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!

Is it not ‘I went to the Danger zone??!!’

Wait, WHAT?! That song feels like 11-12 years old!

I don't know! 😆I googled it and it's something Jeff Lynne said to fill in a gap, and it was meant to be a German word for 'greeting.'@notacooldad is right though, it is groos. There's no E on it (like I put earlier!)

I thought the chorus of that song started: "I'm going to flip top my neighbour" whereas it is actually "I'm going to lift up my labour [of love]"

I quite like my version though I'm still not sure how I would flip-top my neighbour.

I can't unhear that now! 😬

I thought it was Bruce until I read your comment!!!

I thought it for 30+ years! 😆

Always hear Niall Horan's 'slow hands' as 'sore hands', poor love with his sore hands.

Belize and Stromboli are brilliant! DH has sung "my lovers got no money, he's got his stronger briefs" for the last 25 years

Hey Ya by OutKast - an old boyfriend used to sing 'Shake it like a cola-roid teacher'. I'm embarrassed even writing it down because I obviously slept with him and that is mortifying by association, but I don't know how else to spell it in order to give an accurate representation of the pronunciation.

I didn't feel able to correct him for some reason (probably because I was still a teenager), but how the fuck he came to the conclusion that 1. 'cola-roid teacher' was the correct lyric and 2. that a 'cola-roid teacher' was a real thing that could actually exist in any universe is beyond me.

That he also felt confident enough to sing it (wrong) at the top of his voice, while imitating the singer's tone and often dancing, every time the song came on just blew my mind, and also forced me to face up to the fact that he was quite thick. I'd sit there waiting for that part to come up, both dying inside and morbidly engrossed, like when you can't stop looking at something disgusting. 🙁

I am convinced that Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta are singing, " You're the Wizard of Oz", not "You're the one that I want..."

This is brilliant 🤣
Quacking with the broken barbie!

I agree about sex on fire.

My son in primary school played with a local music group on weekends, one of the songs they did for an end of term performance was this one, they had young teens singing "your sex is on fire" I thought it was really inappropriate!

Omg I’ve always thought this was

“oh Lordy my trouble with God”!!!

Wait! what? Aren't his socks on fire? Possibly due to inappropriate use of the tumble dryer.

My whole life is a lie!

I will have your back in this battle.

I never even questioned the guys flexibility, just sang along.

I'm every woman, it's all in me
I can read your thoughts right now, every one from A to Z

DH misheard it as "I can beat your balls right now"

Now I can only hear that version!

gotta share it, most of you will have seen in but for those who haven’t (you are in for a treat).

I always heard the Killers sing;

Somebody told me, She has a boyfriend,
that looks like her girlfriend,
wearing a bath sheet……

Its actually

somebody told me, She has a boyfriend
who looks like a girlfriend
that I had in February of last year

About 15 years ago, ‘Budapest’ by George Ezra got a lot of local radio airtime, so I heard it often driving to/from work. Was completely baffled by the chorus ‘Alivido’ - what does that even mean? Until my daughter pointed out he was saying ‘I leave it all’…
Sloppy diction! Humph!

And who's the tubby fellow featured in the hymn Silent Night? Round John Virgin as in Round John Virgin mother and child...

A typical one is ‘Starbucks lover’ instead of star crossed lover (Taylor swift).

I always thought it was “why do you, fill me up, fill me buttercup, baby…” instead of “build me up”

Loving these, especially “called me last night from Tesco” and “wife of a postman, wife of a postman”

For years we have sung “my lover’s got no money, he’s got his dungarees”

At least dungarees exist unlike trombolese?!!

No way. I have been singing this wrong forever then.