Misunderstood song lyrics.....

[Macdog]

dh and I were watching Alanis Morissette 'You Oughta Know' video.

He turned to me and said a friend of his thought the line:

"the cross I bear that you left me with"

was actually:

"the cross-eyed bear that you left me with"

PMSL imagining this

Anyone got any others??

i always thought eternal flame, bangles
was 'anti turn-off flame'
was too young to know what eternal meant

how about:
"s'cuse me while i kiss this guy"
a classic hendrix lyric!

DD1 thought song lyrics in Pocohontas that were sung by the English and the Native Americans were far different to:

Savages, savages, dirty rotten savages.

She was forever singing (to my eternal delight)

Sandwiches, sandwiches dirty rotten sandwiches

I miss those halcyon days.... Now she's asking boys if they wish their girlfriends were hot like her! Sigh.............

My kids used to sing along

"every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you" (Paul Young?)

and that well-known song the trucks don't work

'blue heaven is a place on earth'
instead of 'ooh heaven is a place on earth'
by belinda carlisle

A friend of mine managed to turn "Spare him his life from this monstrosity!", from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, into..

"Spare him his life from his one-sausage tea!"...pmsl when she first told me.

dd2 used to sing 'valerie' instead of 'out of reach' [gabrielle]

When I lived Puerto Rico, I had to teach some of the children the American national anthem....

Instead of "Oh Say can you see"

One little girl sang "Oh Jose can you see"

Until the princess Diana concert I thought Genesis song was 'she seems to have a physical attraction' not 'she seems to have an invisble touch yeah'

furry jackie
furry jackie
dummy too
dummy too
mr harris-tina
mrs harris-tina
bing bang bong
bing bang bong

ds1 singing frere jacques

Sister thought
"( when the) going gets tough"
was actually
"go and get stuffed"

Hubby thought
"a shot rings out in a memphis sky"
was actually
"shuffling eyes in a memphis sky"
U2 - in the name of love

niece thought
" I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien "
was actually
"I'm an alien , I'm an evil alien"
Sting - an englishman in new york

Ds used to sing 'Please Dont Go' by KC & The Sunshine Band as beans on Toast.

sealions on a shirt

boots are made still gleaming

should be

three lions on a shirt

jules rimet? still gleaming

dh just reminded me about Sandi Thom
"I wish I was a prawn cracker, with flowers in my hair"

my grandad used to think that the line in wonderwall by oasis that goes "you're gonna be the one that saves me" was "you're gonna be the one at sainsburys"!!

I really used to think that the line in Club Tropicana was
Oh, they're pissing in the sea

instead of
all that's missing is the sea

I recently discovered I had the words to ABBA's Gimme Gimme Gimme all wrong when ds1 was in his "I want to listen to ABBA again and again and again" phase.

Turns out it's not really "gimme gimme gimme a ladder to midnight" after all, but man after etc!

Iggy Pop Lust for Life:

"Last night I hypnotised some chickens
Well I'm just a modern guy
Of course I've had it in my ear before"

No idea what the real lyrics are. My favourite real lyrics that really should be misheard are Black Grape, Reverend Black Grape (I think)

" My father's father's father's father
by nature he was bendy
We are the tea time tribe
and we are over friendly"

another from when the going get tough:

"touch my bum 'cause it hurts"

i think it's actually touch my bumper something something

On a silver black phantom bike - from Bat Out Of Hell.

I still think it sounds like "i'm a Cilla Black fan on fire"

and no one can persuade me otherwise

When i was at primary school only the last class got hymn books. It wasn't until I went to middle school that i realised the line wasn't "lettuce love show", it was "let his love show"

" i wore goggles when you were not here"

(macy gray "my world crumbnles when you are not here"

It's a hard egg.
Nothing but a hard egg.

• Bonny Tyler.

The lift goes up where we belong. That song from an officer and a gentleman

I must be the only person of my generation not to hear "Es are good" in the song Ebenezer Goode. I'm just a bit naive.

DS is convinced that the nursery ryhme is "Tom, Tom the Michael's son", possibly because he doesn't know what a piper is.