misheard lyrics

For fifteen years, I honestly thought the kid's gospel song "Special Specialities" was called (and sung) "Special Special Yellow Cheese." My Dad picked this up one day when he was driving us to church and laughed about it clear through the sermon.

Miko

In that 80's song "Don't You Want Me", it goes in the chorus, "Don't...don't you want me? I know I don't believe you when you say that you won't see me". But I thought they were saying "When you say that you DON'T see me" so I thought it was about this girl who tried to tell her boyfriend she was blind, but he didn't believe him.
I wondered how she could be a waitress at a cocktail bar then.

Katie

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who heard, and I still say it sounds more like, "Down on the corner houdy in the street". As apposed to "out in the street." But here's a less well known song. I heard a local band playing Springstien's "Tenth avenue freeze out". I could sware it sounds more like "Dead devil in the freezer." I asked a band member if that was what it was. He cracked up.. But I found out I'm not aloan in hearing it. Makes more sense if you ask me.

Anon

my boyfriend was singing to a song on the radio by Dexy's Midnight Runners called Come on Eileen, but he didn't sing the real words that were

Come on Eileen
Oh I swear what he means
at this moment
you mean everything

Oh no, instead he sang what HE thought were the real words:

Come on Eileen
Oh I swear we cook Beans
at this moment
we cook only peas

Emily

I was sitting at the bus one day, thinking about this site actually, and how I never really misheard lyrics. Then "Don't stop 'til you get enough " By Michael(The infamous) Jackson came on my cell-phone radio. I was happily singing along until it occurred to me that the lyrics to that probably wasn't:

"Keep on at the postoffice
Don't stop 'til you get enough"

I've since looked them up and it's:

"Keep On With The Force Don't Stop
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"

It's too bad. That would have been a great anthem for all the disgruntled postal workers out there.

Aurora.

I used to believe (for a very short time) that Raine from Our Lady Peace sang

"...I can't see in, but you're stuck in my bag pipe"

And not

"...I can't see him, but he's stalking my thoughts"

Which are the correct lyrics from the song “The Birdman”

Kalamu

My friend throught that the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson said "Gay Love" and everytime he heard the chorus he would start singing "gay love, gay love"
Hilarious!

Anon

I used to think that a Queen song was a love song to someone named Sammy. You know, "Sammy, Sammy, I can't face this life alone. Sammy, Sammy, Sammy, I'm naked and I'm far from home." My dad finally clued me in that the word was "Save Me".

Save Me, Sammy!

this isnt my belief but when my sister was little she was practising a song for her christmas play at home for weeks and kept singing 'we are fluffy shepards' we were all quite confused as to why the shepards were fluffy. it wasnt until we went to watch the play and heard the class sing 'we are scruffy shepards' that we realised she'd been singing the wrong words!

lucy

Lysics by Anastacia: I paid my dues.
Lyrics as i sang them: I paid my jews.
I just assumed the jews where bankers and she had a debt from an old loan.
Believed this until I was 15...

Eliot

In the song "Suit and Tie," there's a line that goes:
"Can't wait to get you on the floor, good looking"
For months, I sang it as:
"Can't wait to get you on the floor, toboggan."

Let's toboggan already!

When I first heard American Pie, I misheard the chorus as "buy, buy me some 'Merican pie". I didn't know why Don McLean couldn't just buy the pie himself.

american pie lover

I used to think that the 70's song 'Feelings' was actually called 'Ceilings', as it made more sense to me at 5 yrs old that someone should write a song about a ceiling rather than love!

mandy

Kenny Rogers "Lucille". "Four hungry children and a crop in the field" became "four hundred children had a crap in the field".

Doug

I used to think that neil diamond was singing about the reverend blue jeans

Anon

For the LONGEST time, I thought the words to Jingle Bells were:
Dashing through the snow, in a one horse soap and sleigh... had NO IDEA what it meant, but sang it with gusto!

Jingling Jaws

in the song "who wrote the book of love", instead of " I wonder, wonder who...who.who.who.who...who...who wrote the book of love " my son always thought it was " I wonder, wonder who..who.who.who.who..who..ruldoph the milk cow now.

jll

i always thought that alanis morisette was upset about a less than perfect stuffed animal given to her by her lover:

"...of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me..."

krystle

My mother had a couple of good ones:

In Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, she thought the line was "a girl with colitis goes by" (not "a girl with kaleidoscope eyes") and the refrain...

"Lucy in the Sky, Look Down" (Elton's version sounded more like this)

and

she thought the Hues Corporation disco song sounded like
"so I'd like to know where, you got the nose job..." (instead of ...."the notion")

Jen N

I used to think that the lyrics to My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean was My Body Lies Over the ocean. I though it was supposed to be sung from the point of view of someone who drowned..

Anon