My friend and I like the music of Elvis very much. But as non-English speakers, we misheard some of the lyrics when we first heard the songs. For example we thought that Elvis sung 'You're the devil in the skies' (Devil in disguise) and 'Come on, sugar' (I'm all shook up). Now we fortunately know the REAL titles...
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In the song, "What a Wonderful World", there is a line that goes, "The bright, blessed day, The dark sacred night". I thought Satchmo was saying, "The bright, blessed day, The dogs say Goodnight"! It wasn't until my family asked why I always said "Woof-woof" at that point that I discovered my mistake!
I used to think that Boney M were really cool, being a geek I was inspired by space travel, physics and so on. Nightflight to Venus appealed for obvious reasons, although I thought the button on your backside was a bit naughty (it's "left side"). I can't remember the other song I really liked but until only a few days ago (I'm 35) I thought they were singing "When we hit those atoms there's going to be a big hello." I didn't know what a big hello was but I figured it was artistic licence for the wacky effects you get in nuclear physics. It's "islands," not "atoms." I'm still gutted....
In the song 'The Justified Ancients of Mumu' by KLF, I used to think the blokes were singing 'Pensions and groove'. I only found out when someone pointed out the real words were 'Ancients of Mumu'. I think mine was better!
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an ex boyfriend used to believe that the lyrics to Nirvana's All Apologies went "choking on the ashes of an orangutang" instead of "choking on the ashes of her enemy". every time i hear that song i wonder what was going through his head at the time. bless him.
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whilst listening to a paul Simon CD, my son asked if that song about 'loads of ways to dump your girlfriend' (50 ways to leave your lover)was on it, I nearly crashed the car laughing!
The song "Movin' on Up" by M People contains the line: "Movin' on up, you're movin' on out." Unfortunately, I thought it was: "Boobies, no bum, yeah boobies no bum."
After first hearing Missy Elliots "Get your freak on". My dad would walk around the house singing..."GET YOUR FREE GOLD!" Obviosly my poor old dad has never got his freak on... but he would like some free gold if Missy's giving it away!
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I thought the song lyric "Till death to his part" was actually "To get to his pond." My sisters never stopped bothering me about that.
When I was a teen a friend of mine was a singer in a band. The line in Trooper's "raise a little hell" was changed by her to "praise that little owl". She never figured out why we laughed at her.
When I was a kid, I used to believe that the "Godfather of Soul" (James Brown) and the Cleveland Browns great running back (Jim Brown)were the same person.....hey!!!
I used to believe that Donny Osmond was actualy trapped inside the posters on my wall!! No matter where i stood in my bedroom he would be looking at me.
I stared to get dressed in the bathroom after that discovery or get dressed under the blanket!!
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I thought that Spandu Ballet were ballet dancers and wore tutus.
Mates wife: Constant craving by KD Lang - she thought it was Can't Stand Gravy...(sorry Sarah)
Ex g/friend: Jet by Wings was actually called - Chair!
Me (although I realised it HAD to be wrong) - Meatloaf, Bat Out of Hell "on a silver black phantom bike - was "I'm a Cilla Black fan on bike.."
When I was younger & listening to Madonna's 'Material Girl' on the radio, my little sister decided one day to sing along. Of course it wasn't till after the song ended that I realized what she was saying: "Cuz I'm li-ving, in a Cheerio World, and I'm a Cheerio girl!" --Today we still laugh our butts off about it as adults!
When the song "Smack my Bitch Up" by Prodigy came out, I--and many other people at this particular club in Turin--thought it was "Snap my picture"--and made litte papparazzi gestures during the chorus
My friend Hal was firmly under the impression that the UNKLE song 'Drums of Death' featured Mike D from the Beestie Boys hollering 'Yeah, Jonathon Depp, y'all, take him to the top y'all' in the chorus for many, many years. But to the top of what Hal, to the top of what?
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for a long time i was convined that david bowie really did come from outer space, rather than beckenham. somewhere in my mind i guess i still believe that...
My whole family is pretty bad with songs!
My little sister, who still gets songs wrong, once sang TLC's No Scrubs as, "Hanging out the passengers side of my best french frie". Real lyrics "...best friends ride"
Another sister, also liking TLC, thought that "Don't go chasing waterfalls" was "Go go Jason Waterfalls"
My mom still to this day swears that the true lyrics to independent women by Destiny's Child is "I farted" instead of "I bought it"
Yet another sister, at the age of 19, just realized that the lyrics of Henery the VIII is not "..wouldn't have a Willy or a cent" She never knew why they were talking about money.
To yet another sister. She love Britney Spears' Oops I did it again. The line "I'm washing away", she sang "I'm watching the game.....I'm not that elosent"
My dad, not knowing much about music, bragged to a friend at work that he was going to a Matchbox 40 concert to hear "One Headlight". His friend replied "I've never heard of Matchbox 40, but I've heard of Matchbox 20".
Now to me. After going through this long list of misunderstood lyrics, I realized I have been singing a song wrong for many years myself. At the the age of 21 I realized that that song that goes "I got my mind set on you" is not total nonsense. I thought it was "I got my my san on you". I still think I'm right! I always wonder what a san was.
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When I was younger I always imagined Madonna and Micheal Jackson would get married.