misheard lyrics

I used to think that in Macy Gray's song it was i try to say goodbye and i choke, try to walk away and Istambul, though i try to hide it is clear i wore googles when you r not there! Rather than my world crumbles!
I have no clue what the Istambul bit was about either!

Unusual Being

My son was singing along with Kenny Rogers and sang, "You left me with 400 kids and a crop in the ground." The real lyrics are, "4 hungry kids and a crop in the ground". He is now 40 and we still laugh about it.

Gerry Hollingshead

Just today (I'm 15), I realized that I've been sinigng the song "She's a Must to Avoid" all wrong. I've been singing "She's a Muscular Boy!"

Idiot

You know the The Who song "Magic Bus?" after every line of the verses, the song goes, "Too much, Magic Bus!" Well, I used to think they were saying "Tubas! Magic Bus!"

It's already kind of a weird song. It never bothered me.

Freezair

I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".

Anon

Until a few years ago, I thought Eric Clapton was saying "hey love" instead of Layla. I love this oldie and was singing it loud. My friend had a look of annoyance on her face when she said it's LAYLA!

mikiesmom

When I was a boy there was a popular song by Val Dooligan called 'Walk Tall'. The lyric goes: She said, 'Son be a proud man and hold your head up high' . I heard it as: She said,'Son be a frogman and hold your head up high' ...I still do

John UK

my sister used to think the lyrics to the Hall & Oates song, "Private Eyes... there watching you, they see your every move." was actually, "Crocodiles...they're watching you, they see your every move

Angela & Natalie

Being in the final year at school, we get a common room in school, where we can play our own music and stuff, although most of the other people in my year are into R&B and rap, and I'm, well... not. They keep on playing Christina Milian's 'AM to PM', and until today I was totally convinced that the part that goes:

'All the chicks and the fellas in the bars...'

actually went:

'All the chicks kick the fellas in the balls...'

Last time I try and sing along :P

Anon

One day I overheard my brother (about 17yrs old at the time) ask my dad for a copy of "that Elton John song...you know...uhhh...hold me closer I'm tired of dancin'."

I still laugh out loud at that one. I mean come on, it makes sense right? Yep.

Mel V.

In the song "Jet Airliner" by the Steve Miller Band, there's a line that goes "Don't take me too far away". When I was little I thought it was "Don't take me to my wake". I assumed that he was talking about how he didn't want to die in a plane crash, which made sense. I remember thinking, "But how could you ever attend your OWN WAKE?"

Kat

In the song 'Just Like Jesse James" by Cher, when she says "Think your so bad driving women folk wild"...I thought it was "Think you're so bad driving women f***ing wild"...and thought how can they play this on the radio and not edit it!

Mike-n-Joe

The lyrics are "She was looking kinda dumb with her finger an her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead." and I thought they were "She was looking kinda numb with her finger in her thumb in the shape of an elf" Lol.

Haven

in the song: Hey, don't stop the music
I thought it was saying: Hazel's got the music
My daughter teases me about it all the time. Ha ha!

Jules

i used to think that the song "Jeanny" by Falco was called "Chile". I even posted an ad in the newspaper that I was looking for the CD "Chile" by Falco.

joana

My best friend used to sing the line in Garth Brooks' "Much too young to feel this damn old" where he says "lonely women and bad booze" as "lonely women and baboons". She did that until we were 17 and I heard her and started cracking up!

Molly

This isn't really my belief, but my mom's. Anyway, I was listening to "Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't" by Brand New, and my mom thought the opening line "I am heaven sent, don't you dare forget" was "I am having sex, don't you dare forget".

She was concerned...

kat

When I was little, I heard the last song that's played in Grease and thought John Travolta was saying "I got juice in the blender" instead of "I got chills, they're multiplyin." I have no idea how I thought that.

clara

I'd always thought that the line in Jethro Tull's lick your fingers clean "And place your final burden on your hard pressed next of kin" was and place your hard pressed burden on your armrest Mexcian

Ian Anderson

I thought the song Controversy by Prince was not saying "controversy" but instead "count your blessings". I like my version better

Alfred Butler