music: misheard lyrics

I thought that in Ride The Wings Of Pestilence by From First to Last was

'I'll drag your body to the ground'.

When actually it was

'I'll drag your body to the car.'

And the same song

'And i'll be a racist'

When it was actually

'As blood races down my arm'

I believed that Justin's line of the song 'Four Minutes' by Madonna was "Keep it up, keep it up, Don't be a Britney, Madonna" referencing Britney's meltdown and how Madonna has to keep on going with her career to avoid a similar fate! I'm still not sure what the real lyrics are.

My sister used to be a big fan of Shakira when we were little...

Mama Mia Toes
There's a manless story (or mandatory- I couldn't tell!)
Underneath your clothes
There's an endless story

Swedish country and pop singer Kikki Danielsson scored a 1986-1987 hit with the song "Papaya Coconut" (which she also recorded once again with Dr. Alban in 1998). I used to belive she sang "Pattaya Coconut", refering to Pattaya in Thailand, famous for it's child sex tourism (Actually it's true that the song lyrics refer to holiday travels to warm places).

Anyone remember this hysterical Bilbo-Baggins-song done by Leonard Nimoy? At one point he says "to help some dwarves get back their gold" and it totally sounds like "help some whores" – I used to wonder what whores were doing in a song about Hobbits, and even now I hear whores instead of dwarves every time!

I used to believe that in the song "Roxanne" by The Police, that Sting was talking about a light that people turn on and off in their bedrooms when he was singing, "You don't have to put on the red light".

When I watched Zoboomafoo as a young child, I thought that in the "Animal Friends" song at the end of each episode, the line "Go make an animal friend today" was "A naked animal friend today", and I thought that what I misheard it as made sense because animals don't wear clothes.

When we were little, my brother sang "Volare," at top volume with the lyric "Oh-Lah-Tay." He sang it all summer and nearly drove the family nuts.

I spent much of my childhood wondering what a "donserly light" was in the Star Spangled Banner.

More misheard lyrics....

I thought the line in "Doe, a Deer.." went "La, a note to follow song." As in, you use the word la to sing la la la.
I still think it's better that "la, a note to follow so."

A friend of mine thought The Eagles Life in the Fast Lane was Wipin' the Vaseline.

I used to think the line in Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way" was. "The bases are coated with traces of fat think it's safe to play?"

In the old Jerry Reed song "Amos Moses" there's a line, "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibidaux Looziana..." For about 10 years I thought they were saying "Tippy Toe". I figured it out after I moved to New Orleans in my mid-20's.

I remember when coolio's gangsta's paradise song first came out, the chorus never made sense to me. I always thought that they lyrics were "keep standing motion-lised, living in the gansta's paradise." Instead of "most our lives" - once I found out the song had a whole new meaning..ouuuu ahh. :P

My friend Hal was firmly under the impression that the UNKLE song 'Drums of Death' featured Mike D from the Beestie Boys hollering 'Yeah, Jonathon Depp, y'all, take him to the top y'all' in the chorus for many, many years. But to the top of what Hal, to the top of what?

I used to think that Boney M were really cool, being a geek I was inspired by space travel, physics and so on. Nightflight to Venus appealed for obvious reasons, although I thought the button on your backside was a bit naughty (it's "left side"). I can't remember the other song I really liked but until only a few days ago (I'm 35) I thought they were singing "When we hit those atoms there's going to be a big hello." I didn't know what a big hello was but I figured it was artistic licence for the wacky effects you get in nuclear physics. It's "islands," not "atoms." I'm still gutted....

I was about 5 when Prince's song, I Wanna Be Your Lover first came out. Until I was old enough to look up the lyrics myself, I always thought he said "I wanna be the only one you COOK forrr..." instead of "come forrr..."

Hey, I thought cooking for someone was a big deal. lol