Do you have any popular lyrics or sayings that you always thought were something else, but recently discovered the true meaning or real lyrics?

I often wondered who Miss.Miller was in the lyrics to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh & why does she not want to let him go? A schoolteacher perhaps giving him detention.

who is Miss Miller?

I spent a good bit of time wondering WTF Beyonce was doing in the club when she “just woke up.”
Does she live there? Did she roll out of bed and head straight to the club before getting her coffee? Did she get so trashed last night that she woke up in the alley and now she’s back to doing her own lil’ thing?

@ava She doesn’t exist, at least in those lyrics. “Bismillah” is what’s actually sung, hence the confusion, see?

@ucme HA!

In the song “Do your ears hang low?” I always wondered what a cotton-handled soldier meant. (It’s cotinental.)

The song ”OK” by Farin Urlaub.
I first thought the song was about a guy spouting a hate tirade against his ex girlfriend.

Until I watched the music video, which was actually set in a morgue, which turned the whole song into a lamentation about the death of his girlfriend, the hateful words actually being an expression of pain over his loss.

That is when I realised how genius the song was.

Edit: continental.

These actually have a name. Misheard lyrics are called Mondegreens. There’s even a site devoted to them. If you do a search on that word it should come up.

There are a few classics. Kids in Sunday school are always fascinated by Gladly the Cross-eyed Bear.

And at Christmas they often imagine an addition to the traditional manger scene. In addition to Joseph and Mary there’s a rotund figure referred to as Round John Virgin.

And we all remember the directions found in the CCR song “Theres a bathroom on the right” (Bad moon on the rise)

No, not recently but I’ve been in the situation many times. I can’t remember all of them but my daughter and her friends laughed until they hurt when I told them about a stupid song I heard on the radio about soup and salad bar. When they figured out I was talking about Suicidal Blonde the hysteria ensued.