misheard lyrics

Until now, (I'm 22 and I was 15 when I first heard the song)"I got chills, they're (or you're) multiplying" from Greased Lightning was "I got shoes, they're both a-flyin.'" Hee hee!

Anon

My friend used to think (probably still does) that "Dude Looks Like A Lady" was really "Doing It Like A Lady."
EWWW! Dirty mind! Can't bring myself to tell her. She might have a fit. I thought so too till I saw this site.

Anon

When I was younger I used to believe that the words to grease on the song 'Go back to high school' was you did school drama instead of beauty school dropout!

Miss Simpson

My little cousin heard some Justin Timberlake music, and he thought "Now everybody dance" was "Now everybody gas" and he constantly asked me, "How do you gas?"

He got a jump-start on potty-humor.

Anon

Not only did I not know that Smooth Criminal was a Michael Jackson song, I also thought that the cover Alient Ant Farm did of it was actually Weezer.

Of course I also thought the lyrics were, "Andy did you turn gay?" Gave a whole new meaning to who the Smooth Criminal was. Anyway, I really missed it somewhere in there...

Anon

I used to mishear the Eric Clapton song "Cocaine". Listen how the meaning changes for the want of just one word: "If you want to hang out, you've got to take her out, okay/ If you want to get down, down on the ground, okay/ She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie... okay.
I knew about sex by then, so I thought it was about a girl, and that it was okay with her daddy to date her because "she don't lie".

Ana Byrd

Steve Miller's "Big ole jet airliner"...i always heard "big ole J with a lighter"

Anon

I used to sing along to a song on the radio (in England) that went "something's burning ... something's burning ... something's burning ... and I think it's love." Only I thought it ended "and I think it's lunch"

Anon

In the Beatles' song 'All My Loving' I misheard 'I'll write home every day' as I'll ride home every day'.

I thought, why's he making such a fuss about being away if he can ride home every day? I imagined a cowboy or Pony Express rider singing the song.

Later when I learned that he was expecting to WRITE home every day, I still saw him on horseback, leaning a writing pad on trees and gates as he passed while riding a horse and writing a letter home at the same time.

Carla- Crewe, Cheshire, UK

I misheard the line 'a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue' in the Simon & Garfunkel song 'The Boxer'as 'a come-on from the HORSE on Seventh Avenue'. I had seen on TV the horse-drawn carriages in Central Park and believed that the horse felt sorry for the lonely boxer and winked at him to invite him for a carriage ride!


I also heard 'Destination- Bangor, Maine' as 'Destination- back again', probably because I come from a railway town where lots of men drive trains up and down the same stretch of track every day.

Carla- Crewe, Cheshire, UK

I had record called which had "Along Came Jones" by The Coasters on it. There were a few parts where the guy said "If you don't give me the deed to your ranch..." I thought "Deteyor" was the name of the ranch.

Janelle

You know that TV show "Family Guy"? You know the theme song? I always thought the part where stewie say "all the things that make us laugh and cry" was actually "all th e things that make us effing cry"!

Ashls

Dirty deeds and their done dirt cheap...
wasn't it really Dirty deeds and a bumblebee?

kiwis can fly

I always thought that the lyrics were...
one flea, one flea, one flea, one flea pretty...
They were really wonderfully pretty (Cure). I guess it does make more sense!

kiwis can fly

I used to think that in the Beatles' "lucy in the sky with diamonds" they were singing "you've seen the sky with diamonds"

anon

When I was in kindergarden, we sang this song, and I couldn't unterstand some lyrics. So I was singing just what I heard, but it didn't make any sense at all. A few years later someone explained it to me and it was a song about a rainbow.

Jasmin

You know that old 60s song, "Secret Agent Man"? When I first heard that song as a little kid, I thought he was saying "Secret Asian Man". It still sort of sounds like that to me.

Lamont G. Sanford