What is a song lyric that you misheard completely?
I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing
My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse
Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term
Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623
Hoobastank, the Reason.
Real lyric: "a reason to start over new".
What i heard as a child: "the reason tostadas are new"
Owner of a lonely horse...
Real lyric: owner of a lonely heart.
I never understood why there'd be a song about a lonely horse.
For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went "under my arms forever"
It wasn't until my first job at a grocery store during Christmas time that I learned it was "Feliz Navidad" being sung.
Before that, I couldn't figure out why the cheerful song that only appeared around Christmas time was saying "Police shot my dad"
"Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"
I always wondered what a dunder chief is.
It was Thunder Chief for me. I figured he must be bad juju.
https://genius.com/Ac-dc-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap-lyrics
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."
https://genius.com/Kiss-rock-and-roll-all-nite-lyrics
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
Moderation is key for everything, after all.
We found Lois Griffin
That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.
I'm here to say that I figured out "stomp on the stoop when you hear the funk loop". It took me 30 years.
“Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”
Turns out is actually deuce.
That actually makes even less sense.
It's referring to a two-stroke engine.
It's a strange song
Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.
https://genius.com/Tlc-waterfalls-lyrics
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
some daughtry song about Tijuana.
Heard this the other day, the background vocals "who likes tacos"
I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.
I always heard it as trombeleese, which I imagined to be some exotic musical instrument like this:
That thing looks like a Fremen sandworm saxophone
I wonder what that sounds like.
Nirvana, On a Plain "The finest day, I ever had, was when I learned to cry like a man."
It's supposedly "cry on command."
“I set fire, to Lorraine” by Adele (set fire to the rain). “Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes” by Coldplay (Paradise)
Paradise is the song with the weird elephant music video, right?
Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded by the Light has entered the chat. Probably the most misheard lyrics in the entire history of modern music.
It's "Revved up like a deuce."
Wait... Manfred Mann's version is a cover? Yep, Blinded by the Light was originally performed Bruce Springsteen.
And the Springsteen version very clearly says deuce which means Manfred Mann had to deliberately change it.
Speaking of blinding, my honey used to think a different song went "she blinded me with oven mitts, it opened up my eyes"
Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"
If you know, you know.
https://genius.com/Blink-182-whats-my-age-again-lyrics
This state looks down on sodomy
I was a huge blink182 fan back in 99-02. I didn't understand what the prank in that prank call was. It wasn't until much much later that I started going through their albums again that I realized what Mark was actually saying. Looked up the lyrics and my jaw hit the floor. I remember sitting in front of my computer laughing until I was sweating at not only how that's a legit good prank call but I'd been singing it wrong for the better part to two decades.
I used to sing Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong as “Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids, pyramids can’t be wrong”.
Also, in Africa, I definitely thought they said “rises like a lepress (like a female leopard) above the Serengeti”. The real lyric is “Olympus”.
With Little Miss Can't Be Wrong I used to hear "ain't nobody gonna come when your sound is gone" instead of "when you sound your gong".
Yes, me too for that part too.
https://genius.com/Spin-doctors-little-miss-cant-be-wrong-lyrics
Little miss, little miss, little miss can't be wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWbMu4PtpE&t=44
https://genius.com/Toto-africa-lyrics
As sure as Kilimajaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
Untill this day, I thought it was lepress too.
Oh I was singing loudly along with Elton John one day, "Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another maaaan" as I had done every time I heard the song when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't something someone would sing in the 1970s, looked it up and the NAME of the song is Love Lies Bleeding.
https://genius.com/Elton-john-funeral-for-a-friend-love-lies-bleeding-lyrics
And love lies bleedin' in my hands
Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man
Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.
Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said "You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!"
I'm not absolutely sure if this is the right snippet of the song, but I don't see a more-likely bit:
https://genius.com/Kings-of-leon-use-somebody-lyrics
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you...
That's it. I still can't hear "use" even though I now know it's the name of the song.
I have an auditory processing disorder sooo all of them lol
If anybody remembers this from Del Amitri: https://youtu.be/K_s44LilaYM
I always heard "The wrong guy, the wrong situation. The right time the wrong week.
Nice beaver by the beegees is high on my list https://youtu.be/Otmq80677V0
We like to joke about non Spanish lyrics that sounds like Spanish. I love Apolocatv channel for that and 🐱 costumes.
In yoga, they have us sit in "sucasana" (also known as criss-cross applesauce) and I always t hear it as the polite form of tu casana, and Namaste also sounds like a Spanish word to me, every time. Tu Namaste tambien!
Yeah, the su/tú (you) form is easy and tricky to learn: su/vuestro(a)/su mercé are polite forms; tú/vos are informal forms. Our brains trick us with the easy/most used path to identify patterns and meanings.
Sukhasana (from Sanskrit) sounds like a mix of su (Spanish) Casana (from Italian/Trukish) =)
I think you heard from some novela the phrase: ¿(tú) me amas(te) también? Good to know that I'm not the one that fights with my brain mixing words in 4-5 languages.
Instead of the Go Go's saying "Our lips are sealed" I thought they were saying "Honest, Lucille."
For a long time, I thought in the song Inagadadavida, the lyrics went '"doncha know that I love you", but it turns out, they say "l'm lovin' you".
That's not really a fair song to enter in a misheard lyrics thread.
But, there's so few lyrics in that song, and they say it repeatedly. When I first learned they say lovin' and not love, all I could think was the McLovin from Superbad. I'm mclovin youuuu....
Roomba Roomba Roomba, let me be your Roomba.
Skip to 17s
Don't tell your friends about the tour bus.
I can't think of any off the top of my head, but this bit by Peter Kay always has me in tears.
Also, the technical term is 'Mondegreen'
Edit: I'm also reminded of a Colin Hay one man show I went to years ago where he told a story about a bloke that requested the 'song about the goats' at a gig. Turns out it was Overkill - "Goats appear and fade away". He then went on to tell a long story about a sharehouse he lived in in his youth that decided to get a goat to keep the lawn down. Man that was a good show.