misheard lyrics

Just recently, my school's high school dance team danced to Madonna, Material Girl. The original lyrics are,
some boys kiss me, some boys hug me, I think they're ok.
My version was,
some boys kiss me, some boys hump me, I think they're so gay.

Anon

The song "American Pie" by Don McLean has the lyrics:

"While Lenin read a book of Marx..."

I thought it was:

"While Lennon read a book of marks..."
Something about John Lennon and a tally sheet or something.

I also thought the next line, instead of "...dirges in the dark" was "Sturgis in the dark", because my dad was a Harley enthusiast.

It also took me awhile to realize that the song was about Buddy Holly (man, alot of people post about him on here).

Amy

in the Beastie Boys song 'Intergalactic' they sing 'another dimension' but it's so distorted that one can easily hear 'I have an erection'

Victor Romijn

I ued to believe, in the song 'whiskey in a jar' that in the chorus, it was actuallly 'Whiskey and Angina!'
I wondered what the point of the qwhole song was about.

Bells scottish

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but in the case of me and my best friend, we thought that in Dido's song, "White Flag" the chorus sounded exactly like: I will go down with this ship ...And I'll POKE MY EYES OUT and surrender.
The actual lyrics are: ...And I won't put my hands up and surrender.
Ah, well. We were close! lol take care

Erin

As a teen in the 90s, I loved to listen to 70s rock - and one of my favorite songs to sing was "Big Old Fat Carolina" (Steve Miller Band's, "Big Ol' Jet Airliner"). A year later when I found out the actual lyrics, it wasn't so fun to sing anymore... heh.

Apologies to Ms. Carolina

I have a couple of them...
My brother thought that 'Black Whole Sun' by Soundgarden was 'Asshole Sun'.
He also thought the Franz Ferdinand song 'Take Me Out' when the singer says, "I'm just a crosshair," he thought they said, "I'm just a cross-eye."
And this is my belief, in the song 'Not Your Bottle' by the Dandy Warhols, when the singer says, "Passing out hits of LSD." I thought he said, "It's my LSD." To my embarrassment when I sang that out loud!

Woops!

The TV show The Jeffersons was popular when I was about 4. Here are the lyrics my little mind thought were being sung:
Well we're movin' on up,
To Pizza Hut,
To a pizza apartment in the sky,
Movin on up,
To Pizza Hut,
We finally got a piece of the pie.
Beans don't burn in the kitchen,
Beans don't burn on the grill,
Took a whole lot of her and him,
Just to get up that hill.
Zowie up in the big league,
Guess my turn is next,
Along with sweet lips,
It's you and me, baby,
Ain't nuthin' wrong with us.
Hey, we're movin' on up,
To Pizza Hut.........

Glor

Somebody else submitted something about what their mother thought the lyrics to "I Predict A Riot" (Kaiser Chiefs) were.

Well, my mum thought they were "I've got Tourette's".

Beth

i used to think shanks and bigfoot said sweet like chocolate sauce instead of sweet like chocolate boy... and a xmas advert on tv that said holidays are coming i thought it said hundred days are coming duhhhhhhhhhhhhh oh well
:)

bob yared

I always thought that in the Ataris' version of Boys of Summer, he said," I can see you, your pants can shine in the sun, you got your head torn back and the side-wrestling's on, baby". (whatever the heck that meant).
Original: "I can see you, you're brown skin shining in the sun, you got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby."

~brit~

My mum used to think, until about a month ago that Kaiser Cheifs "I predict a riot" was actually "I put it to rest!" I reminded her a couple of weeks ago.

Unusual being

In " my heart will go warm" by celine dion, instead of "I Believe my heart will go warm" I thought it was " I Believe the hot dogs go warm!" It was very strange, i wiondered why they piocked it as the theme tune before i found out the real words.

Unusual being

I used to believe that the real lyrics in Cristina Aguilara's "Genie in a bottle" was:
I'm a piggy in a bible, baby

Unusual being

When my cousin was younger, she was convinced that that song from Hot Chocolate, instead of "I believe in miracles" was "I believe in Malcolm! (where you from, you sexy thing)

My mum still often sings along to those words when the song comes on !

sally

I used to think the lyrics to Elton John's Tiny Dancer were "hold me closer Tony Danza."

kstawitz

My friends mum was convinced that the lyrics to Justin Timberlake's song 'Cry me a River" went "the jammy kids done, so I guess I'll be leaving"...
original lyrics : "the damage is done so i guess i'll be leaving"

Anon