To ask what song lyrics you've totally misheard?!

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Our lips are sealed - Fun Boy Three. I still sing "I licked a seal!" Does anybody else still habitually sing a lyric they know they've heard wrong?!

Maroon 5 - Sufar

"When I'm without you, I'm something weak"

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"When I'm without you, I'm soaked in wee".

Wasn't actually my mishearing but once I was told about it I can never hear the correct words!

My DP, since the day we met, would occasionally quote 'Thank you Mercy Duncan' as a desert island disc. Sister had played it years ago on her record player... I'd never heard of it, and couldn't find it on Google.

Last year the subject came up again. Apparently it was the B side of the Eurovision song, 'A Little Peace' by Nicole (giving our ages away here..)

Well...Google found it then.

The song is actually a little bit multilingual and is called 'Thank you, Merci, Danke'.

Hasn't made any difference though

Sugar, obviously. No idea about Sufar lyrics.

Macy gray: though I try and hide it it's clear my world crumbles when you are not near

I hear: though I try to hide it it's clear I WEAR GOGGLES WHEN YOU ARE NOT HERE

DM still mentions that Gabrielle song she likes - how to read (out of reach)

DS - Praise you like a shoe (like I should - Fatboy Slim 'Praise You')

DS1 and 2 have fairly major issues with lyrics. We Built this City on Rock and Roll apparently contains the line 'tell us you need us cos we're just chips and fools.' And the 30 Seconds to Mars song has been re-christened 'From Wednesday'.'

And there's one out at the moment about 'not running from myself no more' which is, according to DS2 'not running from my cell phone.'

Town called ALICE?
And more recently 'oh I think I have found myself a 'cherry led' (whatever that is )instead of cheerleader

My dh and the French lullaby "Frère Jacques". Instead of "Sonnez les matines" I heard him sing "soggy clementinas". DD didn't seem to mind.

"With my body in soap I love you more than you'll ever know"

(I've had the) Time of My Life, Dirty Dancing. Actual line is:

"With my body and soul....."

yy Ianbro to 'oh a tree in motion'. Never hear the p sound.

Yep, I'm with your mum on that one, Maisie. I always heard trombolines and also presumed them to be some kind of musical instrument!

The Lonely Goat Herd - I was far to old when I realised it was "what a duet for a girl and goatherd" not "what 'ad you et".

I did used to wonder why Julie Andrews had suddenly gone Yorkshire for that one line...

Take me to the powder puff, instead of take me to the clouds above. In my defence, i would have been listening to it drunk in clubs.

Papa Don't Preach by Madonna. I think "Young girl with eyes like the desert" sounds like "Young girl with eyes like potato."

I was about 11 or 12 and listening to mum's Cliff Richard album and singing 'piss off honey, now we don't talk anymore' instead of ' it's so funny how we don't talk anymore' my parents and aunts and uncles were tipsy and actually fell of their chairs laughing at me!! Rude! They never corrected me though.

Kaiser Chiefs-"I predict a riot" always sounds like "I've got Tourettes" to me.

DH also thought for many years that the "Stay now" in East 17's "stay another day" was "sleigh bells"

Quinoa I mishear 'I predict a riot' as something Blur forgot to write circa the Great Escape.

I've just discovered (in the last 5 minutes!) that Outkast sing 'I never meant to make your daughter cry' in Ms Jackson, not 'make your doggy cry' Now I know the words I'm not actually sure how I misheard it for so long!

For years and years I assumed Where The Streets Have No Name had Bono imploring that he wanted to feel some lead in his face. 'I want to feel sunlight on my face' makes a little more sense.

And I'm still convinced that the Manic Street Preachers sing "you stole the sun from my arse"

Some of these have had me in hysterics. I thought it was 'Rotherham' instead of 'Rotterdam' in the beautiful south's song.

I always thought Wings were singing about "Mullikin' Time". (bloody awful dirge Mull of Kintyre that was in the charts for months).

vladthe I'm with you on both of those.

Shakespear's Sister. 6 year old me must have learned about Newton from somewhere because I went around singing 'An Emotional Thing' as 'Any Motion Law Thing.' Made sense at the time.

Also 'I'm blue, in Aberdeen I will die, in Aberdeen...'

More obscure, but as a teenager I heard 'and the roses turn into elephants' in Marilyn Manson's 'Great Big White World.' I remember thinking that was weird even for him.

Then, not misheard by me, but pointed out and now I can't unhear it, the classic: 'When A Man Loves A Walnut.'