misheard lyrics

There is this song by Avril Lavinge called Complicated. I loved the song, but I made a major mistake on a lyric.

Actual lyric:
"Your never gonna find me fakin'"

What I thought:
"Your never gonna find your bacon."

Yikes, big mistake. =X

I will never find my bacon ='(

When I first heard about the record "Tea for the Tillerman" (by Cat Stevens??? I don´t know) I thought it was "Teeth for the Tillerman"...

joana

Does anyone remember the song "secret agent man?" I used to think the lyrics were, "secret asian man." I thought it was a song about WWII.

Sammy

One of my friends in (a trade school here in Detroit, MI) Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts thought the lyrics to the George Harrison song "I Got My Mind Set On You" were "Look out! I might Sit on YOU!" ahahaha....I actually used that on the air once.

BOBQ

I used to think:

Prince's song "Little Red Corvette" was actually "Ring me collect"

The song Karma Chameleon says "with golden dreams" I thought it was "Red corn and Beans"

In Glycerine by Bush there is a line that says "my old friend fear and you and me", I thought it was "my old friend Phil and you and me"

Kristina

it´s christmas time, isn´t it? so in "o holy night" it made sense to me to "..fall on your nose - o hear the angel voices" ouch, did anybody just rang a bell?

Slim Tom

Song: Betty Davis Eyes

I used to think that instead of the lyrics "she's got Betty Davis eyes" it said "she's got better taste in guys".

Anon

I asked myself if the passage of the song "American Pie" really was ment to sound like " I was a Lonely-Teenage-Drunken-Butt"

Slim Tom

I used to think that in the National Anthem the part where they say "dawns early light" was "donzerly light" and that donzer was just a word I didn't know.

Anon

A family member thought -and probably still thinks -
"Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap" (from Dirty Deeds by AC/DC) was "dirty deeds and the thunder chief."

Anon

My husband told me once that when he was a kid he misunderstood a line from the Fleetwood Mac song "Second Hand News".

Real lyrics: I'm just second hand news...
He thought it was: I'm just standing here nude

When my son was small he thought BTO was "taking care of biscuits" instead of "taking care of business."

Anon

i used to think "black dog" by led zeppelin started out like, "big-legged momma, see the way you moo."

ginny

i used to think that the beach boys song Barbara Ann said " ba ba ba, ba ba barim...." until just a minute ago when i read this site....no matter what u might think, not all honors students are smart :-)

Ba Barim :-)

For fifteen years, I honestly thought the kid's gospel song "Special Specialities" was called (and sung) "Special Special Yellow Cheese." My Dad picked this up one day when he was driving us to church and laughed about it clear through the sermon.

Miko

In the song, "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance, there's a line that goes, "The bodies in the streets," but I swear it sounds like, "The bondage in the streets."

DD

I thought the line "always look at the bright side of life" was supposed to be "always look at the right side of fly". My mother language is not english so i didn't see the grammar being wrong and always wondered why you should look at the right side of flies and not the left.

Halla

When we used to sing the hymn "O happy day" in Sunday school I used to think that the line "he taught me how to watch and pray" was actually "he taught me how to wash and play" - as young child seemed to make sense....

kathry

In the song Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson, in the chorus he says "Billie Jean, is not my lover, she's just a girl who claims that, I am the one, but the kid is not my son".

I thought he said "Billie Jean, is not my daughter, she's just a girl who claims that, I am the one, Billie Jean is not my son."

First she's a daughter, then a son!

JD

I used to think that in Britney Spears' ''Hit Me Baby'' song where she sang ' I'm in too deep ' that it was ' Im ment to de (sounds like be) '

I could never understand why none of her producers or anyone corrected the word de to be. Strange.

Keisha

I've started to sing in English well before I actually learned to understand it, so here go some of the things I found out a few years too late:

- In Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Hey You" it's
"You should have tried now, oooh"
and not
"You shouldn't drive now, oooh"

- In Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" it's
"So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain" and not "paint" =)

and
"Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?", not "vein"

- Whitesnake's "Full For the Night" was only ever "Fool For Your Love"

- From Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah":
"The baffled king composing Hallelujah", well, I never did believe "the baffled kiss" made sense anyway.

Naíma