misheard lyrics

A former girlfriend used to believe the lyrics to "Big Old Jet Airliner" were "Figaro gave me a lighter" and my younger sister believed the lyrics to Eric Clapton's song "Alibis" were "I love flies."

Bob

I could of swore the lyrics in the tragically hip song said Im anty excentric instead of ahead by a century lol

Anon

there was this song by Bob Dylan my mom played a lot... it went "One more cup of coffee for the road" but I always thought it was "one more cup of coffee for our dog"

Anon

Bryan Adams - "Summer of 69"

Instead of "yeah, I'd always wanna be there"

We thought it was "yeah those worn out beach chairs".

Made sense though, right?

KS

I used to believe that the words to the Rolling Stones song "(If You)Start Me Up" were actually "It be stoppeo."

Lindi

A mate thought the line in the RHCP song was "Fly away on my cell phone" when in actual fact, the lyric is "Fly away on my zephyr".

Anon

Until I was around 14 or 15 years old, I was convinced that the song, "I miss the rain down in Africa" actually said, "I missed the train down to Africa." It wasn't until I put two and two together that it made sense!

Jenni

The song "Reverend Blue Jeans" turned out to be "Forever in Blue Jeans." Who would have believed that?

music lover

My sister, at age 7, used to think the lyrics to the song "Born Free" went like this: Born free, as free as a Win-dow.

packer

I thought the Franz Ferdinand song went,
"I'm just a cross-eye without you" and I thought wow, that love is so deep, how touching.
Correct lyrics:
"I'm just a crosshair away from you"

aria

I don't know quite where I got it, but, in the song "All For You" by Sister Hazel, I hear, "Toucan Sam, it's all for you." Follow your nose, kids, follow your nose.

Oinky

I used to think the song, "Pass the doochie on the left-hand side" was "Pass the goat cheese on the left hand-side." On my 27th birthday, my friends made me a dinner that included goat cheese and crackers. I started singing my version of the song and they all busted up

mamagambino

I used to think that the beach boys song "Barbara Ann" was "Bob Bob Baran" and that they were talking about a guy in the song, which made perfect sense to me because for the longest time I thought that the Beach Boys were girls (becuase of their voices). I didn't find out it was Barbara Ann until one day I asked my mom when I was about 12 why a guy named Bob, Bob Baran would "lick someones hand" (I thought it was "...he licked my ha-a-and..") and she cleared me up....

Elizabeth

I used to think Guerilla Radio by Rage Against the Machine said "Lights up, we're on the radio", so when i heard it on the radio at night when i was trying to go to sleep, i would always get up and turn on the light. It got me in trouble because sometimes it kept me up and i fell asleep in class. Also, I told my dad that he was going to get arrested if he didnt turn on the headlights on when it played, the cops would come and arrest him... I was a dumb kid.

Lunchbox

My mum thought the song "The drugs don't work" by the verve was "The trucks don't work"

and "return of the mac" she thought was "please turn out the light"

Emma, Blackpool

i used to thnk the lyrics to the winnie th pooh song was "tubby little tummy all stuffed with farts" when it is really stuffed with "fluff"

jess

In Beyonce's song 'Crazy in Love', I always thought she said 'Daisy right now'.

Anon

"Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" by Bruce Springsteen was "Tell the devil 'You can freeze out!'". Come to think of it, the actual lyrics make less sense than my imaginary ones...

Lara

I used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Beret" was actually "Mad-Miracle Man"

Missy

In "Groovin' On a Sunday Afternoon," instead of
"Life could be ecstasy / You and me endlessly"
I thought it was ". . You and me and Leslie."
Not much of a come-on line, now that I think of it.

beofish