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Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:45 pm
by Moggy
BonalityMatrix wrote:Moggy wrote:It's not a lyric that I got wrong (I had no idea what he was singing!) but my brother always sang the wrong lyrics to Freddie Mercury's "Living on my Own".
Instead of "Dee do de de, dee do de de" (which I just had to Google), my brother used to sing "free ya willy".
Because of that I can't help singing my brother's version even though I know he was just messing around.
My friend's mum thought the middle-8 to that song went "be my banana, rump me, pump me".
And did you pump her?
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 5:28 pm
by Ironhide
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 5:37 pm
by Tomous
Sweet Nothing by Calvin Harris
Instead of
You're giving me such sweet nothing
I always hear
You're giving me sexy gherkin
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 5:50 pm
by BonalityMatrix
I used to think that "jai ho" song was saying "tally ho".
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:33 pm
by Vermilion
The theme song from the Bond movie Licence to Kill.
Gladys Knight always sang 'licence to kilt'
Seems rather fitting when you consider Bond's scottish heritage.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 1:50 pm
by Lime
I can't be the only one who thought it was
"Money for nothing, and your cheques for free"
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:01 pm
by Ironhide
"wake me up for my cocoa"
That's what three year old me thought George Michael was singing.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:09 pm
by more heat than light
Lime wrote:I can't be the only one who thought it was
"Money for nothing, and your cheques for free"
My reaction to this post...
Wait, it's not?
*checks lyrics*
Oh wow, it's 'chicks'
*further scans lyrics*
Wait, what the strawberry float?
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:25 pm
by Ironhide
more heat than light wrote:Lime wrote:I can't be the only one who thought it was
"Money for nothing, and your cheques for free"
My reaction to this post...
Wait, it's not?
*checks lyrics*
Oh wow, it's 'chicks'
*further scans lyrics*
Wait, what the strawberry float?
Yes, some of the lyrics might be considered a little bit un PC by today's standards.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 2:08 pm
by Squinty
See the little ****** with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little ****** got his own jet airplane
That little ****** he's a millionaire
Yeahhhhhh
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 2:31 pm
by kazanova_Frankenstein
Ironhide wrote:more heat than light wrote:Lime wrote:I can't be the only one who thought it was
"Money for nothing, and your cheques for free"
My reaction to this post...
Wait, it's not?
*checks lyrics*
Oh wow, it's 'chicks'
*further scans lyrics*
Wait, what the strawberry float?
Yes, some of the lyrics might be considered a little bit un PC by today's standards.
I also just went through the same realisation re the chicks / cheques debacle.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:42 pm
by Lime
Here's another that I still struggle with
"I guess the way in Africa"
Classic Toto.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:49 pm
by Ironhide
There's also a lot of songs with utterly unintelligible lyrics, like this 90's classic
I can actually tell what some of the lyrics are now but I didn't have a clue in 1994 when I first heard it.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:05 pm
by Moggy
Ironhide wrote:There's also a lot of songs with utterly unintelligible lyrics, like this 90's classic
I can actually tell what some of the lyrics are now but I didn't have a clue in 1994 when I first heard it.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:24 pm
by Tomous
Just remembered when my wife was doing medicine at Uni, Rick O'Shea was in her year (this one if anyone watched Scrum V in Wales
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/rugby-union/29468997 )
When Titanium by David Guetta came on at social events they all use to point at him and shout RICK O'SHEA in the bit that goes "Ricocheeeeet"
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 6:13 pm
by Oblomov Boblomov
Found out a new one for me.
Naïve by The Kooks: I always sang 'The two of us it may be, she's still out to get me', but today I discovered it's actually 'True or false it may be...'
Unbelievable, Jeff.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 6:37 pm
by Frank
tbf that's not the clearest of songs to understand
When I first heard it I thought he was singing "I know she knows that I'm not from Nebraska"
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 2:59 pm
by Skarjo
I defy anyone to tell me that they legitimately correctly heard the lyrics to Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind back in the day.
The only strawberry floating line I heard right was 'SHE COMES ROUND AND SHE GOES DOWN ON ME' a comfortable 5 years before I knew what that meant so guess which line 12 year old Skarjo would bellow at the top of his lungs when it came on breakfast radio.
Awkward strawberry floating Pop Tarts they were.
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 11:13 am
by Dual
Toxicity by System of a Down
Eating cheese is a pastime activity
Re: Lyrics that you got wrong for years
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 11:21 am
by Memento Mori
Lime wrote:I can't be the only one who thought it was
"Money for nothing, and your cheques for free"
What