misheard lyrics

Do you remember "The look" by Roxette? I think it was popular around 1990, when I was 10 years old, and I really loved this song. I had just learned english in school for a year, but I tried to understand and translate the lyrics, looking up words in the dictionary and stuff (well most of the time the lines didn't make that much sense to me, I know now over 10 years later that they REALLY don't make that much sense).

Anyways there is this line where I always heard "kissing like a ramrod" and associated it to that big spaceship-transforming-robot from Saber Rider (anyone knows that series?) which was called Ramrod. I tried to look that word up, but I couldn't find it, most likely because I misspelled it "Ramrott" or something like that.

So, I went to my english teacher (an elderly man) and asked him what a ramrod was. He looked a bit puzzled, so I provided him the context and said the line in the song was "kissing like a ramrod", which made him look even more puzzled. He then muttered something about how lyrics in songs are sometimes no correct english and went on with his english lesson.

Years later, I stumbled by conincidence over the lyrics to "The Look" printed out somewhere... which solved the ramrod puzzle, since the original lyrics were "tasty like a raindrop". ^_^;

Lunaticat

I thought the song Secret Agent man was
Secret Asian Man
My mom had two she thought hang on sloopy was hang on stupid
and Theres a bad moon on the rise was theres a bathroom on the right

Dummy

A friend of mine was singing the song by Gabrielle from the Bridget Jones film, except she was merrily singing away 'Valerieeeee' instead of 'Out of reach', i don't know if she thought that was what Bridget liked to be called at the weekend.

vmj1

From the 9 inch Nails album Pretty Hate Machine:
I tought "Terrible lie" was "Terrible Eye."
I also thought "I was up above it" was "I was f**kin Bubba."

9 inch nails is still weird though.

Texas Rocky

When Kula Shaker released that song called 'Gurvinder' or something, my dad used to sing the names of our next door neighbours. I used to believe they were the real lyrics and was really surprised a really famous band had made a song up about my next door neighbours!

I really was a sad child

The real chorus to Smooth Criminal is "Annie you ok, your ok, your ok Annie"

What I heard: "Annie rogaine, rogaine, rogaine Annie."

I was thinking he was tactfully trying to tell the girl that she had a bald spot. Age was a smooth criminal and had stolen her hair.

Texas Rocky

Until I saw this site, I thought the Blind Melon verse "You know I like to keep my cheeks dry today" was "You know I like to keep my cheating strategy, so stick with me and I'll have it made."

When my sister was really little in the 1960s, she thought that the superhero Hercules was called "Hurt your knees."

Maybe there was something in the water?

Texas Rocky

I thought the song by the Rolling Stones, "If you start me up" was saying "Yugoslavia."

You laugh but you will never stop Yugoslavia.

Texas Rocky

These Days by Bon Jovi: I got a couple of things wrong..and I sang it that way until I looked up the lyrics (I'm 20)

"These days the stars hang out of reach instead, These days there ain't a light up on the streets" instead of
"These days the stars seem out of reach, These days there ain't a ladder on these streets"

"his momma said he was crazy, he said: Momma I've got a child"..the right lyrics are
"momma I've got to try"

Anon

I have always heard two lines in Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" as the following:

"...Tounge grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go..."
-(TIME grabs you by the wrist...)

"...Hang it on the shelf with good old fingered time..."
-(hang it on the shelf IN good HEALTH and GOOD TIME)

I recently learned how to play this song on guitar, and it wasn't until I looked up the lyrics online that I realized I had been singing the song wrong for years

DOOKIE-head

My daughter used to think that "King of the Road" was called "Kanga the Roo"

Becky's Dad

Tina Turner sang 'let me be be the one you come a-running to'in let's stay together (was it Al Green who did the original?)
I thought she was saying 'Let me be your comaronitoo' - some kind of native american protector or something, I don't know.

Kirsti

when i was in first grade we would sing songs at the beginning of the day and one was "my bonnie lies over the ocean" and i thought bonnie was bunny and i thought someone loved their bunny very much

Anon

I used to think that Stacie Orrico's "more to life" went "Theres got to be more to life than just about every temper every high" :-S Wtf does that mean???

Dumbass!!!

i remember "millennium" by robbie williams coming on the radio wen i was with my friends and me singing loudly "with any earth". I don't know where I thought the word "millennium" came in!

mary

In the song "Don't Worry Baby" by the Beach Boys, the original lyric is "She told me baby when you race today. . ." Up until just recently, my mum thought it was "She told me baby when you raise the dead. . ."

Simon Edwards

I would sing out the lyrics to Creedence Clearwater Revival song, Lodi "stuck in Lodi again" as "only the old die young"...until a college friend (after she recovered from laughing) told me the real lyrics. I still have trouble referring to the song correctly!

TurboKitty

Remember the song "Safety Dance"? I thought they were saying "we can dance, everybody pull off your pants" instead of "everybody look at your hands". I still like to sing this version! :P

TxTetley

I used to think that the song "White Room" by Creem went "In a white room with black curtains with the devil"

Julia

at primary school me and some friends thought ace of bace's song wnet "i shot the sun" instead of "i saw the sign"

mr chips