To have only realised after THIRTY FIVE years that George Michael wasn't planning on a golden solo?!

[WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles]

Yes, I may as well share this with MN as it cheered DH up so much this morning...

I have only just realised (embarrassingly whilst singing this in earshot of DH ) that in Wake me you before you go go, George Michael wasn't actually singing "I'm not planning on a golden solo" and instead he just didn't want to be going solo

(disclaimer: I was young when this song came out! I assumed a golden solo he meant he didn't want to be in the spotlight - having written that down I realise how fucking stupid it sounds )

Also, he wasn't singing Cherrybug in this song either. Well who knew? (According to DH - everyone)

I'm dying a little inside here.

I always thought Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warne were singing "The lift is up where we belong" (I assumed they were having to wait for the lift to come back down) rather than "Love, lift us up where we belong" - which makes much more sense.

And it's not a lyric, but as a child, I always wondered why my dad was being paid in salad vegetables - because I misheard salary as celery.

Bat Out of Hell (Meatloaf) goes, "I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram, On a silver-black phantom bike"
Whereas I've always preferred, "I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram, Or a Cilla Black fan on a bike".

Husbands are proper meanies when it comes to making you feel foolish for misheard lyrics. Mine is just the same. I sneakily google the lyrics to songs before attempting to sing along these days.

Zemblanity me too. I’d been singing Karma Chameleon incorrectly for 30 years, I was about to point out my OH that he had the words wrong when I realised it wasn’t “red golden dreams”

@zemblanity it's actually true, every day is a school day I thought that too!

I can see this thread is going to be an education DH is currently singing along to the radio in the car, I'm listening closely to see if I have been stupid about anything else

that’s amazing OP.

Peter Kay’s misheard lyrics clip is hilarious, DH and I now genuinely sing “pork pie” in drive.

Livin’ on a prayer:

It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not

Same song and mine was :

Take my hand and we'll make it elsewhere ..........

'My pony plays the bongos' from we built this city on rock and roll. I don't know what it actually is but sure that's wrong...

Peter Kay's, "Just let me staple the vicar" makes me laugh every time ("We are family" - should be "just let me state for the record" or something.

I only realised last week that Celine Dion was saying, "Before you roll those dice/Baby think twice" and NOT, "Before you run (though it's nice), think twice"

I did wonder why she thought running was so nice.

My daughter heard this song for the first time on Tuesday. She thinks it's 'having cocoa'

I've given up even trying to correct OH's misheard lyrics. I think he just makes them up to annoy/entertain me these days! (Been listening for a lot of years... )
I'm loving all the comments on this thread - and learning a few things, too!!!

I've listened to it dozens of times, but I still can't hear how Shania Twain doesn't say "I can't believe you kiss your cock at night" in that don't impress me much. The context of the verse would suggest that it is actually his car he kisses...

@ReallyRatherBlonde is it Marconi plays the banjo? haha I don't know either

I feel better knowing I'm not the only one who mishead Boy George.

Also, if anyone can enlighten me about the Poppadums of love in Steve Miller Band's the Joker I would be genuinely grateful

It’s Marconi plays the mamba

When DD was little she begged me to play the "chilly bug" song in the car. I said, which one? She said you know and sang "do the chilly bug, do the chilly bug" .

Now she is 11 she hates it when I remind her of that

ah, that reminded me of when DS1 was little and he used to sing "Alan's in the Street" instead of Islands in the Stream...

@BadgertheBodger I think I love your sister.

@Anonanonanonanonanonanonanon that's hilarious 'Cilla Black fan on a bike !!!

A 'golden solo' sounds like a great one for the urban dictionary. Very specialist, I reckon.

FizzyIce
"Donkey away..." - that is quality!!!

Loving would be easy if your colours were like my dreams
Red, gold, and green, red, gold, and green

Not as I thought Wrinkled and green, wrinkled and greee-ee-en

No misheard lyrics - well, probably lots but I don't know they're wrong yet - but I just wanted to say I love your username OP.

dahlietta, it's the pompatus of love, which is a made up word. Poppadums makes more sense!

I only discovered a few weeks ago that to do the Time Warp, you don’t:

Put your hands on your hips
And bend your knees in time

You actually:

Put you hands on your hips
And bring your knees in tight

Thank you, drum123, that would explain why I couldn't hear what it was! Sneaky beggar, making up words...