Messing up song lyrics

[Katieinwonderland]

So I was reading this thread to my little sister and she reminded me of another one - you know the Christmas song 'Winter Wonderland' goes..

"Later on, we'll conspire as we dream by the fire"

I think it was bad enough that I always though it was " later on, we'll PERSPIRE as we dream by the fire" but she always thought it was "later on, we'll EXPIRE as we dream by the fire." Apprently she thought Christmas memories involved death besides the fire.....

 

[Katie Dawn]

I have a friend who sings Tiny Dancer by Elton John
"hold me closer Tony Daaanza"

I think he really knows the words, but it makes me laugh everytime I hear him say that.

That is mine, except I didn't really know the words.

But come on, think about it... the incorrect version makes sense too!

 

[StephyDee]

I have been there and spent a whole afternoon laughing hysterically! It's a great pick me up for a down day....

My fave is from Abba's Dancing Queen...

"see that girl, watch her scream, kickin' the dancing queen..." The song is so "feel good" it needs a little anger!

THAT is HILARIOUS!

One of my worst misheard lyrics is from the same song....Fall Out Boy's "Sugar We're Going Down".

Instead of hearing:

I'm just a notch in your bedpost
but you're just a line in a song

I thought it was:

I'm just munchin' your bedpost
and you'll just a-lie in the sun


and the second one I messed up in that song was this...

what is really is:

a loaded gun complex
**** it and pull it
*it's starred....what do you do with a gun that begins with a C? that's what it is.*

what I heard:

eroded God complex
caught it and put it


and a THIRD one (this was my worst song ever....I couldn't understand anything at first! Now I got it all perfectly, go fig...5 years later.)

what it REALLY is:

Don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet

this is what I heard:

don't money me watching youtube from the closet


There's been other songs where I've messed up lyrics, but that song was the worst for me. I heard the real lyrics and I felt so stupid.

 

[Starbrite]

Another one was "White Winged Dove" by Stevie Nicks...The same friend thought it was "One Winged Dove" and we proceeded to pretend to fly around the room with only "one wing" for the rest of the night taunting her. Of course I wasn't any better...I thought it was "Just like the one we love."

Same song with our little twist. "Just like the Wild Ranger..."

 

[disneyaddicted]

When I was a kid my parents were country music lovers, I always thought the Oakridge boys were singing

"Hell fire up" and it's really Alvira

And the part where they sang, "Hi-ho Silver, away." I heard, "I don't feel good, get away."

 

[eduk8r26]

Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie" still sounds like "Cracklin' Rosie peed on board" every time I hear it. To this day, I don't know what he really sings.

 

[Claire&TheBoys]

This morning I nearly drove off the road when I heard my 4-yr-old sing,

"The farmer in the jail, the farmer in the jail. Hi-ho, the dairy-oh, the farmer in the jail."

Not sure what the farmer did to go to jail, but he did take his wife, she took the child, etc.

 

[Silly Little Pixie]

Okay--that rings a bell...

I thought it was "You can dance...you can die-ie...having the time of your life"

It's "You can dance, you can jive" which makes me feel better than dying.

Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon on the Rise

To me it always sounded like "There's a bathroom on the right"

Okay I know I honestly thought those were the real lyrics, at least at one point. I never understood why CCR was talking about a bathroom. Well, it kinda makes more sense than a bad moon on the rise. How is the moon bad, exactly?

Told DH about that darn Lucille leaving Kenny with all the kids crapping in the field.

It just doesn't get old.

It's so funny, I can't even stand it!!
The visual is never going to leave me.
I'm still laughing with tears coming out of my eyes!

 

[TinkerbelleAbbysMom]

AC/DC Dirty deeds

Real lyric-dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap.

What I heard-dirty deeds and the thunder chief

DH thought the same thing!!
Several come to mind:
The song " Pour some sugar on me" my bf's mom sang, pour some super bombay... I always wondered what that was.
Another.. shot through the neart and you're to vain, you give love a bad name.
My DS and her bff thought it was , "shot through the heart and you're koolaid, you give love a band aid!!"
We did this one night for a while, but I can't think of any more right now. Will post em later!

 

[EveDallas]

My son was singing Bon Jovi the other day:

Woooooaaaahh living on a prairie..

I had vision of Mary and Half Pint rollicking along to Bon Jovi in their covered wagon..

 

[Maridw]

One Christmas my mom asked me about an album (yes LP) that my brother wanted. She said "Have you heard of Four on the Floor?" It took me a few to realize that she had heard him wrong. He was saying Foreigner Four and she thought he said Four on the Floor.

He got the "Four on the Floor" album as a joke that Christmas. After my mom got the correct album, I made a new cover for it that said "Four on the Floor" and then wrapped it for him from my mom.

We still laugh at that one. Especially after my DH & I saw Foreigner about a month ago here in town.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Yep.

"SexyBack" by Justin Timberlake

I thought it was
"go ahead be bold with it"
when it's really
"go ahead be gone with it"

But when I listen to the song, I'm still not thoroughly convinced I was wrong.

 

[phillmolly]

Michael Jackson, Billy Jean
I thought it said "the chair is not my son" it is supposed to be kid but it sounds like chair to me.



Anyone else?

I was about 8 when that song came out and I could never figure out how a girl didn't know if the kid was her son or not!

 

[phillmolly]

and oh yeah,

the theme to Family Guy, I swear that Stewie is singing "effing cry" not as my DH tells me "laugh and cry".

 

[Elmo9607]

Garth Brooks...American Honky Tonk Bar Association

Real lyrics: "When Uncle Sam dips in your pocket, for most things you don't mind..."

What I heard: "When the sand gets in your pocket, most things you don't mind..."

I always imagined people walking around with their pockets full of sand. I remember thinking that I too would probably feel indifferent if I had sand in my pocket!!

 

[Took]

I thought for years and years and years that Billy Joel had a song about a nice Italian girl named Brenda Rinetti.
NO clue it was Brenda and Eddie.
Even though I know what it is now, it STILL sounds like Brenda Rinetti and I still sing it that way.

QUOTE]

A friend of mine (who really loved that song) recently quoted it on his Facebook site as "Render n Eddie." Now, this is a guy who has heard that song for nearly 30 years and had never picked up the "brenda" thing! I didn't correct him; just enjoyed the laugh.

 

[Took]

Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie" still sounds like "Cracklin' Rosie peed on board" every time I hear it. To this day, I don't know what he really sings.

Too funny! I think it's "Crackliln' Rosie, get on board" but please someone correct me!

 

[megsters]

The little girl I babysit for (she is 7) was singing Tic Tok by Keisha, and she was singing:

Don't stop, make it up DJ blow my sneakers up tonight, I'mma fly 'till we see the satellite.

The actual lyrics:
Don't stop, make it pop DJ, blow my speakers up tonight, I'mma fight 'til we see the sunlight.

the little girl i baby sit for who is 6, likes to sing this song

"But we kick him to the curb unless he looks like a jaguar"

instead of

But we kick em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger

so cute though!

 

[cybrkitn]

Ooh, that reminds me...You must know the story about how their song "Yo Bad Azizi" came about, right?

"Is There Something I Should Know?"
Actual: You're about as easy as a nuclear war
What most people heard: Yo bad azizi as a nuclear war

Yep! DH didn't until I explained it to him. Then the lightbulb went off and he finally understood.

 

[Octoberbride03]

It's so funny, I can't even stand it!!
The visual is never going to leave me.
I'm still laughing with tears coming out of my eyes!

OMG

You should have seen me last night. I needed 3 tissues and looked like I'd been crying for hours when it had only been about 10 minutes or so. I couldn't even breathe it was that funny. I swear I haven't laughed that hard since Peanut put Jose in the vegetable steamer.

Who has Kenny's email? I swear he needs to see this