misheard lyrics

When we were little my brother used to think that the lyrics to the song "Gloria" were really "Oreo" so we always sang "Oreo/ I think I got you number/ Oreo..." I mean who named their kid Gloria 20 years ago when we were little?

mary

I used to think that "Anxiety" by Pat Benatar had these lyrics: "Sometimes in the city, sometimes in my car, I pound on the windows, I could pee inside a jar."

Found out years later that it was "like a bee inside a jar". D'oh!

Mikey

in the song SWAY (song 2 in 'sticky fingers' album) by the Rolling Stones, i used to think the chorus went: "It's just that needle I forgot you in its sway", when he (mick jagger) really sings: "It's just that demon life that's got me in its sway"

tod greenhouse

Until recently when my friend informed me that the words to 'sweet chariot' were what they were, i thought they went like this 'swing low, sweet chariot, mummas gunna carry me home' what an idiot!

Paula Bussey

When I was little i used to the song Achey Breaky Heart would go "My achey breaky heart makes me wanna fart."

I later found out I was wrong when i said it in kindergarten.

Tom

Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone

Jenny

in the song "inch by inch, row by row; I'm gonna make this garden grow. All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground." I thought that "all it takes is a rake and a hoe" was "all it takes is oregeno"

Mel

I thought until I was about 25 that the ZZ Top song lyric, "Slip inside my sleeping bag" was actually "SuperSonic Secret Man". It still sounds like that to me!

sillys

Someone on this site said,

"I used to believe that the song my bonnie lies over the ocean was my body lies over the ocean."

I thought so too, until I read this just now. ^^;; I'm 12.

Anon

When i was little, my mum was always listening to 60's music, and she particularly loved the Susan Maughn song 'Bobby's Girl' however i used to dance around singing 'I wanna be barbie's girl'now i know why barbie &ken never did get married!! think about it.

Aiden

My Brother used to think that Chris de Burgh was singing 'Lady in bed' instead of lady in red'

Kerry, Manchester

I used to think the snowman in the song, "Winter Wonderland", was "parse and brown". ("In the meadow, we can build a snowman, and pretend that he is Parson Brown.") I didn't know what "parse" meant, nor understand why anyone would want to build a snowman from dirty snow.

Leslie D. P.

Californication by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers :

"Dream of Kylie fornication"
not "Dream of Californication"

sounds better to me

andy p

I used to think that Bananarama's song "I'm You Venus" was "I'm Your Penis"

Anon

I use to think that song by Trace Adkins "(This Ain't ) No Thinkin' Ting". was

This aint no thinkin train right trian left train.

lil deviL.

I was maybe 9 or 10 and Tom Jones had this song with Stereophonics, 'Mama Told Me Not To Come' and my friend and I were singing it in the playground and when it came to the part 'That ain't the way to have fun, son' my friend was like 'Down in the winter house fun, son' I laughed for days.

Yella

I still have problems with understanding lyrics, but as a kid, two songs struck me as very powerfully written, to the point where i wasn't mature enough to grasp their true meaning: one was a Gordon Lightfoot song, which I heard as "Before the green dark forest decided to be real" (was too silent to be real) and the other was a Leonard Cohen song: "First we take man habit .... then we take the men!" (First we take Manhatten, then we take Berlin) I still prefer my early interpretations.

Anon

I used to believe the Pearl Jam's song "Better Man" lyrics went like this:

She dreams of butter, she dreams of bread,
Can't find the butterman.

It's actually:

She dreams of color, she dreams of red,
Can't find the better man!

Llama <3

My boyfriend's daughter used to sing "we had joy, we had fun, we had Jesus in the bum" when she really should have been singing about "seasons in the sun". We just about died laughing.

Sara

In the song Reptilia by the strokes, I thought he said
"I thought I told you, this world is not foyer, the moon is on fire as she's fixing her head"
instead of
"I thought I told you, this world is not for you, the room is on fire as she's fixing her hair

Hope