misheard lyrics

I used to believe that Elton John was singing "If someone saved my life tonight, 'sugar bear.'"

Song: "If Someone Saved My Life Tonight"

Anon

I used to believe that in the Rolling Stones song "Shattered" that instead of singing: "Shadoobee, Shattered, shattered" they were singing "Shazbat, shazbat."

It didn't help that I was a big MORK AND MINDY fan, and it REALLY didn't help that when I sang along this way in my father's presence, and then briefly got concerned and asked him if, wait, WAS that right? that he kept a straight face and said yes, yes it was.

kw

You know that song " the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire", well my friends little sister used to say " the moose, the moose, the moose is on fire"

pyroic

I used to think that the lyrics to John Foggerty's 'Centrefield' were...'Booby and Co, They're ready to play today' My sister ripped it out of me fo that one.

I also thought Mr Bump had stripes - instead of what were obviously bandages. I was put right at 17!

Droog

Not actually my belief, but when my daughter was younger, she thought that TLC's Waterfalls song said, "Don't go Jason Waterfalls".

K. Arrowood

There is a song by Mister Mister that I believed instructed you to carry rasins everywhere.

'carry a rasin
down the road that I must travel
carry a rasin
through the darkness of the night'

The song is called "Kyre" Latin (i think) for God. And 'Kyre lays upon the road I must travel etc.'

I always wondered how a dried grape would help you in the dark.

Diane

Back in '94, we caught our friend singing along to Everything But the Girl's "Missing," but rather than singing, "like the deserts miss the rain," he was singing, "...and I miss you like the desert's mystery."

I still kinda like his version.

G

I can't remember what the song is...I can't even remember what it even sounds like, but I do remember that there is a boy at the end of the song that goes 'Clap your hands'. When my sister and I heard it on the car radio, we thought he was saying 'bucket head'. We were both wondering what that has to do with anything.

Maddy

this is my cousins...
when she was about 3, she used to sing: "ride a croc horse, to BAN BEE cross, fine lady, white horse, fingers and toes, ever ever she goes" instead of: "ride a cock horse, to banbury cross, to seea fine lady upon a white horse. with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, and she will make music wherever she goes
cracked me up every time

millie

A friend of mine used to think that the Scribe song that is supposed to go "How many dudes you know flow like this? Not many, if any" was "How many dudes you know flow like this? How many, bout fity" (as in, slang of fifty!)

Anon

Remember that song "Down Under" by "Men At Work" - well one of the lines is:

Ya better run
Ya better take cover

My version:
Ya better run
Ya better take a-boat

Ummm...wha?

Louise

In the chorus of Greenday's "Holiday," the lyrics go "I beg to dream and differ." When I first heard it, I thought it was "I beg to Truman."

I thought "why are they talking about dead presidents?"

Confoozled

My Daughter sings onlong to Gwen Stefani's 'What you waiting for'
with............' What you wedding for ' !!

Anon

Metallica - Sad But True

"You know it's Saint Patrol"
"SAINT PATROL"

Me @ 9 yrs

I love SUZANNA VEGA and her soft voice, but can't always hear all her words right. I got her CD out before I learned the real lyrics. For a week I thought the song 'MARLENE ON THE WALL' went like THIS:

But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing

My LEMON on the wall.

I never understood that she was saying 'Marlene'..(I'dnever heard such a name before), so my brain came up with 'lemon'.... try'na make sense of it.

Emma

Up until today, I thought that one line to the From First To Last song 'Note To Self', went as follows:

'I wanted ... To be the breath of God ... Oh!'

The correct lyrics are:

'I wanted ... To be the breath of fresh ... Air.'

Honestly, I have no clue how I misheard THAT. o_o;

Mallory Maloney

I used to believe "Move every mountain" was infact "Oooh big and bouncy"

Mike

One day while rideing in the car with my 2 friends the song "Unwritten" by Natasha Benningfield came on. So we all started to sing along. As i started to listen to my friend singing next to me. I realized that she was saying:


"Release Your Intermissions,
Feel The Rain On Your Skin."

Its Inabitions, not Intermissions.

Taryn

I thought the line in the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" was "with nobody candy knives." I really wanted a candy knife.

Barb

In the song 'Rudolph the red nosed reindeer' there's a line '..you'll go down in history' and my brother and I waited impatiently for when we'd go down in Rudolph's story. My mother never explained what it really meant...

Trish