Misheard Lyrics

edoliesmom · June 2014

I want to hear all about songs that you've that said one thing only to discover (sometimes years later!) that it actually says something else.

Go!

edoliesmom · June 2014

Yesterday I posted about how I thought that new song "Classic" by MKTO said "I wanna do you like Michael" when it actually says THRILL, not do.

Also, back in the day of Limp Bizkit, I thought in the song "Behind Blue Eyes" good ol' Freddy sang "My thoughts they aren't as empty as my car just seems to be" instead of "as my
conscience seems to be."

I'm sure there are more, but that's all I got for now. :P

smushi · June 2014

I don't even know what the song is, but when I was a kid, I thought that Jock Jamz song went "Get your booty on the butter knife!" instead of "Get your booty on the floor tonight!"

Yeah. My big sisters had a fun time trying to explain that one to their friends.

ETA Another funny one from my childhood (I refuse to miss sing lyrics these days): The Elvis song "Return to Sender" I thought was "Return Jesenda" - I had a friend in 2nd grade named Jesenda.

edoliesmom · June 2014

Hahaha that's hilarious! It makes for a better story when someone who knows the actual lyrics catches you.

sherks11 · June 2014

Jerrod Niemann's song when it says "I can drink to that all night" I always hear "I can drink the fat all night" which reminds me of the Friends episode!!

nstecklein · June 2014

Elementary days. I do, cherish you. Heard as I do, cherry shoe.

edoliesmom · June 2014

@smushi Poor Jesenda!! lol

RedDawnsRevenge · June 2014

The Korean song, oppa gangnam style, I still hear "open condom star". The fist time I heard it on the radio I thought: this is the worst thing ever! There's no way that's the lyrics!

ashcole28 · June 2014

Tim McGraw It's your love. Instead of "spell I'm under" I thought it was "spell of munder" once I asked my friend what munder was she burst out laughing and filled me in on the real way it went lol same friend different song, fancy by Reba instead of momma died and I ain't been back I thought it said momma died in her apron black.

katy4128 · June 2014

DH used to sing, "go, go jason water falls" when he was little.

michaelad3 · June 2014

For a while I thought The Band Perry song said "bury me inside" instead of "bury me in satin", and when I first heard Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball I though she said rainbow

ashcole28 · June 2014

michaelad3 said:
For a while I thought The Band Perry song said "bury me inside" instead of "bury me in satin", and when I first heard Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball I though she said rainbow

My brother in law thought she said rainbow too!

LizChad09 · June 2014

ahoefling said:

Jerrod Niemann's song when it says "I can drink to that all night" I always hear "I can drink the fat all night" which reminds me of the Friends episode!!

Me too!!!

babym6705 · June 2014

the part of Family Guy's theme song that says "...all the things that make us laugh and cry." I used to sing it as "all the things that make us effing cry." DH had to replay it multiple times before he convinced me of the right lyrics, lol.

padma55 · June 2014

My SO was singing George Michael's song I Want Your Sex, and said, "what's your definition of a dirty baby". I thought it was awesome until I realized he was serious. I said, " Honey, I don't think George is talking about dirty babies. I think punctuation matters in this case." He didn't believe me that it says, "what's your definition of dirty, baby?" So now I sing his version to him when I want him to change LO's diaper.

edoliesmom · June 2014

@babym6705 You mean to tell me it DOESN'T say "effing cry"? $:\$ "> Oops!

@Katy0525 When he was little?! How old was he when the song came out?

@padma55 That's great. haha

bootsiebabe · June 2014

Row row row your boat gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily life is BUTTER dream.

Delicious!

BeckyF82 · June 2014

For ages when I heard the song Valerie by Amy Winehouse, I didn't know it was called Valerie and instead would hear, "why don't you come on over, thatta way?"...

snmetz7 · June 2014

That song blinded by the light, It sounds like he is saying "wrapped up like a douche" when he is really saying "revved up like a deuce"....I'm still not convinced.

SoulTermination · June 2014

A friend of mine in middle school (who, admittedly, had never heard of Marilyn Manson and was mostly ignoring the song) asked us why he was singing about food. Cue WTF looks from the rest of us hanging out. "He's singing about a beautiful meatball, why??"

That was a good laugh. "It's beautiful people, not meatball!"

katy4128 · June 2014

SLSchuerg said:
@babym6705 You mean to tell me it DOESN'T say "effing cry"? $:\$ "> Oops!

@Katy0525 When he was little?! How old was he when the song came out?

@padma55 That's great. haha

I think the song came out in hmm 1995 so thaf would put him at about 6 yr!

MamaFantastic · June 2014

And I swam.... by the moon and the stars and the sun

There are so many more, but I can't think of them at the moment. I'm notorious for butchering lyrics!

edoliesmom · June 2014

@MamaFantastic Isn't it by the moon and the stars in the sky? lol

MamaFantastic · June 2014

Hahahaha MAYBE!! See?????

MamaFantastic · June 2014

It's confirmed: I'm an idiot

edoliesmom · June 2014

MamaFantastic said:

It's confirmed: I'm an idiot

Hahaha oh no!! It happens to the best of us.

edoliesmom · June 2014

Katy0525 said:

SLSchuerg said:
@babym6705 You mean to tell me it DOESN'T say "effing cry"? $:\$ "> Oops!

@Katy0525 When he was little?! How old was he when the song came out?

@padma55 That's great. haha
I think the song came out in hmm 1995 so thaf would put him at about 6 yr!

I just looked it up; it's actually '94. I didn't realize how old that song is!

Lbee413 · June 2014

Elton John
"Hold me close now TONY DANZA"

No, that's not it?? Lol

Lindss1209 · June 2014

These are old ones from when I was 4-5 maybe. "Little miss can't be wrong" by spin doctors was little miss cannon ball. And "once bitten, twice shy" was once baby went shopping.

Bluebird2318 · June 2014

When an old friend of mine and I were in middle school we had an extended debate about what exactly Jay Z was spendin'. She claimed he was "big pimpin', spendin' G's," but I was convinced he was actually "big pimpin', spendin' cheese." My logic: since "cheddar" is slang for "money," "spendin' cheese" = "spendin' cheddar" = "spendin' money." Makes sense, right? Oops.

Mamamonzo · June 2014

snmetz7 said:
That song blinded by the light, It sounds like he is saying "wrapped up like a douche" when he is really saying "revved up like a deuce"....I'm still not convinced.

This!!!

edoliesmom · June 2014

Mamamonzo said:

snmetz7 said:
That song blinded by the light, It sounds like he is saying "wrapped up like a douche" when he is really saying "revved up like a deuce"....I'm still not convinced.
This!!!

Basically anyone who hears "deuce" needs to go get their hearing checked. He clearly says douche.

Also taking it way back, my mom used to sing me a lullaby. Maybe some of y'all know it. I think it's called Playmate maybe? And towards the end it says "slide down my rain barrel, into my cellar door," but I thought she was singing, "Slide down my rainbow into my cellar door," which I thought was totally normal because of Carebears.

ashcole28 · June 2014

SLSchuerg said:

Mamamonzo said:

snmetz7 said:
That song blinded by the light, It sounds like he is saying "wrapped up like a douche" when he is really saying "revved up like a deuce"....I'm still not convinced.
This!!!
Basically anyone who hears "deuce" needs to go get their hearing checked. He clearly says douche.

Also taking it way back, my mom used to sing me a lullaby. Maybe some of y'all know it. I think it's called Playmate maybe? And towards the end it says "slide down my rain barrel, into my cellar door," but I thought she was singing, "Slide down my rainbow into my cellar door," which I thought was totally normal because of Carebears.

It doesn't say rainbow?!?

AcaAwkward · June 2014

The Eagles "Take It Easy"... When they sing "there's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford," I thought it was "there's a girl, my lord, in a black Maidenform." I always wondered why she was just driving around in her bra.

snmetz7 · June 2014

ashcole28 said:

That song blinded by the light, It sounds like he is saying "wrapped up like a douche" when he is really saying "revved up like a deuce"....I'm still not convinced.
This!!!
Basically anyone who hears "deuce" needs to go get their hearing checked. He clearly says douche. Also taking it way back, my mom used to sing me a lullaby. Maybe some of y'all know it. I think it's called Playmate maybe? And towards the end it says "slide down my rain barrel, into my cellar door," but I thought she was singing, "Slide down my rainbow into my cellar door," which I thought was totally normal because of Carebears.
It doesn't say rainbow?!?

I've been singing rainbow alll these years lol oh well I think I like my version better

edoliesmom · June 2014

@ashcole28‌ @snmetz7‌ @celticlullaby‌ It makes me wonder if our moms were singing "rainbow" that whole time, and that's why we think that. :-? I only discovered I was wrong a few years ago because someone else's mom sang it the right way.

snmetz7 · June 2014

SLSchuerg said:

@ashcole28‌ @snmetz7‌ @celticlullaby‌ It makes me wonder if our moms were singing "rainbow" that whole time, and that's why we think that. :-? I only discovered I was wrong a few years ago because someone else's mom sang it the right way.

I'm going to the that mom! care bear stares!

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