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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.

Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).


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George Michael's, "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Close the door, and let me die!
The Real Lyrics:
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light
The Story: I kinda like the way I heard it, and probably will sing it that way anyway. Wow! What a note! - Submitted by: Wayne
George Michael's, "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm just another fa*got in your life
There's one for me
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
The Real Lyrics:
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
The Story: I was riding in the car with a friend who really thought that's what George was singing. I nearly drove off the road laughing. - Submitted by: Sarah P.
George Michael's, "Faith"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And I know all the kids you play
The Real Lyrics:
And I know all the games you play
The Story: Pretty funny for a song about...sex. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
George Michael's, "Father Figure"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I will be your bottom feeder
Put your tiny hands in mine.
The Real Lyrics:
I will be your father figure
Put your tiny hands in mine.
The Story: My dad is actually the one who misheard this lyric back in the 80's. He would sing it very proudly in the car whenever the song came on. He thought it was 'bottom feeder' because we had just bought a fish tank and had made sure that there were bottom feeders to clean the tank. He couldn't understand why they were in the song, though. - Submitted by: Brandi
George Michael's, "Father Figure"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I will be your region teacher
The Real Lyrics:
I will be your preacher, teacher
The Story: Thought this was region teacher and sounded like region teacher - Submitted by: Gabriel
George Michael's, "Father Figure"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I will eat your Butterfinger
The Real Lyrics:
I will be your father figure
The Story: I always thought it was about a candy bar. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
George Michael's, "Father Figure"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I won't be your bottom feeder.
The Real Lyrics:
I won't be your father figure.
The Story: I was driving with my girlfriend at that time. Without thinking, I started singing those words. She about laughed me out of the car! - Submitted by: Michael Moss
George Michael's, "Father Figure"
The Misheard Lyrics:
To be bored and naked when you arrive
The Real Lyrics:
To be warm and naked at your side
The Story: When I was in fifth grade, some sixth grade kids told me it was 'bored and naked when you arrive'. It wasn't until I was thirteen , when my mother thought I was mature enough to have the "Faith" album, that I discovered those kids had been wrong. - Submitted by: Amber
George Michael's, "Freedom '90"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Key lime
The Real Lyrics:
Freedom
The Story: Heard this recently in a T-Mobile commercial. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
George Michael's, "Guilty Feet"
The Misheard Lyrics:
These 2 feet have got no rhythm... or...can't you see i've got no rhythm
The Real Lyrics:
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
The Story: Me and my aunty sang this song as a duet in public, we belted out our own different versions of this line, which we had been singing for years, and then argued over who's was correct, much to everyone's amusement and our cringworthy embarressment when we found out that we were both wrong. - Submitted by: Mezzi
George Michael's, "I Want Your Sex"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Don't look in the Bible, just look in my eyes.
The Real Lyrics:
Don't need no Bible, just look in my eyes.
The Story: A misinterpretation by an obvious right-winger - Submitted by: Opie M.
George Michael's, "I Want Your Sex"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'll a*** her.
The Real Lyrics:
I am a lover.
The Story: This song came over my radio while I as a teenager was hearing a lecture from my mother about what she called trashy music. This misheard lyric was actually heard by her, as she was getting on to me about the lyrics to another song that I was listening to. - Submitted by: Dan Fletcher
George Michael's, "I Want Your Sex"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Satan's on my side
The Real Lyrics:
It's taken so much time
The Story: My old girlfriend and I both misheard it the same way, independently. The fact that he sings, 'don't need no bible', in another part of the song, lent credence to the false interpretation of the other line. We had to look at the lyric sheet to be set straight. - Submitted by: Paul
George Michael's, "I Want Your Sex"
The Misheard Lyrics:
What's your defintion of dirty, baby
Watch and you can sit up on my Mercedes
The Real Lyrics:
What's your definition of dirty, baby
What do you consider pornography
The Story: - Submitted by: Jeff
George Michael's, "One More Try"
The Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause there ain't no joy for an old towel boy
or
'Cause there ain't no joy for an odd towel boy
The Real Lyrics:
'Cause there ain't no joy for an uptown boy
The Story: I thought those were the real lyrics and it made the song sound even more sad - Submitted by: Mike
George Michael's, "One More Try"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've had enough of dentures
The Real Lyrics:
I've had enough of danger
The Story: George Michael would have to be really old to wear dentures! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
George Michael's, "Outside"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And yes, soft bean bag!
The Real Lyrics:
And yes, I've been bad
The Story: When this song first came out back in 1998, my best friend used to sing these lyrics out when he heard it on the radio. had me in stitches because it really does sound like he sings that lol - Submitted by: John Myers
George Michael's, "Praying for Time"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hand in hand with elephants
The Real Lyrics:
Hand in hand with ignorance
The Story: Sounded like they were hand in hand with elephants. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
George Michael's, "Shoot the Dog"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's potty time every day
The Real Lyrics:
It's party time every day
The Story: I often confused "party" with "potty". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
George Michael's, "Too Funky"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Green Bay, Green Bay
or
Green Day, Green Day
The Real Lyrics:
Baby, baby
The Story: This is what I thought I heard, one or the other. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
George Michael's, "Too Funky"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Would you stop playing with that radio, George?
The Real Lyrics:
Would you stop playing with that radio of yours?
The Story: Seeing that George Michael is the artist of this song, I'm fairly sure that I'm not the only person who misheard the lyric like that. - Submitted by: Hervard
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