Misunderstood song lyrics?

[Golf4food]

How about a nice fun thread about misheard song lyrics? There is a website dedicated to it, but we can make our own list here on the DIS. It is quite simple: what phrase did you hear in a song that you later found out that you had heard completely wrong and that made your original thought humorous?

For example, there is a cell phone/mp3 player commercial out now where the guys have downloaded the 80's song "Rock the Casbah" onto the phone, but think that the lyric is actually "lock the cash box" or "rock the cat box" or something similar.

As for one of my mistaken lyrics: When I was in high school there was a Sugar Ray song where there was a line in a background singer "Spread my wings and fly", but for well over a year I misunderstood and thought he was saying "Straightenin' up my fly." A girlfriend finally corrected me one night after I made a comment about it...

 

[elismom]

Macy Gray
My world crumbles when you are not here.
Ds and I sing
I were goggles when you are not here

 

[TDC Nala]

Hooray, I get to post Hotel California again.

On a dock, there’s a highway
Cool Whip in my hair
One parapalegic
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
An ocean of light
My head grew hairy and my sack rolled in
I had to stop for the night
Dead fish stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
This could be Heaven or this could be Hell
Then she lit up a Ken doll
And she showed me the way
I heard some horses down the corridor
I thought I heard them say

Don’t go to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Renting a room at the Hoedown California
Any time you’re here
You can buy me beer.

Her mind was stiff and he twisted
She’s got the worst eighties band
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
That she calls Sven
How they dance in the courtyard
Swedes, some are sweat
Sundance to remember
Sundance to forget
So I come to the Hilton
Please bring me my wife
He said
We haven't had that spilled in here since 1969
And still those whatchamacallits from far away
We threw up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say

Wake up to the oat man, can’t afford ya.
Such a lovely Place
Such a lovely face
Many a room at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise
When you’re out of ice

He lives on the ceiling
Pictures of Jim Rice
And she said
We are all just prisoners here
Of our only vice
And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab them while they’re still in ice
But they just can't kill the thief
Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
Good night, said the madman
We are programmed to recede
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave

 

[autumnbaby9]

This one is actually from a friend of mine.

Cher's Song Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves

she always thought it said:

Gypies chimpanzies(SP?)

She thought Cher was nuts (not that she isn't) until I told her what the real words were.

 

[marybet]

Forget the title but the correct line is: you and me, endlessly. I always thought they were saying: you and me, and Leslie.

And the Flashdance song: take your passions, I tought it was: take your pants down.

 

[lulugirl]

That 80's song by Simply Red....If You Don't Know Me By Now
there is a line he sings..."we only fight like children.."

For the longest time I thought he was singing..."we only have black children..."

 

[Philagoofy]

This is my DH's, an old Beatles song, he thought it was
"As I write to Santa", it's actually "As I write this letter"
from the song "P.S. I Love You".

 

[Tracey1974]

I cannot believe I am actually posting this BUT- in 1986, Whitesnake had that "Here I Go Again on My Own" song with this line-
"like a drifter I was born to walk alone"

My take-
"like a drifter I was born to wear cologne"


I probably didn't get the right verse until 10 years later!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

There's a song by Sting called Desert Rose (I think) where he says a line that goes:
I dream of gardens in the desert sand.

When I first heard it I thought it was,
I dream of God, who's in the desert Sam.

TOV

 

[Seahunt]

The Rolling Stones song "Angie" goes "Angie....An-g-ie"

I always sang it as "Injured.... I'm in-jur-ed" until my SIL asked "WHAT?" one day

 

[TurboKitty]

Sometimes what I thought they were makes more sense. Like Kajagoogoo's Too Shy, "Too shy shy, hush hush, eye to eye", I heard as "Too shy, shy, hush hush, are you why?"

Or even Elton John's Your Song, "I hope you don't mind that I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world", Hear as "I hope you don't mind that I put down in words How wonderful life is now you're in my world".

But, not always. My worst was mishearing Rage Against The Machine's Renegades Of Funk, which I always heard as "We are the Redneck Geeks Of Funk!"

 

[LadyBears]

When I was a kid there was a song by the Oak Ridge Boys - "Elvira". I always thought they were singing "All fired up".

 

[Connieh]

Dave Clark Five's "Catch Us if you can" was sung

"Can't you sniff your can"

gotta love the kids...

 

[arkansas mom]

You might know the song as "She's a Bad Mamma Jamma"...

Well, in my sixth grade mind it was "She's a Bad Pan of Jello"

I always thought it was about some kinky stuff of which I wasn't yet aware.

 

[PrincessJasmine1972]

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Ahh....see my tag.

There's a song with, "There's a kind of hush....all over the world...tonight..." and I THOUGHT it was saying, "There's a can of fish....all over the world...tonight..."


My dd thinks the All American Rejects song "Dirty Little Secret" is something else. I turned the radio down one day to hear her singing, "I'll keep you my daddy's little secret..." Uh, I had to straighten that one out, FAST!! It sounded sooo bad!

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

Rob Thomas...."Lonely No More"

original lyrics: "open up to me......like you do your girlfriends"

what i first thought he said: "open up to me......and i can do your girlfriends"



i remember first listening to it like "WHAT did he just say!?!?"

 

[blondeheroine]

In jr. high, that song by The Beach Boys, "Kokomo" was really popular and my best friend always mis-sung this line:

"We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band"

as

"We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a ceiling fan"

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

In jr. high, that song by The Beach Boys, "Kokomo" was really popular and my best friend always mis-sung this line:

"We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band"

as

"We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a ceiling fan"

ahahaha!

 

[Ava31]

For years I thought Elton John (in "Tiny Dancer") was saying, "Hold me close, I'm tired of dancing."