Misheard Song Lyrics

[Lizzie]

Have you ever sung along to a song for ages before discovering you're singing the lyrics wrong, or misheard certain lines of a song as something else entirely? They can be pretty funny! Here are some examples, correct lyric first, misheard second.

We Built This City by Starship
"We built this city on rock and roll" ... "We built this city on the wrong damn road"

Livin' on a Prayer, Bon Jovi
It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not" ... "It doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not"

Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix (a classic)
"'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" ... "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"

Chiquititta, Abba
"Chiquititta tell me what's wrong" ... "Chicken tikka tell me what's wrong"
There's another one for this at http://www.kissthisguy.com/funny.php - "Take your teeth out, tell me what is wrong"
It's an awesome site!

One I actually believed as a child was by the Vengaboys - I can't remember the song title, but the lyrics are:

"Whoa, we're going to Ibiza", and I honestly thought it was "Whoa, we're going to eat pizza!"

[Lizzie]

I'm sorry, I'm almost wetting myself laughing about this one, have to post it! http://www.kissthisguy.com/872misheard.htm

[Geertrui]

LOL That's really funny, Lizzie! I do that frequently. I can't sum up at the moment...

When I was a kid, I didn't understand English so I sung something quite different... not at all English. I invented a new language .

[Bubbsophie]

LOL Lizzie!! Great thread! This happened and still happens to me ALL the time! I'm so relieved to know it also happens to native (English) speakers! I thought it was because of my lack of English knowledge! But I only discovered the other day that I also have problems with understanding German songs, my colleague played a German hip hop song in his car and I only understood about 60 - 70 % of it.

I can't remember any funny misheards of mine at the moment but just like Geertrui I invented a language of my own when I was a kid! Haha, David Hasselhoff's "I've been looking for freedom" was my favorite "victim"

Oh I do remember one, it's from Shania Twain's "That don't impress me much". She sings "...you kiss your car good night" (can't remember the exact line) and instead of car I understood sth. I have to rate here. Just give your fancy full scope, the word starts with a c and ends with a k!

[Lizzie]

I know that one! http://www.kissthisguy.com/3160misheard.htm

I didn't have a language of my own really as a kid because here you hardly hear music in any other language :-/ (but when I've visited the Netherlands and Germany there was a lot of music and also billboards/text in English around and about), but it sounds cool!

[Jen]

haha great thread, Lizzie! I remember our Vengaboys conversation. I used to think that they were singing about going to eat pizza too.

I hear even Finnish songs wrong all the time. But then again, I hear even people speaking wrong all the time. I'll get back to this when I have more time!

Btw, Anna....OMG!!!!! You have a dirty mind.

[Icea]

Originally Posted by Lizzie

We Built This City by Starship
"We built this city on rock and roll" ... "We built this city on the wrong damn road"

Ha, I used to sing "We built this city on rock and wood" before I realized what they were truly singing

[Evy]

I like the song "Lady in Black" from Uriah Heep.

When I was a teenager with my first english lessons I was so proud of myself that this was a song I could sing along.

But I always had problems with the end of the song: What the hell are they singing about "drink take tea from her ash so bright". ??? It didn't make sense to me.

Ah, what the heck! I sang out loud what I understood and so it came that I sang the wrong song line year after year after year...for almost three decates... - until I get a computer and find the lyric from "Lady in Black".

And this is the right line:

And if one day she comes to you
Drink deeply from her words so wise
Take courage from her
As your prize
And say hello from me
Ah ah ah ...


Now I know ! And I'll never sing the wrong text

[Bubbsophie]

Originally Posted by Jen

Btw, Anna....OMG!!!!! You have a dirty mind.

Me? Darn, you caught me! But I was like and couldn't believe my ears when I heard her singing what I thought she was singing and then I was when I realized that I was so wrong!

A while ago I was at this party and this guy asked me to dance with him and unfortunately I couldn't run away and so we danced together and if I remember correctly it was to "Time of my life" from Dirty Dancing. So to make a long story short: this guy was singing along but boy was he wrong!! Not a single word was even similar to the text! It was pretty obvious that he didn't know any English!

[Ella]

Poor Bubb!! I try to imagine your face in that moment.

[Bubbsophie]

Originally Posted by Ella

Poor Bubb!! I try to imagine your face in that moment.

Thanks Ella! Unfortunately I haven't found an emoticon yet that would roughly reflect my face!

[Jen]

Heheh this thread is so funny. Evy, your story made me laugh out loud a lot.

I always hear things wrong and it especially happens with song lyrics. I can't remember all of them right now, but one that comes to mind is this song by Sheryl Crow I first heard when I was about 15. It's called "Members Only", and I was wondering why it had this funny line in the middle of it:

"And all the white forks shake their ashes".

It didn't seem to make any sense at all. Until one day I actually saw the lyrics written down, and the correct line read:

"And all the white folks shake their asses"

Ooops!

[Lizzie]

Hehehehehe

[Kruemi]

and , Bubb!!
, Jen!!
Of course I mishear song lyric all the time... only it isn't really funny. Sigh.

[Mirëille Sully]

Does anyone know the song "Daughters" from John Mayer.

There is this sentence 'Girls become lovers who turn into mothers'

This is what I heard the first few times;
Warning don't drink,eat or hold something in your hands it is embarrising and most likely funny

"Girls become lemons who turn in to melons"

Don't know why I thought this because it doesn't fit at all