Wrong lyrics you sang as a kid

[Quirrelsotherface]

I've been rediscovering a lot of my old 80's favourites during this weird time. I suspect it's a bit of a comfort blanket as all stuff I would listen to as a kid. I was a total Stock Aitken and Waterman pop fan and loved all of their stuff. Which brings me to the lyrics I was convinced I could hear.

I bring you, Bananarama:

Only you can set me free
Cos I'm guilty, guilty
Guilty as a BROKEN BEE

I genuinely thought that was the lyric. Any others?!

Some more..
When were teenagers my friend's dad asked why Billy Ocean was telling everyone to go and get stuffed (When the going gets tough)

My son when he was little thought the Bee Gees were singing 'ah ah ah ah stabilise, stabilise' for Staying Alive

Madonna

Last night I slept with some Diego

Blah blah. Eyes like potatoes

No, it's "guilty as a drunken thief"! according to DH.

Don't cry for me Argentina

Was...

Don't cry for me I've got tinea

"Nice beaver, nice beaver" (Night Fever)

Another one for Paul Young taking a piece of meat with him

I always thought Nelly Furtardos “Im like a bird” was “hum like a bird”. Nobody has ever let me forget it!!

Speed Demon by Michael Jackson, thought 'pull over boy' was 'put up a barn'. No sense at all.

A friend of mine thought More Than a Woman was Bald headed Woman

Red Hot Chili Peppers Scar Tissue. Apparently they're singing

With the birds I'll share this lonely viewin'

Not

In Bernard's shed I'm so lonely with you

Not sure who it's by but the one that's something like 'I can deal with the bad nights when I'm with my baby yeah' DD always sings it as 'I can deal with my bad eyes, when I'm with my baby Em' 😂

Bees Gees You should be Dancin

Instead of “what you doing on your back”

I heard:

What ya chewin’ on - your fat!

Like it was some sort of motivational get you and move song

*you’re fat

I used to sing "don't cry for my auntie tina" on the toilet as a child

I am the lord of the dance settee.

I thought that Whitney Houston was singing "I wanna build a heap with somebody" instead of "I wanna feel the heat with somebody". My dad was working on a compost heap in the garden at the time, so my 8 year old mind assumed Whitney was singing about something similar

@InTheCludgie.. that's hilarious

I thought it was "freedom, whooaaaa..." instead of Feed the World when I was a kid.

I was an adult before I learned that the words at school were not:

I am the lord of the dance setee.

I imagined all the disciples jumping about on a giant sofa, sounded like a great dance to me.

Thought of another one:

Take That:
It only takes a miracle....to fall in love.

Sam Smith: How do you sleep.
Dialling up the numbers. I thought he sang dialling up the nubers, and thinking that nubers is just neighbours in a northern British dialect.

Obviously it’s a new song, but there must be something wrong with my hearing still.

'What's the feeling, what's the feeling tonight?' What's the meaning of life , Soul II Soul

I used to think Madonna was also called Mama Terial (“cos I am a Material girl”/“cos I am Mama Terial girl”)

Queen tie your mother down I use to sing tiger of the town 🤣

I heard "groove is in the heart" as "move across the haaaaall"
And
"and dream is all I do" from "I should be so lucky" I heard as "and dream of Solasoo".
Solasoo was a glamorous and exotic holiday destination like Miami (so I thought).