Misheard lyrics

[BasilRathbon]

Showing my age again. Errol Brown's You Sexy Thing: "I believe in miracles" is NOT what I sing. Genuinely thought it was a cute song about cows: "I believe in moo cows"

"I remove umbilicals!"

 

[totallytaz]

Came across Peter Kay's misheard lyrics sketch today and it reminded me of a friend of mine from schooldays who always managed to hear song lyrics completely different from the rest of us.





Two of her best ones had to be George Harrisons 'I got my mind set on you' or as she sang it 'A goblin might sit on you'
The other one was ZZ Tops's 'Sharp dressed man' According to her it wasn't 'Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man', no it was 'Everybody's crazy 'bout a SHORT ARSE MAN!'




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn2-b_opVTo


Has anyone else got an embarrassing misheard lyrics?

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.

 

[Sw4]

Freed from desire by Gala - only just found out it’s “my lovers got no money he’s got his strong beliefs”

I was convinced it was “he’s got his trumberlice”

I thought it was trombolice, in my 10 year old head this was an instrument like a cross between a trumpet and trombone

Professional Widow remix by Tori Amos..the correct lyric is 'its gotta be big'... I thought she was saying 'he's got a big dick'

 

[BasilRathbon]

On the Spice Girls' Wannabe there's a couplet that goes "If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends, Naked lust forever, friendship never ends"

I was most disappointed when I found out that the official lyric is actually "Make it last forever".

 

[Youre a wizard Harry]

When my sister was little, she was practising singing away in a manger for school, and she thought the words were the little malteser, not
the little Lord Jesus

 

[Bitofthebubbly]

There’s a song on a mobile phone ad, not sure what it’s called but the line in it is “a little funky sun” and the first few times I heard it I thought it was saying “a little fucking Sun” and was quite shocked that they allowed that line to be used on an advert.

 

[Meh]

My dad used to think Madonna’s Isla Bonita had lyric “young girl with eyes like pooooootaaaaaatoes”

 

[CoffeeMamma]

I had a friend who thought it was "you might as well face it you're a dick with a glove" and was a stab at MJ... instead of Addicted to Love

 

[Chewycinema]

I always hear "don't be afraid to catch fish" instead of "don't be afraid to catch feels" in that Calvin Harris ft Katy Perry song
My boyfriend still doesn't let me live that one down

 

[265]

I'm grabbing popcorn, this is going to be fun.

One song springs to mind, not embarrassing, just funny.

Manfred Mann back in the 60's "hubble bubble toil and trouble" It sounds like hubble bubble toilet trouble.

I'll get my coat.

 

[LittleMy]

My mum used to think the lyric to Bohemian Rhapsody was, “spare him his life from these pork sausages!”

I also used to think Celine Dion sang “the hot dogs go on and on.”

 

[chamomilesugar]

Christina Aguilera ‘Dirty’. My sister used to sing the very beginning when he says ‘too dirty to clean my act up’ she used to say ‘too dirty to clean my bathtub’ I can’t ever unhear that

 

[Scorpihoe]

Not mine, but this girl on tik tok was singing “Rockwell - Somebody’s watching me” and she sang it “I’m on a speedboat, somebody’s watching me”

Instead of “I always feel like, somebody’s watching me” and whenever I listen to it I can’t stop hearing it how she said it

 

[Kim Mild]

Only fools and horses theme - I thought it was 'we've got some half price crap ties ' but it's cracked ice when I read the lyrics the YouTube comments are full of people saying how they had been getting the words wrong.

 

[Laur91]

Thong Song by Sisqo. There’s a part where he sings “I like it when the beat goes...” and I always thought he was saying “I like your little billy goat.” fs. I still sing it like that.

hahaha oh no I thought it was ‘I like it when your booty go’ so I had that one wrong too!!

 

[Hendrix]

My mum is the queen of misheard lyrics, she used to sing 'we found love in an open space' when it's actually 'we found love in a hopeless place'

 

[Itsallaboutmememe]

My son

queen ‘we will rock you’

he always sings it as

‘we will,we will rock you!
look at you all over your face,you big disgrace
wanging your willy all over the place!’

kills me everytime

 

[Floopadoop]

Always thought Elton John was singing "hold me close I'm trying to dance son" in tiny dancer up until about 5 years ago (I'm in my 30s..)

It's the name of the song ffs

 

[Newgirl17]

Bootylicious....

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

 

[Princesstinkerbell]

There's so many ive got wrong over the years, but the one that springs to mind is 'up on the roof' by Robson and jerome, I always thought was upbongaroo....I still sing it like that now, I just cant help it