Misheard lyrics

Everlast, watching the Discovery Channel.

(NERD - Provider)

also an ex-gf thought that brand new heavies - you are the universe was "you are my unicorn".

Truer words were never misheard.

"You are everything to me/You are Wayne's World" - Containe, "You" (should have been 'you always were')

moral to the story: never assume a proper noun is the correct lyric.

Michael Jackson: "Smooth Criminal"

(In reality it goes: "Annie are you okay?")

Madonna: La Isla Bonita

"Where the sheep have no name" instead of "where the streets have no name" (Where The Streets Have No Name)
"I have pierced holy lips" isntead of "I have kissed honey lips" (Where The Streets Have No Name)
"Hell, damnation" instead of "Elevation" (Elevation)
"Gonna take a walk with your sister Lorraine" instead of "Johnny take a walk with your sister the rain" (Mysterious Ways)

"You can go your own way / You can call it thunder and 'oh-nee-baaaay" (i know that one falls apart but when I was a wee lad that's how my sister and I sang it in the car)

"Living on a Cheerio pole" - male background vox on Material Girl - sang more as a joke, in retrospect - another Kerry-and-James-back-of- the-car-on-family-vacation classic

and another from that same era: Rick Astley's "Never gonna Give you Up" sang as "Then I'm gonna give you up, then I'm gonna let you down / then Im gonna run around and dessert you"

We'd also do this weird thing with our hands along with the opening descending keyboard riff in "Carribean Queen" that made it look like we were casting a spell and it never failed to make us giggle uncontrollably. Man, my parents were into some shitty music.

"Have a nose...what kind of fool am I?"

from Robert Plant's "Heaven Knows." my aunt used to babysit me when i was little, you see. she played guitar, and was avidly into Led Zep and Pat Benatar and Heart, amongst other things. she was more amused by this than i think i was, and one night we stayed up rewriting all the lyrics to the song, starting with what i'd heard. i don't remember them all, although "the finesse of the old grey goose" was involved somewhere...

Kiss - "I want to rock and roll all night. . .and part of every day"

Also, I think I've said before that I thought "Smoke on the water" was "Slow comin' home girl."

"It was never my intention
To blindly feed the boy cocaine"

*loses shit*

"volunteer your fear of the blue sky"

I didn't realize it was "Caught in the crowd" until I heard the No Doubt version. I like mine better. Angst/depression/etc.

2) I thought that when the Doobie Brothers sang "Take me in your arms/Love me, love me a little while," it was "Take me in your arms/Lovely lovely Louelle." At the time, I had never heard of a woman named Louelle, but I was like 7, so I figured what did I know? More than 25 years later, I heard it in the car and said, "You know, I've heard of exactly one person, ever, who was named Louelle. Maybe they're saying something else." Once I empowered myself, it didn't take long to detect the lyric. I'd still like to actually meet a woman named Louelle, though.

Look at me--
"Her Monty Knee"
It makes up for the shortcomings of being poor

When you're 15, you want a rapport
You do unto others, and run like a mother
I don't want a rapport anymore
No, I don't want a rapport anymore

Oh, and Blur - "This is Hullo"

"I'm a water slide
You're an air slide"

Water slide = wet pussy, air slide = stiff, "inflated" penis
Made sense at the time

"Life in the hive puckered up my night"

Always sounds to me in my head, like:

"Life in the hamburgers of my night"

Neither of them make much sense.

Seeing the fifth post on this thread reminds me that the first few times I heard "I'm Every Woman" (in the background, not really paying too much attention to it) I thought the lyric was "climb every mountain..."

How I Wrote Plastic Man?

Accidental British misinterpretation of Big Star's "O My Soul"

Sadly turns out Alex is singing "Go ahead and shake if you want", not "Come and have tea if you want".

But listen: they sound remarkably similar!

Alex was a refined Southerner he might well have been singing about tea.

This is one I figured out a long time ago, but

Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day

Heard: Well, you give me all your lovin', and your dirty lovin'
Actual: Well, you give me all your lovin', and your turtle dovin'

Brandy, you're a fine girl
what a good wife you would be
but my life, my lover, my lady
is deceased

This one from Lee 626 a couple years ago made me just laugh out loud

Black Grape, Kelly's Heroes.

I originally heard it as: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like Suggs.", wondering whatever poor Graham McPherson did wrong & imagining Superman singing Baggy Trousers.

Then, for ages, I thought the correct lyrics were: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sink like subs." - which I thought was fairly intruiging & worked alright.

Only now I found out that the real thing apparently is: "Don't talk to me about heroes / most of these men sing like surfs."

woah, I always heard it as “seem like sods”

M.I.A., "Fire Fire"

Actual: Growin' up, brewin' Up / Guerilla gettin' trained up / Look out, look out, from over the rooftop
Heard: Worry not, worry not/ Boy you're gettin' chain-chomped / Look out, look out, from over the rooftop

https://31.media.tumblr.com/89c9a590e3f97d8ba9fa1642da540d4e/tumblr_mkcsgo7M8X1qk26dzo1_500.gif

loool

Jimmy Eat World, "Bleed American":

Salt, sweat, sugar, honey, asphalt
Our hearts, glitter in the topsoil
Sign up for the Biedermeier Chair Parade
Our lives are cold

woah, I always heard it as “seem like sods”

that was me too