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

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ffs78 · 29/12/2015 22:41

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?!

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IWannaHoldYourHand · 31/12/2015 12:18

I thought Cheryl Cole was singing 'I don't need a pair of she's instead of Parachute. No idea where I thought the song title came from.

When I was little I thought Cutting Crew I just died in your arms, was I just died in your area Confused

Dp thought Paul Weller was stepping into his Peacock Soup. And he thought that McFly were singing 'I'd like to bone her, cos she puts me in the mood' in 5 colours in her hair.

I tend to get names wrong, I thought The Go! Team were the goat team. And I always thought the White Stripes album Get Behind Me Satan, was Santa.

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IWannaHoldYourHand · 31/12/2015 12:19

Bah, the Cutting Crew one was Died in your arse tonight. Not area Blush

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IWannaHoldYourHand · 31/12/2015 12:22

Oh and as a cool kid in clubs I sang 'I predict a Diet' Blush

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StrictlyMumDancing · 31/12/2015 12:36

sofiria I always heard it as 'I'm blue, I'm in need of a diet'!

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MrsToddsShortcut · 31/12/2015 12:37

Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop.

Apparantly the lyrics are 'Just then a Policeman stepped up to me and asked us, please, hey, would we all care to get in line'

For years I thought it was ''Just then a Policeman stepped up to me and asked us, please, Hey! Whoopy Cat!'.

I honestly thought it was Robert Plant being 'groovy'...Blush Blush Blush

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mrschatty · 31/12/2015 17:19

Can I add a second one...

Sexual healing... The line IS "I can't wait for you to operate..."
I still sing "I can't wait for you to ovulate..." obsessed with conception much Hmm

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Greenteandchives · 31/12/2015 17:47

Just thought of another one... I thought Halo sang 'like a silicone holder...' Not 'The ceiling can't hold us..' . Seriously. I did.

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Caffeinator · 01/01/2016 23:22

There is a site dedicated to this too;
www.kissthisguy.com/

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SinisterBumFacedCat · 02/01/2016 00:42

I've spent so many Christmas' sing Fairytale of New York as "the boys of the Nypd choir were singing Go Away" Blush

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Mmmmcake123 · 02/01/2016 01:01

Not read whole post so sorry if repeating

Kings of Leon as sung by my nephew

These socks are on fire

Should be this sex is on fire

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StillMedusa · 02/01/2016 01:41

I thought Beyonce's 'All the single ladies' was 'I'm a cigarette' Blush

My Mum... after it had been no 1 for 9 weeks (and she took me to see Grease at the cinema) turned to me and asked 'why are they singing 'you're the wizard of Oz?!' Grin

And this week on the radio, Ds2 who is 18, was singing to 'Pina Colada'
'I like being a Koala....' Grin

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AgentCooper · 02/01/2016 14:14

Sorry, way back up the thread, but Moose what the hell is Justin Timberlake singing in Mirrors if not 'pocket full of soap'?! I always just thought it was a weird lyric, something to do with cleaning the mirror in question! Grin

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AwfulCuntForTheButter · 02/01/2016 15:58

Can't believe I forgot this one... Taylor Swift's Bad Blood, where it goes 'You made a really deep cut'.

I heard it as 'You're a really big cunt'. I much prefer that version!

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Ohdearohdearme · 02/01/2016 16:02

When I was a kid I used to think that Paul Young sang, "every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you," and Michael Jackson sang, "blame it on the bookie." I also heard the lyrics from Bananrama's Love in the First Degree as "guilty as a cocoa bean," not "guilty as a girl can be."

DH thinks it sounds like Adele is singing "set fire to Lorraine" and that the lyrics to Brimful of Asha aren't "everybody needs a bosom for a pillow," but "everybody needs to bugger Filipinos." Shock this is especially awkward given that SIL is from the Phillipines...

DXBMermaid the R.E.M lyrics are in fact "call me when you try to wake her."

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JustMeAndHim · 02/01/2016 17:05

I used to sing " the frog on the Tyne is all mine all mine " until very recently Blush

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signandsingcarols · 02/01/2016 17:41

thank you thank you thank you, I am literally sobbing with laughter, and thrilled I am not the only one who heard 'the Reverend blue jeans' Blush

I also thought the carol Good King Wenceslas, was good king Wences last looked out...... (and always wondered what he happened to him after that so he never looked out again...) Blush

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Osmiornica · 02/01/2016 18:13

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Shakey15000 · 02/01/2016 18:29

"everybody needs to bugger Filipinos" that's so bad it's hysterical Grin

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QueenStreaky · 02/01/2016 18:30

These are great Smile.

I remember someone's granny at a party in the 80s, singing along when a Police song (Message In A Bottle) came on. She refused to be persuaded that it wasn't Sausage In A Parcel. Bless.

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BonitaFangita · 02/01/2016 19:15

I always wondered why Taylor Swift wanted to go out dressed as hamsters in the song 23
DS loves singing in the car and when he was little loved warbling along to Thriller 'cause this is Cilla Night Grin
I also thought young girl had eyes like potatoes
I'm sure there's loads more

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Potterwolfie · 02/01/2016 19:27

There's a Blondie song, I think Heart of Glass, where it sounds like she sings 'you cheese me like a gibbon'...but am pretty sure I've misheard it...Grin

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wibblypig1 · 02/01/2016 22:44

DH always thought the line in Brimful of Asha was "everybody needs a 10 foot squirrel" instead of "everybody needs a bosom for a pillow".
In Grease - "You're the One That I want, you are the vol-au-vent. Ohhh ohhh ohhh...honey"
DD: "Let it Gold, Let it Gold... Let the storm rage, John. The Coles never bothered me anyway"

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InQuiteAChristmasPickle · 02/01/2016 23:44

One that always makes me lol on these threads is "I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram, like a Cilla Black fan on a bike" Grin.

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PurpleDaisies · 02/01/2016 23:47

"You make me feel like a natural woman" turned into "you make me feel like an actual woman" in my head...

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GoringBit · 03/01/2016 00:12

Destiny's Child, Bug-A-Boo, I heard 'You buggin' me' as 'You bugger me.' Blush

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