misheard lyrics

I used to think that "One, two, three times a lady"
was: "one, two, three times related"

Anon

Song: Betty Davis Eyes

I used to think that instead of the lyrics "she's got Betty Davis eyes" it said "she's got better taste in guys".

Anon

In addition to believing that Elton John sang, "Hold me closer, Tony Danza!" instead of "Tiny dancer," I couldn't figure out if he was saying "Lay me down in sweet surender" or "Lay me down in sheets of linen." Whenever I sang it, I would switch it up. This website motivated me to find out which was right...the latter.

lise

The Monkees song "Sometime in the morning": Real lyrics are "you need no longer wear a disguise", I thought it was "you need no underwear or disguise".

Daria

I used mess up almost all nurser rhymes, Like. Mary Had A Little Lamb. I used to think her fleas were white as snow.

Anon

I used to believe that the lyrics to Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" were "You give love a Band-Aid".

Anon

Around Christmas every year my Mom liked to play the album by "Boney M" and on the tape was a song called "Feliz Navidad". Well for years my sister and I always thought that they were singing "At least Mommy died" for the chorus. We could never figure out why they were so happy that their Mom had died and why it was a Christmas song.

Amanda

Jungle Love by The Steve Miller Band goes, "Jungle Love, Drivin' Me Mad, Makin' Me Crazy.."

My husband thought it was, "Chug A Lug, The Strawberry Man, Makin' Me Crazy..." when he was a child.

Anon

I used to think that there was a line in the Box Tops song "Cry Like A Baby" that was "When I think about the good lucky caveman, I cry like a baby." (The line actually was "When I think about the good love you gave me, I cry like a baby.")

It made perfect sense in my head--the singer envied cavemen since they got to live in a world unsullied by pollution. I made up my mind that the song was an environmental message.

Psychotic Puggle

Until 30 seconds ago, I believed that in the Avril Lavigne song "Things I'll Never Say", she was singing:
"If I could see what I wanna see
I wanna see you go down on me..." I found out that the words are actually:
"If I could see what I wanna see
I wanna see you go down on ONE KNEE..." Silly me.

Hannah P.

That in 'We Didn't Start the Fire', the line 'no we didn't light it' was 'well, we did ignite it'.

I still think that it's a better line.

GuesssWho

I used to believe that one of Lady Gaga´s songs goes "bedroom ants" instead of "bad romance"

Anon the III.

In the 70's KC and the Sunshine band had a hit called something like "Get down tonight." or at least that was one of the lyrics. I had a lot of hearing problems as a kid ( infections, etc.) that affected my hearing. So I always thought that KC was singing "get calgonite" which I thought was some kinda brand name dish washing soap, and was always mystified why he was doing a song that was kinda a commercial and so into dish washing soap.

Drew

I thought "a partridge in a pear tree" was actually a cartridge in a pear tree, and I don't know why they would put a cartridge in a tree. I thought "two turtle doves" was a turtle and a dove, making two in total.

Anon

I thought in the Transformers theme song were it says "robots in disguise" it was saying "robots in the skies" which I thought was weird because not all of the robots can fly!

Golic

A lot of people think the song Bad Moon on the Rise is Bathroom on the right but I got to see this illustrated live at a Berkeley Folk club by the Celtic Rock band Boiled in Lead.They were introducing themselves and the club at the start of the concert and they said where the exits were, ect. and then they all broke into tune together and sang "by the way there is a bathroom on the righy" which was correct. It was very unexpected and funny and thr audience broke up laughing and clapping.Later they did one better by playing Bad Moon on the bagpipes! It was a great concert.

Bathroom was on the right

I used to believe the lyrics to Rupert Holmes' "Escape" were "if you like pina coladas, and getting cotton lorraine". I had no clear idea what "cotton lorraine" was, but I guessed it was some kind of facial.

Anon

For a long time I thought the song "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred was saying "I'm a martyr, you know what I mean", instead of "I'm a model, you know what I mean". I didn't question it for ages, as I just figured some people would find it sexy if someone was willing to suffer for their beliefs.

Anon

'thats me with the corndog' instead of 'thats me in the corner' was how my friend understood the REM song Losing My Religion

Anon

It was roughly the same time that I started to eat Indian food and discovered Abba. I thought that Abba sang about Chicken Tikka when in fact it was Chiquitia.

Helen