I always thought the lyrics to "Wannabe" by The Spice Girls were
"If you wannabe my lover, you gotta take off my pants." I was like 8 and sung it this way and my mother heard and about had a cow, but that's how my best friend sang it so I believed it to go that way.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- Billy Squire sang about "My Kind of Lover". My wife sang about "My Candelabra"— Wailerman
- sophie b. hawkins. Damn I wish I was your lover. I heard Damn I wish I was your motherAnon
- in the song with the lyrics "take your passion" my sister used to always think it was "take your pants off"— Steped
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I always thought that "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees was sung by Aretha Franklin.Anon
- My friend used to believe that the lyrics to Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" were:
"Hold me closer Tony Danza"— I'm with stupid