Your Mondegreens

Exactly what the title says.

I'll start with my version of One-Winged Angel.

From Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers", I misheard the French portion as "She's so popular" because Kate Bush's French is pretty crummy.

From "Shadrach" by The Beastie Boys:

• Actual lyric:
  • "Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego"

• What I heard:
  • "Shadrach permission, ready to go"

edited 28th Apr '13 10:18:33 AM by PhysicalStamina

I know I've mentioned this one in another thread, but:

From "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" by Nine Days:

Actual lyric: "... when you look in the mirror, so how do you choose"
I heard it as: "... when you look in the mirror, say hi to your shoes"

I remember thinking it was something like "she's so funky, yay".

yes! Someone else notices!

Anyway, from "Cards" by the red jumpsuit apparatus:

Actual lyrics: The test is out to finish your story

I heard: death is how you finish the story

...whoops

"Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis

What she says: "...you cut me open and I..."

What I can't stop hearing: "...you call me your banana..."

"Some Nights" by Fun

What they sing: "Some nights I stay up/Cashin' in my bad luck."

What I heard: "Some nights I stay up/Splashin' in my bath tub."

Katy Perry's "Firework" was misheard as "Failure" by me. "Baby you're a faaaaaiiilurrre..."

And when watching Inception, I misheard Fischer Sr. as saying "I was disappointed in your eyes", instead of "I was disappointed that you tried."

"Rolling In the Deep": Heard Adele say "You had my heart inside of your head, and you gave it a new meaning."

edited 28th Apr '13 11:59:25 AM by Tuckerscreator

I don't think I'll ever hear "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" as anything but "Hit Me With Your Pet Shark".

I'd sort of like to write a "Firework" parody called "Failure" now, because obviously it would have the exact opposite message of the actual song... Which could be funny in it's Family Unfriendly Aesopness if done over-the-top enough.

Movie-wise: I remember was watching the 1960 film Peeping Tom when I heard a character refer to sending an email and promptly did a double take. Turns out they were talking about sending a memo, and I just wasn't used to the British pronunciation, where it rhymes with "emo".

edited 28th Apr '13 12:18:22 PM by MikeK

Haha, same here. It could be a You Suck song, kinda like Weird Al's "You're Pitiful".

Ah, just remembered another one. I thought ABBA's "Dancing Queen" song was "Dancing Flea". I have NO idea how.

In Doo Wop, that one Lauryn Hill song? I misheard

as

As the song itself says immediately thereafter, 'uh-uh, come again'.

When I was little, I thought Simon and Garfunkel were singing this:

"God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson! She's a sludgy Mormon you will know!"

Also, I just assumed that the song was about the struggles Jackie Robinson's wife went through while baseball was being desegregated. I was like, "Oh, cool, I didn't know she was Mormon!"

Actually sort of a logical interpretation to come up with if one is unfamiliar with The Graduate - the lyrics mention another baseball player (Joe DiMaggio) and everything.

edited 28th Apr '13 11:56:44 PM by MikeK

Technically, my mom misheard it first, but ever since she said what she heard I can't help but hear the first line of Monster by Skillet as "the secret sodomy I never let you see..."

I used to have a similar one for "Superman (It's Not Easy)" by Five For Fighting. What makes it worse is that "inside of me" is repeated four times in a row, so what I hear is:

Looking for special things, and sodomy
And sodommmmmmmyyyyyyy
And sodommmmmmmyyyyyyy
And soooooodddddoooooooommmmmyyyy!

edited 2nd May '13 10:59:57 PM by MikeK

Not mine, but the best was when a friend misheard "bring your daughter" as "bring me a doughnut" in Iron Maiden's "Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter".

I seriously hope I'm not the only one who thought Eric Church's song "Creepin'" was actually called "Creeper".

Then again, I don't think there's many tropers that listen to country music.

In Enya's Orinoco Flow, she sings "Sail away, sial away, sail away" but I always thought it sounded like "Save the whale, save the whale, save the whale"!

In "Like k A Cloak", there is a line that says "nobody knows what they should believe", which I constantly hear as "nobody knows what the shit to believe". It is very jarring, because The Milk Carton Kids are generally profanity free.

In Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Dr. van Helsing asked "Do you have The Vampires of Prague?" When I was a kid, I thought he said "Do you have The Vampire's a Frog?"

In "Seven Things I Hate About You" by Miley Cyrus, I always hear the line:

"...when I think about the previous relationship we shared..."

as:

"...when I think about the creepy-ass relationship we shared..."

edited 11th May '13 8:04:00 PM by resetlocksley

My mom misheard "Open Gangnam Style" as "Open Condom Style". Oh, PSY...

Tick Tock for me doesn't say "Tonight imma fight til we see the sunlight" but "So life on my fight so we see Sir Knight".

Me too. I also didn’t know it was Kate Bush. I thought it was PG affecting a falsetto.

Speaking of PG, in Genesis’ “Firth of Fifth”: “undinal songs” became for me “a dinosaur.”