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Misheard song lyrics

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OhBeAFineGuyKissMe · 04/10/2023 09:10

Inspired by the song lyrics that bug you thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4907942-song-lyrics-that-bug-you?page=1

I thought it would be fun to do a misheard lyrics one.

Mine: Taylor Swift It looks like a perfect night to dress up as hamsters.

Which caused sufficient confusion I had to Google what the actual lyrics are.

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I was listening to Objects in the rear view mirror by Meatloaf the other day and it contains the line:   "If life is just a highway, then the sou...

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OP posts:
FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 04/10/2023 18:29

Macy Gray, 'I Try'

Which song of hers is it where she suddenly turns into a Yorkshirewoman, singing the phrase "much too much"?!

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 04/10/2023 18:31

Bat out of Hell
"Cilla Black fan on a bike"

Same here!

Which reminds me of the other Jim Steinman classic, as sung by Bonnie Tyler: "I'm eating lots of powdered egg and giving off farts" Grin

Funkyslippers · 04/10/2023 18:39

I always thought in Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys they were singing some word I'd never heard "barbran" 🤣

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EllaMaeve · 04/10/2023 18:46

🎶I believe in Malcolm….always wondered who Malcolm was?
😂
( I believe in miracles - Hot Chocolate)

nervesonnerves · 04/10/2023 18:46

I didn't know the title of the Bee Gees song, and I thought until very recently, that they were singing 'Pack it in', instead of 'TRAGEDY'!!

At least these days we can google the lyrics. I remember having to buy Smash Hits to find out what they were years ago!

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 04/10/2023 18:51

I always thought in Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys they were singing some word I'd never heard "barbran"

There's probably a breakfast-replacement snack bar on sale somewhere called just that!

IMustDoMoreExercise · 04/10/2023 19:03

jolaylasofia · 04/10/2023 16:17

i always thought the song personal jesus said "reach out and touch me" not "reach out and touch faith"

So did I until a few months ago.

IMustDoMoreExercise · 04/10/2023 19:06

InMySpareTime · 04/10/2023 17:37

Summer of '69 was a whole lot ruder in my head "had my first real sex dream, oh when I was five and nine, played it 'till my fingers bled, was a summer of 69"

Me too.

I'm glad I was not the only one.

toadasoda · 04/10/2023 19:12

jolaylasofia · 04/10/2023 16:17

i always thought the song personal jesus said "reach out and touch me" not "reach out and touch faith"

Just learned this now!!!

A few months back there was a thread like this and everyone was mind blown by a misheard lyric from 'You're so vain'. its...

'You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte'

Listen to it again. Its right, like most people I thought it was go by.

toadasoda · 04/10/2023 19:14

My post on the other thread was about my ninja obsessed son at age 6 who heard a man singing about ninjas on the radio:
'I sit and wait, does a ninja contemplate my fate..'
'I'm loving ninjas instead'

DietHelp · 04/10/2023 19:16

GingerLiberalFeminist · 04/10/2023 15:43

My Girl - Maggot
Isla Bonita by Madonna - sounds like she says 'young girl with eyes like potatoe' (it's pesatas!)

It’s young girl with eyes like the desert I believe!😂

heysally · 04/10/2023 19:18

Reverend Blue Jeans. Why, why, why did I think Neil Diamond was singing about this rather than Forever in Blue Jeans 

Haribo16 · 04/10/2023 19:54

Mine is Sam Smith dancing with a stranger. "Look what you made me do hump somebody new"

my partner asked me if I liked the new song when it came out I said yes but don't like the word hump! He nearly wet himself laughing at me. I was so convinced.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 04/10/2023 20:15

Ds has always been bad at hearing lyrics. My favourite was his version of the chorus of Poker Face. Apparently it goes "Cherry mine, cherry mine, He's got a bit of my poker face, she's got a Hobnob body" Confused Grin

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 04/10/2023 21:44

I always thought the other line in You're So Vain was 'You're with some underworld spy or the wife of the postman'. Always seemed really random to me!

DeadbeatYoda · 05/10/2023 16:53

incognito50me · 04/10/2023 15:28

Charlie Puth's Attention. I could not for the life of me figure out what "You've been runnin' 'round, runnin' 'round, runnin' 'round throwin' that turtle on my name" was supposed to express.
(it's "that dirt all on my name" - not a natural expression, either)

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@incognito50me
We sing turtle on my knee

DeadbeatYoda · 05/10/2023 16:54

GingerLiberalFeminist · 04/10/2023 15:43

My Girl - Maggot
Isla Bonita by Madonna - sounds like she says 'young girl with eyes like potatoe' (it's pesatas!)

@GingerLiberalFeminist
Eyes like the desert

LittleMrsPretty · 05/10/2023 16:59

Bullet Proof by La Roux I thought was “Pullin Tnrough” for a long time, I was corrected by a friend on the dance floor of a club. I have never lived that down!!

HippyChickMama · 05/10/2023 17:23

King of Rock n Roll by Prefab Sprout, ds used to sing 'hotdog, jumping frog, elbow cookie'. We still call that song 'elbow cookie' now

natura · 05/10/2023 17:28

I, like pretty much everyone I've ever met, was 100% confident that my lover had no money, but DID have a Tromboleese.

Some sort of long complicated wind instrument, perhaps?

RuffledKestrel · 05/10/2023 17:50

Citizen Solider - Worst in me.
The line is
"I'm really trying my hardest,
Even when I'm in my darkest"

Every single time I hear
"Even when I'm in my Tardis" 😆

PollyannaWhittier · 14/10/2023 14:46

Resurrecting this thread because DSis and I had one of these yesterday !

Marit Larsen 'If a Song Could Get Me You'
Supposedly 'I could try it with a waltz', according to google. She definitely says 'I could try and lick the walls' Grin

justasoul · 08/11/2023 14:03

Re-resurrecting this thread as I was just listening to music with the lyrics on on Apple Music and have found out that the lyrics to TLC’s Unpretty actually say “you can buy all the makeup that MAC can make” rather than “all the makeup that man can make” Grin

LauraNorda · 08/11/2023 15:07

Buggles - Video killed the radio star.

I heard "They took the credit for your sick and simple need"

It's actually "They took the credit for your second symphony"

Sidebeforeself · 08/11/2023 15:17

@TeapotCollection and @dontletmedowngently I’m in a very quiet train carriage laughing stupidly at those !