Your Mondegreens

Bootylicious: "I don't think you're ready for fish jelly, I don't think you're ready for fish jelly, I don't think you're ready for fish."

Somehow I heard "I fooled around and fell in love" as "I pooped around a bell in Love's, and now I can't unhear it. XP

I got a lot of The Fairly OddParents! theme song lyrics wrong:

• Actual lyric: Doom and gloom up in his room / is broken instantly
• What I heard: Tuning tunes up in his room / he's spoken instantly

• Actual lyric: Really odd, pea pod, buff bod, hot rod
• What I heard: Really odd, pea pod, perk man, hot rod

• Actual lyric: Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice / giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake
• What I heard: I choose rubber goose, green moose, papa juice / giant snake, birthday cake, large light chocolate shake

• Actual lyric: It flips the lid when you are a kid
• What I heard: It takes the job for you and me

How did I mishear that penultimate line?

edited 18th Jun '15 7:31:39 PM by TroperNo9001

The song "Behind Blue Eyes" from The Who:

The actual lyric: No one knows what it's like, to be the bad man, to be the sad man...
What I heard it as: No one knows what it's like, to be the Batman, to be the Batman...

Maroon5's Sugar:

• Actual lyric: Your sugar / yes, please / won't you come and put it down on me?
• What I heard: Shut up / Jasmine. / Why are you goin' down on me?

Wow. Harsh.

If fish jelly were a real thing, I don't think I'd ever be ready for it.

A friend recently had a facebook discussion on these, so I'm going to share a few gems other people brought up:

The Main Ingredient's "Everybody Plays The Fool" as "Everybody plays the flute". He said something about feeling like he was missing out on the world's largest woodwind ensemble.

The Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann" ^note Actually Covered Up, but yeah as "Bob Heran" (pronounced "her Ann")... Which happened to be the name of their friend's dad. The one I mentioned for the same song was "she ate my ham" (instead of "taa-aake my hand"). So if you change a pronoun and put them both together, it's a song about someone's dad being a ham thief.

edited 28th Sep '15 9:41:30 AM by MikeK

This one's from one of the episodes of X Men featuring Apocalypse:

The actual line: My beautiful virus...
What I thought he said: My beautiful violence...

I thought Controversy by Prince was saying "Count Your Blessings" which I prefer personally.

I have one from a movie: On Jurassic Park when Muldoon is about to get eaten by the raptor and says "clever girl" I thought he was saying "Heaven God" which I figured meant something like "God Dammit"

Not mine, not a song lyric, not even misheard, technically...

But this guy, talking about Buckminster Fuller, deserves some kind of prize.

edited 14th Jul '15 9:28:39 PM by Wheezy

Orinoco Flow:

"We can steer, we can near with Rob Dickins at the wheel,"

became

"We can steal, we can meal, with raw chickens of the wind,"

In Depeche Mode: Personal Jesus

• Right lyric: I will deliver you know, I'm a forgiver.
• Wrong lyric: I want Lydia to know I won't forgive her.

I always wondered who the hell Lydia was..

edited 18th Jul '15 10:13:59 AM by Bootlebat

Another from the same song

• Right Lyric: Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer
• Wrong Lyric: Leaving the receiver on end, you're a believer

edited 18th Jul '15 7:35:08 PM by Bootlebat

Anyone else think they hear a personal name in a song when there isn't one and wonder who that person is? Also anyone else hear a cover version of a song and suddenly they can understand a line they misheard before?

edited 18th Jul '15 7:39:22 PM by Bootlebat

I remember as a kid I thought Amy Grant's "Every Heartbeat" was about a woman named Beverly Harvey. Specifically, I was hearing "Every heartbeat bears your name" as "Beverly Harvey, there's your name". Which kind of makes it sound as though she had some friend by that name who kept bugging her to put her name in a song, 'til finally she grudgingly relented.

edited 19th Jul '15 6:38:51 PM by MikeK

I'm the only one who hears Marill's cry in the Gen VI Pokemon games as a (very) high falsetto "Thank you!" aren't I?

I'm on another Daria binge and I just misheard one of DeMartino's lines as "Ah! Herpes!" instead of "Ah! Hot grease!"

edited 21st Aug '15 3:47:43 PM by Explosivo25

I always hear les bicyclettes de belsize as Lady St. Claire du Versailles.

Hear here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF45xpG5lLQ

"This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race" has been misheard by lots of people, it's a "Gotham arse race." And sugar we're going down apparently has the chorus "aliligaucodplax cock head and pulley." ("a loaded god complex cock it and pull it.") Also, that particular misheard lyrics video has Even the Subtitler Is Stumped.

I heard "my name is trouble" on Train of Consequences by Megadeth as "my name is Joseph."

And of course there's "toss me a kipper for the words that you'll hear evermore" (touch me again for the words...) from Metallica's "Don't tread on me."

edited 30th Aug '15 6:05:50 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

On The song Drive by Assemblage 23

• Right lyric: The open road unwinds before me, an onyx ribbon spreading out
• Wrong Lyric: The open road unwinds before me, enormous ribbon spreading out.

The other day, my sister was lamenting the fact that some of her peers had ruined the Josh Groban song "Brave" for her by pointing out a Mondegreen that she (along with myself) was now unable to un-hear:

• Actual Lyric: ...when you can stand up and hold out your hand...
• What we heard: ...when you can stand up and pull down your pants...

edited 10th Sep '15 11:10:49 AM by kablammin45

For years, I thought he was saying Sherrie don't like it, and then just garbled words. It's Sharif don't like it, rock the casbah. Huh.

A line that repeats twice in Skrillex's "Make It Bun Dem":

• Actual lyrics: Rude boy bass! Mash up the place!
• What I heard: Co to jest?! Różowy pies! (What is this?! A pink dog!)

I always find bilingual mondegreens particularly interesting. In Laibach's "Geburt Einer Nation" I keep hearing "Gibt mir ein Leitbild!" ("give me one vision!"^note Well, that's the equivalent line in the Queen original, I don't know if they used an exact translation for every line... Amusingly, google translate gave me "gives me a mission statement") as "get me a lite beer!"

There are countless clips on Youtube with bilingual mondegreens that sound Polish. The most famous one is "Osiem zapałek" (Eight matchsticks), the opening line of Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting". A local music TV station even uses those clips in their ad campaign.