Annie, are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?

[BarbaraVineFan]

…the lyrics of MJ’s ‘Smooth Criminal’, or so I thought until the age of about 25!!
Anyone else have funny misheard lyrics to share?

I thought it was “ceiling fan holders” 😀

I always thought it was cottage pie.

“Chortle Sire” 😂😂😂

Tina Turner - Bring Me Your Vest

My young cousin thought it was "goodbye sausage rolls" when Elton John sang 🙈

Ah, that does make more sense, crawfish being a Bayou thing.

YES! Never been able to hear that any other way though I knew it had to be wrong (or he was a contortionist).

Disco 2000 by Pulp:

I never knew that you'd get married, I would be living down here on my own, on that damn good moment thirty years ago.
I only found out a couple of years ago that it's "on that damp and lonely Thursday years ago".

‘This one goes out to the one I love, this one goes out to the one I left behind, Diane’

Not Diane but ‘fire’ apparently, (REM - The One I Love).

You have given me an earworm now @BarbaraVineFan 😂, but these are the MJ lyrics I know as well.

We have Hozier
I'll take my whisk and leave....

I misheard Michael Jackson a lot as a child!

Beat It actual lyrics:
Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.

My version:
Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to beat it, beat it
It's only Chucky startin' a fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

Man in the Mirror actual lyrics:
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer

My version:
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no messing's gonna mend any quivers

I can’t hide

Hmmm….Not sure anyone will know “hold you” by Gyptian (?)

But I always think I MUST be miss hearing the bit where he sings…

Mi eye dem dry and me nuh care
Me tek it anytime, anywhere
Inna di square seh me nuh fear
And as a woman, I will be dere

So promoted by this thread I looked it up… and reader, that it EXACTLY what he says! He really doesn’t give off the LGBTQ+ vibes…

Whyyyyyy??????

Bananarama.

'Robert de Niro's calling...talking to Tanya'.

I so believed these were the words I said to my partner 'I wonder what he's talking to Tanya about'. His face.......then the penny dropped.

😂😂😂

So did I. What are they then?

"Annie are you Ok? Are you ok Annie"

Not me, but DD was convinced that the Jam were singing about a "clown called Alice" for years.

parmesan (how bizare)

Love The Pixies. I always thought it was a song about a bass (er) instead of bassist until I bought the cd. I thought it was a foreign term for it. 🤣

I don't see it posted yet, but it had to go in as a top misheard lyric:

You're so vain

I think most people hear 'You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself go by'

When it is in fact 'as you watched yourself Gavotte'

I still sing it my way though. It makes more sense 😀

I only know that annie is ok because my sister bought the album and the text booklet cam with it.

Oh and that was always “talking lasagna” in my head.

My baby’s got no money, he’s got his trombelise

gala - freed from desire

I was concerned it wasn't a safe way to drive a fast car 😅

As a kid I thought the Desmond Dekker song "Israelites" was - my ears are alight...