I swear I thought that's what they said!!

Never Tear us Apart

Don't ask me what you know is true

Don't have to tell you I love your precious heart

I, I was standing you were there

to wear the niiiight out and they could never tear us apart!!!

Major Tom

4-3-2-1 Earth beams no one

drifting falling

your team wages

falling calling hoooome

Land Down Under

Do you come from the land down under

where women grow amid plunders

Purple Rain

I never meant to cause you any sorrow

I never meant to cause you any shame

I only wanted to see some kind of loving

I only want milk of magnesia in the purple rain

Mr. Roboto

Double my tomato (not tomato...lol) Mr. Roboto

Double Double

Crocodile Rock

Crah rockin the sound is rockin and the beat just can't keep still

never knew it a thousand times and I guess I never will

Crah rockin Friday nights

and suzy was dressed up tight

Crah rockin is outta sight la la la la la la

Me and Bobby Mcgee

busted flat in baton rouge

waitin for a train

feelin you was faded as my jeans

bobby thumbed a diesel down in the pourin rain

rode us all the way to new orleans

i pulled my heart through my dirty red bandanna

fading soft while bobby sang the blues

windshield wipers turpentine holding bobby's hand in mine

Beat it

Pick totem don't you ever come around here

don't wanna see my face you better disappear

the fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear

so beat it just beat it

beat it beat it beat it

no one wants to be defeated

show em it's not funky

show em it's just fright

it doesn't matter whose wrong or right just beat it

Those are but a few of my many many many misheard and loudly sung lyrics. The 1980's were an odd time for many. Unless the tape you purchased had the lyrics included or the album had the lyrics on the cover, you were out of luck for learning lyrics. I remember laboriously listening to the line of a song, stopping the tape, writing the lyrics, starting the tape, stopping the tape, writing the lyrics...you get the idea. Learning the real words was hard work! Of course you had to do it or look stupid. I looked stupid for the songs I didn't have tapes to transcribe the lyrics from. We had an underground for lyrics, we'd pass them around along with the copied tapes...(yes there was a world pre-bootleg) We'd whisper who had what tapes, or who had lent out tapes and lost them. Once I committed the ultimate sin and lent a friend's tape to another friend. The friend never returned the tape and my friend got mad at me so I had to go buy another tape, but not that same tape because it really belonged to someone else entirely and she was a real jerk so I had to buy another tape my friend wanted...wow that was a mouthful!!

I thank the internet gods and goddesses for lyrics websites and also for making me aware of all the misheard lyrics I've sung...there are so many more!! My son is now proudly carrying on the traditon

Dragula

Dj Dj Joe

Little woodchips that slam

in the back of my dracula

Sadly there might never be anymore misheard lyrics from him aside from Move Chemical (smooth criminal). Poor deprived child has the internet to look up lyrics and the sound quality is much better on cd's. That is until they get scratched 5 minutes after you purchase them. Tapes in the 80's were somehow indestructible. They could be left in players for days, left in the sun, get moldy, get crimped, get tossed out car windows in a fit of lover's rage...but still the soldered on playing for us such magical melodies as Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me. Vacation. She Bop, Karma Chameleon......ah I miss the 80's

I'm a lover in your eyes all the way

when i see your wicked world i want to say

i'm a man with out attention

i'm a man who doesn't know

how to play the competition

they string along they string along

comma comma comma chameleon

you come and go

you come and go

lovers would be easy

if your covers were like my dreams

red cold and green red cold and green

ah that music really rocked!!