misheard lyrics

Does anybody remember that song "OUT OF REACH" well i remember i used to sing it as "BATTEERRRRYYY".

meeeeeeeee

The Ratt song "Scene of the Crime" has a part that says "You broke the law in the first degree, cold blooded bitch goin' out on me". I always thought it said "You broke the law in the Krispy Kreme".
It made sense, I figured he saw his chick with some other dude out in the doughnut shop eating doughnuts!

Mona Lisa

I was always a very good speller as a kid, except for one day as an 11-year-old when I attempted to sing along to Aretha Franklin:

"R-E-S-V-E-C-T."

I thought she was just naming off random letters.

Josh

Years ago there used to be a TV show called 'Minder' and they released a song about one of the characters - Arthur Daily. I thought the lyrics were 'Arthur Daily, little dodgy baby', it was actually 'Arthur Daily, little dodgy maybe'.

Clair

actual lyrics: "Bring me a higher love"
I heard: "Bring me a pile of love"
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actual lyrics: "Can't hurry love..."
I heard: "Kangaroo love..."
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actual lyrics: "Hush, hush, keep it down now,
voices carry"
I heard: "Hush, hush, keep it down now, you're
so scary"

Renee

Here are some lyrics and words that I have heard wrong:

Forever in Blue Jeans was The Reverend Blue Jeans

Night Fever by the Bee Gees: Sweet City Woman was Two Headed Woman; I sort of knew that one was wrong

Sara Lee Commercial: I thought it was Nobody Does It Like Sara Lee, not so, it is Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee. Horrible grammer.

Jan

In the early '40s, as a youngster of four, I often heard the song, "On Brave Old Army Team. (Ours was a football household.) However, I thought the words were "Unbraveled Army Team," meaning our soldiers weren't brave. I thought it terribly unpatriotic, and I was ashamed and sad that so many people didn't do something about eliminating the son.

Mary F.

Celine Dion has a Christmas song in Fench titled "Les Cloches Du Hameau." If my French is correct (probably NOT, lol) that means "Bells of the Hamlet" or something like that.
In one line, I could swear that she's singing "Les cloches du hameau...ayyamak sa'ieeda...." Well, "Ayyamak sa'ieeda is ARABIC for "May your day be happy", and last time I checked Celine Dion didn't speak any Arabic, so I doubt that's what she's saying.

Taylor

Until just recently whenever I heard the song 'Hanging By a Moment' by Lifehouse, I wondered what they meant by, 'Running in a clash of where to go'. I figured maybe there were two divergant paths, and the guy couldn't figure out which to take. Turns out he's actually saying,
'Running and not quite sure where to go,' which makes more sense.

Sheba

I was driving along one day with my son and a few other people and the Bee Gees song "Tragedy" came on. I started singing along and when the chorus came on sang very loudly "Hercules" which I always thought it was. Imagine my embarassment when my son told me to shut up - it was Tragedy. A tragedy in itself as I have never lived it down.

Kay

Know that song that goes, "Stop in the name of love, before you break my heart" by Diana Ross & the Supremes? Well, I used to think she was singing, "Safe in the laundry room..." and everytime I heard it I would run to the laundry room and lock the door. Too bad my mom would always blast it on the stereo and she wouldn't know where I would go. Haha! :)

jennyyy

I use To Think That Aussie Crawls song
Beautiful people
instead of saying Beau-tiful peo-ple
it said "you,you will be bold

Bazman

Leningrad by Billy Joel

Real Lyrics-I was born in '49, a cold war kid in McCarthy time

I Heard-I was born in '49, a cold war kid in the coffee time.


I thought he was saying coffee had been invented in the late 40's...

Amanda

My parents had a record of traditional (I think) Greek music - no idea what the song really was but there was one I always believed the words were "a fairy a fairy..." sung over and over

Rox

There was a song in the charts about 10 years ago... I think it was by Fatboy Slim... The one that went 'everybody needs a bosom as a pillow, everybody needs a bosom' + then there's another bit that repeats several times... Well, I heard it as 'It's the real Sanjeev Bhaskar + he's 45'. Which I knew couldn't be right because I thought Sanjeev Bhaskar was younger than that. So I asked a friend of mine, she said it was 'my dad's a flasher + he's 45.

I still dont' know what it actually was.

Nin

Y'know that Alien Ant Farm song that came out a few years ago, called 'Smooth Criminal?' Well, I never learned what the chorus actually said, but I was not the only one who thought it sounded very much like 'Anna, are you OK, are you OK, are you OK Anna?'
Now as it happens, my name is Anna. + I soon got v. sick of people asking me if I was OK repeatedly.

I'm fine, thanks!

There's a song by Wir Sind Helden called Denkmal. It was on radio three years ago a lot. There's a line which I believed to be "Hol den Fahrschein raus" (Take out your ticket for showing it to the ticket inspectors) .. since the song seemed to be about youth culture, graffiti and someone else having conducted illegal or at least public nuisance, it made sense to me perfectly. Until I re-heared the song in full. The line actually is "Hol den Vorschlaghammer (Fedge the sledge).

Rk

Jimmy Buffit "stepped on a Pop-Tart" (should be pop top)

Louise

I don't think anyone understands the words to Michael Jackson's song "Don't Stop "Til You Get Enough," including me.

When I was a kid I thought the chorus said "GET UP TO THE POST OFFICE" but the actual words are "KEEP ON WITH THE FORCE DON'T STOP"

I still didn't understand the words until I purchased the recording in the late nineties.

DRM