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

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…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?

Now I'm dancing
It's like a dream
No end and no beginning
You're here with me
It's like a dream
LEVEL CROSSING 🤣

The Police "Message in a Bottle"
Singing along to the car radio the other week, and my other half had to pull over, he was laughing so hard......apparently the lyrics are "A year has passed since I wrote my note" and I always thought that line was "A year has passed since I broke my nose" 😂

"Beneath the knee" Denis Denis by Blondie

"The foulest dentures in the air" The Vincent Price bit in Thriller. "The foulest stench is in the air".

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I always thought Move like Jagger was ‘I want to remove my jacket’. I couldn’t understand why someone would keep singing about a jacket. Just take it off then..🤣

"A year has passed since I broke my nose". Message in a Bottle by The Police.

"Nobody wants to know the red droopy now". The Queen of 1964 by Neil Sedaka. (The actual lyrics, which I only discovered when I saw him sing it live, are "nobody wants an over-aged groupie now".)

Britney Spears - Toxic
“Sue Lawley, is taking over me”

Have we had the song by Neil Diamond about the trendy vicar - the Reverend Blue Jeans?!

Ah OP, thanks to your thread I am sorted for the day.

I travel a lot for work and I off out shortly for a full day of driving.

On Spotify I have just found a Misheard Song Lyrics playlist 😂
I am so on this and think I might burst out laughing a fair few times listening to it.

Jason Derulu

“it’s too hot to sleep,
I got the shits on the floor,
but nothing on me”

Great that he stayed clean but he’s still got to clean up that floor.

In 'Are You Lonesome Tonight', Elvis sings 'do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare ..'
In high school I overheard my friend singing 'the chairs in your parlour, cementy and bare'.
I asked her why she thought it was that, and she said she'd assumed he'd taken all the furniture when he left and she was only left with cement chairs.

Way, waaaay back in the 60s (I am old), there was a group called Herman's Hermits. They had a song called 'She's a Must to Avoid', but I'd not seen it written down so was happily singing 'She's a Muscular Boy'.

The Jean Genie he loves chicken snacks

I thought The Police were singing about Sue Lawley, rather than "So Lonely".

I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide!

I've just had to google this as well. You and me both OP

She told me her name was Billie Jean
As she crossed the scene
And heavy Hitler with ice cream
Being the one
Good dance, oh lord, being round

They also had a song called Two Silhouettes, which included the (rather alarming) lyrics 'Let me in, or else I'll beat down your door' - but it sounds much more like 'I'll wee down your door'.

When I was younger I had a music teacher who was incredibly talented but a bit brusque and serious in his manner, quite old school in his methods, the kind of person you can't imagine was ever a child or did anything silly. One day he told me that when he was a boy (this must have been the 1950s or 1960s) they had to sing a hymn in school that contained a line that was something like "none knew what pains He bore" (He being Jesus). He used to sit there wondering who Painsey was.

Same. And I also imagined a musical instrument, something like an extended trumpet.

Went to a Catholic school and we sang a lot of hymns, both in school and at church. I never once saw a hymnal with the word written down, but everyone else seemed to know them and we newbies just picked them up by osmosis. There was one hymn in particular whose real words I only found out much later in life.
In 'Soul of my Saviour' the words are 'save me from the foe malign'. I used to warble away quite happily 'save me from the foam, a line!' In my head I had rationalised that the person was drowning and shouting for a line to save him from the foamy water'.

Also The Police: "My poo hole aches with every step you take" !

Maybe she's giving off brown noise as she walks

I should have included a link, as this one isn't the most well-known, but it's as clear as day if you listen from 1:58!

I thought it was Eddie are you wonky?

Warm smell of policemen rising up through the air. Hotel California

This was me!

I sing Warm smell of fajitas rising up through the air