Misheard lyrics

[dismom2]

I had a friend that thought Steve Miller's song said "big hotel with the light on" instead of " Big old Jet Airliner."

CCR "There's a bad moon on the rise." "There's a bathroom on the right."

Queen "Another on bites the dust." "Another one rides the bus."

Cinderella's "Don't know what you got till it's gone." "Don't know what it is but it's long."Just a few of my favorites.

TOO FUNNY!~!

 

[dismom2]

The chorus of "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley goes as follows:

I'm not talking 'bout moving in,
And I don't want to change your life.
But there's a warm wind blowing,
The stars are out, and I'd really love to see you tonight.

I always thought the first line was "I'm not talking 'bout the linen"

I don't know why, it doesn't make any sense. My DW laughed her behind off when she heard this.

I thought the word was "millenium". I sang it that way for YEARS.

 

[mlynn]

LOL! These are great!

For the "spiders and snakes" one I thought he was singing, "I don't like bicycle seats..." LOL. (And that ain't what it take to love me, like I wanna' be loved by you). Yeah. I was REAL confused about that one. Couldn't imagine what those bicycle seats had to do with anything! LOL.

My sister though AC/DC was singing, Dirty Deeds Dunder Chief, instead of "done dirt cheap!" LOL.
There are more but I just can't remember them now!

OH, here's another. "Winnie the Pooh, Winne the Pooh, silly little fluffy all stuffed with glumkies, Winnie the Pooh..." LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

I always thought this one was "Dirty Deeds Dungen Chief." My husband still laughs everytime he hears that song because of me.

 

[Philagoofy]

The Beatles' song "P.S. I Love You", starts out:

As I write this letter, send my love to you,
Remember that I'll always be in love with you.

My husband thought they sang:

"As I write to Santa, send my love to you.."

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I don't remember what DJ(Never thoght I'd say that again)
said it but when Tom Petty first releases
"Born a Rebel"
She was listenning to it thinking how much she like the song but couldn't figure out why he kept saying he was "Barney Ruble".

I have never beenn able to listen to that sonng since and not think he said it at least a couple of times in there.

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

The chorus of "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley goes as follows:

I'm not talking 'bout moving in,
And I don't want to change your life.
But there's a warm wind blowing,
The stars are out, and I'd really love to see you tonight.

I always thought the first line was "I'm not talking 'bout the linen"

I don't know why, it doesn't make any sense. My DW laughed her behind off when she heard this.

SAME HERE! I always thought that too! AND it makes no sense!

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

There's a song by Sting, I believe the name is Desert Rose with the line:

I dream of rain, el-ay, el-ay
I dream of gardens in the desert sand

which I heard as:
I dream of rain, el-ay, el-ay
I dream of God, who's in the desert Sam

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

For Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" my DD6 always sings "Livin' on a Prairie!" It is the cutest thing, 'cause when she hears it on the radio she BELTS it out!

 

[amyhughes]

Thought of another one....

In the sing "As I Lay Me Down" by Sophie B Hawkins....

While she's singing the main chorus...
As I lay me down to sleep
As I pray
That you will hold me dear

It sounds like the background singers are saying "Who wants tacos" I have no idea what they really say, but I'm sure that's not right

OMG! LOL! I have always wondered what they were saying... Now I know, they were craving Taco Bell.

Sophie B. Hawkins songs are bad... "Damn I wish I was your lover" If you ever hear me sing it, I am sure I belt it out like this...

Damn, I wish I was your lover.
I would hold you til the daylight comes...
Make sure you are smiling and warm
I am everything...
Tonight there is no other (instead of I'll be your mother, I mean ICKK!)

 

[*Fantasia*]

The Fray - How to stay alive. -"How to save a life."

 

[Zandy595]

I thought that for years!!


Over the summer I was in an outdoor exercise class and whenever The Pussycat Dolls came on singing When I Grow Up there was always a big debate about the lyrics. Half the class thought they were singing "When I grow up I wanna have b o o b ies" rather than groupies. LOL.

I knew I heard "****ies" in that song, then you confused me when you posted. They do play the "****y" version on the radio station I listen to.

That song by Akon "I want to make up right now." It sounds like "I want to make lover right now."

Really?! It's not? I always hear, "I wanna make love, right now, right now."

 

[pfishgirl]

There was a song called "Thank You" by Natalie Merchant

Oh, I want to thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you..


Well, DS was singing along and singing...

Vacuum, Vacuum
Vacuum, Vacuum

 

[NotUrsula]

These kinds of threads always remind me of that scene in Bull Durham when Kevin Costner jumps all over Tim Robbins for the way that he is butchering "Try a Little Tenderness." Just one of the many priceless moments in that film.

There is a whole website devoted to these: www.kissthisguy.com
(After the aforementioned book, which in turn is named for the often-misheard Jimi Hendrix lyric, "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" from Purple Haze.

My favorite, for the inintended funny logic, is
"Then I saw her face, now I'm gonna leave her."
s.b. "Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer." [Neil Diamond's I'm a Believer.]

 

[AmazingGrace]

And buy one way ticket on a west bound train
See how far I can go (Because I can)
I'm gonna go out dancing in the pouring rain
And talk to someone I don't know (Because I can)
I will face the world around me
Knowing that I'm strong enough to let you go
And I will fall in love again
Because I can

For the longest time, that line sounded like "Im gonna show my **** in the pouring rain".

I was like, okay, whatever floats your boat.

 

[ChrizJen]

Really?! It's not? I always hear, "I wanna make love, right now, right now."

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it's actually "I Wanna Make Love Right Now".

One of my favorites is when the mom of a friend of mine thought that Marilyn Manson was chanting "I beat up a meatball! I beat up a meatball!" instead of "The beautiful people! The beautiful people!"

And there was also the guy I knew who, when he sang the Gin Blossoms song "Hey Jealousy", he sang, "I'm no sheep or dragon" instead of, "I'm in no shape for driving".

 

[nataliela]

Both my younger brother and my husband always thought that "Secret Agent Man" was "Secret Asian Man".

We actually sing that version on purpose! We know a guy(he was asian) and he was spying on the US for China!!! So when ever he gets brought up....we start singing!


My friends mom couldn't get TLC's "waterfalls"
Instead of:

Don't go chasing waterfalls

it was:

Don't go Jason Waterfalls


Like it was a person

 

[laurie31]

Great thread

Add me to the misheard "douche" and "Asian man" camps...

...and I have a couple of my own. When I was little, I heard the song "The (word unsuitable for the DIS, rhymes with "witch") is Back" and in the chorus, when it says, "(unsuitable word) (unsuitable word), the (unsiutable word) is ba-aaack," I thought he was saying, "Business, buisness, the buisness man."

I also thought "burning out a fuse up here alone" (from Elton John's "Rocket Man" was "running out the strings of Heav'n alone"

Finally, when Lion King came out, my nephew was about 4 and got the soundtrack. He sang along all the time. In "Can you Feel the Love Tonight" he thought the line about "kings and vagabonds" was "kings and a bag of bones."

 

[disdanny]

Not lyrics, but on a Christmas song radio station they were playing a song called "I Belive in Father Christmas" but the screen in the car wasn't big enough to show the whole title so it said "I Belive in Fat"

All through the Christmas season, my radio told me I was listening to "Songs for the Ho" since Holidays didn't fit.

DW didn't share my amusement when I told her XM had a channel just for her.

 

[DMickey28]

Maybe it is time to post Hotel California - it's been awhile

That is awesome! I was in tears. Thank Goodness DH is at work he already thinks I am looning without laughing at the compter.

Mine is from 'Kokomo' by the Beach Boys. The real line is 'From Martinique, that Montserrat mystique'. Until about 5 years ago, I could only hear 'That mom's a rotten stink'. Well, that's still all I hear, but now I'm aware that I'm wrong.

We always had trouble with that one in my family. For me it was Monteraset Steak That doesn't even make sense!

 

[andysgirl360]

Umbrella

under my um-brella to me sounds like "under my arm forever"