misheard lyrics

There is a German Christmas song that begins like this: "Sweeter the bells never ring" and I understood the words to mean "Sweet, the bells never ring", but could never understand why it was my father's favorite Christmas song.

Helga D.

"We're Givin Love... We're Givin Love... We're Givin Love In A FEMIDOM" - Sister Sledge - We Are Family

Actual Lyrics... "we are giving love in a family dose"

I perfer my version!

Bungle

My sister thought Blur were singing "Apartheid" , when what they were actually singing was "Park life".

Debbie

When I was a kid I thought the song Footloose by Kenny Loggins contained the line "you're burnin urine in a croissant."

Anon

When Gun's & Roses came out with paradise city, I thought they were saying "Take me down to bare ass city where the grass is green an the girls are pretty".

H. Borg

There is a line in the old song "Mexicali Rose"(which was one of my lullabies...)that said, "dry those big brown eyes and smile dear..." but when I was very young my mother slurred it into "drydoes big brown eyes" and somehow I thought a "drydo" was something like a kiwi but it had eyes like a potato and I pictured a basket of plastic ones on the coffee-table. I was a grown adult before I realized what the real words were!

Ravyn

I remember when coolio's gangsta's paradise song first came out, the chorus never made sense to me. I always thought that they lyrics were "keep standing motion-lised, living in the gansta's paradise." Instead of "most our lives" - once I found out the song had a whole new meaning..ouuuu ahh. :P

\\ Chris

In the song "We're going to Ibiza", my friend thought they said "we're going to eat pizza"!

Smaranda

Until recently I was convinced Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" opened with "wood was on fire", when it's actually "world was on fire". Sounds better anyway, more dramatic!

Harley

I used to think that in the song "Smooth Operator" they were saying "Schooooooool's not forever!"

Steph

believing that songs always had to have a sense i turned the chorus "i am blue -la da dee la da da" of the europop song "blue" that was a hit (in germany) 3 years ago or so) into "i am blue - i am the other guy" and thought it was about a guy who had just been left by his girlfriend. my singing skills being rather bad no one could recognize the song when i asked til finally i had coffee with a friend on his balcony and the wind carried the song to us from an open window. i jumped and said that's the song - we had a good laugh and a very funny afternoon. word of mouth made it that all my friends call me now "the other guy".

jankai

My nephew 'piggy' thought he knew all the words to Meatloafs 'Bat out of Hell', when it came to the words "then like a sinner, before the gates of heaven" came out as "like a swimmer, before the gates of devon" .bless.

bres

I beleved that the lyrics to mr. mister song Kyrie was "Carry a laser down the road that i must travel.

bres

For years I thought the line in Bennie and the Jets was "she's got electric boobs and her ma has too". Actually it's "she's got electric boots and a mohair suit". I still sing my version however!

atlantaguy

When our daughters were little and were singing Jingle Bells when they got to the part of the "one horse open sleigh. one had put in with "a horse with a broken leg" and the other had" a horse with soap on his leg."

Tinkle-Wink