misheard lyrics

My dad used to listen to 80's music while painting. Once, when listening to the song, 'Voices Carry', I became convinced that the lyrics were...

Oh, I'll
Eat without you
This is scary!

After that, I refused to eat alone for a great deal of time.

David

I used to think that chorus to the song "Tiny Dancer" was "hold me close now Tony Danza." This was until I was about 16.

Laura

When i first heard Lips are Moving, i thought she was singing "I gave you paste, you gave me sleep talk" until i found the real lyrics.

Anon

Kenny Rogers tune about 'Lucille'...

"you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field..."

I couldn't figure out why Kenny was worried about the crops what with all of his 400 hundred children an all. Heck, with all that help, he should be done in NO time!

anobud

Trapped in a van once with seven other people Prince's "Little Red Corvette" came on the radio. We all began to sing along and when we got to the chorus a friend of ours at the top of her lungs belted out "LEAD THE WAY CARMAY!!!" She's never lived it down...we named her cat Carmay in her honor.

anon

I have just learnt from reading the submission by 'Fernando's wife' that Juice Newton sang "just touch my cheek" in "Angel of the Morning". Darn it, all these years I've thought it was "just rub my feet". I thought insisting on a foot massage from a departing lover was quite, well, demanding, myself.

When Don Henley sang "Boys of Summer" I always heard it as "Poison Summer".

When Jethro Tull sang about Aqualung "eying little girls with bad intent", I thought the words were "eying little girls with battered ten-speeds". Well, ten-speed bicycles were all the rage when that song came out, and I was very young and naive.

Kryptonite Woman

a friend of mine used to think that the lyrics to D.I.S.C.O., in which the chorus was them spelling it ('Dee Eye Ess Sea Oh') went somthing like...

'Be My Eskimo'... (Say out loud for full humor effect)

My how we laughed...

Patch

Similar to Jo, I had a friend who thought that Freddy Mercury was singing "spare him his life from these pork sausages"! I can't listen to Bohemian Rhapsody without hearing that -even though I know the correct lyrics!

Lynne S

Ooh, ooh Just remembered another one...

Instead of "I can see clearly now the rain has gone" I used to wander around singing "I can see deardrie now lorraine has gone"

R

I've generally got a good ear for lyrics but for the longest time I thought the that Dobie Gray was singing "give me the beach boys and free my soul", instead of the actual lyric, "give me the beat, boys"

My younger brother was for years convinced that the Sex Pistols' lyric "another council tenancy" was actually "and other c*nt-like tendencies". Really, though, that's a pretty forgiveable mistake. I doubt most teens in middle america know what a council tenancy is and my brothers version certainly sounds like something Johnny Rotten might say.

squire11

I used to imagine that in the song "Just a Gigilo" by Van Halen when he said "I ain't got no body" it was just a little head dancing around, kinda like a Mr. Potato Head toy. I thought he really didn't have a body.

Andrea

"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." Yeah, well I used to get really mad because I thought the lyrics were, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's the morning." I couldn't understand how they could say the moon being out made it the morning.

Danielle

Dido's White Flag song says " there will be no white flag above my door" one day it was on the radio at work and this girl comes back into my inspection room and looks at me real puzzled and says " did she says, there will be no one left but my dog?" I about peed myself and told her to stop listening to so much country music

ChrispyHexagon

When I was little I used to do this crazy dance and sing along to Tina Turner...but instead of "When the B****h gets back, I used to sing "when the fish gets back.." It didn't make sense even then, but I swore I was right.

Anna

When I was 10, i thought the walking in the winter wonderland song went like this 'later on we'll expire' instead of 'later on we'll conspire'. I had all these children dying because they were expired stuck in my head.

Lil Embryo

Tim McGraw did a remake of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." Until recently, I thought it said, "Baby darlin', she's a Lennon" meaning that she could sing really well. It's really "Lay me down in sheets of linen," but I still sing the Lennon line.

Me

I only ever heard the song "Camptown Races" once. Every other time I heard it, the guy was just mumbling nonsense. It was that cartoon-rooster guy (I don't remember his name). When I heard my friend singing it, I thought he said "Camptown Racists". What confused me even more was that the first line or so is "Camptown Races sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah...". How can a race sing a song? Do they mean a race like white, black, etc.? Some songs don't make sense to me!

Mr. Observative

theres this song i listen to, Evaporated by Ben Folds Five, and i swear he is about to say "i've a faith that theres a salsa where there's a sauce" and hes actually saying "I've faith that there's a soul
whose leading me around"... i always think that hes saying salsa!!

Emily

Ok, if you've ever seen the kid show Veggietales, you have heard the theme song. When they were singing "Gotta BE...VEGGIETALES!!!", I thought they were singing "Gotta go PEE on Veggietales!!!" I thought that was so mean!!!

GC rox my sox~Courtney

when i was younger, instead of singing, "and a partridge in a pear tree" i sang, " and a partridge ginger had a tree." lol

Ellie