Misheard Rush Lyrics

[Justus_2112]

This is a thread to post any times that you've been listening to a Rush song, and you hear something that sounds different from what the lyrics say.

 

I'll start:

 

The Big Money - Power Windows:

Original:

"Big Money goes around the world. Big Money take a cruise."

 

Misheard:

"Big Money goes around the world. Big Money Ted Cruz"

[Lucas]

I feel the sense of possibilities, I feel the wrench of hard realities, the boat doesn't stop in the city

 

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Edited July 31, 2016 by Lucas

[Lucas]

There's no bread, lemony cake

[Permanent-Rush]

The World Lays On My Shoulder, But What Am I To Do

 

The World Weighs On My Shoulder, But What Am I To Do

[Mr. Not]

LEMONY CAKE

[Your_Lion]

The Weapon:

He's a little bit afraid of dying

But he's a lot more afraid of Your Lion :hi:

 

Limelight:

Living in the Fish Islands

[Hemispheres4Echo]

Freewill

 

You can choose from phantom fears and tigers that can kill.

 

Tom Sawyer

 

Monday warrior

Right on to the fridge the other day.

[Natural Scientist in 2112]

Best I Can (misheard)

 

Got to eat sh*t to rock, a hate for small talk

I'm funny that way

 

Best I Can (actual)

 

Got an itchin' to rock, a hate for small talk

I'm funny that way

[RobK]

I will choose a bathysphere… I will choose free will.

[AnEggplant]

The first line of Bastille Day:

 

OOH THARS NO BLAGH, ENEMY GAAATE!!!

[djflex]

You moon me , you moon me

[Meow]

I set a course just east of Mayra

[prolix]

Freewill (misheard)

Each of us

A cell always worthless

 

Freewill (actual)

Each of us

A cell of awareness

[Hemispheres4Echo]

Different Strings

 

Actual: Too much fuss and bother

Misheard: Too much for Zimbabwe

[x1yyz]

Different Strings

 

Actual: Too much fuss and bother

Misheard: Too much for Zimbabwe

 

Heh, this is a good one!

[J2112YYZ]

Freewill (misheard)

Each of us

A cell always worthless

 

Freewill (actual)

Each of us

A cell of awareness

 

That's a good one.

 

Never heard anyone say they heard that line before.

[msrushfreak]

Battle flags are flown at the feet of a garden gnome :laughing guy:

[jnoble]

2112:

"We've taken care of everything

The words you eat the songs you sing..."

And later:

"...never need to work or have a wife..."

[jnoble]

Working Man:

"Log it up, seven, yay!

and Ill go to work at nine..."

 

and later towards the end:

"Well they call me the working maid..."

[Chronos]

Tons more mondegreens* here:

 

http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/93845-misheard-rush-lyrics/page__hl__misheard

 

*The real word for "misheard lyrics."

[Chronos]

Working Man:

"Log it up, seven, yay!

and Ill go to work at nine..."

 

and later towards the end:

"Well they call me the working maid..."

 

I had heard it as "Lock it up, seven, yay!"

[Justus_2112]

Available Light:

¨Chase the wind around the world, I want to lick a light!¨

 

Original:

¨Chase the wind around the world, I want to look at life.¨

[goose]

I set a course just east of Mayra

[Slim]

My first Rush record was All The World's A Stage, about 40 years ago (gah) and without access to the Internet or lyric sheets, I couldn't really make out what the words being sung were a lot of the time.

 

From Something For Nothing I remember hearing a line "you won't get wise, with the sweetest of inurii", despite having no idea what inurii might be. Also "Wonders in the Wirral" from Anthem of course. Oh yes and when I got my hands on a copy of Fly By Night, I remember hearing "I'll just give it a try, with my guitar strapped me-by" in Best I Can.

[Slim]

Oh yes and from Finding My Way,

 

"Who's still alive? I'm coming out to get you"

 

and

 

"I've been on parole, and life's killing me yeah"

 

Actually having just listened to the ATWAS version again, it still sounds more like that than the supposed actual lyrics.