misheard lyrics

There's a line in Donna Lewis's "I love you always forever" that says "You've got the most unbelievable blue eyes I've ever seen". Up until recently, I thought she was saying "the most stumbling blue eyes I've ever seen". I figured Stumbling meant something similar to "stunning" in this context

Nateor

I thought the line in Papa Roach- Last Resort that says "Would it be wrong would it be right, if I took my life tonight? Chances are that I might" actually said "Chances are dynamite". I figured it meant he was going to blow himself up with dynamite.

Anon

I used to think that the lyric in Deck the Halls was "'tis the season tube-ey, jolly." Tube-ey as in another word for tubular.

Doing just Tubular

I used to think Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “That’s a Cold Shot Baby” was “Let’s Go Shopping”

Anon

I had no idea what a “pufferbelly” was for an embarrassingly long time. The closest thing I had as an idea for what it meant was that a “pufferbelly” was some kind of humanoid, due to the Wiggles performing the song. It was only until I was in my mid teens that I had to be told they were steam engines!

Miru

when i listened to christopher cross 'ride like the wind' i thought he was saying, take me to the corner of mexico. i just found out 2 years ago, at 27, that he was saying border, not coner!

mj

My friend Beccy used to think that Dusty Springfield's classic 'Son of a Preacher Man' was actually 'Son of the Pizza Man'.

Micki

A friend of mine thought the lyric in Ziggy Stardust went 'Making love with his eagle' instead of 'ego'. When I laughed and told him the real lyric, he claimed it made as much sense as any other Bowie lyric.

Chris Smith

I thought that the 80's song "Alive'n Kicking" was saying in the chorus line "I love a kickin'"

marina

I was in a band in high school. Our drummer was famous for getting lyrics wrong. One time he suggested we do "Tapico's Own". We were all scratching our heads until he explained, "You know, that Sonny & Cher song Tapico's Own." He was talking about "The Beat Goes On". We never let him forget it.

McClique

When I first heard the song "What A Wonderful World" in the film "Good Morning Vetnam" (and even later, on the radio), I didn't understand the meaning of the lyrics that went "the bright, blessed day, the dogs say good night," or why talking dogs were part of a wonderful world. It was several years before I finally realized that the correct lyric was actually "the bright, blessed day, the dark, sacred night."

Mr. Ed

For years, untill the other day actually when i heard Gareth Gates' rendition of spirit in the sky, I thought the lyrics "when i die and they lay me to rest" were "when i die in the name of Terese" I thought maybe she was some kind of godess?!!! Never was good at religious studies!!!!!!!!

nate

My mother whose name is June used to like the Beatles' song "Hey Jude" until she found out that it wasn't "Hey June".

Anon

I used to think that Elton John's "Sad Songs Say So Much" was the theme for the Gremlin's movie, only because of the lyric "they reach into your room".

zeitgeist

I used to believe that the song "Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith went like this "Janie's got a gun, hot spring pepper tongue" ("Janie's got a gun, her world's come undown")

ShannonE

I used to (and sometimes still do) hear the line from the Green Day song "Time of your Life" as:

"Tounge grabs you by the waist..." (Time grabs you by the wrist...")

and

"..Hang it on the shelf in good old-fingered time" (Still haven't figured out what he's saying here).

confused

I used to believe that the text in "Blue Da ba dee" by Eiffel 65 went: I�m Blue, in Aberdeen I will die, in Aberdeen I will die, in Aberdeen I will die... ;) How stupid!

Sita

I had a roommate who thought that Celine Dion's song "Next Plane Out" said "let's make out." She didn't make the connection between the song's title and the words to the chorus....

Barbara

I thought that in Donna Summer's "On The Radio", she said "On the radiator"!! My grandma and sister were always laughing at me and they told me I was wrong. I found out the right lyrics when I was like 8. Whenever that song comes on the radio, they still make fun of me...

Vannessa

I recently got a CD with 12 80's new wave songs on them. (I'm 11 and an 80's freak!) Well I had heard the chorus of Devo's "Whip It" before but didn't know any of the rest of the song. So when they did the, "Now whip it. Into shape. Shape it up.." I didn't know it. When they said "Try to detect it" I thought they said, "tatooed detective." I was like, "What does a tatooed detective have to do with this song?"

Whip it Good