misheard lyrics

I have been listening to an 80's alternative Australian band called "Mr. Floppy". They did a rather silly version of Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights' which was played in Australia a lot on JJJ (radio station). Anyway, I started playing it at home and there's this rather rude song called "Head Job". My wife was concerned, but our kids aren't affected by it. The boys (4 and 7 yo) and I all run round the room singing at the top of our lungs "Hedgehog". It's classic!

vstar

I used to think that Metallica's "exit night, enter light" was "Amstel Light, Amstel Light, walk in never never land" I thought it was a song about getting tanked and having good times!

Anon

Not my belief, but when my daughter was around 3 we had a tape we played in the car and it had the song "Raise a Little Hell" by Trooper on it. We heard my daughter's little voice in the back seat singing "Raise your little hands" at the chorus part, and she'd wave her arms in the air!

clearly canadian

Reading through the misheard lyrics page, I just found out the correct lyrics for something I've misheard for years!

Every time I heard the Pearl Jam song "Glorified Version of a Pellet Gun," I swear I heard "Hot, Fly Virgins and a Belly Gun."

It drove me nuts when that song came on because I could not understand what the hell Eddie was talking about! I was sure it was Pelicans or Femme-bots

embarrased

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I couldn't figure out why the Song "Be Like That" by 3 Doors Down was being played on radio stations with this Chorus:

"F-cking me like that..."

potty mouth

I used to (and sometimes still do) hear the line from the Green Day song "Time of your Life" as:

"Tounge grabs you by the waist..." (Time grabs you by the wrist...")

and

"..Hang it on the shelf in good old-fingered time" (Still haven't figured out what he's saying here).

confused

AC/DC's Dirty Deed:

I still swear the line "done dirt cheep" was said "Dunder Chief." I thought the Dunder Chief was the one doing dirty deeds.

Moose

When I was little and listened to "Puff the Magic Dragon," I thought when they said, "brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff," that they were saying "ceiling wax." I thought it was like floor wax but for the ceiling. I used to wonder what the point of waxing the ceiling was!

Anon

OH YAH I just remembered another one (I have so many of these darn things)!!

This one, to my friends and I, is particularily hysterical becuase I sent it into another misheard lyrics site. Little did I know, it was a church site, with misheard lyrics from church hymns. Go figure. Anyway, I was eager to send in a good screw-up of mine and didn't bother reading some of the other entries. I submitted this line, from of all songs, "Warning" by Green Day:
In the first verse, right before the chorus, the line is, "get your philosophy from a bumper sticker". And if anyone reading this has even heard ONE of their songs knows that their lead singer (as much as I idolize him) is WHOLLY AND COMPLETELY incomprehensible (drunk? Perhaps), making the line, to me, sound instead like "get the fools off your feet and grow a bumper sticker". GOD I am retarded. My friends laughed their heads off at this. I just think I'm an idiot.

Caitlin from Canada

I am still convinced that there is a line in "Mr. BoJangles" that says "he crapped his pants, took a stand and jumped so high". I tried singing "clapped his hands", but it doesn't fit. It's hilarious - try singing that along to the song next time you hear it.

Oh yah, and have you ever heard "Father of Mine" by Everclear? There is a line the guy keeps repeating ... "My daddy gave me a name". Now, is it me or sdoes it sound like he says, "my daddy laid me an egg"?

Caitlin from Canada

When I first heard Perpetual Widow by Tori Amos- I thought " It's gotta be big" was really "Saggy tits" and "scabby pig"

flic

My brother's name is Shane. When he was little, our mother used to listen to the soundtrack of "Fame" a lot -- & whenever the title song played, he thought they were saying, "SHANE! I'm gonna live forever..."

Daile

When I was four years old, my favorite song in the world was "Girlfriend" by Paula Abdul. There's a part in that song where she yells to her back-up band (which was called "Deal"), "Hey Deal! SING!" My name is Daile, & whenever that song came on the radio, I always thought she was saying, "Hey, Daile! SING!" I was always so amused by the notion that Paula Abdul mentioned me in her song!

Daile

Someone else has mentioned this simon and garfunkel song, but I misheard the line "come-on from the whores on seventh avenue" as "come home from the war-zone, seventh avenue".

I thought that maybe seventh avenue was some kind of gang-ruled area or at least a big, ruthless financial quarter.

It makes more sense now I know it's about whores but I feel embarrassed for always singing it at the top of my voice!

Jill

My friend used to sing the end of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit as "Bloody nylons" instead of "a denial".

Chris D.

Something funny happened to me and my mom driving home from the mall about a month ago, when the song "Big Ol' Jet Air Liner" came on the radio in the car. I realized already that this was a very commonly misheard song (and with good reason), but was pretty sure I had the right lyrics. So come the chorus, my mom and I (who had not been singing along to the rest of the song) sang two different lines. Mind you, my own came out very loudly as I was trying to sound like an idiot. I guess I got more than I bargained for:

My mom: "Big Ol' Jet Air Liner"
Myself: "BINGO JED HAD A LIGHTER!!"

I am laughing so hard right now I can hardly type properly. I swear to god, listen to the song and sing that lyric along to it, it sounds exactly like that. I still sing it like that because it's so much funnier.

Caitlin from Canada

I used to think that Sting was singing "desert rose, L.A. , L.A." (L.A.,the city)but i guess that wasn't so..:D

Kat