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"Art For Art's Sake"
All for arseache
Art for art's sake
"Art For Art's Sake"
All for our sake
Art for art's sake
"Art For Art's Sake"
Art for art's sake, Mummy, for God's sake!
Art for art's sake, Money for God's sake.
"Don't Hang Up"
I'm masturbating my woman.
All mass-debating my woman.
"Dreadlock Holiday"
Don't like your make-up
oh no,I love her
Don't like Jamaica
oh no, I love her
"Dreadlock Holiday"
Don't you pee on me, b****.
Don't you queer on me pitch.
"Dreadlock Holiday"
Don't you be on the bitch
or
Don't you pee on the pitch
or
Don't you pee on the pitch
Don't you queer on me pitch
"Dreadlock Holiday"
Don't you queen on me, b****!
Don't you queer on me pitch.
"Dreadlock Holiday"
Don't you squeal on me, b****
Don't you q**** on me pitch
"Dreadlock Holiday"
I don't like reggae
I loath it.
I don't like reggae
I love it.
"Dreadlock Holiday"
I was walking down the street
Concentrating on Trucking Rights.
I was walking down the street
Concentrating on trucking right.
"Dreadlock Holiday"
I'm from Jamaica
OK, I love it.
Don't like Jamaica
Oh no, I love her.
"Dreadlock Holiday"
Once you walk through my world.
You got to show some respect.
Don't you walk through my words.
You got to show some respect.
"Dreadlock Holiday"
Would you like something holluh? (hollow, to rhyme with 'dollar')
Would you like something harder?
"Dreadlock Holiday"
Would you like something hotter?
Would you like something harder?
"Hotel"
We ate up half the pentagon
We ate up half the pemmican
"I'm Not In Love"
Another love
I'm not in love
"I'm Not In Love"
Be cresting cry.
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Be moist and quiet.
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Be poised and quiet
Big boys don't cry
"I'm Not In Love"
Be posed and cry
Big boys don't cry
"I'm Not In Love"
Be quest and quiet.
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Be quiet! Requesting quiet!
Don't cry, big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Be quiet, be poised and quiet
or
Be fine, be moist and quiet.
Don't cry, big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Be rhinestone quiet.
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Big Boston choir
Big boys don't cry
"I'm Not In Love"
Break boys, take five.
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
I'm naughty, love.
I'm not in love.
"I'm Not In Love"
I'm not a glove, so do forget it
It's just a silly phase I'm going through.
I'm not in love, so do forget it
It's just a silly phase I'm going through.
"I'm Not In Love"
It hides a Nestle's stain that's lyin' there
It hides a nasty stain that's lyin' there
"I'm Not In Love"
It hides a mistake that's lying there.
It hides a messy stain that's lying there.
"I'm Not In Love"
Let's make love.
It's because.
"I'm Not In Love"
Me wants to cry
Big boys don't cry
"I'm Not In Love"
My voice in Quad
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Quick question, Kwai
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Quiet, requesting quiet
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Request of quad
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Be moist and quiet
or
Requesting quiet
or
Requesting quiet
Big boys don't cry
"I'm Not In Love"
Requesting quiet
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not In Love"
Requesting quiet
Big boys don't cry
"I'm Not In Love"
Requesting quiet
Big boys don't cry
"I'm Not In Love"
They poisoned Clyde.
Big boys don't cry.
"I'm Not in Love"
Break boys, take five.
Big boys don't cry.
"Life Is A Minestrone"
Life is a minestrone
Served up with promise and cheese.
Life is a minestrone
Served up with Parmesan cheese.
Given the clever nature of the band's lyrics, perhaps one explanation is as likely as the other :-)
"Load Up"
Load up, load up, load up your rubber bullets.
Load up, load up, load up for the summer.
"Rubber Bullets"
He said, "Blood will flow;
Here Padre, Padre you talk to your balls"
He said, "Blood will flow;
Here Padre, Padre you talk to your boys"
"Rubber Bullets"
Sergeant Baker started talkin'
With a bullhorn in his hand.
Sergeant Baker started talkin'
With a ballpoint in his hand.
"The Things We Do For Love"
And you're looking for the answer in Orion.
And you're looking for the answer in her eyes.
"The Things We Do For Love"
And you're looking for the answer in the Right
or
And you're looking for the answer in a rise
or
And you're looking for the answer in a rise
And you're looking for the answer in her eyes
"The Things We Do For Love"
And you're looking for the ants are in her eyes.
And you're looking for the answer in her eyes.
"The Things We Do For Love"
Communication is the problem to be answered.
Communication is the problem to the answer.
"The Things We Do For Love"
Communication is the problem to the answered.
Communication is the problem to be answered.
"The Things We Do For Love"
The things we coo-coo love.
The things we do for love.
"The Things We Do For Love"
Too many broken parts have fallen in the river.
Too many broken hearts have fallen in the river.
"The Things We Do For Love"
You lay your Betsy
Then you pay the price.
You lay your bets
And then you pay the price.
"The Things We Do For Love"
You lay your Betsy, then you paint the price.
You lay your bets, and then you pay the price.
"The Things We Do For Love"
You think you're gonna break up
Then she says she lost her make-up.
You think you're gonna break up
Then she says she wants to make up.
"The Things We Do for Love"
I'll compromise with Charlie Helper's situation
A compromise would surely help the situation
"Wall Street Shuffle"
You wheel and deal
But you're living on Elm Street.
You wheel and deal
But you're living on instinct.
Elm Street is the Dallas street where John F Kennedy was gunned down in 1963.
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