Misheard song lyrics

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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby NisiOptimum » Sat Jul 06, 2013 1:05 am

Hopefully all the lyrics to this one-



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Also speaking of Bloc Party I always misheard the opening lines of this-



as "It's so cold in this house. Open mouth swallowing ass." Weird I know...don't judge me! He has a very strong accent on that one!
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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby Big.bird » Sat Jul 06, 2013 1:25 am

It really really does. I never heard it before, but I doubt I'll ever hear the actual lyrics again.
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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby AboveGL » Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:13 am

In Haysi Fantayzee's John Wayne Is Big Leggy, the line "He know's what's right" in the chorus sounds (to me) like "He was a twat".
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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby Sekhmet » Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:17 am

For the longest time I thought the lyrics in Billy Talent’s song Where is the Line was
“New wave mannequins packin’ their guts in, stead of packin’ guns”
instead of
“New wave mannequins packin' haircuts, instead of packin' guns”.

I still think it fits but it only makes a little sense. My logic being that a hipster would suck it in, instead of have a beer belly.

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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby Mr Dent » Tue Jul 09, 2013 5:42 am

These are called mondegreens. HOLD ME CLOSER TONY DANZA

I love Joe Cocker, and have spent a few hours in total giggling at this (much better than the Beatles version on several levels):

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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby MitchG.Robot » Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:07 pm

aviel wrote:In "Live and Let Die", Paul McCartney sings "but in this ever changing world in which we live in", which is absurdly redundant. I originally wasn't sure if he said that or "but in this ever changing world in which we're living", which is grammatically correctly and slightly less redundant. I assumed it was the latter because the former doesn't make sense, but it was in fact the former phrasing.


Hunter Benedict Sheppard (I refuse to call him by his infinitely less badass stage name, HBS) mentions some dead kids and that "the last time they saw their mother smile would be their final time." Now.... when you're dead, the most recent time you've done anything would be your final time, silly. You'd think that when listeners can point these things out so easily, one of the many people involved would mention this at least once over the course of the songwriting, recording, and post production, but I guess we'd be wrong.


(I'm also mystified as to how one wins a train)

I haven't that I can think of been confused by any lyric on a comical level, but I'm dead certain that if I were 5 right now, I would be convinced that Jack White's 'Hip Eponymous Poor Boy' was 'Hippopotamus Poor Boy.'
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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby Learned Nand » Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:59 pm

MitchG.Robot wrote:Hunter Benedict Sheppard (I refuse to call him by his infinitely less badass stage name, HBS) mentions some dead kids and that "the last time they saw their mother smile would be their final time."

Still better than Van Halen's "Only time will tell if we will stand the test of time".
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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby OhJohnNo » Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:00 pm



The way it's meant to be:

Real niggas gettin money from tha fuckin start

The awesomer way I always hear it:

Real niggas gettin money from tha fuckin stars
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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby DoglovingJim » Fri Feb 26, 2016 1:37 pm

Johnny Rivers- Secret Agent Man


For quite a long time I thought he was singing "secret asian man", go ahead and try it.
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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby Twistappel » Fri Feb 26, 2016 3:39 pm

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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby reallifegirl » Fri Feb 26, 2016 5:51 pm

As a kid, Dad always played a ton of classic rock on the radio, and for years whenever I heard "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", I thought they were singing: 'I'm hurt (I'm hurt) / She's mad (she's mad) / I'm hurt, she's mad / Wedding bells are gonna chime'. Which made absolutely no sense, and I was always baffled why these weirdos were pissed at each other and still getting married.



Also, this is totally influenced by the music video: in the video for 'Sick Sick Sick' by Queens of the Stone Age, a wealthy lady is keeping the band prisoners and slowly having them killed and cooked into elaborate meals for her. One of the lines near the end of the song is supposed to be 'I'm gonna change', but I swear, I always hear it as 'I'M DELICIOOOOOOUS!'.

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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby NathanLoiselle » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:38 pm



I think I've misheard everything on this one.
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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby ghijkmnop » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:43 pm

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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby JamishT » Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:09 am

In TSwift's (SURPRISE!) "Wildest Dreams", I always thought she said "Say you'll remember me, standing in the night's dress...", but it's really "in a nice dress". I still sing "night's dress", because I think it's better.

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Re: Misheard song lyrics

Postby jbobsully11 » Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:41 am

This one isn't misheard exactly, but definitely misinterpreted.

I heard Neil Young's song "Helpless" the other day. I hadn't thought about it in years, but when I was younger and I heard the line, "Big birds flyin' across the sky," I thought it was the Sesame Street character, "Big Bird's flyin' across the sky" (not to be confused with the TCSer, Big.bird).
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