misheard lyrics

I thought the words were:
"Super Sex squirrel, Super Sex squirrel going up and down"
Well, the real words were:
"Super sex world, Super sex world going up and down."

Me

When I first heard that Justin Timberlake song ROCK YOUR BODY I really thought he was saying "I WANNA F*CK YOUR BODY BABY" when really he was saying "I WANNA ROCK YOUR BODY". lol.

b02

i used to sing "the book panorama, the book panorama, the book..." it is actually "the funk phenomena"

angelo

when i was young, around 10 and i heard queen's Another one bite's the dust, I thought i was hearing, Another one basta dasta.
Def Lepard's song Pour some sugar on me, was awsome surgar plum day!

Anon

my younger brother was singing to the christmas song "silver bells" and he sung it as "silver bears"

Liz

There's a Beach Boys song that goes, "And she'll have fun, fun, fun, till her Daddy takes the T-Bird away." I always used to think he was singing, "And she'll have bun, bun, bun till her Daddy tells Mr Peters." and had this mental picture of a little girl stealing buns from Mr Peters the baker.

Another Beach Boys one -- for the song Help Me Rhonda, my brother used to sing "Help me Barnaby, help help me Barnaby.... help me, Ron, oh yeah -- get him outta my car." And it's supposed to be "Help me Rhonda, help help me Rhonda.... help me Rhonda, yeah, get her out of my heart."

The REM song, Losing My Religion. I could have sworn Mike was singing "Let's pee in the corner. Let's pee in the spotlight. Losing my religion." It's really "That's me in the corner. That's me in the spotlight."

My best buddy and I were in Pizza Hut singing We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful by Morrissey. When we got to the end of the first verse my buddy sang, "Oh look at those clothes!! Now look at that place in SoHo!! Oh look at him now -- it's really laughable...." The real words are, "Oh look at those clothes!! Now look at that face, it's so old!! And such a video, well.... it's really laughable...." Also, the first time I heard that song, I could have sworn Morrissey was singing "Let's really laugh at them." instead of "It's really laughable."

I used to be in a drama group when I was small and at the beginning of every class we warmed up to Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. I could never, ever understand the words, so when my buddies used to sing it, I sang, "Billie Jean is, buh buh buh, she's just a girl who chins that I am the one, but the chin is not my son." or "Billie Jean is at my door....but the chair is not my son."

In the Smiths song A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours, I sang to a buddy of mine, "Your youth may be gone, but you're still a young man, so phone me, phone me.... so f**k me, f**k me, f**k me." and really it's just "phone me" five times.

A classic -- various mishearings of REM's The SideWinder Sleeps Tonight. First of all, I used to sing, "The sidewinder sleep, sleep, sleeps in the car." when it's "The sidewinder sleep, sleep, sleeps in a coil." And then there's one of the most famous misheard lyrics ever, second only to excuse me while I kiss this guy. These are all the variations I have heard of this one lyric.
I heard "Call me Cheryl Baker."
My other half heard "Calling Jamaica."
My father heard "Calling Chuck the baker."
A buddy of mine heard "Calling eachother a w**ker."
A different buddy heard "Calling Cheryl Baker up."
My brother heard, "Only in Jamaica, mon."

That's all.

Jaye

I used to believe that the song "Believe" by Brooks and Dunn went like: I raise my hands by my head. When it really goes like: I raise by hands BOW my head.

Nadia

A few years ago I used to think that the Backstreet Boys song went "God needs to spend a little more time on you" instead of "God must have spent a little more time on you" and that it was a song about a dude breaking up with someone.

Anon

There is a DevilDriver song that I really love called "swinging the dead". The first lines are`:

Pick it up get it up
the chillin, thrillin sounds
of the rock and roll huanting

Now when I heard this song I was convinced it was:

Pick it up, get it up,
thats the swinging sound
of the rock and roll honkey

I later looked up the lyrics to check this and laughed myself silly at the mistake.

Anon

Years ago there used to be a TV show called 'Minder' and they released a song about one of the characters - Arthur Daily. I thought the lyrics were 'Arthur Daily, little dodgy baby', it was actually 'Arthur Daily, little dodgy maybe'.

Clair

I used to think that in the song BOSSY by KELIS that the background voice was saying
"Masterbate Yo!"
but it was really saying
"Watch the beat go"

LlEeAaHh

Every rose has its thorn - by poision if I rember right...

The neighbor kids & I (usually 3-5 of us) had a 'band.' We ranged in age from 4-7. We would play air guatair, and play the drums on the by beating some sticks on the banaster. We sung all the popular songs though.

We sung 'every rose has a thorn' the most though, because we knew the majority of the words. OR SO WE THOUGHT!!!

I forget the majority of it, but I know we sung 'every day has its morning' instead of 'every rose has a thorn.'

We would argue on alot of words, but we all agreed that that was right. Although it wasn't. Our parents (who were all often stoned) would come outside sometimes & just bust up laughing at us, rolling on the ground laughing sometimes. We thought they were strange, and if they tryied to correct us on lyrics, we just thought they were wrong because they're stupid because they were smoking grass. We thought that was awfully dumb, who wants to smoke something that the birds poop on & people walk on (we didn't know there was a 'differnt' type of grass)

The lead singer....

ohhh say can you see
by the donterly light....
i was a dumb kid! i didnt know the right words to my own national anthem!

Anon

I used to watch a kids game show called Fun House when I was little, I though the theme went; "If you want it and you know it and you wanna play the game."
The words actually were; "Use your body and your brain if you wanna play the game."

M

When I was 11 years old, the song
"Whats My Age Again" - Blink182
was very popular. And my friend and
I LOVE Blink 182.

So the 1st verse went like this:
I took her out, it was a Friday night
I wore colonge to get the feeling right

And we heard:
I took a ROUTE it was a Friday night,
I walk alone to get the feeling right.

It was soooo hillarious!

Rizzie Cakes

A while ago I was complaining to some people, who like Fall Out Boy, that FOB were hard to understand. I told them I only knew what they were saying 'cause someone told me. You know, the part that goes:

'We're going down town, and we're running around,
Sugar we're going down singing,
I'll be your number 1 with a bullet,
Na na na na na,
Cocking and bullet.'

I only got as far as running around before they stopped me, laughing. I'm glad they didn't hear the rest. hehe

P.S The real lyrics are:

'We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it'

Toto

On Death Cab for Cutie's expo 86 (or whatever it's called), I thought the line, "as if you held in your hand a smoking gun, and on the floor lay the one you loved" was really "as if you held in your hand a smoking gun, and on the four-legged one you loved."

Also when it said "familiar resolve" I thought it said "familiary's song". Not quite sure what I thought a "familiary" was...

Anon

You know 'Are you the one' by the presets? I thought he was saying, 'hoooow, are you girl!!!'
And I used to sing it very loudly with my friends. They never even mentioned anything. They all think I'm a spaz, i suppose.

Karen

In David Bowie's song Life On Mars, I thought the lyrics were:

Sane Lords fighting in the dance hall
Oh man, look at those gay men go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the law man
Felling up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best-selling show
Is there life on Mars?

It kind of makes sense.
o.o

Julia

My brother used to believe that the part of 'Margaritaville' where Jimmy Buffett sings 'Some people claim that there's a woman to blame' was actually 'some people claim that there's a warm nun to blame'.

CB