Mistaken lyrics

MistyCheese · 05-07-2011 12:51am

Fatboy Slim - The Rockafella Skank

The words are: Check it out now, the funk soul brother

Not: Check it out now, I fukked your brother

Needler · 05-07-2011 12:54am

Moby natural blues

Oh Lady, travel so high
Oh Lady, travel so high

Don't nobody know my travel cigar
Don't nobody know my ........................... travel cigar

flutterflye · 05-07-2011 4:44am

I've always been awful for this!

Until literally a few years ago, I sang;

"Oh you cater in love,
Oh you just have to wait" (as in tables!)

Instead of;

"You can't hurry love,
No, you just have to wait"

Most recently;

There's some song always on the radio.

Until last week, I ironically thought it said;
"This is my decision, But you keep being missing after work"

It actually goes;
"This is my decision, but you keep on messing up the words"

eskimocat · 05-07-2011 4:56am

The song is Free from Desire by Gala

The actual lyrics are :

My lover's got no money, he's got his strong beliefs

my version...

My granny's got no money, she's got a flat to lease...

Years I was singing that!!! really needed to get me ears tested

There are loads more... and probably gathering by the day :P

lorebringer · 05-07-2011 8:52am

Complicated by Avril Lavigne
"Chill out, what you yelling for?"

I thought was

"Chill out, wash the yellow floor"

Also, I knew a girl who thought (when she was younger) the Coca Cola ads at Christmas that say "Holidays are coming, holidays are coming... always Coca Cola" was "How many days are coming?... always Coca Cola"

TemptationWaits · 05-07-2011 3:45pm

I first thought Arcade Fire's song Laika went like "all by the shore" but it's actually "our mother should've."

castletownman · 05-07-2011 3:50pm

In Rihanna's new one I keep thinking she says "California dreaming" (rather than California king bed)

kfallon · 05-07-2011 4:17pm

When I used to hear Elton John and George Michael singing, "I won't let your son go down on me" I used to think, "Yeah right, I bet ye would" :rolleyes: til I realised it was 'sun' and not 'son'

Pandora2 · 05-07-2011 6:44pm

kfallon wrote: »

When I used to hear Elton John and George Michael singing, "I won't let your son go down on me" I used to think, "Yeah right, I bet ye would" :rolleyes: til I realised it was 'sun' and not 'son'

Just sprayed a mouthful of tea all over the laptop:D

iamwhoiam · 05-07-2011 6:51pm

My Bunny lies over the ocean , my bunny lies over the sea , my bunny lies over the ocean , oh bringback my bunny to me "

I always felt really sorry for the girl singing that as I thought her bunny had fallen in the sea and she wanted him back

Years later I learned it was my Bonnie .!!

languagenerd · 05-07-2011 10:31pm

One I only realised this morning:

In Jimmy Eat World's "Salt, Sweat, Sugar" ("Bleed American"), he sings "Our hearts, littering the topsoil", but until today, I was singing "Our hearts, living in a toaster!"

Dun laoire · 05-07-2011 10:42pm

That song "It's raining men"

The line "According to all sources" i had as "A doner and all sauces".

mmmmmmmmmm kebab

robbie_998 · 05-07-2011 10:50pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZaiB9jYCxI

Ally Dick · 05-07-2011 11:02pm

Billy Idol was the best of them. His song "Eyes Without A Face" always sounded to me like "How's About A Fish"

orourkeda · 05-07-2011 11:25pm

My love has got no money he's got his trombolese

Coriolanus · 05-07-2011 11:30pm

orourkeda wrote: »

My love has got no money he's got his trombolese

My love has got no money, he's got his trampoline.

got an unmerciful slagging over it

Witchie · 05-07-2011 11:47pm

Know a girl who used to think that the words to "I always feel like someone is watching me" was "I'm on a speedboat, someone is watching me"

Be||e · 05-07-2011 11:55pm

A friend of mine thought the line at the end of Pulp's "Disco 2000":

"What are you doing Sunday baby?" was

"What do you do with Sunday gravy?"

How I lolled!

Esoteric_ · 06-07-2011 12:17am

I thought "A brimful of Asha on the 45" was "A train full of knackers on the 45"

Drake66 · 06-07-2011 12:25am

In Pyro by the Kings of Leon "I won't ever be your cornerstone", I heard it as "I won't ever be a pornostar"

Wurly · 06-07-2011 12:36am

eskimocat wrote: »

Posted this over in the music forum but for a giggle here it is again.

I thought that the song 'Smack my b1tch up' was 'Snap My Picture' and used to bop around the dance floor pretending to I had a camera... oh the shame.. and yes for the dancing too...

I don't usually laugh out loud when reading posts but this is HILLLARIOUS!!!!:pac:

Ciderswigger · 06-07-2011 1:06am

iamwhoiam wrote: »

My Bunny lies over the ocean , my bunny lies over the sea , my bunny lies over the ocean , oh bringback my bunny to me "

I always felt really sorry for the girl singing that as I thought her bunny had fallen in the sea and she wanted him back

Years later I learned it was my Bonnie .!!

WHAT??! Till about 4 seconds ago I thought it was 'body'... lol.

Rubberlegs · 06-07-2011 10:03am

orourkeda wrote: »

My love has got no money he's got his trombolese

Ha, me too! WTF is a trombolese anyway:D?

Raiser · 06-07-2011 11:40am

Not a lyric but misheard permanently on Newstalk Radio - "Ireland deserves sun...bring on the summer!"

- Is it just me that only ever heard this as "Ireland is our Son.....?"

I had no idea for ages what they were on about.....Whatever way they fcuking recorded it

Joe_Dull · 06-07-2011 11:50am

The chorus to Suffragette Suffragette by Everything Everything goes,
"Cause you're gonna sit on the fence when I'm gone
Cause you're gonna sit on the fence when I'm not there"
but sounds awfully like,
"Who's gonna sit on your face when I'm gone?
Who's gonna sit on your face when I'm not there?"

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

Needler · 08-07-2011 7:00pm

Travie Mccoy - Billionaire

What should be: "I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen"

I heard as: "I wanna sleep right next to Oprah and the Queen"

Jess16 · 08-07-2011 7:27pm

The girls and I were all getting ready to hit the town one night recently when one of them goes 'Yayy, someone put Dirty Bitch on the iPod!' We just looked at her a bit bewildered and she glared back at us like we were morons and went 'Eh Dirty Bitch, the BlackEyed Peas song!?!' She's the slut of the group too ironically enough

ROS123 · 08-07-2011 8:07pm

The Beatles. Loo seat (lucy) in the sky with diamonds

Chuck Stone · 03-02-2012 2:37am

Last night a DJ shaved my wife.

John Doe1 · 03-02-2012 2:43am

Beatles-Ticket to ride

"Shes got a chicken to fry, she's.....

Mickey Lover · 03-02-2012 3:23am

Me aged 5 at my birthday party entertained everyone by singing Madonna - Like a Budgie .......

micropig · 03-02-2012 5:18am

Madonna-out of reach

I was confused why she was singing about Valerie:o

Johnny Cash

I thought it was Early one morning, while making my bed.....
Instead of Early one morning while doing the rounds...

Brendog · 03-02-2012 5:21am

fatboy slim - brimful of asha

"Graham threw a rasher on the 45"

"everybody needs a cousin, you know, you know, everybody needs a cousin"

03-02-2012 7:28am

At a pub gig I was playing years ago there was one guy rocking out in his own little world at the side of the stage. In between songs he'd shout up at us to play 'Hundred Trucks', he was about 50 and eastern European, so imagine his accent if you will 'You Play Hundred Trucks' coming at me after each song. Eventually we belted into a tune and he ran out to the dancefloor and went apeshít, like an ape possessed by its own shít. When we finished the tune he ran up in the sweats and thanked us, 'You play Hundred Trucks, amazing.'

The tune in question was Thunderstruck by AC/DC.

Rubberlegs · 09-02-2012 12:45pm

The Bangles, Walk like an Egyptian " Slide your feet up the street, bend your back. Shift your arm, then you pull a cock" Was convinced this is what she was singing for years:o

maximoose · 09-02-2012 12:51pm

OH thought for a long time that the chorus line of Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon was

WOOOOOOOOOOAHHHHHH, LETS STOP THIS TONIGHT

Still hasn't got old taking the piss out of her when the song comes on

borderlinemeath · 09-02-2012 12:58pm

I worked with a woman who was always singing along to the songs on the radio, a few years Britneys Spears "Womaniser" came on and she started singing away.

"One banana, one banana, one banana baby!!"

We got her the ringtone for her birthday.

My OH is always getting slagged at family occasions and asked to give a rendition of his favourite song from his childhood - Mulligans Tyres.

Yep, Mull of Kintyre/Mulligans Tyres was sung as a six year old as his party piece and not one of the adults laughing at him, not with him corrected him until he was a teenager.

AEDIC · 09-02-2012 1:05pm

castletownman wrote: »

In Rihanna's new one I keep thinking she says "California dreaming" (rather than California king bed)

She does actually sing that at one point though..

Just when I felt like giving up on us
You turned around and gave me one last touch
That made everything feel better
And even then my eyes got wetter
So confused, when I asked you if you love me
But I don't wanna seem so weak
Maybe I've been California dreaming

JohnMearsheimer · 09-02-2012 5:18pm

A Japanese guy I worked with thought 'the sweetest dream will never do' from I Don't Want To Miss A Thing by Aerosmith was 'the Swedish dream will never do'. I got a great laugh out of that one.