the best of misheard lyrics
when i was little i was a huge fan of the Sound of Music. And whenever they sang edelweiss, I thought that they where saying little mice
music: misheard lyrics
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I used to think that Frankee's song F.U.R.B. (F**k you right back) the line 'I had better sex all alone ( ha ha ha ha )' was ' I had better sex on the phone' I used to sing along to that but then i read the lyrics, but i still sing it that way...i have no clue where i got 'on the phone from'
Till I was 14 I thought the words that were repeated at the end of the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit"(a denial) were "rock will die, yo!". I kept wondering why Kurt Cobain was saying that rock would die, since it never will, and by the "yo", was he predicting that rap would take over rock?
I used to love the song "Blaze of Glory" by Bon Jovi. When the song was around I though the lyric "I have an old coat for a pillow" was "I have an old goat for a pillow". Now obviously I thought he couldn't use a goat that was alive as it would be standing up and wouldn't make a very comfortable pillow - so I always imagined Bon Jovi lying in the desert sleeping on the ground using a dead goat for a pillow!
For years as a kid I thought the Pretenders 'Thin Line Bewteen Love and Hate' was actually a clever reference that only grown ups must be able to understand, on how rubbish the disintegration of a relationship is in the line, 'it's a bin liner between love & hate'.
At least I don't feel so stupid about my Neil Diamond 'Reverend Blue Jeans' mistake having seen it on this site now though...
I used to believe that in the song 'I Try' by Macy Gray,that when she sang 'And my heart crumbles when you are not near' she was actually singing 'And i wear goggles when you are not near'
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I used to think the Locomotion was the Lovely Motion when I was a child! Come on, come on, do the lovely motion with me!
i used to believe the song by daniel beddingfield wrap your words around me or whatever it is went "is it right to bring her solids in the morning" when it's acutally "is it right to bring her sonnets in the morning"
"Wella taco body, taco body, taco body, taco body...Taco-bot, taco-bot, taco-bot moovin"
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"Well-a talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it...Talk about, talk about, talk about moovin"
-Funkytown by Lips, Inc.
My brother once came home from work having heard a song on the radio, telling me the lyrics were "walks like his pants are too tight", as opposed to "walk like a panther tonight".
When I was a kid I used to love Kenny Rogers.One song in particular, I think it was "Lucille," had the line "You left me with 4 hungry children and a crop in the field." For years I was sure he was saying, "You left me with 4 HUNDRED children and a crop in the field."
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The first couple of times that I heard INXS' Suicide Blonde, I thought for sure they were singing "Super Salad Bar" instead of suicide blonde.
In the Green Day song Extraordinary Girl, one line goes 'like a pet left in the rain'. i thought it was 'like a pig left in the rain,' which isn't much different but it sounds much weirder!
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I thought Hey there Georgie Girl! was
Hey there George Eagle!
For years I wondered who George Eagle was and why there was a song about him.
In Music by Madonna I used to sing Music makes the bourgouise live forever rather than music makes the bourgouise and the rebel.
I never did understand why it would only affect the rich!
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my sister made up a silly version of the viva las vegas song by elvis, it went people like bagels. for years i thought they were the actual lyrics. stupid me!
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That 'army' marching song that goes "Wherever we go (wherever we go), People always ask us (People always ask us), Where do you come from? (Where do you come from?)" etc. Well we used to sing it at Brownies and for ages I thought it was "Wherever we go, we think of all disasters". I thought it was about being contemplative about people who'd been affected by wars and things.
My Brownie leader overheard me, cracked up laughing and told everyone, making me look like a fool. I've never really got over it. She shouldn't have been allowed to be a leader....
Abba - Waterloo
"Portaloo
Finally facing my Portaloo..."
Well, this is mum's rather than mine!
NEWeiz, she thought that 'The Hardest Button to Button' by The White Stripes went 'The Hardest ******* Toboggan'.
Before she told me this, I knew the correct words, but now when I hear it, I always think of Mum and smile to myself! XD
In Duran Duran's "The Reflex", I thought that "I'll cross that bridge when I find it was "I'll slap that bitch when I find it." I coudn't hear what "cross" was, but "bridge" definitely sounds like "bitch" to me.
Dresden Dolls - Thirty Wacks
I swear I kept hearing, 'Get hit with a chicken for loitering.' but it turns out to be a far more normal 'Ticket for Loitering.'
I prefer my version :)