My friend and I were listening to her iPod the other day and Savage Garden's "The Animal Song" came on. We got into the conversation about what we used to think the lyrics were. The actual lyrics are "I want to live, like animals". My friend used to think that it was "I want to live, like cannibals" and I used to think it was "I want to live, like cannonballs".
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- Actual lyrics: "I've never been your beast of burden"
My lyrics: "I've never been your big suburban"
— Big Suburban - I used to believe that an animated film meant that the film had live animals in it.— reverb
- My friend used to believe that the lyrics to Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" were:
"Hold me closer Tony Danza"— I'm with stupid - My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- in the song with the lyrics "take your passion" my sister used to always think it was "take your pants off"— Steped
- I used to believe you could live down the back of the sofa...— Big Pete