Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody.
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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!).
I'm Your Baby Tonight album at Amazon.com
He won't Lego
He won't let go
The Story: Sounded like he wouldn't do anything about Lego. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Didn't we almost have a ball
When lunch was all we had on Thanksgiving?
Didn't we almost have it all
When love was all we had worth giving?
The Story: I thought this song was about having a ball on Thanksgiving. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Shoe shoe shoe
Shoop shoop shoop
The Story: I always thought the backup singers were saying "shoe" repetitively until I saw the subtitle. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I decided long to know
I decided long ago
The Story: Sounded like she decided long to know. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I decided to lock the door
Never to walk in anyone's shadow.
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow.
The Story: I used to think the lyrics were "I decided to lock the door" until I looked up and viewed the lyrics in "John Brimhall's 67 More Popular Electronic Keyboard Pieces" that I had received for my birthday back in the 80s (though I don't remember the exact year) and noticed that the correct lyrics were "I decided long ago." - Submitted by: Isac
He feels me up
He fills me up
The Story: The first time I heard this song, my friend and I were in my car and it came on the radio. I said, 'Is she saying what I think she's saying?' and we were both laughing hysterically. We quickly realized what she was really saying, though. - Submitted by: Jenn
'Cause you know about bee stings.
'Cause you know about these things.
The Story: This happened when I was about 8 years old. I was singing in the car beside my Mom, and she just cracked up to tears because I sang 'bee stings'. Pretty funny. - Submitted by: TheAntar
Looks into my eyes, takes me to the CONCERT HALL.
Looks into my eyes
Takes me to the clouds above.
The Story: Pop music is generally so compressed(everything as loud as everything else) that it's hard to even HEAR the lead singer, let alone understand them! lol - Submitted by: ChrisCT USA
Looks into my eyes, takes me to the capital.
Looks into my eyes, takes me to the clouds above.
The Story: I was once in a supermarket and heard this on Muzak and started singing it. Then the girl handing out free cheese samples had to correct me! - Submitted by: Joseph DeTomassino
Looks into my eyes
Takes me to the concert hall
There's a boy I know
He's the one I dream of
Looks into my eyes
Takes me to the clouds above.
The Story: Ever since '86 thought it was "concert hall". Was watching a YouTube clip with lyrics and was finally corrected 24 years later. LOL! - Submitted by: Chris
'cause you know about cheap things
'cause you know about these things
The Story: I also thought she could have talked about cheap things. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Four-legged love is all that I see
For maybe love is all that I feel
The Story: I was at work when this came on the radio and started to unknowingly sing along when a co-worker laughed at me, thinking the screw up was intentional. I hadn't even noticed that I was singing it wrong (for years) until it was brought to my attention. - Submitted by: shannon o'brien
How will I know if he really loves me
I say a prayer with every heart beat
I fall in love whenever we meet
I'm asking you what you know about bee stings
How will I know if he's thinking of me
I try to fall but a flu shot (can't speak)
Falling in love is all better suite
This love is strong why do I feel weak
How will I know if he really loves me
I say a prayer with every heart beat
I fall in love whenever we meet
I'm asking you what you know about these things
How will I know if he's thinking of me
I try to phone but I'm too shy (can't speak)
Falling in love is all better suite
This love is strong why do I feel weak
The Story: I thought the song was about medical problems. I laugh and laugh everytime I hear that song. - Submitted by: anony12334
I try to phone, buttitution (cat's feet)
I try to phone, but I'm too shy (can't speak)
The Story: I was about 9 years old, and was singing at the top of my lungs along with the radio, when my 14 year old sister said, 'What in the world are you singing?!' Sensing I was about to be ridiculed, I repeated it to her sheepishly, and she said, 'Buttitution isn't even a word, you moron!' The 'cat's feet' part was misheard by my friend, who fessed up to it when I told her about the word I had apparently made up on my own! - Submitted by: Amanda B.
Oh, Whitney, I'm shaking, wish I had you near me now
Oh, wake me, I'm shaking, wish I had you near me now
The Story: I thought that she was singing to herself but it turns out it's "Oh, wake me," not "Oh Whitney." - Submitted by: jrgee
Ooh, how will I know if he really loves me?
I say a prayer with every heartbeat
I fall in love whenever we meet
I'm asking you 'cause you know about bee stings
Ooh, how will I know if he really loves me?
I say a prayer with every heartbeat
I fall in love whenever we meet
I'm asking you 'cause you know about these things
The Story: I first heard How Will I Know back in 1986. I heard this song again when I was at the gym yesterday. This was the first time I thought the lyrics that the late Whitney Houston sang was something else. - Submitted by: Scott McPhee
Because I'll never change all my colas for you
Because I'll never change all my colors for you
The Story: It was having to do with when she appeared in a Diet Coke commercial in 1987, and how in the world would she have ever changed it? - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Don't make me cry, watermelon!
Don't make me close one more door
The Story: enjoying life then this happened during SOSE assignment - Submitted by: Tinkerbell
Gonna make big love one more time
Don't make me close one more door
The Story: Always thought it was odd lyric but never enough to look it up. But then watched the I Wanna Dance With Somebody film and was a bit lost in the scene where Whitney was fretting about the medley routine and breathing between ‘don’t make me’ - Submitted by: Steve Jones
Jui-cy-fruit
You-see-through
The Story: My girlfriend and I were driving back to ny and the song came on the radio and she sang the lyric. I laughed so hard I almost flew off the New Jersey Turnpike. - Submitted by: Greger
Mister, emerge if you dare.
Must I imagine you there?
The Story: My best friend and I were singing this one time, and we both sang different lyrics at this part. So we researched it and found out we were both wrong! We laugh at ourselves every time we hear this song. - Submitted by: Dawn
Let you back in my arms
Let you back in my heart
The Story: I always thought it sounded like it. I like the mishearing better! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I guess you like raisins
I miss you like crazy
The Story: My sister and I used to go around the house singing "I Guess You Like Raisins" - Submitted by: JP
I wanna eat with somebody.
I wanna feel the heat with somebody
The Story: I thought Whitney Houston wanted to go out to eat with someone. - Submitted by: Erin Kirisci
I'll take my boobs all great Or I'll take my boobs ok
How to chase my blues away
The Story: When I was in the radio, I was recording a line and suddenly I heard it and I thought it was like a virgin so I heard this line. Then I stopped recording. - Submitted by: Caranime
And when the night goes
And when the night falls
The Story: I kept thinking it had to do with her singing "goes", not "falls". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I've been in love and lost my census
I've been in love and lost my senses
The Story: Also, I often misheard "senses" as "census". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
And I wanna see junk.
And I wish for you joy.
The Story: This is the lyric that I thought was being said when I was little. - Submitted by: Erin
And I wanna see junk.
or
I wanna see you get a job.
And I wish for you joy.
The Story: The five year old me really thought that the misheard lyrics were the actual lyrics. I really thought that Whitney Houston wanted to see garbage on the floor and told someone to get a job. I was like, “Wait what?” 😂 - Submitted by: Erin Kirisci
It's a sweet, memories
But a bow ball bit
Bittersweet, memories
But above all this
The Story: I know this song to heart. Always sing it to myself. The 'but a bow bow it' doesn't make any sense, so I went to the library to find it, but there's no lyric in the album's thick booklet, only names of songs and it's makers. So I sang this song my way for more than four years until the internet become so popuplar. What a relief to know the real lyric. - Submitted by: B.Ng
Met a man named Maurice
That is all I am taking with me.
Bittersweet memories
That is all I am taking with me.
The Story: 'The Bodyguard' came out and I listened to this song twenty times a day. Finally, I asked someone, 'Why is she singing about Maurice? Kevin Costner's name wasn't Maurice. Who's Maurice?' They looked at me like I was crazy, and I tried to explain, and finally they replied, 'Bittersweet memories!!' My friend and I still get a laugh everytime we hear it. - Submitted by: Jessica
boda-bom-bom-pess
But above all this
The Story: I was absolutely positive that the words were "boda-bom-bom-pess" - as in the sound of a drum, and I would do all these actions to go with it, as if I was banging away at the drum kit. One day I was showing off in class, being noisy etc. and I was just in the middle of this act. My teacher stopped and said "WHAT did you say?" Anyway. she made me repeat the entire performance, which I thought was pretty cool, til I found out I was singing the wrong things, and everyone was laughing AT ME! - Submitted by: Elle
I met a sweet man named Maurice
Bittersweet Memories
The Story: After watching the Bodyguard, my sister Jennifer seriously turned around and asked why the song was about a man named Maurice when Kevin Costners character was called Frank - Submitted by: Michelle
Climb every mountain,
swim every sea
I'm every woman,
it's all in me
The Story: My friend is a trained opera singer and would sing this song in her opera voice instead of pop voice. She insisted that these were the lyrics....to this day I crack up when I hear this song. - Submitted by: Kim Shiely
I dance at Walmart
I'm every woman.
The Story: This was actually my brother's misheard lyric. I'm just putting it here for him. - Submitted by: InsertNameHere
Icelandic woman, she's all afreeze.
I'm every woman, it's all in me.
The Story: My husband kept telling me that he loved this new dance song about a woman from another country. I had no idea what he was talking about. - Submitted by: Cindy Desa
But that's just an open top sea.
But that's just an old fantasy.
The Story: I never knew what this lyric really was until today. I never minded holding the "that's just an open top seaaaaaaaaaa" note before this, though. - Submitted by: Michelle C.
Hump your baby tonight.
I'm your baby tonight.
The Story: My wife and I heard this song recently on the radio by mistake. I laughed and sang along, 'I'm your baby tonight!' And my wife said, 'oh, *I'm* your baby tonight. That makes more sense!' And I said, 'What did you think it was?' 'Hump your baby tonight! We thought this was a dirty song when I was growing up!' I am not making this up. - Submitted by: Gary Sheppard
Whenever you run from me
or
Whenever you run to me
Whatever you want from me
The Story: It sounded like someone would run from Whitney or run to her, depending on where that unidentified person is. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I'd rather be alone & on my feet
I'd rather be alone & unhappy
The Story: My friend & I were driving down to the Jersey shore when this song first came out. Being girls, of course we loved it. Anyway, we were singing & she said these lyrics. I couldn't stop laughing because they were so clear to me. She really thought it said on my feet. I don't even think that line makes any sense! - Submitted by: Denise
Then they hung up
Then they hung out
The Story: I thought they hung up the telephone. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I'd rather be alone and not have meat
I'd rather be alone than not unhappy
The Story: I live in an town where there are a lot of cows. On national livestock day, I heard this song. So naturally, I thought that it went like that. - Submitted by: Dan Ford
Climb every mountain.
Im every woman.
The Story: As above, on the dance floor showing huge mountains (breasts). Some woman found it offensive, my male mates a laugh!! - Submitted by: Peter Kakucska
It's a condom situation
It's a common situation
The Story: I kept thinking it had to do with sex! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
F***ky a**!
Clap your hands!
The Story: Sorry for such a rude mishearing, but it really sounds like it, at least, to me... These words are sung by, I suppose, Whitney's daughter at the very end of the song (like she says 'Sung, mommy!' at the beginning). I was really surprised about what the little kid was saying (especially because she was a liitle kid), so I kept listening attentively every time I heard the song, and I really liked it, btw. Yet I couldn't hear anything else, until I told about this to two of my cousins. As I wanted them to make clear what I hear, I pronounced my version very clearly, of course, and said that I am very confused about such lyrics. How confused and even more embarrassed I was when they both hastily informed me about what she *really* was saying. - Submitted by: Janis
Milo is yolo
My love is your love
The Story: When we hear "Milo" instead of "my love", it's what happens when Milo only lives once. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
One molar in time
One Moment in Time
The Story: Could have sworn she was singing about anything dental. Didn't realize it was a song about the 1988 Summer Olympics. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Freedom, oh yeah!
Queen of the night
The Story: I always used to ask people if they had the Whitney Houston CD with 'Freedom' on. It never struck me as weird that no one had ever heard of it. - Submitted by: Katherine Ann
‘Cos I’ve got Freedom of noise
'Cus I'm the queen of the night!
The Story: Knew the song title... sang it wrong for years... never put two and two together until the early 2000’s after hearing it on the radio and it finally clicking - Submitted by: Cc
Each day, each day I play the roll
Each day, each day I play the role
The Story: Once again, why I heard "roll" when it was referring to celebs. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I'm shaving all my m*** for you.
I'm saving all my love for you.
The Story: It was at a party. A friend of ours had told everyone at the party that his girlfriend shaved every pubic hair on her body for him as a special birthday present. So when the DJ played this song towards the end of the night, my friend just shouted the wrong lyrics to the tune. It was priceless, especially when my mate was slapped around the face by his girlfriend and then by her mother. - Submitted by: Dean Greaves
My friends Jan and Kelly
My friends try and tell me
The Story: That's what I thought it was! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
It's exactly what love can do
Ain't it shocking what love can do?
The Story: It's exactly what I thought I heard. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
And I need you Dennis Bradley
And I need you des-peratly
The Story: I heard it on a radio station when the competition was to phone in about songs that had your name in them, and a guy called Dennis Bradly called in with this. - Submitted by: Anna
And the only thing I've learned
Is that I need you, Dennis Bradley.
And the only thing I've learned
Is that I need you desperately.
The Story: I rememeber there being a massive thing on the radio about it. They spent a week tracking down Denis Bradley. Whenever they played the song, they had him say, 'Here I am, Whitney Baby, come and get me!' - Submitted by: Minkie Pinkie
And the only thing I've yearned
And the only thing I've learned
The Story: I thought she could have yearned for one thing! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
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