Misheard Song Lyrics -> Stories -> Michael Jackson
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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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Michael Jackson's, "2000 Watts"
The Misheard Lyrics:
2000 watts - eh-oh!
The Real Lyrics:
2000 watts, eight ohms
The Story: I was a bit surprised to hear Michael pay homage to the dogawfully dreary and deformed Teletubbies. But considering I don't know what this song is about generally, I let the strangeness pass me by. A bit disappointed it turned out not to be my mishearing, though. - Submitted by: Monokini
Michael Jackson's, "Another Part Of Me"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You want another quarter man.
The Real Lyrics:
Your just another part of me.
The Story: I think I was 12 or 13 when the "Bad" album came out. This was long before the days of the music downloads and internet leaks. So our local station had a "New Music Hour" in which they played a new album once in it's entirety. I taped the whole album that way (having to my cassette player fo commercial breaks, mind you). When I was writing down song titles, I misheard the title as "Another Quarter Man". I have no idea what I was thinking. - Submitted by: Niki
Michael Jackson's, "BIllie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Billie Jean, f*** my love!
The Real Lyrics:
Billie Jean is not my lover.
The Story: I was in Junior High and introduced this song to my younger sister who was 7 at the time. I told there was one line not to sing in front of our mother, because it said the 'F - word'." She and I sang the song together just how I taught her - but that line only in private. Then, I read the lyrics and had to tell my innocent sister the truth! - Submitted by: Jaye
Michael Jackson's, "Baby Be Mine"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You are all the future that I designed
The Real Lyrics:
You are all the future that I desire
The Story: After he sang the line, 'I won't give you reason to change your mind', I thought those were the lyrics so they made up a rhyme. I wish that 'you are the all the future that I designed' were the correct lyrics because 'mind' and 'desire' do not rhyme. - Submitted by: Miles
Michael Jackson's, "Bad"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I´m fat, i´m fat, shamu
The Real Lyrics:
I'm bad, I'm bad
Come on!
Come on!
The Story: Well one day my friend told me thought Michael said I´m fat, and i thought that was really funny, and i saıd maybe i´ll make a misheard lyrics, so i tried to find out what he sould say next and i thought of Shamu the bıg killer whale because he is big = fat. - Submitted by: Kevın
Michael Jackson's, "Beat It"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Beat it, beat it
No one kann dem wiederstehn!
No one kann dem wiederstehn!
The Real Lyrics:
Beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated.
No one wants to be defeated.
The Story: I´ve heard this song for the first time by the age of maybe 7 or 8 years. It was part of some kind of music show on TV. Since I did not speak English in those days (I´m German), I did not know what the song was all about. The funny thing was that in that spot they said that Jackson had learned a little bit of German during his concert-tours in Europe. So I was convinced (until now) that he really did sing some German words in that song. Since that day I always wandered: 'what is it he´s singing there?' Now I know, one of the greatest mysteries of my childhood has been revealed. - Submitted by: Lil
Michael Jackson's, "Beat It"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Beat it, beat it
You know how it feels to beat it
Show them how f****** yourself feels right
Which does it matter, who's wrong or right?
You know how it feels to beat it
Show them how f****** yourself feels right
Which does it matter, who's wrong or right?
The Real Lyrics:
Beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Show 'em how funky, strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.
No one wants to be defeated
Show 'em how funky, strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.
The Story: This song freaked me out as a kid....I was at that young age where cussing was hilarious and you hear a curse word in everything you hear. I had no idea what the lyrics I had misheard even meant at the time. Now that I do I laugh so hard. My husband thinks I was a wild child, but I wasn't! Good times! - Submitted by: Angel
Michael Jackson's, "Beat It"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Daytona don't you ever come around here.
The Real Lyrics:
They told him don't you ever come around here.
The Story: My roommate's name is Daytona, and one day I was having her listen to a song that I was choreographing a dance to (I am a dance teacher)...and she said 'he said my name! Michael Jackson said my name!' I asked her what she was talking about and she had me restart the song. The first line really sounds like he's saying 'Daytona don't you ever come around here'--Wishful thinking! - Submitted by: Stefanie
Michael Jackson's, "Beat It"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No-one wants to see your penis
The Real Lyrics:
No one wants to be defeated
The Story: This wasn't mine but I laughed so hard when I heard it that I almost fell off my chair. The lady who did hear it explained that she thought the song was about townspeople trying to tell the local "flasher" where to go - hence "beat it"! - Submitted by: Ladybird
Michael Jackson's, "Beat It"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Show 'em how funky, 'long as you're right
It doesn't matter who's on your bike.
It doesn't matter who's on your bike.
The Real Lyrics:
Showin' how funky, strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right.
The Story: Growing up, we always just assumed the message was that it's better to just let the other kid steal your bike than get into a fight over it. - Submitted by: Angela
Michael Jackson's, "Beat It"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Show them how f*****g strong is your fight.
The Real Lyrics:
Showing how funky strong is your fight.
The Story: I thought Michael Jackson was making fun of Prince. - Submitted by: Fitu Petaia
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Billie Jean is not my girl
The Real Lyrics:
Billie Jean is not my lover
The Story: I just found out now. But it is pretty much the same meaning, so this story will be quite tame compared to others. - Submitted by: Scandia
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Billy Jean's not my mother.
The Real Lyrics:
Billie Jean is not my lover.
The Story: I was listening to it in the car and started singing along to it. When it came to the main chorus, I started singing "Billy Jean's not my mother". My brother turned to look at me and said, "Idiot!" I was actually quite confused. I didn't know that they were the wrong lyrics. - Submitted by: Your Mother
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But the Chid is not my son.
The Real Lyrics:
But the kid is not my son.
The Story: I thought Chid was street slang for kid. - Submitted by: Lorenzo Turi
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But the King is not my son.
The Real Lyrics:
But the kid is not my son.
The Story: When I heard this, I just thought that 'the King is not my son' must be some sort of phrase of sarcasm, like 'pigs might fly', to imply that Billie Jean didn't really mean it when she said that he was 'the one'. I was young and stupid. What can I say? - Submitted by: Shaheen
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But the chair is not my son.
The Real Lyrics:
But the kid is not my son.
The Story: My grandmother heard the song in the car, then asked why the chair was not his son. - Submitted by: Duncan
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But the janitor is not my son.
The Real Lyrics:
But the kid is not my son.
The Story: My best friend used to think that these were the lyrics when we were in 5th grade. She would sing it at the top of her lungs on the playground. - Submitted by: Christa
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The b**** is not my lover.
The Real Lyrics:
Billie Jean is not my lover.
The Story: When this song first came out, one of my co-workers, a matronly women of about 65 was walking around the office bouncing and bubbly singing the misheard lyrics 'the b**** is not my lover'. - Submitted by: Torrena Dye
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The chair is not my son.
The Real Lyrics:
The kid is not my son.
The Story: It's actually what a friend of mine thought it said. She sang it that way for years. I didn't know what it said either, just knew it didn't say THAT. - Submitted by: Steve Bullard
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The chair's at my side.
The Real Lyrics:
The kid is not my son.
The Story: I think there was a chair in the video which is what made me think that is what the words were. - Submitted by: Nunu
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The jed is not the son.
The Real Lyrics:
The kid is not my son.
The Story: For a while I thought 'jed' was a new slang word for a child born out of wedlock. - Submitted by: John
Michael Jackson's, "Billy Jean"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But the chair is not my size
The Real Lyrics:
But the kid is not my son
The Story: I have sang this line to Billy Jean since I first heard the song. When the tribute to Michael Jackson was on I was singing it and my Mum started laughing at me, although she didn't know the correct lyrics anyway. It only took 17 years to find out they were totally different lyrics to what I thought - Submitted by: Leanne
Michael Jackson's, "Black or White"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've seen a bright green dollar
I'm not gonna spend a lot bein' a color.
I'm not gonna spend a lot bein' a color.
The Real Lyrics:
I've seen the bright get duller
I'm not going to spend my life being a color.
I'm not going to spend my life being a color.
The Story: When I first heard this tune, it reminded me of George Foreman's muffler shop line, 'I'm not gonna pay a lot for a muffler.' so I sang 'I've seen a bright green dolla'! I'm not gonna spend a lot changin a muffla'!' - Submitted by: Matthew F Kramer
Michael Jackson's, "Blood On The Dance Floor"
The Misheard Lyrics:
To save the world
I have to know this stupid dance.
I have to know this stupid dance.
The Real Lyrics:
To escape the world
I've got to enjoy that simple dance.
I've got to enjoy that simple dance.
The Story: Bear in mind that up to now, I never knew what he was saying anyway. So along with the rest of the supposed 'garble' in this tune, I didn't think much of my line. And looking at the real deal now, seems I wasn't far off with my nonsense. - Submitted by: Devil Jones
Michael Jackson's, "Cheater"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I don't care a Jack B**** 'bout what you do.
The Real Lyrics:
I don't care a jack, or about what you do.
The Story: I thought 'don't care a Jack B****' was Michael Jackson's unique take on curse words like 'Don't give a d**n' or indeed 'S***'...what? Don't peer suspiciously at my mishearing. This is the same artist who conjures nonsense like 'chamone' (or however you spell it) and has implemented that in every song, so it wouldn't be surprising if 'Jack B****' had been yet another creation. - Submitted by: Devil Jones
Michael Jackson's, "Dirty Diana"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I am the bitmap you need.
The Real Lyrics:
I am the thing that you need.
The Story: A 'bitmap' is an image file for Microsoft Windows. It never made sense to me, why Michael Jackson would want to be an Windows Picture for someone... - Submitted by: Gianni
Michael Jackson's, "Dirty Diana"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You think I got no, thong.
The Real Lyrics:
Dirty Diana, no.
The Story: It was my younger sister who heard the lyrics this way; she was about ten or eleven at the time. She just started singing it like that once and I was like, 'What the heck?!' But it was still pretty funny! Frankly, I find those lyrics more creative!! - Submitted by: Ch.H.S
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
'Keep up with the postholes
Don't stop 'till you get enough.
Don't stop 'till you get enough.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: I was a teenager in rural Utah when this was popular. Although even then I realized that I was almost surely wrong, whenever I hear this I have a vision of the 80s Michael Jackson out in a field with a posthole digger, toiling away. - Submitted by: paula
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Come on when you're hard enough
Don't stop 'til it's hard enough.
Don't stop 'til it's hard enough.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on when the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: I was watching Rush Hour 2, when my friend walked in. He was singing this because he did not know the real words. So he continued to make random lines but this was the best. - Submitted by: Gavin Frampton
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Don't stop to the postal rock.
The Real Lyrics:
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: These lyrics were misheard by my mother, and sung rather enthusiastically by her at weddings, shopping malls and anywhere else she hears the song. I told her the correct lyrics some years ago, but she seems to prefer her version. - Submitted by: Daniel
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Get it on, with the post, Doc.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop.
The Story: This was actually my dad, who was getting his post doctorate when this song came out. And though it was written for the people like him, lol. - Submitted by: Terms
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Keep on to the post office
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: It gives me the image of loads of old geriatrics in thier slippers, racing down the high street to the post office on a cold Monday morning to beat the cues for collecting their Giro payment, while at the same time, Michael Jackson is running along with them, acting as thier personal trainer, and doing the moonwalk in some shiny white-fake-ass-leather pvc outfit, with a whistle, a stopwatch and a headband, and then occasionally stopping, looking at his stopwatch then looking at the old people and thrusting his hips and pointing at the sky and shouting: 'owww, heeee-heeee'. - Submitted by: zippy_got_silly
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Keep on where the porn stars go
Don't stop till you get it on.
Don't stop till you get it on.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: I was driving in the car with my friend. The song came on as we both proceeded to sing different lyrics from each other; both insisting that our versions were correct. It turns out we were both wrong. - Submitted by: Crazy Carla
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Keep on with the Volkstanz
Don't stop 'til you get enough!
Don't stop 'til you get enough!
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: I'm from Germany; and when I was about 10, I heard this song in the car with my mother and my best friend. She started singing, 'Keep on with the Volkstanz!' (meaning folk dance) at the top of her lungs. Since then, I always hear MJ singing that. I just found out what he really said. *lol* - Submitted by: Jasmin
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Keep on with the post office.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop.
The Story: I was like 13, and this song was on the radio in a candy store my buddy and I were at. The chorus came on, and my buddy was singing 'Keep on with the post office. Don't stop 'til you get enough.' I looked at my buddy and said, 'Oh that's how it goes.' And I started singing it with him. What a nucklehead I was. - Submitted by: Michael Holmes (Peanuthead)
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Keep on with the punk stuff
Don't still 'til you get enough!
Don't still 'til you get enough!
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: A black Army trainee in the basic-training platoon I was in at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in 1982, was sure that this was the correct lyric. - Submitted by: B. Moore
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Keep on, do the Bus Stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: This song came out when I was in Elementary School. We would do a line dance a'la 'Soul Train' style called the 'Bus Stop' to this song. I thought the song was about the dance. - Submitted by: Darla888
Michael Jackson's, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Keep on, with the bone stroke, Don't stop 'til you get it up.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep On With The Force Don't Stop Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
The Story: Sing along to the song chorus using a differentiation of "The Jerk" dance move - Submitted by: Shaun Sanders
Michael Jackson's, "Dont Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Come on, you're a porn star
Don't stop 'till ya get it up.
Don't stop 'till ya get it up.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: Making a t-shirt with my misheard lyrics to get laughs! - Submitted by: Kenney G Preston
Michael Jackson's, "Dont Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Oh when the voice don't stop
Make the stop before you get enough.
Make the stop before you get enough.
The Real Lyrics:
Keep on with the force, don't stop
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
Don't stop 'til you get enough.
The Story: I was at a club and this song came on, and they were handing around the microphone for people to sing. I got the microphone in this particular part of the song, I sang the misheard lyrics. Needless to say, I was laughed out of that club. - Submitted by: Alexandria Hanson
Michael Jackson's, "Give In To Me"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Love is a donut.
The Real Lyrics:
Love is a feeling.
The Story: I was looking on the Internet to download an mp3 of 'Give In To Me', and I finally found this forgeign site which was not written in very good English. When I looked at the download address, I noticed they had named the file 'love_is_a_donut.mp3'!!! O_o I can only assume that they misheard it or didn't really know what a donut was! - Submitted by: Dark Daryl
Michael Jackson's, "History"
The Misheard Lyrics:
He got kicked in the back, he said to kick him and slap
He got broke in the face - prepared the tumbola tape
He say 'one day you'll receive', misplacing the word 'history'
Then every day, every night, the fire's deep in his eyes!
How many people muster beats?
Slamming their paint across the land
And how many struggles must we see before we start to lend a helping hand?
Everybody says
He got broke in the face - prepared the tumbola tape
He say 'one day you'll receive', misplacing the word 'history'
Then every day, every night, the fire's deep in his eyes!
How many people muster beats?
Slamming their paint across the land
And how many struggles must we see before we start to lend a helping hand?
Everybody says
The Real Lyrics:
He got kicked in the back - he say that he needed that
He hot willed in the face, keep daring to motivate
He say one day you will see his place in world history
He dares to be recognized; the fire's deep in his eyes
How many victims must there be
Slaughtered in vain across the land
And how many struggles must there be before we choose to live the prophet's plan?
Everybody sing.
He hot willed in the face, keep daring to motivate
He say one day you will see his place in world history
He dares to be recognized; the fire's deep in his eyes
How many victims must there be
Slaughtered in vain across the land
And how many struggles must there be before we choose to live the prophet's plan?
Everybody sing.
The Story: I always thought the song was something to do with some strange ritual, with Michael listing the many instructions on how to perform it, before I bothered to find out what the real lyrics were. - Submitted by: Zanzara
Michael Jackson's, "Is It Scary?"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I took my skin off for you.
The Real Lyrics:
is it scary for you?
The Story: Well, I was watching the 'Ghosts' video, and this come right after Michael pulls of his skin to become a skeleton, so I was kind of justified. - Submitted by: Terms
Michael Jackson's, "Jam"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Jam, ih-ay
Ih-ay, ooh-er-er
Ih-ay, ooh-er
Ay, ooh, ah-ah-oh-ee-uh.
Ih-ay, ooh-er-er
Ih-ay, ooh-er
Ay, ooh, ah-ah-oh-ee-uh.
The Real Lyrics:
Jam, it ain't
It ain't too much stuff
It ain't too much
Ain't too much for me.
It ain't too much stuff
It ain't too much
Ain't too much for me.
The Story: I was young when I heard this. At the time, I thought Jackson was simply ad-libbing strange noises to fill up the bars in the chorus. - Submitted by: Devil Jones
Michael Jackson's, "Lady In My Life"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna give you one.
The Real Lyrics:
I wanna keep you warm.
The Story: For years, this is seriously what I believed Michael drawled while ad-libbing at the end. It made me cringe just thinking that someone like him would say such a thing [that was until 'Keep It In The Closet' came along...] Now after discovering the truth two days ago -- and a decade later -- I don't know whether I'm glad or otherwise that such a cringe-making thought can finally be laid to rest. - Submitted by: Devil Jones
Michael Jackson's, "Man In The Mirror"
The Misheard Lyrics:
As I turn up with a heart of gold, a faded winter fold
These windows are blowing my mind
See the kids' industry with not enough to eat!
Who am I to be blind pretending not to see them eat?
The summer's just begun a broken monotone
In a white man's hole.
These windows are blowing my mind
See the kids' industry with not enough to eat!
Who am I to be blind pretending not to see them eat?
The summer's just begun a broken monotone
In a white man's hole.
The Real Lyrics:
As I turn up the collar on my favourite winter coat
This wind is blowin' my mind
I see the kids in the street with not enough to eat
Who am I to be blind, pretending not to see their needs?
A summer's disregard, a broken bottle top
And a one man's soul.
This wind is blowin' my mind
I see the kids in the street with not enough to eat
Who am I to be blind, pretending not to see their needs?
A summer's disregard, a broken bottle top
And a one man's soul.
The Story: At the time, I assumed it was Michael Jackson trying a Shakespeare impersonation and being archaically poetic. - Submitted by: Monokini
Michael Jackson's, "Man In The Mirror"
The Misheard Lyrics:
See the g***amn w***e with her knickers too low!
Could it be, could it be Banana-nana-nana Loan?
Could it be, could it be Banana-nana-nana Loan?
The Real Lyrics:
That there are some with no home, not a nickel to loan
Could it be really me, pretending that they're not alone?
Could it be really me, pretending that they're not alone?
The Story: Since I didn't really know what he was saying throughout this song until later on, I assumed he was rambling about various things, including this anecdote of a prostitute he encountered that reminded him of someone named 'Banana Loan'. With such a porn-like name as that, Banana must've been a prostitute herself. Gosh, Michael must've got around! - Submitted by: Devil Jones
Michael Jackson's, "Off The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
So tonight
Gotta leave that tiny Bible on the shelf
And just enjoy yourself.
or
So tonight
Gotta leave that .45 on the shelf
And just enjoy yourself.
Gotta leave that tiny Bible on the shelf
And just enjoy yourself.
or
So tonight
Gotta leave that .45 on the shelf
And just enjoy yourself.
The Real Lyrics:
So tonight
Gotta leave that nine to five upon the shelf
And just enjoy yourself.
Gotta leave that nine to five upon the shelf
And just enjoy yourself.
The Story: My co-worker and I were here at work singing some old MJ tunes. She busted out loud and wrong with her version of the song (the first misheard lyric). We all just completely fell out. - Submitted by: Meohmyy
Michael Jackson's, "Remember The Time"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Doughnut, d'you wanna tickle me?
Cammy-tammy-see.(He-he-he!)
Cammy-tammy-see.(He-he-he!)
The Real Lyrics:
I don't know, do you wanna try?
Every time you see.(He-he-he!)
Every time you see.(He-he-he!)
The Story: I think I'm not alone here when I say throughout these years, I *never* knew what he said at the beginning of this song during his pithy ad-lib. Thanks to a forum I happened to stumble across for finally dispelling a mystery of mine that has lasted over a decade (though I still like the idea of a frisky doughnut with fingers). - Submitted by: Devil Jones
Michael Jackson's, "Remember The Time"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It just goes on and on, in the crack of my mind.
or
It just goes on and on, in the crack of my behind.
or
It just goes on and on, in the crack of my behind.
The Real Lyrics:
It just goes on and on, in the back of my mind.
The Story: One day my cousin asked me if he was saying 'crack' or 'back.' I told her it was back, but ever since then, we say 'crack' instead of 'back' just to get a good laugh! - Submitted by: Jessica
Michael Jackson's, "Rock With You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Girl, when you prance
There's a cabbage that must be doves.
There's a cabbage that must be doves.
The Real Lyrics:
Girl, when you dance
There's a magic that must be love.
There's a magic that must be love.
The Story: The reason is, I heard this song on the radio recently. I hadn't heard it before so I hummed, but I had earache at the time and I had to strain to hear some lines. I obviously didn't hear this particular line. So when I asked my wife, she laughed her head off and called me a prune (or loon, I still had earache). - Submitted by: andrew wood
Michael Jackson's, "Shake Your Body"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Let's dance, let's shout (Shout)
Shake your body now tooth-brush.
Shake your body now tooth-brush.
The Real Lyrics:
Let's dance, let's shout (Shout)
Shake your body now to the ground.
Shake your body now to the ground.
The Story: I couldn't understand why my friend Amanda kept laughing at me when we sung this song until recently! (Although I could never understand why a TOOTHBRUSH would be dancing!!) - Submitted by: Karlie G
Michael Jackson's, "Shake Your Body"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The things, they shout! (Shout!)
Shake your body, am I doing it wrong?
Shake your body, am I doing it wrong?
The Real Lyrics:
Let's dance, let's shout (shout)
Shake your body now to the ground.
Shake your body now to the ground.
The Story: What can I say? I was probably six at the time when I heard this and didn't know better, just danced to it. Though I did used to wonder what 'things' were shouting and why Michael was asking if he was doing the dance wrong when he clearly wasn't -- after all, that man can dance! - Submitted by: Monokini
Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Criminal"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Annie Ajewoke
Annie Ajewoke
Are you OK, Annie?
Annie Ajewoke
Are you OK, Annie?
The Real Lyrics:
Annie are you, okay?
Annie are you, okay?
Are you okay, Annie?
Annie are you, okay?
Are you okay, Annie?
The Story: When I was younger, I thought that was Annie's surname and was interested in knowing which part of Africa it came from. So asked my brother one day, and his reply was the loudest laugh I've ever heard. - Submitted by: Monokini
Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Criminal"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Eddy are you wokay
And a dimus and a wokay
And the sound of the window
When he stuck you
Like a shindo, Eddy
And you ran in the apartment
With a buckin' and a parkin'.
And a dimus and a wokay
And the sound of the window
When he stuck you
Like a shindo, Eddy
And you ran in the apartment
With a buckin' and a parkin'.
The Real Lyrics:
Annie are you okay
Won't you tell us that you're okay?
Then a sound at the window
Then he struck you
A crescendo, Annie
He came into your apartment
Left the bloodstains in the carpet.
Won't you tell us that you're okay?
Then a sound at the window
Then he struck you
A crescendo, Annie
He came into your apartment
Left the bloodstains in the carpet.
The Story: Ever since I was about 5, I have sung this song religiously with the wrong lyrics. I still do it, even though I know the words now. I think it's a force of habit. - Submitted by: Tiffany
Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Criminal"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Enni kiji wopti
So enni kiji wopti
Aaiyi wopti in it.
So enni kiji wopti
Aaiyi wopti in it.
The Real Lyrics:
Annie, are you okay?
So Annie, are you okay?
Are you okay, Annie?
So Annie, are you okay?
Are you okay, Annie?
The Story: My sister and I were 8 and 10 then. This is all we could understand, and we sang it that way for a longtime. We laugh at it now and would like to share the laugh with you, too. - Submitted by: Sony
Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Criminal"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Enni kiji wopti
So enni kiji wopti
Aaiyi wopti in it.
So enni kiji wopti
Aaiyi wopti in it.
The Real Lyrics:
Annie, are you okay?
So Annie, are you okay?
Are you okay, Annie?
So Annie, are you okay?
Are you okay, Annie?
The Story: My sister and I were 8 and 10 then. This is all we could understand, and we sang it that way for a longtime. We laugh at it now and would like to share the laugh with you, too. - Submitted by: Sony
Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Criminal"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Okay alle Mann hier, everybody clear this area right now!
The Real Lyrics:
Okay, I want everybody to clear the area right now!
The Story: I _KNOW_ what he really says, but I always hear that stupid German sentence. - Submitted by: Indy
Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Criminal"
The Misheard Lyrics:
So Annie are you wonky,
Annie are you wonky,
are you wonky Annie?
Annie are you wonky,
are you wonky Annie?
The Real Lyrics:
So Annie are you okay,
Annie are you okay,
Are you okay Annie?
Annie are you okay,
Are you okay Annie?
The Story: I once asked a Dj at a club for this, and sang the "wonky version". Needless to say he was mightily impressed with my interpretation, and offered me a hearing aid. - Submitted by: erinn Johnson
Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Criminal"
The Misheard Lyrics:
There's a sound at the window
And he struck you,
Like a Shinto, Annie
And he struck you,
Like a Shinto, Annie
The Real Lyrics:
There's a sign at the window
That he struck you
A crescendo, Annie
That he struck you
A crescendo, Annie
The Story: This song came out when I was in elementary school. Even though I knew deep down that the lyric couldn't possibly be 'Shinto,' somehow my little kid brain convinced me that it might be possible because the music video showed an Asian women around the same time that the lyric was sung. My logic was, Asian woman = Japanese woman = Shinto. - Submitted by: Amir
Michael Jackson's, "Smooth Crinimal"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Annie, are you wokie? Are you wokie? Are you a monkey, Annie?
The Real Lyrics:
Annie, are you o.k.? Are you o.k.? Are you o.k., Annie?
The Story: My Nigerian friend loves 'Smooth Criminal', but she doesn't know English well. She thought Michael was saying, 'Annie, are you wokie?' - Submitted by: israa salih
Michael Jackson's, "Stayin' Alive"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But the chair is not my son.
The Real Lyrics:
But the kid is not my son.
The Story: Years later, I heard this on the David Letterman show, where they dubbed an old white man speaking (not singing) plainly 'the chair', intercut with the real song. - Submitted by: Paul Murphy
Michael Jackson's, "Streetwalker"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pretty baby don't you give this pork to your lover
I'm really getting with your extra meat (yeah, yeah).
I'm really getting with your extra meat (yeah, yeah).
The Real Lyrics:
Pretty baby I gotta kiss for your loving
I really get it when you're next to me (yeah, yeah).
I really get it when you're next to me (yeah, yeah).
The Story: Innuendoes are getting worse each day. Now we're having pork and meat terminology, which really doesn't leave much to the imagination when you think about it. Seriously - what else can you mean by 'getting with your extra meat' and giving someone your 'pork'? - Submitted by: Devil Jones
Michael Jackson's, "The Lost Children"
The Misheard Lyrics:
When you sit there undressing
The Real Lyrics:
When you sit there addressing
The Story: When I first heard this song, it was on the Net and only played for 30 seconds. And when this particular line played at the very end, the volume was a little bit too low and I misheard it. I almost flipped out!!! So, I went to the Superstore and bought the album and read the lyrics that came with it. - Submitted by: Michelle Jameson
Michael Jackson's, "Thriller (2003 Edit)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Filler, Filler Night
The Real Lyrics:
Thriller, Thriller Night
The Story: We were doing some (Quiet, as in no power tools) DIY late at night. This song came on the radio. Quite apt, as it was indeed PolyFiller night. - Submitted by: OC Norm
Michael Jackson's, "Thriller"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The foulest denchers in the air
The Real Lyrics:
The foulest stench is in the air
The Story: In the video to Thriller, while Vincent Price is doing the rap, a Zombie climbs out of a manhole and he has hideous teeth... I thought Mr. Price was commenting on his dental hygene. Hey, I was 4-years-old! - Submitted by: Paul Davis
Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin Somethin'"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mama say, mama sews, Mama's ole coal shed
The Real Lyrics:
Mama se, mama sa, mama cu sa.
The Story: I am a former pit worker in England. We thought somehow Michael was singing about his coal mining upbringing. [Ed.'s note: Coal mining in Gary, Indiana? I seriously doubt that.] - Submitted by: mr d b
Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I was saved by the sound of Michael's sound.
The Real Lyrics:
Mama se, mama sa, mama cu sa.
The Story: Long-time argument between me and my husband. I was right! Thanks for helping me nail this long-time-coming, 'told you so' moment. Priceless! - Submitted by: Sue Doku
Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've been saved on the side of a mountain top.
The Real Lyrics:
Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa
The Story: Just found out today, while singing it to a co-worker (July 18, 2006) that he's not saying that. - Submitted by: Summer
Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin' Something"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna stand on the side of a mountain top.
The Real Lyrics:
Ma ma se, Ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa
The Story: It came on in the car and we were singing and all of sudden my dad cranks the volume and starts belting out 'I wanna stand on the side of a mountain top' and my sister and I laughed so hard that I almost peed my pants. My dad had been singing that 'version' since it came out!!! - Submitted by: Amanda
Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin' Something"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Mama say mama saw the Makusa.
The Real Lyrics:
Mama se, mama sa, ma ma cu sa.
The Story: I always thought Michael was talking about a legendary monster, the Makusa. Needless to say when my friends told me the true lyrics, I was ridiculed. - Submitted by: Werewolvesofthunder
Michael Jackson's, "Wanna Be Startin' Something"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Same as the sound of moccasins
The Real Lyrics:
Ma ma se, ma ma sa, moo ma coo sa.
The Story: A seven year old's interpretation. (Maybe had something to do with playing air guitar in moccasins.) - Submitted by: ben
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