What's Your Funniest Misunderstood Song Lyric?

[LeafErikson]

“wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night” the lyrics are actually “Revved up like a Deuce another runner in the night”
Deuce referring to a 1932 Ford.

All I’ve ever heard was “wrapped up like a douche” and knew that’s not what he was saying but never bothered to look up the real lyrics.

 

[Non-Mentholated Black Man]

I often refer to my wife as Queen Mondegreen; though, to be fair, English is not her native tongue.
It is hit or miss with choruses but there is little chance of an entire verse going unaltered.

She sings with the voice of an angel, while simultaneously committing atrocities against lyrics.
It is one of the things that I love most about her.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

As a former line cook, we'd change lyrics all the time (like Guns N Roses "Take me down to the paradise city, lift up your shirt and show me ...").

But yes, I've misheard lyrics and with some songs that got me through rough times, I often disliked what the lyrics actually were.

There is a theatrical sense with music at times (more "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain " and less theatrics) that creates a shrowd of mystery and respect, which is why I don't necessarily want to know the true meaning behind the song.

 

[ophiuchus]

“wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night” the lyrics are actually “Revved up like a Deuce another runner in the night”
Deuce referring to a 1932 Ford.

Also when I hear the knack’s “my Sharona”
I always hear Cheech & Chong’s lyrics “my scrotum” pronounce scarotum

I knew I was wrong, but that’s what it always sounded like to me.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

The Rascals - Groovin'

"You and me endlessly." Always thought it was "You and me and Leslie," until I realized that such an overt reference to a threesome would never have made it past the radio content screeners.

I thought that too.

 

[beefeater33]

When Elton John sings "Don't let the sun go down on me", I always hear "Don't let your son go down on me"....................

 

[Servant King]

I thought that too.

The Funk is back!!

Don't go away again, the mods issue demerits now...

 

[jerry]

Old song, Lipstick on your collar, golden hair on you. My wife corrected me, “told a tale on you.”

And, I thought Frank and Moon Zappa’s Valley Girl had the line, “Open mind, for sure, for sure.” Actual line: “Okay fine, for sure, for sure.”

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

A friend of ours had a funny interpretation of a line in Dire Straits, Money For Nothing.
She heard "Get your money for nothing and you checks for free" - lol
Now thats all I can think of when that soneg comes on

 

[kcghost]

In the third stanza of "Runaway" by Del Shannon I had the darndest figure what the hell he was saying. What forty years and looked it us on the interenet. Who would have ever thought it was "Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain". As the sage once said "Who knew?".

 

[Kobold]

When I was a kid I used to think this lyric was “waiting for someone to come in to fu*k ass”

 

[JOHN72]

There are singers I will never understand. David Bisbal or Enrique Iglesias. I have never seen such a lousy singer dancing. It is as if he had powder (polvora) mixed with cheap cologne, smeared in his anus. And the lyrics are horrible to my ears.

 

[huntertrw]

When I hear Queen's Another One Bites The Dust, I hear "Another one bites my butt,,,:

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Phil Collins - Can’t Stop Loving You

Real Lyrics: Feeling humble heard a rumble on the railway tracks

What I Heard: Feeling humble cooking Ramen on the railway tracks

 

[dottlejockey]

“wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night” the lyrics are actually “Revved up like a Deuce another runner in the night”
Deuce referring to a 1932 Ford.

+1 LOL

 

[bullet08]

Eagles' "Peaceful Easy Feeling". Used to love that song until this girl told me it's not "Peace Corp Easy Feeling". I thought it was Peace Corp jingle.

 

[mortonbriar]

"Its a long way, to the SHOP if you wanna sausage roll"

AC/DC

 

[FLDRD]

“wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night” the lyrics are actually “Revved up like a Deuce another runner in the night”
Deuce referring to a 1932 Ford.

I thought nearly exactly the same, knew it was wrong, could never figure it out, and didn't learn the correct lyrics until just NOW.............
Wow.
Some commonality here.
ZZ Top: Under Pressure
...by the roadside in the desert / ditch ? Still don't know that one either.

 

[renfield]

Elton John’s Rocketman. The line “burnin’ out his fuse up here alone” was indecipherable gibberish until the internet allowed me to see what it was.

It vexed me for years, much like that line in Blinded By The Light.

 

[anotherbob]

knew an idiot that thought the lyrics to Can I play with Madness by Iron Maiden was Matches.