misheard lyrics

in somebody to love by queen i used to think the line "everybody wants to put me down they say i'm crazy" was everybody wants a crocodile they think i'm crazy!!!" whoops =P

moi !!!!!

You sexy thing-Hot Chocolate
What the real lyrics are: "I believe in miracles"
What I heard: "I believe in marigolds"
Silly me!

Mary Marigold

One time when I was little, I heard someone singing the song "My bonnie lies over the ocean". I thought they were saying "my BUNNY" and imagined a giant humanoid rabbit sadly waving goodbye as she sailed away on a ship.

Anon

There is this song: "Everytime you go away,you take a piece of me with you"...cant remember who sings it. When I was a kid I thought he was saying "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of MEAT with you". That still causes a chuckle.

Brookw

My daughter was convinced that the classic Sweet single Blockbuster contained the line
"There's got to be a way to the Bus Stop?" At 7 this made more sense than asking how to Blockbuster.

Kim

In Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog", a friend told me that Robert Plant was singing "fish fillet woman ain't got no sole..."


I still don't know what the actual words are!

Auntie

I managed to convince my younger sister that the words to the Glen Campbell song "Rhinestone Cowboy" was "...and pole vaults coming over the phone" instead of "...and offers coming over the phone". Why? I have no idea - I was 12 yrs old! She finally found out one New Year when she was about 30 and sang along to the song at a party...

markp

I hope I m not the only one thinking that Jimi Hendrix actually did sing:
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy"
(Purple Haze)

Kim

Up until a couple of weeks ago (and I'm nearly 40 !), I was convinced that in the song "How Deep is Your Love", the Bee Gees sang that "You came to me on a submarine". I've always thought it was a bizarre lyric. (It's actually "on a Summer breeze")

Steve

I was convinced in the song "you are not alone" that michael jackson was actually telling lisa-marie presley that 'your burgers are the best' I have recently been corrected and told that it is 'your burdens I will bear' hmmm think he was better off with the burgers

katy

I have two really good ones:

Elvis' "Return to Sender"...I thought he was singing "Return Lucinda"

We Built This City on Rock and Roll? Uh uh....we'll both get skinny on rock and roll.

SOOZ

I have been listening to an 80's alternative Australian band called "Mr. Floppy". They did a rather silly version of Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights' which was played in Australia a lot on JJJ (radio station). Anyway, I started playing it at home and there's this rather rude song called "Head Job". My wife was concerned, but our kids aren't affected by it. The boys (4 and 7 yo) and I all run round the room singing at the top of our lungs "Hedgehog". It's classic!

vstar

When i wuz about 5-6 i swear i herd "never leave your pizzas burnin'" instead of "i will be your beast of burden"! Whoops!

deaf?

In the song "Groovin" by the Rascals, there is a part at the end where they sing "You and me, endlessly, groovin"
I thought they were saying "You and me and Leslie, groovin" I couldn't figure out who this Leslie chick was. My older brother claimed it was a child by a previous marriage and I believed him.

Anon

Blinded by the Light. Sigh.
It actually goes: "Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night".
I thought it said: "Blinded by the light, I woke up with a goose, another mother in the night!"
I am officially an idiot. I only found out a few weeks ago about this. I am 13.
P.S. Is anyone sick of my misheard lyrics yet? Jeez!

Caitlin from Canada

I can now always hear Sash's song, Encore Un Fois as "a cauliflower" after hearing a young child singing it in a shop a bursting out laughing!

Lindsey W

I always thought the Motels were singing, "Only the lonely, only the lonely get laid" instead of "can play." It didn't make sense to me at all, because how can they be lonely if they're getting laid so much?

Huh?

My 9-year-old sister never gets the words to songs right. One day I was listening to, "Makes No Difference" by Sum 41. I heard her singing, "The reasons you gave me, we're all wearing fins!" when the real words are, "The reasons you gave me are all wearing thin." I laughed so much and I still tease her about it!

Goonie

worringly until quite recently i thought that in Will Smith's song - Boom Shake the Room they were singing "pump it up CHRIS" instead of "Pump it up PRINCE". Actually i've sung that out loud and no-one ever corrected me... so that's why they laughed !!

Pri

In February me and my family went to a concert with Kraftwerk. When the song "Numbers" came up, my life stopped for a second. I´ve always known a part of the lyric as:
"I am Padding,
and Sam Tackting".
Now, in the age og nineteen, I do not have to ask myself who the heck this guys are anymore, and why they´re mentioned in a song about numbers.. Because the correct lyric is:
"I´m adding,
and subtracting"...

-Great concert, by the way! ; )

Sita, Norway