We’ve all done it. We’re singing in the car with our friends and all of the sudden BAM! You realize you’ve been singing the wrong words all along. SWNS Digital conducted a study of 2,000 people were able to give us the top 30 most common misheard lyrics! Have you messed one of these up?

Check out the list below!

1. The Police - ‘So Lonely’ - ‘Sue Lawley’. Correct: ‘So lonely’

2. Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’ - ‘Feel the beat of the tangerine’. Correct: ‘Feel the beat from the tambourine’

3. R.E.M.‘s ‘The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’ - ‘Calling Jamaica’. Correct: ‘Call me when you try to wake her’

4. Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’ - ‘All the lonely Starbucks lovers’.Correct: ‘Got a long list of ex-lovers

5. Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’ - ‘Kicking your cat all over the place’. Correct: ‘Kicking your can all over the place’

6. John Travolta and Olivia Newton John’s ‘Summer Nights’ - ‘Tommy Moore’. Correct: ‘Tell me More’

7. Fat Boy Slim’s ‘Praise You’ - ‘I have to praise you like a shoe’. Correct: ‘I have to praise you like I should’

8. Starships’ ‘We Built This City’ - ‘We built this city on sausage rolls’. Correct: ‘We built this city on rock and roll’

9. Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ - ‘Saving his life from this warm sausage tea’. Correct: ‘Spare him his life from this monstrosity’

10. Tina Turner’s ‘Steamy Windows’ - ‘Stevie Winters’. Correct: ‘Steamy Windows’

11. TLC’s ‘Waterfalls’ - ‘Don’t go Jason Waterfalls’. Correct: ‘Don’t go chasing waterfalls’

12. Anne Marie’s ‘Ciao Adios’ - ‘Shower the horse I’m done’. Correct: ‘Ciao adios I’m gone’

13. Johnny Nash’s ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ - ‘I can see clearly now, Lorraine is gone’. Correct: ‘I can see clearly now the rain is gone’

14. Adele’s ‘Chasing Pavements’ - ‘Or should I just keep chasing penguins’. Correct: ‘Or should I just keep chasing pavements’

15. The Clash’s ‘I Fought the Law’ - ‘I thought the law had a long one’. Correct: ‘I fought the law and the law won’

16. OutKast’s ‘Hey Ya!’ - ‘Shake it like a photo of a picture’. Correct: ‘Shake it like a polaroid picture’

17. Craig David’s ‘Re Rewind’ - ‘When the crowd say post a letter’. Correct: ‘When the crowd say Bo Selecta’

18. Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ - ‘Here we are now, in containers’. Correct: ‘Here we are now, entertain us’

19. Michael Gray’s ‘The Weekend’ - ‘I can’t until we can do it again’. Correct: ‘I can’t wait for the weekend to begin’

20. Rihanna’s ‘Only Girl (in the world)’ - ‘I want you to love me like I’m a hot pie’. Correct: ‘I want you to love me like I’m a hot ride’

21. Elvis Presley’s ‘Suspicious Minds’ - ‘We’re caught in a trout’. Correct: ‘We’re caught in a trap’

22. Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’ - ‘We found love in a soapless place’. Correct: ‘We found love in a hopeless place’

23. Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking out Loud’ - ‘Take me into your lemon arms’. Correct: ‘Take me into your loving arms’

24. Madonna’s ‘Papa Don’t Preach’ - ‘Poppadom Peach’. Correct: ‘Papa don’t preach’

25. The Bee Gees’ ‘Stayin’ Alive’ - ‘Steak and a knife, steak and a knife’. Correct: ‘Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive'

26. John Legend’s ‘All of Me’ - ‘I give you oil of me’. Correct: ‘I give you all of me’

27. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘Zephyr Song’ - ‘Fly away on my sofa’. Correct: ‘Fly away on my Zephyr’

28. The Beatles’ ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ - ‘I want to hold your ham’. Correct: ‘I want to hold your hand’

29. Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ - ‘These ants are my friends, they’re blowin’ in the wind'. Correct: ‘The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind'

30. Missy Elliot’s ‘Get ur Freak on’ - ‘Get your free cone’. Correct: ‘Get your freak on’

Credit for this list: https://www.swnsdigital.com/2020/08/these-are-the-top-30-misheard-song-lyrics/

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