misheard lyrics

I used to sing the lyrics to Robbie Williams's Angels 'Through it all, she offers me me protection, a lot of love and erection'... it kind of makes sense but the real lyrics are a lot nicer

Lily Booth

When I first saw "The Sound of Music," I was baffled as to why they would be sending Maria away when they'd just sung about how good she was at solving all sorts of difficult problems. "How do you solve a problem like Maria...?"

It wasn't until much later that I realized Maria WAS the problem.

Mage

When I heard "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", I always heard "He knows if you've been bad or good" as "he knows if you've been batter good". I thought of cake batter at first, but then I reasoned that "batter good" was an odd term for "very good".

Batter Good

This was actually done by my nephew, but when he was small, "California Dreamin'", by the Mamas and the Papas, would come on the radio and he would start off singing "I love Lisa Brown, and the sky is gray" (not "All the leaves are brown...").

Chris' aunt

I used to think the lyrics to the Pink Floyd song were "We don't need no Dukes of Hazzard" instead of "We don't need no dark sarcasm" I think it was because my mother wouldn't let me watch the show.

watching whatever I want now

James Bond theme by Gladys Knight - Licence to kilt - listen to it - that's what it says!

K

Billy Ocean - Wanna go an' get stuffed (the tough get goin') etc...

K

When I was 3 or 4, the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" was a big hit - it was my favorite song because I thought they were talking about a bear!

Instead of "some of them want to use you, some of them want to be used by you" I always heard:

"Summer bear want to use you, summer bear want to be used by you"

ahhahaha...i still laugh at that. Kinda morbid, but I love animals, what can i say??

Kristy

I used to think that Tori Amos song was 'Honey bring the toast to my lips...he's got a big d***'!!! It's meant to be 'honey bring it close to my lips...it's got to be big'.

Anon

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."

Rachel

In the clash song, "spanish bombs" whenever they said "spanish bombs" I thought they were saying "spanish bongs" and everytime they said "oh mi corazon" i thought they were saying " oh my go a thong" until i looked up the lyrics on the internet.

frank

In the Eminem song 'Sing for the moment' I thought he was singing 'So I'm signing CD's whilst police finger Britney'. Well, it is Eminem!!! It wasn't until I asked my boyfriend why the police would be fingering Britney that I found it was '...whilst police fingerprint me'!

Denise

I have a vivid memory from age three. My memory of Paul McCartney singing "Band on the Run" is inextricably linked to seeing a rabbit run through my back yard. I thought Paul was saying "Ban" which is another word for rabbit, like bunny. Consequently, Paul was singing about the "Ban on the Run" that I was seeing in my lawn.

Little Bunny Foo-foo

I believed the lyrics to a Mac Davis song were"...your apartment is warm inside". The true lyrics were " your a hot blooded woman child..." At last that's what they TOLD me they were in college!

Anon

I had a friend who thought the line "and my ashes are scattered" from 'Back On Earth' by Ozzy Osbourne was hysterical because he thought he was saying "my ass is a-scattered"

Matt

i used to dj for my high school in the mornings before homeroom. in the middle of playing pearl jam's "rearviewmirror" our vp of academics (very attractive woman) comes running up proclaiming that the lyrics surely said "time to masturbate," when it was actually "time to emancipate" -- not a good misheard lyric at an all-boy highschool

sjj98

My brother thought the lyrics to Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" were "How's About a Date?" I nearly wet myself when I heard him singing along. I've never let him forget it.

LTM

you know the song "drift away" the old version, well when i was little we always listened to the oldies and when it said "give me the beat boys to free my soul" i always thought they said "give me the beach boys" I always thought the guy who sang that song really really liked the beach boys! ha ha, just until about a month ago i realized what they really said.

Ernesto

When my sister and I were younger we believed the Paul Young song "Everytime you go away" was saying "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of *meat* with you." When our mom found out what we were singing and tried to correct us, we argued with her that ours was right because it made more sense...how can you take a piece of someone with you? The idea was disgusting to us and even if she were taking a piece of him with her, it would technically still be a piece of meat. Our mom didn't think that was very funny and would get mad at us every time we sang the song the wrong way.

Jess

Until recently I thought the lyrics to Eiffel 65 song were "i will die in Aberdeen, I will die in aberdeen." I always wondered what this French band had to do with Scotland! Lyrics really are Im blue, da ba dee, da ba dye etc

Lindsey W