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Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
Alice In Chains', "Again"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Your weak will won't helper-healer-har!
The Real Lyrics:
Your weak will won't help her heal her heart.
The Story: My ex noticed this and asked, 'Helper-healer-har?' I never heard the song the same again, even though I never paid attention to the correct lyric. - Submitted by: Topher
Alice In Chains', "Down In A Hole"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But my wings have been sodomized.
The Real Lyrics:
And my wings have been so denied.
The Story: I was on the bus and heard a women singing this song while listening to her headphones. It took all I had not to start laughing hysterically. - Submitted by: Steve Edwardsen
Alice In Chains', "Get Born Again"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Fair-weather friend
The Real Lyrics:
Fair well thee, Friend.
The Story: Alice in Chains are from Seattle, the weather is notoriously unfair. Hence, poetic to say that a friend would be a fair weather friend. - Submitted by: Codeman
Alice In Chains', "Heaven Beside You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Like the coldest winter whale
or
Like the coldest winter will
or
Like the coldest winter will
The Real Lyrics:
Like the coldest winter chill
The Story: I think of this song every time I play the video game, Super Mario Brothers 2, where you have to leap from one whale to another in a frozen ocean. - Submitted by: Fred
Alice In Chains', "Hey Man Nice Shot"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Amen, high school.
The Real Lyrics:
Hey man, nice shot.
The Story: For the past 7 years, I've been hearing this song on the radio thinking it was called "Amen High School". Boy, do I feel dumb learning the actual name today. - Submitted by: L.
Alice In Chains', "Rooster"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All is green but no Saint Pat's.
The Real Lyrics:
Army Green was no safe bet.
The Story: Long ago when the video for this song was released on MTV (yes, MTV once had VIDEOS!). My friend, Wade, and I (who were in junior high at the time) were up late drinking copious amounts of caffeine. We loved the video, and the song on the CD, but couldn't for the life of us figure out what the lyrics to this passage were. For some reason, 'all is green but no Saint Pat's' fit the Vietnam-lost-depressing theme. We found out later, to our chagrin, that we were stupid. - Submitted by: Robert Weaver
Alice In Chains', "Rooster"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Walking tall, chicken man.
The Real Lyrics:
Walking tall, machine gun man.
The Story: I don't know why I actually believed this great band would sing a song about a chicken/man hybrid! Since the day my husband realized this lyric mishap on my part, he calls me from work and turns up the song on the radio at my expense. - Submitted by: Rachel Husky
Alice In Chains', "Would?"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And do the flutter kick
The Real Lyrics:
Into the flood again
The Story: This song was pretty popular when I joined the Army in 1994. The "flutter kick" was one of the exercises that we had to do in basic training. Ever since then I've heard the lyrics as being "and do the flutter kick". Fifteen years later this song still reminds me of that torturous exercise. - Submitted by: wang chung
Alice In Chains', "Would?"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Help me, I've broken my thighmaster
The Real Lyrics:
Know me broken by my master
The Story: I heard it on the radio in my car and thought it was a parody , but came to find out it was the actual song! - Submitted by: Brian
Alice In Chains', "Would?"
The Misheard Lyrics:
hail to the flood again
The Real Lyrics:
Into the flood again.
The Story: the last verse i still swear he says hail to the flood again.. some live audios i have sound that way as well.. i do have lives where he clearly says into the flood again.. but hear the last part before the key change as hail to the flood again.. could be the pitch fooling me but i believe it fits as the last version of the hook.. - Submitted by: hailtotheflood
Alice in Chains', "A Looking in View"
The Misheard Lyrics:
A rubbed down broke machine, that steals your piece of lime
Before you know it's gone
Before you know it's gone
The Real Lyrics:
A rundown broke machine, that steals your peace of mind
Before you know it's gone
Before you know it's gone
The Story: When I was listening to this song when it first came out I sung this, and my brother told me that I was wrong and that these weren't the right lyrics. I tried to tell him that he was wrong and I was pretty sure they were saying "piece of lime." Then one day, he looked up the lyrics online and showed me that he was right all along. It still kind of didn't make sense because isn't "lime" a closer rhyme to "time?" The word "time" was from the line before this one. - Submitted by: Danny Sanchez
Alice in Chains', "Down in a Hole"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But my wings a pencil in hand.
The Real Lyrics:
But my wings have been so denied.
The Story: When I was 18, I heard this song for the first time. Not knowing what the real lyrics were, I just rode with it. It sounded weird and I didn’t care. I never actually realized how melancholy this song really was until after the fact. - Submitted by: Steven
Alice in Chains', "Down in a Hole"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But my wings have been so denied
The Real Lyrics:
But my wings have been soaked in iron
The Story: No just curious if anyone else hears this or prefers it? I do. - Submitted by: Seth Carbaugh
Alice in Chains', "Man in the Box"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Jason Kreis (denial maker)
The Real Lyrics:
Jesus Christ (deny your maker)
The Story: I was in the car, and I imagined that they were singing about a soccer player. - Submitted by: Flex
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