Mistaken lyrics

pappyodaniel

I always thought he was singin' about an STD in this song. "Salty Peeeeeeeeee"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXWX9e10Ubw

Thomas828

One lyric I misheard was in "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath. The original line is: Can you help me occupy my brain? I thought it was: Can you help me? Can you burn my brain?

molloyjazz

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I always thought he was singin' about an STD in this song. "Salty Peeeeeeeeee"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXWX9e10Ubw

i always say "ctrl alt delete!" for that song.

Tar.Aldarion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W27_h364InY

Yeah so there I was sitting with this lass Michelle...happy out in first year of college...listening to mah slipknot... Heard 'Inside my shell I wait and bleed' as 'Inside Michelle I wait and bleed'...<end of story here> it's all I could think about then and until this day.

Love the songs where they just stick up the lyrics that sound like they are saying it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNLDLyeepVs

celtic Liger

LAME TRACK, LAAAAAME TRACK, LAME TRACK, WE'LL GIVE YOU LAME TRACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7iHXV_uP_w

McChubbin

Clown control to Mao Zidong. = Ground control to Major Tom.

biko

For years I thought it was "I love Cecile" but it was "Our lips are sealed"...

BaZmO*

Paulo Nutella's song "Ten out of Ten"

Always thought he was singing, "I wanna get me outta bed" instead of "I wanna get ten out of ten"

IvySlayer

When I heard 'When loves takes overrrr' I always thought it was 'When I taste soberrr'

For months, until I looked at the lyrics.

Dixie Chick

there is that famous U2 song

"Electric toaster"

Twilightning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ

HAMSTER!
A DENTIST!
HARD PORN!
STEVEN SEAGULL!

Banned Account

I knew a guy who thought the Dead Kennedys were singing:

"Matchbox, Matchbox, Matchbox, - FCUK OFF!!"

That was funny.

pjmn

Reverened Blue Jeans...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQLWF_ItzYs

jigglywoo

Lock the Taskbar by The Clash

dilallio

Islands in the Stream

All those years I wondered why Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers were singing about Ireland's Industry

Dunjohn

Remember the song Blue (Da Ba Dee)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

I used to work with a guy who refused to have it playing around him incase people thought he was gay. He thought the lyrics were "Blue (I'm in need of a guy)."

gmonov1

i always thought it was strange that U2 were singing about an 'Angel with a hard on'

(Angel of Harlem) :o:o

Meemars

pjmn wrote: »

Reverened Blue Jeans...

+1 for Reverend Blue Jeans.

I thought the same for many years, and it has stuck so firmly that I still sing it by accident, although I know it's "Forever in...."


Not that I find myself singing Neil Diamond too often, you understand!

LittleBook

"Seo libh, canaidh amhrán na bhFiann."

Shovin' Connie-eeeee around the greeeeeeeen!

MissMotivated

Theme tune of Home and Away, it's 'I'm walking on air', always thought it was 'and what can i nam', could never figure out what nam meant!!!

I'm sure I have more but these are ones my friends sang,

'Take the shotgun off my feet so I can dance' instead of 'take the shackles off'

Alannis Morrisette 'You've already run me over' instead of 'You've already won me over'

hahahahahahah these still make me laugh

Gmol

starbelgrade wrote: »

Oh dear - not only did I think it was 'Raygun' (until now when I just Googled it & saw that it is "rapier"), but I also thought that you f*cked up with "far framed Kerry mountains" - I always thought it was "Cork & Kerry mountains".

I'll get my coat.

Should have gone to Spec savers....

sorrywhat

I heard my friend singing along to Greendays song Good Riddance/Time of your life

There is part in the song that goes: in the end its right, I hope you've had the time time of your life

Instead........

I heard from him ....

The INDIAN was right, I hope you've had the time of your life

He hasnt ever really lived it down.

dubtom

Skiddilly napp ba dapp booo,diddelly wopp ba dumdum.

These words or similar usually end up in most songs I sing

Earthhorse

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

there was a dance song out in the 90's with the line 'he's gotta be quick' but it sounded like 'he's got a big dick'

Dudess wrote: »

Oh yeah a dance mix of Tori Amos's Professional Widow.

It's "We gotta be big".

Kasabian

I find that if I listen to music on my Ipod it is so much better than having it on in the background. Some songs have taken on a whole new meaning to me after listening to them for years and then putting them on my Ipod.
Some songs I have being listening to for years and I never really knew what the lyrics or message intended.

ArmaniJeanss

"Theres murder on the dance floor, but you'd better not tell the groom."


I assumed it was a song about the afters at a wedding or something.

VERYinterested

I used to think that Alanis Morrisette's 'Ironic' contained the following lyrics:

'It's a death row hard-on, two minutes too late' :eek:

I remember hearing a guy ringing 98fm to say that his girlfriend thought that Prince's song 'Little Red Corvette' was actually 'Dia Dhuit Collette' and whenever I hear it now, those lyrics work for me!

annie87

You'll be dancing once again like a baby wren, you will have no time for dreaming, Chiquitita la la la laaaa...

lalala dance, miracle dance instead of 'She wore a raspberry beret'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwtsVaIcW2A - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (alternative lyrics)

Ruthie_

Dunjohn wrote: »

Remember the song Blue (Da Ba Dee)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

I used to work with a guy who refused to have it playing around him incase people thought he was gay. He thought the lyrics were "Blue (I'm in need of a guy)."

I always thought it was "Blue (If I OD I will die)"

misslt

Ruthie_ wrote: »

I always thought it was "Blue (If I OD I will die)"

I once heard someone singing Blue (If i was green I would die)

Smcgie

Sam sparrows 'Black & Gold' used to sing 'Like a ghost'

But it really really sounds like - like a ghost!!

Dj Stiggie

jigglywoo wrote: »

Lock the Taskbar by The Clash

NO WAY! I StumbledUpon that the other day. That site is brilliant.

No mondegreens springing to mind atm, my friend's a whuare for them though

alwaysadub

I always sing the wrong lyrics-sometimes it's years before i realise

The most recent one i can think of is Alicia Keys' New York:

"In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of"

I sang as:

"In New York, concrete jungle with green to-may-toes(the American pronunciation of tomatoes)

AssaultedPeanut

Lurching wrote: »

My house mate used to think that "Shes got Bette Davis eyes" actually went "shes got better days aside".

My friend thought it was "she's got better days in sight" and my sister thought it was "she's got very dangerous eyes" :P

Another person I know thought that dancey song that goes "I can feel the beat, feel the beat, feel the beat.."
Well she thought it was
"I can spill the beans, spill the beans, spill the beans..."

anewme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCevP9DJtIY

Tall man in Tallaght.......meet me somewhere......

Listen just as he starts singing!

MardiB

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Favoutie one I've heard about is Bryan Adams "Summer of 69"

Had my first real six string became "Had my first real sex dream (played it 'til my fingers bled...)"

I thought the line in the chorus ' back in the summer of 69' went ' So do you wanna have sex tonight....

Truley

I don't understand a word of what comes out of Beyonce's mouth :P

thegen

Worked with a guy back in the 80's who sang.

"I don't want to be a park ranger" instead of "I don't want to be a heart breaker". Dion Warick song.

starbelgrade

My brother used to think that "Fairytale of New York" contained the following lyric...

"The boys in the orthopedic choir were singing Galway Bay".

Little Acorn

The Killers -When you were young

I thought "talks like a general,like you remember when, you were young"
Really is "talks like a gentleman ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '' ' ' ' ' ' "

Used to sing these lyrics really loudly, till one day one of my friends was like
-"talks like a what?!", I argued with them until they googled the lyrics and proved me wrong.:o

billy the squid

I can see deirdre now Loraine is gone.

xoixo

Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well it's a brimful of Asha on the 45

-- Brimful of Rasher and a fork and knife

starbelgrade

xoixo wrote: »

-- Brimful of Rasher and a fork and knife

Sleep on the left side, keep your pork end free?

sara84

My little cousin thought "papa don't preach" was "Poppadom beach"

The classic lyric..... "Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode, He's Ebeneezer Goode"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMuMQTls6UU

People get the lyrics wrong all the time funny enough.

alwaysadub

When i first heard this song Replay, for the 1st few weeks i thought it was ' na na na na every day, it's like my eyeball's stuck in replay'

Spiritoftheseventies

McGarnagle92 wrote: »

Possibly the most famous one when people may have thought Jimi Hendrix was a little gay.

'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.


Real Lyric 'Scuse me, while I kiss the sky from Purple Haze.


There's an archive of misheard lyrics named after it :

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Yeah thats a good one. I remember someone or people tried to make a go of the chorus from sidewinder sleeps tonight.
Line is "Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her." which someone translated as something like "Colin wants jamaican rub". Lost in translation as the saying goes

Mr Benevolent

The Poker Face lyrics. 'P-p-p-poker face f-f-fuck her face...'

BDR

I thought the line 'just stand beside your man tonight' was 'just stand beside your vegetables tonight' The Killers - replacable

dad thought Lucy in the sky with diamonds was Judy in disguise with glasses :P

lookinbusy

Used to think this one was saying 'I wish I was a prawn cracker', I just thought she was bonkers, check it out..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc2jDz6w-r4