Favorite Misheard Lyrics
By Poison_Girl
@Poison_Girl (4150)
United States
April 22, 2007 6:55pm CST
What are some of your favorite misheard lyrics? They could be ones you misheard yourself, ones a friend or relative misheard, ones you've read online or whatever. Any and all misheard lyrics are welcome. Please include the actual lyrics for comparison. And I'll start...
One of my favorite misheard lyrics are from the David Bowie song "Changes." The actual lyrics go something like:
Cha-cha-cha-changes! Time to face the change...
But my mom thought it was something like:
Cha-cha-cha-changes! Turn to face the spray...
ROTFL! So, now I can't help but sing it like that whenever I hear it. I've got more that I might share another time! What's yours?
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@urbandekay (18278)
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23 Apr 07
There was a song that sounded like,
Why d'you go and have to make me so constipated
think it was
Why d'you go and have to make life so complicated
and Boy George
I'm a man of sunken vision
tell me why I cannot see
which I think is
I'm a man of some conviction...
Police,
Walking back from your place
W*nking on the moon
Someone,
Your my darling angel
Closer than my teeth you are to me
no idea what this should be
all the best urban
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@Poison_Girl (4150)
• United States
24 Apr 07
ROTFL w@nking on the moon. I love it. Should be "walking on the moon" in case you didn't know. Or maybe someone else didn't love.
@urbandekay (18278)
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23 Apr 07
Oh and
I'm like a bird, don't know where my phone is
again don't know what this should be
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@evelynlyp (788)
• Japan
23 Apr 07
it should be " i don't know where my soul is, i don't know where my home is...."
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@muscare (3068)
• Australia
23 Apr 07
I can't be 100% sure of the artist,I think it may have been Alanis Morisette. She was singing the line 'the cross I bear' and my wife use to think she said 'the cross-eyed bear', and use to sing along, using that line.
@Poison_Girl (4150)
• United States
29 Apr 07
LOL "The cross-eyed bear". That reminds me of another song. The original line says, "Wiggle on your own or with teddy bear", but the captions on TV would say "Wiggle on your runaway teddy bear". Runaway teddy bear???
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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23 Apr 07
haha i have two
first one is an old REM clasic losing my religion
the line goes thats me in the corner, thats me in the spot light, losing my religion
but i heard, i pee in the corner, i pee in the spot light . Oh dear
Another one is Bohemian Rhapsody
Behelzibub has a devil for a sideboard
i jest not
blessed be
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@Poison_Girl (4150)
• United States
24 Apr 07
LOL! I pee in the corner.
You know, I swear there used to be a commercial or something that parodied "Losing My Religion". It went something like, "That's me in McDonald's. That's me at the counter eating my McMuffin." I don't think I could make that up myself, but who knows, maybe I did. Does anyone else possibly remember that??? No, it wasn't Weird Al.
@rhinoboy (2129)
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23 Apr 07
I'm almost ashamed to remember with detail, but it even made the newspapers here when Shania Twain released 'That don't impress me much'.
The line "I can't believe you kiss your car good night" was mistaken to be...
"I can't believe you kiss your c**k at night".
I cringe to be the one to post this!
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@Poison_Girl (4150)
• United States
23 Apr 07
Well, glad you got a good laugh out of it, anyway. If you ever happen to think of any, feel free to stop by again and contribute.
And jimbo, what's wrong with this discussion making this person's day??
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@Poison_Girl (4150)
• United States
24 Apr 07
Yeah, I guess that's one of the most popular ones. There's even a website... www.kissthisguy.com It's full of misheard lyrics.
@Poison_Girl (4150)
• United States
23 Apr 07
What's the song and what are the original lyrics and who sings it?
Another favorite of mine is the song "Monday, Monday" by the Mama's And Papa's.
Original lyrics:
Stopped into a church I passed along the way.
My sister thought they were saying:
Talking to a church I passed along the way...
ROTFL!
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@unithorn (193)
• United States
23 Apr 07
I'm reminded of a commercial from a few years ago. A guy and girl are in a car, waiting at a light. They're blasting Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me", but he sings "Pour some shook-up Ramen"...which got me laughing, since I have had a similar experience.
I was with my ex, driving around with AC/DC's "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" cranked up. We made it through the first verse and all of the chorus before I noticed the look in his eyes.
"Honey...what's 'noi pollusha'?"
And, somehow, I stayed with him for quite a while. Hmm.
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@thyst07 (2079)
• United States
23 Apr 07
My family's got a bunch of those. When I was little, I heard the song "Secret Agent Man" and I thought it was "Secret Agin' Man" You know the line that says "chances are you may not live to see tomorrow"? I thought it meant that he was getting old and he was going to die soon.
My little sister used to sing "I believe in Miracles," except she thought it went "I believe in Malcolm." And one of my cousins heard a song that had a line that went something like "get up funk in the air" or something else dumb like that, but she thought it said "stick a fork in your ear."
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@aprilgrl (4460)
• United States
23 Apr 07
Well I have so many of it since I am deaf in one ear and can't hear too good on the other ear so I would sometimes sing it out loud and my family would laugh and say that's not what it said and then they would sya but it's cute. I thought oh well,
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@anonymili (3138)
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23 Apr 07
Oooh ooh I've another one, someone years ago insisted that the starting lines to an Abba song (Souper Trouper) were:
"I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Tesco"
instead of the actual words which were:
"I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow"
I can imagine how they felt, I get rather sick and tired of things in supermarkets myself hehe!
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@anonymili (3138)
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23 Apr 07
I had a friend who used to get words to songs wrong quite often and the worst one she did was a Sister Sledge song, "We are family", there's a line that goes "We're giving love in a family dose" she used to instead sing "We're givin love in a femidom!" People used to roar with laughter and she was adamant that she was singing the right words - this was before the internet was commonly used and before you could look up words to pretty much any song to ensure you were singing the right words! I can't think of a worse one than that right now!
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@g_aileen09 (1354)
• Philippines
23 Apr 07
my sister used to tell me about this:
"Everytime you go away... you get a piece of meat with you"
funny :)
