Misheard Song Lyrics

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River of Dreams by Billy Joel

Misheard Lyrics:
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of Jews
To the river so deep

Original Lyrics:
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of truth
To the river so deep

Misheard Lyrics:
To a river soft beat

Original Lyrics:
Through a river so deep

Misheard Lyrics:
We don't live in the ocean
We don't starve in the streets

Original Lyrics:
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams

Misheard Lyrics:
Yo, me, oh, isn't that sweet?

Original Lyrics:
Gloria, it's not Cherie

Ho Hey by The Lumineers

Misheard Lyrics:
I been on the roof
You been on the breeze
In my sweet home

Real Lyrics:
I belong with you
You belong with me
You're my sweetheart

Mysterious Ways by U2

Misheard Lyrics:
She moves in a serious way.

Original Lyrics:
She moves in mysterious ways.

Misheard Lyrics:
She's stupid
You're sliding down
She peed there when you hit the ground

Original Lyrics:
She's slippy
You're sliding down
She'll be there when you hit the ground

Misheard Lyrics:
You've been living underground
Eating from a catch
You've been running away from what you don't understand
Look!

Original Lyrics:
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away from what you don't understand
Love!

Misheard Lyrics:
Me so right, me so right

Original Lyrics:
It's alright, it's alright

Misheard Lyrics:
If you wanna kiss the guy
Better learn how to pray
On your knees, boy.

Original Lyrics:
If you wanna kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel
On your knees, boy.

"Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

"If you want my money and you think I'm sexy".

Actual lyrics are:

"If you want my body and you think I'm sexy".

Paul Young - Everytime you go away.

"Everytime you go away you take a piece of meat with you".

Actual lyrics:

"Everytime you go away you take a piece of me with you".

Pink's song Try has the lyric "Where there is desire there's gonna be a flame." I thought it was "Where there is a spark there's gonna be a flame." I actually like my version better, because it goes with the fire metaphor in the rest of the chorus.

Matthew WIlder - Break my Stride

"ain't nothing gonna break my spine."

Actual lyrics:

"ain't nothing gonna break my stride."

Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder

Misheard Lyrics:
The road behind was racky
But now you're feeling khaki

Original Lyrics:
The road behind was rocky
But now you're feeling cocky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGg_cCRcdqA

Immediate Music With Great Power's misheard lyrics. I don't know which language they are actually in, likely Latin.

She's A Maniac by Michael Sembello

Misheard Lyrics:
Is a place most smelly feet

Original Lyrics:
Is a place most never see

Misheard Lyrics:
There's a coconut in heat
Struggling, stretching for the beat.

Original Lyrics:
There's a cold, kinetic heat

Misheard Lyrics:
You run for your life for that moment in time

Original Lyrics:
You work all your life for that moment in time
Struggling, stretching for the beat.

Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye

Misheard Lyrics:
But that was love and it's innate, I still remember

Original Lyrics:
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

Misheard Lyrics:
Like crazy nation to the end

Original Lyrics:
Like resignation to the end

Misheard Lyrics:
But you treat me like a stranger I've been so long

Original Lyrics:
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough

Misheard Lyrics:
I guess that I don't need that dolt

Original Lyrics:
I guess that I don't need that, though

The Chris de Burgh song Crusader has the chorus line, "Jerusalem is lost".

My dad thought it was , "Gerald's lamb is lost".

I'm surprised the classic misheard lyric of Bryan Adams "Summer of -69" hasn't made it here yet. The one where everyone mishears "six-string" as "sex dream".

Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden

Misheard Lyrics:
'Til this guy falls down on me.

Original Lyrics:
Until the sky falls down on me.


Misheard Lyrics:
And when the stars are shining brightly in the perfect sky

Original Lyrics:
And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky


Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna sandwich you on a mountain.

Original Lyrics:
I wanna stand with you on a mountain.


Misheard Lyrics:
I'll love you more and be true to you and me


Original Lyrics:
I'll love you more with every breath, truly, madly, deeply do...


Misheard Lyrics:
You don't have to close your eyes
She's standing right before you.


Original Lyrics:
You don't have to close your eyes
It's standing right before you.

Song: "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga

Actual Lyrics: "Want you in my rear window, baby you're sick"

Misheard Lyrics: "Want you tomorrow when your baby is sick"

This single misheard lyric caused me to misinterpret the entire song's meaning. I thought it was about a Faustian contract between the singer and a desperate parent who must engage in a forbidden supernatural romance in exchange for their child's life.