20 Songs We Sang Wrong for Way Too Long

‘She’s so funky, yeah!’
20 Songs We Sang Wrong for Way Too Long

One of the many wonders of modern technology is the microindustry that’s grown over the last 20 years solely around making sure you can understand music. Not, like, the themes and theory of a classic symphony — literally just the words pop stars are saying. All you have to do is Google a song and you get a “lyrics” tab. If you don’t know what the song is, you can Shazam it. Even Spotify just showing you the title of the song is an underrated luxury. Unless the DJ mentioned it, people just walked around not knowing what songs were called. They were lazy idiots who couldn’t be bothered to check on their next trip to Tower Records, but they existed.

That means a whole lot of people who don’t even look like candidates for knee replacement surgery spent decades of their lives singing pop songs completely wrong. In their defense, the ‘90s was a mumbly time, and they might have known that what their ears were telling them didn’t make sense, but they had no way of determining otherwise. They presented themselves for mockery when user gourdjuice asked r/AskReddit, “What (are) your misheard song lyrics and how long until you noticed that you (were) wrong?”

kingofallwinners 3y ago Dirty deeds and the thunder chief.
Matthewlcicles Зу ago New yooorrrkkk... concrete jungle wet dream toMATO!!!
GrumpyCatStevens 3y ago Ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes Don't tell them to blow up Parliament...
neevel-knievel 3y ago Until embarrassingly recently I thought the song What a Feeling said take your pants off and make it happen
Barbara_Celarent Зу ago Edited Зу ago I want to rock and roll all night, and part of every day. I didn't figure it out until I was an adult.
Ido180 3y ago Maroon 5 - she will be loved: I thought the line was 'beauty queen of only 18 sheep'. Took years even thought I knew it didn't really make sense.
s0nderv0gel Зу ago I always heard the beginning of Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode as reach out, touch base and somehow thought it was about baseball.
thrashpiece 3y ago Owner of a lonely horse. Actual lyrics are   owner of a lonely heart obvs
TotalAtrophy Зу ago Tupac's 'hit em up' Actual: First off, fuck your bitch and the click you claim Heard: First off fuck your bitch in her clinky clack
Aang_420 3y ago I'm Sominus Jackson and I am for real. I had know idea who Sominus Jackson was nor why he was going around making people's daughters cry.
African_Mongoose 3y ago My buddy's girlfriend used to think the chorus to Panama Van Halen was cannonball and that the song was about a fun pool party. Way better lyrics in my opinion.
Fluptupper 3y ago Rolling Stones - 19th nervous breakdown. I always wondered why farther was perfecting ways of making ceiling wax. It never occurred to me until recently the actual lyric is sealing wax.
thevanrn Зу ago Tom Petty's Free Fallin'. I thought he said: She loves cheeses, in American too In my mind this girl was such a cheese fan she didn't discriminate against Kraft singles. I was definitely in my mid 20s before I realized I was wrong
Heinz37_sauce 3y ago In the intro and the outro of Peter Gabriel's song Games Without Frontiers, there's a woman who sings the song's title in French - Jeux sans frontieres. Not being a Francophone, I always heard that as She's so funky, yeah!
briareosdx 3y ago As a sci-fi obsessed kid without any religious background, Carry a laser down the road that you must travel. Carry a laser through the darkness of the night just seemed like good advice. I assumed that Kyrie was just the name of the laser wielding hero of the song by Mr Mister. I honestly don't think I found out it was supposed to be kyrie eleison until I was in my thirties and tried to look up the song in the internet.
mich5676 3y ago Elton John and Your song. It's only till recently I'd been singing I kicked off to mars. I sat on a roof and kicked off the moss makes so much more sense than what been singing but in my head I was like perfectly normal to sit on a roof and kick off to Mars cos he sang Rocketman
 3y ago We are going to be friends by the white stripes/jack white I always thought he said teacher marks our hide against the wall... i was like.. thats kind of morbid for a little kid song..he must be doing a cover of an old-timey song when teachers beat kids It's teacher marks our height against the wall. DUHHHH, so obvious... feel very stupid
 Зу ago Edited Зу ago Barbie Girl by Aqua You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere. During my childhood I misheard it as, You can brush my hair and dress me everywhere. More than 10 years later I realized that the song wasn't about playing with Barbie dolls.
 Зу ago In Prince Ali in Aladdin there's a lyric that goes he's got 95 white Persian monkeys. I thought I heard it as virgin monkeys... needless to say I was curious what the gene thought those monkeys were going to be used for if the fact they were virgin was a selling point.
RosaSB 3y ago True story: I was a child when Never Gonna Give You Up first came out, and I wasn't yet paying attention to song titles, or, apparently, much of the verses. Every time he sang never in the chorus, I heard then we're, which DRASTICALLY changes the meaning of the song. Then we're gonna give you up Then we're gonna let you down Then we're gonna run around and desert you Then we're gonna make you cry Then we're gonna say goodbye Then we're gonna tell a lie and hurt you I grew up thinking Rick Astley and

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