music: misheard lyrics

I loved the song "Flying North" by Thomas Dolby as a kid. When I was about nine I was listening to the song one day and it suddenly struck me; there was a bad word in the song! The line was "N*ggers steaming in the chilly air of the morning." I was so shocked, I couldn't stop crying. However, on further listen, I concluded that the word must have been "knickers" to make "Knickers steaming in the chilly air of the morning." Ahh, I was a lot happier after that.

(It's actually "Lincoln".)

Back when I was younger, I got very into Ricky Martin music. Remember his song, "Shake Your Bon-Bon?" Well, there's a line in there where he says,

"I see your silhouette,
Are you my Juliet?"

However, when I heard this line, it got all slurred together in my ears, and I heard it as,

"I see your silhouette,
Are you magillient?"

"Magillient" isn't a real word by any stretch of the imagination, but since I was convienced that that was what he was singing, I tried to look it up in the dictionary. The closest word I could find was "malignant," which according to the dictionary ment "a life-threatening cancerous tumor."

Thus, I believed that Ricky Martin had some kind of strange cancer fetish.

I was about 10 when I started to get into theatre. My grandparents took me and my cousin to go see Mamma Mia! on Broadway. I liked it so much that I got the soundtrack. In the actual song titled "Mamma Mia!", Donna sings, "I can't count all the times I've cried over you." Up until a couple weeks ago, I though she was saying "I camped out all the times I cried over you." I pictured a scenario in which she couldn't even sleep in the same house with the guy.

HA My sister usta sing the song "It's A Heartache" like this:
IT'S A HARD EGG, NUTTIN BUT A HARD EEEEGGGG HITS YOU WITH A TOOTHAAACCHHEE HITS YOU WITH A CLOWWWWNNNNN rofl!

When I was little and innocent (and understood hardly any English) I was sure that instead of "sex bomb" Tom Jones sings "James Bond, James Bond, you are James Bond". I was frustrated when I didn't find it from my father's "Bond theme songs" CD.

I always thought that Beyonce's 'All The Single Ladies' was about drawing circles around the toys you liked in the catalogue. It didn't help that my parents called the action of drawing a circle around an image in a catalogue 'ringing'.
"If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it"

In the song Flashdance, there's a line, 'Take your passion...' My sister and I used to think the line was 'Take your pants off.' At the ages of 10 and 12, we thought it was the dirtiest thing we'd ever heard.

The Macy Gray song that was a big hit a couple of years ago - I used to think the chorus said:
"I try to say goodbye and I choke
Try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try and hide it, it's clear
I wear goggles when you are not near"

A friend pointed out that it says "My world crumbles when you are not near".

It's not. It's goggles!

my little nephew thought that The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work" were saying that "The Trucks Don't Work" so would always say to his Dad (a mechanic) "You can fix them can't you Dad?!?"

I had a friend who thought the line "and my ashes are scattered" from 'Back On Earth' by Ozzy Osbourne was hysterical because he thought he was saying "my ass is a-scattered"

My friend used to think (probably still does) that "Dude Looks Like A Lady" was really "Doing It Like A Lady."
EWWW! Dirty mind! Can't bring myself to tell her. She might have a fit. I thought so too till I saw this site.

I am still convinced that there is a line in "Mr. BoJangles" that says "he crapped his pants, took a stand and jumped so high". I tried singing "clapped his hands", but it doesn't fit. It's hilarious - try singing that along to the song next time you hear it.

Oh yah, and have you ever heard "Father of Mine" by Everclear? There is a line the guy keeps repeating ... "My daddy gave me a name". Now, is it me or sdoes it sound like he says, "my daddy laid me an egg"?

When I was younger I thought that the song Chapel of Love by the Dixie Cups was Going to the Jack-O-latern, Instead of Going to the chapel and we're gonna get married... I never understood what marriage had to do with the song.

My younger sister couldn't understand why Kelly Clarkson was so upset about her bakery goods in the song 'Miss Independent':

"What happened to my cinnamon buns?"

I told her that the lyrics are really "what happened to Miss Independent?" - but I don't know why I bothered, because now all I can hear is those bloody cinnamon buns!

I found 8 other posts here about the Kenny Rogers song Lucille, but I didn't see any that misunderstood it like I did:
"You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel. Four hundred children and a crop in the field." instead of "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille. Four hungry children and a crop in the field."
I thought this was about a guy mad at his truck when the wheel fell off the piece of junk, and he needed it for harvest. Plus, he had a bunch of kids to care for.

I used to think that the lyrics in "Send me on my way" (Rusted Root) were Simeon the whale--underwear. It was years before someone felt compelled to tell me that they were actually saying "Send me on my way--on my way"

But I prefer the whale.