Misheard Song Lyrics
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Inspired by another thread 
. Are there any songs in particular of which you always thought you knew the lyrics, but had them wrong?
Me, I always used to think in the Aerosmith song 'Dude Looks Like a Lady', they were singing 'Do it like a lady'.
ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' has the line 'diggin' the dancing queen', which I always thought was 'dig it, the dancing queen'.
The Wheatus song 'Teenage Dirtbag' contains the line 'he drives an IROC'... I always thought it was 'he drives and I rock' or 'walk' - I had no idea there was a car called an 'IROC'!
When I was young I also always thought that Kate Bush was singing 'Out on the wily, windy moors' rather than 'wild and windy moors'!
. Are there any songs in particular of which you always thought you knew the lyrics, but had them wrong?Me, I always used to think in the Aerosmith song 'Dude Looks Like a Lady', they were singing 'Do it like a lady'.
ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' has the line 'diggin' the dancing queen', which I always thought was 'dig it, the dancing queen'.
The Wheatus song 'Teenage Dirtbag' contains the line 'he drives an IROC'... I always thought it was 'he drives and I rock' or 'walk' - I had no idea there was a car called an 'IROC'!
When I was young I also always thought that Kate Bush was singing 'Out on the wily, windy moors' rather than 'wild and windy moors'!
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And in the song ABC I always wanted to know why if ABC is Easy it was like 'counting cups of tea'.
(As I now know the words are really ';counting up to three' but I prefer my version)
Me ears are alight (Me Israelites)
"years since I wrote my note" sounds like "since I broke my nose"
and in We Are Family has "let me state for the record" that sounds like "let me staple the Vicar"
Billy Ocean - When the Going Gets Tough
From back in the days when adults wren't expected to behave like ill-disciplined children..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KShjB5jyjM
There's a part that goes "I dug up this old photograph, Look at all that hair we had"
I was sure it was "I dug up this old photograph, Look at all that hairy hair" My Mum put me right when I was singing along to it once, but it still sounds like hairy hair
Baby, I don't understand,
why we can't just hold on to each other's hands?
I heard as
Baby, I don't understand why we cant keep out of each others pants!
The first person to cite the obvious ''kiss this guy'' has spent far too much time on the internet (myself excluded, obviously.)
I will confess to mishearing ''night tonight, gimme the other'' (Baltimora, Tarzan Boy) as ''nighty night. Get in the oven, get in the oven'' though.
My tits fell like rain"
I was convinced it was this when I was younger.
"Girl you know you are the one, lick my ass and make me c**" was
"Girl you know you are the one, kick my ass and make me c**"
Always made us chuckle.
"And the last known survivor wets his bed in the night"
I must google that and see what the real words are
EDT: 'The last known survivor stalks his prey in the night"
And I had no idea until I found the lyrics that The Visitors by Abba was about a conspirator in East Germany whose house was being raided by the secret police (not the typical subject for Abba you have to admit)
And I still struggle to understand Abba's Should I laugh or Cry.
Mull of Kintyre
' mist rolling in from the sea'
She heard as
'Me strolling in from the sea'
I Predict A Riot for some people sounds like I Predict Tourettes
when the country rings the living bell, you're last
When the country rings the leaving bell you're lost
I do now.