music: misheard lyrics

I have as much trouble as anyone discerning what they're singing in most songs, but when I heard the Rolling Stones singing, "I'll never be your beast of burden" that's actually what I thought they were singing, I just couldn't believe it. I thought, "They're certainly not singing about a 'beast of burden'." It must be something else, I figured, but for once I was right!

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.

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.

I used to believe…

the first time i heard the song "black-eyed" by placebo, i was unaware of the title. if you're not familiar with the song, during the chorus the lead singer says "black-eyed" over and over. however, i thought he was saying "black guy." my friend nearly killed herself laughing when i asked her how black guys played into a song about insanity.

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
"We´re caught in a trap, we can´t walk out,..."
I heard:
"We call it fraud, we can´t walk out,..."
still sing it like that, too.

I always thought that the song "Dude Looks Like A Lady" by Aerosmith was really "Do Just Like A Lady." I figured that the lead singer had seen a really hot girl and was saying something along the lines of "now that's what I call a lady."

I think I was in high school when I figured out it was about drag queens.

While playing in the sandbox one afternoon, I convinced my cousin Kelly that "Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer was *not* "Addicted to Love", but "A Tic-Tic-Tic Love." I also thought that "Bring Me a Higher Love" was actually "Bring Me a Pile of Gold", which made much more sense to me at the time.

I used to think that the song Manic Monday was really "A Man named Monday." The whole song didn't make much sense, as far as i know, so I think it fits quite nicely.

My daughter was 3 when Billy Ray Cirus had the number one hit "Achy Breaky Heart". She had a very hard time with her "r's", every "r" souded like a "w". Wehre we live they have a penny drive sponsored by a local country music station. We were at one of the penny drive locations and the DJ asked her to sing her favorite song...she did it like this"don't tell my hawt, my cwanky, cwanky hawt. You just need a rubberband..."

Up until about a month ago I always thought the line "Would she go down on you in a theatre?" in the song "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morrisette was "Would she go down on your in a future"

Theatre makes much more sense if you ask me, Thanks Stimey!

After first hearing Missy Elliots "Get your freak on". My dad would walk around the house singing..."GET YOUR FREE GOLD!" Obviosly my poor old dad has never got his freak on... but he would like some free gold if Missy's giving it away!

Bananarama's song "Love in the First Degree" has a line that goes; "Only you can set me free, 'cause I'm guilty, guilty as a girl can be" which I always thought was "'cause I'm guilty, guilty as a coco bean"! Why?.........Why would a coca bean ever be guilty of anything!

When my younger sister was about 5 she misheard "Sad Sweet Dreamer" - she thought they were singing "sexy people, it's just one of those things you put down to experience". Well maybe it is, but I'm sure that's not what they're singing!

It wasn't until recently that I discovered that contrary to my family's beliefs, the words to that Michael Jackson song were *not* "Annie Annie wonky, Annie wonky, Annie wonky, Annie" but, "Annie are you ok...etc".

My brother was convinced up to very recently that the line from Sir Mix alots 'baby got back' was
I like big hut's and i cannot die you other brothers will cry when my girl walks in a with a little bitter taste and a round thing in your face '

We found out he thought this while very drunk at xmas...he was quite surpirsed to find out the really lyrics.

For years I used to sing ABBA's Waterloo as "Waterloo, I was receiving you on the floor, da-da da-da da-da..."

Somehow I suspect that it's meant to be SLIGHTLY more innocent than that!!!