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Eye of the Tiger album at Amazon.com
Survivor's, "Burning Heart"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Rising like a tiger.
The Real Lyrics:
Rising like a spire
The Story: Probably was influenced, by hearing Eye Of The Tiger. - Submitted by: Robert Cole
Survivor's, "Eye Of The Tiger"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And the last known survivor stuffs his bread in the night.
The Real Lyrics:
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night.
The Story: They played it on some Portland 80's station. I wondered why a survivor would stuff bread (though somehow it made perfect sense to me when I first heard the song). So I typed in 'Eye of the Tiger lyrics' into Google and up comes the misheard lyrics site. What did people do before the internet? - Submitted by: Krey Price
Survivor's, "Eye of the Tiger"
The Misheard Lyrics:
...rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And his fortune must always be eye of the tiger
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And his fortune must always be eye of the tiger
The Real Lyrics:
... rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
The Story: I have NO idea why I thought the lyrics talked about "fortune"...and it was a real surprise to me when I actually closely listened to the song. It makes much more sense than what I thought! - Submitted by: Melanie Young
Survivor's, "Eye of the Tiger"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up the the challenge of our rival
It's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up the the challenge of our rival
The Real Lyrics:
It's the eye of the tiger
It's the cream of the fight
Risin' up the the challenge of our rival
It's the cream of the fight
Risin' up the the challenge of our rival
The Story: Its 'cream of the fight' people often misinterpret this one. Many argue that 'cream' doesn't make sense but ever heard of 'cream of the crop'? Means the best. The fighter is the best. - Submitted by: Jess
Survivor's, "Eye of the Tiger"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's the eye of vagina, it's the thrill of the tight.
Rise up to the challenge on arrival.
Rise up to the challenge on arrival.
The Real Lyrics:
It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight.
Rising up to the challenge of our rival.
Rising up to the challenge of our rival.
The Story: I heard the lyrics one day and did a double-take. So I looked them up and laughed that I wasn't that far off. - Submitted by: Mr. Music Guy
Survivor's, "Eye of the Tiger"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Last known survivor's guts are spread in the night
In the night
In the night
The Real Lyrics:
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
Stalks his prey in the night
And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
The Story: Just seems a bit weird he survived his guts being spread every-f***ing-where.... - Submitted by: pete
Survivor's, "Eye of the Tiger"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Rising up to the challenge of our Bible
The Real Lyrics:
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
The Story: I wondered how they got into the Holy Bible. That makes no sense with Rocky. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Survivor's, "High On You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I must be living in Fantasyland
or
I must be living in and around Disney World
or
I must be living in and around Disney World
The Real Lyrics:
I must be living in a fantasy world
The Story: I would have thought Jimi Jamison went to the Happiest Place on Earth... - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Survivor's, "High on You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I let the wheel of fortune spin
The Real Lyrics:
You seemed to share my secret sin
The Story: I was envisioning the ancient wheel of fortune from tarot cards, not the game show. - Submitted by: Gary Everett
Survivor's, "High on You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
There you stood, bad old teacher
The Real Lyrics:
There you stood, that'll teach ya
The Story: Thought it was about the movie "Bad Teacher" - Submitted by: Misty
Survivor's, "Moment of Truth"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's the moment of truth you're giving it all
Standing alone, William Defoe...
Standing alone, William Defoe...
The Real Lyrics:
It's the moment of truth you're giving it all
Standing alone, willing to fall
Standing alone, willing to fall
The Story: Always made me feel like William Defoe should have been in the Karate Kid but I guess he was probably too busy being Sgt. Elias in Platoon around that time? - Submitted by: Arch Stanton
Survivor's, "The Search Is Over"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I was living for Audrey
The Real Lyrics:
I was living for a dream
The Story: I had a classmate whose nickname was "Audrey" Boy we sang the (as it turned out wrong) lyrics every chance we got... - Submitted by: Mazec
Survivor's, "The Search Is Over"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I was living for rotary
Loving for a moment
Taking on no one
That was just my style.
Loving for a moment
Taking on no one
That was just my style.
The Real Lyrics:
I was living for a dream
Loving for a moment
Taking on the world
That was just my style.
Loving for a moment
Taking on the world
That was just my style.
The Story: I never knew what 'living for rotary' meant. I thought perhaps it was something like playing roulette-taking chances with silly girls when the nice girl was right there. I guess it was not so complicated after all! - Submitted by: Michelle
Survivor's, "The Search Is Over"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Now the miles stretch out behind me
Loves that I have lost
Broken hearts like victims of the plague.
Loves that I have lost
Broken hearts like victims of the plague.
The Real Lyrics:
Now the miles stretch out behind me
Loves that I have lost
Broken hearts lie victims of the game.
Loves that I have lost
Broken hearts lie victims of the game.
The Story: I know it sounds rather gross/violent. But for a long time, it sounded like he was comparing the broken hearts to "victims of the plague". :( - Submitted by: Shari
Survivor's, "The Search Is Over"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You followed me through changes
Impatiently you'd wait
Impatiently you'd wait
The Real Lyrics:
You followed me through changes
AND patiently you'd wait
AND patiently you'd wait
The Story: Even some You Tube videos say 'impatiently' but it really is AND patiently (why would it be impatiently, when it's talking about a woman who followed the man through changes and was there for him the whole time?!) - Submitted by: Dave
There are more Survivor misheard lyrics available.
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