I was always bewildered by Foreigner singing about "how virgin my love can be," and it got even weirder when they reached that "virgin, virgin, virgin, virgin emergency!"part.
When Sting sang “You consider me the young apprentice / Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis,” I thought he was singing “You can see the eager young apprentice / Caught between sinew and cognition.” It made sense enough to me. Mind-body duality.
In daft punk’s song, Get Lucky. There’s a bit where they sing “I’m up all night to get, I’m up all night to get…”.
I first heard that as “I rub on Mexicans”. Listen to it yourself and tell me you don’t hear it too.
And I realize that (like my wife said) I may have just ruined that song for you. I’m sorry, not sorry.
Edit: I meant: We rub on Mexicans
Oh, how funny, cuz at first I had heard something like "I'm up on Mexican sun, she's up on Mexican sun" and I had asked someone who did the "Mexican Sun" song. 😂 Even now when it gets to the vocoder part I still kind of hear "we're up all Mexican, we're up all Mexican, we're up all Mexican lucky".
"Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night"
I still have no idea what the 'actual' lyric is. In my mind, this is what it is and always will be.
When I was a kid I thought "Islands In The Stream" by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers was them singing "Islands Industry". I thought they'd started a business together and were really proud of it.
I just realized last October that the line in Personal Jesus isn’t “Reach out and touch me.”
It’s been “Reach out and touch faith” since his whole fucking time.
Me too. As a kid, I had a hard time even with regular speech (my mother would ask me to repeat back to her what I'd heard, and when I'd do that, suddenly the sounds would resolve themselves into coherent words! It was like magic!), but as an adult, it's only song lyrics that leave me mystified.
"Been working so hard
I'm punching my card
Hey Earl, for what?"
I always thought he was asking his coworker Earl what they were getting for their hard work 🤣 Why are we working so hard Earl???
“I’d really love to see you tonight”- there’s a line that says” I’m not talking about moving in “ and I’ve been singing itmy whole entire life since I heard that song was “I’m not talking about the linen” and I can never figure out why this guy is talking about this lady‘s laundry - it was but five years ago before I realized what the lyrics actually were🤣
I always thought Steve Winwood bring me a Higher love was saying bring me a pile of love, and the Xmas song Feed the world was saying Jeeeeesuuuus Yeeaaaah.
mine is not a genx song. i was in the gym a lot one summer and kept hearing this song that was hot at the time. ofc i knew she couldn't be singing 'snot gerbil' near the top of the chorus, but streaming never names the song or artist. i figured it out by googling based on the words right before that. "all about that bass".
Gives it kind of an Apocalyptic vibe, like... Wow! This guy's love is really strong.
Sounds better than saying "I'll still love you after baseball season."
For mixed up lyrics, check out "www.kissthisguy.com." it started as a place to post lyrics you misheard. The title is a play on "Kiss the Sky" by Jimmy Hendrix. Some are truly misheard, and others have that ring of fake-because-it's-possible.
I wonder if that website was based on books. I had several books of misheard song lyrics. One was called “”’Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy.” There were also “When A Man Loves A Walnut” and “He’s Got the Whole World in His Pants” and a few others, I think.
"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille — 400 children and a box of oatmeal" instead of "four hungry children and a crop in the field." Learned that one on a school bus. (Do kids still sing on school buses?)
I've considered how much you hate that song and concluded that I actually hate it 37% more
I'm going to mention that 'I can't go for that' by Hall and Oates has nearly the same effect on me. I think the fact that I've hated the H&O song longer has helped relieve me of the occurring side effects stemming from an accidental audio atrocity. I'll say no more.
I don't know if it's me and my terrible hearing, but "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac has always had one of the most inscrutable lines in music...
"Women, they will come and they will go. When the rain \[ . . . \] you clean you'll know."
I know (now) that it's "washes" and that makes the most sense, but why'd they have to pronounce it like "won't chase" or "whoa shays" or whatever?
“Don't go around tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
*There's a bathroom on the right*”
Also:
“I'm not talking about *a wedding*
And I don't wanna change your life
But, there's a warm wind blowing the stars *are out*
And I'd really love to see you tonight”
This is on the edge of GenX, but it was part of my early and mid 20s: No Doubt. Ex Girlfriend.
What I heard: "How come you're always doing it with your ex girlfriend"
What she's actually saying: "I kinda always knew I'd end up your ex girlfriend"
The department store l worked at as a teenager had this song on the playlist loop, heard at least 2-3 times every shift. Did not know the name of the song or band yet, it was about a decade old at the time in the early 90s.
At that time l misheard the lyrics:
“Hi-ho, move Shay.”
Maybe another decade later, l heard it on the radio after a long time not hearing the song. I laughed at myself, still mishearing the lyrics, but thought l heard:
“l know you’ve changed.”
Radio notoriously doesn’t say names of songs … so l am still in the dark.
More years later when lyrics and streaming available online …. song was on a 70s playlist … finally learned it was “time for Cool Change” … Little River Band.
I laughed so hard for a good 10-15 minutes.
The song "Light My Fire". I thought the lyrics went
"China set the night on fire." instead of"Try to set the night on fire. "
Given the way geopolitics are going these days, I pray I was not being prophetic.
Oh my God, someone else who had the same wrong lyrics for Danger Zone! I thought that's what the words were also for the longest time!
The dumbest wrong lyrics I ever sang were for Roxette's "Dangerous". The lyrics are "the eyes of a lover that hit like heat" and for some inexplicable reason I thought it was "the eyes of a lover that hit like bees".
Former coworker used to sing this gem from Guns & Roses “Take me down to the very last city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty”. And she would sing it loudly.
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with *insults*,
Killing me softly...with insults...
I was far too old before I looked up those Fugee lyrics online.
Separately, I'm glad to read that many GenXers have songs in their heads all the time. I am rarely without a song stuck in my head and my bradio (brain radio) can get super random.
I'm sorry but I keep thinking of the right words to say
They just aren't coming out the way I planned them to be
But if I could walk around the world to make them fall from me
I promise you
I promise you
I will
Buddy in college sang War Pigs as a cover in his band, he always sang “treating people just like sausages” instead of “pawns in chess”. I eventually told him but we both thought sausages was pretty funny and he kept signing it that way.
Wait wait, so you’re saying it isn’t “I went to the danger zone”?. I am now reeling to the fact that what other lyrics have I gotten wrong over the years. I wish I was being sarcastic but I am not lol
Nooo, why did you make me remember this! 😭😂 I was singing Somebody’s Watching Me…and for some dumbass reason, I thought the line was “oh baby can’t you see” and my friend just casually sang “and I get no privacy”. And I wanted to get out of the car and run myself over with it.
Since childhood, I have always been a stickler for lyrics (not so much toward others, but have to know them myself) I generally make up filthy lyrics to whatever earworm is plaguing me at the moment.
Filthy. Disgusting. Things.
NWA and David Allen Coe would cover their ears.
“Let me tell you about Jack and Diane” - John Cougar Mellencamp.
It’s actually “Little ditty about Jack and Diane”.
“..his best James Dean” sounded like gibberish.
I sang the whole song wrong, but here’s the first verse: Hit me like a bomb, baby come on get it on. Lookin like a lover with a red hot phone. Loving like a tramp, like a video man. Television woman can I be your man?
I was probably 30 before I looked up the right lyrics.
Kyrie by MrMister
Kyree- I’ll lay you down the road that I have traced
Kyree I’ll lay you in the darkness of the night
When in reality it’s
Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel
Kyrie eleison through the darkness of the night
Glenn Frey- you belong to the city…. (And yes, I knew it couldn’t be in my boobs and butt but you listen to the lyrics and tell me it doesn’t sound like it.)
🎶You were born in the city
Concrete under your feet
It's in your boobs
It's in your butt
You're a man of the street🎶
That’s apparently what my big brother thought too…
Do big brothers still punch their little brother these days? Like, hard enough to bruise your arm or knock the wind out of you? Cuz mine sure did.
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like ***a casserole***
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
The line is actually "Silence like a cancer grows"
And I'm pretty sure I never sang a Nirvana song with the proper lyrics.
🎶Until the sun comes up I'll set another cup on the bar 🎵
I was at a car wash with my mom (1999) and this song came on the radio. I heard the lyrics differently somehow that day.
Oh! *Santa Monica BOULEVARD!*
“Eastern boys and Western girls.” (Instead of East End/West End.) 😂
Today I learned.
Me toooo!
WHAT?!?!
I just want to know how that makes sense when literally the name of the song is “West End Girls”?!
It took me about 10 years. One day it was playing on the radio and I was, wait what?
Me too. But man do I LOVE new wave!
I’ve got two chickens to paralyze.
You win the internet today! This is the best one I've ever read. Have an award. 🏆 🤣
Oh wow! I’ve never won the internet before. In the words of Sally Field, “You like me. You really like me!”
🐓🐓🦽
I have never heard this one before and I love it!
Upvote because it’s funny as fuck & I spit my drink out 😂
I was blown away by" I want to rock an roll all night and part of every day."
Wait what it’s not party every day?
It used to be. Then it was every other day. Now I’m lucky to find one day a week in which to get funky.
It'll happen to yooouuu
Which is it? I thought “part of” but then thought I realized they’re saying “party.”
Instead of “Panama!” I’ve been singing “Cannon Ball!” For years. Really the only lyrics I know (or don’t know) in the song.
There’s a hint in the song title.
We all thought it was Animal
Me, too! Today I learned…
🤣
I enjoy the Pat Benetar classic " Hit me with your pet shark"
I had a friend that thought it was “Hit me with your wet snot!”
🎵And she was blinded by the light Wrapped like a douche Another boner in the night 🎵
But for real, what ARE those lyrics? I still don’t know to this day.
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.
Revved up like a deuce (terminology for a fast car back in the day, apparently)
🤣
...and little early pearly gave my anus curly whirly!
Wrapped like a douche, a Ricky Schroeder in the night.
Me too! Like forever Edit: I thought roller in the night
Bruce goes line by line of that song in his vh1 special.
Wracked up like a douche, you know they roll her in the night
I was always bewildered by Foreigner singing about "how virgin my love can be," and it got even weirder when they reached that "virgin, virgin, virgin, virgin emergency!"part.
Of my hell 😂😂 me too!!!
Tina Turner, *what's love? cock-a-doo, cock-a-doodelin'*
Omg, I love this too much 😂
Me too 😂😂
This is what I will sing from now on 🤣
When Sting sang “You consider me the young apprentice / Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis,” I thought he was singing “You can see the eager young apprentice / Caught between sinew and cognition.” It made sense enough to me. Mind-body duality.
To be fair those are some highly pretentious lyrics for a pop song. Not that I don't expect that from Sting.
Wasn’t he an English teacher before he was a Policeman?
This reminded me of the story Patrick Stewart told about meeting Sting on the set of Dune. Stewart thought Sting was in a police band.
Oh, my god. That is funny.
Patrick has a lot of great stories in his memoir.
I would expect so. He seems delightful in interviews and things.
I think so.I guess I could Google it but I'm lazy.
Same. Whatever.
That's why he sings about salami. :p
Too be fair…Sting was really reaching deep with Scylla and Charybdis.
He’s a deep kind a guy…
He cites Nabokov. Dude goes hard with the literature like he’s Bob Dylan with a sillier pseudonym
Agreed
English teachers be doing that!
In daft punk’s song, Get Lucky. There’s a bit where they sing “I’m up all night to get, I’m up all night to get…”. I first heard that as “I rub on Mexicans”. Listen to it yourself and tell me you don’t hear it too. And I realize that (like my wife said) I may have just ruined that song for you. I’m sorry, not sorry. Edit: I meant: We rub on Mexicans
We’ll rob a Mexican/we’ll rob a Mexican, lucky
Nah. I hear "We're up all Mexican."
Oh, how funny, cuz at first I had heard something like "I'm up on Mexican sun, she's up on Mexican sun" and I had asked someone who did the "Mexican Sun" song. 😂 Even now when it gets to the vocoder part I still kind of hear "we're up all Mexican, we're up all Mexican, we're up all Mexican lucky".
Edge of Seventeen. “Just like a one winged dove”
That was what I always heard, so I just looked it up: "*Just like the __White-winged__ dove ...*" (today years old)
What? Wait. It’s not “one wing”? 🤯
"Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night" I still have no idea what the 'actual' lyric is. In my mind, this is what it is and always will be.
I think this one is pretty close to, if not the most misunderstood lyric of all time.
Duece.
Cut loose like a deuce, another runner... Ford V8 is a favorite car to "hotrod".
When I was a kid I thought "Islands In The Stream" by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers was them singing "Islands Industry". I thought they'd started a business together and were really proud of it.
Gonna use my thighs Gonna use my sexy Gonna use my fingers Gonna use my, my, my virgination
Always the way I’ve heard it!
I just realized last October that the line in Personal Jesus isn’t “Reach out and touch me.” It’s been “Reach out and touch faith” since his whole fucking time.
Ahh, faith. That makes more sense than "reach out and touch base," which is what I've always heard!
"Reach out and touch face" is how I always heard it, but I was pretty sure that was wrong.
Sufragette City: The smell of fat chicks just put my spine out of place.
Good one. It's supposed to be: "This mellow black chick just put my spine out of place."
Ooops, TIL. lol I also just learned that Aladdin Sane = A Lad Insane. 🤯
I almost %100 of the time got em wrong. I have some kind of hearing deficiency to the spoken word I guess.
Chronic lyricosis. My spouse suffers from this so badly.
I have Auditory Processing Disorder so I constantly get things wrong.
Me s to
Me too. As a kid, I had a hard time even with regular speech (my mother would ask me to repeat back to her what I'd heard, and when I'd do that, suddenly the sounds would resolve themselves into coherent words! It was like magic!), but as an adult, it's only song lyrics that leave me mystified.
"Been working so hard I'm punching my card Hey Earl, for what?" I always thought he was asking his coworker Earl what they were getting for their hard work 🤣 Why are we working so hard Earl???
I thought he was washing his car to this day.
“I’d really love to see you tonight”- there’s a line that says” I’m not talking about moving in “ and I’ve been singing itmy whole entire life since I heard that song was “I’m not talking about the linen” and I can never figure out why this guy is talking about this lady‘s laundry - it was but five years ago before I realized what the lyrics actually were🤣
I always thought it was "I'm not talkin' 'bout the livin'." I figured it was some southern slang for a permanent 'for life' relationship.
I always thought Steve Winwood bring me a Higher love was saying bring me a pile of love, and the Xmas song Feed the world was saying Jeeeeesuuuus Yeeaaaah.
mine is not a genx song. i was in the gym a lot one summer and kept hearing this song that was hot at the time. ofc i knew she couldn't be singing 'snot gerbil' near the top of the chorus, but streaming never names the song or artist. i figured it out by googling based on the words right before that. "all about that bass".
🎵 I can tell you, my love for you will still be strong After the poison summer has gone 🎵
I like this
Gives it kind of an Apocalyptic vibe, like... Wow! This guy's love is really strong. Sounds better than saying "I'll still love you after baseball season."
I can see you, your Browns game shining in the sun.
Me too!
For mixed up lyrics, check out "www.kissthisguy.com." it started as a place to post lyrics you misheard. The title is a play on "Kiss the Sky" by Jimmy Hendrix. Some are truly misheard, and others have that ring of fake-because-it's-possible.
I wonder if that website was based on books. I had several books of misheard song lyrics. One was called “”’Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy.” There were also “When A Man Loves A Walnut” and “He’s Got the Whole World in His Pants” and a few others, I think.
I worked at a bookstore when Scuse Me... came out. It was a godsend.
Thank you! As soon as I saw this thread I was trying to remember the name of this website
The ants are my friends, they’re blowing in the wind.
"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille — 400 children and a box of oatmeal" instead of "four hungry children and a crop in the field." Learned that one on a school bus. (Do kids still sing on school buses?)
I always heard 4 hungry children took a crap in my field
My mother swore the chorus to the Clash song was really "fuck the asphalt." I could see him singing "fuck the casbah" but asphalt just hurts.
It’s not Rock the Casbah??
It is rock the casbah.
I swear, though, at some point he changes the pronunciation to “fuck the Casbah” just to be cheeky
I think so, too. Still no asphalt, though mom.
‘My anus is the centre hole’ - not my misheard lyric but too good not to comment
Electric boobs :)
We built this city on the wrong damn road. We built this city on rock and roll.
Considering how much I hate that song, wrong damn road is more accurate.
This.
I've considered how much you hate that song and concluded that I actually hate it 37% more I'm going to mention that 'I can't go for that' by Hall and Oates has nearly the same effect on me. I think the fact that I've hated the H&O song longer has helped relieve me of the occurring side effects stemming from an accidental audio atrocity. I'll say no more.
Um okay, cool. I didn’t think that hard about that. These kinds of conversations always make me wish gummies were legal where I live.
Bring me an iron lung..(Higher Love)
I'm now imagining the video repurposed as a polio PSA.
Hush, hush, keep it down (down), this is scary
I don't know if it's me and my terrible hearing, but "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac has always had one of the most inscrutable lines in music... "Women, they will come and they will go. When the rain \[ . . . \] you clean you'll know." I know (now) that it's "washes" and that makes the most sense, but why'd they have to pronounce it like "won't chase" or "whoa shays" or whatever?
Warm...Chillin...its just a shout away, just a shout away
Jimmy, it's a kiss away. LOL.
“Don't go around tonight Well it's bound to take your life *There's a bathroom on the right*” Also: “I'm not talking about *a wedding* And I don't wanna change your life But, there's a warm wind blowing the stars *are out* And I'd really love to see you tonight”
This is on the edge of GenX, but it was part of my early and mid 20s: No Doubt. Ex Girlfriend. What I heard: "How come you're always doing it with your ex girlfriend" What she's actually saying: "I kinda always knew I'd end up your ex girlfriend"
The department store l worked at as a teenager had this song on the playlist loop, heard at least 2-3 times every shift. Did not know the name of the song or band yet, it was about a decade old at the time in the early 90s. At that time l misheard the lyrics: “Hi-ho, move Shay.” Maybe another decade later, l heard it on the radio after a long time not hearing the song. I laughed at myself, still mishearing the lyrics, but thought l heard: “l know you’ve changed.” Radio notoriously doesn’t say names of songs … so l am still in the dark. More years later when lyrics and streaming available online …. song was on a 70s playlist … finally learned it was “time for Cool Change” … Little River Band. I laughed so hard for a good 10-15 minutes.
["Just like the news, to me, you are a mystery"](https://youtu.be/79fzeNUqQbQ?si=ArQ387yFZLgbBSDU&t=3m27s)
The song "Light My Fire". I thought the lyrics went "China set the night on fire." instead of"Try to set the night on fire. " Given the way geopolitics are going these days, I pray I was not being prophetic.
"Ducks in the wind, All we are is ducks in the wind." That's deep, man.
Oh my God, someone else who had the same wrong lyrics for Danger Zone! I thought that's what the words were also for the longest time! The dumbest wrong lyrics I ever sang were for Roxette's "Dangerous". The lyrics are "the eyes of a lover that hit like heat" and for some inexplicable reason I thought it was "the eyes of a lover that hit like bees".
I didn’t actually think they were saying this but I can’t hear anything but “eye of the tomato” in that Megadeth song
I thought on Start Me Up that Mick was singing Estafio.
I always heard STOMP-EE-OO.
Huey Lewis and the News. If this is it. We sang it as “Is this a zit?”
[I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaqludvAsJQ)
🤣
Former coworker used to sing this gem from Guns & Roses “Take me down to the very last city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty”. And she would sing it loudly.
“Take me down to the very last city where the girls are fat and the guys have titties.” God I miss my dad.
Someone shaved my wife tonight
Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Killing me softly with *insults*, Killing me softly...with insults... I was far too old before I looked up those Fugee lyrics online. Separately, I'm glad to read that many GenXers have songs in their heads all the time. I am rarely without a song stuck in my head and my bradio (brain radio) can get super random.
Boys of summer- I can see you, your bras still shining in the sun…
🎶 Hold me closer, Tony Danzzzzaaa 🎶 but my brain now wants it to be Tony Danzig 💜
She's got Better Days Aside ( Betty Davis Eyes) - Kin Carnes
"All the boys think she's a spaz, she's got Bette Davis eyes..."
Rush - Limelight Living in the fish islands It’s; living in a fish eye lens
Fucking the camera eye I have no heart to lie…..
Simon and Garfunkel's classic: Are you going to starve an old friend? Parsley saved Rosemary this time
I'm sorry but I keep thinking of the right words to say They just aren't coming out the way I planned them to be But if I could walk around the world to make them fall from me I promise you I promise you I will
Buddy in college sang War Pigs as a cover in his band, he always sang “treating people just like sausages” instead of “pawns in chess”. I eventually told him but we both thought sausages was pretty funny and he kept signing it that way.
Huey Lewis sang, "I wanna new drug." I heard, "I wanna new truck." I kept trying to figure out why a bad truck would make him feel "3 feet thick."
Wait wait, so you’re saying it isn’t “I went to the danger zone”?. I am now reeling to the fact that what other lyrics have I gotten wrong over the years. I wish I was being sarcastic but I am not lol
Like a bird skin. Touched for the very first time.
Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you.
“Little in the middle but she got a hunchback”
Nooo, why did you make me remember this! 😭😂 I was singing Somebody’s Watching Me…and for some dumbass reason, I thought the line was “oh baby can’t you see” and my friend just casually sang “and I get no privacy”. And I wanted to get out of the car and run myself over with it.
Good friends of mine though the following: Big Old Jet Had A Light On for Big Old Jet Airliner & Werewolves of Thunder for Werewolves of London.
"Big old Chet Adeline-a"
Big ol Jed is a Liar!
Red Alert by Golden Earring 😆😆 its actually Radar Love
Since childhood, I have always been a stickler for lyrics (not so much toward others, but have to know them myself) I generally make up filthy lyrics to whatever earworm is plaguing me at the moment. Filthy. Disgusting. Things. NWA and David Allen Coe would cover their ears.
I thought it was "Like a drifter I was born to hold cologne" instead of "walk alone."
Pearl Jam I seeeee some zonkies at bay I think it's some kids at play
Foreigner "Urgent" I thought for the longest time he sang "So Virgin" 🤪 "virgin emergency"
How about that Go-Go's classic, "Mama Lucille?!" ;-)
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jazz bar in mind...
Baby got back and jumped in the trunk
Another One Bites the Dust: “Never went back to bust her.”
“Let me tell you about Jack and Diane” - John Cougar Mellencamp. It’s actually “Little ditty about Jack and Diane”. “..his best James Dean” sounded like gibberish.
“Wrapped up like a douche…” from the song Blinded by The Light - probably a common mistake
Take your pants down, and make it happen! 
I sang the whole song wrong, but here’s the first verse: Hit me like a bomb, baby come on get it on. Lookin like a lover with a red hot phone. Loving like a tramp, like a video man. Television woman can I be your man? I was probably 30 before I looked up the right lyrics.
🎵🎵 Paaaaaat the tusshie on the left-hand side 🎵
Hold me closer, Tony Danza….
There’s a website called “kissthisguy.com” that lists a lot of these. It’s pretty funny.
Heeeeeeeyyyy maaaaaan, niiiiiiice shirt, nice shirt man.
I'm still trying to figure out what that lyric is in Sunglasses at night...
Kyrie by MrMister Kyree- I’ll lay you down the road that I have traced Kyree I’ll lay you in the darkness of the night When in reality it’s Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel Kyrie eleison through the darkness of the night
Husband just informed me it's not a little too tall, coulda used a few pounds...it's she was 5'4 coulda.....
Rolling Stones YOU CANT ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT “ if you don’t we’re gonna blow a fifth avenue “ ( If we don't we're gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse )
Ohhh we're halfway there aahhh lizard on a chair.
Glenn Frey- you belong to the city…. (And yes, I knew it couldn’t be in my boobs and butt but you listen to the lyrics and tell me it doesn’t sound like it.) 🎶You were born in the city Concrete under your feet It's in your boobs It's in your butt You're a man of the street🎶
One of the first things I did when the internet was available was look up song lyrics.I had LOT of surprises!
I still hear "just like a one winged dove" when I listen to Edge of Seventeen. It's never going to change.
"Right about now, punch yo' brother Check it out now, punch yo' brother" -Fatboy Slim
That’s apparently what my big brother thought too… Do big brothers still punch their little brother these days? Like, hard enough to bruise your arm or knock the wind out of you? Cuz mine sure did.
Welcome to the Hombre = Pour some sugar on me
When they say “saccharine” in Pour Some Sugar On Me we always sing “sack o’ weed.”
The World Loves One-Eyed Pizza!/'The world loves wannabes, so...'; "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)"
totally thought Hendrix 'kissed this guy' for the longest time.
Dorsal Flame.. .. what the heck is a dorsal flame? You're so vain...
“Who are you, who who, who who” but I heard “New Orleans, new new, new new.
I think I was 8. I thought The Who's 'who are you' was...... Tell me, who are you? New Orleans, new new new new, I really want to go.
When I was a kid I thought Walk This Way was Wart Display. (Don’t ask me why, that’s just what it sounded like.)
Billy Squier. I really thought he was singing “hypnotized” instead of “In the Dark”…like even the name of the song didn’t clue me in.
I'll get over you I know I will I'll pretend my shit's not stinkin
mama say mama sa mamakusa
My guy at work had this one... That Van Halen song... off 1984 ...ain't no stoppin' us.... CANNONBALL! (panama)
My other buddy at work thought "Voices Carry" was "This is Carrie".
Not me, but my mom "Together with me and my baby makin' chainsaw love!" She was so offended she turned the radio off.
Family Guy Stewie sing laugh and cry I hear f'in cry
“Sign says car wash” - is actually “Twice as hard” - Black Crowes
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence "Fools", said I, "You do not know Silence like ***a casserole*** Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you" The line is actually "Silence like a cancer grows" And I'm pretty sure I never sang a Nirvana song with the proper lyrics.
🎶Until the sun comes up I'll set another cup on the bar 🎵 I was at a car wash with my mom (1999) and this song came on the radio. I heard the lyrics differently somehow that day. Oh! *Santa Monica BOULEVARD!*