How about some misheard lyrics?

That's hilarious! I'm sure there are several songs that I used to misunderstand as a kid and thought they were saying something Star Wars related, too.... I'll post them here if I can think of them!

 

E.L.O

Don't Bring Me Down - Bruuuuuuuuuce

 

Santari flori sante. Santari flori santeee.

"Sunday bloody sunday" U2

 

I just heard a great one on a radio talk show:

ARTIST: The Red Hot Chili Peppers
SONG: Under The Bridge

Misheard Lyrics:

Under the Mistletoe
Is there I drew some blood.
Under the Mistletoe
I could not get enough

Real lyrics:

Under the bridge downtown
Is there I drew some blood.
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough

 

I thought it was 'gypsies, chimpanzees'.

 

Is that in the Yes version?

 

correct, i really should have mentioned that.

 

Dave Barry did a whole series of columns on this 20 years ago, and several books have been published on the subject. One is called "Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy."

http://www.amazon.com/Scuse-While-Kiss-This-Guy/dp/0671501283

 

Geez I thought it was "I miss the rains down in Africa". Are you sure it's not??

 

Always heard "Audi in the street"

 

Yes I always heard that as well

 

Until 10 minutes ago, I thought the third verse of "Smoke on the Water" started

"We all set up at the Grand Hotel,
It was empty, cold as Hell,
And with The Rolling f**king Stones playing just outside,
Well, they made our music seem bad."

 

Earlier in the song, I thought they were makin' records with a-Motown.

 

Busker in Glasgow today playing "Losing My Religion" reminded me of this one which I always thought were the real lyrics:
"Oh life, it's bigger, it's bigger than you
And you are knock-kneed."

 

"Michelle, my belle
Sunday monkey play piano song...piano song"

 

The one I always recall is from "Johnny Come Home" by Fine Young Cannibals. "Pixie delight is not what they say."

 

Carly Simon: "You're probably with some underworld spy or the wife of a postman...wife of a postman and, you're so vain..."

 

I used to think Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" mentioned something about the post office in the chorus...
And what on Earth is Breton Wood singing at the end of the Oogum Boogum Song? "Who got the boot sets?" Has this ever been established?

 

I always thought it was:
"Keep on with the bus stop,
Don't stop 'til you get enough".

 

A lot of post-HOTH stuff from Zeppelin...I still question some of the supposed "real" lyrics

 

Okay, so he was taking the bus to the post office - now I get it.

 

Stevie Wonder "Power Flower"

"He's a flower of power, protecting other flowers"

I heard

"He's a flower of power, technicolor flowers"

 

Geez, everyone knows she's singing "Wife of a cloaks-man," right?

 

hahaha.... I like it when this topic comes up. When I was young, these were culprits and I still hear them this way .....

I'm Sorry (Brenda Lee).. second verse...
"You tell me, mistakes, are part of being egg-nog"

Venus (Frankie Avalon)
"Venus if you do, I promise that I'll wiggle and be true"

She's A Woman (Beatles)
She don't get boisey-eyed (I always picture a potato with a face or something)

Albert Flasher (Guess Who)
"he was a werkshaboner" ......... didn't make sense to me either but there was no internet in those days to look it up

I agree with others about Drift Away and the "beach boys" line. I also thought "get it on" is the line in Long Cool Woman... guess I'll have to read up on that one some more.