misheard lyrics

I used to think Benny and the Jets was:

She's got electric boobs, a mohawk too, you know I read it on a can of pringles ohhhhh, B-B-B Benny and the Jets.

LostFunZone

Stephen Stills wrote a popular song called "Love the One You're With". I still burst our laughing when I think of my little sister singing "bon ja won ja wit" at the top of her lungs.

Anon

For years, I thought that in Don McLean's "American Pie" he said:

When the jester sang for the King and Queen
In a Coke bottle from James Dean

(The actual words are:

When the jester sang for the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean )

Robert

When I was a kid I was completely convinced that Sade's "Smooth operator" was "Ooh of the red eye".

Brookstar78

I used to think "The Jean Genie" was infact the GIN Genie. For years I thought that was the connection between gin and spirits.

Anon

I used to love the song "Blaze of Glory" by Bon Jovi. When the song was around I though the lyric "I have an old coat for a pillow" was "I have an old goat for a pillow". Now obviously I thought he couldn't use a goat that was alive as it would be standing up and wouldn't make a very comfortable pillow - so I always imagined Bon Jovi lying in the desert sleeping on the ground using a dead goat for a pillow!

Belle

in outkast's song that goes "im sorry ms jackson oooo i am fo real.. never meant to make ya daughter cry i apolagize a trillion times.."
i thought it said" i apologize the truth to tie

karmcole

I used to believe that the line from take my breath away was take my breasts away, so i thought the song was about breast reduction!

the girl who is weird

I still have problems with understanding lyrics, but as a kid, two songs struck me as very powerfully written, to the point where i wasn't mature enough to grasp their true meaning: one was a Gordon Lightfoot song, which I heard as "Before the green dark forest decided to be real" (was too silent to be real) and the other was a Leonard Cohen song: "First we take man habit .... then we take the men!" (First we take Manhatten, then we take Berlin) I still prefer my early interpretations.

Anon

i always sing my favorite song "Row,row,row your boat,gently down the stream..." in the way i've heard it for the first time: "Row,row,row your boat down along the street..."

Vansa

Until a bit ago, my 15-year-old friend thought that the lyrics to big yellow taxi were "paved paradise and put up a f***ing light" She would always talking loudly at that part in the song when she was in the car with her little brothers because she didn't want them to hear it.

Laura

My friend, lisa, used to think the Eurythmics song "walking on broken glass" was "walking on broken backs. Yes, she's blonde;-)

Michele

My best friend only recently found out that the Barry Manilow song "looks like We Made it" was not "Looks like tomatos" She is thirty-three!

phlorada

When the Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed" first aired, I thought that the line was:

"...give 'em Jello-stained paper pla-a-a-ates, Alex the Seal..."

instead of the actual:
"...in the jealous games people play-ay-ay-ay...our lips are sealed"

B. Gloozer

My husband heard Julian Cope's song "China Doll", which warns, "You're gonna wake up in the morning/ With a crowd 'round your bed" - but he thought it was ".../With kraut on your lip." i didn't see how anyone could make that mistake until i listened to the song, but it really does sound like that.

Amy Hostler

My husband still has a hard time hearing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" without singing the perceived alternate lyrics - "what in the world can they eh-stun".

I laugh and laugh at him.

Anon

in that song "macho man" I always thought they said "nacho man!" hahah
I always was like.. why would you want to be a nacho man?? O.o
hey .. hey .. hey hey hey nacho nacho man I want to be a nacho man

anoymous

i used to think that the song that goes, "my baby's got a secret." went, "my baby's got a seatbelt."

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