misheard lyrics

Leningrad by Billy Joel

Real Lyrics-I was born in '49, a cold war kid in McCarthy time

I Heard-I was born in '49, a cold war kid in the coffee time.


I thought he was saying coffee had been invented in the late 40's...

Amanda

In the early '40s, as a youngster of four, I often heard the song, "On Brave Old Army Team. (Ours was a football household.) However, I thought the words were "Unbraveled Army Team," meaning our soldiers weren't brave. I thought it terribly unpatriotic, and I was ashamed and sad that so many people didn't do something about eliminating the son.

Mary F.

Does anybody remember that song "OUT OF REACH" well i remember i used to sing it as "BATTEERRRRYYY".

meeeeeeeee

When I was little I used to sneak out of bed to watch the Headbangers Ball with my older brothers. (That was back when MTV played music) And I remember seeing the music video for the song "Seasons in the Abyss" from Slayer. The video didn't scare me at all. It was what I heard. I thought he said "Yeah I'm dead, I'm lyin' in bed, with incisions in my head" I could just imagine Tom Araya lying down, dead bleeding from his scalp. Not until a few weeks ago did I know the lyrics were "Razors edge, outlines the dead, incisions in my head"... I was close.

The image still freaks me out.

Anon

AC/DCs song "dirty deeds done dirt cheep" i used to think it said "dirty deeks tongo jeep"... my mom says i used to shout it at the top of my lungs every time the song came on.

Jennifer S

Ok - please understand that i was young and this is in no way supposed to be hurtful. When i was younger and Anastasia's song "paid my dues" came out - i thought that it was called paid my Jews". I even had a huge arguement woth my dad about it.

Anon

I use to believe in green days song, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams I thought "My shadow's the only one that walks beside me" was autally "My shadow's the only one that talks about me."
Funny.. I'd be sad if my shadow talked about me.

Zoe

i used to think "black dog" by led zeppelin started out like, "big-legged momma, see the way you moo."

ginny

There is this song by Avril Lavinge called Complicated. I loved the song, but I made a major mistake on a lyric.

Actual lyric:
"Your never gonna find me fakin'"

What I thought:
"Your never gonna find your bacon."

Yikes, big mistake. =X

I will never find my bacon ='(

sophie b. hawkins. Damn I wish I was your lover. I heard Damn I wish I was your mother

Anon

Elton John's Bennie and the Jets I thought it said "she's got electric boobs" but really it was an electric suit

Anon

I used to believe that the Macy Gray song, "I Try," went

"I blow bubbles when you are not near."

In reality, it goes

"My world crumbles when you are not near."

Mr. Bubbles

There's an Irish music group called Celtic Women. On their Christmas CD, there is a song called "Play The Old Christmas Pipes." My dad burst out laughing one day when he heard both my mom and me sing, "Gravy on the Christmas pies...."

Taylor (again.... Methinks I need hearing aids)

After reading someone else's belief-for years I thought Springsteen's "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" was actually "Dead Devil with Freeze Eyes"

Er yeah

Glowworm

I thought the words to Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam" were "Oh I, I pledge to say, get your booty on the floor tonight, make my day." Well, 18 years after the song was popular, I was singing it in the car and and my husband laughed at me and said the words are "I want a place to stay, get your booty on the floor tonight, make my day." I thought he was crazy, that didn't even make sense. I argued until we got to my sister's house where we looked it up on the internet. He was right.

Jessamaca

When my son ,Jay, was little, I would always sing the song "My Girl" to him, but I would change the lyrics to "I'll bet you'll say, what can make a Mama feel this way, My Jay, My Jay, My Jay, talkin' 'bout my Jay---------------------As we mostly listen to CHRISTian music, it was a long time until he actually heard the real song, when we were out one time. He was mad to find out that the song really wasn't about him.

me

We were at a family party and well it was my sister (honest).because she was warbling away to the song by WHAM called "wake me up before you go-go" the thing is tho is that she was singing it as "wake me up and give me cocoa"

She sang it like this for years. it was only when we were much older and at another family party did she eventually realise (cause everyone was in tears) that she had misheard it. The conviction and feeling in the words really triggered us all off big style!!

Sharron Magowan

My boyfriend had another song by the spice girls that he did his own rendition of, this time it was "2 Become 1" and instead of the real lyrics that were..

"I had a little love, now i'm back for more"

He kept on singing....

"I had a little dove, now he's splattered on the floor "

Pauline Stone (Bolton)

When my sister and I were younger we loved the song Mellow Yellow by Donavan.I think initially we liked it because we thought he was singing about the soda. After we heard it a few times though we thought the guy was really cool for a couple of reasons
1)There was this sidekick guy that agreed with everything he said by saying Quite right slick.
and
2)This girl named Saffron seemed to really dig him which we decided was because at some point in the song he self proclaimed that he had a big fat banana.
Funny though as an adult I can't ever hear the part of the song where he says.
I have a big fat banana.
But I swear it was there when I was younger followed by his sidekick saying:
Quite right slick.

anonymous

My fiancé's brother thought Moby's "Lift Me Up" had a gay pride theme because instead of hearing "Lift me up, lift me up..." he heard "lesbian, lesbian". Now I hear that every time I listen to the song

Laura S