Misheard Lyrics

[lolalovesfrankie]

The misheard lyric that someone posted at The Other Place that still makes me laugh months later is "I'm the King, I wish for bacon", misheard to the tune of "I'm the King of wishful thinking."

In the Kelly Clarkson song Since You've Been Gone , I was convinced she was singing "I canNOT breathe for the first time." This does not fit the rest of the song at all, and I was so confused until I looked up the real lyrics. She can breathe for the first time, y'all.

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A set of lyrics that I have misheard in the past was for the remake of "If You Don't Know Me By Now" by Simply Red. When I heard this song when it was a hit (1989), I always thought they were saying

I come home a little late at night
'Cause we only have black children

When I heard the original about six years later, I discovered it was

I come home a little late at night
'Cause we only act like children

I still sing it the way that I thought it was, because it just sounds so silly.

[winstonwolfe]

There was a tune from about 1966 by Lou Christie called Two Faces Have I, which my 7 year old self misheard (and continues to mishear) as Do Vases Have Eyes?

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A friend of mine - we would have been in the 5th grade at the time - thought George Harrison's "I Got My Mind Set on You" was "Watch out, I might sit on you." Since then, that's how I hear the lyrics. Every single time.

[tieknee]

This one is very embarrassing.

Your love life's dee away!
Your love life's DOA

Yeah...

It's made worse because I figured out that they weren't singing "dee away!" while watching an episode of ER.

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You know that cheesy christmas song by Wham? I used to think that George Michael sang;

With a note, saying I love you, Amanda

When really, he's singing:

With a note, saying I love you, I meant it

[bbug]

When I was little the Phil Collins version of "Can't Hurry Love" was really popular, and my sister and I thought he was singing "Kangorilla," like a mixture of the words Kangaroo and Gorilla. And since the song is being sung to an individual, we thought there was someone actually named Kangorilla somewhere.

[dwanollah]

bbug, that reminds me when I was young, I thought the song "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" was "Tymie Kangaroo, Down Sport!" i.e. a Kangaroo named "Tymie" who was being admonished, "Down, Sport, down!"

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More misheard lyrics from me:

In the Phil Collins song One More night, the part where he sings

And if you sail away
I will follow you

I always thought it was

And if you say no way
I will fondle you

Also, with Broken Wings where the singer said "The book of love will open up and let us in", I thought he said "The book of love will open up and letter 'C'".

[lemons]

And if you say no way
I will fondle you

Only if CEMJ covers it.