This wasn't me, and there was also a language barrier involved, but it still sorta fits: My friend was out at a local dive bar that serves food, and asked for chips and salsa - the bartender warned him that the only person working in the kitchen right then wasn't fluent in English but he'd try to ask him. He ended up being served chips and sausage - as in sausages and potato chips.
When I first saw the episode of None Piece that the line appeared in, I misheard "I'm insulting your wardrobe!" as "I've been searching your wardrobe!" due to the accent.
Thousand Dreamers, Watashi wa Saikyo, and Believe slap so hard.As part of a TRS effort
to split Mondegreen, I made a page called JustForFun.I Heard That As. I've mined some examples from this thread. Feel free to add the examples you posted in this thread to the sub-pages.
In The Scorpions' "Love Drive," the singer guy says "My whore's got wings!" Thanks to the way he pronounced it, though, for the longest time, I thought he said "My heart's got wings!" ^_^;;
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!"Bombtrack" by Rage Against the Machine:
Actual Lyrics: "Landlords and power whores on my people, they took turns. Dispute the suits I ignite...”
What I Heard (circa 2014 or 2015): “That molten power holds all my people, they took turns. Just keep the suit dry at night...”
When I first heard the Imagine Dragons song Thunder, I thought they we saying “Fun Dip”, as in the candy. So did my sisters. It took two or three years for us to realize our mistake; we don’t listen to that kind of music unless it’s playing in stores or some such.
Thinking back on it, the line “Fun dip! Feel the Fun Dip! Lightning and the Fun Dip!” should have clued us in.
“Always expect the worst. That way you can never be disappointed.” - John FlanaganI keep hearing a certain line of Collective Conciousness
from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as:
I give my people the lies they need! The Russians will succeed!
Is the song about the Cold War now?
SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMYFor a good length of time I heard the lines "thought I oughta bear my naked feelings; thought I oughta tear the curtain down" in "The Final Cut" as "for my honor, bear my naked feelings; for my honor, tear the curtain down."
Be kind.While playing Lumines Reastered, I kept mishearing parts of Shinin' in various ways:
On the light of day/Melt into the wave/Find it's still away
Actual lyrics:
I regularly listen to the MadWorld and Anarchy Reigns soundtracks when I'm working out.
On the AR soundtrack, there's a song called "Ruthless" with a chorus that starts with:
I know what he's singing, but I can't help but keep hearing it as:
... Thereby turning the song from a Badass Boast to Self-Deprecation.
Edited by MagmaTeaMerry on May 19th 2022 at 9:40:46 PM
My AO3 profile. Let sleeping cats lie and be cute and calming.When I used to play New Super Mario Bros. on my emulated nintendo ds, every time Mario would clear a level, he would say the usual:
"That's-a so nice!"
I thought he was saying "That's-a sausage!" for some reason
Edited by ThatAsianInTheCorner on Jun 1st 2022 at 1:05:28 AM
"...This is too much information for a brain that just wants to visit Planet Tensuns..."...you know, until reading this I'm pretty sure I thought he was saying "thanks-a-so-much" or something, like he's thanking you for controlling him theough the level. Looking up the voice clip it's "that's so nice" clear as day, but maybe the DS's speakers not being the greatest made me hear it wrong.
Reindeer in the direction of reindeerWatching Dumb and Dumber for the first time in a while, the captions are on, and I just now realized that I had misheard a line for years - JP identifies Harry and Lloyd as "the guys who whacked Mental", not "the guys who act mental" as I previously thought. Both make sense in context- Harry and Lloyd accidentally killed a hit man nicknamed Mental, but also JP still thinks they're using Obfuscating Stupidity, or to put it in 90s slang, "acting mental".
Edited by MikeK on Jun 12th 2022 at 8:58:04 AM
Kinda reminds me of first hearing "Amoeba" by Adolescents
in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and thinking it was something written specifically for the game, since it starts with a chant of "To-ny Hawwwwwk, To-ny Hawwwwk!" etc (It's actually "A-moe-baaa!"). In fact the song is 20 years older than the game, and Tony himself would have been 13 when it was first released in 1981. I apparently wasn't alone in this, as I've seen memes referencing it.
Edited by MikeK on Jul 14th 2022 at 11:31:54 AM
Oh, I misheard "Amoeba" as "Tally ho!" when I was playing THPS.
Also, yesterday I misheard "Taste my hammer!" battlecry in Tower of Fantasy as "Where's my wallet?!" Since it was during a livestream, my response was "Fuck off, I didn't steal your wallet!"
"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von LewisI've listened to Uncontrollable for some time and now I've liked it (despite not having played the game itself), but I practically butchered the song.
The main examples being:
- "There's no direction for us" becomes "There's no pirate ship for us"
- "Do not tire yourself" becomes "Do not fight your friend"
Now I remembering mishearing "Blitzkrieg Bop" as "Let's make popcorn" the first time I heard the song.
"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von LewisRemember that cellular phone ad (forgot what brand) in which a guy mishears Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" as "Pour some shook-up ramen"? Well, I was young when the ad was running, and since I never heard of ramen at that time, my mind heard his mishearing as "shook-up Roman".
...which made his next line trying to explain to the girl with him that it's a soup make no sense.
Edited by Berrenta on Oct 27th 2022 at 8:54:31 AM
My baby brother was watching Cocomelon in the living room while I was preparing to take a bath, and at one point the song sounded like:
"God is mourning God is mourning God is mourning"
Over and over. I wonder what kind of lyrics I misheard.
Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.

I think it was when I was three years old when one of my cousins was singing “London Bridge” to me at my house. To me, the way she sang the word “keys” sounded like “keef” even though I knew what she meant.
On Sunday, August 21, 2011, it was the last day of a vacation in the mountains that I was having with my parents. I think we had recently started driving towards home when I first heard the song “Video Killed the Radio Star”. (Just to clarify, it was a radio airing of The Buggles’ recording of the song.) That day, I misheard the Title Drop as “Video cue/cube in the radio store,” and I don’t know how long it was before I found out the title. (By the way, hearing the song that day was a positive experience for me, except for one thing. You see, when I heard a certain vocalization shortly after the first chorus, I thought something along the lines of “‘Uh-oh’ is right! What if my mom forces me to forget knowledge I gained from the Internet?
” This was around the time when I was just starting to worry about that bullcrap. If I had asked her about it that day, I could have saved myself from a year of worrying.)
Edited by MisterToodleoo on Dec 12th 2021 at 4:58:07 AM