misheard lyrics

From Abba's song "Under Attack", I heard the lyric "under attack, I'm being taken, about to crack, defences breaking" as:

"under attack, I'm being taken, a butt crack, defences breaking"

abbaesque

When I was little I belived a song called, "That's why they call it the Blues," was, "That's why they call it Baboons." I mean come on the lyrics are, "Laughing like children (They make laughing like noises)
Living like lovers (I thought they were cute and loving)
Rolling like thunder under the covers (Like them banging on thier chests)"

Cheryl

I used to believe that a song that actually says "We´re going to Ibiza" did say "We´re going to eat pizza". It was sung by the Vengaboys and they were not good at all, but the confussion was quite funny.

Mery

i used to think that The Who song went "let milo open the door..." not my love .. i always wondered who milo was (another pinball wizard???)

Anon

My six-year-old brother sings the chorus to McLean's American Pie like this:

"Hi hi this American guy
Drove my buddy to the beddy
But the beddy was dry
Then good old toys
With wiskers and rye
Singing this will be the day I die."

MLH

my neice (who is 9 at the present moment) used to love Britney Spears. Me and her mom used to ask her to sing her Fav Britney song and she always chose "OOPS I did it again". But instead of saying
"OOPs I did it again...I played with your heart...got LOST in the game..she said...

"OOPS! I doo dooed again...I played with your heart...Got LUCKED in the game

lmao we never bothered to correct her...it was way too funny!

Teresha***

Tom Cochrane's song Big League says "Sometimes at night, I can hear the ice crack."
For a long time, I believed it was "Sometimes at night, I can hear my ass crack."
The next line (and this is true) adds to this by saying "It sounds like thunder and rips through my back."

Oh Tom... There's medicine that can help with that.

CAM

When I first started school, my class used to sing the hymn 'He's got the whole world in his hands' and I thought the words were 'He's got the whole world, P.E. Sands'. I wondered who P.E. Sands was and why he would be holding the world in his hands.

Mellie

I used to believe that the stable that Jesus was born in belonged to someone named Aunt Chelsea because when we sang "Angels We Have Heard on High" in church, it sounded like "In Aunt Chelsea's Stable" instead of "In Excelsis Deo".

Anon

On the song Psycho Killer by Talking Heads he says "Psycho killer, Qu'est-ce que c'est" (French for "what is it?") I thought at first he was saying "Psycho killer, kiss Casey" and I wondered who Casey was and why the psycho killer would kill him/her

Dietrich Corby

I used to think the song "all about that bass" by Megan Trainor was "all about that paste" and I thought she was singing about toothpaste!

Anon

When I first heard the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" I misunderstood the line that goes "love is not a victory march" I thought it said "love is not a HIPPY march". Oops!

Anonymouse

I used to think that in the Bruce Springsteen song that he was saying "Is that you, baby, or just a bridge in disguise?", rather than "brilliant disguise". I also that that when Madonna said "Let the choir sing" in Like a Prayer that she was saying "Level crossing". Much better, I think.

Liath

Remember the song "Safety Dance"? I thought they were saying "we can dance, everybody pull off your pants" instead of "everybody look at your hands". I still like to sing this version! :P

TxTetley

My younger sister used to have a teddy bear named "Bim-Bim" She thought the song "Taking Care of Business" was "Taking Care of Bim-Bim" My parents played along so well, that I believed (I was 8-10 at the time) that BTO had really written a song about my little sister's teddy bear.

cara

The first time I learnt our national anthem in english, I thought the line, "Some have come, from a land beyond the wave," was 'Some have come, from a land beyond the grave.' I thought they were singing about zombies or something!

Ainé

On the song "Groovin' on a Sunday Afternoon", I mistook "that would be ecstasy. you and me endlessly" as "you and me and Leslie"- I had sophisticated visions of a man who was finally glad to take a ride in his covertible was his 2 best friends.

thax

i guess the tv show "who's the boss?" was pretty popular at the time, because i always thought the lyrics to elton john's "tiny dancer" referred to tony danza. "hold me closely tony danza", "tony danza in my hand" etc.

rex of the highland steel drum octet

in the music hit by macey gray, my partner once brought up that he wasnt sure of the lyrics, and sang to me:

"i try to say goodbye and i choke,
try to walk away and i stumble,
no point trying to hide it, its clear,
i wear goggles when you are not there."

and yes, if you listen to the song, it does sound like shes singing about goggles.

Laura Lee

There is a song by Hootie and the blowfish that goes something like: "let her cry, let her walk right out on me, let her see," then went on to say "let her go,and if the sun comes up tomorrow let her be." I thought that this was just a different version of the alphabet, and that it really went: "letter I, letter walked out on me, letter C,... letter O, and and if the bun is filled with sorrow, letter B" Made perfect sense to a six year old child!

A. Thill