Imagine, you go your whole life thinking that Elton John was singing 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza.' Your brain must go through the process of inventing some lore to explain why Sir Elton John has a whole ballad about some American actor until you learn that you have simply been wrong your entire life.
So one person wanted to know what other examples of misheard lyrics are out there and the internet delivered. So if you aren’t afraid of having a song reinvented when you figure out how it actually goes, get comfortable, scroll down, and be sure to upvote the more hilarious examples.
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She was a fax machine
She kept her modem clean
[Original lyrics: She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean
AC/DC - "You Shook Me All Night Long"]
I guess it rains down in Africa?
StoopidTumbleweeds replied:
I’m still somewhat embarrassed to say that I thought it was “god bless the maids down in Africa”. Thought it was some sort of weird political statement.
Is_What_They_Call_Me replied:
I felt some brains down in Africa up until a couple years ago..
milkpen replied:
I always heard it as "I miss the rains down in Africa" and thought that sounded so lovely and melancholic. I was so disappointed by the real lyric lmao
[Original lyrics: I bless the rains down in Africa
Toto - Africa]
I left my brains down in Africaaaaaaa! Additionally, I always heard, “there’s nothing that a hundred men on mars could ever doooo!”
My favorite misheard lyric is 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza' instead of 'Hold me closer, tiny dancer' by Elton John.
The examples here all fit into the category of a mondegreen, which sounds like a plant from Harry Potter. In reality, it’s when a person mishears something in such a way that a phrase or lyric gets an entirely new meaning. The origin of this strange word is somewhat more understandable. In a 1954 essay, a woman named Sylvia Wright recalled misremembering the last line of a poem, where she substituted “and laid him on the green” with “Lady Mondegreen.”
Even after discovering the mistake, she liked the new version so much that she decided to give the phenomenon a new name, after the entirely imaginary “Lady Mondegreen.” In this particular case, the substitution somehow worked within the context of the poem, "The Bonny Earl of Murray," for those who are interested. But even a nonsensical addition can still be a mondegreen.
Robert Palmer
"You might as well face it, you're a d**k with a glove"
My sister thought the Beatles lyrics “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes” was “the girl with colitis goes by”.
As a kid I thought it was "we'll rob a mexican monkey" and not "we're up all night to get lucky"
[Daft Punk - Get Lucky]
The reasons our brains sometimes ‘autocorrect’ lyrics are varied. Often, if we don’t know the meaning of a word or have never heard it before, our brain will want to add something to that gap. This is how ‘like a G6’ can so easily become ‘like a cheese sticks,’ if the listener is not familiar with the names of private jets. Our brains want to make sense of things, so they will try, desperately to not leave any blank spaces. Though one has to question how a brain could think ‘like a cheese sticks’ made more sense than ‘G6.’
“It's not fair, to deny me
Of the crosseyed bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know”
-Alanis Morissette
How could you take her crosseyed bear Dave Coulier
[Original lyrics:
"It's not fair to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know"
Alanis Morissette -"You Oughta Know"]
There are a lot of bears in Canada so someone might be giving them away.
I want to know, have you ever seen Lorain?
PheonixKernow replied:
As a child I used to sing 'I can see clearly now Lorraine has gone' and always wondered what poor Lorraine did that was so bad.
[Original lyrics: I can see clearly now, the rain has gone
Johnny Nash - "I Can See Clearly Now"]
This is similar to what my bf thought TLC’s Waterfalls was about. A guy called Jason Waterfalls, who just needed some encouragement (“go, go, Jason Waterfalls!”)
Hit me with a wet sock, FIRE AWAY!!!!!
[Original lyrics: "Hit me with your best shot"; Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"]
Other psychologists believe that sometimes we’ll just mishear a lyric and ‘lock’ it in, even if it doesn’t make much sense at all. There is no reason for Ozzy Osborne to sing “I'm Justin Bieber,” yet some people believe this is a real lyric on ‘Dreamer.’ We just tend to not question our established beliefs and go around thinking that Ozzy really does feel like he is a Canadian pop star, which wouldn't be the strangest thing he's done.
We were in the car and Guns ‘n Roses Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door was playing and after a minute my then four year old son asked ‘Who’s Kevin?’ It took us a beat to understand the question but from now on, for me this song will always be ‘Knockin on Kevin’s door’ 🤣
Sweet dreams are made of cheese, who am i to disagree
[Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]
I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dogs say goodnight
[Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World]
Mondegreens are actually more common when listening to something in a language you are fluent in. In a more unfamiliar tongue, your brain, correctly, understands that it doesn’t understand everything and will just leave certain ideas blank. If you are learning a language and you listen to music in it, you’ve probably had the experience of knowing a handful of words while the rest fly past you. Since your vocabulary is limited, you can’t just start making up new phrases and words to ‘explain’ the gaps in the lyrics.
My three year old thinks "Like a G6" is "Like a cheese sticks"
[Far East Movement and The Cataracs - "Like a G6"]
Lmao my 52 yo uncle thought that too and was singing it that way in his car a few years back.
Jimi Hendix - "Purple Haze": 'scuse me while I kiss this guy.
corvid_booster replied:
Roommate back in the day, who would have been about 18 in 1970, told me that Hendrix was aware of the alternate interpretation, and he would gesture at Noel Redding and say "'scuse me while I kiss this guy."
My 7th grade teacher had a real hatred for Gwen Stefani and when we finally asked him it was because he thought she was saying “I ain’t no Harlem black girl” in her hit song “holla back girl”
In our defense, some groups or artists have a style that practically begs to be misheard. The overly synthesized Blue Man Group comes to mind, while older recordings might not be as crisp, leaving some room for interpretation. And it’s not like all artists have perfectly logical and sensical lyrics, indeed, some are pretty eyebrow-raising by themselves. As Hillary Duff once sang, ‘if the light is off, then it isn’t on.’ Which is technically correct I suppose. If you want to see some other examples of nonsense lyrics, check out Bored Panda’s article here.
When I was 14 my dad was driving me to my boyfriend's house. On the way over “Applause” by Lady Gaga came on & my dad sang “I live for the applesauce applesauce applesauce”. I busted out laughing and mocking him. Laughed so hard he turned the car around and took me home.
Gotta think Wierd Al was SO excited the first time he heard "My polka face." (And yes, he did name his medley that.)
As a kid, I didn't get the chess references in Murray Head's "One Night in Bangkok".
So when he sang "One town is very like another with your head down over your pieces, brother.", I thought he was singing "One town is very like another with your head down over your *feces* brother"
I remember wondering what the hell goes on in Bangkok that would find you with your head down over your own poo.
I never understood that song until I saw the musical Chess, where it came from, & now that’s all I can think of when I hear One Night in Bangkok. Such a phenomenal show & would be buying tickets SO fast, if it came back. Though this song is really different from the rest of the show.
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
A running lover in the night
It's deuce: referring to a V8 (eight cylinder) 1932 Roadster, as compared to the four cylinder.
Blinded by the light. Woke up like a douche into the runner of the night. (To be fair, 97% of those lyrics can be misheard)
I know it is "Revved up like a deuce," but I still sing it "Wrapped up like a douche."
Lol, Drew Cat pointed it out. He's saying Revved up like a deuce. An eight cylinder deuce coup
Load More Replies...Steely Dan, instead of "Are you reelin' in the years?", got "Are you really into yeast?"
Concrete jungle, wet dream, tomato.
[Original lyrics: "In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh... "
Jay Z and Alicia Keys – "Empire State of Mind"]
Song: "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake
Lyric: "Like a drifter I was born to wear cologne"
CCR - bad mood rising
There's a bathroom on the right
Warm_Fox1937 replied:
Same
And then my siblings tried to convince me it said “there’s a Batman on the rise”.
Abba- Take a chance on me. The beginning sounds like they are saying Jackie Chan.
Johnny rivers- Secret agent man- secret Asian man
“remove my jacket”
Instead of
“moves like jagger”
Boy I felt dumb.
If I want to move like Jagger, naturally first I gotta remove my jacket.
Lion King's Circle of Life:
Pink pajamas penguins on the bottom.
Get your free cone.
[Original lyrics: "Get your freak on", Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On"]
"Got along with Starbucks lovers" - Blank Space by Taylor Swift
Even when I know the lyrics and listen closely, I still can't hear anything else!
I fight with Dorothy & Dorothy always wins...
[editor's note:
Original Lyrics: "I fight authority, authority always wins", John Mellencamp's,"Authority Song" ]
My little sister thought Royals by Lorde said, "You can call me creepy" instead of "You can call me queen bee" I thought that was hilarious. My teacher's son would say, "You can call me green bean" So I guess that was a tricky line for kids lol
Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon"- Comma comma comma comma comma chameleon.
Go, go Jason Waterfalls. In my defense, I was like 5.
[Original lyrics: "Don't go chasing waterfalls"
TLC - Waterfalls]
There goes my hero, he’s old and hairy.
[Original lyrics: "There goes my hero, he's ordinary"
Foo Fighters - "My Hero"]
Now have this song playing over clips of Mermaid man and Barnacle Boy from Spongebob.
It took me too long to realize "All my friends are eating steak and snow" is actually "all my friends are heathens take it slow" I always heard it on the radio and they were all eating together.
[Twenty One Pilots - Heathens]
Give me The Beach Boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your Rock and Roll…
Kate bush’s Running up that hill, was convinced as a kid that it was “get into small hard places” and not “get him to swap our places”
"Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you".
[Original lyrics: Every time you go away, You take a piece of me with you", Paul Young's "Every time you go away"
“Mama say mama saw mama coo saw”
-Michael Jackson
My mother used to think in pink Floyd's song "Brick in the wall" they said "if you don't clean your feet how can you have any pudding? How can you have any pudding if you dont clean your feet?" Made me and my dad crack up when she was singing it one day
"And you! Yes, YOU!!! Staaaand STILL laddie!!!"
Slipknot's Liberate sounds like they're saying "LIBERATE BANANAS" instead of "liberate the madness"
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree. Instead of "later we’ll have some pumpkin pie“ I always hear ”later we’ll have some f*****g pie“
I heard a morning dj bit where they bleeped Pumpkin just to make it sound dirty.
Maxwell Jump
While listening to Van Halen my mom asked me who Maxwell was. I was so confused. She said, In this song, Maxwell jump!”
I died
My supervisor ruined "rock you like a hurricane" for me. She thought it went
Raunchy like a hurricane!
And now I can't unhear it every time it plays.
Blinded by the Light
Springsteen
"Revved up like a deuce"
I don't know a human being who didn't have to look that one up.
I just realized it's "Band on the run" and not "Man on the run".
WendyWindfall replied:
I always thought it was “banned on the run.”
The Police’s “Every Breath You Take.” “I’m a pool hall ace….every breath you take!”
10,000 Maniacs’ “Because the Night.” “….the way I feel, I’m the Orkin man!”
My mom legit thought it was "oh daddy oh I know" instead of "four dead in Ohio"
[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio]
Regulate - Nate Dogg + Warren G.
"I can't believe, they're taking Lawrence Welk".
I used to hear this song and wonder "Why is a smooth Gangsta like Warren G listening to Lawrence Welk, and why are these thugs stealing his Lawrence Welk records specifically?"
Then someone corrected me. "They're taking Warren's wealth".
Free - All Right Now - “let’s move before they raise the f*****g rent” vs “let’s move before they raise the parking rate”
Ladies leave your man at home
The club is full of ballers and their c**k is full grown
-Destiny’s Child
I will always hear Edge of Seventeen as “just like the one-winged dove”
whelp..now I know what is SHOULD be...always thought it was one-winged dove.
I'm not uptight
Not on a tractor.
Turn me on tonight.
I'm radioactive.
[The Firm - Radioactive]
Alice In Chains "Rooster," when he says "Walkin' tall, machine gun man," I swear he was saying "the chicken man."
I LOVE Alice In Chains, but it is quite difficult to understand Layne Staley (R.I.P.). And anything sung by Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam
“ I’m sure you’ll have some sort of cosmic rash, y’know.”
Pressure by Billy Joel.
Ozzy Osbourne "I'm Just a dreamer" sounds like "I'm Justin Bieber"
Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth
Actin' like a robot
It's metal brain corrodes
You try to take his balls
Before the head explodes
In the House of Stone and Light - "And when I go, with a lump of poop in my eyes!"
I know that she knows that I’m not from Nebraska - Kooks, Naive
Periphery - Ragnarok. "It clings to the palm of our ninja turtle way"
Original is "it clings to the palm of my hand eternally"
RHCP - "with the birth of Cher, it's a lonely view."
I always kind of know what the right lyrics are, but when I think of the opening theme of Late Night with Craig Ferguson as "It's hard to stay up It's been a long long day And you've got a madman at your door" instead of "the sandman at your door".
It makes it seem like the penultimate scene of a horror movie. You've reached the house, locked the door, think you can relax for a moment, but the killer isn't done with you yet
Chiming in for the most well-known example in K-Pop, there’s a girl group called Twice that are among the biggest names in the industry. About five years ago they had a single called “Heart Shaker” where one of the lyrics is “**isanghagae**” (it’s weird). It’s commonly misheard as “**Is Sana gay?**” and is extra appropriate because one of the group’s members, Sana Minatozaki, is affectionate towards other members of the group (she’s the girl who puts her arms around another girl’s hips in the music video).
'Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you, there's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do.' - Africa, Toto
Not a misheard lyric per se, but my mother can never hear Stranger In Paradise without thinking of the Ken Dodd version: "Take my hand, I'm a strange-looking parasite"
Wow, it’s been a long time since I heard that name!
Load More Replies...It's even funnier if your own language isn't English Just a 'mama appelsap' in Dutch ;)
An Italian friend of mine, while on his deathbed of all things, asked me "Mario, your english is much better than mine and I have a question I was always afraid to ask: Who is Jose?". I asked "What do you mean? Jose who?" and he answered "You know, in the national Anthem. 'Oh Jose can you see'?". I explained to him it was "Oh say" and not some random mexican guy named Jose. Incidentally, this was not the only time someone asked me this, just the most dramatic one since the guy was dying. Apparently a lot of foreigners hear "jose" in place of "Oh Say".
In the '70s, a blind singer named Jose Feliciano sang the Star Spangled Banner at some ball game, and I thought it was really cold of them to make him sing "Jose, can you see"
Load More Replies...There are so many but the first that comes to my mind is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us: "So we put our hands up like the silly can holders." ^^
I used to think it was "like a ceiling fan blowing us"
Load More Replies...In The Lion King, Elton John’s version of “Can you feel the love tonight?” The part where they say “it’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best” I thought the line was “believe the fairy tales” honestly it sounds better and it’s more fitting
My niece use to sing: Bump that monkey up, Bump that monkey up, Up down monkey gonna give it to you, Don't believe me just watch!
Misunderstood Beach Boys lyric: "And she'll have fun, fun, fun till her daddy takes her t-shirt away..."
The worst one I ever misheard was from Sarah McLachlan's "Building a Mystery" I replayed that bit on the CD maybe 20 times not believing she would sing: You stretched your a** to wear A suicide bone. (What did that even mean, and why would someone so sweet as Sarah McLachlan sing something like that!!) Had to read the liner notes to figure it out. You strut your rasta wear And your suicide poem.
“You can dance, you can dieee, having the time of your life” —Dancing Queen, ABBA. Idk how I never noticed it, but thought it was die instead of jive until high school
I had an ex-friend who thought it was “you can dive”
Load More Replies...Death and hatred to mankind... poisoning their brainwashed minds... OH LAWNCHAIR! - Black Sabbath - War Pigs. Your love is like bad venison, bad venison is what I eat... - Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
UK comedian Peter Kay has a rich seam of misheard lyrics and I swear you'll never hear the song the same way again, e.g. We Are Family "just let me staple the vicar" and "we're giving loving the Femidom"
Statin’ Alive— “Oh, oh, oh, oh, stingin’ a bat, stingin’ a bat”. I was so confused…
my 6-year-old brother thinks that the lyrics in love shack “bring your jukebox money” are “bring your juice box money” and he cannot be convinced otherwise 😂
I used to sing "two to dance, two to die, having the time of their lives", from Abba dancing queen. And "we don't need no thought control, no Dukes of Hazard in the classroom" from Pink Floyd. There's also the Australian national anthem "Australians all eat ostriches, 'cos we are young and free".
Why eat ostriches? You have all those emus right there
Load More Replies...Megadeth's Black Curtains, I thought Dave sang "Black Country" and always wondered why the hell he wrote a song about the West Midlands
One of the funniest I heard was from a Sunday School Teacher. The children were learning the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing'. There is part of a verse that goes, "Peace on Earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled." One little boy was singing that second line very loudly as "God-d@mn sinners reconciled."
"Oh Oh, Lizard on a chair, take my hand, we're naked I swear..." - Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer. "Rock the catbox, rock the catbox... - The Clash - Rock The Casbah. Or... "Oh Canada, We stand on cars and freeze."
You know the song "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers? In my family, we still hear him say "with four hundred children" instead of "with four hungry children". And we'd be like: "Geez, show-off, much?" XD And my Dad always misheard Deep Purple's "Space Truckin'" as "Space Monkey" :D
I always thought the song Better Man was actually called Butter Man and I was allowed to continue believing this until one day last year, I was road tripping with a friend and Better Man came on. She started singing along and I was like "it's butter not better" and she looked at me and I knew that I would never meet a butter man so long as I shall live.
I was convinced it was "Take me down to the very last city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." And it's the NAME of the song, which I knew!
the comedian Peter Kay has a hilarious show on misheard lyrics, go watch it while it's still there on the tube of you
Nirvana: "My libedo" younger sister always thought it was, "I'm a beetle" And Tom Petty's Free fallin' was a family inside joke "Flea Foggin".
For those of us older than dirt, the real lyrics would have been helpful.
Back in the '70s, when I listened to a lot of music, it was hard to find out what the lyrics really were. Few albums had lyrics in the liners and we were listening through the static on the AM radio in our car anyway. So we had a *lot* of messed up lyrics!
I know for a fact that when Sia sings "Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight" that the chorus is not singing "Have fun, take drugs," but even reading along with the actual lyrics that is all I can hear.
Lookin' for some pasta, baby, this evenin' I need some pasta, baby, tonight I want some pasta, baby, this evenin' Gotta have some pasta!
My youngest, when he was about 5 thought that the lyrics were "Her lips are deviled eggs" for Ricky Martin's song 'Livin' La Vida Loca'.
Chris Stapleton: For the longest time I heard "I will be your parachute" as "I will be your pair of shoes". Even knowing it's not that, I still hear it. Never made sense, but oh, well.
My friends and I would sing the vengaboys song "we're going to Ibiza" as "we're going to eat pizza"
This was not me, but my favourite has always been 'slow-talking Walter, the fire engine guy' instead of 'smoke on the water...'
"Blinded by the light, Strung up like a douche in the middle of the night". Bruce Springsteen and Mannfred Mann's Earth Band. I'm still not sure what it really is.
My funniest misheard lyric is Janet Jackson's "Together Again." When she sings "together again oooooo" I thought she was singing "get a rug and poooooo" LOL
Brother: “Annie got a gold chain” - Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” Friend: “I’ma say it one more time and im not gonna stop” - Michael Jackson’s “Wanna be Starting Something” Ex: “Dreadlock Rockstar” - Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier”
I was driving my oldest daughter and her friends, one of which was named Autumn, to the movies. At one point "Our lips are sealed" be the GoGo's comes on radio. Midway through the song, my 5 year old blurts out "Hey, is this song singing "Autumns a seal"? We still laugh about this
My sister & I still purposely sing the wrong lyrics to 'Drops of Jupiter' by Train & 'Young' by Kenny Chesney because it's our way & an inside joke between us The line in Drops of Jupiter is 'that heaven is overrated ' we heard 'That Van Halen is over rated' and Young is 'typically bad attitude ' but we sing ''chickadee bad attitude "
Billy Joel's we didn't start the fire. Had a cousin who was convinced the line was "JFK blown away He'll come back another day"
I used to think "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was "Total Eclipse of the Sun", and I thought the reason for "turn around" was because people were trying to make their way in the dark.
"You call me a banana" Instead of "You call me up and I" Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis. Also "I'm a farting carrot" instead of "I'm 14 karats" Selena Gomez Good for you.
I didn't begin listening to 80s music until about 5 years ago, but I knew I had to be hearing things wrong when I thought they were singing about an iPhone in Pour Some Sugar On Me. Actual lyric: Livin' like a lover with a radar phone What I heard: Livin' like a lover with a RED IPHONE
I had to stop reading. So much stupid. Im aggravated as s**t right now
my mom thought “tender love n care” from Michael Jackson’s TLC was “from a lovin guy” AND I STILL MAKE FUN OF HER FOR IT
'Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you, there's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do.' - Africa, Toto
Not a misheard lyric per se, but my mother can never hear Stranger In Paradise without thinking of the Ken Dodd version: "Take my hand, I'm a strange-looking parasite"
Wow, it’s been a long time since I heard that name!
Load More Replies...It's even funnier if your own language isn't English Just a 'mama appelsap' in Dutch ;)
An Italian friend of mine, while on his deathbed of all things, asked me "Mario, your english is much better than mine and I have a question I was always afraid to ask: Who is Jose?". I asked "What do you mean? Jose who?" and he answered "You know, in the national Anthem. 'Oh Jose can you see'?". I explained to him it was "Oh say" and not some random mexican guy named Jose. Incidentally, this was not the only time someone asked me this, just the most dramatic one since the guy was dying. Apparently a lot of foreigners hear "jose" in place of "Oh Say".
In the '70s, a blind singer named Jose Feliciano sang the Star Spangled Banner at some ball game, and I thought it was really cold of them to make him sing "Jose, can you see"
Load More Replies...There are so many but the first that comes to my mind is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us: "So we put our hands up like the silly can holders." ^^
I used to think it was "like a ceiling fan blowing us"
Load More Replies...In The Lion King, Elton John’s version of “Can you feel the love tonight?” The part where they say “it’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best” I thought the line was “believe the fairy tales” honestly it sounds better and it’s more fitting
My niece use to sing: Bump that monkey up, Bump that monkey up, Up down monkey gonna give it to you, Don't believe me just watch!
Misunderstood Beach Boys lyric: "And she'll have fun, fun, fun till her daddy takes her t-shirt away..."
The worst one I ever misheard was from Sarah McLachlan's "Building a Mystery" I replayed that bit on the CD maybe 20 times not believing she would sing: You stretched your a** to wear A suicide bone. (What did that even mean, and why would someone so sweet as Sarah McLachlan sing something like that!!) Had to read the liner notes to figure it out. You strut your rasta wear And your suicide poem.
“You can dance, you can dieee, having the time of your life” —Dancing Queen, ABBA. Idk how I never noticed it, but thought it was die instead of jive until high school
I had an ex-friend who thought it was “you can dive”
Load More Replies...Death and hatred to mankind... poisoning their brainwashed minds... OH LAWNCHAIR! - Black Sabbath - War Pigs. Your love is like bad venison, bad venison is what I eat... - Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
UK comedian Peter Kay has a rich seam of misheard lyrics and I swear you'll never hear the song the same way again, e.g. We Are Family "just let me staple the vicar" and "we're giving loving the Femidom"
Statin’ Alive— “Oh, oh, oh, oh, stingin’ a bat, stingin’ a bat”. I was so confused…
my 6-year-old brother thinks that the lyrics in love shack “bring your jukebox money” are “bring your juice box money” and he cannot be convinced otherwise 😂
I used to sing "two to dance, two to die, having the time of their lives", from Abba dancing queen. And "we don't need no thought control, no Dukes of Hazard in the classroom" from Pink Floyd. There's also the Australian national anthem "Australians all eat ostriches, 'cos we are young and free".
Why eat ostriches? You have all those emus right there
Load More Replies...Megadeth's Black Curtains, I thought Dave sang "Black Country" and always wondered why the hell he wrote a song about the West Midlands
One of the funniest I heard was from a Sunday School Teacher. The children were learning the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing'. There is part of a verse that goes, "Peace on Earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled." One little boy was singing that second line very loudly as "God-d@mn sinners reconciled."
"Oh Oh, Lizard on a chair, take my hand, we're naked I swear..." - Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer. "Rock the catbox, rock the catbox... - The Clash - Rock The Casbah. Or... "Oh Canada, We stand on cars and freeze."
You know the song "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers? In my family, we still hear him say "with four hundred children" instead of "with four hungry children". And we'd be like: "Geez, show-off, much?" XD And my Dad always misheard Deep Purple's "Space Truckin'" as "Space Monkey" :D
I always thought the song Better Man was actually called Butter Man and I was allowed to continue believing this until one day last year, I was road tripping with a friend and Better Man came on. She started singing along and I was like "it's butter not better" and she looked at me and I knew that I would never meet a butter man so long as I shall live.
I was convinced it was "Take me down to the very last city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." And it's the NAME of the song, which I knew!
the comedian Peter Kay has a hilarious show on misheard lyrics, go watch it while it's still there on the tube of you
Nirvana: "My libedo" younger sister always thought it was, "I'm a beetle" And Tom Petty's Free fallin' was a family inside joke "Flea Foggin".
For those of us older than dirt, the real lyrics would have been helpful.
Back in the '70s, when I listened to a lot of music, it was hard to find out what the lyrics really were. Few albums had lyrics in the liners and we were listening through the static on the AM radio in our car anyway. So we had a *lot* of messed up lyrics!
I know for a fact that when Sia sings "Baby I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight" that the chorus is not singing "Have fun, take drugs," but even reading along with the actual lyrics that is all I can hear.
Lookin' for some pasta, baby, this evenin' I need some pasta, baby, tonight I want some pasta, baby, this evenin' Gotta have some pasta!
My youngest, when he was about 5 thought that the lyrics were "Her lips are deviled eggs" for Ricky Martin's song 'Livin' La Vida Loca'.
Chris Stapleton: For the longest time I heard "I will be your parachute" as "I will be your pair of shoes". Even knowing it's not that, I still hear it. Never made sense, but oh, well.
My friends and I would sing the vengaboys song "we're going to Ibiza" as "we're going to eat pizza"
This was not me, but my favourite has always been 'slow-talking Walter, the fire engine guy' instead of 'smoke on the water...'
"Blinded by the light, Strung up like a douche in the middle of the night". Bruce Springsteen and Mannfred Mann's Earth Band. I'm still not sure what it really is.
My funniest misheard lyric is Janet Jackson's "Together Again." When she sings "together again oooooo" I thought she was singing "get a rug and poooooo" LOL
Brother: “Annie got a gold chain” - Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” Friend: “I’ma say it one more time and im not gonna stop” - Michael Jackson’s “Wanna be Starting Something” Ex: “Dreadlock Rockstar” - Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier”
I was driving my oldest daughter and her friends, one of which was named Autumn, to the movies. At one point "Our lips are sealed" be the GoGo's comes on radio. Midway through the song, my 5 year old blurts out "Hey, is this song singing "Autumns a seal"? We still laugh about this
My sister & I still purposely sing the wrong lyrics to 'Drops of Jupiter' by Train & 'Young' by Kenny Chesney because it's our way & an inside joke between us The line in Drops of Jupiter is 'that heaven is overrated ' we heard 'That Van Halen is over rated' and Young is 'typically bad attitude ' but we sing ''chickadee bad attitude "
Billy Joel's we didn't start the fire. Had a cousin who was convinced the line was "JFK blown away He'll come back another day"
I used to think "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was "Total Eclipse of the Sun", and I thought the reason for "turn around" was because people were trying to make their way in the dark.
"You call me a banana" Instead of "You call me up and I" Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis. Also "I'm a farting carrot" instead of "I'm 14 karats" Selena Gomez Good for you.
I didn't begin listening to 80s music until about 5 years ago, but I knew I had to be hearing things wrong when I thought they were singing about an iPhone in Pour Some Sugar On Me. Actual lyric: Livin' like a lover with a radar phone What I heard: Livin' like a lover with a RED IPHONE
I had to stop reading. So much stupid. Im aggravated as s**t right now
my mom thought “tender love n care” from Michael Jackson’s TLC was “from a lovin guy” AND I STILL MAKE FUN OF HER FOR IT