Your Mondegreens

I know what the correct lyrics are now, but for a while I was mishearing one of Columbia's lines in Time Warp:

As:

oddly enough, if you ignored the fact that the next line is supposed to rhyme, either line would make perfect sense in that song.

Call it vanity or what have you, but when I listen to Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, I hear the first sentence of my signature in the last verse of the chorus.

For the longest time, whenever I listened to "when I grow up" by the Pussycat Dolls, I always heard "I wanna have groupies" as "I wanna have boobies".

-facepalm-

Me Too!.

Not exactly a mondegreen, but I just love to imagine David Hasselhoff sing "I've been googling for free porn" .

Me too.

David Bowie, "Slow Burn":

Real lyrics:

Mondegreen:

Real lyrics:

Mondegreen:

edited 3rd Aug '13 8:41:51 AM by Boxen

Philip Philips, "Gone Gone Gone" (don't look at me, I just happened to hear it over the radio):

became

...Hey, it had to be connected to legs one way or another.

This one is not mine, but neat .

Rose Killing Carmilla... lovely song. But I keep mishearing the opening as "bury me six feet inches deep under ground." Hm...

Oh, and Burn My Dread is a fun one.

"Let's not wake Gilbert Godfried, even though his trailer's on fire!"

"So long, gay Bowser." will forever be my favorite mondegreen.

I'm still not entirely certain as to if, in Fury of the Storm, what's being sung is "with the power of the universe" or "with the power of the unicorns". Or perhaps switching between the two.

I find the mystery too fun to bother looking it up (although I'm pretty sure 'unicorns' is indeed a mishearing).

I always thought Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" said, "We'll sing the night away..."

Nope. It says, "Pissing the night away..."

A lot of people seem to mishear the chorus to that song too - my favorite that I've heard about is "I got no job, but I'm an opera fan" (instead of "I get knocked down, but I get up again" of course).

The best part is "So I'm goin' naked, have a beer on the road", which sounds like what someone might get pulled over for on an episode of COPS. And the "cinnamon" in "he's just working for the cinnamon" sounds a little more like "Cinnabon" for me - I like that even better for the Mundane Made Awesome factor of someone singing dramatically about a guy who works at the chain store bakery at the mall.

For a long time I was somehow convinced that "Love Somebody" by Maroon 5 had the line "baby on the way" instead of "you can take me all the way" - for a while I thought it was just a lyrical shoehorn-ism for "Baby, we're on the way", but then I started entertaining the idea that it was about a man who meets a girl at the club and falls in love, but knows he can't act on these emotions because he has a pregnant wife/girlfriend at home - so he keeps reminding himself of the "baby on the way, baby on the way".

edited 22nd Aug '13 3:06:19 PM by MikeK

Goran Bregovic's Kalashnikov: "Boom boom boom boom boom, what a nice couscous. Teheran!"

L.A. Woman:

really was this.

I cannot unhear my version.

edited 15th Mar '14 7:07:15 AM by Boxen

From Tenth Avenue Freezeout:

Wait... You mean it's NOT saying "I wanna have boobies" :(?

Anyways, I'm deaf in one ear, so I get a lot of these. For instance, the lyrics on one song happened to be, "You talk too much, you're boring me to death."

It was NOT, in fact, insulting the woman's morals by insinuating that she has sex for money. >.<

Fleetwood Mac: "Go Your Own Way"

You can comb your pony You can go your own way
You can call it "Thunder", okey-day? You can call it another lonely day

Gorillaz: "Feel Good, Inc."

When the windmill falls on us Windmill, windmill for the land
And everybody here Is everybody in?

You know the Leitmotif from Hercules: "Go The Distance"? The Michael Bolton cover that plays during the credits is borderline incomprehensible. For example:

• Actual Lyric: You embrace my fear
  • I heard: You embrace my fate

• Actual Lyric: And I won't look back...
  • I heard: ''And a wool Lou beaaar...'

• Actual lyric: …I will go the distance-til I find my hero's welcome in your arms
  • I heard: …I will call the dentist-til I fine my hemo's William EEEEEENYAAA...YON!!

In the end, I went twelve years not knowing what the words of the song were until I reaquired Hercules and turned the subtitles on during the credits.

edited 19th Mar '14 7:40:36 PM by kablammin45

The entirety of the Numa Numa song.

Can I add a Real Life spoken Mondegreen?

So at a church I used to go to, every so often, they would go over the quarterly report at the end of a service. (I am not sure why they did it then, but they did.) They would go over the motions:

-> All in favor vote Aye...

-> AYE

-> Those who vote no...and it is carried.

However, second grade aged me misheard the last statement and thought the pastor said "Those who vote no...and it is Carrie." For quite a while, I wondered who Carrie was and why she was against everything the church moved to do. (There actually was a Carrie at the church who was very nice, adding to my confusion.)

edited 23rd Mar '14 10:04:34 PM by kablammin45

I have a real life one as well. I was talking with one of my classmates about why he went to the hospital late last week. Somehow I heard "intestinal infection" as "testicle infection", to which I replied "Well, no wonder you didn't want to come to school".

In the Lady Gaga song "Applause," I thought she was saying "cars" instead of "applause." ^_^;;