music: misheard lyrics

When I was in highschool, I was singing along with the radio. They were playing that song by Phil Collins, I think it's called "Against All Ods." My best friend told me that when he said, "There's just an empty space," she thought he said, "The last child to match his face." She realized what the real lyrics were when I sang it.

Back when that song "How Bizarre" used to be popular, I used to think it was "Parmesan." I found out this wasn't the case when my mom and I were in the mall and it started to play, and I said, "not 'Parmesan' again!" Once my mom stopped laughing she corrected me. In my defense, I was 8 or 9 at the time :p

I thought the lyrics to "Camptown racer" were:

"Countdown ladies sing this song! Tuna! Tuna!"

Later, I figured out that they weren't saying Tuna, but even after that, I thought it was "Countdown ladies"

Being in the final year at school, we get a common room in school, where we can play our own music and stuff, although most of the other people in my year are into R&B and rap, and I'm, well... not. They keep on playing Christina Milian's 'AM to PM', and until today I was totally convinced that the part that goes:

'All the chicks and the fellas in the bars...'

actually went:

'All the chicks kick the fellas in the balls...'

Last time I try and sing along :P

Re the song "Brimful of asha". Recently heard my friend singing along, however she had slightly different lyrics. Hers were "Grim tooth basher". She's 27. However the same girl though that Madonnas "Like a virgin" was in fact "Like a bird king"

This is actually my friend's belief, not mine.
Okay, you know the song "Come What May" from Moulin Rouge? The part where they say "Want to vanish, inside your kiss"? Yeah, my friend, was completely convinced that they said "Want to varnish, insert your kiss." It took a lot of repetitions of the song and my insisting before she would finally concede that I was right not her. Oh and we're almost 17, and this was less than a year ago.

Up until about a year ago, I thought that in the George Michael song "Father Figure" he was saying "I'll be your bottom feeder". I thought it was a reference to a specific sex act common among gay males...

In the song "Simply Irresistible", the guy sings "She's all mine, there's no telling where we'll go" or something. I always thought he was saying "Geez oh man, there's no telling where we'll go". It made sense to me because he was like knocked off his feet by the girl.

The song Betty Davis Eyes, actual words:

All the boys think she's a spy, she's got Betty Davis eyes.

Misheard as:

All the boys think she's a spaz, she's got Betty Davis eyes.

Not just a I used to believe more of a I've always believed and at the age of 33 a mate has kindly told me the real words, thanks Jon I preferred my lyrics better

well up untill a day ago i thought the lyrics to razorlight 'before i fall to pieces were, 'dont wanna kidnap the truth and the ghost she ate' truth being the name of a ghost. it really is 'I don't wanna kidnap the truth and negotiate'. you can see how i got it wrong right?

My friend throught that the song "Thriller" by Michael Jackson said "Gay Love" and everytime he heard the chorus he would start singing "gay love, gay love"
Hilarious!

I used to love Brian Adams and when I was about 10 I would listen to the song "im going to Run to you" except I never saw the lyrics so I was always really embarrassed when I listened to it around my mum 'cause I thought he was singing "runter" and in my warped 10 year old mind I thought "runter "meant to have sex!Years later when I found out he was saying im going to run- to- you I was in stitches!

As children, my brother and I loved the song, "Our House" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. The line, "with two cats in the yard" was misinterpreted by us...we loudly sang, "with two cats in the ARMY!" every time the song was played. It never made sense to me why two cats would enlist in the army, or why the family the belonged to would ship them off to war.

For years I thought the 10,000 Maniacs song "Because The Night," instead of saying,"The way I feel under your command," said, "The way I feel on the Autobahn." I thought it was a song about road trips.

For the longest time when I was a kid, I used to think the lyrics to the Bob Dylan/Eric Clapton song "Knockin' on Heavens Door", was:

Knock, knock, knocking on Evan's door
Knock, knock, knocking on Evan's door
Knock, knock, knocking on Evan's door
Knock, knock, knocking on Evan's door
..... Feel like I'm knockin' on Evan's door...

I could never figure out who this guy "Evan" was, and why he would never answer his door!

When I was little, the song "How Bizarre" by OMC was really popular. And I always thought he said "cruising down the freeway in my hot croissant".
I had weird images of the guy and his whole band driving a giant pastry roll thing.