misheard lyrics

I used to think the line in Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall was "No dogs allowed in the classroom."

Gretchen

Supertramp 'Breakfast In America' includes the line 'take a jumbo 'cross the water'. I used to sing 'take a gumbo up the garden'

Anthony

My sister used to believe the chorus in the Bens Fold Five song 'Brick' was.... "I'm a freakin out, drivin slowly" instead of I'm a brick and im drowning slowly

Alicia

Bob Marley's "To the rescue" was thought to be "to the red-skin" by my friend. She thought he was going to meet some Indian Chief!

And if thats not enough..... the song Maniac (i dont know who sang it sorry peeps) but she though it sang " im a maniac maniac on the loose" instead of "on the floor".... Good lordy!!!

pink fairy

I used to think the song that seys " I walk by and I choke try to walk away and I stumble thouugh I try to hide it its clear MY WORLD CRUMBLES WHEN YOU ARE NOT THERE" was replaced in my mind by "I wear goggles when you are not there"

Ashley B

When I first heard the song "All I Really Want" by Alanis Morrissette, I thought the words "all I really want is some justice" were "all I really want is some chocolate".

Dyth

I thought that the song "Wishful Thinking" by Go West (?) went "I'm the king, I wish for Vicky" .. I used to think that Vicky was a lucky girl, getting wishes from the King. Then I realised he was actually singing "I'm the King of Wishful Thinking". Yeah, clever, aren't I?

Jen

my mum told me i had an obsession with what i called "the zop song" - it took them a while until they realised i wanted to listen to a song that goes "'cause opposites attract".

Jen

I thought Garth Brooks sings "The stalls are clean the horse is dead" instead of "The stalls are clean the horses fed".

Isabel

my parents were always confused when as a little kid i always wanted to hear the beatles song "can't bonnie love". once i could read i figured out it was "can't buy me love", but it took me a while.

BooP

I thought the words of the Flashdance song were "take your pants off and make it happen" instead of "take your passion..."...well, it made sense.

Anon

I've been listening to Metallica since mid-eighties, and they have a song called The Four Horsemen on the album Kill'em all. The beginning of the chorus goes - I though for many years:
"Once in a dully mirror
never seem they're right"

The real deal is
"The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride"

Dont know why I didnt think more over that dully mirror...

jesper b.

For the longest time I thought the opening lyrics to "Song 2" by Blur were "I got my head shaved, by a cham-oh-che."

I asked my British friends what a chamoche was, they just looked at me like I was nuts.

I looked up the lyrics: "I got my head checked, by a jumbo jet."

Jeremy

in the Prince song 'when doves cry', i heard 'and the most tricherious roses'. i thought he was giving his girlfriend poisoned flowers, when he was really saying 'animals strike curious poses'. the truth hit me in class during a final exam. my classmates were none to happy to hear me singing aloud...

Future Mrs Manning

In the song "Margaritaville", me and my cousins used to think that Jimmy Buffett was singing "took off my flip flop, stepped on a Pop Tart!" (instead of pop top. We used to crack up when that song was playing.

penni

"Tubthumping," by Chumbawamba, presented many lyrical challenges for me.

The primary lyrics to the song go, "I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down. . . . Pissing the night away"

However, for many months after the song became popular, I thought the lyrics were: "I get no tongue, but I get over it. You're never gonna keep me down. . . . Kissing the night away."

It made a lot of sense to me, particularly because I was romantically unattached at the time. Turns out one of my close friends thought the same thing about the lyrics. Perhaps he was lonely too?

Stendy

my friend thought the rick astley song "never gonna" was "then im gonna" as in "then im gonna let you down, tehn im gonna make you frown then im gonna run around and hurt you"

also i thought patio lanterns was a song about a girl called Patty O'Lanterns. "who will be the first to kiss? Patty O'Lanterns. "

Anon

I used to think that the song "More than a woman" was "bald headed woman" and it made sense because that chick in the star trek movie was bald and for a little while Vogue magazine was trying to make baldness chic!

meewa

I thought until TODAY, reading this excellent site, that Toto's "Africa" went "I guess it rains down in Africa" Not "I bless the rains down in Africa"
Thank you!

Arcane Jill

white room, eric clapton.
i swear he said 'that's one dickhead.'
never occured to me about a platform ticket til i just read someone else misheard it...

sk8rchick