Misheard lyrics

[bubbadabut]

Mercury Revs "Godess on a highway" i keep hearing "gotta sing a highway.

That is a beautiful song that I've not heard for years, going to listen to it now

Being a Northern lass I always had a soft spot for ODB's rap during "Got Your Money" by Kelis. He really says "I'm a get this money and rob them" but it sounds like "I'm a get this money in Rotherham".

 

[Practically Perfect]

Take that - Pray

Take that:
All I do each night is pray
Hoping that I'll be a part of you again some day
All I do each night is think
Of all the times I closed the door to keep my love within


Me:
All I do each night is pray
Hoping that I'll be a part of you again some day
All I do IS SHINE THIS THING
Of all the times I closed the door to keep my love within


(makes no sense at all but it didnt help that on the video one of them was fannying about in the sea with a mirror - thought they were being dirty boys lol )

 

[bubbadabut]

Even though I am a Manic Street Preachers obsessive, and I clearly knew that the song is called "A Design For Life"...it was only a couple of years ago that I realised the lyrics were indeed "a design foooor life" and not "a design, for her life".

I blame James Dean Bradfield and his diction

 

[WilmaHun]

Ashanti foolish I sing 'see my days are gone without you' when its 'see my days are COLD without you'.

Well I never! I've been singing it wrong, the same as you!

 

[ElectricDreams]

"I remove umbilicals!"

I can't unhear this now!

 

[LittleMy]

I also thought for years that it was...

Don't cry for me Argentina.
The truth is I never loved you

Is it not?

 

[NapQueenReturns]

Another Bruno Mars one for me, “I’m a drip in Inverness, it don’t make no sense.”

 

[Ginlover92]

I havent read the whole thread yet so this might have been mentioned already. This is sort of misheard lyrics but with a bit of language barrier.

Reebok or the Nike

A radio caller rang up with a song request and it took the DJs a while to work out the song from the callers description.

 

[Jelly Bean]

One for the teenagers now
Creedence Clearwater Revivals's 'Out my Backdoor' (you'd know it if you heard it) there is a lyric 'tambourines and elephants' which I always merrily sang along as 'Anne Marie's an elephant' until my partner pointed it out.
I'd always thought as they were probably all high at the time of writing it so it made perfect sense.

 

[kittypaws]

Well, it turns out that it’s not “jewels remain still gleaming…”

Who knew?!

I literally googled this the other night cos I just couldn’t work out what the line was but i sung it the same as you

 

[bubbadabut]

Going back a bit but in "What's the Frequency Kenneth?" by REM, I always thought he was singing "you thought that ironing was the shackles of youth". It's actually "irony".

Also in "Live Your Life" by T.I. and Rihanna, she sings "Live your life, aint got no time for no hedgehogs (haters)...live your life, cos I'm a big butt-kisser (paper-chaser)".

 

[DCICassieStuart]

 

[Hastaggifted]

My daughter has started singing "I'm farting again, I'm farting again, I'm farting" for Harry Styles Falling. One of my favourite songs ps don't judge me

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

My husband is dreadful with lyrics but the one that get's me is 'Annie (I'm Not Your Daddy)'

The lyrics are:

Break it to me gently now
Don't forget I'm just a child

He always sings 'Don't forget I've just been shot' ... I have no idea why. It's not even misheard. Just totally wrong.

 

[MilkAndTwoSugars]

Bootylicious....

Got ya shook up and scared of me... for years I thought it was looks like ur shit fuckin scared of me

Me too! I thought it was "by the looks I got you shit fcukin scared of me"

 

[Blue pumpkin]

An old song called Here Comes the Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze

Here comes the hot stepper, murderer
I'm the lyrical gangster, murderer
Pick up the crew in-a de area, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer

I thought it was ' here comes the hotstepper, turn it up, I'm a lyrical gangster turn it up' until I found out years later 'turn it up' was in fact 'murderer'

 

[Compassionately_judging]

I legit thought it was "I wanna be in movies"
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It is , but the line that rhymes with it is Groupies

 

[Tittykitty]

Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmm by crash test dummies I was convinced last verse was ‘she shook head lice all over her body’

 

[Loopypappy]

I also had a friend who was always mishearing lyrics.

The Corrs “go on leave me breathless” she would sing “go on leave me Bradley”.

Also Alice Cooper/Groove Coverage Poison - “you’re poison, you’re poising running through my veins” she’d sing “wild horses, wild horses running through my veins”

One of my own was Billie Jean, “Billie Jean is not my lover” I thought was ‘Billie Jean knocks at my door’, I’m sure he’s doing the impression of a door-knock, or maybe it’s a foot-stomp on that light up pavement as he sings those lyrics which I thought kinda backed my version up but i could be mistaken.

OMG I cannot stop laughing

 

[Ineedmorecoffee]

When I was little, listening to ABBAs ‘Fernando’. I always thought the lyrics were:

’They were shining there for you and me. Oh leave the tea, Fernando’

Like she was saying this is a beautiful moment, I’m really not bothered about tea, just leave it!