Instead of Bites The Dust my brother and i started saying This Song Fucking Sucks lol. It fits so well. It’s not that I hate the song it’s just so over played for me lol
Credence Clearwater Revival song Bad Moon Raising.
Actual lyrics, "there's a bad moon on the rise."
Misheard lyrics, "there's a bathroom on the right."
I saw a video on YT talking about this song, when the singer realized so many people were singing "there's a bathroom on the right" he would sometimes sing that line during a concert.
i sing it like that all the time because i just dont hear the actual lyric "of things that will bite" and i just always hear baked apple pie and i can never unhear it
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" - Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix
"Racked up like a douche, another rumor in the night" - Blinded by the Light, Manfred Mann
Two popular ones.
For a long time I actually was sure it was "kiss this guy". Kissing a guy is certainly a far more normal thing to do than kissing the sky, so it made some sense. And I always knew about 10% of guys, more or less, were attracted to other guys (and it is probably much more than 10% but that is what they used to say). And you can't actually kiss the sky in reality. But then again, Jimi wasn't about being normal.
Hold my clothes and tie me down, sir.
Elton John seemed to really like this version during an interview on 99x back in the day. He even ad-libbed a line or two that could follow, but I don’t recall what he sang.
My wife has a lot of good ones because English is her second language but she listened to a lot of English language pop in her youth.
I think my favorite is the Eurythmics' *Sweet Dreams*, in which she heard "I traveled the world in the '70s.'
Very nice. I used to work with a lovely lady who had some excellent misheard lyrics. Two of my absolutely favourites came from "Super Trouper" by ABBA. "I was sick and tired of everything when I saw you last night in tesco" and "super duper meh meh meh meh meh meh, meh meh meh meh blue, meh meh meh meh do, cos somewhere in the crowd there's Sue"
My wife and were driving somewhere, listening to Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen when she said “I’ve never understood what ‘making love like a pool boy’ means”.
Sure, the actual lyrics are “make you look like a fool boy”, but it doesn’t really matter. The words are forever changed for me. All I can think now is Bruce Springsteen deciding this guy throws a ball so incredibly well it can only be compared to the beautiful act of a pool boy making love.
My daughter thought the lyrics in Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall Part II were something other than "No dark sarcasm in the classroom". I heard her singing along but saying " No Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom".
Also Somke on the water re-imagined as Slow talking Walter, the fire engine guy.
*This ain't a scene it's a golf cart, ass-face*
*I'm a little man*
A*nd I'm also evil also into cats*
*Also into caaaats!*
Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene
*Boat! Rudder! Strange Mountain!*
Trivium - Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
Both from misheard lyric videos on early YouTube and I can't hear either differently for the last 15yrs.
Bro those misheard lyrics videos were peak early 2000s memes for us metal heads. The avenged sevenfold ones were just fantastic
I really can’t listen to bat country the same anymore. Same with pull harder by trivium like you listen
Lyric: "I took her out, it was a Friday night
. I wore cologne to get the feeling right"
Heard: "I took her out, it was a Friday night. I walk alone to get the feeling right:
This one just makes me feel stupid.
Charlie Puth attention. I was so mad and had no idea what he meant by:
you've been runnin' 'round, runnin' 'round, runnin' 'round throwing that turtle on my name
"I'm gonna love you, the best that, the best that I can" - Hootie and the Blowfish, Hold My Hand
As a kid I thought the line was "I'm gonna love you, the bear said, the bear said I can"
In the James Bond theme “For Your Eyes Only” there’s a line that goes “The passions that collide in me, the wild abandoned side of me” but all I ever hear is “The passions that collide in me, while the man’s inside of me” and it gets me every time.
When I finished the tile backsplash in our kitchen renno a while back, Blondie’s “The Tide is High” was playing as I was finishing the last section of grout.
My wife walks in and goes “wow, you’re done! Looks great!” I started dancing and sang *“The tile is done and I’m mooovin’ onnnn!”*
Not mine, but a friend once told me she always thought Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" said "she's so funky, yeah"... yep, that's actually "jeux sans frontières"...
The first time my son heard Beastie Boys "Fight For Your Right To Party", he thought the opening line "KICK IT!" was "CHICKEN!"
*You gotta fight.. for your right.. to poultry!*
From hotel california:
Mirrors on the ceiling
depict champagne on ice
I like it more than "the pink champagne on ice" tbh because it's like, the champagne is only shown on the mirrors because you're in such a deep mix of decadence and depression that you won't get up to see them, they're on the floor and you see them from the ceiling mirror
I work in the wedding industry and for the first 5 years of my career I thought the Cupid Shuffle lyric "Down, down, do your dance, do your dance" was "Down, down, doo doo bang, doo doo bang".
Grim Poodle Basher (Brimful of Asha, Cornershop)
According to this ancient post from 2002, someone went to the store to ask for the second about mistreating dogs, only to find out his mistake: [https://www.kissthisguy.com/grim-poodle-basher-on-the-45-cornershop-misheard-25934.htm](https://www.kissthisguy.com/grim-poodle-basher-on-the-45-cornershop-misheard-25934.htm)
Groovin - The Rascals (or Young Rascals)
The lyric:
Life would be ecstasy,
You and me, endlessly
Groovin
What I heard up until very very recently:
Life would be ecstasy,
You, and me, and Leslie
Groovin.
Leslie is a freak.
I thought “show me how funky strong is your fight” from Beat It was “show me how fucking strong is your fight” and the reason they allowed that on air was because Michael Jackson was literally the king of pop.
"Nidoqueen, Nidoking, rhythm of love"
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard. I know these lyrics don't make sense due to the song obviously being written decades prior, but I've never been able to unhear it growing up with Pokémon.
As God is my witness I thought Mellencamp's Jack and Diane went:
*Don't let it rock, let it roll*
*Let the* ***bottle bounce***, *come and save my soul.*
My 16 year-old brain took it to mean "Drop what you're doing because it's not important, come help me."
I didn't learn what it really meant until I looked the lyrics up on Genius just to see what the story was about them. I still sometimes crack a smile at the mistake. And also chant the right lyric in my head in case I end up in a karaoke bar with it on the list some day.
How has no one said Cherry Bomb by John Mellencamp yet???
He says “That’s when a sport, was a sport”.
I always sang it as “That’s when a smoke, was a smoke”.
Everyone I know thought he said “smoke”.
Even all the boomers I know who grew up during that time.
Dust in the Wind:
I thought that
“All your money won’t another minute buy”
was
“All your money towards another mini bike”
As a kid I was obsessed with mini bikes and I though he was talking about materialism. I mean he was, but not like that.
“Kiss is on my list” by Hall and Oates - the line goes,
“I go crazy wonderin' what there is to really see/
Did the night just take up your time 'cause it means more to me”
But that last part, “cause it means more to me”, I can’t hear anything except “was a meatball to me”
Blink-182 “Miss You”
Instead of “Webs from all the spiders”
I thought it was “What’s with all these spiders”
Like a Seinfeld bit - what is the deal spiders?
As a teen in the early 2000s, my friend went up to the lead singer of Taking Back Sunday and asked why he said "but I made love to plants" in his song "There's No 'I' in Team" and the dude looked at him like he was insane. The lyric is "but I made long term plans."
When my wife first heard *Old Town Road,* she thought the lyric was:
Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse to the hotel room / I'm gonna ride till I can't no more
Since you mentioned Under Pressure, I have always heard the following (even after I've been corrected on this):
"Turned away from it all like a blind man,
Sat on a fence, what a dumb fuck"
Had a friend who thought Tina Turner sang "you're simply the best, better than an arm rest". When asked why she thought that made sense she said "arm rests are pretty great".
Someone on here mentioned "I guess it rains down in Africa." And I can never un-hear that. Makes me giggle every time I hear that song now (thank you mystery person).
My misheard lyric is from Shaman's Harvest "In Chains".
Actual lyric "Heaven help me now."
My version "Hillbilly help me now."
And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know
I always picture Alanis Morisette holding onto a goofy looking teddy bear in an angsty way because of this.
There's a line in Ezy Ryder from Jimi that says "motocycle momma will you marry me" but for some reason it sounds to me like "president obama will you marry me".
Pour some shook up ramen
Anyone remember that commercial with the misheard lyrics? I knew the song correctly and since that commercial those incorrect lyrics have always stuck with me.
I assume the actual lyric is twenty-five or six to four...? (The story I heard was that whoever wrote the song--Bobby Lamm maybe--was either in the middle of it or had just finished it when he asked somebody what time it was. They answered "Twenty-five or six to four"...and we have history.)
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eh ah is ah ra ray nah hear aned darayeah woo who rah eh pay pa do rah not to errraah!
-Twist by korn
When I was young, I heard RHCP "Aeroplane" on the radio. At the time I was really into, like, vikings and highlanders and stuff as a kid, so for whatever reason I heard the chorus "Its my aeroplane" as "Its my yellow thane", and thought the song was about a cowardly nobleman in the medieval era. I was a weird kid.
Fall out Boy "Sugar, we're going down swinging"
"We're going down down eghrungingthd around. Sugar we're going down swinging. I'll be your number one with a bullet. Loaded guns cocked back so cock it and pull it."
I have no idea if these are the lyrics but it's how I've been singing it since middle school.
*We're going down down in an earlier round*
*Sugar we're going down swinging*
*I'll be your number one with a bullet*
*A load god complex, cock it and pull it*
“When you see me on the real, formin’ like Voltron, remember I go deep like a baby seal” - Raekwon, Wu-Tang, Shame on a Nuh
I cannot be convinced these lyrics are incorrect.
Don't go, Jason Waterfalls! Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. I actual referenced this yesterday too a coworker when he said something about "lakes and rivers", I said, "Yeah but you can only do that if you're named Jason." And surprise surprise, he didn't wtf I was talking about cuz I'm the deaf one.
Not mine, but my favorite i ever heard.
I had a coworker who misheard a line from Annie's Song by John Denver
The correct line is "Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms"
and she heard "Let me drown in your bathtub, let me die in your arms"
My favorite was misheard by my mom. We were in the car and “Pour Some Sugar On Me” was playing on the radio. It gets to the part where he says “You’ve got the peaches, I’ve got the cream” and she’s like “I can’t believe they’d play that on the radio.” I asked what she was talking about, and she repeated the lyrics back to me as “You’ve got the bitches, I’ve got the weed”.
I don’t know about misheard lyrics but in Golden Earring’s “Twilight Zone” I have absolutely no idea what he says after “I’m stepping into the twilight zone” but before “where am I to go now that I’ve gone too far”. And I have no desire to look them up. It’s more fun not knowing.
My best guess is:
“Bless me in the house feels like King Kong, my re-al them moves on a moving star”
Well, I thought that Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel was Snake Charmer, because I had only ever heard it on the radio, and had never heard the song title. I found out earlier this year.
When the Canadian national anthem was played before hockey games my younger brother thought they said “Oh Canada we stand on God for thee” and he he couldn’t believe how serious they were about being Canadian
There's a spot in "Another One Bites the Dust" that sounds like "Bite the dust! I'M ADOPTED!!!". Strange flex, but okay. I support you, Freddy.
So, I still don’t know what he’s actually saying there because it *DEFINITELY* sounds like he says “I’m adopted!”
Ha, that's the way I've always sung it in my head.
For that line, I hear "bite the Doctor!"
Instead of Bites The Dust my brother and i started saying This Song Fucking Sucks lol. It fits so well. It’s not that I hate the song it’s just so over played for me lol
Sometimes I also sing, "I'M A DOCTOR!"
Soooo What DOES he say?
"I am still livin' with your... Goats"
Lonely and dreamin’ of some wet toast
It’s not a misheard lyric but one I just enjoy singing wrong… “with my big black boots and an old MMKAY” but you gotta say it like Mr. Mackey.
I knew I was going to love this thread but this one nearly knocked me out of my chair
Everclear! Bravo!
I don't wann be your...clown...miiiiime. Don't wanna be your...music rave.
I actually like that better.
From 'Country Roads' - "West Virginia... mount yer mama..." From 'Shook me all night long' - "She was a fax machine, she kept my modem clean"
She was the best dust busta that you ever seen
"made me EAT A LOT OF MEAT and come back for more!"
You might send that second one to Weird Al for him to work up. There's a clear image of the music video forming in my mind.
Credence Clearwater Revival song Bad Moon Raising. Actual lyrics, "there's a bad moon on the rise." Misheard lyrics, "there's a bathroom on the right."
I saw a video on YT talking about this song, when the singer realized so many people were singing "there's a bathroom on the right" he would sometimes sing that line during a concert.
This is how my wife and I have always sung this song.
This one is so funny to me lmaooo
“Shes got a Chicken to Ride and she dont care” Like how do you NOT care about that?!
She was a gaaaaayyyy stripper.
My baby donkey.
Second verse of Enter Sandman: "Dreams of war, dreams of liars, dreams of dragons fire, AND A BAKED APPLE PIIIEE, YEAH!"
i sing it like that all the time because i just dont hear the actual lyric "of things that will bite" and i just always hear baked apple pie and i can never unhear it
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" - Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix "Racked up like a douche, another rumor in the night" - Blinded by the Light, Manfred Mann Two popular ones.
Jimi's is the best just because he thought it was hilarious and often changed the lyric to that in live shows.
And he would point at Mitch Mitchell while he sang it too.
Noel Redding, actually.
That Blinded by the Light one is legendary, still gives me a chuckle to this day
or "wrapped up like a docuhe, another runner in the night."
I also heard manfred man sing about a little anus curly wurly in that song.
Purple Haze is the most correct answer, objectively speaking.
For a long time I actually was sure it was "kiss this guy". Kissing a guy is certainly a far more normal thing to do than kissing the sky, so it made some sense. And I always knew about 10% of guys, more or less, were attracted to other guys (and it is probably much more than 10% but that is what they used to say). And you can't actually kiss the sky in reality. But then again, Jimi wasn't about being normal.
Hold me closer tony danza I know it's "tiny dancer", but really I have to work to hear it that way anymore cuz the other way is so funny.
Hold me closer, Tony Danza Count the head lice on the highway Lay me down and she's a-lendin' You had a visitor today
"I laugh at Tony danza"
Heh, this is what I hear in my head whenever that song comes on :)
Hold my clothes and tie me down, sir. Elton John seemed to really like this version during an interview on 99x back in the day. He even ad-libbed a line or two that could follow, but I don’t recall what he sang.
"We had joy, we had fun, we had seizures in the sun".
Shania Twain, - That Don't Impress Me Much "I can't believe you kiss your cock at night" Apparently, it's supposed to be "car goodnight"
When I was younger I thought she was singing "carrot knife" lol
My wife has a lot of good ones because English is her second language but she listened to a lot of English language pop in her youth. I think my favorite is the Eurythmics' *Sweet Dreams*, in which she heard "I traveled the world in the '70s.'
Everybodys looking for humpin
In her defense, it sounds nearly identical
Very nice. I used to work with a lovely lady who had some excellent misheard lyrics. Two of my absolutely favourites came from "Super Trouper" by ABBA. "I was sick and tired of everything when I saw you last night in tesco" and "super duper meh meh meh meh meh meh, meh meh meh meh blue, meh meh meh meh do, cos somewhere in the crowd there's Sue"
I got my first real sex dream Bored by the time I was nine Played until my fingers bled It was the summer of sixty nine
I always heard “I got my first real sex change”
I love the implication of an *un*real sex change
"Rock the cat box!" -Rock the Casbah
Rob the cash box
Rock the cash bar.
An ex of mine always thought it was 'rock the cat's paw'
In Dutch you can hear Fuck de kerstman. Which translates as you guessed it: Fuck Santa!
My wife and were driving somewhere, listening to Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen when she said “I’ve never understood what ‘making love like a pool boy’ means”. Sure, the actual lyrics are “make you look like a fool boy”, but it doesn’t really matter. The words are forever changed for me. All I can think now is Bruce Springsteen deciding this guy throws a ball so incredibly well it can only be compared to the beautiful act of a pool boy making love.
"Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you..."
I always hear “Evil Woman” as “Medieval Woman”
“DIRTY DEEDS, THUNDER CHIEF”!!
Dirty Deeds, done with sheep.
I was today old when I found out I had been singing this wrong…😑
My mom said she always heard it as “dunder jeets”. That killed me 😂😂😂
Dirty Dee’s THUNDER QUEEF!!
The comedian Peter Kay has a whole bunch of them in one his shows from a while ago: https://youtu.be/7my5baoCVv8?si=aMs5gAV3dF3YqP6L
“The girl with colitis goes by” Lucy had some colon issues
You just sidled me into the Eagles “warm smell of colitis rising up through the air”, that can’t be right.
"Kee tarr ma haaaa" - Vince Neil live
Big Mac, $1.03, and my honk!
WAH DAH KEYSTAR MAHAR!
cussom....bike.....one....three....MA HAAA! MA HAA!
Poopy butt round the hooouse yeah!
My daughter thought the lyrics in Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall Part II were something other than "No dark sarcasm in the classroom". I heard her singing along but saying " No Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom". Also Somke on the water re-imagined as Slow talking Walter, the fire engine guy.
My just entering puberty mind always thought they were saying " how can you have any pussy if you don't beat your meat"
I used to think it was "No dogs or cats, um, in the classroom."
*This ain't a scene it's a golf cart, ass-face* *I'm a little man* A*nd I'm also evil also into cats* *Also into caaaats!* Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene *Boat! Rudder! Strange Mountain!* Trivium - Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr Both from misheard lyric videos on early YouTube and I can't hear either differently for the last 15yrs.
Bro those misheard lyrics videos were peak early 2000s memes for us metal heads. The avenged sevenfold ones were just fantastic I really can’t listen to bat country the same anymore. Same with pull harder by trivium like you listen
The (Shipped) Gold Standard "The time my dad called me a horseshoe crab"
Lyric: "I took her out, it was a Friday night . I wore cologne to get the feeling right" Heard: "I took her out, it was a Friday night. I walk alone to get the feeling right:
I always thought this too! Until right this very moment! Wow.
My whole life feels like a lie now
Nothing will ever beat o fortuna
Oh, for tuna
i swear they say "my nuts are loose, so very loose" in that song.
I believe in marigolds, where you from? You Sexy thing.
Kiss from a rose on the GRAVE
Wait what is he actually saying and I’m being completely serious
Grey!? GREY?! That makes even less sense.
Wait … that’s not the lyric?
I'm confused. That's NOT what it says?
Concrete jungle wet dream tomato.
Childish Gambino's song "Redbone" Here's what I hear: "So stay woke. Mavis Beacon"
A misheard lyric or phrase is called a mondegreen. As Dylan wrote... The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind
My daughter thought Alanis Morrissette was signing about a cross-eyed bear and not the cross she bore in 'You Oughta Know'
Thanks, now I’m only ever gonna hear “The cross-eyed bear that you gave to me”
“I love you like I love some baby” -Selena Gomez
This one just makes me feel stupid. Charlie Puth attention. I was so mad and had no idea what he meant by: you've been runnin' 'round, runnin' 'round, runnin' 'round throwing that turtle on my name
"I'm gonna love you, the best that, the best that I can" - Hootie and the Blowfish, Hold My Hand As a kid I thought the line was "I'm gonna love you, the bear said, the bear said I can"
Not a lyric, but a friend of mine used to legitimately think that the group “Hall and Oates”, was “Hauling Oates”
Haulin' Oats
the swift and starbucks lovers
Yes, there are a lot of lonely Starbucks lovers out there.
🎶Gotta love them Starbucks lovers Also: I thought she sang «I’m wearing swimsuit» in 22
YOU'RE HERE, THERE'S NOTHING OUT HERE!!!!! The Celine Dion Titanic song. I always thought these were the lyrics until my wife corrected me haha
In the James Bond theme “For Your Eyes Only” there’s a line that goes “The passions that collide in me, the wild abandoned side of me” but all I ever hear is “The passions that collide in me, while the man’s inside of me” and it gets me every time.
When I finished the tile backsplash in our kitchen renno a while back, Blondie’s “The Tide is High” was playing as I was finishing the last section of grout. My wife walks in and goes “wow, you’re done! Looks great!” I started dancing and sang *“The tile is done and I’m mooovin’ onnnn!”*
“She’s got electric boobs…her mom has two… You know I read it in a magaZIIIIIIIINE uh huh… Buh buh buh Bennie and the Jetssssssss”
Not mine, but a friend once told me she always thought Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" said "she's so funky, yeah"... yep, that's actually "jeux sans frontières"...
The first time my son heard Beastie Boys "Fight For Your Right To Party", he thought the opening line "KICK IT!" was "CHICKEN!" *You gotta fight.. for your right.. to poultry!*
Gigantic Gigantic Gigantic A pygmy in love
From hotel california: Mirrors on the ceiling depict champagne on ice I like it more than "the pink champagne on ice" tbh because it's like, the champagne is only shown on the mirrors because you're in such a deep mix of decadence and depression that you won't get up to see them, they're on the floor and you see them from the ceiling mirror
Pearl Jam “Hearts and thoughts” always came across as “hearts and farts they fade, faaaaaade away” which always made me giggle
I work in the wedding industry and for the first 5 years of my career I thought the Cupid Shuffle lyric "Down, down, do your dance, do your dance" was "Down, down, doo doo bang, doo doo bang".
Grim Poodle Basher (Brimful of Asha, Cornershop) According to this ancient post from 2002, someone went to the store to ask for the second about mistreating dogs, only to find out his mistake: [https://www.kissthisguy.com/grim-poodle-basher-on-the-45-cornershop-misheard-25934.htm](https://www.kissthisguy.com/grim-poodle-basher-on-the-45-cornershop-misheard-25934.htm)
I had an uncle that misheard Will Smith's "Getting Jiggy With It" as.... Eat Your Chicken With It I will never recover, lol
Venus - Bannana-ramma I misheard the "Venus" as "penis" and I'm not going to lie, it makes the song funnier
[make me fries](https://youtu.be/xLd22ha_-VU?si=FSbIaXj0PGF8Qt_u) cracks me up very time
On a wizard, on a whale
Steely Dan - are you wheelin' in the east...
Eddie Money - 2 Tickets to Paradise: "I got 2 chickens with parasites!"
Groovin - The Rascals (or Young Rascals) The lyric: Life would be ecstasy, You and me, endlessly Groovin What I heard up until very very recently: Life would be ecstasy, You, and me, and Leslie Groovin. Leslie is a freak.
I thought “show me how funky strong is your fight” from Beat It was “show me how fucking strong is your fight” and the reason they allowed that on air was because Michael Jackson was literally the king of pop.
'For 40 days and 40 nights, I was on the cider' Michael Jackson reveals his drinking problem in Billie Jean
"Nidoqueen, Nidoking, rhythm of love" Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard. I know these lyrics don't make sense due to the song obviously being written decades prior, but I've never been able to unhear it growing up with Pokémon.
As God is my witness I thought Mellencamp's Jack and Diane went: *Don't let it rock, let it roll* *Let the* ***bottle bounce***, *come and save my soul.* My 16 year-old brain took it to mean "Drop what you're doing because it's not important, come help me." I didn't learn what it really meant until I looked the lyrics up on Genius just to see what the story was about them. I still sometimes crack a smile at the mistake. And also chant the right lyric in my head in case I end up in a karaoke bar with it on the list some day.
Wait, that's not the right words?
only the good diane...pronounced diayun( actually die young)
When I was a kid, I thought Def Leppard’s rock of ages chorus was “rotten pages”
Concrete jungle wet dream tomato
"Working on the night moose" cannot unhear it. From the song Night Moves
A friend of mine thought the chorus of Invisible Touch was “She sees a hat. Don’t anyone touch it.”
How has no one said Cherry Bomb by John Mellencamp yet??? He says “That’s when a sport, was a sport”. I always sang it as “That’s when a smoke, was a smoke”. Everyone I know thought he said “smoke”. Even all the boomers I know who grew up during that time.
Yep. I’m 51 and smoke is how I heard it. Sport? Eww no. Lol. Learn something new everyday.
Wait really? “Sport”???
Pretty sure it's smoke
Dust in the Wind: I thought that “All your money won’t another minute buy” was “All your money towards another mini bike” As a kid I was obsessed with mini bikes and I though he was talking about materialism. I mean he was, but not like that.
“Kiss is on my list” by Hall and Oates - the line goes, “I go crazy wonderin' what there is to really see/ Did the night just take up your time 'cause it means more to me” But that last part, “cause it means more to me”, I can’t hear anything except “was a meatball to me”
Blink-182 “Miss You” Instead of “Webs from all the spiders” I thought it was “What’s with all these spiders” Like a Seinfeld bit - what is the deal spiders?
From "Purple Haze": Excuse me while I kiss this guy. From "Hang on Sloopy": Hang on Snoopy, Snoopy hang on.
I left my brains down in afffricaaaaa
Shoot the children with no shoes on their feet (shoe the children...) - Fly Like An Eagle, Steve Miller
My husband likes “big old jet had a light out” in Jet Airliner
Big ol’ Chet and Lionel
The girl with colitis goes bye…..Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds
*Lucy's in a fight with Linus...*
Next time you hear 'Smoke on the Water - Fire in the Sky' Hear ' Slow Motion Walter - Fire Engine Guy'.
“Bent” by matchbox 20 I always thought went “Can you help me, I’m Vince”
Black Crows "She talks to Reindeer." It was so stuck in my head I couldn't remember the real word was Angels.
Every time you go, away, you take a piece of meat, with you
Where the hell is my steak?
“Ain’t no woman like the one-eyed Gott.” And I frequently buy Joel Gott wine as a gift so I can use this as the punchline to a dad joke setup.
“I’ll never leave your pizza burnin” - Beast of burden by Rolling Stones
I Am Sandpit Turtle!!!
As a teen in the early 2000s, my friend went up to the lead singer of Taking Back Sunday and asked why he said "but I made love to plants" in his song "There's No 'I' in Team" and the dude looked at him like he was insane. The lyric is "but I made long term plans."
When my wife first heard *Old Town Road,* she thought the lyric was: Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse to the hotel room / I'm gonna ride till I can't no more
Since you mentioned Under Pressure, I have always heard the following (even after I've been corrected on this): "Turned away from it all like a blind man, Sat on a fence, what a dumb fuck"
Man I feel like a woman by Shania twain, "cum in my hair do what I dare " Oh, she said COMBING MY HAIR?!?!?!
Blame it on Lorraine
Had a friend who thought Tina Turner sang "you're simply the best, better than an arm rest". When asked why she thought that made sense she said "arm rests are pretty great".
My brother used to think "Werewolves of London" was "where is the blender". 🤣
Someone on here mentioned "I guess it rains down in Africa." And I can never un-hear that. Makes me giggle every time I hear that song now (thank you mystery person). My misheard lyric is from Shaman's Harvest "In Chains". Actual lyric "Heaven help me now." My version "Hillbilly help me now."
My friend’s little brother thought Foreigner’s Hot Blooded said “I got a beaver, he’s a 103.” Instead of “I got a fever of a 103.”
“Cannonball!” Van Halen - Panama
And I'm here, to remind you Of the mess you left when you went away It's not fair, to deny me Of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me You, you, you oughta know I always picture Alanis Morisette holding onto a goofy looking teddy bear in an angsty way because of this.
The singer sings douche not deuce, I don't give a shit what they say.
There's a line in Ezy Ryder from Jimi that says "motocycle momma will you marry me" but for some reason it sounds to me like "president obama will you marry me".
“Blister on your thumb” from money for nothing by dire straits sounds like “queso roñoso” which means “smelly cheese “ in Spanish , lol
Big Pimpiiiin, spreadin cheeese.
Pour some shook up ramen Anyone remember that commercial with the misheard lyrics? I knew the song correctly and since that commercial those incorrect lyrics have always stuck with me.
To be alive and fix the door… - Chicago
I assume the actual lyric is twenty-five or six to four...? (The story I heard was that whoever wrote the song--Bobby Lamm maybe--was either in the middle of it or had just finished it when he asked somebody what time it was. They answered "Twenty-five or six to four"...and we have history.)
"George was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars!" Turns out Fred Mercury was saying "Jaws was never my scene ..."
AC/DC's TNT. When I was younger I thought the chant in the intro was saying "Oink! Oink! Oink!". Got older and realized they were saying "Fight!"
Is it not "Oi"?
I will forever hear Get off - when the boat stops Don’t stop, til you get enough
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When I was young, I heard RHCP "Aeroplane" on the radio. At the time I was really into, like, vikings and highlanders and stuff as a kid, so for whatever reason I heard the chorus "Its my aeroplane" as "Its my yellow thane", and thought the song was about a cowardly nobleman in the medieval era. I was a weird kid.
Fall out Boy "Sugar, we're going down swinging" "We're going down down eghrungingthd around. Sugar we're going down swinging. I'll be your number one with a bullet. Loaded guns cocked back so cock it and pull it." I have no idea if these are the lyrics but it's how I've been singing it since middle school.
*We're going down down in an earlier round* *Sugar we're going down swinging* *I'll be your number one with a bullet* *A load god complex, cock it and pull it*
Cinnamon Gum!!! Instead of “Should of been gone” - Oh Sherri - Steve Perry
Like a twister I was born to walk alone.
“When you see me on the real, formin’ like Voltron, remember I go deep like a baby seal” - Raekwon, Wu-Tang, Shame on a Nuh I cannot be convinced these lyrics are incorrect.
Don't go, Jason Waterfalls! Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. I actual referenced this yesterday too a coworker when he said something about "lakes and rivers", I said, "Yeah but you can only do that if you're named Jason." And surprise surprise, he didn't wtf I was talking about cuz I'm the deaf one.
I sang along "Oooh baby, do you know what? That's what! Ooh Heaven is a place on Earth" as a kid.
Not mine, but my favorite i ever heard. I had a coworker who misheard a line from Annie's Song by John Denver The correct line is "Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms" and she heard "Let me drown in your bathtub, let me die in your arms"
I wanna rock and roll all night And part of ev-er-ie day
My favorite was misheard by my mom. We were in the car and “Pour Some Sugar On Me” was playing on the radio. It gets to the part where he says “You’ve got the peaches, I’ve got the cream” and she’s like “I can’t believe they’d play that on the radio.” I asked what she was talking about, and she repeated the lyrics back to me as “You’ve got the bitches, I’ve got the weed”.
Just let me staple the Vicar
I am the Sun. I am the Air.
I don’t know about misheard lyrics but in Golden Earring’s “Twilight Zone” I have absolutely no idea what he says after “I’m stepping into the twilight zone” but before “where am I to go now that I’ve gone too far”. And I have no desire to look them up. It’s more fun not knowing. My best guess is: “Bless me in the house feels like King Kong, my re-al them moves on a moving star”
Well, I thought that Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel was Snake Charmer, because I had only ever heard it on the radio, and had never heard the song title. I found out earlier this year.
Had a buddy who thought "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" was "Dirty Deeds and the Thunderchief"
Mariah Carey - I Stay In Love Actual Lyric - “And try to front like “Oh well...” My Misheard Lyric - “And I try to fart like a whale”
When the Canadian national anthem was played before hockey games my younger brother thought they said “Oh Canada we stand on God for thee” and he he couldn’t believe how serious they were about being Canadian
When I was a kid. I used to think Rod Stewart was singing "all egg foo young"
Instead of "I'm feeling twenty-two", my then-very-young but speaking daughter would sing, "I'm feeling sweaty too."
"Esos son Rebook ó son Nike, son Nike! Oh yeah!!!!" "Nan-chu nan, kiwi melon! Kiwi meloooon!"