misheard lyrics

I used to think that in the song Spanish Train, Chris de Burgh said, His family were dying, melting prayers before he died.

I knew this didn't make sense, but I had no clue what else it might be, certainly not, knelt in prayer.

Theresa

on ashanti's song "whats love" it says "whats love, got to do, got to do". I always said " whats ma, dr. doo, dr. doo".

carlos

See how it says "hello wisconson" at the end of the that 70s show theme song. I always thought said hello Ms johnson

chete

When I was little I heard "The 12 Days of Christmas" and I thougt the line,"a partridge in a pear tree" was, "a partra jennapear tree". I always wanted to know what kind of tree that was. Also, when my mother was little she heard "who wrote the book of love" as, "who wroter the moo cow now".

It's weird how it makes sense at the time and only seems silly in retrospect

Heidi

I thought for about 15 years that the Tina Turner song "What's Love Got to Do With It?" said:
"What's love but a second hand in motion?
and then "What's love but a second handy notion?"

erica

My buddy and I used to believe that the National Anthem asked "Jose, can you see?" They sang it at baseball games so we thought it was about the baseball player Jose Conseco. And yes, we thought Jose Conseco was blind.

Paul Schreiber

I thought "We built this cioty on rock n' roll" said.. "We milked this city" and I even imagined a rock group in a high school getting flooded with milk. :| Yes, I know.

Ness.

I had a friend (I swear it was a friend....) who thought the lyric in the song "Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes was really "Her lip goes up when we're alone." What a dumbass!

Michelle

As a kid, whenever i heard the Pink Floyd song "Another Brick In The Wall" the line that goes "No dark sarcasm in the classroom " i heard as:

"The Dukes of Hazzard in the bathroom"


and the theme to Sesame Street where it says "sunny days sweeping the clouds away", as a kid i always sang it as:

"Sunny day, sleep a lot. a-ok"

Funny i've grown up now to become a music major in university and sing in various groups - where i have had trouble remembering lyrics to songs i've had solos in! go figure.

Olga

when i was little i had a barney tape with songs and stuff on it. well i was watching a part where they were on a ship and the little dinosaur girl (i forget her name) is singing "my blankie lies over the ocean" and it made me think of the song "my bonnie lies over the ocean"...well i used to think (up until like two minutes ago) that it was "my body lies over the ocean" and i always pictured myself floating on my back in the middle of the ocean....weird....

mer

I used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Beret" was actually "Mad-Miracle Man"

Missy

Just last year me and a couple of my friends were sitting in the car when the country song 'She's My Kind of Rain' by Tim McGraw came on. I began to sing "She's my Cadillac!" instead of "She's my kind of rain". My friends let me sing the whole song like that before pointing out that i was singing it ALL wrong.
I could actually picture a cadillac on a showroom floor with confetti falling down on it! :p

Kinkeroo

I was really young when the song "The Freaks Come Out At Night" became popular. I thought it was "The Frisco Alley Cat." My family still makes fun of me twenty years later.

Debbie

In Eminem's song Mockingbird he says 'and you and Lainie were too young to understand that papa was a Rollin' Stone...'. But I missheard it as 'papa was a Roman stone'. Made sense to me!

Maddy

"Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" by Bruce Springsteen was "Tell the devil 'You can freeze out!'". Come to think of it, the actual lyrics make less sense than my imaginary ones...

Lara

Me and my friends were making fun of the song "Collide". and instead of singing "When you and I... Collide" we would sing, "When you and I... and Clyde" Well, my one friend sang it that way when she was listening to it on the radio with her mom, and now her mom thinks that's how it goes, so now her mom sings about clyde all the time!

Anon

I used to believe that the song 'right here waiting for you' was 'a building right here waiting for you'..

I also thought that the song by Mercy Playground said 'like a double sheppards pie', when it really says 'like a double cherry pie'.

But the funniest would have to be my bro singing 'do you believe in love like a dove'.. instead of 'do you believe in love after love'.

Checkers

Listening to the Rascals' Grooving I though the words "you and me, endlessly" were "you and me and Leslie"..

fucked up a bit...huhhhh

Jimbo C.

Well I hate to admit but I misheard these lyrics just this year and I am not a kid (30ish). The song "Mr. Brightside" from The Killers came on the radio and I was singing at the top of my lungs that last phrase as "Viagraaaaa...Viagraaaa" when my fiance burst out laughing. Turns out the actual phrase is "I neveerrrr...I neveeerrr." To this day we still joke about the "Viagra song" when it comes on the radio!

Embarrassed but happy :)