misheard lyrics

In the song "Smooth Operator" by Sade, as a kid I heard....

"No need to ahhsk he's a smooth carburetor.."

I guess the word carburetor was probably heard from my dad who often talked about cars, fixing engines, etc. So I must've plugged the word into the song. I was probably 8 or 9 so what the hell would a smooth operator be? I learned the correct lyrics when I was older.

Mel V.

the song under my umbrealla:

i heard:take a tack and im sting you to the end

real deal:i took an oath and sticking to it till the end.

caitlyn eadler

song: under my umbrella
i heard: ill take a tack and stick you to the end.
real deal: took an oath and im gona stick to it till the end.

ow

When my mom was a little kid she heard a song called "I"ll See You Tonight" a lot. She always wondered what the guy singing meant when he sang,
"I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen..."
It was not until college that she was told it was actually
"I'm not talkin' 'bout movin' in..."

Hannah

i used to always mishear the bridge and the chorus of the Fall Out Boy song 'sugar we're going down' as:

we're always sniffing ink and sniffing
for the roll tear
we're going down down
do do do do da
do do do do do do da da
number god complex
cocked it and pull it

when it is in fact:

we're always sleeping in and sleeping
for the wrong team
we're going dow dow
ina n earlier round
sugar we're going down swinging
i'll be your number one with the bullet
loaded god complex
cock it and pull it.

for a while i always thought the singer just got bored and decided to change it

obsideon blackbird mcknight

you know the song "Lithium" by Nirvana? when i first heard it in the part where he says "I miss you, I'm not gonna crack" i thought he said "I miss you I'm not gonna CRAP"! and if that wasn't enough, i spent the next year or so terrified that if i missed someone enough i wouldn't be able to poop! bear in mind that i would've been 4 or 5 at the time

Katie

I used to believe that the lyrics to "Linger" by the Cranberries were not, "Do you have to let it linger?" but "Do you have to, Lennon Linger?"

Natalie

I thought in the 90's when I was younger that in Beck's song "Loser" he was telling me different ways to kill myself.

Troy

"Care less whispers"- I used to belive he siad "Cat less whiskers"

Puts the B in Wicth

My Grandmother use to think the song more then a woman to me use to say Bald headed Woman

Lindsay Michelle

Yesterday I was in the cafeteria of my college campus. They were playing some kind of music video channel. They played this song that was in a foreign language. I know it didn't say this, but I heard the singers holler, "Rolaids" like three times and then sing a short phrase and then repeat the chorus. I thought that was hillarious, so I started making up words to the other part that went like this:
Rolaids, Rolaids, Rolaids, that's the way you spell relief.

keyboardplayer

On Death Cab for Cutie's expo 86 (or whatever it's called), I thought the line, "as if you held in your hand a smoking gun, and on the floor lay the one you loved" was really "as if you held in your hand a smoking gun, and on the four-legged one you loved."

Also when it said "familiar resolve" I thought it said "familiary's song". Not quite sure what I thought a "familiary" was...

Anon