misheard lyrics

I used to think in the song Hotel California, it was 'We are programmed to deceive', as well as 'She got the Mercedes Benz instead of "bends" (which is the correct term).

Kirk Teh

As a child in the sixties I thought the song "A Groovy Kind of Love" was "A Croupy Kind of Love" because I'd had a croupy cough.

Lee

Dutch radio DJ Jeroen van Inkel confessed he used to think it was:

"I got my first real sexdream"
instead of
"I got my first real sixstring"
(Bryan Adams - Summer of '69)

I thought is was sixstream, but hey, I'm dutch!

Jos

My mother seriously thought Dido's song 'White Flag' went '...I will poke my eyes out and surrender..' rather than '...i will put my hands up and surrender...' And she's old. What a dumbass!

Louise

"On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
3 french hens,
2 turtle dogs,
and a partridge in a pear tree!"

The moment that the rest of my family figured out I had the words wrong was captured with my Fisher-Price tape recorder. I still have the cassette.

ashamed

my mom used to think that the lyrics to Beyonce's song "Baby Boy" were Baby boy say amma ma when it was really Baby boy you stay on my mind. amma in our language is mom so she was like "baby boy say mom?" and would start laughing. we correct her but she still says amma ma

Someone

When I was in 7th or 8th grade, "Zero" by Smashing Pumpkins was a popular song on the radio. Near the end of the song there was a passage I had difficulty figuring out the lyrics too - eventually I decided they went like this:

You play your fiddle
Well I could get it in an hour
I'll play your fiddle
For an hour

It was a few years later that I discovered, while looking at the liner notes for the album it's on, how the lyrics actually went:

You blame yourself
For what you can't ignore
You blame yourself
For wanting more

Practically the same, right? Right.

ZiZak[Yo]

My friend's mum likes Bruce Springsteen a fair bit, and she recently got his latest album. Over dinner one night when I was there, she professed her confusion as to why he was talking about a "muffin man", before we all pointed out to her that it was actually "nuthin man"

claire

I have two, one mine one my friends. I always have and always will believe that Celine Deon's "The heart does go on" goes "The hot dogs go on" and my friend things the chorus to Rob Zombie's Devil Man goes "Deaf old man, deaf old man calling, deaf old man runnin' through my head"!

andy

When I was little, that flocks of seagul song 'i ran' was my favorite song. I thought it went "I run along the Alamo, I'd never thought I'd meet a hurl like you, meet a hurl like you..."

No duh

I used to believe that when the little animatronic people from Shrek sung "Up a pine," instead of "get along fine,"
Whoops.

Kya

I thought the song was High on the G string (not peace train)

Forrest

my aunt always thought that the Who were saying 'living in a trunk' instead of 'Eminence Front'. my aunt worries me...

Greta

I use to think that the song "there's gonna be a heartache tonight" was "There's gonna be a party tonight.
I have no idea why.

Glowworm

Y'know that Beach Boys song " Fun Fun Fun"? Well, I used to sing it all the time as " And she'll have FUN FUN FUN till her daddy takes her t-shirt away...." Wow. Didn't know fathers back in the 60's were lil' pimps to their friggin' DAUGHTERS! SICK!

Al-Anon (lol)

My sister's boyfriend recently revealed that in Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" where it sang "Hold me closer tiny dancer" that he thought it said "Hold me closer Tony Dansi." I can't listen to the song without cracking up now

Anon

When I was younger I always thought that Warren Zevon's song Werewolves of London was Where was the thunder.

Anon

I was always very musical as a kid.

When I heard the song "Easter Parade",
I always thought the lyric was....

"....and you'll thik that you're on the
ROAD TO GRAV- YURE..."

Wherever that was.... like on
THE ROAD TO MORROCCO
THE ROAD TO UTOPIA
THE ROAD TO GRAV-YURE

(instead of rotogravure- whatever that means)

dumb little kid

u no the song from thirsty merc, imancipate my self. well instead of singing theres no spirit to find me or no wishing well but im gone with i dont imancipate my self. i sang theres no spirit to find me and no wishing well but im gone if i dont masturbate myself.

muffy

My granparents used to play this Burl Ives tape of children's songs. One of my favorites was "The Donut Song" (watch the donut, not the hole...) I thought Burl was saying "knot" instead of "not". I imagined this little doughnut-person tying knots in a string to cover a hole in the sidewalk.

Will