misheard lyrics

My husband thought the Pat Benetar song "Hell Is For Children" said "Be a good little boy and you'll get a new toy, now grab all your crap off the swing!" It really says "tell grandma you fell off the swing". I guess he thought the person in the song was really anal retentive about the cleanliness of the playground!

Lisa Kyle

Seriously a friend of mine thought that in the song 'funky town' it said something like Abitsu Witsu, a funky town.....she thought it was a great place in Japan.

Anon

The lyrics to Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten" are:
"Release your inhibitions."

I used to believe they were:
"Release your inner b*tch aaaaaand..."

Natalie

You know that song by The Zombies that goes "It's the time for the season of loving?" Up until two days ago, I thought they were singing "it's the time for the season finale."

Needless to say, my dad had a good laugh when he corrected me.

Queeny

I never knew the title to Prince's song "Raspberry Beret." So I used to believe the song went

she wore a red, spherical dress
the kind you find in a second hand store.

It was the eighties, and women used to wear lots of wierd designer dresses at the time. I figured they wore them once, threw them out, and this girl bought one that was round, like a fruit of the loom apple or something.

Christian

I used to think that Elton John's song Tiny Dancer was actually Tony Danza. It really changes the meaning of the song.

Craig

The Kim Carnes song called 'Bette Davis Eyes' well my dad used to sing "She's got Dickie Davis Eyes"

Anon

When we were teenagers, my sister and I heard the song on the radio, and she remarked how funny it was that we used to think it said "Goin' to the chapel and we're
gonna get mad at Harry." I replied, "Oh, yeah! Funny!"

Mike

I used to think in the songs Call n Return by Hellogoodbye in the chorus when it says "say that you're into me" it was saying "satan is your enemy" I was like "Well, DUH!!!"

Anon

I thought the line 'Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap" in the ACDC song was 'Dirty thieves and the thunder chief' (??)

Also, there is a BeeGees song, I think called 'More than a woman'. As a kid, I sang 'Four legged woman, four legged woman to me' (I still prefer my version.

Finally, an Australian band Cold Chisel had a song with the line 'Cheap wine and a three day growth'. We always sang it as 'Cheap wine and a female goat'.

FR

till a few months ago i used to think that in the song "bandages" by hot hot heat, they were really singing "benadryl".
i still sorta think it does.
=]

k.p.

The song Betty Davis Eyes, actual words:

All the boys think she's a spy, she's got Betty Davis eyes.

Misheard as:

All the boys think she's a spaz, she's got Betty Davis eyes.

Not just a I used to believe more of a I've always believed and at the age of 33 a mate has kindly told me the real words, thanks Jon I preferred my lyrics better

Giz - clean ya ears out

50 cent's In da Club instead of "go shawty its ya birthday"
i thought it was, and sang in public, "go charlotte its your birthday"

Anon

In the song Winter WonderLand I thought the part about building a snowman said "And he'll say are you married? We'll say 'no man, but you can do the job when you're in town'." I thought the woman singing the song really wanted to marry a snowman

JewLea

I was listening to an old record of a gospel group that I had never heard before and still don't know who they are. The music was good, but the record was scratchy and the sound quality was not very clear. A song came on and I heard them sing, "Hickory on the rock." I couldn't figure out what a gospel song had to do with a hickory on a rock. When I heard the chorus again, I realized why that sounded stupid. The correct lyrics were "Victory on the rock." Duh!

keyboardplayer

Oh oh, I'm an alien, I'm a little alien...

Legal maybe?

Marina

When I was five or six, my brother always used to listen to Guns N' Roses, and in Welcome to the Jungle I thought they were saying:

"Welcome to the jungle, we've got lemonade"

lmao

Courtney

Early this year, when Apologize was repeatedly being played on the radio, I kept on hearing it and singing it as "It's shoelace to 'pologize" And I'd ask what "'pologize" meant to all my friends and they'd give me funny looks. Haha. :P I'd also imagine the music video with a bunch of dancing shoelace. :))

Blah.

On "This Ain't a Scene (it's an arms race)" by My Chemical Romance...

"This thing this thing it's a god damn arse face"
I knew this probably wasn't right but thought it was better than the real words. It also fits in with how the first line "I am an arms dealer" sounds like "I am an arse feeler".

Mahoney

My dad used to listen to 80's music while painting. Once, when listening to the song, 'Voices Carry', I became convinced that the lyrics were...

Oh, I'll
Eat without you
This is scary!

After that, I refused to eat alone for a great deal of time.

David