Post by birdistheword on Jun 12, 2017 11:09:52 GMT -5
I know we've done this before, but I'm sure a million new songs have been released since then.
There is a song they keep playing on the radio - Attention by Charlie Puth. Alllll I can hear when the first line comes on is "You've been runnin' round, runnin' round, runnin' round throwin' that turtle on my knee."
When I first heard it, I KNEW those weren't the actual lyrics, but even after looking them up, I still hear it and it cracks me up every time.
Actual line - "You've been runnin' round, runnin' round, runnin' round throwin' that dirt all on my name."
Post by twilightmv on Jun 12, 2017 11:12:58 GMT -5
I heard Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna do is have some fun" as "All I wanna do, is suck some blood" for a long time. I thought it was a vampire song. Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard....
Post by MixedBerryJam on Jun 12, 2017 16:20:46 GMT -5
I still crack myself up at some of mine. A line in Every Breath You Take goes, "How my fool heart aches ..." but I thought it was "I'm a pool hall ace ..." It made sense because Sting had a dark persona at the time, and pool halls are dark, so, logic. OMG.
And my son, at about 6, was singing the song, "Dude looks like a lady" and until that moment I thought it was "Do the funky lady" as if the funky lady was a dance move.
So for 30 years I thought "Gina must have died of old age" in Livin' on a Prayer. Went to the Bon Jovi concert this winter, belting it out like a fool. My 9 year old, who listened to the song for a total of 2 weeks told me she worked the diner all day.
Got in Herre I have a friend with a phone in the basement. Correct I have a friend with a pole in the basement. This confusion amused my best friend when I asked why it mattered where the phone was.
Of course the most famous is While I miss this guy as opposed to Kiss the Sky. It inspired a website www.kissthisguy.com I can spend hours amusing myself there.
It's wrapped up like a deuce. This phrase makes even less sense lol.
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Jun 15, 2017 0:30:35 GMT -5
I struggle with "Mirrors​" by JT. Every time he says "with your hand in my hand and a pocket full of soul" I hear "pocket full of soap" which was so confusing until I googled the actual lyrics.
I just this past Christmas realized the one lyric in Mele Kalikimaka is "Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way to say Merry Christmas to you" and not "...is a wise way...", which is, inexplicably, what I've been singing my whole life. The song makes so much more sense now. 😬 Along the same vein, I know I have looked it up more than once, but I'm still not sure if, in It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, the lyric is "from angels bending near the earth to touch their hearts of gold" or "harps of gold".
I used to think Madonna waa singing "cherish the thought of August Avenue" instead of "...of always having you" in Cherish, and was in my 20s before I figured it out.
And there is a Sean Kingston song that goes "it's like my iPod's stuck on replay" but I read a misheard lyric once of "it's like my eyeball's stuck on replay" and now that's all I can hear.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Jun 15, 2017 5:42:23 GMT -5
That song with zayn and Taylor swift- I don't wanna live forever. There's a part that I swear she's sing "now I'm in the cat box wearing separate faces" but is actually "now I'm in a cab I'll tell them where your place is"
I just this past Christmas realized the one lyric in Mele Kalikimaka is "Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way to say Merry Christmas to you" and not "...is a wise way...", which is, inexplicably, what I've been singing my whole life. The song makes so much more sense now. 😬 Along the same vein, I know I have looked it up more than once, but I'm still not sure if, in It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, the lyric is "from angels bending near the earth to touch their hearts of gold" or "harps of gold".
I used to think Madonna waa singing "cherish the thought of August Avenue" instead of "...of always having you" in Cherish, and was in my 20s before I figured it out.
And there is a Sean Kingston song that goes "it's like my iPod's stuck on replay" but I read a misheard lyric once of "it's like my eyeball's stuck on replay" and now that's all I can hear.
I totally thought it was "is a wise way" until just now. Lol.
Don't go 'round tonight It's bound to take your life There's a bathroom on the right.
I saw John Fogarty in concert several years ago and in one chorus of "Bad Moon Rising" he very clearly sang "There's a bathroom on the right." The crowd went nuts.
I just this past Christmas realized the one lyric in Mele Kalikimaka is "Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way to say Merry Christmas to you" and not "...is a wise way...", which is, inexplicably, what I've been singing my whole life. The song makes so much more sense now. 😬 Along the same vein, I know I have looked it up more than once, but I'm still not sure if, in It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, the lyric is "from angels bending near the earth to touch their hearts of gold" or "harps of gold".
I used to think Madonna waa singing "cherish the thought of August Avenue" instead of "...of always having you" in Cherish, and was in my 20s before I figured it out.
And there is a Sean Kingston song that goes "it's like my iPod's stuck on replay" but I read a misheard lyric once of "it's like my eyeball's stuck on replay" and now that's all I can hear.
I totally thought it was "is a wise way" until just now. Lol.
I just this past Christmas realized the one lyric in Mele Kalikimaka is "Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way to say Merry Christmas to you" and not "...is a wise way...", which is, inexplicably, what I've been singing my whole life.
Post by notsocreepylurker on Jun 15, 2017 12:40:59 GMT -5
I have several but most I cannot remember.
OLD song by Smashmouth. I always heard the lyric as "You need to be there when you're baby's old enough to be laid" (aka sex). The line is "You need to be there when you're baby's old enough to relate". The song is Walking on The Sun
30 Seconds To Mars song, The Kill: What I hear: Come break me down. MARRY ME MARRY ME. I am finished with you. What he sings: Come break me down. Bury Me Bury Me. I am finished with you.