misheard lyrics

For years I thought the lyrics to "Everything Zen" by Bush were "Trotsie wants my wine" instead of "Try to see it once my way".

LA

Up until very recently (I'm now 25) I thought the line in the song Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison was ' going down on the old man with a transister radio' .....the line is actually ' going down the old mine with a transister radio'......obviously it didn't make sense when I was little, but when I was a teenager I just accepted what I thought I had heard and came to the conclusion that Van Morrison was just plain dirty.

Teresa

I thought in the song "First and Last and Always" by Sisters of Mercy the first line was " I see her body and I dream of the dentist" (instead of the correct "dead days") I figure for some people dreaming of the dentist would be more scary than the dead days!

Alberto Richardson

I thought Mary Black's song "Columbus" was not saying " You dream of Columbus" but "You dream of plumbers ( streched out to three syllables to fit the cadence of the song) till I found out the song's name

Alberto Richardson

In the Avril Lavine song Complicated, I thought she was singing "You're never gonna find your blanket"

James

I used to think that the lyric "boiled or stewed, whole or chewed" in Cookie Monster's healthy food song was "almond stew, polo chew".

Anon

I thought Total Eclipse of the Heart went "nothing I can see, total eclipse of the sun".

Anon

I used to believe that there were words to the song Colonel Bogie's March. The song that is whistled in the Breakfast Club. My father told me the words were: "Horsepoo, it makes the grass grow green" repeated over and over

Anon

i used to think the line from the song went "going to the jack-o-lantern" instead of "going to the chapel and we're" gonna get married from the Dixie Cups early 60's song, Chapel of Love.

summerblonde

I used to sing the first stanza of "Oh, Beautiful" like so:
"Oh, Beautiful for spaceship eyes..."

I have no idea how aliens got in there?!

Madison

I thought for ages that the line "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me" in Bohemian Rhapsody was actually "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard, meeeeeee"

Eleanor

There's a song by "The Jam" which contains the lyric "I lost an era daydreaming like I do". I thought they were singing "I lost an ear a day, dreaming like I do".
It sounds exactly the same either way.

Wee Shughie

I used to believe that the song that said, "every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you" said, "every time you go away, you take a piece of 'meat' with you"

mgarland

There's a song by Kenny Rogers that goes "take my hand, let's go through this door..." (at least that's what I think he's saying). For the longest time, I thought he was singing "let's go through the store". I wondered which store could it be. I also thought of that line every time I walked into the grocery store.

TxTetley

I used to think the Tom Jones song "A Boy from Nowhere" was called...."A Boy From Norway"! I felt flattered - being Norwegian....

Steinar (OGAE)

I can't listen to the Credence song Loki the same way since a friend told me what he grew up thinking the lyrics were.
In his mind the line "...I'm stuck in Loki again", became "...I'm sucking on old diaphragms". Brings a smile to my face everytime II hear the song.

Grant

Hot Chocolate you sexy thing
I thought they said
" I believe in Malcom "

Sarah

My friend used to think that the line in Alanis Morrisette's "ironic" said "it's like a death-row hard-on, two minutes too late". When told her it was actually "death-row pardon" the line made a lot more sense, but now I can't think of that line any other way

Christina

I used to believe that the Diana Ross(?) song 'my simple heart' was bicycle hop. I thought it must be a sort of dance.

Meg

I used to think Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" went: "the dogs are gathered in the classroom"; original: "the dark sarcasm in the classroom"

Tia