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I’ve been hearing this song lyric wrong MY ENTIRE LIFE

237 replies

AngeloMysterioso · 30/12/2018 00:40

Sitting in the morning sun
I’ll be sitting when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then l watch ‘em roll away again.

My whole life I’ve thought that last line was

They don’t want to roll away again.

MIND. BLOWN.

OP posts:
JimandPam · 30/12/2018 22:42

And
'Why do you have to be a Park Ranger' (instead of heartbreaker)

Always wondered what was so bad about park rangers...

Laiste · 30/12/2018 22:50

Brian Adams.

I'm going to runter you.
?

GrinGrin

Laiste · 30/12/2018 22:51

Oh and the tombalese thing? For me it's tangerines Grin

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LizzieVereker · 30/12/2018 22:52

ABBA - “One of Us”- the actual lyric is “that’s how I started the show, one of had to go”. But I heard it as “I started the show, but my bus had to go”. For years I thought that a great love affair had been thwarted due to the peculiarities of an infrequent bus service, probably in Stockholm.

NakedMum33and3rd · 30/12/2018 22:53

@Cauliflowersqueeze Yes!!!! Me too!

Just let me staple the vicar
We're giving love in the family zone

Thehogfatherstolemycurry · 30/12/2018 23:02

I thought John Lennon had dodgy knees and was singing "nobody told me they would be knees like these"
In fact it was "nobody told me there would be days like these "

spidey66 · 30/12/2018 23:10

Lithium by nirvana
I'm so horny, but that's ok my will is good
For years I thought it was
I'm so horny but that's ok, my willy's good

Qcng · 30/12/2018 23:16

Someone else who heard trombeleese!!
I spent years trying to work out what one was

I heared Trampolines Blush

greendale17 · 30/12/2018 23:19

**missbattenburg

I heard ‘Girl all the Starbucks lovers

’For ‘got a long list of ex lovers’ blank space Taylor swift..

I always hear "gather all your Starbucks lovers"**

^Me too!

Gotstuckwiththisname · 30/12/2018 23:19

I also mishear Step Into Christmas.

Instead of "the admission's free" I heard "be a christmas tree" for ages. I always thought how fittingly random it was.

lucky88 · 30/12/2018 23:22

I thought Buzz Lightyear was called Buzz Light-gear .. until recently Confused

windthatbobbin · 30/12/2018 23:24

Another Tromboleese here. And "Don't be a lonely fifer" (head over feet)!

PhilomenaNewYearButterfly · 30/12/2018 23:29

Police, Message in a Bottle, DD heard:

Walked out this morning
Don't believe what I saw,
Hundred billion buttocks
Washed up on the shore.

FusionChefGeoff · 30/12/2018 23:30

Jackson 5 / Big Fun remake 1988 ish

Is not

We spent the night in Bristol
Every night a disco

Strange, but 8 yr old me didn't have 'Frisco as a reference point!

DulcetMoans · 30/12/2018 23:31

Wham - Last Christmas

"This year, the semi frontier
I'll give it to someone special"

SinisterBumFacedCat · 30/12/2018 23:33

When I was little I used to think Michael Jackson was singing about buses.

Keep on 'til the bus stops
Don't stop 'til you're getting off

Soberfutures · 30/12/2018 23:38

To be fair my 9yr old said today row row row your boat.
Ended in "life is butter cream" not life is but a dream.....

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 31/12/2018 00:02

thesnapandfart - "I fell in love with San Pedro" is the lyric you want! Grin

Another one - nearly caused a ruction out at dinner with friends one night (2 of us thought this and much drink had been taken):

Donna Lewis "I love you, always forever" has the line
You've got the most unbelievable blue eyes I've ever seen

except we thought it was "the most stumblingly blue eyes".
Doesn't make any sense, but then a lot of lyrics don't! Grin

Soberfutures · 31/12/2018 00:20

My friends missunderstanding....
Sex bomb lyrics...
She thought it was step mum.....
She is an amazing friend

AgathaRaisinsCat · 31/12/2018 00:34

Myfanwy, I thought that it was 'when I called you last night from Tescos' too.

My nephew thought that 'I love it when you call' by The Feeling was 'I love your windy car', a reference to his grandfather's convertible.

TheToldYouSoDance · 31/12/2018 00:38

Mine is this - Spice girls

Goodbye my friend
I know you can be such a c&nt
But I can still feel you here

It was after Geri left and I thought at the time, that’s a bit strong 😳

littletortoise · 31/12/2018 00:40

When I Grow Up... I always thought they sang I wanna have boobies always mentally checked it off because yes I did want boobies when I grew up, lol, imagine my surprise because it’s not boobies but groupies Shock Blush

Cheerleader, ‘oh I think I found myself a cheerleader’ no idea why but I hear ‘cherry pie’ heard this at a work do and found myself wondering who would write and sing a song about cherry pies...

Are we human, or are we dancer — always heard it as ‘Santa’ ?!

littletortoise · 31/12/2018 00:42

Oh and Little Mix in Love Me Like You, starts off ‘he’s got the biggest car it can drive me wild’ but it SOUNDS like ‘he’s got the biggest cock it can drive me wild’

Titsywoo · 31/12/2018 00:44

Dr thought dancing queen was "Dancing queen, young and sweet, only seven teeth" Grin

Titsywoo · 31/12/2018 00:44

*Ds not Dr!