I've been singing it wrong for 37 years......

[Penninepain]

'Hit me with your rhythm stick'.

Belting it out in the car this morning including the immortal line 'it's nice to be alone a tick' only for Zoe Ball to (gleefully, in my opinion), say 'ahhh, Ian Drury nice to be a lunatic'.
Nice to be a lunatic? Really? I had imagined him enjoying a moment of solitude 😁

I am terrible for mishearing lyrics, but never for this long 😯

When I was little I thought it was ribbon stick. Somehow vaguely related to the yellow ribbon you tie around oak trees

Ian Dury on Radio 2? Good job it wasn't Plaistow Patricia played.

I thought ‘we don’t have to take our clothes off to have a good time’ was ‘we don’t have to keep our clothes on to have a good time’

"Big in your pants" = "Big in Japan"

MissionItsPossible ypur version makes much more sense😁

I also used to think the Free song 'Alright now' had the line 'lets move before they raise the fucking rates'.
Made sense at the time........

Spotlight by j hud.
I was singing "just because you sing at night" but it's "just because you think I might"

"Forever in blue jeans" b y Neil Diamond I thought was "Reverend Blue Jeans". (I never listened that closely to the lyrics and just assumed it was about a good looking, young, american vicar. I think in the same vein as "Son of a preacher man" )

The same, Piewacket! Reverend Blue Jeans here too

Yep..I STILL sing Reverend Blue Jeans

Another Reverend Blue Jeans here! DM and I used to love belting that out.

i always thought the line the chel is not my son in Billy Jean by Michael Jackson was" their jealous of my son"

Ha ha, I was convinced it was just me! Glad to see I have company!

Friend used to sing “the lift goes up where we belong.....” 🧐🧐

I always thought Goldfrapp's song was rather inappropriate for a Christmas carol.

"I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with a Christmas tree..."

Found out the hard way that it's Strict Machine not Christmas tree...

*@Millie2013*Snorted reading that!

Reverend Blue Jeans was a Terry Wogan creation. I seem to remember he played the record a lot when it came out, forty years ago !

I used to sing 'cause we are SONJA now' instead of 'cause we are so young now' (the corrs) my sister took the piss out of me for many years growing up about that

MissionsItsPossible, I thought it was that too. Who knew!

Robbie Williams 'let me entertain you' I thought the line 'shake your ass come over here' was 'shake your Eskimo over here'

George Michael's 'Last Christmas': 'This year, from semi-frontiers, I'll give it to someone special'.

I've got many song lyrics wrong.

But I also take some a little too literally.

So when I listened to I Heard it Through the Grapevine, I literally thought someone was eavesdropping behind a bush.

Also in Sylvia's Mother, when they say she's marrying a fella from Galveston way, I thought it meant Galveston Way - that was the name of the road he lived on.

Waterfalls by TLC. I thought it was ‘don’t go Jason Waterfalls’ not ‘don’t go chasing waterfalls’.

I know the latter makes more sense but if you listen to it, it does sound like Jason. Also I thought the lad who dies in the video was Jason. So in my young mind, I saw no issue.

Recent song, but tug of war; I was singing tiger walls got ages until I finally twigged! DH sings hope jalopy to hotel lobby in r Kelly's ignition! Also follow me... For call on me.

@millie2013 That is too funny. Don't get me wrong. I have had my fair share of fucked up lyrics but that's my favourite

Shania Twain, That Don't Impress Me Much

I thought the line, "I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight." Was "I can't believe you kiss your cock at night."
Made sense to me...

That one of the lines in Peter Kays famous sketch about misheard lyrics applesauce.