Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody.
This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Like A Surgeon that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996.
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Better give me all your Gossamers.
Better give me all your gauze, nurse.
Better give me all your commerce
Better give me all your gauze, nurse
Give me all your Cosmers.
Give me all your gauze, Nurse.
Whatever 'Cosmers' means...
Give me all your Gosmerts
Give my all your gauze, Nurse
Let me see that I.D.
Let me see that I.V.
ID is short for identification, while I.V. is short for intravenous.
Let me see that ivy.
Let me see that I.V.
Better give me all your causes
Better give me all your gauze, nurse
Cocky for the very first time
or
Colicky for the very first time
Cuttin’ for the very first time
Cussing for the very first time
Cutting for the very first time
I'm not Dr. Seuss
A malpractice suit
Like a SunJet
Like a surgeon
Like a sturgeon
Like a surgeon
Like a subject
Like a surgeon
This page is fading fast
This patient's fading fast
This payment's fading fast
This patient's fading fast
Yeah my patients die before they get paid
Yeah my patients die before they can pay
The original lyrics make more sense than the misheard lyrics because the patients don't get paid; they're the ones doing the paying.