Glad to see you go by the Ramones.
I heard “gonna take a jiz on her” I was wrong
Also
Michael Jackson Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough
I heard “lick a pork chop” I was wrong
In “Little T & A” off the Stones’ Tattoo You album, for decades I just assumed Keith was claiming, “She’s got that shotgun shoulder….” — not only cuz it sounds just like that, but at the time, everywhere you looked we were seeing chicas wearing tops that teased a shoulder baring itself.
Wasn’t until just a few years ago someone over on r/RollingStones corrected me after I’d made a reference to Keith’s line in the song.
One that will never leave me is when Taylor Swift’s song Blank Space released and all everyone could hear was “Got a lonely Starbucks lovers” and now every time I’m shopping for groceries I can hear it
I swear the first 500 times I heard it, there was a line in that Skip the Dishes commercial with Katy Perry that went “and I want acai with a buttery delivery”. After much digging online, I finally found a version online with subtitled lyrics because that made no sense.
“Take me down to the very last city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.” Not the best but the one that lasted the longest in my mind. I was all “Ohhhhh that’s where the title comes from” when I found out.
Former business partner told me he heard “Suck a cow, suck a cow, suck a cow now.” Instead of “Simmer down, simmer down, simmer down now.” From the song “She’s a Brick House.”
Probably my favourite is the actual word “mondegreen” which is a term for “misheard lyrics”.
Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, when her mother reading the Scottish ballad “The Bonnie Earl o’ Moray”, and misheard the words “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen”.
John Prine – Song: ‘That’s The Way That The World Goes ‘Round’. A woman requested that he sing that song about the ‘Happy Enchilada’. John was kind of confused and asked her to recite the line for him. She said “You know. ‘It’s a Happy Enchilada and you think your gonna drown.’ “
Actual Lyric: ‘ It’s a half-an inch of water and you think you’re gonna drown. “
John liked it so much, he recounted the story to his audience, and then sang the last verse about the Happy Enchilada.
There is a magical book called “When A Man Loves a Walnut “ with the sweetest cartoon illustrations. My sister and I were in an international bookstore in Frankfurt- it made us laugh so hard we purchased it. my favorite misheard lyric was from The Beach Boys Help me Rhonda. “Since you let me down there’s been owls puking in my bed.” The drawing accompanying it is magic.
When we were teens, my buddy and I were listening to Zombie by The Cranberries. His younger brother walks in during the chorus and sings, “SALAMI SALAMI” and it inspired us to write our own version.
In “Poker face” by Lady Gaga, at the start of the song she sings po po poker face over and over.
She actually snuck in a “fo fo fo fuck her face” and NO ONE realized she was singing those lyrics, they just assumed she was saying po po poker face over and over.
My friend and I couldn’t contain our laughter playing the Tony hawk ps1 demo disc from the PE magazine and hearing that. We played it all night and couldn’t for the life of us hear anything else
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Gimme the Beach Boys and free my soul.
Concrete jungle wet tomato
Glad to see you go by the Ramones.
I heard “gonna take a jiz on her” I was wrong
Also
Michael Jackson Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough
I heard “lick a pork chop” I was wrong
Oooooooh we’re halfway there, oooo oooo kitten on a chair!
For the longest time I thought it was “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy” in people haze.
“Hold me close I’m tired o’ dancin’” – Elton John
I found out that the black eyed peas said mazel tov and not nozzle tops after confidently singing it in the car with my family
Tiny dancer = Tony Danza. Phoebe from Friends.
The one I use to say. It was regarding ‘The Bad Moon Rise’. I for SOME REASON always say, the bathrooms on the right. IDK why, DON’T ask!
Radio head- apparently itas not ” this is what you get when you mix drugs”
Theeeeres a bathroom on the right
No fried tomato, baby!
Jimi Hendrix in Purple Haze – “‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.”
THAT GIRL IS A REAL ROUND PIZZA 🍕
“Cover me in dragon bones…” Sorrow by The National
In “Little T & A” off the Stones’ Tattoo You album, for decades I just assumed Keith was claiming, “She’s got that shotgun shoulder….” — not only cuz it sounds just like that, but at the time, everywhere you looked we were seeing chicas wearing tops that teased a shoulder baring itself.
Wasn’t until just a few years ago someone over on r/RollingStones corrected me after I’d made a reference to Keith’s line in the song.
The girl with colitis goes by
Chasin’ a poooooor maaannnnn! – Queensryche
(Instead of Jet City Woman)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams – spent my whole life singing “sometimes I wish a mother bear would find me”. Turns out it’s “someone out there”. Who knew
I’ll never be your pizza burning…Rolling Stones
The shoes on my feet
I farted
The clothes I’m wearing
I farted
-courtesy of my then six year old brother, circa 2000.
Secret asian man.
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling SWIMSUIT?!?
Stole this from a book full of misinterpreted lyrics.
Pearl Jam’s ‘Glorified G’. Someone mistook “glorified version of a pellet gun” as “forty-five versions of a pelican”.
One that will never leave me is when Taylor Swift’s song Blank Space released and all everyone could hear was “Got a lonely Starbucks lovers” and now every time I’m shopping for groceries I can hear it
The song hemorrhage (in my hands) by Fuel.
Not even real words, I just imagine the chorus is “blee blah blee blah in my hands!!”
I know the actual words but the nonsense makes me laugh every time.
struck by a panzer battalion
struck by a handsome italian
WAKEUP . . . GRAMMASAIDPUTONALITTLEMAKEUP
I will always sing outloud ” Dirty deeds, thunder chief! ” Instead of done dirt cheap
I thought 90% of Aerosmith songs were scat, and really it’s better that way
A Taylor Swift song. Was singing the lyric wrong even tho it was the title. Delicate. Instead I was singing “dead luck yeah”
I feel like just about anything from the RHCP catalogue is subject to being misheard simply due to how Anthony Kiedis sings
Please degrease me, let me go….
more than friends – envoge
“Don’t you wanna be… golden fresh”
I love cheap thrills = How logic fails
DA-RAT-TAT-TAT-TA Horny
Blinded by the light,
Wrapped up like a douche, something something in the night.
“She’s got electric boobs! A mole there too! …”
Benny and the Jets 😄
Season ticket on a one-way ride
We milk the city
We milk the city
We milk the city
On rock and roll…
https://youtu.be/nIwrgAnx6Q8
Gets me laughing every time.
Misheard lyrics to O Fortuna
Sweet home Alabama. As it begins, he says “Turn it up.” And my dad always says “Tomatah”. I can’t unhear it!
What a Feeling (Theme from Flashdance)
Take your pants down and make it happen!
I’ve never been able to get lyrics right, so I don’t try (auditory processing disorder).
My shit ex-husband convinced me that Head East was singing “Shave my wife/ I’m going down for the last time.”
I thought that band was a bunch of douchebags for years.
♪Life’s too short to eat a carrot whole, whoa-oh ♪
Levis by The Guess Who.
I swear the first 500 times I heard it, there was a line in that Skip the Dishes commercial with Katy Perry that went “and I want acai with a buttery delivery”. After much digging online, I finally found a version online with subtitled lyrics because that made no sense.
‘Wrapped up like a douche in running in the night’ instead of ‘revved up like a deuce like a runner in the night’.
I’m a little man
And I’m also evil
Also into cats
Also into cats
This Ain’t a Scene, Its an Arms Race
I’m so fuckin thankful for my eggs, courtesy of my son who pointed it out, I hear nothing else now.
“Take me down to the very last city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.” Not the best but the one that lasted the longest in my mind. I was all “Ohhhhh that’s where the title comes from” when I found out.
Well it’s fat, fat Leroy Brown!
The fattest man in the whole damn town!
Fatter than ol’ King Kong!
And meaner than a junkyard dog!
My little sister thought the little drummer boy’s lyrics were “I’m a 4×2” instead of “I’m a poor boy too”
I want to know have you ever seen Lorraine?
Who can stop Lorraine?
I guess Lorraine’s down in Africa.
I can see now Lorraine is gone.
Cannonball instead of Panama by VanHalen
So many of these in Metalcore music.
August Burns Red – Backburner
Lucky for you, my butthole isn’t tight.
Correct lyric: Lucky for you, rock bottom is in sight.
Asking Alexandria – Final Episode
Your sister likes my farts a lot.
Correct lyric: You said the nights were far too long.
A personal one. “Get off” by Halestorm. At first I thought it was “I give up on you, giving up on me”
When I was younger I thought “I was up above it” in Nine Inch Nails’ Down In It said “Howard shot the bunny”
Seal – Kiss From A Rose – Row of Dictionaries i can’t deny, a light hits the groom on the day !
I was thinking of her
When you came outside.
Genitalia breath
The sun in your hair.
Did I mention how
I love you in your underwear?
From To The Dogs Or Whoever by Josh Ritter
The song Hard Times by Paramore has a lyric “and I gotta hit rock bottom” but I always heard it as “what can you do but rock on”
Big ol’ Jed had a light on => Big old jet airliner
“Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh my god, a restaurant in a one-horse open sleigh”
-my then 3-year old son. I still sing it like that, btw.
Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Buhran
Van Halen’s Panama. CANNON BALL
With a sense of
poisonedpoise and rationalityGood Charlotte’s song Girls and Boys
What I heard:
Real lyrics
Like, who is cousin Buddy? Who is he a cousin to? And why do all the girls like him?
Oh here’s to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He will give you, give you 666
“Trouble in the sewers” instead of “trouble in the Suez” from Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire
In lieu of the innuendo, innuendo my Nintendo!
“Excuse me, while I kiss this guy”
That Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze, with the lines
Actin’ funny and I don’t know why!
Excuse me while I kiss
this guythe sky!I ain’t no Harlem Black girl…. Hollaback girl.
Rolling Stones, Beast of Burden….instead of All your illness, I can suck it up, I thought they were singing I can suck a duck
MJ – Billie Jean: “Don’t think twice!” When it’s actually “Do think twice.”
Knights in white satins
Stevie Wonder / I rock I ran ( Iraq Iran)
There’s a bathroom on the right
There’s a bad man on the right
Theres a bad moon on the rise
Got a lot of Starbucks lovers, they’ll tell you I’m insane
Former business partner told me he heard “Suck a cow, suck a cow, suck a cow now.” Instead of “Simmer down, simmer down, simmer down now.” From the song “She’s a Brick House.”
One time I heard Good to be Alive by Andy Grammer on a commercial and I thought he was singing “goo goo goo googy la la la la”. It annoyed me so much
She likes to pull my hair when I’m making cottage cheese – Theory of a Deadman
Probably my favourite is the actual word “mondegreen” which is a term for “misheard lyrics”.
Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, when her mother reading the Scottish ballad “The Bonnie Earl o’ Moray”, and misheard the words “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen”.
Hence “mondegreens”.
“RAISE A LITTLE COW” not “Raise a little Hell” by trooper
Give me a pile of love
Starbucks lovers
I thought the Rolling Stones were just singing about one hell of a time they had in Yugoslavia.
They paid paradise to put out a fucking lie.
Paved paradise to put up a parking lot.
“When a man loves a walnut” instead of “when a man loves a woman” by Percy Sledge and “sand patrol” instead of “sad but true” by Metallica.
Buh buh buh belly of the Jess…I was about 5 and I genuinely thought this was a song about someone’s stomach
Jump by Van Halen.
I was convinced he was singing Maxwell Jump.
John Prine – Song: ‘That’s The Way That The World Goes ‘Round’. A woman requested that he sing that song about the ‘Happy Enchilada’. John was kind of confused and asked her to recite the line for him. She said “You know. ‘It’s a Happy Enchilada and you think your gonna drown.’ “
Actual Lyric: ‘ It’s a half-an inch of water and you think you’re gonna drown. “
John liked it so much, he recounted the story to his audience, and then sang the last verse about the Happy Enchilada.
I frickin’ Love John Prine.
For years I thought Tears for Fears sang “Shout, shout, ready or not”
And pretend that he is sparse and brown
(In the meadow we can build a snowman and pretend that he is Parson Brown)
There’s a Linkin Park lyric that goes “in the memory you’ll find me eyes burning up”
I was young when that album came out and heard “in the memory of Bambi, as funny nuts” and was so confused
On the ceiling….on a Porsche let her said
‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy – Jimi Hendrix
Eeeeeeeegaaaaaaan Betty went over on saturdays, yeah. – ?????
“it’s a green light, when you’ve already braked” -Ironic, Alanis Moriasette
“I’m shavin’” For Garth Brooks “I’m Shameless” Two good friends and I would always laugh in high school about it.
My dad thinking Don Henley was singing about a poison summer.
My favorite’s got to be the chorus from “Our Lips are Sealed” by The Go-Gos…
🎤 “ALEX THE SEAL!!” 🦭
BIG FAT TACOS BIG FAT TACOS SO BIIIIIIIIIIIIG
Nearly 50 years ago, my friend’s dad used to sing the Bee Gee’s song “Bald headed woman, bald headed woman to me.” I still sing it that way.
At a comedy show, Madonna’s “Last night I dreamt of some bagels” I’m sure everyone has heard that one.
My husband sings ELO’s: don’t bring me down, BRUCE!
My son when he was little, All American Rejects: Just another recret
Pour Some Sugar On Me…. In a Little Cup!
Come and get your love – the first word is Hail, not “hheeeeyyy”
Teenage me on KD Lang’s Constant Craving:
“God send gravy”
My brother on Macy Gray’s I Try:
“I blow bubbles when you are not near”
Don’t go Jason Waterfalls
In “Knee Deep” by Zac Brown Band the lyric goes “She got too close so I fought her” and I always sing “She got too close so I farted”
“And feed us lies from the picklejar..” DUH… duh-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH-duh DUH! oooh ooooh.
Instead of “Sad but true” (Metallica) my boyfriend thought it was “sand patrol”
Actual lyric “never free, never me” unforgiven. What I hear “minute maid, lemonade “
Big ‘ole jet had a light on.
Carry me so far away.
Your sister likes my farts a lot
There is a magical book called “When A Man Loves a Walnut “ with the sweetest cartoon illustrations. My sister and I were in an international bookstore in Frankfurt- it made us laugh so hard we purchased it. my favorite misheard lyric was from The Beach Boys Help me Rhonda. “Since you let me down there’s been owls puking in my bed.” The drawing accompanying it is magic.
When Kelly Clarkson sang get you armor! in Battlefield, I heard GET SHOARMA!
I haven’t been able to unhear it since…
As negro wrestlers longing for some solitary company
With the birds i shit, its a lonely view. Scar Tissue by RHCP
“Maybe I’m just tootin’ dandy…”
Rocking around the Christmas tree…Maybe we’ll have some fuckin pie!
T’s uncrossed and I’s undotted, I farted a lot and it seems a lot like flesh is all I got
don’t go jason waterfalls
“Fundip! Fundip! Lightning and the Fundip!”
Thunder by Imagine Dragons
When we were teens, my buddy and I were listening to Zombie by The Cranberries. His younger brother walks in during the chorus and sings, “SALAMI SALAMI” and it inspired us to write our own version.
It’s in your breaaaaad
In your breaheaaaaad
SALAMI SALAMI
SALA MAY HAY HAY.
I set my sights on little old men….
That one AC/DC song that goes “thirty thieves and the thunder chiefs!”
In “Poker face” by Lady Gaga, at the start of the song she sings po po poker face over and over.
She actually snuck in a “fo fo fo fuck her face” and NO ONE realized she was singing those lyrics, they just assumed she was saying po po poker face over and over.
Honestly, AMAZING
Pour some sug-up ramen….
Man Named Monday by Cyndi Lauper.
It’s gonna be May!
“Is Sana gay?”
I came in like a RAIIINBOWWW
THIS IS SANDPIT TURTLE!
“I got my first real sex-dream” – Bryan Adams, Summer of ’69.
Skeleton beast man gnarkill
“I don’t understand the point of fingers” for
“Why do we stare and point our fingers”
Eskimo Joe: Black Fingernails, Red Wine
(I think)
I’ve wished for this, I’ve bitched at that, I’ve left behind this little cat.
Diarrhoea, here I go again,
my my how can I resist you.
Sitting in the backseat, let’s get fucked
Blitzkrieg bop.
My friend and I couldn’t contain our laughter playing the Tony hawk ps1 demo disc from the PE magazine and hearing that. We played it all night and couldn’t for the life of us hear anything else
Go-Go Jason Waterfall (Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls). Thought Jason Waterfall was some cool dude i never heard of. Prob thought that for 10+ years
Every Christmas…
‘Later we’ll have some fuckin pie…’
And (pronounced ‘mayo-naize’ not ‘ma-naize) : ‘Mayonnaise! Mayonnaise! Mayonnaise be merry and bright…’
Ok, how has no mentioned Alicia Key’s legendary line yet?
New Yorkkkkkkk, concrete jungle wet dream tomatooo!
“I’m trynna find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful. Sexy fridge. Sexy fridge.”
Horses don’t stop they keep goin
Sugar pie, honey butt
“hold me close young Tony Danza”
I walk alone to get the feeling right
BJ, … have it your way … (irritating Burger King commercial)
“Hold me closer Tony Danza”
Tiny dancer by Elton John
Bob Marley
We’re German instead jammin’
The Killers: “Mr. Brightside”
What they say, “I never”
What I hear, “Viagra”
Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard. From Bohemian Rhapsody.
I just recently found out Coldplay actually wasn’t making a SpongeBob reference
“Listen, Mr. Crabs would say”
I thought for the longest time it was some sort of message about corporate greed
Guess not.
Concrete jungle wet dream tomato!
The chair is not my son. Billy Jean
Big paradise, put up a fucking lot.
“We’re not going to day-care!” – Twisted Sister.
“And there’s a wino down the road” – Led Zeppelin.
Excuse meeeee while i kiss this guy
Concrete jungle wet dream tomato
There’s a bathroom on the right! (Not a bad moon on the rise)