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!

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Loved this ad when I was a kid!

Abba's "Gimme gimme gimme" - as a kid I thought it said 'Take me to the doctor's til the break of the day'

I thought it was “I’m gonna take my horse to the hotel room.” (Old Town Road)

Re Israelites - I used to think he sang ‘wake up in the morning baked beans for breakfast’.

I used to think ‘Poetry in Motion’ was ‘Oh a tree in motion’. Still sing that to this day

Oh god these are making me laugh. I've got a really new one. Heard Lady Gaga's new song for the first time and thought she was singing "do the dad dance".

And one that makes me laugh every time I hear it. Jason Derulo. "I got the shits on the floor". 😬

Lady Gaga
Cherry pie, cherry pie
No he can’t read my poker face

Dire Straits
Money for nothing and your drinks are free

Apparently even her Mum has said she thought it was Starbucks lovers. There's a good discussion on reddit about the reason why we mishear it (to do with the differences in the stresses when you sing it vs how you'd speak it).

I thought Black Box 'Ride on Time' had the lyrics:
'You're so ostentatious
You just walk right in, walk, walk, walk right in'
and not
'You're such a hot temptation
You just walk right in, walk, walk, walk right in'

Not sure why I thought walking in was ostentatious 🤷🏼‍♀️.

I much prefer ostentatious!

i set my son’s alarm to Ride On Time, because it starts “gotta get up! Gotta get up!” And if he isn’t awake enough to switch it off, he gets treated to the whoah-hos! It’s a morning livener, that’s for sure!

Ivor the Tiger is my new favourite.

I'm still convinced that in U2's Vertigo he's singing 'my bee's got vertigo' and not 'I'm in a place called vertigo' which doesn't even scan!

Maxell tapes advert used those very lyrics.

sorry just noticed that this has been identified with the YouTube video.

Going back eons, I thought the Clapping Song was 3,6,9, the goose drank wine the monkey chewed tobacco on the streets of Carlisle!

I mean, why would you.....

You weren't the only one getting those lyrics wrong...

I think I first heard it on the Noel Edmonds Breakfast Show on Radio One and I've never been able to hear it as any other lyrics since!

Ah! What a great radio show that was! I loved it so much and felt quite bereft when it ended and Noel moved on to television. It was truly the end of an era for me. Shortly it finished, I moved out of my parents' house and started married life. It was quite an abrupt change, leaving childhood behind and beginning my new adult life - and without the Noel Edmonds Breakfast Show to wake me up every morning!

Love, love, love this thread.

When I was an HLTA many years ago I worked with primary kids who needed extra group work. I had five or six little lovelies, and we were doing sums in the library. Suddenly this lovely little lad said, “Miss, do you like the curry song?” So I said that I didn’t know that one. He asked if he could sing it for me, and I said yes. He stood up and burst into song: “Ckicken Tikka tell me what’s wrong…”. I’ve never been able to hear ABBA’s Chiquitita the right way since! I’ll always remember him!

Karma chameleon.

A few years ago my kids loved the 'Shower the horse' song by Annmarie. 'Shower the horse, I'm gone' .
It's 'ciao adios I'm gone'

A few months ago there as a similar thread and someone said they knew someone who didn't like the kids listening to the ghost busters song, because they heard it as 'who you gonna call? Those bastards!!'. It makes me laugh every time.

‘You might as well face it, you’re a dick in a glove’

instead of ‘addicted to love’

Karma Chameleon. It’s literally the title of the song 🤣

Kate Perry I kissed a girl.
I genuinely thought it was like the taste of her cherry chopstick
Not cherry ChapStick.

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Well Ive been saying the song name incorrectly too.

I've always sang ' I love the king' until last year when I found out it was alive and kicking. Had a good laugh with friends over this.

Me too!! Haha love this one.

Steps! 5,6,7,8 - Yes, I know it doesn’t make any sense, but I heard:

My boobs hootin' baby
is drivin' me crazy
My obsession for perfection,
my
Dad’s called Dave!