misheard lyrics

when i was little i had a barney tape with songs and stuff on it. well i was watching a part where they were on a ship and the little dinosaur girl (i forget her name) is singing "my blankie lies over the ocean" and it made me think of the song "my bonnie lies over the ocean"...well i used to think (up until like two minutes ago) that it was "my body lies over the ocean" and i always pictured myself floating on my back in the middle of the ocean....weird....

mer

My friend Shane use to sing at the top of his lungs, Guns & Roses "Take me down to the very last city", only to have us laugh hysterically at him and tell him it is "Take me down to the Paradise City"!!

Anon

I used to the the song "Down in the Boondocks" was Down in the Boom box. I always imagined some guy living in a giant boombox out in a swamp.
And the song "Hang on Sloopy"... well I thought it was Hang on Stupid. I wondered why if she loved him why she called him stupid.

H.M.

In the 70's there was a song out by a band named 'Clout' called 'Substitute' and for years I thought it was a rude song, because I swear I thought it was called 'I'll be a prostitute'

Maz

In the Bananarama song Guilty instead of "Guilty, Guilty as a girl can be' I used to sing "Guilty, Guilty as a cocoa bean"

Nik Pearce

My buddy used to think that when Steve Millers sang "Jungle Love" he was actually saying "Chug-a-lug"

Harold

In Weird al's version of Bohemian Rhapsody where it really said "Mama,just killed a man.put a gun against his head,pulled the trigger now he's dead" was"Mama,just killed a man.Put a gun against his head,for my N*gger now is dead"I thought to myself"wow,he is racist. then i was put in line,and i sing the whole thing right now!and i am 10.

Big ears,no sense.

Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
"Oh, Harry can't mate
He knows it's too late
As he's stalking, oh my..."

Santa Puncher

In Eminem's song 'If I Had' he says "I'm tired of using plasic siverware". But I heard it was "I'm tired of using blastin' siverware" and I was thinking, 'if he hates siverware so bad, why do he continue to use it?'

Maddy

remember the Queen song "I want to break free". For a long time I used to think it was "i cant seem to lidbidah lidbidah you" instead of "I cant seem to live without live without you". happens when english is not your first language

Riz

My friend's little sister thinks the lyrics to Hollaback Girl go, "A few times I been round that track so it stomps just to have feet like that"

Laura, Liz, and Katey

i used to think the song 'living on a prayer' was actually 'living on a stair.' after a while it changed to 'living on a prarie' in fact i only just figured out what the real lyrics were when i read it on this site!

....sweetcherrypie....

When I was a child I believed that the lyrics in the song My Bonny Is Over The Ocean actually read My Pony Is Over The Ocean. So I thought the song was actually about some horse on a boat far far away from home.

Morten Norway

In Fleetwood Mac's song "On the Edge of Seventeen" I thought the lyrics were:

Just like a wild wingdah
Sings a song sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh.

I always wondered what a "wild wingdah" looked like - I imagined it was a large bird with enormous brightly colored wings. Guess I had a good imagination :)

Wild Wingdah fan

that snoop doggs song drop it like its hot goes" i got my polio on and im going up to god "when it was" i got the rolly on my arm and im pourin chandon"

lex

i thought that in the song "holly jolly christmas" by burl ives, the line "oh, ho, the mistletoe, hung where you can see." was really... "oh, ho, the mistletoe, hum where you can sing."
why would you hum where you could sing?

mollyyy

I drove across europe with my best friend Jerker in a car listening to ZZ top sleeping bag and singing "Supersonic sleeping baaaaag!" instead of "Slip inside my sleeping bag". I still like my version better.

Anon

My mom actually did this but in some song that goes "Takin' care of business, and working over time." she thought it said "Takin care of biscuits, and working over time"

Amanda

When I was in High School a friend of mine was a big fan of Savage Garden. Amongst others, the Animal Song was one of her favourites. She used to sing "I want to live like cannon balls" instead of "I want to live like animals". And then "I want to run through the jungle with wind in my hair and the smell of my feet" instead of "I want to run through the jungle with wind in my hair and the sand at my feet". !!! I haven't seen her in years but always remember her with fondness when I hear this song.

Laurine

When my friends were singing blue by Eiffel 65, i thought instead of "blue da ba dee da ba di" i thought they were singing "i'm blue i believe i can die!" I didn't find i was wrong til i was about 11 at a disco.

unusual being