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AIBU to ask which lyrics you've been getting wrong?

115 replies

AIBUPODCAST · 03/07/2019 11:15

Hello - Producer Amanda has just found out that a friend of hers thought the lyric to the first line of Brain Adams' Summer Of 69' was 'Got my first real sex dream' .... it's 'Got my first real SIX STRING' .. an easy mistake to make though...
So AIBU to ask for your similar lyrical mix-ups?

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NotAgainKen · 03/07/2019 11:21

I've been listening to Missy Elliott's Work It while running, and have just realised that the line isn't 'boy, lift it up, let's make a toaster'. (It's 'make a toast... ah') 'Toaster' always sounded a bit incongruous but I assumed it was a complicated sexual position I hadn't heard of.

sar302 · 03/07/2019 13:09

"I'm gonna take my horse to the hotel room". Instead of "Old town road".

Its a country song - I was imagining a horse being tied up behind a motel somewhere in the Deep South.

Apparently not.

My dad used to sing "I wear goggles when you are not near", instead of "my world crumbles", to I Try by Macy Gray. But that may have been deliberate Grin

Greywalls12 · 03/07/2019 13:16

Meghan trainer all about that bass. My dad used to sing 'all about that bass, no gerbils' instead of 'all about that bass, no treble'
When i told him what the lyrics actually were, he said he thought the song was a bit weird, being about gerbils GrinGrin

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/07/2019 13:16

The Four Seasons - Let's Hang On To What We've Got.
The actual lyrics are 'give me a second turning' but I'm always convinced that Frankie Valli is demanding 'give me a feckin' turnip'!

'You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille - with four hundred children and a crop in the field'.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/07/2019 13:20

The Four Seasons - Let's Hang On To What We've Got.

Listen from 1:57 Grin

BollocksToBrexit · 03/07/2019 13:20

OMI - Cheerleader

I couldn't work out why he was so happy about finding himself a jellybear.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/07/2019 13:25

1:48 - 'When the clock strikes 12, we'll fill our pants' Grin

TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot · 03/07/2019 13:29

"There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do. I guess the rain's down in Africa."

And from Seal's Kiss from a Rose, "To me you're like a roller dictionary." Instead of "To me you're like a growing addiction I can't deny."

Kentishgal · 03/07/2019 13:33

"Should I give up or should I just keep chasing payments" (should be pavements). I figured it was a song about debt collectors.

Herbalteahippie · 03/07/2019 13:35

Sister sledge ‘we are family’
Just let me staple the vicar instead of just let me say for the record

Herbalteahippie · 03/07/2019 13:36

Rem losing my my religion ‘LETS PEE IN THE CORNERR’

SudowoodoVoodoo · 03/07/2019 13:41

Craig David has obviously just relaunched his career because he can't afford the Lego Grin

There's another recent one where the female sings about putting a roof rack on him (the one where she doesn't pick up the phone , you know he's only calling because he's drunk and alone.)

soulrunner · 03/07/2019 13:42

Skunk Anansie- ‘just because you’re rich , it doesn’t make it right’

Apparently it’s ‘just because it feels good’ but I actually think my lyrics are better Grin

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/07/2019 14:03

Rem losing my my religion ‘LETS PEE IN THE CORNERR’

1:14 - "Let me in or else I'll wee down your door" Grin
I think it's meant to be 'beat' instead of 'wee', which isn't really much better.

Lookingatthestars89 · 03/07/2019 14:07

@AIBUPODCAST I always think it sounds like sex dream Grin

WildCherryBlossom · 03/07/2019 14:19

Cornershop:

Green poodle-basher on the 45

Poor green poodles Confused

CaptainCabinets · 03/07/2019 14:21

The Peter Kay sketch about misheard lyrics has me howling every time! ‘Just let me staple the vicar’ for the Sister Sledge song. Grin

Timeforachangeof · 03/07/2019 14:41

This is an oldie
Mersey dotes and dozy dotes and Little lambsy divey
Diddly, divey too wouldn’t you.
Answers on a postcard

TooManyPaws · 03/07/2019 14:43

Bob Marley: 'with a roof rack over your head' instead of 'a roof right over your head'

As a PP but more: 'four hundred children and a crap in the field'

HopelessLayout · 03/07/2019 15:12

Loads, but most recently: "We rub a Mexican monkey"
(Daft Punk—"We're up all night to get lucky")

skybluee · 03/07/2019 15:19

Eminem

Sing for the moment

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our
Checks in the mail
It's fucked up ain't it

I thought it said
checks in the mail
fuck the payment!

TopEndChops · 03/07/2019 16:34

Papa dont preach, I'm in loser street as opposed to I've been losing sleep

TurboTeddy · 03/07/2019 16:43

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

You're absolutely right, I listened and now I'm cackling like a witch.

EmeraldShamrock · 03/07/2019 17:35

Oh so many.
One it goes "put your hands up so the ceiling can hold us" I truly sang like a silicone holder.
I said to DD that's a silly song, to put your hand up like a silicone holder. Blush

doctorsnoddy · 03/07/2019 18:02

For years I thought the second line of Sex Bomb by Tom Jones was 'infra red semen going through the night" which has made me feel really icky about the song. Turns out it's 'infra red se me coming through the night" but it's all too late for me.