlum
Come save me from the autumn sun
I'm nutty
As you can see, pretty messed up...

Also in Soma where he sings "so let this sadness come again" i though he sang "so let me sign this card again".

And finally, the first verse of Geek USA to me until a couple of years ago sounded like this:

Round round lets pretend
We will bum an inner scent
Crashed into the world where rapper lies

Then for a final giggle, verse 2 started:

Kiss kiss olive vest
The hysterectomist
And undress hand that candy understood
Again goodness knows how i got this, but thought you might enjoy these.

This, FTW. I can't figure out if it's funnier that you thought these were the lyrics or if it's funnier that you thought Billy would actually write these as lyrics. Just shows how much murder he's capable of getting away with lyrically.

Rhinoceros

Misheard: "She knows, she knows, she knows ho's and she knows"

Actual: "She knows, she knows, she knows, how's it she knows"

Good one. I thought he was actually randomly saying 'holes' instead of 'ho's' though. Before I knew that I didn't know.

[Loxlax]

i just noticed that the line "i was happier than i'd ever been" from Hummer sounds a lot like "i was heavier than i'd ever been"