music: misheard lyrics

I though the lyrics to Paul Simon's Call Me Al went:
I can call you baby,
Ready when you call me
You can call me out.
In stead of:
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
It seemed to make sense at the time!

ABBA'S SONG: SUPER TROOPER

" I WAS SICK & TIRED OF EVERYTHING, WHEN I CALLED YOU LAST NIGHT FROM TESCO'S"

Don't know where she called from but it was definately not TESCOs.

I used to think the words of the Bee Gees' song "How deep is your love" were "If you come to me I'll suffer-ee" (which doesn't make sense, but I also used to think that to suffer meant to feel happy - the opposite of what it actually means!). I now know that it reads "And you come to me on a summer breeze".

I also thought the line "breaking us down" sounded like "breaking the spell". Because in the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the Prince "breaks the spell" by kissing her, my Mum used to tell me to "break the spell" by giving my gran a kiss, so that was what I thought it meant.

in the song "sugar" by system of a down:
i thought "the kombusha mushroom people sitting around all day" was "sitting on razor blades", and a friend of mine thought "yeah they call it insane" was "in the coloring sea"

Not mine but my daughters. When Will Smith released Wild,Wild West he does that bit where he says Wicky Wild Wild or something to that effect. My daughter used to get really upset and scream that LaLa wasn't wicked.
Teletubbies are a dangerous thing for young minds.

To Sammi, I also used to get the lyrics to 'Hey Dude' wrong. I used to think it said
"Hey dude, well I do what I can
But you treat me like a woman
When I pee like a man".

It actually says

"Hey dude, well I do what I can
But you treat me like a woman
When I feel like a man"

Made more sense my way.

When I was about 14 or so, me and my mum were watching Annie and she started singing along with the song "It's A Hard Knock Life" complete with what she thought were the correct lyrics: "it's a hard knock life for us, we're from the or-phan-age!"

7 years on and I still remind her about it whenever the song comes on, or whenever anyone mentions anything to do with Annie in general.

My mum turned 50 last year.

my friend used to thnk the lyrics to the corus of Blue (Da Be Dee) song by Eiffel 65 was "i'm blue, if i were green i would die, if i were green,i would die" only to find that the real lyrics were " im blue a da be dee a ba dee" it wasnt until we were singing to it together that i told her the words were just random word fragments!

The lyrics "I believe in miracles" I thought were "I believe in Milko". I couldn't understand why a man would be singing about his milkman especially when in the next line he talks about him being a sexy thing. I know my milkman was not anything to sing about.

This is the belief of my friend and her sister when they were younger. They thought the The Cher song, Gypsies tramps and theives was, cheese cheese ham and peas!!! Hahahahah.

My friend used to think where it says, "making spirits bright," in jingle bells was:
"making pirates rise."

and about three seconds ago, she thought it was, "making spirts rise," and i thought it was, "making spirits high,"
very much to our surprise, we were BOTH wrong!! hahaha

when i first heard kelly clarksons miss independant i thought the chorus went

what happened to my cinnamin bun

but it really went
what happened to miss independant

In the Gorrilaz song "Clint Eastwood", I thought he sang
"I'm happy,
Feelin' glad
I got sunshine
Inabye (::whatever that means::)
I got new slides
But not for long
The future is comin' on."

"When it actually goes like,
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
My future is comin' on."

When I was about 6 I used to believe that a line in Abba's 'Take A Chance On Me' was 'You wanted to leave me there, afraid I would love a bear'. Actually it is 'You wanted to leave me there, afraid of a love affair'.

When I was in my early twenties (unfortunately, that was about 15 years ago), a friend of mine and I were huge fans of Jim Morrison and The Doors. One day as we were listening to the song "L.A. Woman", I sang along to the line that goes, "L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon". My friend was very surprised and told me that he had thought for the longest time that Jim was singing "idiot woman gonna have to do"! This was funny to me because 1) my friend was an even bigger fan than I was (and would seemingly have known this lyric, as it contains the song title; and 2) because Jim repeats that line several times in the song.

To 'I'm Adopted' - I thought the lyrics to 'Another One Bites The Dust' were actually 'another one buys the duster' - again, because of the 'dust-ah' emphasis!

I had this bizarre mental image to accompany it, too - all these men going down the street to a cornershop and buying those yellow dusters! Made sense to me!