misheard lyrics

"Come On Eileen, I swear I'll eat beets!
At this moment, I'll eat anything!
You want the dress? Eileen, please tell me yes!
You are thirty, Come On Eileen!"

I first heard this song in 2013 and thought it was what he was saying. I still hear these words when I hear this song. :D

Shelley

Instead of "Talk to me, boy", I thought the song "Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake contained the line "Dr. McCoy".

Anon

I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”

SpengBab

I remember sitting on my Dad's lap when the Beatles' song Eight Days a Week first came out. I was confused because someone had told me there were really only seven days in a week and I wanted to believe the Beatles.

Jane

I was at a party in the late 70s, and the great old Rolling Stones song "Paint It Black" came on, so I began to sing along. I sang the first line, "I see a red door and I want it painted black," and this guy I didn't know corrected me in utter seriousness, "You've got it wrong! It's 'I see a Rambler and I want it painted black.'"

Charlie

When I was little I was convinced the words to Bananarama's "Love in The First Degree" were "guilty as a cocoa bean" and not "guilty as a girl can be".
I still prefer that version.

Joanna

When I was younger, when hearing songs with part of the lyrics going "..take me higher..." (there are a lots of songs with those words), I thought they were singing "..take me hire...". I was puzzled about this for many years; here we have this romantic pop song and then she (or he) sings about being for hire... I asked a friend of mine about this strange phenomenon and she explained it to me. I was then in my early 20's.

Jostein Trondal

When the song "Smack my Bitch Up" by Prodigy came out, I--and many other people at this particular club in Turin--thought it was "Snap my picture"--and made litte papparazzi gestures during the chorus

Mike

Until I was about 21, when the penny dropped, I used to think that the song lyrics "One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow", was about a bloke and his dog who went to a place called "Mow-a-Meadow".
Well my parents didn't have a lawn... :)

Dave Rigby

I used to beleve that the lyrics to the patriotic song 'Rule Britania..' were 'Raw Britania' and I thought Britania was the word for the little crunchy cubes you get in Branston Pickle.

Jason P White

whe i was about 7 my mom,dad,sister and i were in the car on the way to dinner. the song "blinded by the light" came on and i thought the line was "wrapped up like a douche". it's actually "wrapped up like a deuce". hey...i was 7!

amy

I'm sure i'm not the only one *blushes*
"Walk like a chip pan" (egyptian)
"Everytime you go away you take a piece of Meat with you" (piece of me)

Saffy

My little cousin heard some Justin Timberlake music, and he thought "Now everybody dance" was "Now everybody gas" and he constantly asked me, "How do you gas?"

He got a jump-start on potty-humor.

Anon

In 1999 there was a huge hit by an band called The Wamdue Project: King of My Castle, I has just turned 29 and was having a hard time realising that I was nearly thirty and was really trying to get into all the commercial pop on the radio. We were at a house party and King of my castle came on, to my delight, (as it was my favourite song at the time)I was boogeying on the dancefloor with a couple of teenagers,singing at the top of my voice (I was hip, I was cool!) Must be the reason why i am king of my castle, must be the reason why I am still on my trestle, when this snotty little teenager came up to me and said, "DUH, must be the reason why i am freeing my TRAPPED SOUL" i was quite embarrassed and went and sat quietly in the corner!!

Tracy Mitchell - South Africa

me and my friend were singing 'i believe in a thing called love' the other day....and instead of the lyrics *just listen to the rhythm of my heart* she sang * just suck into the rhythm of my car*....I'm not really sure where she got that one from, but since then its been her lyrics everytime!

RaChEl

I thought the song Secret Agent man was
Secret Asian Man
My mom had two she thought hang on sloopy was hang on stupid
and Theres a bad moon on the rise was theres a bathroom on the right

Dummy

Many of my friends in high school used to believe that the 'eifel 65' song "Blue" chorus was "I'm blue I'm in need of a guy". Which makes much more sence than the real lyrics of "ba da dee da do die". THats not even english.

kat

One of my friend's little brothers who was at least 5, thought the song "im blue" by Eiffel 65 went "im blue, im in need of a dime"

Neesha

Until my sister was 11 she thought that the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows what I'd be without you" was really "Cuddly nose what I'd be without you"

Anon

I was 12 or so and heard the lyric "Wild Thing--you make my heart sing" as "Waltzing--you make my heart sing". My wife thought "Radar Love" was "Red-eyed Love", and her sister thought "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" was Gypsies, Tramps and Beads".

DJ