misheard lyrics

You know that old 60s song, "Secret Agent Man"? When I first heard that song as a little kid, I thought he was saying "Secret Asian Man". It still sort of sounds like that to me.

Lamont G. Sanford

A little while ago there was a song it goes "Funk show brother right about now funk show brother!" Or something like that. I asked my sister why they have a song about f***ing your brother on the raido and she laughed for quite awhile.

Confused

When I was really young my baby sitter loved TLC and Instead of Don't go chasing waterfalls (which i just learned were the lyrics a month ago and i am 11)I used to sing Dont go Jason Butterball

AHJ

cause i'm just a paper bag rider....
or it might have been paperback writer by the beatles....

Anon

When Madonna first came out, she had a song called "La Isla Bonita". A section of the lyrics says, "... A young girl with eyes like the desert....". Well, at first, I thought she was saying "with eyes like potatoes" (no...THAT couldn't have been right! How rude was that for Madonna to compare a girl's eyes to potatoes?!) So I listened and listened. Then I thought she was saying "with eyes like two pesos" (THAT made a bit more sense but what do pesos really look like? And do they look good as eyes??) THEN I finally listened and figured out what the proper lyrics were!! Boy, was I a LOSER!! hee hee!

Lorena

I was puzzled by the "sealing wax" that Jackie Paper brought Puff the Magic Dragon. I thought it was "ceiling wax" - wax that collected on the ceiling, a bit like earwax.

Matt

Anyone remember "Lara's Theme" from the movie "Dr Zhivago?" I was about 10 when it came out and I think the Ray Coniff singers had a recording of it on the radio with lyrics. The last line was, "Godspeed, my love, till you are mine again," but I thought they were singing, "Don't speak, my love, till you are mine again." I always wondered how anyone could just stop speaking till they saw their sweetheart again, but I figured it was because they were so in love.

Kathy

Actually this was my daughter's belief as a 10 year old. We moved to Saudi Arabia while the Iran-Iraq war was going on. We listened to oldies quite a bit. She thought when the Beach Boys sang "Ba-ba-ba, ba-Barbara Ann" they were singing "Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb Iran". I think she believed it up until a few years ago.

Jim Hughes

I used to love the song "Killing Me Softly", until my dad heard the line "killing me softly with his song" and misheard it as "killing me softly with his thong". I can no longer take it seriously; I burst out laughing every time I hear it.

Anon

The song that says something like "Wild thing, you make my heart sing...". My sister convinced me that it said "Wild think, you keep my house clean." I'm not sure whether she believed it or not.

Anon

You know Green Day's lyrics to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"? They sing, "Sometimes I wish someone out there would find me."
My brother thought they sang "Sometimes, I wish a hungry bear would find me."

Georgia

I could never understand why Billy Ocean felt he had to warn everyone about religious sex (not sects!) with his lyrics to "Love really hurts without you"
To this day I still hear "Baby, Love really hurts with a Jew!".

Dr J C

To 'I'm Adopted' - I thought the lyrics to 'Another One Bites The Dust' were actually 'another one buys the duster' - again, because of the 'dust-ah' emphasis!

I had this bizarre mental image to accompany it, too - all these men going down the street to a cornershop and buying those yellow dusters! Made sense to me!

Anon

That great 80's classic by Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me" - until earlier this year (I'm now 26) I was convinced they were singing the first line of the chorus in French - "Por vous jude anglais". Funnily enough, for the most part they aren't even real French words so goodness knows what I though they were singing about.

Anon

I thoguht that the lyrics to Stings song that goes 'i'm an alien, i'm a legal alien, i'm an Englishman in New york' was 'i'm an alien, i'm a legal alien i'm a legal mushroom in New York'
I was wondering why he was singing about mushrooms, that's just strange.

Legal Mushroom in England

I thought for ages on the song 20th Century Boy by Marc Bolan & T-Rex, the verse was "wine tastes fine, wine tastes good, something, something, just like Robin Hood!" when the REAl ones are "friends say it's fine, friends say it's good, everybody says it's just like rock'n'roll!". I still have no idea where the Robin Hood bit came from lol

Anon

In "Will you be there" by Michael Jackson, I misheard the first line as:

"Hold me, like a pair of Air Jordans".

I just found out the right lyrics now reading this website.

Scandia

I thought the song "Little Deuce Coupe" was "Little Loose Tooth".

Anon

I was driving along one day with my son and a few other people and the Bee Gees song "Tragedy" came on. I started singing along and when the chorus came on sang very loudly "Hercules" which I always thought it was. Imagine my embarassment when my son told me to shut up - it was Tragedy. A tragedy in itself as I have never lived it down.

Kay

You know that old song 'How Bizarre' by OMC? Here's the actual lyrics to a part of the song:
"Cruising down the freeway
In the hot, hot sun"

When I was little I was convinced they said this instead, and always sang it this way:
"Cruising down the freeway
In my hot croissant"

Eleni