Misheard lyrics

oh and this foreign guy who spoke broken english on IRC was convinced that the chorus to Metallica's 'One' went "Hold my breathless, I wish go dead"

I knew someone who thought it was "Oh, my breath is Irish for death".

that just made me lol

Oh my breath is Irish for death....Oh please Zod spank me.

Split Enz 'I See Red'

hurt my penis walking down the street
I see red I see red I see red

Still no idea what the actual lyric is.

i always used to hear the Big L line "you see what happened in my last fight friend?/aight then" as "you see what happened to my last white friend/ aight then"

just mis-heard again today, as I have forever, the Hollies "Bus Stop"

"By all goods she was mine" (instead of) by August she was mine.

can't believe that i am the 1st to mention this one (b/c i'm not the only one whose misheard this song), but anyway:

the cocteau twins, "sugar hiccup on cheerios"

I just posted this in the Muxtape thread, but:

In the Rose Tattoo song "Remedy" I mistook the line "Baby you know they call it...Rock and rollll!" for, "Baby you're not retarded...ROCK AND ROOOLLLLL!"

Until last week, in Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry," I always thought he sang:

"And then we'll cook corned beef porridge, of which I'll share with you"

Saw someone sing it in Karaoke and when they printed the actual "a meal for it" lyrics, I nearly fell over.

Am I the only one who for years thought the chorus to Toto's "Africa" goes "I guess the rain's down in Africa", not "I bless the rains down in Africa"?

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/ >>> mega LOL

Tori Amos: "God, sometimes you're a stone cold fool"

Theres a song on that last Burial album that me and my mates keep hearing as "I cant take no more in my eye". No idea wtf it actually is, mind.

From "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts":

"Rosemary combed her hair and ... took a cabbage into town."

Mott, I'll always love ya for that one.

Carrot glide, carrot glide, no he can't read my poker face.

"Le-e-et's groove/be sick in your shoes" - Let's Groove by Kool And The Gang

Not only did you get the lyric wrong but the band too.

Paul Young, "Every Time You Go Away":

Every time you go away
You take a piece of meat with you

Life Without Buildings - Juno: "Mad as a seal, mad as a seal"

Roger hold a pumpkin, in the cold November rain

anagram, I always used to think it was 'you take a piece of cheese with you'

Gang of Four - Anthrax

"ought to control what I do to my mind" >>Actual lyrics

Better lyric that I always heard<<<<<"Oh to control what I did to my mind."

I used to always think "how spooky. What on earth did he do to his mind that makes him wish he could go back and take the mental reigns? Was he brainwashed?"

Cars "Shake It Up" - "Dance all night with anyone/ Don't let nobody pick your bum"

Cher - "Shit, seeds, crappin' beans"

Just heard "Rich Man's Spiritual" by Gordon Lightfoot for the first time, and seriously thought the 1st verse ended "I'm gonna get me a long white rope, and get me hung". The following verses made me look up the lyrics, though.

For years I thought Morphine's "Candy" went:

"Candy says she's made arrangements / for me in her cell"

Instead of "in the sand."

Huh. Not very interesting. Carry on.

I thought that when James Murphy shouts "Joy Division!" in Losing My Edge that he was shouting "Chinavision!" and I figured it was probably a really cool band I should learn more about.

same with the band NCC (10cc)

"Break my knees so I can't move" in Destiny's child's Bug-a-boo.

more than a lover
more than a lamma
more than enough, for you
-aaliyah

I always heard INXS 'Don't Change' as:

Don't change the earth
Don't change a thing, for me

"And you can act real rude and totally removed
Like an African in Brazil"

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

Beat it, beat it, no one wants to beat it, beat it

: D

"just like a ONE-winged dove, sings a song sound like she singing"

If I only could
Make a deal with God
Get him to swap our faces

- Kate Bush

Beat it, beat it, no one wants to beat it, beat it

ya learn something every day.

"Lasagne!!!!"

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Champignon!

I just realized I've been mishearing this Thinkin Fellers lyric - "The terror, the horror" as "The turds of war"

always heard in 'rock your body', "the air is thick, it's smelling rank".

Suede-Animal Nitrate
"In the council hall, he jumped on you both"

Another "Beat It" mondegreen:

"Show 'em how fucking / strong is your fight!"

I always thought "Breed" by Nirvana woulda been better if it'd been about a girl named Giselle.

"Giselle! Giselle! Giselle! Giseeeeeeeeeeeelle!"

Love is the drug - Roxy music
"I said COKE, she said yes, dim the lights you can guess the rest"

Found out it was go not coke, personally i like my version better!

guess the rest = "damn, cant see it now!"

wait, the lyric isn't "I said Coke, she said yes?" ...that's what I thought it was, uh, until now.

When my sister and I were kids we would sing Smooth Operator as "Coast to coast we eat enchiladas, then we sail"

DOG WARTS! DOG WAAAARTS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztRdUuOgEwk

(It's actually 'downwards')

"Ooh, I'm gonna buy shoes and I'm ready for the WEEKEND!"

Dream Baby Dream

Keep them James Brown runnin, Jesus
Keep them James Brown runnin forever

Talking Heads, "Dream Operator". When he sings "three angels above the whole human race", I thought for ages he was singing "the angels above Napoleon in rags". Come to think of it, I prefer my interpretation.