Misheard lyrics!

[kisstheviolets]

i always mishear the part of kanye west's "gold digger" that jamie foxx sings even though i know what the actual words are.

actual lyrics:
she gives me money, when i'm in need

what my pervy brain hears:
she gives me money, but on her knees

who wouldn't mind paying the atm surcharge for that kind of service?![/i]

[justin]

For some time I misheard the lyrics to Boys and Girls by Good Charlotte

Actual lyrics: Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money

What I heard: Girls don't like boys, girls like girls in my head

[kindagay]

Well, this is actually a lyric which my niece misheard, see we were listening to a CD in the car, & Something Beautiful by Robbie Williams came on. My niece was singing along, it got to the chorus, & instead of the actual lyrics of:

If you're lost, hurt, tired or lonely

my niece was singing:

if you're lost, fur, tied in the laundry



Hugs
Jeanne

[Emms]

Jea, that is tooo funny!

xoxo
Emms

[kindagay]

I thought so too I think she'd make a great song writer

Hugs
Jeanne

[Candleshoe]

Can anyone help? I don't quite have time to find the real lyrics, but does anyone else hear:

R E S P E C T - Take out the T C P (Sock it to me, sock it to me etc)

In the UK ,TCP is a type of disinfectant, and I can't quite see the link!

[Auburn]

Candleshoe, I think it's;

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care TCB

I think, don't quote me. It's either that or Aretha Franklin is a very passionate germ-o-phobe!

ETA: TCP, tut!

[Krazy Dreamer]

Ok, everytime I hear the song, "Right Beside You" by Sophie B Hawkins, I swear it sounds like she's saying,

It’s not a matter of style just lesbian taste

Actual lyrics:

It’s not a matter of style just a lesson in taste

[Darth Pacula]

This isn't me, but rather my pillock of a big brother. The song 'Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo' by the Bloodhound Gang has a line which goes thusly:

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

but for the longest time, my brother kept saying:

Foxtrot Unicorn Charlie Kilo

I of course, as any good sibling would do, mocked him relentlessly when I found out, and now he goes bonkers whenever he still catches himself doing it.

[Artemis]

There's a song on the Tank Girl soundtrack called (I think) 'Mockingbird Girl', which repeats "I won't be here" a few times before the chorus at one stage. I know that's what it says, but it's done on three beats, with 'be here' kind of smooshed together, and every time I listen to it, my brain tries to convince me that the line is actually "I want beer".

[luv4willtara]

Hahah when I was a little younger, and totally into Alanis Morissette, I always mixed up a lyric in the song, You Oughta Know!

Actual Lyrics: It's not fair, to deny me, of the cross I bare that you gave to me

What I hear: It's not fair, to deny me, of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me!

I never understood why someone would give another person a cross-eyed bear!!!

[YMKA]

Well the order day I heard this song on Radio ....and it was by Lee Ann Womack...I've heard that song before BUT I never knew who it was.... well the actually lyrics are

I hope you dance

Ya think how can you mess that one out right? well...... sometimes I hear it as

I hope you're there which makes no sense whatsover...

but sometimes I hear it as I hope you're dead ...a nice song to sing when you have patients around

[FemaleOfTheSpecies]

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

WRONG LYRIC: If there's a busload in your headshow, don't be a lawman

RIGHT LYRIC: If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now

[urnofosiris]

It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Meat Loaf & Marion Raven (or the one with Celine) I keep mishearing this particular lyric no matter who sings it. I always knew I could not be hearing it right, but even after googling the right text I still keep hearing it like this:

Wrong Lyrics: There were nights of endless pleasure, it was more than any lousy love.

Correct Lyrics: There were nights of endless pleasure, it was more than any laws allow.

[gorn]

This could alternately be posted in the "What Do You Do When You Can't Sleep" thread -- I look through old threads on the Kittenboard!

Anyway, here's a case of a misheard lyric which - in my opinion - came out better than the original. I was playing in a band in Sapporo; as you might expect, the Japanese don't always get their English lyrics quite correct. Sometimes it's a pronunciation thing, sometimes they just don't know and make it up. Our singer did a great version of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say?" ... but she kept missing this one line -->

Original:
See that girl with the red dress on?
She can do the Birdland all night long.

Asako's Version:
See that girl with the red dress on?
She can burn Atlanta all night long.

When I finally got around to telling her that's not how it went, she couldn't believe it. She figured since Ray Charles was always singing about Georgia she thought that line must've been about Vivien Leigh.

Kinda cool, huh?

[Leaf]

Aw...I love this thread. I'm so pleased that gorn couldn't sleep and dug it up for us again.

So.. how about David Bowie, Life on Mars

misheard:
See there, fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man! Look at those gay men go.
It's the freakiest show.

actual:
Sailors fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.

And like a vast number of other children I also remember misunderstanding the hymn "Gladly the Cross I'd Bear" to be "Gladly the Cross-eyed Bear."

[Emms]

This song by Elton John, Tiny Dancer-- Every single time I hear it this way and think WTF?!

Misheard Lyric: Hold me close now Tony Danza

Actual lyric: Hold me closer tiny dancer

[mangled_monkey]

Hahah when I was a little younger, and totally into Alanis Morissette, I always mixed up a lyric in the song, You Oughta Know!

Actual Lyrics: It's not fair, to deny me, of the cross I bare that you gave to me

What I hear: It's not fair, to deny me, of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me!

I never understood why someone would give another person a cross-eyed bear!!!

I did that too!! My sister was a big fan of her's and I used to sit on her bed and listen to the music she listened to. I kept asking her what a cross-eyed bear was, and at one point even asked if I could have one. It didn't make any more sense when she corrected me, either.

My misheard lyric: When I was small, my favorite song in the whole wide world was "Everything I Do (I Do For You)" by Brian Adams.

Correct lyrics:
There's no love like your love and no other could give more love
There's no where, unless you're there all the time all the way, yeah.

What my strange 7 year old brain came up with:
There's no love like your love and no other naked mother
There's no hair unless you're there all the rhyme all the day, yay.

Though this might explain my later preoccupation with naked women, I dunno.

[Sapphire eyes]

My friend Louisa always thought that in Shania Twain's song " That don't impress me much" when she actually sings "I can't believe you'd kiss your car goodnight...Louisa thought that that she was saying "I can't believe you'd kis your c*ck at night!"
lol! ewwww!

[umgaynow]

Elton John's "Hold Me Closer, Tiny Dancer.

Actual

"Lay me down in sheets of linen."

What I heard:

"Baby darlin, she's so blendin'"

Well, really, some of his pronunciation is really out there. Try listening to "Good-bye Yellow Brick Road." What that man does to "...huntin' the horny-backed toad..." should not be considered part of the English language.

"Hun'n the hoorrnaah b'ck TAAAAOOODDD..."

And don't get me started on "vodker'n tonics..." Hearing loss, my ass!

Same song...my sis thought the lyric was...

She has electric douche, her ma has two...

[tarawhipped]

Watching a documentary on marijuana just made me remember a misheard lyric that I didn't realize was wrong for years. From Arlo Guthrie's "Comin' into Los Angeles," the actual line is "bringing in a couple of keys."

Until I was well into my 20s, I thought it was a couple of geese, and I didn't understand why the singer was trying to smuggle them, and how he thought that Mr. Customs Man wouldn't know, since surely he'd be able to hear them making honking noises and such. Ahh, to be young and naive.

-Cameron

[da101uk]

There is one that I read on another misheard lyrics site that really cracked me up

Song is ABBA's "Lay All You Love On Me"
Actual lyric: I wasn't jealous before we met
Misheard as: I was a chair lift before we met


Another that comes to mind now is one I heard just recently was again an ABBA song (noticing a pattern here but Xita understands --> )
Song is "Chiquitita"
Actual lyric: Chiquitita you and I know
Misheard as: Chicken Tika you and I know

Ok going back to my cloak of boringness now....

"If God is a DJ, life is a dancefloor - Pink - Try This, 2003"

here's anothr ABBA one:

actual: take a chance on me
misheard: jackie chan's still free

[Claidia]

Bring Me To LIfe - Evanescence.

Actual lyrics: Wake me up.

Misheard: Rape me now.

O_o.


And another ABBA one (Super Trouper for me)

Actual lyrics:

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow.

Misheard:

I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Tescoes.

And, from Fallout Boy's Sugar We're Going Down Swinging:

Actual:
Down, down in an earlier round
And sugar, we're going down swinging

Misheard:

Down, down like an Indian round
And sugar, we're going down swimming.

[Foomatic]

Whenever I hear Fergie's "Glamorous," there's a lyric that goes:

After the show or after the Grammies
I like to go cool out with the family
Sippin', reminiscing on days when I had a Mustang

For some odd reason, my brain sings:

After the show or after the Grammies
I like to go cool out with the family
Sippin', reminiscing on days when I had a moustache

[kisstheviolets]

this reminds me, i just heard this song by kt tunstall ("little favours") and i actually said "wtf?" out loud when i thought i heard the following:

This little universe between our thighs
Is so beautiful, and colorful, I eat on that.

my jaw hit the floor!!


but the real lyrics are:

This little universe between our backs
Is so beautiful, and colorful, I lean on that.

mine are so much better.

[AB]

In the Pussycat Doll's "When I grow up" I heard:
When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have boobies.

It actually says:
When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies.

Also in Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" It sounds like:
Puh-puh-puh-poker face, fuh- fuh- f*** her face

Actually it's:
Puh-puh-puh-poker face, puh-puh- poker face

[mmmh-Hot-Sauce]

In the Pussycat Doll's "When I grow up" I heard:
When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have boobies.

Haha thats how I sing the song...mostly because I don't have any boobs and wish I would grow some. But seeing as how I'm at the tender age of 19 I doubt that's gonna happen. lol.

[umgaynow]

Dear God by XTC

Actual lyric:Still believing that junk is true

What I heard: Still believe in that chunky stew

[WillowandTara]

So i screw up lyrics all the time. half the words of Viva la Vida I completely butcher or just mumble, i remember some of them but they are just too out there. But on Michael buble's Everything theres a few lines I said wrong for a while until i looked them up

Actual lyric: You're the line in the sand when I go too far.
What I heard: Your the line we stand, when i go to far

Actual:And you're the perfect thing to say.
What I Hard: Your the perfect thing to see

Actual:And you play it coy, but it's kinda cute.
What I heard: And you play the cards, but its kinda cute

[jay/wt4evr]

The one song that shocked me most: My heart will go on.
Not the 'I know that the hot dog go on' {geepers I couldn't make out the words if it weren't for the title}, but on the second verse
Heard : Love can touch us once at least for a lifetime
And never let go til we're one

Actual : Love can touch us once at least for a lifetime
And never let go til we're gone

Now I understand why I thought it made no sense