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Lyrics you've got wrong

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  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,434
    He was good, but not as good as Aribo.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,381
    What a photograph... stick in the family OUR BUM!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,381
    The Fall - Athlete Cured

    These are the real lyrics, "The German athletic star was continually ill". My misapprehension will be easy to guess.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,391
    Stig said:
    The Fall - Athlete Cured

    These are the real lyrics, "The German athletic star was continually ill". My misapprehension will be easy to guess.
    Nope, not easy. not a scooby.
  • Always thought that Hendrix's 'Wind Cries Mary' contained the line 'the jets are in their boxes'.  Closer inspection reveals the jacks are in their boxes.  Shame really as it destroys my smart arse observance.



      
  • Danepak
    Danepak Posts: 1,642
    A friend of mine thought Bangles were singing:
    'Just another man named Monday'
  • IanJRO
    IanJRO Posts: 693
    tom_k said:
    My Mrs thought "papa don't preach" by Madonna was Poppadom preach!
    When my sister and I were kids and this came on the radio we used to sing poppadom feet! 🙂
  • twiggyaddick
    twiggyaddick Posts: 1,598

    although I try to hide it, its clear, I wear goggles when you are not near

    - Macy Gray - I Try

  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,614
    Danepak said:
    A friend of mine thought Bangles were singing:
    'Just another man named Monday'
    Yeh right.......when the song is actually called "Manic Monday"   or did they think the song was also called "man named Monday"
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,227
    Nirvana - On A Plain

    ”Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who don’t make sense” - I used to wonder what they had against Ranulph Fiennes. To be honest I was mostly surprised that Cobain had even heard of him. 

    Turned out he was singing “to write off lines that don’t make sense” which is far less interesting but a lot more logical really. 

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  • Coyotejohn1947
    Coyotejohn1947 Posts: 1,164
    My sister-in-law (as a teenager) for many months sang 'well I hurdled through the grapevine'

    real lyric is of course 'well I heard it on the grapevine...'

    It still hurts her 45 years later when mentioned.....!



  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,381
    The Specials - Long Shot Kick De Bucket. I always thought it was Long Shot Sticky Monkey. And frankly, my lyrics are better.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 38,029
    Search "jewels remain" on Twitter - a lot of people never knew it's "Jules Rimet still gleaming".
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,316
    My wife found this account on Instagram in which the guy performs snips of songs with his misheard lyrics, complete with visual props…

    Some of them are very good


    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFIyp7lIogb/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,084
    Sister Sledge, Thinking of You:

    I'm thinking of you and the things you do to me
    That makes me love you, now I'm living in Bexleyheath
  • WHAddick
    WHAddick Posts: 1,204
    edited February 2025
    Pet shop Boys. West End Girls.

    I always thought the lyrics were ' in a West  End Town in Danwelt'
    My girl friend thought it was 'in a West End Town the telling was'

    We were both wrong of course.

    Kaiser Chiefs I predict a riot. Sounded like ' I put it aside' to me for years even tho I know the title!
  • Danepak
    Danepak Posts: 1,642
    Few years ago during a supermarket visit, they were playing Constant Craving (K.D. Lang). My daughter asked me why she sang: Can't stand gravy ?
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,115
    Many hours have I spent in the cupboard and cried. 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,872
    Woman at work……

    ”I am the music man, 
    I come from Daniel Way”

    She thought it was a street name ffs. 
  • Venus

    Well, I'm your Venus,
    I'm your fire,
    George is  ZAYAN (fucker in my native biblical language)

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  • Archie Bell and the Drells; "Go silly walking..."


  • HarryAMuse
    HarryAMuse Posts: 1,178
    Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon:

    Misheard “you and me endlessly” as “you and me and Lesley”

    I thought The Rascals were proposing some sort of ménage à trois. Saucy!
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,945
    From My Girl by the Temptations 

    " sweetest song from the birds in latrines " 
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,285
    edited March 2025
    Reading the other thread... 

    Who knows Seth. I mean, who would have thought it figures?"

    I honestly thought that line in Ironic ended... "its the Earth". 
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,625
    edited March 2025
    Madonna……”I fell in love with some Dago “Isla Bonita”……it honestly sounds as if that’s what she’s singing.
    Just realised I already posted similar earlier in the thread….Ooops.🫣
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,296
    WHAddick said:
    Pet shop Boys. West End Girls.

    I always thought the lyrics were ' in a West  End Town in Danwelt'
    My girl friend thought it was 'in a West End Town the telling was'

    We were both wrong of course.


    Ha, I just looked up what the line actually is. I’ve always sung ‘in the west end town of Denwild’ lol 
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,075
    My son when in junior school thought M People were singing you've got to search for the squirrel inside yourself!
  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    A 70-year-old story:-
    I had recently started infant school, and my new friend Trisha had come for tea.  We were out in the garden and she was singing at the top of her voice a well known {??!!!) hymn.
    "Drown him, drown him all ye little children.  He is love, He is love" she carolled.
    "Don't you mean 'Crown him'?" my mother enquired mildly.
    "Oh no!" Trisha insisted, " And I know I'm right, 'cos I go to Sunday school"

    Sunday school was at a Baptist Church, but somehow I don't think that full-immersion adult baptism was the source of the confusion!!
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,080
    My son when in junior school thought M People were singing you've got to search for the squirrel inside yourself!
    Wasn’t that Richard Gere? 😉😆

    (I may be deliberately conflating celebrity names)
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,151
    From Frank Turner's 'Reasons Not to Be an Idiot':

    'She's all wrapped up in her invisible llama'