misheard lyrics

Anyone remember this hysterical Bilbo-Baggins-song done by Leonard Nimoy? At one point he says "to help some dwarves get back their gold" and it totally sounds like "help some whores" � I used to wonder what whores were doing in a song about Hobbits, and even now I hear whores instead of dwarves every time!

highly logical

I used to believe that in the song "Roxanne" by The Police, that Sting was talking about a light that people turn on and off in their bedrooms when he was singing, "You don't have to put on the red light".

Anon

I thought the chorus of You Give Love A Bad Name by Bon Jovi was:

"Shout to the heart, and you're too vain. You give love a band aid."

Catherine

I used to think the Metallica song that says exit light, enter night. was actually talking about An EXIT light you would see above a door.

Josh

When I was 3 or 4 I thought that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana said "My Potato" instead of "My Libido"

RH

Kasabian In the song
“you’re in love with a psycho”
I thought it said
“Jibber jabber at the bargain booze”

Anon

When we were little, my brother sang "Volare," at top volume with the lyric "Oh-Lah-Tay." He sang it all summer and nearly drove the family nuts.

I spent much of my childhood wondering what a "donserly light" was in the Star Spangled Banner.

BJ

More misheard lyrics....

I thought the line in "Doe, a Deer.." went "La, a note to follow song." As in, you use the word la to sing la la la.
I still think it's better that "la, a note to follow so."

helen

A friend of mine thought The Eagles Life in the Fast Lane was Wipin' the Vaseline.

Megnolia

I used to think the line in Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way" was. "The bases are coated with traces of fat think it's safe to play?"

Witless

In the old Jerry Reed song "Amos Moses" there's a line, "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibidaux Looziana..." For about 10 years I thought they were saying "Tippy Toe". I figured it out after I moved to New Orleans in my mid-20's.

Anon

I remember when coolio's gangsta's paradise song first came out, the chorus never made sense to me. I always thought that they lyrics were "keep standing motion-lised, living in the gansta's paradise." Instead of "most our lives" - once I found out the song had a whole new meaning..ouuuu ahh. :P

\\ Chris

My friend Hal was firmly under the impression that the UNKLE song 'Drums of Death' featured Mike D from the Beestie Boys hollering 'Yeah, Jonathon Depp, y'all, take him to the top y'all' in the chorus for many, many years. But to the top of what Hal, to the top of what?

Nick

I used to think that Boney M were really cool, being a geek I was inspired by space travel, physics and so on. Nightflight to Venus appealed for obvious reasons, although I thought the button on your backside was a bit naughty (it's "left side"). I can't remember the other song I really liked but until only a few days ago (I'm 35) I thought they were singing "When we hit those atoms there's going to be a big hello." I didn't know what a big hello was but I figured it was artistic licence for the wacky effects you get in nuclear physics. It's "islands," not "atoms." I'm still gutted....

Dave

I was about 5 when Prince's song, I Wanna Be Your Lover first came out. Until I was old enough to look up the lyrics myself, I always thought he said "I wanna be the only one you COOK forrr..." instead of "come forrr..."

Hey, I thought cooking for someone was a big deal. lol

brownskn

i though, and i tried to convince my friends, that enrique iglesias
"you can run you can hide but you can't escape my love" was "you can run, you can die, but you can't escape Milo"
now all my friends sing those lyrice instead

Marissa

i used to think that it was im twosixty instead of im too sexy
and i would get 260 cunfused with 360
so i would run around saying "im 260" at the top of my lungs while i spun in circles

Anon

Cher's 'Do you believe'
My niece used to sing ....'and I don't need a new coat...' the actual lyrics are '....and I don't need a miracle....'Don't ya love it?!!!!

Leanne

there is this song that goes

'relight my fire......burning desire'

i tot it went

'we like papaya'

sounds duh dont it?

Anon

I believed for a long time that the first verse of silverchair's 'Freak' went 'No more maybes/your baby's got rabies/sitting on the floor/in the middle of the Emmys.' and this had actually happened - Daniel Johns's girlfriend had caused a commotion at some award ceremony by refusing to sit on a chair because she was crazy.

i don't know where this came from, as i knew NOTHING about Daniel Johns or his girlfriend(s).

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