Happy Friday!
Today’s selection of misheard song lyrics is brought to you by Hit Me with Your Pet Shark: Misheard Lyrics of the 1980s, by Charles Grosvenor Jr.
Coming soon…holiday song mondegreens from my latest purchase: Deck the Halls with Buddy Holly.
| Song Title | Artist/Group | Mondegreen | Actual Lyrics |
| King of Pain | The Police | There’s a little black spot on your lung today | There’s a little black spot on the sun today |
| Wrapped Around Your Finger | The Police | Caught between the skillet and your rib dish | Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis |
| Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Queen | She leaves me in a cocoa sweat | She leaves me in a cool, cool sweat |
| Send Me an Angel | Real Life | Send me an eggshell | Send me an angel |
| It’s the End of the World As We Know It | R.E.M. | Lenny Bruce in birthday pants | Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs |
| Can’t Fight This Feeling | REO Speedwagon | Corndog winter’s night | Cold, dark winter’s night |
| Simply Irresistible | Robert Palmer | Her cantaloupe is mythical | That kind of love is mythical |
| It Must Have Been Love | Roxette | It must have been rum,
But I’m sober now |
It must have been love,
But it’s over now |
| Soft Cell | Tainted Love | The lovely Cher seems to go nowhere | The love we share seems to go nowhere |
| The Smiths | Bigmouth Strikes Again | I’d like to mash a green tooth in your head | I’d like to smash every tooth in your head |
| Cool for Cats | Squeeze | School for cats | Cool for cats |
| Tempted | Squeeze | Tempted by the foot of your mother | Tempted by the fruit of another |
Kara Church
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