misheard lyrics

I thought the words to Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana were "hey, wait, I got a real gold plate," instead of "hey, wait, I got a new complaint."

bagface

I thought the song "Party Time" by Moby was actually saying "heart attack" (this was before I knew the title)

Elviessa

When I used to listen to The Ballad of John and Yoko I thought there was a friend of the band who was of African descent and resembled Paul McCartney named Brown Paul who was mentioned in the lyrics “Brown Paul say you can make it okay. You can can get married in Gibraltar or Spain”. The actual lyrics were “Peter Brown called to say you can make it okay”

JR

I thought the song Skip To My Lou was about skipping to the toilet.

Anon

In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'.

Carly Rae Cheddar

I thought "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits was a fictional advertisement for a store like Best Buy, and that they were trying to get you to buy something more expensive than just a CD with music on it by insulting the artist.

Millionaire

my friends mom used to sing "you talk sense" instead of utah saints.

nikki

i used to think that the manfred mann/bruce springsteen song 'Blinded By the Light' went:

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
In the middle of the night...

after awhile, i realized that this COULDNT be what was intended. but it wasnt until today that i found out the correct lyrics:

Blinded by the light
revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night...

erik

In the song, "We're coming to your town, we're gonna PARTY DOWN"....my brother sings it this way (he is 40 by the way)"We're coming to your town, we're gonna BURN IT DOWN"

Guy

my mom heard Tori Amos,s "professional widow" and where Tori says "honey bring it close to my...." my mom thought she was saying "we havin' toast tonight"!!! ,in another line Tori says "its gotta be big" my mom thought it was "scabie git"!!!!!!!!!!!!

Melinda

I only recently found out that the Cliff Richard & Young Ones song, "Living Doll" is NOT "Living Dog". "i've got a roving eye and that is why she satisfies my soul" So that makes sense now.

Meat-eating Vegetarian

I used to think that "My bonnie lies over the ocean," went, "My body lies over the ocean," and I was sad, because I thought it was about a floating dead person!

MissCalculated

In the song "Greased Lightning" from the musical "Grease", there is a line "You know that ain't no shit, we'll be getting lots of tit". I was eight and had just got the record and played this line for my dad, who corrected me, saying it was "You know that when you shift, you'll be getting lots of tift". When I asked him what a 'tift' was, he said that it meant 'a rough time'. So for years I would regularly use 'tift' in sentences, such as "Wow, you'll really be in a big tift if the teacher sees you!" Only when I was in my teens did I realize that my dad simply didn't want me repeating the words 'shit' and 'tit' in public.

MJCDS

Ya know the song "Stop in the Name of Love", well when I was little I thought the part where they say "Think it o over.. think it o over!"
I thought it was "Stop in the name of love before you break my heart, like a boldozer.. like a boldozer!

:)

That Madonna song 'Get Erotic' kinda came funny to my ears. To me, it sounded like 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body'

Ai

when Rush, Rush by Paula Abdul came out, my aunt had just had her baby. So in the chorus, when Paula says, "Rush, rush" My aunt thinks she is saying, "push, push". To this day, she refuses to believe otherwise.

Fallon

i used to think the hyena's line in the lion king song "Be Prepared" was 'make love to the king' (as oppose to long live to king) My mum tried to subtly suggest that this wasn't entirely correct, but i was utterly convinced and went on singing it at the top of my voice regardless - completely unaware of the implications!!

Anon

I can't remember the name of the song or the artist, though I know it was a woman
However the chorus had the words 'The Girl can't help it'
I was sure she was singing 'The Brylcreme muppet'

Sharruma

In 'You're the One That I Want' out of 'Grease', I always thought they were singing 'Russian love, Russian love for me and you' (ie Nothing left, nothing left for me to do).

And going back a bit further than that, I thought the words to the nursery rhyme were 'Horsey horsey don't you stop. Just let your wheels go clippety clop.' Sad thing is, I was in my twenties and singing it to my niece before I suddenly thought 'hang on, horses don't have wheels do they?' Well, it's not like I sang it all that often in the intervening years..

Rob

I have always liked the Four Seasons, and when I was a little girl, I thought that Frankie Valli was singing, "Big girls small fry." I used to picture girls going to McDonald's.

Hilary