misheard lyrics

"Christmas time
mistletoe and brine..."

Santa Puncher

this one is my sister's
in will smiths rendition of "just the two of us" there is a line that says 'throughout life people will make you mad' and she thought it was 'wild white people will make you mad' i laughed my a** of seeing as she was 22 at the time, then i listened to it again and truthfully it does sound veryu similar

sarah

My friend and I were singing our favorite song "You're So Vain" and when the line "You're where you should be all the time, and when you're not you're with someone like the wife of a close friend, wife of a close friend and" or something like that. My friend turned to me and my other friend and said, "See this is the part I don't get. What's a ploseman?" So then we contemplated and thought it must be postman. So we would always sing "wife of a postman, wife of a postman and..." until my friend's mom said it was close friend.LOL!

Zoey the ploseman

Remember the song "Love stinks" By J. Geils... My cousin used to think it said Elastics..yeah yeah...Elastics...We used to laugh so hard, we never told her what it really said.

Lisa

I originally thought the lyrics of "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed were "You're going to reap, just watch yourself!" and it was meant as a sort of thread, like Watch Your Back!!

It was after a few years I realised that it's actually "You're going to reap just what you sow" which makes more sense but isn't as funny.

Katie in England

Even as a kid I liked classical music, but was convinced that all operas were written in Spanish. Well, I knew they weren't in english, and what with Carmen's bullfighters, Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni, Don Carlos and others it seemed logical. I could never work out "Figaro" though - Figaro was Gepetto's cat in the Disney film "Pinocchio", and never sang a note in any language that I could remember.
At least I did better than the little lad who, when asked by his operatic parents what his favourite aria was answered, "The one about elephant's ears". This puzzled them for ages until they heard "La donna e mobile" from "Rigoletto", by a singer also with poor knowledge of italian - catch the last line -yep, easily taken for "elephant's ears"!

Swanny

I thought that the song "Lyin Eyes" by The Eagles was really "lion eyes", and that it was about a person who was secretly a lion.

Molly

this was my sister: in mr. brightside by the killers she thought the words were "chelsea, turning 16 tuesday" instead of "jealously, tuning saints into the sea" she thought the entire song was about this chelsea girl.

Anon

in slipknots Duality
i used to think thay sung
i push my fingers into my arse
not push my fingers into my eyes

Anon

I used to believe that the song "Big Ol' Jet Airliner" went like this:

Big old Jed and Lila
Carried me to Faraway
Big old Jed and Lila
Cause it's here that I gotta stay

I pictured two huge old people carrying little kids on their backs to a place called Faraway and not letting them go home again if they were bad. LOL I had a vivid imagination!

KMB

Billy Ocean's song "Caribbean Queen" was on the radio almost every morning before I went to school one year. I heard it often, so you'd think I'd know the lyrics...

The first line, in my head, was "She dutched by me and fainted on Gene". I'm not sure what I thought "dutched" meant; the mental image was that she slipped past the first guy and collapsed in the arms of his buddy.

The chorus was "Caribou queen / Now we're sharing the same tree". No, I didn't think she looked like a caribou, although I did imagine them sitting in a tree together. She might have been wearing caribou hide and fur, Inuit-style.

For the record, the correct versions are "She dashed by me in painted-on jeans" and "Caribbean queen / Now we're sharing the same dream". (Even the lyrics websites disagree on that first one-- depending on who you talk to, you'll be told it's "dashed", "danced", or "brushed".)

Brenda

In the song "Love Potion Number 9," I used to think the lyric about the "gypsy with the gold-capped tooth," was "the gypsy with the bold tatoo."

Still looking for the potion.... :-)

LJC

Ok. When i was little, maybe 6 or 7 my friend thot "Starving for truth" from Hangin by a moment was "Starving for juice" lol we argued about that for a while.

B

My friend used to believe that the lyrics to Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" were:
"Hold me closer Tony Danza"

I'm with stupid

There was this song that went 'She loves me for meeeee!' (forgot the singer) but I always heard it as 'She loves meat for meaaattt!'

Maddy

When I was a kid my eldest sister used to be mad on the Bay City Rollers and was always playing one particular song called Shang-a-Lang, the thing is I used to call it the rude song because all the kids at school used to sing Shag_a_Lad and I really believed this was the title of the actual song.

Mazzy J5

I used to think that the lyrics in the chorus for "Lay Down Sally" were actually "Ice Cream Salad".

My friend thought they were singing "Ghost Eraser" in the Speed Racer cartoon song. "Ghost Eraser, Ghost Eraser, Ghost Eraser, Go!"

Anon

Before i stopped listening to her music, i thought Avril Lavigne's Moble where it said "I'm a Mobile!" I thought it said "I'm a moron!" I asked my cousin (who at the time was anti-avril) why she thought she was a moron, and she said that it was mobile, not moron, even though she WAS a moron.

Moron

This is for the 1979 hit song “I Got You” by the New Zealand band, Split Enz. I always thought that the line that actually read “I don’t know why sometimes get frightened” was “I don’t know, I sometimes I get five cents” up until recently when I look up the lyrics on the web.

Tasman

My mother and I misheard the lyrics to the chorus of Michael Jackson's Heal The World...I know the real words now, lol!

"I'm a girl
I'm a mentalcase
I sing like a woman and I've got a plastic face
I called my album Bad because I couldn't spell Pathetic
And my shoes that do the moonwalk are electric."

Leona, the one with the mental lyrics...lol