Any funny/interesting misheard lyrics in songs?
I will say that one example for all is Abba's "Mamma Mia" which I interpreted the beginning of chorus "Mamma mia, we are collagen" and the beginning of the second part of it "He'll something broken hardly". Don't ask past me why I had to make it about intercellular matrix.
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Blinded by the light . To me it always just sounds like he is saying dressed up like a douche , I can't even remember what the actual lyrics are.
Revved up like a Deuce, another runner in the night.
I always hear “ripped up like a douche”
I always heard wrapped up like a douche another roamer in the night
Dirty deeds THUNDER CHIEF
Thunder cheeks works as well and is dirtier.
Don't tell your friends about the tour bus.
I left some brains down in Africa.
She was a fax machine she kept her modem clean.
That's a legit start to a Weird Al song right there!
... She was the best damn printer that I EVER seen!
Real lyrics? I guess the second is Toto's famous 'I bless the rains down in Africa', but the others?
The third one is AC/DC. You shook me all night long.
The first is "don't tell your friends about the two of us" from I'm not in love, 10cc.
Might just be my humour, but I do wonder why he didn't their friends to know about the tour bus. What did he do it it?
https://youtu.be/STugQ0X1NoI?si=ml0PbGS76M9sqky0
The last one was already guessed - AC /DC - You shook me all night long.
"I'm blue, da ba de da ba die..."
"I'm blue, I would beat off a guy..."
You'll hear that every time now, you're welcome.
A Seattle radio station had a PSA at the time after listener feedback: “He is not saying ‘I’m in need of a guy’… not that there’s anything wrong with that kind of lifestyle”.
Blinded by the light - Bruce Springsteen
"Like a douche in the night"
I was all set to correct you. Never realized the Manfred Mann version was a cover.
this is a classic
That one Taylor Swift song about being Starbucks Lovers
Blank Space. And she does have a 'lovely Starbucks lovers', as least as I first heard it. For anyone who doesn't know, it's actually a 'long list of ex lovers'.
Holy shit... Are you telling me it's not "gotta love those Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane?"
I have a serious problem with understanding lyrics in songs. I look them up when I don't quite understand what is being said and I realize I didn't even fully comprehend half of the verses to begin with. It's like musical dyslexia or something.
It's really common, it's not just you. Singers sing much more indistinctly than they talk, and it's common enough it's been given a name.
Omg. I thought I was the only one that heard that!
Even on Taylor's Version, it still sounds like "Starbucks Lovers".
Jimi Hendrix - “‘scuse me while I kiss this guy!”
Digimon
Digital Monsters
Digimon Garlic Champions
There was a series of bumps for Digimon marathons during the summer once when I was a kid that went
"Beat the heat with a digi-beat."
My siblings and friends and I would instead say "beat your meat with a parakeet." I still sometimes think about it and hum it to myself lol
I was almost 25, in the 1990s, singing along in my car to Elton John, confidently belting out ""Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another man"" when I suddenly realized that it was unlikely a guy would have a hit song about what he'd do with a guy in the 60s or 70s. Even as a little kid I'd known Elton John was gay, and hadn't really been brought up to think that was weird (thank you, mom and dad and your theater friends) .
I looked up the lyrics and it's love lies bleeding in my hands, it kills me to think of you with another man and the name of the fucking song is love lies bleeding, I didn't know that either.
ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace. I always hear "she wanna pearl necklace" as "she wanna put on Netflix".
🎼 Blinded by the light / Wrapped up like a douche / A motor homer in the night 🎶
The actual lyrics are:
Blinded by the light. Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
the deuce is a car BTW for anyone curious.
I thought it was 'Blinded by the light, when I'm like this, you're the one I trust'. Which song are you referencing? Not Blinding Lights by the Weekend?
Blinded By the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
My wife thought it was
"All we are is ducks in the wind"
-dust in the wind
This is just delightful.
It's my little blue scoop, you don't know what I've done!
A more recent one I love is Selena Gomez - Good for You: "I'm on a farting carrot. I'm farting carrot."
https://youtu.be/1TsVjvEkc4s
(First 2 lines of song)
The site kissthisguy.com used to be a great source for this, but unfortunately today it's mostly a place for lyrics which may also fit the song.
thereeeees the bathroom, on the right
ccr, bad moon rising
There's a bathroom on the right
I'll never leave your pizza burnin
We've got some good ones in french.
For example there's a bridge in Sepultura's Rattamahattah that distinctly sounds like "c'est dans ta chambre, ça pue l'opium" (it's in your room, it stinks of opium").
Also, Metallica's Unforgiven, the first verse sounds like "nous faisons des oeufs, et couic couic ils se tournent" (we are cooking eggs, and squeak squeak they flip).
Maybe no one else will find this funny, but I do. My parents were Cuban immigrants to the USA. My uncle in particular was in his prime dating age when I was a little kid, so he would play the hits when I was around. Since he didn't know English yet, he would just guess the sounds the singers were making when he sung along. For that reason, I thought the chorus to a song was "spoon apurataaaa" and that songs didn't need to make sense. The singers could just make noises representing their feelings rather than use actual words. It wasnt until much later and a bunch of bullying in middle school that I learned almost all popular songs are based on words and "spoon apurataaaaa" was actually "smooth operator". Til this day, I still think of a spoon when I hear Smooth Operator by Sade.
Not really relevant video of a Smooth Operator
"Radio night, here I come"
instead of
"Ready or not, here I come"
My favourite mondegreen: 'Living like a lover with a red iPhone' from pour some sugar on me, released 20 years before Apple's first iPhone was released.
The real lyric is apparently 'radar phone', whatever that is.
I believe you are looking for this
Like the legend of the penis
All ends with beginnings, ah ha
Take a walk, to the post office. Don't stop til you get enough.
Head Automatica - The Razor
The Wham song Careless Whisper, I thought it was "filthy feet and I got no river" for the longest time.
FRYING OPENED MY THIRD EYE
I don't know how you could mishear that one.
because earlier in that song...
".....today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed..." quote from Bill Hicks
hence why I thought he said frying (on acid ) opened his third eye...
seemed reasonable to me at the time. took a few years.
That makes sense.
Ariana Grande - Thank You, Next: “Bacon, Eggs”
Steve Miller! I can hear it now!
Just like a one-winged dove
🧐 Those aren't the words?
Shower the horse, ya bum.
(Ciao adios - Anne Marie)
"My lovers got no money. He's got his trumbelice".....
I can't hear anything else, even knowing the words are 'strong beliefs'
Gala - Freed from desire: https://youtu.be/VczbVdcZmPQ?si=-ClQRsx6SOg9yJdD
Nightwish - Wishmaster. I'll just leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ
First thing I thought of when reading OP haha
Steven Seagull!!!
Numa Numa (aka 'Dragostea Din Tei' by O-Zone)
Thanks for this. When I was a teenager I heard this song from the meme, then unironically began listening to it on my iPod, and I still love it
"Salmon chanted heaving," by Harrison Ford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxP65isXSXw
The opening track What’s Up Danger on the Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack I can’t not hear him sing “I like hard cheeses that I might lose; I like it all on the eggs just like you”.
And I have to admit I do like cheese on my eggs…
I thought they were saying butt stains on the carpet in smooth criminal by alien ant farm.
Why you trollin like a bitch? Aint you tired?
Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A-Miiiiinoooor
Every time I hear Use Somebody by Kings of Leon, I hear "eat somebody".
I thought collagens were components of the extra-cellular matrix.