music: misheard lyrics

Until quite recently I thought that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Running down a Dream" was called "Running Down the Drain" For years while hearing it I've been picturing a little man trying to resist getting sucked down a drain in the kitchen sink!

I always thought that the lyrics of the Beatles song were ‘Ticket to Rye’ when I was young (Rye being a small town in England near where I live), up until when I was about 9 or 10 then I was told it was ‘Ride’, but I recently found out that it seems they were singing Rye after all.. I’m confused now lol

I was completely convinced that there was a line in the reggae song 'Now That We've Found Love' that goes 'make nasty soup soup soup, all over the place'. Now that I'm older, I hear the song on the radio sometimes and STILL can't hear exactly what the guy's singing. If I ever find out I'm afraid it won't be as good as mine.

A huge baseball and Beach Boys fan as a young kid (and still am), I used to believe "Catch A Wave" meant going to the beach, running to the water's edge with your baseball mitt and trying to catch the water rushing towards you.

I always thought that the chorus to the Cutting Crew song "(I just) Died in your arms" went "Ha-rah, I just died in your arms tonight, it must have been some kind of cheese." Makes sense, there are some nasty cheeses out there.

In Queen's 'Flash Gordon' theme, there's a bit where the evil queen (or whatever she is) does a talkie bit. I always thought she was saying 'Dispatch Warlock and Ajax to bring back his body', whereas my sister always believed it was 'Dispatch Warlocken agents to etc etc'. The dispute went on for years, until she met her future husband, who kindly pointed out that the actual words are 'Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring etc etc'. Neither of us believed him, until we saw the film and discovered that there was indeed a rocket named Ajax in it, whereas there were no warlocken agents and nor were there any characters by the name of Warlock. Oh well, at least I got the 'Ajax' bit right.

This was actually more recently than childhood, but until I looked up the lyrics to "Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)" by Nine Days, I was wondering why on Earth they were singing "When you look in the mirror, say hi to your shoes"... (They were really saying "So how do you choose?")

I'm not very old still, but when i was smaller and living in england, there was the popular remake of the song "killing me softly" by lauren hill, and the chorus goes:
killing me softly, with this song
but for some reason, i always thought it was:
killing me softly, with his saw
and i would sing it out loud and no one would say anything so i assumed it was correct.... heh

In the Beatles' song 'All My Loving' I misheard 'I'll write home every day' as I'll ride home every day'.

I thought, why's he making such a fuss about being away if he can ride home every day? I imagined a cowboy or Pony Express rider singing the song.

Later when I learned that he was expecting to WRITE home every day, I still saw him on horseback, leaning a writing pad on trees and gates as he passed while riding a horse and writing a letter home at the same time.

I used to think that that song "bridge over troubled water" by Simon and Garfunkel said
"like a bitch over bubbled water, I will lay meow."

When I was little I used the listen to the song "I Got My Mind Set On You" and I used to think he was singing "look out i might sit on you".

For a while i hav thought that the lyrics for Smash Mouth's "All Star" went like so:
"She was lookin kinda dumb
with her finger IN her thumb
and the shape of an elf
on her forhead."
It wasnt until a friend pointed out to me that i was singing the lyrics wrong in an english lesson while watchin one of my favourite films "Shrek". She said that the lyrics went like:
"with her finger and her thumb
in the shape of an L
on her forhead"
obviously this makes alot more sence than my version on the lyrics.

Do you remember "The look" by Roxette? I think it was popular around 1990, when I was 10 years old, and I really loved this song. I had just learned english in school for a year, but I tried to understand and translate the lyrics, looking up words in the dictionary and stuff (well most of the time the lines didn't make that much sense to me, I know now over 10 years later that they REALLY don't make that much sense).

Anyways there is this line where I always heard "kissing like a ramrod" and associated it to that big spaceship-transforming-robot from Saber Rider (anyone knows that series?) which was called Ramrod. I tried to look that word up, but I couldn't find it, most likely because I misspelled it "Ramrott" or something like that.

So, I went to my english teacher (an elderly man) and asked him what a ramrod was. He looked a bit puzzled, so I provided him the context and said the line in the song was "kissing like a ramrod", which made him look even more puzzled. He then muttered something about how lyrics in songs are sometimes no correct english and went on with his english lesson.

Years later, I stumbled by conincidence over the lyrics to "The Look" printed out somewhere... which solved the ramrod puzzle, since the original lyrics were "tasty like a raindrop". ^_^;

i used to think that the song "hungry eyes" said "whole green eyes". I couldn't understand what it meant. It made me think of grapes!!

Also, in Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal, i thought the chorus said "You've been hit by, you've been struck by a SPOON". I didn't get that either.

I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....

i used to think that meatloaf paradise by the dashboard light used to say " aint no doubt about it he was looking gay cos he was barely 17 and he was wearing a dress", when it actually says "aint no doubt about it we were doubtly blessed cos we were only 17 and we were barely dressed.