misheard lyrics

You know that song "We Built This City on Rock and Roll"? Well, I always thought the line, "Marconi plays the mamba," was "My pony plays the mamba." I like it better my way.

Oinky

I believed until recently that Queen's "we will rock you" when they say " waving your banner all over the place", that they actually sang "Blood and mud's all over the place"

Lilly

Sophie B. Hawkins song "As I lay Me down" I hear the background singers singing - "you're an asswhole"... I still swear that is what they are singing! Set me straight..

Grace Slick/Peggy

I was a big fan of KISS when I was young but I couldn't figure out why they had a thing against the police. In the song "God Of Thunder" the line is 'I gather darkness to please me', but I heard 'I gather darkness and police meat.'

Gary

My mum used to believe the lyrics to OPM's 'Enola Gay' were 'I know you're gay'.

She thought it was a very odd song.

Anon

That song that goes' You got the hooch', I thought they were saying 'You got the pooch'. I thought they were singing about some girl who has a dog.

Maddy

I don't know what the song is called, but the dude says "Excuse me while i kiss the sky"
I always thought he said "Excuse me while i kiss this guy"

Lemon Jelly

In the Spice Girls song, "Merry Christmas," where it says, "but I think I'll skip this one this year," I thought it said, "But I think you'll touch my buns this year!" I knew what than meant, too. God, I was a perverted kid...

Jfasoga

To Sammi, I also used to get the lyrics to 'Hey Dude' wrong. I used to think it said
"Hey dude, well I do what I can
But you treat me like a woman
When I pee like a man".

It actually says

"Hey dude, well I do what I can
But you treat me like a woman
When I feel like a man"

Made more sense my way.

mat tanner

When I was about 7 or 8 I strongly believed that in Michael Jackson's “Beat It” when he says "Showin' how funky strong is your fight" that he was saying "fuck-y". I knew it was a bad word and was shocked that he would say such a thing. Well in second grade we had an assembly with a dance set to that song. I vehemently insisted to my friends that he was saying “fuck-y”. They promptly turned me into the teacher for swearing. Fearing repercussion from the teacher or my parents, I ran out of the room crying and was so embarrassed that I couldn't look anyone in the eye for the rest of the day.

I.B.

In Orinoco Flow, Enya clearly sings "Save the Whale, Save the Whale, Save the Whale" despite the official lyrics claiming it's "Sail Away...".

Kevin May

Good day mates, I'm referring to the Aussie band Crowded House's biggest single; "Don't Dream Its Over". Their chorus goes like this:
Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won't win

But as I child, I thought the chorus read like this:
Paper, paper
I'm three years old, heh
Paper, paper
When the word comes in
Acorn, acorn
It's a world between us
You'll know they won't win

Downunder Boy

I used to always think as a kid that the song "Blue Bayou" was really "Blue By You" and when that song came on the radio I would always try to find something blue near me.

Anon

When I was about 8yrs. old, everytime I heard the Steve Miller band song "Big Ole Jet Airliner", I thought they were saying "Didn't go to jail at a line up".
I found out what the right words were one day when I heard the DJ say the name of the song.

fading_dawn

when I was eight, i used to think the song "Venus", by Bananarama, said:

"Goddess on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summer of pity and love
Her penis was so lame...
She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your penis, I'm your fire at your desire"

I was like WTF??, I thought It was a song about a girl with a penis!! you know, since it says "she's got it, yeah baby, she's got it"
LOL

lil perv

I used to think the song from the 90's, 'Move It', was about vaccuming. To me, it sounds like 'I like to vroom it vroom it', because I thought that vroom sounded like a vaccuming. This is really embarrasing, since I liked that song, and probably sang it out loud a lot.

White & Nerdy

My cousin used to think that the lyrics "papa dont preach" that they were really saying "popadom ting"

lickle young me

In 1967, the Bobby Hebb song "Sunny" was on the radio all the time. ("Sunny, thank you for the smile upon your face....") My twin sister and I were 8, and she was convinced that the song was about Jesus Christ (Sonny, not Sunny). She insisted that "Sonny One so true, I love you" was a prayer and asked the nuns if she could sing it in church.

Smarter Twin

Queen, "Headlong"'s lyrics say

"And you're rushing headlong"
but i heard them as
"Get your Russian hands off!!"

acey xx

ace

I don't know what the real lyrics are or even what the title of the song is, but I do know that my misheard lyrics are probably not the right ones:

"Every morning there's an alligator hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's bed!"

Somebody get this freakin' alligator away from me!