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Subject: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Mergal on 12/27/04 at 9:02 pm

I'm Down On Bended Knee----Boyz 2 Men  "I'm going to swell up my brain. Say I'm sorry. Jump on you're fingers." I knew I wasn't hearing them properly, but that's what the lyrics sounded like!

Every Time You Go Away----Paul You  "Every time you go away, you take a piece of cheese with you."  I actually thought those were the lyrics, but I was only nine.

Take On Me-----A-Ha  "Baby lone. Baby lonely. Baby lone. Baby lonely....." I didn't take the time to actually listen to the lyrics.

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Paul on 12/28/04 at 9:07 am

Years ago, there was a very lovely song called 'Send In The Clowns' (written by Steven Sondheim, I think...) - and somewhere in the lyric is this line...'don't you love farce...'

Which, if you're not paying attention, could quite easily become...'don't you love arse...'...!!

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Mona on 12/29/04 at 11:52 am

Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"

The line that says you're with "the wife of a close friend"
my ex always sang you're with "the wife of the postman" 

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: gord on 12/29/04 at 12:18 pm

a well known one is from Jimi Hendrix- Purple Haze "excuse me while I kiss the sky"
                                                                                    or
                                                                      "excuse me while I kiss this guy"             

which one is correct ;D

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: sputnikcorp on 12/29/04 at 11:47 pm

the cheap trick song "dream police" the line 'the dream police come to me in my bed', i hear 'the dream police come to pee in my bed'....

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: LyricBoy on 03/25/05 at 6:22 am

Well there was The Night Chicago Died by one hit wonder "Paper Lace".

"And he kissed my mother's face, and threw mustard at her face."

I don;t know what the REAL lyrics are but they cannot be what I thought I heard.  ;D

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Jennifer028 on 03/25/05 at 10:04 am

On FRIENDS Phoebe makes a comment about Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" being the most romantic song.  She says "you know the one..hold me close now Tony Danza"  Well I thought he said that too!!  I never really thought about it but when I was a kid I always thought thats what he was singing and then she said it on Friends and I was thinking "I thought that too!"

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: CatwomanofV on 03/25/05 at 10:54 am

What?? No one mentioned "There's a bathroom on the right" ?  :o





Cat

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: goodsin on 03/25/05 at 11:10 am

"I sometimes see your pants outside my door" instead of "I sometimes see you pass outside my door", from Lionel Ritchie's "Hello".

When I was into metal as an early teen, we used to try to decipher the lyrics of Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Tank, Savatage, Celtic Frost etc. Then when we later got copies of the actual lyrics, we found out that in many cases, we were completely wrong, with some hilarious results...

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: goodsin on 03/25/05 at 11:14 am

"Easygroove" instead of "eezer good", from "Ebeneezer Goode" by The Shamen. It should be said, though, that this song was deliberately meant to be misheard, the chorus went:
"eezer good, eezer good, he's Ebeneezer Goode"- the song was released around the time that the Ecstasy culture was at it's peak in the UK.

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: darktower on 05/24/05 at 3:17 pm

My two most embarrassing ones were:
ELO, "Blinded by the Light", where the real lyric is "revved up like a deuce" and I always heard "wrapped up like a douche", and Asia, "Africa", where "Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti", and I spend many fruitless hours wondering what the hell "a limpus" was.

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: MidKnightDarkness on 05/24/05 at 5:50 pm

Del Amitri- 'Roll to me'



Correct Lyrics  ~And I don't think I have ever seen a soul so in despair

What the 7 year old Beth used to sing~ And I don't think I have ever seen the soap scum in the sink.


Well...obviously I was wrong....but that's what I always heard.



~Beth :)

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Dumb Ass Kid on 05/24/05 at 5:58 pm


"Easygroove" instead of "eezer good", from "Ebeneezer Goode" by The Shamen. It should be said, though, that this song was deliberately meant to be misheard, the chorus went:
"eezer good, eezer good, he's Ebeneezer Goode"- the song was released around the time that the Ecstasy culture was at it's peak in the UK.


Don't remind me.... number one on one of my birthdays, it was  :(

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Mr Tumnus on 11/13/05 at 2:10 pm


Bump!!

For 40 days and 40 nights I was on the cider  ;D ;D

MICHAEL JACKSON - Billie Jean

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Ripp on 11/13/05 at 2:50 pm

"But the chair is not my son" Michael Jackson, Billie Jean ;D
And also, which it can't be from "Stuck in the middle":
"Kitchens to the right"
Now that one confuses me.

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: gord on 11/13/05 at 5:36 pm

here's a new I just heard last week, at work the ac/dc song 'rock n roll ain't noise pollution' comes on and the young guy working with me was singing 'rock n roll ain't made for losers'  ;D

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Tam on 11/29/05 at 4:15 pm

When it first came out I was in grade school and I thought that
Bryan Adams' Cut's Like a Knife was"

"C*ck sucker night, but it feels so right" ;D :D

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Howard on 11/29/05 at 4:19 pm

I thought Bryan Adams's song "Summer of 69" was all about a sex position.

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Climber on 11/30/05 at 11:36 am


"But the chair is not my son" Michael Jackson, Billie Jean ;D
And also, which it can't be from "Stuck in the middle":
"Kitchens to the right"
Now that one confuses me.


"Jokers to the right, here I am" :)



My two most embarrassing ones were:
ELO, "Blinded by the Light", where the real lyric is "revved up like a deuce" and I always heard "wrapped up like a douche",


I totally thought the same thing about that song! :-[ :D

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: CatwomanofV on 11/30/05 at 12:57 pm

I used to work with this woman who told me when she first heard the Eagle's Take it to Limit, she heard the line, "Put me on a highway" as "p*ssy on a highway".  Now, I can't hear that song without thinking of that and laughing.




Cat

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: loki 13 on 11/30/05 at 3:54 pm

I've posted this on another thread but it's
appropiate here.In Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner"
I still hear "BIg Ole Jam at The Lighthouse"

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Mr Tumnus on 12/06/05 at 12:50 pm

'Cos somebody said somebody's shoes were under my tree!!'

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: whistledog on 12/06/05 at 1:00 pm

Hole Hearted - Extreme

There's a hole in my car that can only be filled by goo  ;D

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: gemini on 12/06/05 at 2:18 pm

My daughters version of Bad Moon Rising
There's a Baboon On The Right

And of Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got)

Ain't No Woman Like A One Eyed Goat  ;D

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: darktower on 12/07/05 at 1:44 pm


My daughters version of Bad Moon Rising
There's a Baboon On The Right

And of Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got)

Ain't No Woman Like A One Eyed Goat

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: nally on 08/06/17 at 1:15 am

from "Go All The Way" by the Raspberries:
Please go away
instead of
Please go all the way

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: CatwomanofV on 08/06/17 at 4:53 pm

When my best friend's son was very young (about 5 or so), he loved Ricky Martin's Cup of Life.

The lyrics are: Go, go, go! Ale, ale, ale!

His version: Go, go, go! Away, away, away!


Man, that little boy is now in college. Boy do I feel old.



Cat

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: HazelBlue99 on 08/21/17 at 5:15 am

"Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO. I always heard the lyrics as "don't bring me down, bruce", but it's actually "don't bring me down, gruess".

Another song I use to mishear the lyrics to is "Cheap Wine" by Cold Chisel. The song goes, "cheap wine and a three day growth", but I used to mishear it as "cheap wine and a three legged goat". :P

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: aja675 on 08/21/17 at 5:24 am

Jeremy, Jeremy through the night
'Cause you're my flashlight

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: nally on 08/21/17 at 12:21 pm


"Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO. I always heard the lyrics as "don't bring me down, bruce", but it's actually "don't bring me down, gruess".


It's supposedly "gross!" with a long drawn out sound, hence the mishearing as the name "Bruce."

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: c_keenan2001@hotmail.com on 08/31/17 at 9:51 pm

Well this is my house no one lives there anymore instead of Won't give you my heart no one lives there anymore.  ;D

100 billion castaways looking for a whore instead of 100 billion castaways looking for a home.

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: aja675 on 09/01/17 at 11:31 am


"Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO. I always heard the lyrics as "don't bring me down, bruce", but it's actually "don't bring me down, gruess".

Another song I use to mishear the lyrics to is "Cheap Wine" by Cold Chisel. The song goes, "cheap wine and a three day growth", but I used to mishear it as "cheap wine and a three legged goat". :P
From a joke book in my country: "Do you wanna eat a poet...with rice."

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: c_keenan2001@hotmail.com on 09/04/17 at 12:08 am

A place that you remember then it's stopping again instead of A face that you remember then it comes back again!

Edit: It's actually Of things that you remember.

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: nally on 09/04/17 at 12:11 am



100 billion castaways looking for a whore instead of 100 billion castaways looking for a home.



I know this one is from "Message in a Bottle" by the Police.

In the second verse the first line is often misheard as "...broke my nose" instead of "...wrote my note."

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: c_keenan2001@hotmail.com on 09/04/17 at 3:00 pm


I know this one is from "Message in a Bottle" by the Police.

In the second verse the first line is often misheard as "...broke my nose" instead of "...wrote my note."


Yeah how can somebody "break their nose" when they're the only person on a deserted island?

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: nally on 09/04/17 at 10:20 pm


Yeah how can somebody "break their nose" when they're the only person on a deserted island?

Accidentally running into something, or falling down?

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: c_keenan2001@hotmail.com on 09/04/17 at 11:16 pm


Accidentally running into something, or falling down?


That seems like a reasonable explanation.  LOL!

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: nally on 09/04/17 at 11:19 pm

Lady Gaga: "Bedroom ants" instead of "Bad Romance".

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/05/17 at 1:07 am

Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac

"I want to be with you and Hughie"

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: HazelBlue99 on 09/05/17 at 4:45 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SthzSQD28hY

Lyric: "I need an easy friend"

Misheard Lyric: "I need a lizard friend". :P

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: nally on 09/05/17 at 6:19 pm


Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac

"I want to be with you and Hughie"

or: "I want to be with you on a freeway" (which has already been submitted to Amiright)

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/07/17 at 8:29 am

The Gambler by Kenny Rogers

"So I handed him my bottle And he drank down my last swallow
Then he bummed a cigarette And asked me for a light
And the night got deathly quiet And his face lost all expression
He said, "If you're gonna play the gameboy
You gotta learn to play it right"

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: c_keenan2001@hotmail.com on 10/07/17 at 2:24 pm

How about this one

Stay in the light
keep your target in sight
Don't listen to
who's on the run

instead of

Stay in the light
keep your target in sight
Don't listen to
fools on the run.  ;D ;D ;D

Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/26/17 at 12:41 pm

Just listen to this!

Peter Kay - Misheard Song Lyrics

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Subject: Re: Funniest misheard lyrics

Written By: nally on 10/26/17 at 6:23 pm


The Gambler by Kenny Rogers

"So I handed him my bottle And he drank down my last swallow
Then he bummed a cigarette And asked me for a light
And the night got deathly quiet And his face lost all expression
He said, "If you're gonna play the gameboy
You gotta learn to play it right"


Interesting, considering the Gameboy was introduced roughly a decade AFTER this song came out! :D

Could the mishearing have inspired Nintendo to create said game console? ;)

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