Mis-Heard Song Lyrics.... Which ones do you know and what are your favorites and funniest?

Question

My favorite mis-heard lyrics are from the song "Metro" by Berlin. The first set of verses goes like this:

I'm alone
sitting with my empty glass
my four walls
follow me through my past
I was on a Paris train
I emerged in London rain
and you were waiting there
swimming through apologies

The first several times I heard it, I swear that it said "swimming through a pile of cheese"... HA HA HA!

How about your favorite and funniest mis-heard lyrics? Please share!

Answer 1

There's a song with "Why'd you have to go make things so complicated?" and I heard it as "Why'd you have to go make things court litigated?"

Answer 2

The first time I heard ZZ Top's "Sharp-Dressed Man", I thought they were singing "Every girl's crazy 'bout a shoplift man". I also misread signs--I remember seeing a sign I thought said "Reality World" and thinking "I wonder what they sell?" before I figured out it was actually "Realty World".

I have most (maybe all) of the series of "misheard lyrics" books by Gavin Edwards: I love "When A Man Loves a Walnut" and "He's Got the Whole World in His Pants". I'm attaching a link to the online "Misheard Lyrics Archive" AKA kissthisguy.com.

Answer 3

For the longest time, I used to think Martina McBrides' song "independence day" went like this:

Let Freedom ring!
Let the wine dogs sing!

The actual lyrics go as such "Let the white doves" sing.

I also used to think that Bush's song "Glycerine" was "Kiss the Rain."

My dad used to have some old Christian records that had parts in Hebrew. When I was young, I thought "Kee Pee Adonai Du Bear" (Probably nowhere near the actual spelling) was He Pees in the night there."

Answer 4

Bowling For Soup 's, "1985"
Misheard Lyrics:
Stacy, Madonna
Waiting for Nirvana
There was Mewtwo and blondies
Their moves are still on MTV
Her toucans in high school
They say she is uncool
But she is still living in
19- 19- 1985.
Original Lyrics:
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
Their was U2 and Blondie
Their music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she's uncool
But she still preocupied
With 19-19-1985.

Answer 5

That old song that goes "there's a bad moon rising." At one point in the song it says "there's a bad moon on the right." For the longest time, my friends and I thought one of the times it was sung it was saying "there's a bathroom on the right."

I just read the answers other people put. Thank you...I'm glad someone else knows what I'm talking about :)

Answer 6

Blinded by the light, but noone knows the actual lyrics, not even the lyric writers that were high when writing. Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another roller in the night ( :

Answer 7

In that song Freshmen by the Verve Pipe

it goes:
For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

I thought it was "I cannot believe we'd ever find forty cents."

yours is funny - lol

Answer 8

The first couple of times I heard "The World is What You Make It" by Paul Brady I thought it was, "the world is watching naked" (oh yeah)

Answer 9

Elton John:

Actual Lyrics: Hold me close tiny dancer.

Misheard Lyrics: Hold me close Tony Danza

Answer 10

got to rat out the hubby for this one....he plays guitar and frequently writes down lyrics to songs and adds chord changes above the lines...while flipping through one of his notebooks i observed the following:

from Janis Joplin's "Bobby McGee"
correct lyrics:

I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna


my darling husband's version:

I pulled my harpoon out of a dirty red banana

I thought, just a missed letter, right...but upon inquiry, he confirmed that he did indeed think Janis had a "dirty red BANANA." LOL

Answer 11

I thought that the coheed and cambria song "the suffering" said "you may be a fat girl but you're not coming home" when the lyrics really are "you may be invited girl, but you're not coming in"