Misheard Lyrics In Songs - Post Your Favourites

I will go down with this shit

And I won't put my hands up and surrender!

"I can hear your prayers , your burgers I will bear".........

Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the hotdogs go on

Bump.

"Keep it...common law, keep it....common law..." - KC and the Sunshine Band, not wanting to commit to marriage.

"I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, cho desire." No matter how many times I hear it, I can't figure out what "cho" is supposed to be.

When I was a kid, I thought "Ventura Highway" was "venture a highway."

4:12: "May it please the Lord of Sodomy"

Drake - Take Care:

"My only wish is I get diarrhea" around the 00:34 mark

I was pretty shocked when Stevie Wonder came out with Apartheid Lover.

I always thought Diana Ross had The Swedish Hangover.

Keep those mondegreens cumming!!

Eat me, I'm a Danish.

“Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night.”

R13 Who hasn't heard that?

From "Everybody, Everybody":

I thought "Sad and Free" was "Set us free"

bump

"bump" is not misheard. It's exactly what the band intended.

Beat it, beat, no one wants to beat or feed it

Cocks taste good ❤️

What a nice surprise when your rabbi dies

As a small kid I remember a song titled “Blinded By The Light”. This thread made me check the lyrics that I always heard as “Ripped off like a deuce, you know the roller in the night”. It turns out they are “Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night”.

This a DL fave.

"You think that I don't feel / The way I feel for you Isreal"

Diana Ross & the Supremes' "Love Child"

Billy Idol: "Eyes without a face"

Misheard: "Hows about a date"

“We skipped the light fandango.”

Misheard: “We spent the night in Bangor.”

It still sounds like Devo is singing "step on a brick" instead of "step on a crack" and "tattoo detective" instead of "try to detect it" to me.

Talk Talk “It’s My Life”. I messed this all up. I heard “Burning hands I found myself” instead of “Funny how I find myself” and “I ask myself, ‘how much do you do” instead of “I've asked myself How much do you commit”, and probably many more of these in the same song.

Hey Hey Hey Alex the Seal

R27 I also head “I’ll ask myself, am I still young” instead of “I’ve asked myself how much do you commit?”

^^thats meant to spell “I also heard”, not “head”

R27 I thought the guy in that song was singing "It's my life...and I'm a wreck" instead of "It's my life...it never ends."

In Sheena Easton's "So Far, So Good," instead of "All we need is a touch more time," I thought she was singing, "All we need is to touch my timeline."

Love child! Never meant to be!

Love child! Born in sodomy!

Sodomy! In the park. Think it was the 4th of July.

Britney Spears - I'm a Slave 4 U

I thought "leaving behind my name and age" was "leaving behind my lemonade"

"Work it hard like it's your brother Sean" was what I heard in Britney's "Work Bitch," not "work it hard like it's your profession."

Billie Jean is not my lover, she's just a girl who claims that I am the one. But the chair is not my son

My partner and I were in the car yesterday, and the song Controversy by Prince came on. He thought that the song was called Country Pussy.

Sugar pie honey butt

"Jaaa, jaaa...!!!"

Para bailar La Bamba.

Turn the beat Around, love to hear Percussion.

Americans made hash out of these lyrics. Spanish should be mandatory staring pre-school.

Gopher Tuna! Bring More Tuna!

"Carry a laser down the road that I must travel. Carry a laser through the darkness of the night."

So open the door, I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me

In Kylie's new song, Tension, I thought she was singing, "Cool and slop-ay, ay, ay" instead of "Cool like sorbet, et, et."

The first time a friend of mine heard "Got My Mind Set On You" he thought it was "Oh God, My Mom Sat On You"

In Bootylicious, I thought they were singing, "Move your body up and down. Make your booty testify."

In "Freedom," I thought George Michael was singing, "Went back home, got a brand new face for the poison MTV" instead of "the boys at MTV."

There's some piece of shit song on the radio right now where some dude sings a verse over and over and over again and he sounds like he has marbles in his mouth.

It sounds like he's saying "You can bet that nipple gonna gonna hit that." I'm sure that's not what he's saying, but I don't know what the fuck he's really saying.

I thought Sheena Easton was singing, "All day I think of him, women love him constantly" instead of "dreaming of him constantly" in "Morning Train."

Whenever I heard it, I would think, "Bitch, what are you doing waiting at the train station for some pig that women are loving constantly?"

Hold me closer, Tony Danza. Count the headlines on the highway.

"Eye Shocking Sherry" instead of, "I Shot the Sheriff" (Bob Marley)

"I love it when you call me Pink Powder Puff", for "I love it when you call me Big Poppa" (BIggie E). Always wondered why a big black man wanted to be called a pink powder puff.

In Barbra's "Woman in Love," I always thought she was singing, "It's a right and a sin, over and over again..."

They sing in Korean, but sound like English.............. Some pretty dirty.

Peter Kay uncovers his favorites.

Excuse me while I kiss this guy

Teena Marie, "Lover Girl."

I thought it was "My second verse may be a big old hat box" instead of "My second verse may be a bit old hat, but..."

I have, for 55 years or so, heard "but with a different beat since you been gone," and just heard someone sing it is a ballad. I now know that's "different meaning." Weird thing is, they both make sense (to me, at least).

Behind an M&M's butt,

M&M's butt

It's a put-on

R58 As a kid, I always heard "but with a different weenie since you've been gone."

In "Tears of a Clown," I thought Smokey Robinson was singing "Just like Diogenes, I try to keep myself carefree." It wasn't until years later I found out it was "Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid."

Sia: "Don't give up", sounds like " Donkey Love."

Live : "I alone tempt you" misheard: I'm a long tailed jew

Not a song but an ad. I don't know what she's actually saying so perhaps it's correct after all. Peleton: "got a lard ass"

Barbara Mandrell - Sleeping Single In A Double Bed

Double Anal In A Double Bed

R65 I wrote those original lyrics.

[quote] But the chair is not my son

I swear I heard the chair is not my style, r37. Michael Jackson, focusing on the important problem, like a DLer.

Oh Very Young - Cat Stevens

Correct: Oh very young, what will you leave us this time You're only dancin' on [bold]this earth[/bold] for a short while

What my brother and I heard: Oh very young, what will you leave us this time You're only dancin' on [bold]dessert[/bold] for a short while

My parents would laugh and tell us what the real words were, but we didn't believe them. Our version made sense!

[quote]But the chair is not my son

This is so controversial that Letterman did an investigation and cleared it up once and for all.

Janet Jackson's "All For You" - I see you staring out the corner of my eye. You seem uneasy, want to approach me, throw me a line."

I heard "Ha cha cha haaaa haa hmmmm eeye. Ha cha cha haaa haaa hmmmm line."

When I was a kid, I thought Helen Reddy was singing "'Cause the Geneva Convention's in my soul" instead of "'Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul" in "I Am Woman."

In that stupid song "Water" that makes me want to stab my eardrums, it sounds like she's singing "tear up my whole body," but it's actually "set off my whole body."

I'd rather she tear up her whole body.

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

Misheard lyrics: You spin me right round, baby, right round like a REFUGEE baby... (makes no sense, I know)

Correct lyrics: You spin me right round, baby, right round like a record, baby...

R73 That's funny! I always heard, "You spin me, rosh rum, baby, rosh rum, " which made even less sense.

It took me years to figure out the line in The Cars' "Shake It Up" was "Don't you worry 'bout two left feet."

I always heard "Don't you worry 'bout Tu La Fiet." I figured it was some French phrase.

Last night I dreamt of some bagels.

Correct: My Sharona

Heard: My scrotum

The lyrics of a Turkish song, misheard in German constitute the peak that will never be reached again. For the Germans, the song is "Keks, alter Keks, ...". The video where someone illustrated the misheard lyrics is true internet stuff of legend. (Just posting for the few people here who speak German.)

I just learned that the lyric in the Jets' song, "Crush On You," is "No more charade, my heart's been displayed."

I always thought it was, "Don't rush away, my heart's been displayed."

As a kid I'd hear David Bowie's "Fame" on the radio and always thought it was "Mame." I seriously thought it was a song from that movie starring Lucille Ball.

"The Bitch is Back" by Elton John I always heard the line "I don't like those, my god what's that" as "I dropped my drawers, my god what's that."

"Love Hurts" by Nazareth was always hear as "Laverne" - "Laaaa-verne"

Some of these are a real stretch.

R83 Like which ones?

Oh, ok R84, if it's not obvious to you....

Things like "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" and "Alice the Seal" are classic misheard lyrics where many people agree - it's a hilarious shared experience.

But then you have folks like R80 and R82 living in their own world where they probably never listened to these songs at all. Who ever thought Bowie was singing "Mame"? That "F" is well pronounced. "Laverne???" That "S" is very well pronounced. R77 claims to have heard "My Scrotum" instead of My Sharona. That is simply a teenage boy calling from the past with a silly bit of body humor, and nobody else would have heard Scrotum instead of Sharona.

R65 claims to have misheard "Double Anal in a Double Bed". No they didn't. That's probably the worst example here.

Do you get it now?

R85 Obviously you've never listened to AM radio in a car in the 70s.

Benny and the Jets:

She's got electric boobs, a mohair suit, you know a pack of hyenaaaaas for: She's got electric boots, a mohair suit You know I read it in a magazine, oh, yeah.

But upon reading the true lyrics for the whole song, I got at least 50% of it wrong.

"My muff's such a sweet thing" in Joan Jett's cover of "Crimson and Clover."

R85 I can't believe you thought the "Double Anal in a Double Bed" post was an actual misheard lyric and not a joke.

In "Oh, What a Night," I thought The Four Seasons were singing, "Half the time, there's this mirage in me." The actual lyrics are "Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me."

I always thought The Jets were singing "Don't rush away, my heart's been displayed" in "Crush on You," but it's actually "No more charade, my heart's been displayed."

"My Scrotum" is from a Cheech & Chong movie.

"F*ck the cashbox! F*ck the cashbox!"

r21 I always thought the lyric was "wrapped up like a douche"

Lady Gaga's Rain on Me has "I'd rather be dry, but at least I'm alive." When I first heard it, I thought it was "I'd rather be drunk, but at least I'm alive."

Similar to R56: "Buy this guy and sell this guy, and lift your arms up to this guy ...."

"I guess it rains down in Africa"

From "Flashdance":

"Take your pants off / And make it happen."

"Gpysies, tramps, and thieves! We'd hear it from the people of a town named Cola ..."

R95 I thought it was, "I'd rather be trouble, at least I'm alive."

I've posted this before, but I once had a roommate who though the lyrics to "We Are Family" were "N**ger life is fun and we've just begun..."

He sang those words in the car once when the song came on and I told him what the real lyrics were. He said, "I always thought it was kind of a racist thing for a black family to sing."

Uh, kinda.

"Honest, I See You!"

I always thought Melissa Etheridge was signing "I wanna come over. To hell with the concert friends" instead of "To hell with the consequence."

In Madonna's "Music", I just learned the correct lyrics are: "Music, mix the bourgeoisie and the rebel". I always thought it was makes and not mix.

Huckabee jeepers!

Gloria Estefan - Here We Are - around 2.40 mark "yabba dabba doo"😄

On the Rio, oh-woah-oh-oh-oh