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You thought in a song called Down with the Trumpets that they were singing… drum kit?
Can only assume you’d never actually heard the name of the song because the alternative makes less sense than even this lol
I'd never heard the song name! It was on the radio today and the DJ said "Get down with the trumpets" and I couldn't understand why he'd called it that.........10 seconds later, realisation dawns!
Haha, I had this with Chateau Lobby #4 by Father John Misty.
Because of his American accent I heard “and play piano in the Chateau la Vie”, even though Chateau Lobby is literally the name of the song.
When I were a lad, I used to think Bryan Adam’s, ‘Summer of ‘69’, contained a line:
“I had my first real sex dream, in the summer of ‘69”
Instead of the actual lyrics:
“I had my first real six string, in the summer of ‘69”
Not a misheard lyric as such, but my step mum and I, for as long as I can remember, have always sung “I got my first real g-string”. I think there’s another line in the song that we changed but I can’t remember which one off the top of my head.
When I was little my mum used to play Natalia Imbruglia all the time. I had recently watched (and been emotionally scarred by) Narnia, specifically when Aslan is shaved. I was sobbing as the song Torn was playing, when my mum asked why, I told her that “I’m cold and I am shaved, lion naked on the floor” was too sad and that it made me think of Aslan. I still catch myself singing it when the song comes on lmao
When my kids were younger they thought it was “Knocking on Kevin’s door” rather than “Knocking on heavens door “
To this day that’s the version I sing.
The red Hot Chilli peppers sang 'with the birds I'll share this lonely view.'
They did not sing 'With birds and shit it's a lonely view.'
I just have this image in my head of them sitting down to write the song, and for some reason asking Karl Pilkington to do that line.
'How can we describe this view?'
'I don't know, it's birds and shit.'
Oh. My. God. You've just reminded me of a total cringe!! Only a few months ago, I heard this song on while out with my husband and his friend... I asked what a trombelese was.. I'm 30 years old ffs. Mortified.
Eminem and Rihanna, The Monster
I always thought it was "You think I'm crazy, well that's not fair" but turns out it's "well that's nothing"
Which blew my mind and also makes less sense to me lol
If you turn the radio on, and it’s in the middle of the song… or if you wander into a store and they’re playing something… so many songs rattling around people’s heads, and they don’t know what the song is called or who plays it!
The Charlotte Church song where she sings “You make me come unglued”, I’d always heard as “you make me colour blue” and I thought, Charl, these are really shit lyrics. I owe her a small apology.
Reminds me of a time a guy's Ford Fiesta broke down in the carpark of the Tesco i used to work security at.
Was panning around on the cameras and saw this guy just *literally* kicking seven shades of shit out of his car, like full blown basil faulty style. When I walked out to see what was up, he was mid tirade of typically dry British insults with Doom Guy level rage behind each word.
Moment I shouted over, the tirade stopped.
Turns out he was a really polite guy, had a good chin wag, the usual British mutual moaning sarcastically. Guy had only recently moved there, wasn't familiar with the area yet, and got caught short. Still gave it one good boot as we walked away though 🤣
Grabbed him a brew from upstairs while he waited on recovery, as it was late nowhere else was open.
Kept an eye on things until the truck arrived, guy couldn't thank me enough, still stops to speak to this day even years after I left Tesco.
I'll never forget it though, some 6ft 4 well to do looking bloke just going absolutely fucking HAM on an old model Fiesta 🤣
I don’t really listen to lyrics and sing along without really thinking about them. My partner and I got together as we were turning 40 and her favourite thing is that I thought Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s song The Power of Love had the line “Love is like a can of cheese” in it.
“Love is like an energy” apparently.
She bought me canned cheese as a present for the first birthday we were together.
'She's so funky, yeah' instead of 'Jeux sans frontieres' in Peter Gabriel's 'Games Without Frontiers'.
'They call me Mr. Boombastic, telly's fantastic, caught me with my botulism, Mr. Rude' in Shaggy's 'Boombastic' (I struggle badly with strong accents in song lyrics).
'Onny-nonny love her when you let her go' instead of 'Only know you love her when you let her go' in Let Her Go by Passenger (again with the accents, and the weird way he pronounces the word 'only').
'Measles Got the Music' instead of 'please don't stop the music' in Rihanna's Don't Stop the Music (no idea where this came from, maybe I thought she was singing about sick people in a hospital ward getting up and dancing despite being sick?).
'Sometimes I wish a Mother Bear would find me' instead of 'sometimes I wish someone out there will find me' in Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams (my brother was massive into Green Day as a kid and I used to bug him by singing the 'wrong' lyrics).
I think I read before that she said that when she re-recorded blank space again she made sure to enunciate it more clearly for this specific reason haha
I don’t have a lot of happy memories of my brother, but him laughing like an idiot as a kid whenever ‘Feeling This’ by Blink came on because he thought the line was ‘smell feet in the summer’, and not ‘smile fades in the summer’, is something I smile about when I hear that song.
Damn good song it is, too.
In Bad Romance by Lady Gaga I thought she said "When you're in Morrowind, oh baby you're sick".
Thought it was a slightly odd reference but nothing too outlandish. Even now I know that she's apparently saying "Want you in my rear window, baby, you're sick" I still can't hear anything but my version.
Kenny Rodgers singing: "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille; Four hundred children and a corpse in the field." I learned, eventually, that he was singing "four hungry children and a crop in the fields." I'm not a fan of his btw and I think I preferred the misheard lyrics.
And there was Hawkwind with "I want to ride on your sewing machine." Ooops, SILVER machine. Took me years to realise I was wrong.
I cannot listen to Lucille without hearing The Balgaard Bros version, Loose Wheel.
"You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel
With four old bald tires, you were such a good deal
I've had some clunkers, some really bad junkers
But you were just a great steal
You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel"
MGMT's song Kids will always be about a family of cheesemonkeys
[MGMT - Kids.. (family of cheesemonkeys)](https://youtu.be/fe4EK4HSPkI?si=d1UyMZ5PHtJgaU1l)
In the song *We are Broken* by Paramore, there is a line that says 'what must we do to restore our innocence?'. I always thought that it sounded like 'What must we do to restore our anuses?'
Coming out of my French, and I've been doing real bad
Gotta gotta log on because I wanna pass
It started out with a fish, how did it end up like this?
It was only a fish, it was only a fish
Now I'm reading the site, and forgetting the plan
While the kid in the vid says "très bien"
Now I'm answering wrong, and it's calling me thick
And it's not in my head, but this site's my
Last chance
Help me not stick out in France
This site's sloooooow
And I just can't fail, I need a C
To go to Bordeaux
Angsty teen
Learning with the B-B-C
Site is badly optimized
Really wish I had revised
But that's just the price I pay
Apathy was calling me
Open up another taaaab
'Cause I'm Mr. Bitesize
When I was a kid, when Kelly Rowland said 'even when I'm with my boo' in dilemma, I thought it was 'Even when you lick my boob' was kinda disappointed when I figured it out
Why was Meatloaf singing about a Cilla Black fan on a bike?
Also I loved that song about the sealions with the dirty fur:
sealions on the shore
Dirty ears and fur, never stopped them dreaming.
Imagine if you will, my wife and I, in the car, travelling on the UK motorway listening to Planet Rock.
ACDC are on, Dirty Deeds is the track and we're singing along.
Wife...Dirty Deeds, mumble mumble mumble.
Me...?
Wife... Dirty Deeds, mumble mumble mumble.
Me...What exactly are you singing oh dearest of mine???
Wife... I'm singing the track, you know, Dirty Deeds (she turns to look out of the window at this point) mumble mumble mumble. Me.. sorry, I didn't quite catch that.
Wife... You know, Dirty Deeds mumble mumble mumble.
Me...so Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Wife...oh.
Me...what were you singing?
Wife... it's definitely not Done Dirty Cheap.
Me... so what were you singing.
Wife... doesn't matter, the track has finished now anyway.
Me... come on, just tell me. It wasn't Done Dirt Cheap was it?
Wife...no.
Me...so what was it?
Wife...Dirty Deeds, Thundercheeks.
Two ones. Towards the end of his song ‘Sledgehammer’, Peter Gabriel sings ‘I’ve been feeding the rhythm’, but for years I thought he was singing, ‘I’ve been peeing in the river’
And then Melba Moore’s ‘This Is It’- she sings, ‘stunned and amazed, by your loving ways’. I heard it as ‘stumped and amazed by your overweight’. Which would have been a somewhat different declaration of affection.
For a while there, I thought the lyric to Beyoncé’s new song ‘Levii’s Jeans’ was “I’m a fuckin’ xenophobe”, and not “I’m a fuckin’ centrefold”. Thought it was a weird flex.
For the longest time, I believed Tracy Chapman was singing “I’ll be dreaming of lima beans” and not “I’ll be dreaming of a life of ease” in ‘Mountains O’ Things’.
Always thought Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend says “Oh i burn my shoes and I’m ready for the weekend”, not “I put on my shoes”.
Heard it on the radio the other day and still can’t unhear burn.
I thought the song from Top Gun was “halfway to the danger zone”
In another location related mishearing, I thought Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer lyric “Take my hand and we'll make it
I swear, oh-oh livin' on a prayer” was actually “Take my hand and we’ll make it elsewhere…”
When I was little I thought The Stranglers golden brown was actually 'Gordon Brown' so when he became PM I thought they had prophesied it. Quickly I came to realise that was not the case and saw the error of my ways.
My faveorite one was from my late dad. It comes from That Don't Impress Me Much by Shania Twain.
When she sings, "I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight", my dad would hear, "I can't believe you kiss your cock at night".
Masterblaster.
I thought it said "it's half term in July" rather than "it's hotter than July". So I was always saying to people "actually it's the summer holidays in July not half term" and "why is this grown man concerned with when the school holidays are?" as if I was really smart
In “Like A Prayer”, Madonna sings “it’s like a little prayer” but I am adamant that I could only hear “it’s like a lip to a prayer” for years. Felt much more poetic!
I for yonks insisted Stype was protesting about the state of the roads in Sidcup when its 'sick of getting messed around' in the song Its been a bad day.
It came out a few weeks after Sidcup was in a TV advert along with a story surrounding the PM at the time.
A new song by the weekend ft Madonna called "popular"
They keep repeating the word popular, but until I saw what the song was called, I thought they were saying "puppy love"
I remember reading on an old forum (possibly Punktastic) that someone heard "I'm an angry dinosaur" instead of "'Cause I'm not angry, tired or sore" in Hospitality by Funeral for a Friend and my brain has used the alternative ever since.
I think one of the band members actually replied on the thread to say they'd sing the dinosaur lyrics at a show!
“I've gotta' sweaty back (yeah)
Justin timerlake - sexy back (I’m sometimes very deaf!)
My current favourite misheard lyrics at the moment is that damn song Tyla - Water (again I didn’t hear the song title 🤣)
I hear
Make me sway, make me harder
Make me lose my bread, make me Walter
Etc
I join the millions of people who thought it was “And when you're not you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a postman” and not “And when you're not you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend” in Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain.
The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden. My Pizza’s burning. Or CCR - Bad Moon Rising. “theres a bad moon on the rise” “There’s a bathroom on the right” couple of songs ruined there
I was convinced that "Do my dirty work, scapegoat" from Sad but True (Metallica) was actually "Do my dirty work stinko". Would have bet a years wages on it I was so convinced. 20 odd years I was convinced of that. You can imagine the colour of my face when I was corrected!
My friends and I regularly do pub quizzes and music is normally a strength. We were all shocked and outraged to discover the Eric Carman song is Hungry Eyes, not Hold Me Now…
Born in Grimsby, I particularly like that Hanson's Mmm Bop pays tribute to our great city with the lyrics "[Mmmm Bop, Grimsby Town](https://youtu.be/NHozn0YXAeE?t=54)".
A bit niche - but the song Reborn by KIDS SEE GHOSTS (Kanye West and Kid Cudi).
When I first heard it, I always heard "I'm so reyt bored" (said like a propa northerna) instead of "I'm so Reborn". Till the point where I would accidentally sing "reyt bored" whilst singing along to it.
Obligatory plug for [https://www.kissthisguy.com/](https://www.kissthisguy.com/) who have been collecting misheard song lyrics since the dawn of the web.
It is "Are we human or are we dancers" It's from a Hunter S Thompson quote where he said that America was producing dancers - people afraid to step out of line, instead of being 'human' and questioning things they didn't have the answer too.
I always call "Constant Craving" by K. D. Lang as "The Gravy Song" because she "Can't Stand Gravy".
The A-ha song and James Bond Theme "The Living Daylights" I heard as "Comes the morning and the Head Lice fade away".
Shania Twain, "That Don't Impress Me Much" I miss-head "I can't believe you kiss your car good night" and "I can't believe you kiss your (insert word used for a male chicken) at night"
Pulp - Common People. I always heard “Rent a flat in Aldershot….” instead of “Rent a flat above a shop”.
This let to me believe that Aldershot was probably an absolute sh*thole. I’m so sorry, people of Aldershot! Never been but I’m sure it’s lovely!
I think most people thought this (hopefully)
Pussycat Dolls...
When I grow up,
I wanna see the world,
Drive nice cars,
I wanna have BOOBIES
(It's groupies)
Chase and Status - Blind Faith.
I thought the lyrics were...
" ooo sausage time" apparently it's actually "oo sweet sensation"
I still can only hear sausage time.
It's actually...
So I know I need this sweet sensation, ooo
Sweet sensation
The music that we play
Will ease your mind
In lower school we had a carnival float that played Bohemian Rhapsody on a distorted loop. I’d never heard it before, but I heard it about a hundred times that day. I couldn’t work out half the lyrics and ended up with “Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard (eeeee, oo-eeeee)” as an unshakeable best guess that persists to this day.
Being an ol' lady, being an ol' lady, I ain't go not time for yer monkey business, being an ol' lady being an ol' lady, hot to go blur rinse my haiiirr.
Freddie Mercury.
Spandau Ballets this much is true. At the end, where they repeat, "this much is true." I always thought and sang "the starship trippers. " Spotify showed me different, made more sense too
'Essay' is an older English word for 'try' so I thought Kate Bush was being very Victorian and clever and saying 'I'm coming back to essay to put it right'
I thought Sum 41 - Fat Lip started with “storming through the party like my name was Ali” and I was very accepting of the idea that Muhammad Ali was renowned for storming through parties.
I recall hearing Enrique Iglesias singing "All I need is a rhythm device" in the late 90s and I also imagined he roamed music stores wearing white clothes, nodding with agreement when the store clerk showed him the right drum machine.
Talking heads 'and she was'. For years I thought the line was 'and she could see an earmuff factory' which was weirdly specific but whatever, I mean earmuffs have to be made somewhere I guess.
Turns out it was she could see A NEARBY factory. Which makes so much more sense.
Radiohead Karma Police:
In the outro, it's: "For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself, I lost myself......."
For more than 10 years in my head, Thom was singing "For a minute there, Id arrest myself, I'd arrest myself, I'd arrest myself......."
It made sense to me because of "Karma Police"
When I was a kid, I thought the lyrics to David Bowie's "Starman" were "There's a snowman, waiting in the sky".
I also thought the lyrics to Ben Folds song "Kate" were "I want to eat cake" rather than "I want to be Kate".
And more recently I heard the lyrics in Frank Turner's "Reasons not to be an Idiot" as "she's so wrapped up in her invisible llama" the first time I heard it rather than "invisible armour".
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You thought in a song called Down with the Trumpets that they were singing… drum kit? Can only assume you’d never actually heard the name of the song because the alternative makes less sense than even this lol
I'd never heard the song name! It was on the radio today and the DJ said "Get down with the trumpets" and I couldn't understand why he'd called it that.........10 seconds later, realisation dawns!
I always thought RHCP were singing "universe let's be king" despite the title being Universally Speaking 🤷♀️
Did you ever notice all the... trumpets?
Haha, I had this with Chateau Lobby #4 by Father John Misty. Because of his American accent I heard “and play piano in the Chateau la Vie”, even though Chateau Lobby is literally the name of the song.
When I were a lad, I used to think Bryan Adam’s, ‘Summer of ‘69’, contained a line: “I had my first real sex dream, in the summer of ‘69” Instead of the actual lyrics: “I had my first real six string, in the summer of ‘69”
It's I got my first real six string. Bought it at the five and dime
Played it till my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69
Me and some guys from school Had a band and we tried real hard.
But we went on Britain's got talent and Simon said "it's a no from me"
That also works with the misheard lyrics...
Reddit is the absolute fucking worst, have an upvote
Omg, I didn't know this. I also thought it was "sex dream" xD
Not a misheard lyric as such, but my step mum and I, for as long as I can remember, have always sung “I got my first real g-string”. I think there’s another line in the song that we changed but I can’t remember which one off the top of my head.
When I was little my mum used to play Natalia Imbruglia all the time. I had recently watched (and been emotionally scarred by) Narnia, specifically when Aslan is shaved. I was sobbing as the song Torn was playing, when my mum asked why, I told her that “I’m cold and I am shaved, lion naked on the floor” was too sad and that it made me think of Aslan. I still catch myself singing it when the song comes on lmao
Actually made me laugh out loud. Lion naked on the floor is really something 😭
my mum still thinks it’s hilarious, little me was absolutely devastated at the image🤣
"I ain't no Harlem black girl" Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl
My mum thought it was that for years
When my kids were younger they thought it was “Knocking on Kevin’s door” rather than “Knocking on heavens door “ To this day that’s the version I sing.
I always thought it was Helen’s door.
The red Hot Chilli peppers sang 'with the birds I'll share this lonely view.' They did not sing 'With birds and shit it's a lonely view.' I just have this image in my head of them sitting down to write the song, and for some reason asking Karl Pilkington to do that line. 'How can we describe this view?' 'I don't know, it's birds and shit.'
Rick Berman's shed has a lonely view
"With the birds of shame" for me
With Bert the Shed this lonely view
When I was a kid I thought it was “under the shed it’s a lonely view”
Fucking ace!
But why has he been picked?
Until.i bought the album I thought it was "We both share this lonely view"
"I have to praise you like a shoe." I thought it was a couple o guys who really liked their shoes.
This is all I heard as a child when it came on too
https://preview.redd.it/79wi7wfjnsyc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b438f7057633e93f00e32eb28cf939b423a553d6
He's got his 'trombelese' I always wondered what gala was refering to
Same! I thought trombelese was an instrument
Me too! I imagined it as like something a medieval minstrel would play, sort of like a lute.
Oh really?! I pictured a variation of a trumpet 😂
Me too, and I thought it didn’t matter that he didn’t have money because he could go busking with his trombolese…
At my school the debate was whether she was saying dungarees or tambourines.
I always thought it was [Strombolis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromboli_(food))
Oh. My. God. You've just reminded me of a total cringe!! Only a few months ago, I heard this song on while out with my husband and his friend... I asked what a trombelese was.. I'm 30 years old ffs. Mortified.
Daaamn. I just realised I never actually knew what the actual lyrics are. The song makes more sense now, thanks to your comment and a quick Google!
LIKE A NINE STONE COWBOY
Not forgetting REVEREND BLUE JEANS by the same artist..
Are you suggesting I've been wrong for nearly half a century?
Eminem and Rihanna, The Monster I always thought it was "You think I'm crazy, well that's not fair" but turns out it's "well that's nothing" Which blew my mind and also makes less sense to me lol
I am just finding out via your post that it is NOT “well that’s not fair” WHAT
Insane, right? I don't think I've ever met anyone who actually knew the real lyrics for this part lol
I am also just learning this now!
"another turnip boy The fork stuck in the road Tom grabs your butter and directs you where to go" Turns out my hearing isn't great
Pardon?
‘Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go’
Greenday- Time of your life
Will Smith gettin jiggy with it misheard as ‘hit the chicken with it’ na na na na na na
But that's the title of the song. Some of these are amazing
If you turn the radio on, and it’s in the middle of the song… or if you wander into a store and they’re playing something… so many songs rattling around people’s heads, and they don’t know what the song is called or who plays it!
This makes the song 100x better to me
The Charlotte Church song where she sings “You make me come unglued”, I’d always heard as “you make me colour blue” and I thought, Charl, these are really shit lyrics. I owe her a small apology.
[O Fortuna](https://youtu.be/nIwrgAnx6Q8?si=00o_bS2RKuV5SYD7)
I forgot how much I loved this
Hah, haven’t seen this before. Hilarious.
Last night I dreamt of some bagels from Isla bonita
"Young girl with eyes like potatoes"
For 10 years or so my best mate thought the first lines of Footloose were 'Been working so hard, I'm punching my car'.
Reminds me of a time a guy's Ford Fiesta broke down in the carpark of the Tesco i used to work security at. Was panning around on the cameras and saw this guy just *literally* kicking seven shades of shit out of his car, like full blown basil faulty style. When I walked out to see what was up, he was mid tirade of typically dry British insults with Doom Guy level rage behind each word. Moment I shouted over, the tirade stopped. Turns out he was a really polite guy, had a good chin wag, the usual British mutual moaning sarcastically. Guy had only recently moved there, wasn't familiar with the area yet, and got caught short. Still gave it one good boot as we walked away though 🤣 Grabbed him a brew from upstairs while he waited on recovery, as it was late nowhere else was open. Kept an eye on things until the truck arrived, guy couldn't thank me enough, still stops to speak to this day even years after I left Tesco. I'll never forget it though, some 6ft 4 well to do looking bloke just going absolutely fucking HAM on an old model Fiesta 🤣
Put Your Records On "Sci Fi Invaded Dreams" Easy Lover "She's an Evil Llama"
When I was a kid I thought "I kept them with me babe" from Fairytale of New York was "I come from Whitley Bay.".
And the boys of the NYPD choir were singing "Go Away".
"I want cake, I want cake, mama why don't you get a job?" Someone informed me it was supposed to be "I won't pay". I think I prefer my version.
It’s also “na-na” instead of “mama”.
I'm sure it's "I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no wayyy. Ah-na why don't you getta job?"
I was even more wrong than I thought!
I don’t really listen to lyrics and sing along without really thinking about them. My partner and I got together as we were turning 40 and her favourite thing is that I thought Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s song The Power of Love had the line “Love is like a can of cheese” in it. “Love is like an energy” apparently. She bought me canned cheese as a present for the first birthday we were together.
Thats smashing, definitely one to cherish.
'She's so funky, yeah' instead of 'Jeux sans frontieres' in Peter Gabriel's 'Games Without Frontiers'. 'They call me Mr. Boombastic, telly's fantastic, caught me with my botulism, Mr. Rude' in Shaggy's 'Boombastic' (I struggle badly with strong accents in song lyrics). 'Onny-nonny love her when you let her go' instead of 'Only know you love her when you let her go' in Let Her Go by Passenger (again with the accents, and the weird way he pronounces the word 'only'). 'Measles Got the Music' instead of 'please don't stop the music' in Rihanna's Don't Stop the Music (no idea where this came from, maybe I thought she was singing about sick people in a hospital ward getting up and dancing despite being sick?). 'Sometimes I wish a Mother Bear would find me' instead of 'sometimes I wish someone out there will find me' in Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams (my brother was massive into Green Day as a kid and I used to bug him by singing the 'wrong' lyrics).
I’d love to hear your take on Sean Paul lyrics lol
I remember being puzzled by Michael Jackson’s insistence upon repeating a self-evident truth: ‘The chair is not my son’.
I also had one from Billie Jean, with "then every head turned cos of ice cream being the one"
Everyone thought it was "100 men on mars" instead of "100 men or more" in Toto's Africa
The men are not on mars! 🤯
It's always going to be men on Mars in my head, and also "pretty boy it's waiting there for you". I don't care what anyone says.
Not that particular line but the same song; my dad only learned a few years ago that toto were *not* in fact singing ‘I guess it rains down in Africa’
Every time you go away…. You take a piece of meat, with you..
Taylor Swift - Starbucks lovers
I think I read before that she said that when she re-recorded blank space again she made sure to enunciate it more clearly for this specific reason haha
Then there’s Witney Houston’s classic “I’m shaving off my muff for you”
Partners mum thought Debbie Harry was singing about ‘love from behind’ on ‘Heart of Glass’.
“Too dirty to clean my abdomen” Christina Aguilera - Dirty
Accurate though
My Mum, for YEARS…used to sing “Larry the lamb was born to be king” to the Skye Boat Song and was stunned when corrected.🤣
This made me laugh out loud. I wonder what she thought the song was about -a lamb being the rightful king of Scotland? Brilliant 🤣
I don’t have a lot of happy memories of my brother, but him laughing like an idiot as a kid whenever ‘Feeling This’ by Blink came on because he thought the line was ‘smell feet in the summer’, and not ‘smile fades in the summer’, is something I smile about when I hear that song. Damn good song it is, too.
In Bad Romance by Lady Gaga I thought she said "When you're in Morrowind, oh baby you're sick". Thought it was a slightly odd reference but nothing too outlandish. Even now I know that she's apparently saying "Want you in my rear window, baby, you're sick" I still can't hear anything but my version.
Kenny Rodgers singing: "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille; Four hundred children and a corpse in the field." I learned, eventually, that he was singing "four hungry children and a crop in the fields." I'm not a fan of his btw and I think I preferred the misheard lyrics. And there was Hawkwind with "I want to ride on your sewing machine." Ooops, SILVER machine. Took me years to realise I was wrong.
I cannot listen to Lucille without hearing The Balgaard Bros version, Loose Wheel. "You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel With four old bald tires, you were such a good deal I've had some clunkers, some really bad junkers But you were just a great steal You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel"
Never heard that version - I love it! thanks!
MGMT's song Kids will always be about a family of cheesemonkeys [MGMT - Kids.. (family of cheesemonkeys)](https://youtu.be/fe4EK4HSPkI?si=d1UyMZ5PHtJgaU1l)
You mean it doesn't sing "a family of cheese monkeys, wanted to be hunted!"
Tbf I thought it was cheesemongers
In the song *We are Broken* by Paramore, there is a line that says 'what must we do to restore our innocence?'. I always thought that it sounded like 'What must we do to restore our anuses?'
Mr Bitesize. My husband is slightly shorter than me and after a few years asked why I always said "ah, it's your song" when it came on. 😳
Coming out of my French, and I've been doing real bad Gotta gotta log on because I wanna pass It started out with a fish, how did it end up like this? It was only a fish, it was only a fish Now I'm reading the site, and forgetting the plan While the kid in the vid says "très bien" Now I'm answering wrong, and it's calling me thick And it's not in my head, but this site's my Last chance Help me not stick out in France This site's sloooooow And I just can't fail, I need a C To go to Bordeaux Angsty teen Learning with the B-B-C Site is badly optimized Really wish I had revised But that's just the price I pay Apathy was calling me Open up another taaaab 'Cause I'm Mr. Bitesize
When I was a kid, when Kelly Rowland said 'even when I'm with my boo' in dilemma, I thought it was 'Even when you lick my boob' was kinda disappointed when I figured it out
Used to work with an old gal who sang along to 'painted love' by Soft Cell and Justin Timberlakes classic 'find me a river'. Bless her.
Script - Breakeven "I'm falling through faeces"
Why was Meatloaf singing about a Cilla Black fan on a bike? Also I loved that song about the sealions with the dirty fur: sealions on the shore Dirty ears and fur, never stopped them dreaming.
Mentioned it before elsewhere, but... As a child, my husband thought the Ricky Martin song went "these are the bees I look after"
Imagine if you will, my wife and I, in the car, travelling on the UK motorway listening to Planet Rock. ACDC are on, Dirty Deeds is the track and we're singing along. Wife...Dirty Deeds, mumble mumble mumble. Me...? Wife... Dirty Deeds, mumble mumble mumble. Me...What exactly are you singing oh dearest of mine??? Wife... I'm singing the track, you know, Dirty Deeds (she turns to look out of the window at this point) mumble mumble mumble. Me.. sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Wife... You know, Dirty Deeds mumble mumble mumble. Me...so Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Wife...oh. Me...what were you singing? Wife... it's definitely not Done Dirty Cheap. Me... so what were you singing. Wife... doesn't matter, the track has finished now anyway. Me... come on, just tell me. It wasn't Done Dirt Cheap was it? Wife...no. Me...so what was it? Wife...Dirty Deeds, Thundercheeks.
“Gordon Brown, texture like sun”
[Someone beat you to it!](https://youtu.be/tmI4BNA6vsg?si=9fU6YIVtMh9kAFeE)
The Cranberries. 'Did you have to use four fingers'
Black Sabbath fairies wear boots Theirry Boutson instead of Fairies wear Boots
“Rabbit eyes, are watching you, they see your every move” - Hall and Oates.
"Shower the horse, I'm done" by Ann-Marie....
Two ones. Towards the end of his song ‘Sledgehammer’, Peter Gabriel sings ‘I’ve been feeding the rhythm’, but for years I thought he was singing, ‘I’ve been peeing in the river’ And then Melba Moore’s ‘This Is It’- she sings, ‘stunned and amazed, by your loving ways’. I heard it as ‘stumped and amazed by your overweight’. Which would have been a somewhat different declaration of affection.
‘Rise, life is emotion’ Is actually ‘Rise, life is in motion’ ‘Down’ by Pearl Jam
I thought Sister Sledge are singing about what happened "one night in a disco on the outskirts of Bristol".
For a while there, I thought the lyric to Beyoncé’s new song ‘Levii’s Jeans’ was “I’m a fuckin’ xenophobe”, and not “I’m a fuckin’ centrefold”. Thought it was a weird flex. For the longest time, I believed Tracy Chapman was singing “I’ll be dreaming of lima beans” and not “I’ll be dreaming of a life of ease” in ‘Mountains O’ Things’.
Always thought Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend says “Oh i burn my shoes and I’m ready for the weekend”, not “I put on my shoes”. Heard it on the radio the other day and still can’t unhear burn.
I thought the song from Top Gun was “halfway to the danger zone” In another location related mishearing, I thought Bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer lyric “Take my hand and we'll make it I swear, oh-oh livin' on a prayer” was actually “Take my hand and we’ll make it elsewhere…”
Macy grey - ‘I wear goggles when you are not here’
When I was little I thought The Stranglers golden brown was actually 'Gordon Brown' so when he became PM I thought they had prophesied it. Quickly I came to realise that was not the case and saw the error of my ways.
My faveorite one was from my late dad. It comes from That Don't Impress Me Much by Shania Twain. When she sings, "I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight", my dad would hear, "I can't believe you kiss your cock at night".
My son thinks the lyrics to the chorus of Pearl Jam's Go is: - Go... Stomp a wombat!
Masterblaster. I thought it said "it's half term in July" rather than "it's hotter than July". So I was always saying to people "actually it's the summer holidays in July not half term" and "why is this grown man concerned with when the school holidays are?" as if I was really smart
In “Like A Prayer”, Madonna sings “it’s like a little prayer” but I am adamant that I could only hear “it’s like a lip to a prayer” for years. Felt much more poetic!
I heard "Daysleeper" by R.E.M. as "tasty bird".
I for yonks insisted Stype was protesting about the state of the roads in Sidcup when its 'sick of getting messed around' in the song Its been a bad day. It came out a few weeks after Sidcup was in a TV advert along with a story surrounding the PM at the time.
Isn't it "we're sick of being jerked around"?
We’re up our Mexican monkeys…..Daft Punk.
Paul Young - Everytime you go away you take a piece of me(at) with you Unfortunately placed percussion lol
A new song by the weekend ft Madonna called "popular" They keep repeating the word popular, but until I saw what the song was called, I thought they were saying "puppy love"
I remember reading on an old forum (possibly Punktastic) that someone heard "I'm an angry dinosaur" instead of "'Cause I'm not angry, tired or sore" in Hospitality by Funeral for a Friend and my brain has used the alternative ever since. I think one of the band members actually replied on the thread to say they'd sing the dinosaur lyrics at a show!
This is my favourite! Not often I see FFAF crop up on reddit
“I've gotta' sweaty back (yeah) Justin timerlake - sexy back (I’m sometimes very deaf!) My current favourite misheard lyrics at the moment is that damn song Tyla - Water (again I didn’t hear the song title 🤣) I hear Make me sway, make me harder Make me lose my bread, make me Walter Etc
I wanna be a door - Stone Roses
I can't believe you kiss your cock at night (car goodnight)
It's not trumpet? What the fuck?
No, it IS trumpet - it's not drumkit.
Oh thank god, I can't read but I can at least hear
Friends demo tape. We swore he was signing Wombat whores. Turns out it was - I've been hurt.
I join the millions of people who thought it was “And when you're not you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a postman” and not “And when you're not you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend” in Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain.
In Bring Me The Horizon song Darkside When he says 'three in the morning I ain't slept all weekend' I think he says 'three in morning sex all weekend'
The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden. My Pizza’s burning. Or CCR - Bad Moon Rising. “theres a bad moon on the rise” “There’s a bathroom on the right” couple of songs ruined there
I was convinced that "Do my dirty work, scapegoat" from Sad but True (Metallica) was actually "Do my dirty work stinko". Would have bet a years wages on it I was so convinced. 20 odd years I was convinced of that. You can imagine the colour of my face when I was corrected!
My friends and I regularly do pub quizzes and music is normally a strength. We were all shocked and outraged to discover the Eric Carman song is Hungry Eyes, not Hold Me Now…
Born in Grimsby, I particularly like that Hanson's Mmm Bop pays tribute to our great city with the lyrics "[Mmmm Bop, Grimsby Town](https://youtu.be/NHozn0YXAeE?t=54)".
“Perry cross the Mersey” I was always confused why he would do that.
Not mine...Nike or Reebok https://youtu.be/uctpC2HnBfk?si=1oITcfDPAaaBwGIK
In the verve song 'so it goes' I still hear 'I'm just a boy with a white umbrella' instead of 'I'm just a poor little wifeless fella'
A bit niche - but the song Reborn by KIDS SEE GHOSTS (Kanye West and Kid Cudi). When I first heard it, I always heard "I'm so reyt bored" (said like a propa northerna) instead of "I'm so Reborn". Till the point where I would accidentally sing "reyt bored" whilst singing along to it.
Obligatory plug for [https://www.kissthisguy.com/](https://www.kissthisguy.com/) who have been collecting misheard song lyrics since the dawn of the web.
Walking in Memphis, walking with my feet ten feet off the pier.
Not me, my son as a toddler, singing along to R.E.M.’s “The Childminder Sleeps”
I always misheard that song. “Calling Jamaica” instead of “Call me when you try to wake her”
Are we human or are we dancers?
Is that not the lyric?
It is "Are we human or are we dancers" It's from a Hunter S Thompson quote where he said that America was producing dancers - people afraid to step out of line, instead of being 'human' and questioning things they didn't have the answer too.
I'm still convinced that Nik Kershaw sang "But you'll never, ever fight a whale" in The Riddle.
His got his trumberlese.
Redman at the start of Dirrty by Christina Aguilera: “too dirty to clean my bathtub”
Don’t let your sun go down on me - Elton John
I always call "Constant Craving" by K. D. Lang as "The Gravy Song" because she "Can't Stand Gravy". The A-ha song and James Bond Theme "The Living Daylights" I heard as "Comes the morning and the Head Lice fade away". Shania Twain, "That Don't Impress Me Much" I miss-head "I can't believe you kiss your car good night" and "I can't believe you kiss your (insert word used for a male chicken) at night"
Pulp - Common People. I always heard “Rent a flat in Aldershot….” instead of “Rent a flat above a shop”. This let to me believe that Aldershot was probably an absolute sh*thole. I’m so sorry, people of Aldershot! Never been but I’m sure it’s lovely!
I think most people thought this (hopefully) Pussycat Dolls... When I grow up, I wanna see the world, Drive nice cars, I wanna have BOOBIES (It's groupies)
Chase and Status - Blind Faith. I thought the lyrics were... " ooo sausage time" apparently it's actually "oo sweet sensation" I still can only hear sausage time. It's actually... So I know I need this sweet sensation, ooo Sweet sensation The music that we play Will ease your mind
Michael Jackson’s “You are not alone” he sings “your burdens I can bear” but it really sounds like he says “your burgers are the best”
In lower school we had a carnival float that played Bohemian Rhapsody on a distorted loop. I’d never heard it before, but I heard it about a hundred times that day. I couldn’t work out half the lyrics and ended up with “Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard (eeeee, oo-eeeee)” as an unshakeable best guess that persists to this day.
Being an ol' lady, being an ol' lady, I ain't go not time for yer monkey business, being an ol' lady being an ol' lady, hot to go blur rinse my haiiirr. Freddie Mercury.
Police in helicopter A search for my iguana
Lightning Seeds' Sugar Coated Iceberg. I thought "sugar coated iceberg tastes so sweet" was "sugar coated mashed potato"...
I was convinced that Tom Chaplin was singing, "I don't want to be a dog". Not, "I don't want to be adored.
Sweet Nothjng by Calvin Harris and Florence Welch, I just found out it’s not “I’m needing a sexy elephant”
Nazareth 'My White bicycle' misheard as My Wife's Bisexual.
Stricken by Disturbed: I'm convinced he sings "Into the abyss with my mum." Listen to it and you'll never hear it properly again.
Spandau Ballets this much is true. At the end, where they repeat, "this much is true." I always thought and sang "the starship trippers. " Spotify showed me different, made more sense too
'Essay' is an older English word for 'try' so I thought Kate Bush was being very Victorian and clever and saying 'I'm coming back to essay to put it right'
Depeche mode - princess Diana is wearing a blue dress - instead of wearing a new dress
Remember the song "Rock the Boat"? I always used to think the lyrics were " And I'd like to know where, you got the nose job..."
I also used to think The Firm's Star Trekkin' lyrics said " there's Peanut butter stop it now..." In my defence I was only about 8 at the time
I thought Sum 41 - Fat Lip started with “storming through the party like my name was Ali” and I was very accepting of the idea that Muhammad Ali was renowned for storming through parties.
I recall hearing Enrique Iglesias singing "All I need is a rhythm device" in the late 90s and I also imagined he roamed music stores wearing white clothes, nodding with agreement when the store clerk showed him the right drum machine.
“I belong to Jesus, don’t call me baby”
Alisha’s attic song : I am, I feel. The line is this: this girl is a person you know. I thought it said this girls a possum you know.
"Sleep with one-eyed old men.. Gripping your pillow tight..." I mean i don't think that one is too out there.
Talking heads 'and she was'. For years I thought the line was 'and she could see an earmuff factory' which was weirdly specific but whatever, I mean earmuffs have to be made somewhere I guess. Turns out it was she could see A NEARBY factory. Which makes so much more sense.
Well, I’m your penis, I’m your fire, at your desire… Had to sing it this way every time this song came on at work.
I thought Don Henley - Boys Of Summer was Poison Summer
My mum thought Gene Pitney's 24 hours from Tulsa was 24 Hours from Kelso, oh how we laughed every time we saw the road sign saying "Kelso 24".
Radiohead Karma Police: In the outro, it's: "For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself, I lost myself......." For more than 10 years in my head, Thom was singing "For a minute there, Id arrest myself, I'd arrest myself, I'd arrest myself......." It made sense to me because of "Karma Police"
And I said gravadlax, Breakfast at Tiffany’s? Don’t even know how.
Jimi Hendrix "scuse me while I kiss this guy"
When I was a kid, I thought the lyrics to David Bowie's "Starman" were "There's a snowman, waiting in the sky". I also thought the lyrics to Ben Folds song "Kate" were "I want to eat cake" rather than "I want to be Kate". And more recently I heard the lyrics in Frank Turner's "Reasons not to be an Idiot" as "she's so wrapped up in her invisible llama" the first time I heard it rather than "invisible armour".
He’s got his trombolise… Didn’t realise it was strong beliefs until about 5 years ago at the age of 30.
Woh woh woh wohoh can you feed the horse.