Misheard Song Lyrics

"Dragostea din tei" by O-Zone.

They sing:

I hear:

The Freshmen by The Verve Pipe

They sing:

She, a punk who rarely ever took advice.

I hear:

Gino Ponkarelli never took advice.

edited 6th May '11 8:51:08 AM by Buscemi

My dad told me about a five year old that heard: "Smoke on the water! Fire in the sky!" as "Slow walking Walter, the fire engine guy!"

I had almost the same thing, except it was Gina Fonzarelli. I guess she would be a relative of Fonzie or something? I think the real line is "She, a punk who rarely ever took advice" though, which makes both of our mondegreens make a little more sense.

edited 6th May '11 8:36:17 AM by MikeK

Corrected.

My favorite misheard lyric as of now comes from Lacuna Coil's song "Self Deception." The actual lyric goes "I'm not the reason," Every time I hear it, I think it says "I'm not Teresa." Poor Cristina, first people spell her name with an "h" and now they call her Teresa (also without an h?) P.S., the Linkin Park lyric for Bleed It Out actually does say "shotgun opera." I know because I have the lyric booklet from the CD.

Yuck have this really catchy song called "Georgia". Unfortunately, the way they pronounce the title in the chorus sort of makes it sound like an ode to a very unpopular Star Wars character ("Jar Jar, what's a girl to do? / Jar Jar, I'm still in love with you").

When I was little, I heard "Amoeba" by the Adolescents on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. What they were singing in the chorus was "AMOEBAAAAAA, AMOEBAAAAA", but what I heard (before actually looking at the song title) was "TO-NY HAAAAAAWK, TO-NY HAAAAAAAWK". I thought it was pretty catchy, though.

Heh, I first heard that song from that game too. I can sort of see it sounding like "Tony Hawk", although I don't think I even registered the chorus as actual words at the time, and instead thought it was just something like "aaah we aaahh!" or something.

Listening to The Green Album for the first time in ages, I suddenly remembered the fact that the chorus of "Smile" has a line that sounds uncannily like "'Cause I don't want a brick / Your fine face suckin' dick" (it's actually ""'Cause I don't wanna break / Your fine face I can't take").

Me.

HEALTH's "We Are Water".

Hilarity Ensues.

I first thought they were saying "Rocky road! Rocky road!"

Loads of people hear a line in Bad Romance as: When you're in Morrowind, Oh baby, you're sick.

Like anyone who has ever heard of the game.

I never genuinely thought this was what the lyric was, but in Oingo Boingo's "Nasty Habits", it sounds a lot like Danny Elfman is actually singing about nasty hobbits. There's a Filk Song concept in there somewhere.

edited 19th Oct '11 9:10:37 AM by MikeK

For years I knew there was a famous Radiohead song called Creep, but I never really heard it until I started listening to WFNX extensively this year. And then I started hearing it at least once every week. And now I quite like it, and I find it rather amusing that they refuse to play it live.

So yeah, in the chorus, I had a tendency to hear "I'm a creep. I'm a liberal." Either that or "illiterate". Apparently it's actually "a weirdo". I guess Thom Yorke has a bit of an odd voice at times, at least to my ears. It's a lot funnier to think of it being what I misheard it as, though.

Coldplay's 'Violet Hill': there's a line that goes 'Bury me in honour, when I'm dead and hit the ground.' And despite having seen that version on just about every lyrics site ever, I still always hear 'Bury me in armour'. Every time. A part of me is convinced that that's actually the correct lyric.

There's also that bridge that no one seems to understand, which is actually "She's running out again / She's running out / She runs, runs runs". I always thought it was "She's not about to run", which I assumed was the narrator trying to convince himself that this girl won't flee the scene the moment he tries to approach her. I forget who did it, but I also remember hearing a cover of the song that turned it into "She's not afraid to blow her nose".

edited 22nd Oct '11 8:43:41 AM by MikeK

Heh, my mom hadn't heard Bel Biv Devoe's "Poison" until a group played it on The Sing-Off, and she thought they were saying "that girl is pointed".

edited 25th Oct '11 10:47:39 AM by MikeK

Trivium's 'Ember to Inferno'.

He sings:

I hear:

edited 24th Oct '11 9:01:47 AM by MRDA1981

This group does covers of songs based on mis SEEN words. Bad Lip Readings takes music and makes it awesome.

edited 24th Oct '11 11:04:38 AM by Lanceleoghauni

Yeah, Bad Lip Reading are pretty great.

One I just suddenly remembered from my youth (sort of): In Salt N Pepa and En Vogue's "Whatta Man", I used to hear "He's always got a gift for me every time I see him" as "He almost got a gift for me at The Colosseum". Like he went to Rome without her and had second thoughts about picking her something up from The Colosseum gift shop, and this was somehow a good thing in her book.

edited 25th Oct '11 10:17:09 PM by MikeK

Weird Al's "The Saga Begins"

Actual: "So we took him there and we told the tale of how his midichlorians were off the scale"

How I Heard It: "So we took him there and we told the tale of how his Billy Corgans were off the scale"

(insert joke about Billy Corgan and Anakin both being whiny bastards here)

So I was listening to the radio, when suddenly Lady Gaga started asking me to build a barrel land with her. Then she started growling and going on about Romans.

I fear for her.

edited 14th Nov '11 8:32:16 AM by MangaManiac

Mark Prindle reviewed The Exploited and talked about hearing the chorus of "Punk's Not Dead" as "Force your dinner down!" instead of "Punk's not dead, oh no!"... Then a fan recorded a parody version around those lines that ended up sort of being like a much more violent 'Eat It'. The funny thing is that both the original and the parody have such Indecipherable Lyrics that you can't really tell the difference unless you read the parody's lyrics in the youtube description.

edited 14th Nov '11 10:31:00 AM by MikeK

I was recently disappointed to learn that Marilyn Manson's "Putting Holes In Happiness" does not in fact include the lyric "You're like a bidet"... It's "You're like a birthday". I blame Accent On The Wrong Syllable.

edited 15th Nov '11 5:53:18 PM by MikeK