What's the funniest mishearing of song lyrics you've had?
What's the funniest mishearing of song lyrics you've had?
Tears in Heaven
[chorus]
I must be strong == I must destroy
Lets hear em
Crimean River
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Like a virgin touched for the thirty-first time. Artist: Madonna Song: Like a Virgin Real Lyric: Like a virgin touched for the very first time.
I remember the subtitles for Smash Mouth - Walking on the Sun said "It's like kitty fat, it retracts before impact" which was nuts, I had the CD, and it was "any fad". They didn't use to vet subtitles on MTV. There were orders, but that's all I remember.
If you like peeing on koalas and getting caught in the rain
Had a friend who's little bro thought "Liberate my madness" from Liberate by Slipknot was "Never eat bananas".
Back nearly 20 years ago Disney California Adventure (Anaheim, Cali) had this interactive exhibit where you did various things in line with the Disney animated kids movies. One was playing the Seven Dwarfs "Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work we go..."
In a little alcove in front of a group of friends was another group of cute mid-teen little Latino girls. They were dressed somewhat provocatively for the average Disney guest and all were wearing bold makeup, (not judging, but they stood out). The typical Spanish accent was prevalent with the silent "h". Their innocent rendition as they sang along was hilarious. Happy as they could be they were singing, "I hoe, I hoe, it's off to work we go..."
Selena Gomez - Good For You - "
I'm 14 carats. I'm 14 caretsI'm farting carrots. I'm farting carrots."It's in our nature to destroy ourselves
It's in our nature to kill ourselves
It's in our nature to kill each other
It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill
That's the actual lyrics of Blood Brothers from Papa Roach, some people hear "Human Nature" instead of our nature, which is still the same meaning. However I once read someone misshearing of that lyrics and I can never unheard it, this is what I hear now (and so will you if you read):
Send the ninjas to destroy ourselves
Send the ninjas to kill ourselves
Send the ninjas to kill each other
Send the ninjas to kill, kill, kill
Head Automatica - I Shot William H. Macy
What my friends and I heard when the album dropped: "Yeah, yeah... I put a sausage in your little hand!"
What the actual line says: "Yeah yeah, I'll put assassins in your little head."
Although my all-time favorite is and will forever be:
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" - Jimmy Hendrix
The bridge to The Four Horsemen by Metallica
🎶Time has taken a stool on you!🎶
Uptown funky butt
Brimful of Asha by Cornershop.
The title and the lyric are both "brimful of Asha", which has a double meaning. In the singer's native language 'Asha' means hope, and is also the name of an iconic Bollywood singer/dancer.
What I heard was "grim poodle basher". Obviously it wasn't right, but I couldn't figure out the actual words just by listening harder.
The Toadies "Possum Kingdom"
I'm not gonna lie
I'll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I'll show you mydark secretdashikiHeads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Casserole, casserole, on the wall.
I want to break trees
Working with guys who's 1st language isn't English singing "Take me to Monkey Town", instead of "Take me to Funky Town."
Twenty years ago, Buffalo, NY. The Fat of the Land by Prodigy was still huge. A dancer in a strip club thought "Smack my Bitch Up" was "Snap my Picture". True story.
From high school until two or three weeks ago, I thought the lyrics for Limp Bizkit's "Just Like This" were concerned about John Goodman's weight.
"...and we make sure that John Goodman beats fat"
The song randomly popped into my head a few weeks ago, and I was like "wait, that can't be right". So I looked up the correct lyrics which are "And we made sure that John kept them beats phat"
I wish I didn't have to
peebe so bad.-blink 182 - Wendy Clear
and the most prominent
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wore colognewalk alone to get the feeling right-blink 182 - What's My Age Again.
Though sometimes when Tom and Mark performs live, they butchered some lines for some dumb jokes lol.
Golden Earring - Radar Love
We've got a thing that's called
red hot loveWe've got a wave in the air
Red hot loveIn my defense, I was hearing this over sometimes-fuzzy analog radio rather than off a tape or CD where the track title might clue me in. Less defensible: not noticing the other words that make more sense when talking about radar.
There this French fold band, Skáld that usually sings in Old Norse language. In the song Hross, the first line of the chorus is "Hverir eru þeir tveir?". The way they sing those first two words sounds like "Fevereiro", which is the Portuguese (my native language) word for February.
I had a friend in grade school that argued with me about the lyrics to Kenny Rodgers The Gambler. He was loudly and angrily certain the song said "You gotta know how to hold 'em" and would NOT hear my suggestion that it is really "when to hold 'em".
The next day he quietly told me I was right.
The ultimate misheard lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUAaHkGpJy8&t=32
"Carry a laser" - Mr. Mister
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
This is my curseThis is my purse
What have I become my Swedish friend?
For Whom the Bell Tolls
"Ni**asfight on the hill in the early day..." == Make hisEvery girl's crazy about a sharp dressed man= every girl's crazy about his shotgun hair.
"It's all about the big, 'bout the big snow shovel."
My aunt once told me when one of my cousins was like 4 or 5, he was singing along to Band on the Run, but saying "Hand on the rug"
There be a hot tub in the town of Berlin .
Suffragette City:
"The smell of fat chicks just puts a smile on my face"
Call Me Maybe / Carly Rae Jepsen
You took your time with the call
I took no time with the fall
You gave me nothing at all
But still, you're in my way
I beg and borrow and steal
Swear to Satan it's realAt first sight, and it's real
I didn't know I would feel it
But it's in my wayYep. Knew it was wrong, but that's what I heard. TIL what the actual lyrics are.
Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman
She hides like a child but she's
always a woman to me== a weasel-woman to meFreed from desire - Gala Rizzatto. I always thought it was "My love has got no money, he's got his trumbalyse" and I never knew what a trumbalyse was.
Also Peter Kay did a great bit around misheard lyrics.
I wanna be your big Suburban.
"living like a lover with a red iPhone" - Pour some sugar on me, 1987
My wife’s childhood:
“My anus can’t take it I’m addicted to love”.
Robert Palmer.
Mine is when I sing, and I can’t remember what I say, but something like “kissing your neck, back, n’dem titties” to Labrinths Still Don’t Know My Name. Although I’m still fairly certain those lyrics to be correct 👍
My sister-in-law thought the chorus of Metallica's Battery was "backdoor raid". Now I can't unhear it.
I also thought in Live and Let Die Paul sang, "give an Alabama yell" instead of "give the other feller hell."
At first I thought Post Malone was saying “swallow my knife” and not “spoil my night.”
I can't believe this is 15 years ago. Still hear these in the song today. https://youtu.be/VWqC4KKiVbU
I was once listening to The Pillows' "I Think I Can" around a friend. Japanese band, lots of their songs are in English but you'd never know through the singer's heavy Japanese accent. He repeats the titular line a lot in the song and my friend thought he was singing "I lick my cunt."
That was 15 years ago and it's still all I hear when I listen to the song.
I was driving one day, in the early 1990s, singing along with Elton John, "love I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I could do with another man.." as I had since I was a little kid, when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't what he was saying. It still sounds like that is what he is saying.
I see quite a lot of Elton John in these answers, maybe he just didn't enunciate.
There's a bathroom on the right.