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Songs We THOUGHT We Knew The Lyrics To!

Not2Good

I get the lyrics to some songs completely wrong. For years I thought that Bob Marlays "Jammin'" was "Johnny, Johnny, I hope you like Johnny too"!

Just heard 'The Smiths' with the lyrics in one of their songs (?) "Hang the DJ, hang the DJ" but today I guess it could be "Im the DJ, Im the DJ". Anyone else out there as bad as me....??!!

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ivytwine

playedalive wrote: »

I am terrible for this:

I always thought the chorus to Smashing Pumpkin's 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' was, instead of "Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage,

I thought it was: Despite all my rage, I am still just ready to cage (thought it was a metaphor for falling to pieces emotionally )

I posted this on facebook in a comment once to a friend and she had to correct me once and for all.

Seriously?! I thought it was rat too!

EDIT Nevermind I got confused. Ivy sleep now.

[Deleted User]

I always thought "Shorty" was "Charlie" for a lot of rap songs. Always wondered who Charlie was...

"Go Charlie, it's your birthday"

Hotblack Desiato

Rob Thomas wrote: »

Queen

Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme fried chicken.....

The last two words of the song ARE 'fried chicken'!

Imagine - John Lennon

'No need for greed, or hunger, or Brotherhood of Man'

It was 'a brotherhood of man', not the crappy 70s 'group' who it seemed were never off the telly in those days.

Aspiring

So many of these.

For years I thought the lyrics to "Do they know it's Christmas" were "Freedom, Woaahh" rather than feed the world.

More recently with "Stolen Dance" I thought it was "stolen paradise" rather than stoned in.

Also of course (which has been well documented across the internet), in Jay Z's 'Empire State of Mind' the chorus definitely sounds like she's saying "Concrete Jungle wet dream tomato"

0lordy

Dire straits have a song Two Young Lovers, with

Her mama used to say, 'it's getting late sweetheart
It's time that boy went home'

Thought it was

Get laid sweetheart
It's time you brought a boyfriend home

Made sense...

TheBegotten

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey
You never know, dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamt I held you in my arms
When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head, and I cried

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey
You never know, dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

I'll always love you and make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me to love another,
You'll regret it all one day

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey
You never know, dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

Makes "Every move you make" seem positively light-hearted.

Please don't take my sunshine away...

Hotblack Desiato

TheBegotten wrote: »

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

That will forever remind me of this (2:30 onwards if you want to cut to the chase, viewer discretion is advised) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ2PiMkAdM4

mrsdewinter

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

That will forever remind me of this (2:30 onwards if you want to cut to the chase, viewer discretion is advised) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ2PiMkAdM4

Argh, my eyes... My ears...

Welsh Megaman

deise08 wrote: »

Prefab sprouts song.
Hot dog, jumping frog, I want gherkins.
Used to sing that for years.
the real word is Alberquerqe.

Keeping with the food theme, I used to think he said 'I'll have a cookie' :O

playedalive

ivytwine wrote: »

Seriously?! I thought it was rat too!

EDIT Nevermind I got confused. Ivy sleep now.

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Not just you l, I had to read that 3 times thinking to myself "but it IS rat".

My syntax was confusing. To clarify, I always thought I heard, DEspite all my rage, I am still just ready to cage (Thinking cage was somesort of a metaphor for being in a tight corner, in a bad place)

Das Kitty

bnagrrl wrote: »

Madonna - Erotica

"Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body"

but she's just singing

"Erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body"

http://www.rathergood.com/bill

Mine is Summer of '69.

#I had my first real sex dream
I was five at the time
Played (with) it til my fingers bled
It was the summer of 69#

[Deleted User]

Classic 90's dance CHOON Freed From Desire by Gala:

"My lover's got no money, he's got his trampolines
My lover's got no power, he's got his trampolines....

Freed from Desire,
My incense is purified
Freed from Desire,
My incense is purified"

Apparently it's "strong beliefs" and "mind and senses" rather than "trampolines" and "my incense".

Oh well, at least I got the "na na na na na na na" bit right!

Also I genuinely thought Sandi Thom was singing "I wish I was a prawn cracker with flowers in my hair", wasn't 'til I heard the title of the song being said that I realised I had it wrong.

paulbok wrote: »

Up to reading this post I thought it was,
hot dog, jumping frog, I want cookie.

:eek: Me too!

Hotblack Desiato

Nah, 'Last night I dreamt of some Dago...'

New Home

Last night I dreamt of sombrero...

Ann22

I used to think 'Forever in blue jeans' was 'for Reverend Blue Jeans' imagining a really cool priest. I said this before on a thread here but was accused of stealing it from 'King of Queen's'. I've never ever watched that show:)
I thought the line in The Police song "are spirits in the material world" was "upstairs in the material world".
My husband up until last Sunday morning thought "Raspberry beret" was "the last American girl":D:D:D
My son thought 'Feed the world woohoh" was "we know woohoh!":D

In Lonesome Dove

Not lyrics but everytime I see the Metalica's dvd Cunning Stunts, I read it as Stunning cùnts.

In Lonesome Dove

Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart

There's a line somewhere in that song where I hear:
'you can tear my arse'.

In Lonesome Dove

Hannah Montonna/Miley Cyrus - party in the usa

There's a line in that where I hear:
I'm humping on the floor

Shadylou

I used to think brown eyed girl was a song about someone called roderigo
'Hey Roderigo' instead of 'hey where did we go'

COYVB

In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

Not lyrics but everytime I see the Metalica's dvd Cunning Stunts, I read it as Stunning cùnts.

That's the point...

Daveysil15

I'm surprised REM hasen't been mentioned yet. "Tony Charveycaha" I don't know what the hell he is saying there.

sebastianlieken wrote: »

brimmed full of rashers on the '45

Grilled groved rashers.

wobblinbrush

In the lyrics to 'Bigmouth Strikes Again' which go:

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt

My wife always heard:

Now I know I don't like vodka

Faze11

Wife thought it was

Do it like a lady
Rather than
Dude looks like a lady

major deegan

Dolly parton/ kenny rodgers
Islands in the stream...
Irelands industry

Quazzie

I always though REM were singing about a guy called Tony Jamaica

playedalive

Six pages in and Fall Out Boy- this ain't a scene misheard lyrics hasn't been put up.

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucfKdukf10

Welsh Megaman

The chorus to 'Like Glue' by Sean Paul...

'I'm a knobbly number two'

The first reggae artist to describe themselves as rough poo?

Not2Good

Yes, "Reverend Blue Jeans"! I forgot about that song!

Ann22 wrote: »

I used to think 'Forever in blue jeans' was 'for Reverend Blue Jeans' imagining a really cool priest. I said this before on a thread here but was accused of stealing it from 'King of Queen's'. I've never ever watched that show:)
I thought the line in The Police song "are spirits in the material world" was "upstairs in the material world".
My husband up until last Sunday morning thought "Raspberry beret" was "the last American girl":D:D:D
My son thought 'Feed the world woohoh" was "we know woohoh!":D

Balmed Out

Im struggling trying to work out what song of REM that yere talking about is it the sidewinder sleeps tonight with the line call me when you try to wake her up?, but then wheres the tony?

Guill

Balmed Out wrote: »

Im struggling trying to work out what song of REM that yere talking about is it the sidewinder sleeps tonight with the line call me when you try to wake her up?, but then wheres the tony?

This:

This song topped a 2010 poll, which sought out the most misheard lyrics. Four out of ten people polled thought "Call me when you try to wake her up" was "Calling Jamaica."