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Mishearing song lyrics

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Freeasabird76 · 06/03/2024 19:39

Just listened to Beyonce-texas hold emto have genuinely believed she was singing "Fuck Alexa" 😂.Anybody else got lyrics wrong?

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user1471455335 · 14/03/2024 15:28

Macandcheeese · 06/03/2024 20:18

I always mis hear 'bright young women, sick of swimming..' from The Little Mermaids part of your world as 'pregnant women sick of swimming'.

Omg I thought I was the only one!!

Katiesaidthat · 14/03/2024 15:31

Itsachange · 06/03/2024 20:07

My lover's got no money, he's got his tromboleeze

This is mine, exactly what I´ve been hearing since the 90s. Heard the singer´s first language isn´t English, so that must be the reason.

Katiesaidthat · 14/03/2024 15:45

newrubylane · 14/03/2024 14:46

Just had another one - singing along to Complicated by Avril Lavigne and it hit me, the first line is 'Chill out, what're you telling for?', not 'chill out, watch EL on 4'. I just assumed it was some American TV reference. Twenty years I've been singing that wrong 🤦

Oh, I always heard it as "chill out, what are you yelling for?"
So many modern singers´diction is shite.

IStandWithACrutch · 14/03/2024 15:45

Bin full of rasher on the 45.

foxychox · 14/03/2024 15:53

Not mine but I love it - Israeli men (instead of it's raining men, the weather girls).
Also, my daughter used to ask for Rocky Reindeer 4 (George Ezra what you waiting for) 🤣

newrubylane · 14/03/2024 16:03

Katiesaidthat · 14/03/2024 15:45

Oh, I always heard it as "chill out, what are you yelling for?"
So many modern singers´diction is shite.

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Yes, yelling. Typo by me!

KreedKafer · 14/03/2024 16:08

When I was about 11 and first heard Michael Jackson's Man In The Mirror, I thought "I'm starting with the man in the mirror / I'm asking him to change his ways / And no message could've been any clearer" was "I'm starting with the man in the mirror/ I'm asking him to change his face / And no moustache could have been any clearer".

I think I prefer my mishearing to the actual words to be honest.

hairbearbunches · 14/03/2024 16:09

DiscoBeat · 06/03/2024 20:48

I used to sing Whitney Houston Saving All My Love For You as a teenager and used to belt out 'but that's just an old bathtub scene' instead 'but that's just an old fantasy'.

Oddly, I never questioned the slightly strange words!

Oh my word. Someone else might have already pointed it out, haven't read all the thread but I'd think about getting into clairvoyancy if I were you 😂(sorry, I know that's incredibly bad taste, but it didn't half make me laugh. How prophetic!)

TheGhostILoveTheMost · 14/03/2024 16:16

I'm going to have all of you questioning your ears after this revelation...

Reef- place your hands

It's not hole!

KreedKafer · 14/03/2024 16:17

I've had to point out to about a dozen people over the years that the line in the chorus of Three Lions is 'Jules Rimet still gleaming' and not bloody 'Jewels remain still gleaming'.

HelenaWaiting · 14/03/2024 16:37

Tarkan · 08/03/2024 03:42

Earth, Wind and Fire's September

I still maintain that

(Party on) Say do you remember?
(Party on) Dancing in September

Makes more sense than the actual lyrics which are just

Ba-dee-ya, say do you remember?
Ba-dee-ya, dancing in September

Listen again. It's definitely "(Farty arse) Say that you remember".

For years, I thought Rick Astley was threatening to mistreat his woman: "And then I'm gonna give you up, Then I'm gonna let you down etc"

But my all time favourite was my mother's version of English Man in New York: "Wo-aoh, I'm an idiot, I'm an evil idiot."

backslashruby · 14/03/2024 17:53

Thin Lizzy's Whiskey In The Jar. I thought it was:

As I was going over the Cork and Kerry mountains
I saw a captive pharaoh and his money he was counting

user1471455335 · 14/03/2024 20:07

TheGhostILoveTheMost · 14/03/2024 16:16

I'm going to have all of you questioning your ears after this revelation...

Reef- place your hands

It's not hole!

Ohh place your haaaaaands....
On my hole....

Funkyslippers · 14/03/2024 20:12

InMySpareTime · 06/03/2024 20:35

Lay a Wispa** on my pillow (must have been love)
Might as well face it you're as thick as you look (addicted to love)
Santa baby, stick a saber under the tree for me
Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles fry on a mountain high
Young girl with eyes like potatoes (La Isla Bonita)

I'd love someone to lay a Wispa on my pillow! 🤣

HoneyWogan · 14/03/2024 22:43

Funkyslippers · 14/03/2024 20:12

I'd love someone to lay a Wispa on my pillow! 🤣

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Just don't leave the Lindor on the ground Grin

Wacadu · 14/03/2024 22:52

Who Do You Think You Are by The Spice Girls.

"'You have got to pick John up"

(You have got to reach on up)

IndecisiveWWUD · 14/03/2024 23:09

The Venga Boys. We're going to eat pizza. 😬

NoisyDachshunddd · 14/03/2024 23:15

Maltybiscuit · 06/03/2024 21:02

The Madonna song Like a Prayer

I swear she says Level Crossing
But actually it's Let the Choir sing !

I heard this when I was 13 and it has cemented in my brain for all time now

DiscoBeat · 15/03/2024 00:00

hairbearbunches · 14/03/2024 16:09

Oh my word. Someone else might have already pointed it out, haven't read all the thread but I'd think about getting into clairvoyancy if I were you 😂(sorry, I know that's incredibly bad taste, but it didn't half make me laugh. How prophetic!)

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AAAARRGH! I didn't even think of that. Very tasteless, I wouldn't have posted it if I had! But that is definitely what I used to think it was.

InMySpareTime · 15/03/2024 06:05

Take That's Back for Good:
"Got your lipstick Mark?" "Still on your coffee cup" "oh, yeah!"
I thought he wanted Mark back, if only so he could give him the lipstick.

hairbearbunches · 15/03/2024 07:31

NoisyDachshunddd · 14/03/2024 23:15

I heard this when I was 13 and it has cemented in my brain for all time now

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Me too with the Level Crossing. It will never be Let the Choir Sing to my ears. Never. 😂

Funkyslippers · 17/03/2024 12:39

Rachie1973 · 06/03/2024 22:57

Destinys Child - Independent Woman….

The shoes on my feet (Alf Garnet)
The clothes I'm wearing (Alf Garnet)
The rock I'm rocking (Alf Garnet)

That's hysterical! 🤣🤣🤣

JellyIegs · 27/03/2024 11:31

InMySpareTime · 15/03/2024 06:05

Take That's Back for Good:
"Got your lipstick Mark?" "Still on your coffee cup" "oh, yeah!"
I thought he wanted Mark back, if only so he could give him the lipstick.

Reminds me of my Take That misheards.

“It only takes a minute, girl” is surely “It only takes a miracle! To fall in love!”

…and I always heard

”A million love songs, Amiga” as in the games console. Still not sure what the lyrics are? Seem to remember being told it’s ‘a million love songs later’.

keeperofdarktails · 17/05/2024 19:57

I remember a song from the 80s by a band called cutting crew. The line was:

"Oh, I just died in your arms tonight, must have been something you said."

But I always heard "must have been something I ate."