Misheard Song Lyrics -> Stories -> Carly Simon
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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.
Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).
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Carly Simon's, "All I Want Is You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All I want is you
And the sexy hermit's head that we share.
And the sexy hermit's head that we share.
The Real Lyrics:
All I want is you
And the sexy hurricane that we share.
And the sexy hurricane that we share.
The Story: My boyfriend and I recently swapped misheard lyrics stories. This one has had me rolling for weeks. He wasn't even born until 1983, and says he vaguely remembers hearing his mom singing this song. Of course, he also thought (Billy Ocean's) 'Caribbean Queen' was 'Caribou Twist'. The visual on that one just absolutely levels me. - Submitted by: Debbie
Carly Simon's, "Anticipation"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Heinz is impatient.
The Real Lyrics:
Anticipation
The Story: I first heard this song in a Heinz ketchup commercial and thus the misinterp. - Submitted by: Richard Garcia
Carly Simon's, "Nobody Does It Better"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Like heaven above me
This guy who loved me.
This guy who loved me.
The Real Lyrics:
Like heaven above me
The spy who loved me.
The spy who loved me.
The Story: Yes, the song was originally written for James Bond's "The Spy Who Loved Me"; but that's not where I misheard the words. I was watching "Little Black Book", a romantic comedy in which the heroine and her mother were both Carly Simon fans. Considering the context (the heroine singing because she was depressed over an absent boyfriend), my mistake was pretty logical: the movie I was watching had no spy characters at all. (Knowing what I knew about the history of the song, I wondered whether this character had deliberately changed the words!) - Submitted by: Ingeborg S. Nordén
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And when you're not you're with some underwear spy
Or the wife if a close friend.
Or the wife if a close friend.
The Real Lyrics:
And when you're not you're with some underworld spy
Or the wife of a close friend.
Or the wife of a close friend.
The Story: I just thought it was underwear spy. I always wondered why someone would be a spy for an underwear manufacturer. - Submitted by: Steven Gordon
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And when you're not you're with someone that would spy
on the wife of a postman.
on the wife of a postman.
The Real Lyrics:
And when you're not you're with some underworld spy
Or the wife of a close friend.
Or the wife of a close friend.
The Story: I went up to sing it at a wedding and got every one to sing along, they all burst out laughing as the groom was a postman!! - Submitted by: brorla duggly
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
As you watched yourself divide
The Real Lyrics:
As you watched yourself gavotte
The Story: My wife mis-corrected me with another mis-heard lyric "As you watched yourself go by". - Submitted by: Jim
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I had a dream I saw clowns in my coffee.
The Real Lyrics:
I had a dream there were clouds in my coffee.
The Story: My wife belted out this little diddy. I just found this site & have about 5 more beauties she`s sang since. - Submitted by: dennis
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I had a dream there was cream in my coffee, cream in my coffee.
The Real Lyrics:
I had some dreams
They were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee.
They were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee.
The Story: My friend, Alice, said to me, 'I really love that Carly Simon song, Cream in My Coffee!' I said 'What??, I never heard of it before!' Then she proceeded to, very seriously, sing...'I had a dream there was cream in my coffee, cream in my coffee!' I roared!! - Submitted by: Susan Meade
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I had some dreams, they were clowns in my pocket.
The Real Lyrics:
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
The Story: Not only did I think these were the words, but I found out that my best friend of 15 years had been singing the same exact wrong words. We discovered this as we were 'singing it out' driving down the road with the windows down. We both screamed out these lyrics and laughed so hard we should have pulled over. - Submitted by: Abby
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I had some dreams, they were grounds in my coffee.
The Real Lyrics:
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
The Story: My wife insisted that there were grounds in her coffee, and made fun of me when I said I thought they were clouds. Her response now is that her lyrics make more sense. - Submitted by: Umamough
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I had some dreams, they were
Flies in my coffee
Flies in my coffee.
or
I had some dreams, they were
Grounds in my coffee
Grounds in my coffee.
Flies in my coffee
Flies in my coffee.
or
I had some dreams, they were
Grounds in my coffee
Grounds in my coffee.
The Real Lyrics:
I had some dreams, they were
Clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee.
Clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee.
The Story: My mom told me that it wasn't clouds, it was grounds, like coffee grounds. She obviously is the one who is mistaken. - Submitted by: Lilly
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Some underworld spy or the wife of a clothespin
The Real Lyrics:
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
The Story: My brother and sister-in-law will disagree on who heard these lyrics, forever. Neither will ever admit that they were the one. - Submitted by: Jan Naylor
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Someone who would spy on a wife of a close friend.
The Real Lyrics:
Some underworld spy or a wife of a close friend.
The Story: I thought Carly must be really trying to nail her description of her ex-lover here to be so specific about the type of person he would be seen with. Ie: Not a spy, or a close friend, but someone who would spy on the wife of that close friend. Ah, I get it, Carly. I thought, I can picture him perfectly now. - Submitted by: stuart mcarthur
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
There were clowns in my coffee.
The Real Lyrics:
There were clouds in my coffee.
The Story: I've heard this song a lot on the radio when one day, it was stuck in my head. I walked past my mother just when I got to the part that I thought was 'clowns in my coffee'. She started laughing at me and told me the real lyrics. Now every time I hear that song, I yell to my mother, 'Hey, Mom, there's clowns in the coffee again!!' - Submitted by: ....
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Wife of a postman
The Real Lyrics:
Wife of a close friend
The Story: My 15 year old daughter just 'discovered' this song and I heard her sing this lyric. When I laughed out loud, she actually tried to argue that it made sense! - Submitted by: Laurie
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You had one eye in the mirror as
You watched yourself go by.
You watched yourself go by.
The Real Lyrics:
You had one eye in the mirror as
You watched yourself gavotte.
You watched yourself gavotte.
The Story: Almost nobody has even heard of the 'gavotte' dance these days; 'watched yourself go by' at least fits the other details in that verse, so it's a pretty easy line to mishear. - Submitted by: Ingeborg S. Nordén
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You're so vain
You probably think the sun goes around you.
You probably think the sun goes around you.
The Real Lyrics:
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you.
You probably think this song is about you.
The Story: I've convinced my father that those were the actual lyrics. - Submitted by: Doctor Whom
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Your hair strategically dipped below one eye
You had one eye in the mirror as
You watched yourself go by
I had some dreams, they were clowns in my coffee
And when you're not you win some underwear spy
Or the wife of a postman.
You had one eye in the mirror as
You watched yourself go by
I had some dreams, they were clowns in my coffee
And when you're not you win some underwear spy
Or the wife of a postman.
The Real Lyrics:
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
You had one eye on the mirror as
You watched yourself gavotte
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
And when you're not you're with some underworld spy
Or the wife of a close friend.
You had one eye on the mirror as
You watched yourself gavotte
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
And when you're not you're with some underworld spy
Or the wife of a close friend.
The Story: I figured out that the "underwear spy" part wasn't right. But it took my 14-year-old sister to call me out on how wrong I really was. It was after doing karaoke at my cousin's wedding reception. I didn't look at the monitor, because I 'knew' the song. I couldn't figure out why everyone was laughing. - Submitted by: Lex
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Your scarpot was apricot.
The Real Lyrics:
Your scarf, it was apricot.
The Story: Upon hearing this line, I assumed that a 'scarpot' was a fancy French dessert, and the guy in the song had an apricot-flavored one! - Submitted by: bpsteam
Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Your stomach was every god.
or
Your stuffing was apricot.
or
Your stuffing was apricot.
The Real Lyrics:
Your scarf, it was apricot.
The Story: My sister was playing the song. All of a sudden, she says, "Does that line really go, 'Your stomach was every god?'" I answered, "'No, it's 'Your stuffing was apricot.'" We both had it wrong. - Submitted by: SunshineBlue
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