misheard lyrics

When my mom was a little kid she heard a song called "I"ll See You Tonight" a lot. She always wondered what the guy singing meant when he sang,
"I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen..."
It was not until college that she was told it was actually
"I'm not talkin' 'bout movin' in..."

Hannah

This isn't my belief, but rather my younger cousin's- we were all driving down to the beach, and my aunt was playing her Beatles CD on the way down. The song "I am the Walrus" came on- on the part where it said "Semolina Pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower", my cousin thought he was singing, "Sitting on a cornflake, looking at the Eiffel Tower" The funnier part was, I didn't know any better either, so I totally believed her! I didn't find it out until today when I was listening to the song, and decided to look up the lyrics for this one part that sounded weird to me...

*D*

"You know I like to keep my cheating stragety" for Blind Melon's "No Rain". Yes, I know that "stragety" is not a word. I'm still not certain of the actual lyrics because my cousin told me it was "You know I'd like to keep my jeans dry today" and I just read on here that it's "You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today", either of which makes more sense than what I always thought.

Anon

Until yesterday i never knew what the lyrics to 'Scar Tissue' by the Chili Peppers was saying in the chorus.

I looked it up, and I thought "With the birds I'll share this lonely view" was actually saying

"With a blur, a shed is a long live you."

scar tissue

I used to think that the Rolling Stones' song that goes "Hey! Hey! You! You! Get off of my cloud!" went "Hey! Hey! You! You! Get off of my clown!" I also thought the song "Who'll stop the rain." was "Who shot the rain?"

Bindy

In the song "Holiday" by Green Day, the real lyric is "Kill all the f*gs that don't agree" but I used to think it was "Kill all the fats that donut crave!" And it made me want donuts. Also, in their son "Waiting" The lyric was "Better count your lucky stars" and I thought it was "Better count the non-gay stars"

xM

I used to think that the song 'Sexy Back' by Justin Timberlake for the lyrics on the chorus i thought it was 'Go hippy go with it, Go hippy go with it' instead of the actual lyrics.... 'Go head be gone with it, Go head be gone with it' I stopped thinking that until my brother asked me what i was singing then he told me i was wrong... i was devastated :p

Silly

In Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", there's a line that goes:
Sometimes, I wish someone out there would find me
I heard:
Sometimes, I wish some other girl would find me
I thought he didn't like his girlfriend.

Hannah P.

i used to believe the song barbara ann was boparam

so i was singin

boparaaaam please take my hand
boparaaaam you got me rockin and a rollin rockin and a reelin
boparam
bop bop
bop boparam

weezy

Don Henley sings "After the boys of summer have gone". I used to think it was "After the poisoned summer had gone".

Gabriella

my husband nearly killed me with laughter singing in the car one day! the song "keep it copacetic" was on the radio but he was singing it "get yer goat sally" and he really thought that was the words!

shell

on "highway to hell" i always thought it goes "baby see, baby do" instead of "hey satan, payin´ my dues"

Miss Understood

Steve Miller Band song "jet airliner" has the lyric " big ole jet airliner, don't carry me too,far away" which I believed until just a few years ago, was "big ole chair that I'm lyin' on, don't carry me too far away."

Robyn

In the song Jump by Van Halen, I used to think that they were singing "You got it top, I've seen the tub of soap 'round".

Pachisu

I used to believe that the song "Jimmy cracked corn and I don't care" said "Jimmy crapped corn and I don't care"!!!!! (I just learned the real lyrics a few months ago and I am 22 :)

G

I used to believe that John Lennon's song went "Vincent Carmen's gonna get you..." instead of "Instant Karma"...I was always nervous around people called Vincent...

Mairin

I thought the AC-DC song Dirty Deeds done dirt cheap was Dirty deeds thunder chief. It didn't make sense to me until my girlfriend asked me what the hell are you singing. It makes sense now

Spaz

There is a line in the old song "Mexicali Rose"(which was one of my lullabies...)that said, "dry those big brown eyes and smile dear..." but when I was very young my mother slurred it into "drydoes big brown eyes" and somehow I thought a "drydo" was something like a kiwi but it had eyes like a potato and I pictured a basket of plastic ones on the coffee-table. I was a grown adult before I realized what the real words were!

Ravyn

My mate used to tell me about several new Police songs back in 1978 - I thought some were really rude:
Rock Salmon (Roxanne)
Massage in a brothel (message in a bottle)
A year has passed since I "broke my nose" (wrote my note)

nr8209

My sister was convinced Prince's "Rasberry Beret" was "Rags baby her Rags" well, it made sense when you with the second part of the chorus "the kind you find in a second hand store"...and no one could persuade my sister otherwise!!

sista NeeNee