misheard lyrics

I used to wonder why the word "seldom" was "a discouraging word", according to the lyrics for the song Home on the Range.

Anon

i thought that new disney peter pan song said "spread your legs" but its really "spread your wings"

shasta

Growing up playing with a certain 70's death defying daredevil's array of merchandise including Stunt van , chopper and the famous crank wind up motorcycle toy, put a bit of an impression in my 6 year old mind when listening to the Who's lyrics "behind blue eyes" and the line " ...and if I swallow Evil Knievel(anything evil), put you fingers down my throat.."

Troy

I once heard some lyrics from The Human League's best known song "Don't You Want Me" as "Swish your legs to find" instead of "It's much too late to find". Listening to that song today I still have trouble hearing the proper lyrics at that spot.

I also heard the first line to their later song "Soundtrack to a Generation" as "First melody can only be be that way" when it's "The smell of trees".

Anon

I used to think that the words to Feed the World by Band Aids lyrics were 'We know Whooooaa!'
instead of ' Feed the World' I believed this untill last christmas, im 20 now.

Swag Bag

self explanitory
"Im blue if I were green I would die, if I were green I would die"
instead of
"im blue dabadee dabadi"

Madi

Yesterday I was in the cafeteria of my college campus. They were playing some kind of music video channel. They played this song that was in a foreign language. I know it didn't say this, but I heard the singers holler, "Rolaids" like three times and then sing a short phrase and then repeat the chorus. I thought that was hillarious, so I started making up words to the other part that went like this:
Rolaids, Rolaids, Rolaids, that's the way you spell relief.

keyboardplayer

"Everybody ther'es a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's hot dog stand" instead of
"Every morning there's a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's 4-post bed"
Every Morning by Sugar Ray

Boy was I wrong

Madi

I thought in the 90's when I was younger that in Beck's song "Loser" he was telling me different ways to kill myself.

Troy

song: under my umbrella
i heard: ill take a tack and stick you to the end.
real deal: took an oath and im gona stick to it till the end.

ow

A few years ago, when I met Sinatra's "LA is my lady", I thought he sang "I leave behind the father of myself", while the correct line is "I leave behind a part of myself". That may not make sense in English, but I'm Brazilian and my English was even poorer at that time.

Renato Lacerda

I always thought that Zuccero's song "Senza una dona" was actually "Sence of a woman"

Miroslava

In the song 'Don't leave me this way', Thelma Houston sings 'Baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you'. I used to think she sang 'Baby, my heart is revolving and to cipher you'.

I love music lots

I used to believe some lyrics in Culture Club's, "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me," were:

Bit by lust without a reason

when it's really

This boy loves without a reason.

Katie

When I was younger and my friends came over I wantd to act cool and know all the words to a song they liked soo when they played it and they were singing I would say the last word of every line and it would look like i was singing it

What is funny about this is that now when my other friend come over not the same one thought she does the same thing but she thinks i don't notice it but i do!! :p

Emily

For years and years I used to think that the song 'Creep' by Radiohead contained the lyrics 'I'm a creep, I'm a widow', rather than 'I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo'.

buns mcfadden

In the song 'Boys' by Sabrina, I thought the lyrics were 'Everybody Needs Someone to Love'. instead of 'Everybody, Summertime Love'

Anon

I used to think that in this song, forgot the name, in a part that said " A little bit busy on my telephone " said, " Im a little bit busy on my planet, Bone." My sister had to correct me many times....

Eeveelover8632

There's a folk song called "Bay of Fundy " by a singer called Gordon Bok.It's a sea song about how dreary and dangerous this bay in Canada is.There's a line about how thr singer would like to " spend his days on the Labrador" and never see old Fundys shore, as in the area of that name in Canada.I heard the song for the first time when I was about seven, and I was baffled.Tohe only "Labrador " I knew of was the dog ( Labrador ).So in honor of the song I drew a picture of a large black dog with a tiny person on its back and presented it to my mother.She looked really confused and asked me to explain.Annoyed, I said "you know, like the song". To clarify things for idiots, I added a balloon above the tiny person saying "I'm on the Labrador".Mom finally got it and started laughing like crazy.It took several years, and an Atlas, before I finally got the cause of the hilarity.Then I just felt embarrassed.

Anon

I thought that "toony" was a slang term for a part of your body of which you had two, as in the song "Ballin' the Jack" (First you put your toonies close up tight). (OUCH!)

C.C.