Funny Misheard Lyrics

[Epiphany]

Coolness is relative. You're cool in my book, Mars... which may or may not be a good thing... maybe...

[Red Fish]

She's got a ticket to ride

She's got a ticket to ride

She's got a ticket to ride

And she don't care.

My baby donkey.

My baby donkey.

My baby donkey[...]

[Farin]

say something,

say something

ouch!

Advert ~ Blur

(real lyrics: "say something else")

[Heard It On The XM]

Sometimes misheard lyrics actually make a lot more sense than the real ones. Case in point: U2's "When Love Comes To Town".

Actual lyric:

Ran into a juke joint

Where I heard a guitar scream

The notes were turning blue

I was dazin' in a dream

My misheard lyric:

Ran into a juke joint

Rammed my head against a screen

The notes were turning blue

I was dazin' in a dream

Before I first saw the printed lyrics, I thought Bono was singing about hitting his head and knocking himself silly. But at least that makes more sense than the real verse, which don't clearly explain why Bono ends up in an altered state.

[MindCrime]

I used to think the lyrics to I Ran by the Flock of Seagulls was...

Iran is so far away...

because of the hostages being released at the time.

[MindCrime]

I thought "Our Lips Are Sealed" by the Go-Gos was "Alex the Seal"

[Crazy Don]

I thought "Our Lips Are Sealed" by the Go-Gos was "Alex the Seal"

And I always thought it was "Honest, I See You"!

[JumboXL]

According to various lyrics sites, the words of the Love Unlimited number one hit read: "Walking in the rain with the one I love".

My ears always hear "F-ing in the rain with the one I love".....

Edited May 30, 2008 by Guest

[JumboXL]

For a while I have thought Eric Clapton's Forever Man was about a cowboy proposing to a cowgirl:

Won't you be my bowlegged woman?

I'll try to be your bowlegged man....

[Tenacious_Peaches]

[_Laurie_]

Drops Of Jupiter ~ Train

Tell me did you sail across the sun

Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded

and that heaven is overrated

I thought he was saying "and that VanHalen is overrated"....

[PriestofSyrinx]

I thought that

"Dirty deeds and their done dirt cheep"

went "dirty deeds and the thunder chief!"

[TheLizard]

I heard almost the same thing the first time, except instead of "chief" I heard "cheese".

[cyberjudge]

"walking with my feet 10 feet off of Beale" Walking in Memphis-Marc Cohn

I thought this was 10 feet off a "heel" (or "peel", or even "pier")

I didn't know the correct line until I saw the lyrics, and even then I had to google "Beale" to find out it is a street in Memphis nicknamed "home of the blues".

[The Seeker]

She Said She Said -- The Beatles

It's really

I said, Who put all those things in your head

Things that make me feel that I'm mad

and I thought it was

I said, Who put all those things in your hair

Things that make me feel that I'm mad

I prefer my version... and I still sing/think hair along because I always forget it's head

[Skuff]

In The Beatles' "Revolution," My brother and I thought that John was singing, "But if you go carrying pictures of Gemini," Intead of "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao."

Remember, this was about 4-5 years ago! We had it on a tape of a few Beatles' albums my aunt made for us, as we only had a tape player in our car. It think this was the same time I was afraid of "Yesterday" and ran out of the living room when we were copying "1" to tape and it came on. Ya, I was crazy.

[Crazy Don]

In The Beatles' "Revolution," My brother and I thought that John was singing, "But if you go carrying pictures of Gemini," Intead of "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao."

I always thought it was "But if you go carryin' pictures of Carolyn Mowell…"

For years I wanted to know who this Carolyn Mowell was, and why her last name was Mowell and not Howell!

And I thought the line in "American Pie" was "in a coat he borrowed from Jane Steen," and I kept wondering who Jane Steen was! (It's James Dean.)

[poetrychick]

I think the funniest one I have ever heard would have to be is the Secret Agent Man song. My aunt thought it was "secret asian man". lol.

Edited July 3, 2008 by Guest

[Farin]

heeey, my sun-dried gum

heeey, my sun-dried gum

actual lyrics:

"heey my sun-eyed girl

heey my sun-eyed girl"

Girl ~ Beck

[MuzikTyme]

Another Brick in the Wall partII

I always thought it said," If you can't keep your seat then you can't have any pudding!!!

When in fact it sang:

If you don't eat yer meat, ya can't have any pudding!

The outcome most likely was the same regardless of the lyrics.

[MindCrime]

ZZ-Top Legs

At the end of the song, I always thought instead of "Oh, I want her, said, I got to have her" he was singing "Oh I want her, sh!t I got to have her

I didn't find out the correct lyrics until just now.

[TheLizard]

I always thought it was the expletive too. I guess I should be careful not to sing it that way again...

[Farin]

Canned Heat ~ Jamiroquai

"got candy in my ears tonight, baby"

is actually

"got canned heat in my heals tonight, baby"

...makes more sense with the overall "dance" theme of the song too...

[MindCrime]

In Bullet with Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins...

I thought that he was singing "Rattling a cage", instead of "Rat in a cage"

[Kevin]

Just about all of these :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwktwf4kMqc&feature=channel_page