misheard lyrics

I used to think Independent Woman by Destiny's Child went,

"all the women, in their pinnies'

I was laughed at. a lot.

embo

Maroon 5's She Will be Loved starts "Beauty queen of only 18 years" I thought it was "She's the queen of only 18 sheep!" Still think mine is better!

Steph

In 'Take a Chance on Me' by Abba there's a line that says 'You wanted to leave me there, afraid of a love affair'. When I was small I thought it was 'Afraid I would love a bear'. Well I was only 6!

JJ

On "Bad Moon Rising" by John Fogerty:
I thought the lyrics:
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.

sounded like:
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
Oh now, we're sinkin' fore and aft.

They used to play this song at the swimming pool where I hung out as a kid, so it was hard to hear over the splashing and hollering.

Tom R

Well my Little cousin Connor was singing along to Blazin Squads "Crossroads" when I decided he perform infront of my Mum, well we couldnt stop laughing when Connor started singing
"eat me at the cross-bow..cross-bow" instead of
"meet me at the crossroads..crossroads"

Ashley-rose standish

My sister thought that "Ice, Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice was actually "US Navy".

Anon

My friend Liza thought that the lyric to 'His Latest Flame' was 'and my reasoning, I'm the ace of spades' rather than the correct' and Marie's the name, of his latest flame'.

She really needs some psycological help

cooky in leeds

My mom, one of the funniest people ever, is a boundless resource of misheard lyrics. Here are two of my favorite of her "mishearings":

" . . . the girl with colitis goes by" ("the girl with kaleidoscope eyes," from "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by The Beatles)

"Little darling, I feel like ice cream slowly melting" ("Little darling, I feel the ice is slowly melting," from "Little Darling," also by The Beatles)

Stendy

It really sounds like Air Supply sings "You can take the darkness from the pit of the night, and turn it to a bacon double tuna surprise" my friend replayed it over and over again to convince me of the real words "You can take the darkness from the pit of the night, and turn it to a beacon burning endlessly bright" in "Was it Nothing at all"

My husband thinks the Beatles sing "Michelle, my belle" with the lyrics "Play piano song" instead of the French words "Tres bien en semble" or whatever.

M.R

A friend of mine used to think that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was "Snoopy is quite a guy!" Apparently I'm not the only one at the time that thought the Lucy he was referring to was from Charlie Brown

Ann Y.

When I heard No Doubt's "Spiderwebs" I thought the verse saying "Leave a message and I'll call you back" was "I think I want to shoot Bob Eubanks."

(Bob Eubanks is an old-school TV game show host)

Tracy

This wasn't that long ago, but at a sleepover my friends and I were singing Just Lose It by Eminem and the part where he goes "Ahh, Dre, beer goggles blind" I thought it was "Ahh, Drake, beer bottles go flying!" We still crack up to that today.

Liz and Laura and Katey

On pink's song God Is A DJ, I thought that it said 'God is a DJ, life is an a**hole' until i read this site and found out it's actually 'god is a DJ, life is a dancefloor', oops!

Jesi

For years I 'misheard' Madonna's 'Erotic'and thought she was begging 'Hey Roddy, hey Roddy, put your hands all over my body'. Lucky guy that Roddy.

Chump

When I was young and naive, my parents listening to rock music on the radio, I would often wonder what Eric Clapton's lady-friend had against the fine state of Washington... because I could hear him singing, loud and clear to me anyway, that "She don't like, she don't like, she don't like... Spokane."

At least I know better now... And I sometimes wonder why my parents exposed me to this sort of music when I was younger. (I listened to The Doors when I was 4...) Oh well. I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so I don't suppose it's hurt me any!

Freezair

When I was younger, I used to think that there was a song with the lyrics "I'm blue, and indeed I have died, and indeed I have died, and indeed I have died", but then I got hold of the lyrics telling me they sang "da ba dee da ba die da ba dee da ba die". I wondered why people gave me funny looks when i was 10...

Hungry Cannibal

I used to believe that in the chorus of the Michael Jackson song Dangerous, he said, Dangerous! oh, spaghetti-o's dangerous. It really is the girl is so dangerous.

michael

In the song "Home on the Range" where it says seldom is heard a discouraging word I couldn't figure out why seldom was such a discouraging word.

Anon

I love Avril Lavigne and the lyrics to one of her songs are:

If I could say what I wanna say
I'd say I wanna blow you away!
Be with you every night!
Am I squeezin' you too tight?
If I could say what I see,
I wanna see you go down on one knee
Marry me today! Guess I'm wishin' my life away...
With these things I'll never say.

My mom heard:

If I could say what I wanna say
I'd say I wanna blow you all day!
Be with you every night!
Am I squeezin' it too tight?
If I could say what I see,
I wanna see you go down on me.
Marry me today! Guess I'm wishin' my life away...
With these things I'll never say.

She was pissed till I showed her the lyrics from the CD cover... heehee!

Tia

I was really young when the song "The Freaks Come Out At Night" became popular. I thought it was "The Frisco Alley Cat." My family still makes fun of me twenty years later.

Debbie