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"All This Time"
Misheard Lyrics:
Und warum?
Und warum, warum?
Und warum?
Original Lyrics:
One by one
One by one, by one
One by one.
'Und warum?' is German for 'And why?'
"An Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm a Libean, I'm a legal Libean
I'm a street fighter in disguise.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"An Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm a sapian, I'm a homosapian
I'm a big fish from planet zork.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"An Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a Lithuanian
I've got big teeth, I'm from Frankfurt
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"An Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a little alien
I'm a nimuweshanumenor.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"An Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm an evil alien
I'm a evil alien in a car.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"An Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, an illegal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"An Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an aline, I'm a little alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"An Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm in love with Lady Elaine.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien.
"An Englishman in New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a Negro alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"An Englishman in New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm an eagle alien
I'm an international Indian.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"Be Still My Beating Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
My logic has drowned
And I see I'm in motion
Original Lyrics:
My logic has drowned
In a sea of emotion
"Brand New Day"
Misheard Lyrics:
How many strange people out there
Have been hurt in some kinda lover's cacapoopoo?
Original Lyrics:
How many of you people out there
Have been hurt in some kind of love affair?
"Brand New Day"
Misheard Lyrics:
How many ugly people out there
Have been hurt in some kinda lover's hair?
Original Lyrics:
How many of you people out there
Have been hurt in some kind of love affair?
"Brand New Day"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're the catcher, I'm the pitcher.
Original Lyrics:
You're the church and I'm the preacher.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Desert flare
Original Lyrics:
Desert flower
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Desert fly. (a le a le)
Original Lyrics:
Desert fire. (a le a le)
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's behind
Original Lyrics:
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of God who sympathises sin.
Original Lyrics:
I dream of gardens in the desert sands.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of God, who's in the desert sand
Original Lyrics:
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of Goddess in the desert sand
Original Lyrics:
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of love, as Thai runs through my head.
Original Lyrics:
I dream of love as time runs through my hand
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of love, it towers through my head
Original Lyrics:
I dream of love as time runs through my hand
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of rain (ai-lai, ai-lai,)
I dream of phonics in the desert sand
Original Lyrics:
I dream of rain (ai-lai, ai-lai,)
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of rain and lady L.A.
Original Lyrics:
I dream of rain, a-lai, a-lai
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of rain in L.A, L.A.
Original Lyrics:
I dream of rain, a-lai, a-lai.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of rain in L.A.
I dream of God in the desert land.
Original Lyrics:
I dream of rain (ai-lai, ai-lai,)
I dream of gardens in the desert sand.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of rain, hey Lady Elaine.
Original Lyrics:
I dream of rain, eh ley-hee eh ley.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of red (ai-lai, ai-lai).
Original Lyrics:
I dream of rain (ai-lai, ai-lai).
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I dream of red a laaday
I dream of God who's in the desert sand.
Original Lyrics:
I dream of rain (ai-lai, ai-lai)
I dream of gardens in the desert sand.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I see it rain.
or
I see a ray, L.A, L.A.
or
I see a ray, L.A, L.A.
Original Lyrics:
I dream of rain, a-lai, a-lai
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I wake in Maine.
Original Lyrics:
I wake in pain.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
I wake in vain
Original Lyrics:
I wake in pain
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Is the sweet intoxication of the clothes?
Original Lyrics:
Is the sweet intoxication of her love?
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Is the sweetest intoxication of Baal
Original Lyrics:
Is the sweet intoxication of her love
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Is the sweeting oxidation
Original Lyrics:
Is the sweet intoxication of her love
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
She desert rose
Original Lyrics:
Sweet desert rose
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Take a show'r with friends, you'll sleep, I promise.
Original Lyrics:
Each of her veils, a secret promise
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
The shadow veils a secret promise
Original Lyrics:
Each of her veils, a secret promise
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
The sweet perfume in the torch of the morning mist
or
The sweet perfume is the touch of the moonlit mist
or
The sweet perfume is the touch of the moonlit mist
Original Lyrics:
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
These dreams are tied to a force that will never die
Original Lyrics:
These dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
This memory of hidden hearts and souls.
or
This mamma mia even hunts us all.
Original Lyrics:
This memory of Eden haunts us all.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
This spaceship moves in the logic of all my dreams.
Original Lyrics:
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Those dreams that tie two hearts that will never die.
Original Lyrics:
These dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Those dreams will tie
Two hearts that will never die.
Original Lyrics:
These dreams are tied
To a horse that will never tire.
"Desert Rose"
Misheard Lyrics:
Whose shadow bears the sacred promise
Original Lyrics:
Each of her veils, a secret promise
"English Man In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an idiot
I'm a little idiot.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien
I'm a legal alien.
"English Man in New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an illegal indian
Original Lyrics:
An Englishman in New York
"Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I left my toast upon one's eye.
Original Lyrics:
I like my toast done on one side.
"Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a lethal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a little alien.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien.
"Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien
I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien
I'm a little alien
I'm a multi-national hero.
"Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm mad as naked man as some would say.
Original Lyrics:
If manners maketh man as someone said.
"Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
Takes Mortal Combat gear
Original Lyrics:
Takes more than combat-gear
"Englishman In New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
Whoa, I'm an idiot, I'm a legal idiot
I'm an Englishman in New York.
Original Lyrics:
Whoa, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York.
"Englishman in New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I left my toaster on Moss Side
Original Lyrics:
I like my toast done on one side
"Englishman in New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm an alien, an illegal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York
or
I'm an alien, I'm an evil alien, I'm an Englishman in New York
or
I'm an alien, I'm an evil alien, I'm an Englishman in New York
Original Lyrics:
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York
"Englishman in New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
Mother speaks propriety believes to no variety
You can be there as the only one.
Original Lyrics:
Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one.
"Every Breath You Take"
Misheard Lyrics:
How my cruel heart aches
With every step you take.
Original Lyrics:
How my fool heart aches
With every step you take.
"Every Breath You Take"
Misheard Lyrics:
How my poo hole aches
With every step you take.
Original Lyrics:
How my fool heart aches
With every step you take.
"Every Breath You Take"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm a pool hall ace
With every stop I take.
Original Lyrics:
How my fool heart aches
With every step you take.
"Every Breath You Take"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm a pool hall ace
With every step you take.
Original Lyrics:
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
American summer lie broken.
Original Lyrics:
And there have been some that I've broken.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Among the fields of Bali
Original Lyrics:
Among the fields of barley
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Among the fields of folly
Original Lyrics:
Among the fields of barley
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I swear on the mess too late.
Original Lyrics:
But I swear in the days still left.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
And all the fields are farting.
or
Among the fields of Barli.
Original Lyrics:
Upon the fields of barley.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
And there on the summit I broke.
Original Lyrics:
And there have been some that I've broken.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
As we walk in fields of coal.
Original Lyrics:
As we walk in fields of gold.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
But I swear by the destitute apes
Original Lyrics:
But I swear in the days still left
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
But I swear in the dusty loft
or
But I swear in the nest you left
or
But I swear in the nest you left
Original Lyrics:
But I swear in the days still left
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
I never made promises in life.
Original Lyrics:
I never made promises lightly.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
I never made promises like you
Original Lyrics:
I never made promises lightly
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
I never make promises like you.
Original Lyrics:
I never made promises lightly.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
I swear in the mist when you left
We walked in fields of gold.
Original Lyrics:
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm on the fields of gold.
Original Lyrics:
Among the fields of gold.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Like a lover's soul
Original Lyrics:
Like a lover so
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Many years have passed
Since those Sundays
Among the fields of Harleys.
Original Lyrics:
Many years have passed
Since those summer days
Among the fields of barley.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
So she took her love for two crates of wine
Among the fields of barley.
Original Lyrics:
So she took her love for to gaze a while
Upon the fields of barley.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
So she took her love for two crates of wine
Among the fields of barley.
Original Lyrics:
So she took her love for to gaze a while
Upon the fields of barley.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
So she took her love
For two gays awhile.
Original Lyrics:
So she took her love
For to gaze awhile.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
The fields of body
Original Lyrics:
The fields of barley
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
The mirror's been something I've broken.
Original Lyrics:
And there have been some that I've broken.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Upon the fields of Barney.
Original Lyrics:
Upon the filds of barley.
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Upon the fields of bodies
Original Lyrics:
Upon the fields of barley
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Upon the fields of holly
Original Lyrics:
Upon the fields of barley
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Upon the fields of honey
Original Lyrics:
Upon the fields of barley
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Upon the fields of potty
Original Lyrics:
Upon the fields of barley
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
We walk in Fields of the War
Original Lyrics:
We Walk In Fields Of Gold
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
When the westing moves
Upon the fields of volley
Original Lyrics:
When the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
"Fields Of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of valley?
Original Lyrics:
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley?
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
And bit by bit this fortress
Surrounds your heart.
Original Lyrics:
And if I built this fortress
Around your heart.
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
for I cannot build the chasm
or
Organa fill the cavern
or
Let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the castle.
or
And let me build a bridge, for I cannot build a castle
or
And let me build a bridge, for I cannot build a castle
Original Lyrics:
And let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
Some official Star Wars moneygrabbing publication said that Leia's full name was Princess Leia Organa, which is where I got that word from. I think
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
And let me fight the battle of the unicorns.
Original Lyrics:
And let me set the battlements on fire.
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
Beneath the tattered dragon's wing
Original Lyrics:
Beneath the tattered flag we've made
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
Had to stop my tracts for fear of walking on the mind's eye lane
Original Lyrics:
Had to stop my tracks for fear of walking on the mines I'd laid
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
Let me set the battle bridge on fire.
Original Lyrics:
Let me set the battlements on fire.
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
Let me set the battle moose on fire
Original Lyrics:
Let me set the battlements on fire
"Fortress Around Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
The war went on for years and years
They probably thought of you and wished that I was dead.
Original Lyrics:
Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead.
"Fragile"
Misheard Lyrics:
As we forget how French we are.
Original Lyrics:
Lest we forget how fragile we are.
"Fragile"
Misheard Lyrics:
Nothing comes from violins and nothing ever could.
Original Lyrics:
Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could.
"Gabriel's Message"
Misheard Lyrics:
Those potty cinqo sais, Orion
Original Lyrics:
Most highly favored lady, Gloria
"If I Ever Lose My Faith In You"
Misheard Lyrics:
If I ever lose my face in you
Original Lyrics:
If I ever lose my faith in you
"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Free, free, vasectomy
Original Lyrics:
Free, free, set them free
"If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Like a priest in a gilded cage.
or
The police in a built-in cage.
Original Lyrics:
Or a beast in a gilded cage.
"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Anyone can suck and f*** us.
Original Lyrics:
Anyone can keep something precious.
"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
FiFi, set them free.
Original Lyrics:
Free, free, set them free.
"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Pee, pee, let them pee.
Original Lyrics:
Free, free, set them free.
"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Drees, Drees, set Boundaries
or
Sugar free, saccharin free
or
Sugar free, saccharin free
Original Lyrics:
Free, Free, set them Free
"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sweet, Sweet Vasectomy
Original Lyrics:
Free, Free Set them Free
"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Three freaks, set them free.
Original Lyrics:
Free, free, set them free.
"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Three, three, seven three
Original Lyrics:
Free, Free, set them free
"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free"
Misheard Lyrics:
Trees, trees set them free
Original Lyrics:
Free, free set them free
"Lithium Sunset"
Misheard Lyrics:
Feel my a**.
Original Lyrics:
Fill my eyes.
"Little Wind (Hebdrix)"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well I'm searching constantly.
Original Lyrics:
When I'm sad she comes to me.
"Love Is Stronger Than Justice"
Misheard Lyrics:
Love is a big fat quivering slug.
Original Lyrics:
Love is a big fat river in flood.
"Love Is The Seventh Wave"
Misheard Lyrics:
In the empire of destruction
You're the queen of all USA.
Original Lyrics:
In the empire of the senses
You're the queen of all you survey.
"Love Is The Seventh Wave"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're the queen of all, U.S. of A.
Original Lyrics:
You're the queen of all you survey.
"My Funny Friend And Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
And now the world and we know you carried me.
Original Lyrics:
And now the world and me know you carried me.
"Nothing About Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
Only to me, the looks of my history
I'm a simple man, there's no big mystery
cold weather, ten years ago
just like this, a lonely man like me
gets a cold
Original Lyrics:
You don't need to read no books of my history
I'm a simple man, it's no big mystery
In the cold weather, a hand needs a glove
At times like this, a lonely man like me
needs love
"Rock Steady"
Misheard Lyrics:
Rock City
Original Lyrics:
Rock steady
"Russians"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's no such thing as dirigible war.
Original Lyrics:
There's no such thing as a winnable war.
"Russians"
Misheard Lyrics:
We share the same biology
Regardless of our geology.
Original Lyrics:
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology.
"Russians"
Misheard Lyrics:
We share the same biology
We've got to survive Geology.
Original Lyrics:
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology.
"Russians"
Misheard Lyrics:
We'll all share the same biology
We got less of ideology.
Original Lyrics:
We'll all share the same biology
Regardless of ideology.
"Russians"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well all share the same biology
Forget to describe geology
or
Well all share the same biology
Regardless of our genealogy.
Original Lyrics:
Well all share the same biology
Regardless of ideology.
"Russians"
Misheard Lyrics:
When you're a part of America
There's a growing feeling of hysteria.
Original Lyrics:
In Europe and America
There's a growing feeling of hysteria.
"Sacred Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't want to heal the moose.
Original Lyrics:
Don't want to hear the news.
"Send Your Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't play with the one-eyed snake.
Original Lyrics:
No prayer but the one I sing.
"Seven Days"
Misheard Lyrics:
Seven days in a kliko. (Pronounced 'kleeko')
Original Lyrics:
Seven days will quickly go.
A 'kliko' is a trash can.
"Soul Cages"
Misheard Lyrics:
These are the sulk ages.
Original Lyrics:
These are the soul cages.
"We'll Be Together"
Misheard Lyrics:
Coming
Original Lyrics:
Call me
"We'll Be Together"
Misheard Lyrics:
I need you as a guide in my life.
Original Lyrics:
I need you as my guide and my light.
"We'll Be Together"
Misheard Lyrics:
To have you with me, I was Wimbley seven dee
I need you as my guidin' - my light.
Original Lyrics:
To have you with me, I would swim the seven seas
I need you as my guide and my light.
"We'll Be Together"
Misheard Lyrics:
To have you with me, I was through with seventeen
My love is a flame that bruising your name.
Original Lyrics:
To have you with me, I would swim the seven seas
My love is a flame that burns in your name.
"We'll Be Together"
Misheard Lyrics:
To have you with me, I would swing through seven trees
My love is a flame the birds in your name.
Original Lyrics:
To have you with me, I would swim the seven seas
My love is a flame that burns in your name.
"We'll Be Together"
Misheard Lyrics:
We'll be together for life.
Original Lyrics:
We'll be together tonight.
"When We Dance"
Misheard Lyrics:
If I could break down this walls
And shoot my neighbor down the skirt.
Original Lyrics:
If I could break down these walls
And shout my name at Heaven's gate.
"When We Dance"
Misheard Lyrics:
One Christmas Day, my soul salvation.
Original Lyrics:
The priest has said my soul salvation.
"Why Should I Cry For You?"
Misheard Lyrics:
Parking just for me.
Original Lyrics:
Dark angels follow me.
"Work the Black Seam"
Misheard Lyrics:
We're in the back seat together
Original Lyrics:
We work the black seam together

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Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 album at Amazon.com

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