misheard lyrics

I thought Mary Black's song "Columbus" was not saying " You dream of Columbus" but "You dream of plumbers ( streched out to three syllables to fit the cadence of the song) till I found out the song's name

Alberto Richardson

In the Avril Lavine song Complicated, I thought she was singing "You're never gonna find your blanket"

James

I used to think that the lyric "boiled or stewed, whole or chewed" in Cookie Monster's healthy food song was "almond stew, polo chew".

Anon

I thought Total Eclipse of the Heart went "nothing I can see, total eclipse of the sun".

Anon

I used to believe that there were words to the song Colonel Bogie's March. The song that is whistled in the Breakfast Club. My father told me the words were: "Horsepoo, it makes the grass grow green" repeated over and over

Anon

i used to think the line from the song went "going to the jack-o-lantern" instead of "going to the chapel and we're" gonna get married from the Dixie Cups early 60's song, Chapel of Love.

summerblonde

I used to sing the first stanza of "Oh, Beautiful" like so:
"Oh, Beautiful for spaceship eyes..."

I have no idea how aliens got in there?!

Madison

I thought for ages that the line "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me" in Bohemian Rhapsody was actually "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard, meeeeeee"

Eleanor

There's a song by "The Jam" which contains the lyric "I lost an era daydreaming like I do". I thought they were singing "I lost an ear a day, dreaming like I do".
It sounds exactly the same either way.

Wee Shughie

I used to believe that the song that said, "every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you" said, "every time you go away, you take a piece of 'meat' with you"

mgarland

There's a song by Kenny Rogers that goes "take my hand, let's go through this door..." (at least that's what I think he's saying). For the longest time, I thought he was singing "let's go through the store". I wondered which store could it be. I also thought of that line every time I walked into the grocery store.

TxTetley

I used to think the Tom Jones song "A Boy from Nowhere" was called...."A Boy From Norway"! I felt flattered - being Norwegian....

Steinar (OGAE)

I can't listen to the Credence song Loki the same way since a friend told me what he grew up thinking the lyrics were.
In his mind the line "...I'm stuck in Loki again", became "...I'm sucking on old diaphragms". Brings a smile to my face everytime II hear the song.

Grant

Hot Chocolate you sexy thing
I thought they said
" I believe in Malcom "

Sarah

My friend used to think that the line in Alanis Morrisette's "ironic" said "it's like a death-row hard-on, two minutes too late". When told her it was actually "death-row pardon" the line made a lot more sense, but now I can't think of that line any other way

Christina

I used to believe that the Diana Ross(?) song 'my simple heart' was bicycle hop. I thought it must be a sort of dance.

Meg

I used to think Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" went: "the dogs are gathered in the classroom"; original: "the dark sarcasm in the classroom"

Tia

In the song Dimples, by John Lee Hooker, the actual line (he sings it very gravelley and deep) is "You've got dimples in your jaw" ...even now however, I can still only hear what I mistakenly first thought it was..."You've got devils in your dog"... it just sounds like that OK!

Andy - Uk

believing that songs always had to have a sense i turned the chorus "i am blue -la da dee la da da" of the europop song "blue" that was a hit (in germany) 3 years ago or so) into "i am blue - i am the other guy" and thought it was about a guy who had just been left by his girlfriend. my singing skills being rather bad no one could recognize the song when i asked til finally i had coffee with a friend on his balcony and the wind carried the song to us from an open window. i jumped and said that's the song - we had a good laugh and a very funny afternoon. word of mouth made it that all my friends call me now "the other guy".

jankai

When I was a kid I thought the song Footloose by Kenny Loggins contained the line "you're burnin urine in a croissant."

Anon