music: misheard lyrics

Stephen Stills wrote a popular song called "Love the One You're With". I still burst our laughing when I think of my little sister singing "bon ja won ja wit" at the top of her lungs.

In Otherside by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I could've sworn they sang "the ostrich is full and its spilling my guts."

The real line is "the ashtray is full and I'm spilling my guts". Oops.

Up until they were at least five years old, my twin brothers used to sing the song "Down by the Bay" like this:

"Down B'idi bay, wereda watasgrowwww, bata home wilgo, mama do mama saaaay!"

In the Song "In Your Eyes" I always used to believe that when Peter Gabriel sand "In your eyes, the lige the heat your eyes, I am complete" I thought that he said "in your eyes the light the heat your eyes, your smelly feet" and I was corrected about this 2 days ago...my 17th birthday

Being from NC, my parents always listened to country music. There was an old Travis Tritt song that went..." I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E." My younger sister thought it was " I spilled tea all ove you, Billy."

When I was growing up I loved The Police (the band, that is ;) and I still do. Unfortunately I didn't buy the album "Ghost in the Machine" until several years after I started listening to it. Alas, I thought I was listening to the song "Too much sh*t for measure", but I was really listening to "Too much information". I'm a big Sting fan, but I'll put money down if you can tell the difference today!

Sincere apologies for the expletive, but if you listen to the song, you'll understand how real this "misheard" example is.

I thought the song "Swing low, Sweet chariot" went:

"Sweet n'low, sweet Harriet"

I thought they meant some girl Harriet was as sweet as sweet n'low. Man, was I dissapointed when I found out the right lyrics.

I used to think the song "Bandages" by hot hot heat,said "blame the jews, blame the jews,blame the jews" It actually says "Bandages,Bandages,Bandages". I still sing the other lyrics though.

In the song "Dream a little dream of me", there's a line that goes, "birds singing in the sycamore trees, dream a little dream of me"... My roommate and I were listening to this song last night and I asked her if she knew what a sycamore tree was, and she told me that I misheard the lyrics and that line actually went: "birds singing in the sake of more trees"....
Well, I was quite convinced by her that it was me who misheard the lyrics, ha!

When I was growing up I loved to listen to my parents' Pointer Sisters cassette. But the song, "Jump" always threw me, I thought for sure she was saying, "If you want me my kiss is in the night stand" I still had no idea what she was saying until I looked it up a couple weeks ago.

I only found out today that the line in the bon jovi song Always goes
'It's nothing but some feelings this old dog kicked up.'

I've always though he said 'It's nothing but some feelings, this old time kid up' And now I know why it never seemed to make any sence.

When I was little I heard "The 12 Days of Christmas" and I thougt the line,"a partridge in a pear tree" was, "a partra jennapear tree". I always wanted to know what kind of tree that was. Also, when my mother was little she heard "who wrote the book of love" as, "who wroter the moo cow now".

It's weird how it makes sense at the time and only seems silly in retrospect

I used to beleive that in Macy Gray's song "I Try" the chorus was "I try to say goodbye and I choke, Try to walk away and I stumble, Though I try to hide it, it's clear, I blow bubbles when you are not near" , and it used to sing it that way all the time. Now that I think about it, it sounds absolutely insane, but it sounded right at the time. I took me a few months to figure out that it was "My world crumbles when you are not there".

I thought in the song Two More Years by Bloc Party They were singing Doom on You. Which is a friend of mine's favourite expression.
I felt a bit silly when I realised.

We use to have to sing that song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" in elementary school. It troubled me everytime, because I swore that the song said "My Body Lies Over the Ocean." It's really kind of scared me.

While driving in the car with my friend a couple of years ago, "Play the Funky Music, White Boy." was playing, but I was always under the impression the it was "Play that Funky Music, Wise Guy." Ya, I've never been able to live it down she till laughs about it until this day.