Cyclical question. What are your favorite misheard lyrics?

My ex used to get the scrubs theme tune completely wrong:
real version: “I can’t do this all on my own, no I know, I’m no superman”
Ex’s version: “I can do this all on my own , no I know, I know superman”
Sounds similar, but with a completely opposite meaning.

cute ^

Bruce Springsteen’s “Blinded by the Light”

for years I couldn’t figure out the lyrics….thought it was “wrapped up like a douche, a roller in the night”

?????? WTH???? is he saying?

actual lyrics are “revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night”

errr… that should say “reVed up like a deuce, another runner in the night”

@bristol: you can edit your answers for five minutes after they post

“Excuse me while I kiss the sky” and “Excuse me while I kiss this guy”, in Purple Haze.

From God Bless America…

“Stand beside her, and guide her,
through the night, with the light from a bulb.”

This is not a lyric, but a line in a film about the Hindenberg. I thought the upper class Ann Bancroft character, irritated by the lack of respect she’d had upon boarding, said to the very arrogant German officer that, “I’d expect better service on a catapult.” Needless to say, the film wasn’t a comedy and nobody in the theatre was amused. But I fell under my seat laughing. The actual line isn’t much different. “I’d expect better service on a cattle boat.”

From Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival:
Dont go around tonight,
Well, its bound to take your life,
Theres a bathroom on the right

(bad moon on the rise)

@bristolbaby In the original Springsteen version it doesn’t sound like that to me. It’s the Manfred Man version that I hear “douche” instead of “deuce.”

My oldest daughter used to think Eddie Murphy was singing “Michael likes to potty all the time” instead of “My girl likes to party all the time.”

@Perchik you beat me to the bad moon on the rise…
When I grow up-PCD
When I grow up
I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars
I wanna have boobies

It’s suppose to be When I grow up
I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars
I wanna have Groupies

Some kid was singing it the wrong way in my class…..bad idea.

When I was pregnant with my first daughter I heard an old Fleetwood Mac song on the radio one day and I just knew I had to name her after that song. It really spoke to me.

After she was born and I told everyone I named her Brianna after the song they all had a good laugh. The name of the song is actually Rihanna.
There was no google 16 years ago.

In the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s song “Can’t Stop,” I misheard:

“Go ask the dust for all the answers.”

as

“Go ask a desk for all the answers.”

… neither of them make much sense.

@cherryberry : Actually

@breedmitch
That is too funny! All these years & I still don’t have the song right. I hope my daughter never looks it up.

My sister would always sing Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” as “Tony Danza”. We still sing it that way to this day.

I have a friend who always heard Man Eater by Hall and Oates as “she’s a band leader,” she always wondered what was so menacing about a band leader. Then there is the world famous, “she’s got electric boobs and her mom has too” from Benny and the Jets by Elton John. The actual line goes “she’s got electric boots and a mohair suit.”

It’s a lemonade bump
a renegade punk
it’s a put on
it’s unlimited funk
irrelevant bunk
it’s a put on
it’s a put on
an elevated pump…

Two come to mind:

Gary Wright’s Dream Weaver was heard, and sung as “Chain Weaver”.

Clapton’s After Midnight heard as “Captain Midnight”.

I had a nun in grade school who thought it was John Elton rather then, well, you know.

Removed by self

check out some of the misheard lyrics of the beatles they made people think mccartney was dead.!

mine was blinded bly the light.
I think it was “wrapped up like a dosh and a simmerin all night