mis hearing lyrics

[jacobsmummy]

inspired by dawnty (please dont take offense cos wev all done it!) im wondering whats been ur funniest mis hearing of a lyric?
i have a friend who thought the beginning of manic monday went 'i was kissing valentino by a thistle through a telly screen" and pray by take that went "all i do is celebrate" im sure theres more but for now its over to u guys xxx

[4getmenot]

When the crowd say post a letter - Craig David

[jacobsmummy]

rofl!

[Pippa68]

Toni Braxtons 'Unbreak My Heart'..you know when the background vocals are ''say that you love me''..to me it sounds like 'sage & onion'.

The Carpenters ''the best love songs are written with a broken arm''

And of course 'Sue Lawley' by The Police.

[Hellion]

Last week my friend's little girl sang me
'I wish I was a prawn cracker with flowers in my hair'
which I think is going to my favourite ever!!!

'I fell in love with a draft excluder' by Sarah Brightman
(I fell in love with a Starship Trooper)

'Spending his life on a Wall's Pork Sausage' Queen
(spare him his life for his atrocities)

[Pippa68]

I remember the Queen one, Hellion...we used to sing 'Walls sausages' LOL :o)

And a big 'awwwwwwww' at the prawn cracker! I shall not sing anything but that from now on.

[Hellion]

It's fantastic isn't it Pip?

[welshwil]

when i was young and naive, a friend convinced me 'its raining men' was 'its raining down' i was dancing and singing it in a club back home with a load of girls,......i went home alone that night lol

[hells88]

One of my friends thought that 'It's raining men!' was 'Israeli Men!' And I thought that in Elton John's 'Don't let the sun go down on me' when he goes 'Just another fragment of your life..' I thought it was 'Just another fat man of your life..!'

[soozmac]

I misheard Keane's song "Crystal Ball" as "Chris de Burgh", which was very funny until I heard that some DJ on radio 1 was making the same joke.

I had a friend at Uni who thought that the lyrics for "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop were "No more beating my brains, no more beating my brains, with Luther Vandross, with Luther Vandross." I still sing that if I find myself bopping around to it, as it reminds me of how bonkers she was (and still is).

I also used to think that Shakira actually sang "Lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains" which can't possibly be the true lyrics as they are so ridiculous! Ahem...

[mike42]

elton johns im still standing about 3 lines in he says and i am still to be convinced otherwise if you think stoke will never win!

[Pottsy]

I used to think that KD Lang sang ''Can't stand gravy'' and Enya used to sing ''Save a whale, save a whale, save a whale''

[Backdrifter]

That Elton John blurring thing. I didn't used to so much mis-hear his words as not hear any words at all. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has great lyrics but he mangles it so much it just seems to be a series of strangulated vowels - "Back to the howling old owl in the woods, hunting the horny back toad" becomes "A-ooo ooww-ow-ooowwww-oo-ooo, u'n ner-ner-ner-ner-oww"

As I said in the Madonna thread 2 things I mis-heard in La Isla Bonita, "Young girls with eyes like potatoes" and "Last night I dreamt of some pebbles". I never knew if, in Life On Mars, Bowie sang Lennon's, Lenin's or linen's "on sale again." On the subject of which, a song from the 70s I can't remember the title of said "I'm not talking 'bout movin' in" which I always heard as "I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen". I had a heated debate with a friend about the annoyingly twee I Know What I Know by the annoyingly twee Edie Brickell, in which I was sure she said "choke me in the shallow water" whereas he insisted it was "chuck me in the shallow water" but with her fey girly southern twang blurring it a bit. Maybe, though I maintain choking is the preferable option.

the website kiss-this-guy.com purports to list mis-heard lyrics but is sullied by too many people turning perfectly legible lines into fake mis-heard ones for supposed comedy purposes. And I realise my Madonna ones sound just like that, but, oh well.

[almcd007]

Apologies in advance but - I always thought that Isla bonita was "Last night I dreamt of some daygos"

[littleoldme]

Pray by Take That is otherwise known as The Housework Song:

All I do is shine and spray
Hoping that I'll be a part of you again some day
All I do is shine this sink...

I used to think One Of Us by Abba contained the line "And so I dealt you the blow, when the bus had to go". Then of course there's I Love Your Smile by Shanice - "sitting in my class, just stripped to the waist".

[shortstop]

almcd007 - So did I.

[Pippa68]

Does Shanice not sing that then, littleoldme? blimey...

La Isla Bonita has another one...''chop the goolie'' instead of ''tropical the''.

A mate of mine used to think Yazoos ''Don't Go'' went something like ''Love juice in the kitchen..''

[Rock'n'Roll]

Frankie Avalons "Venus In Blue Jeans" I'm still not convinced he sings "Venus" but something rather similar

[Hellion]

Desmond Dekker's Israelites came out sound like 'My Ears are alight' !!

[Pippa68]

Desmond Dekker..oh my word ~ that song has so many misheard lyrics!