I’ve been singing these lyrics wrong for 21 years!

[chilliheeler123]

Somewhere Only We Know by Keane.

Apparently it’s “oh, simple thing, where have you gone?” and not “oh sympathy, where have you gone?”

Entirely boring thread (and probably far more worthy of Dull Women’s Club than MN), but I cannot be the only one!

Me too! In fact my kids have always sung 'oh sympathy' in a sarcastic way when I am not being sympathetic and we realised the other week that it was not actually the lyric! I am glad it's not just me!!

Is it???

So what is it?

I used to think Al Green’s ‘take me to the river and watch me drown’ was a bit odd. Then someone told me it was ‘wash me down’! 😂

Karma chameleon

An old one, but I thought in Twisting the Night Away, the line was Dancing with the chicken stacks. It's actually Dancing with the chick in slacks.

For years I thought the chorus of ‘Venus’ was “I’m your penis I’m your fire, joy to sire”. Turns out it’s “I’m your Venus I’m your fire at your desire”

I could never understand how they were getting it played on the radio!

I thought it was one way ticket to the moon ,, turns out it’s one way ticket to the blues ,,

The titanic theme tune

'And the hot dogs will go on'

Nothing will convince me it's any different!

Probably showing my age but there used to be a section on radio 1 in the 80’s called twisted lyrics. The trouble is I can’t sing along Robert Flack, tonight I celebrate my love for you since. I think ‘tonight I sellotape my glove to you’ sounds so much better 😁

I thought it was carpet knife

Ive posted about this before, but the song Lucille by Kenny Rogers, I always thought the line after 'you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille' was 'four hundred children and a crop in the field'

It was actually 'four hungry children'

My kids’ best misheard lyrics:

hey scissors gold scissors, gotta get those gold scissors (hey sister, go sister etc from Lady Marmalade)

I wanna woop woop woop like a broken barbie, quack quack quack cos I like to party (Demi Lovato- solo)

and my own best misheard lyric, from Carly Simon’s You’re so vain: and you’re where you should be all the time, and when you’re not your with some underworld spy or the wife of a postman, wife of a postman yeah…

Robert De Niro’s waiting, talking with Tanya…..….. and not in fact, talking Italian.

my misheard lyric is
“Can’t stand gravy”
for “constant craving” by k.d. lang
I still can’t see it normally now

Thinking it was to do with knives is more sinister than a pp that thought it was kiss my cock at night.

I used to hear the song the king of rock n roll on the radio.
hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque.

I always thought and to this day still sing if I hear it- hot dog, jumping frog, I want cookies.

Two from Taylor Swift

Gotta Love Those Starbucks Lovers

”Gotta Long List Of Ex Lovers”

I want you, that’s my toe

”I want you, bless my soul”

You’ll never change my spinnaker - poetic, nautical, wistful.

You'll never change what’s been and gone - the actual lyrics.

Noel and Liam, I’m available for further lyric suggestions for a small fee.

I just googled the lyrics to Danger Zone! What...? 😂 I've always sung I Went To The Danger Zone too 🤯

This made me laugh out loud for several minutes 😂 Thanks, I needed that! 😁

Omg!!! I thought it was ‘I want cookies’! No way its Alberquerque!

Desmond Dekker's song "The Israelites" has always sounded like
"Get up in the morning, slaving for bread sir, so that every mouth can be fed,
Oh oh oh me ears are alight"! 😂

I give you ABBA Super Trouper:
“I was sick and tired of everything
when I called you last night from Tesco”.

Apparently it’s Glasgow.

I think my version’s better.

“shower the horse, I’m done.”

Instead of “ciao adios, Im done.”

Anne Marie

Yep I wonder for years what a ‘trombolise’ was….before you could actually just google song lyrics.
Tears for Fears ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ there’s a line that goes ‘married with a lack of vision’ and I thought it was ‘married women lack ambition’.

This whole thread brings to mind that Peter Kay sketch about misheard song lyrics. I honestly thought I was going to crack a rib laughing the first time I saw that.

‘Just let me staple the vicar……’