misheard lyrics

i alwas used to sing

i fucked you when the lights went out

but it's actually


where were you when the lights went out

:s

the song is from "freaks"

kooba

I thought for...over ten years that the words to the popular swing song "Jump, Jive, and Wail" were, "Drunk driving/ can you worry bout it/ drunk driving/ can you worry away?"

just kat

My 9-year-old sister never gets the words to songs right. One day I was listening to, "Makes No Difference" by Sum 41. I heard her singing, "The reasons you gave me, we're all wearing fins!" when the real words are, "The reasons you gave me are all wearing thin." I laughed so much and I still tease her about it!

Goonie

My mother was talking about this annoying song that was always played at the fitness centre. I asked her how it went and she said... "I don't know...I just remember this one part 'leeeett your haiiirr down...'"
I recognized the tune about a minute later- Where's your Head at by Basement Jaxx! A little different from what she thought!

Heather H

In the Chorus of the song The Motivation Proclemation by Good Charlotte, there is the line
"Captivate me, I want good thoughts inside of my head"
I always sang it as
"Captivate me, I want catharsis out of my head"

Jaded Angel

"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." Yeah, well I used to get really mad because I thought the lyrics were, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's the morning." I couldn't understand how they could say the moon being out made it the morning.

Danielle

On the bus in kindergarten, the big kids would sing the song that goes "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves" etc. Well anyway, I thought they were saying "I know a song that gets an extra Suzy verse", and since my name is Suzanna, I thought they were singing about me. Also, there was this one sharp turn we always came to, and they would chant "SHARP TURN! SHARP TURN!" but I thought they were saying "SHARK TURD! SHARK TURD!" Sometimes I'd sing along with them.

Suz

In the Philippines, my cousin once told me that the chorus for "Too Legit to Quit" was actually "Bulate sa Puwet," which in Filipino translated to "Worm in the Butt." For years I thought that was what MC Hammer said.

Ray T.

The real lyrics...
*Dont go chasing waterfalls. Please stick the rivers and the lakes that your used to*
What I heard...
* Dont go chasing waterfalls. Lipstick to the rivers and the lakes that your used to* My mom would crack up when I sang and I had no clue why.

Madame Missy

My younger sister couldn't understand why Kelly Clarkson was so upset about her bakery goods in the song 'Miss Independent':

"What happened to my cinnamon buns?"

I told her that the lyrics are really "what happened to Miss Independent?" - but I don't know why I bothered, because now all I can hear is those bloody cinnamon buns!

Gargy

i used to think that the chorus to eminem's without me went: "so this looks like on top of me, so everybody just follow me, cos we need a lil contoprosy(???), cos it feels so guilty without me" when in fact it went"well this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me cos we need a lil controvercy, and it feels so empty without me" and cos i'm like a mega eminem fan my friend asked me to remind her of the tune, i started singin the chorus to her....

embarassed dumbass

AC/DC dirty deeds...well i thought it was "Dirty knees....un-der-neath! Dirty knees and dere underneath..."
(it's really "Dirty deeds...done dirt cheap"..)

is that a smiting offence?

I thought No Doubts song Just a girl the line when it says:Your rule of thumb I thought it was boo la bum hehe.

Ally

I used to think the John Lennon - Merry Christmas (War Is Over) song said 'Let's hope its a good one, with plenty of beer' instead of 'without any fear' as my dad always sang it like that...

Mel

my nan used to think that Elton John's song which goes "Cold cold hearts..." went "Coco hearts.." and she thought that "coco" was some Native American lover of his!!

hoover

In the song Baby one more time by Britney Spears, theres this line:
Tell me baby cuz I need to know now, what be cause.
Well my younger sister was convinced those weren't the words and would sing at the top of her lungs:
Tell me baby cuz I need to know now,
WHOOPIE CUSHION!

Amy W.

i used to think that the song "hungry eyes" said "whole green eyes". I couldn't understand what it meant. It made me think of grapes!!

Also, in Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal, i thought the chorus said "You've been hit by, you've been struck by a SPOON". I didn't get that either.

Helena

I used to think the words to Chumbawumbas "tubthumping' were "i hate no doubt/ but i get over it/ but im never gonna like no doubt/" seeing as I loved no doubt (still do) I hated that song!!!

No Doubt FOREVER!

Many of my friends in high school used to believe that the 'eifel 65' song "Blue" chorus was "I'm blue I'm in need of a guy". Which makes much more sence than the real lyrics of "ba da dee da do die". THats not even english.

kat

When I was 9 or 10 I heard Nena's "99 Red Balloons (or Luft Balloons)" for the first time. I thought on one part it said "99 decision trees" instead of "99 decision street." I also had a lot of other beliefs about the lyrics in this song. When she said, "You and I in a little toy shop" I thought she said "You and I and a little toshou" thinking that toshou was some foreign word for child or dog. My last one is when it says "panic bells, it's red alert" I thought she said, "panic birds, it's red alert." Until I looked the lyrics up, I had always wondered what a decision tree was, what language "toshou" was, and what birds had to do with the 3rd world war. :)

A Confused Toshou