Misheard Lyrics

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So just yesterday I realised I've had the lyrics wrong to Gangsters Paradise. I thought it went:

"Young Shaney lost her life, living in a gangsters paradise"

Was so shocked to realise it's actually:

"Been spending most their lives, living in a gangsters paradise"

I've been singing it wrong since it was released, that's a lot of times I've heard it!! I actually had an image of this young girl who died after joining a gang, I realise it sounds daft now but I never questioned it before! Not sure I even like the real lyrics.

Anyone else mis-heard this one, or any other examples to make me feel better??

Stan Ridgeway, 'Camouflage'

One of the lines is 'before he went, he said Semper Fi' (the song is set among Marines in the Vietnam war, for anyone who doesn't know)

I heard 'before he went, he said "send for pie"'.

Apparently it's "Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone"

No way I'd ever work that out listening to a cheap tinny transistor radio pressed to one ear as a skinny 12 year old!

As a child I always used to sing ‘cominadchadwayginah’ to the REM one (ie a complete nonsense word/phrase!) and was about 18 when I found it was ‘call me when you try to wake me up’ - the first message on here had me doubting myself for a minute thinking it was actually calling Jamaica!!

For years I thought Shania Twain was singing "I can't believe you kiss your carving knife" not "I can't believe you kiss your car goodnight" I just thought he loved himself so much, he was kissing his reflection in the carving knife 😆

I had a friend in high school who absolutely insisted that the lyric was 'level crossing' and NOT 'let the choir sing' in Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' 😒 She just wouldn't have it...

It's calling Chuck Baker don't ya know😁

😂

Bryan Adams and Mel C 'When You're Gone', "I hope you're coming back with Sue"...real soon. YEARS wondering who Sue was before I realised!

Stone roses I wanna be adored. I used to sing 'I wanna be a dog' 🐶

"Cocoa Hot" by Elton John
"When I saw you last night in Tesco" Abba, Super Trooper
And a colleague thought it was "Stop! In the neighbourhood!" by Diana Ross.

I thought she sang carpet knife,I assumed her beau was a carpet fitter.

@Ladywiddio @Bonjovispjs

I thought it was "I can't believe you kiss your cock at night" which actually fits well into the song!

This reminds me, I always think in Shania Twain's Man I feel like a woman that she's saying:

"Come on my hair, do it again" 😫

Peter Kay did an amazing sketch about misheard lyrics including the 'kiss your cock' one:

I've never been able to listen to 'Drive' by the Cars the same way since. 😂

Another one here who misheard Rocket Man, for me it was “burning up a fuchsia Babylon” - no idea what I thought that was!

Love that Peter Kaye set -"Just let me staple the vicar" (Sister Sledge, We are Family) From the same song, I always heard "We're making love with a Femidom".

The Killers - Somebody Told Me. I always thought was "I never met a roomeroo in the moonlight". Not sure what a roomeroo is though, maybe like a kangaroo?