I had kind of a similar one for "Cherub Rock" by Smashing Pumpkins - "hipsters unite" -> "hamsters unite"
I just remembered one from a long time ago: the Transformers theme song. It actually goes "Transformers, robots in disguise." But I used to think it was "Transformers, robots in the skies."
The first time I heard the song was in a commercial that only featured Transformers that turned into planes, so my interpretation still fit.
edited 3rd Mar '13 10:49:41 AM by Zarek
"We're home, Chewie."A common one I find is whenever someone says "Touch the Sky" or some variant (Using Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" as an example). I always become juvenile and mishear them say "Touch this guy" instead.
Also, from "Rock N' Roll Fantasy" by Bad Company:
At the very beginning (when they say "Here come the jesters, 1-2-3"). I always hear "Jesters" as "Jetsons". Don't ask me why, I just do!
It's apparently a pretty common one, but in "When I Come Around" by Green Day, I always hear "so don't knock down my door" as "sell donuts at my door".
Before I knew the title, I heard Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" as "Last One Alive". It actually sort of makes sense with the rest of the song if you take it as a boast about being a survivor.
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See, in "In the Summertime", I always here "You can stretch right up", the line right before that, as a series of slurred, nonsense syllables.
edited 23rd Mar '13 3:25:27 PM by 0dd1
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In Violent Pornography by System Of A Down, I misheard "everybody cries" as everybody grinds", which kind of works actually. Also, in Smothered Hope by Skinny Puppy I thought "life shifts up and down" was "blood shit up and down" at first, which also kind of works considering it IS Skinny Puppy.
'The Rockerfeller Skank' came on the radio today, and I remembered how a friend once told me that the first time he heard the song, he was surprised a song that consisted of a Cluster F-Bomb managed to get on the radio - he had heard "the funk soul brother" as "who the fuck's your brother?".
I'm not sure I ever misheard anything in that, but I was never quite able to decipher the lyrics of "Weapon of Choice" aside from "make love to the angels" (which made no real sense to me out of context), possibly because of the demon voice of the singer.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.I always heard the "Cleopatra Theme" from the band Cleopatra as "Mrs Thatcher, Comin' Atcha".
Am I a good man or a bad man?Somehow I got Giraffes In The Air
in my head today - the song is "Ass Up" by Barracuda, and naturally the lyric is really "put your ass up in the air".
I only heard "22" by Taylor Swift just recently, and aside from the "dress up like hamsters" part, I hear the title drop as "I don't know about you, but I'm feeling sweaty too".
edited 14th Apr '13 12:07:18 AM by MikeK
Though the misheard lyrics aren't funny, I found out recently that I've been mishearing When You Were Young by Del Amitri since childhood.
From the top:
became
became
Transformed into the inexplicable
To this day I have no idea what a "stowger" is or why you would wear one.
And finally
was misheard as
The weird part? It still forms a somewhat logical plotline. Aside from the "stowger" thing. Forget that.
And as a bonus:
I misheard the following line of Magnum's Vigilante:
As:
I've no idea why calling someone a lantern would be so bad. And even though I now know the true lyrics, I still mishear it. Argh.
For reference, in both of these songs the singer doesn't really enunciate clearly (or at least they get partially drowned out by the music).
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Mind if I use that in an actual song?
The opening line of "Halloween" by Helloween is "Masquerade, masquerade!" I heard this as "Masturbate, masturbate!"
I first heard "I've Got A Notion" by Emergency Music
without looking at the song title and heard the Title Drop was "I've got an ocean" - I think "I've got an ocean in my mind" would actually be kind of a cool lyric.
Back in 2008 or so, around the time Lady Gaga burst into the scene, I misheard a song called "Damaged" as "damnit!".
Heard David Guetta, Akon & Ne-Yo's "Play Hard" the other day. Misheard "a hustler's work is never through" as "our house's work is never through". Poor, naive me.
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That song, I believe, is by the Pussycat Dolls.
Go right on ahead! It makes me feel all warm and tingly inside that my perpetual inability to hear songs correctly might actually go toward something useful.
Kind of curious what context would cause "Don't call the bitch a lantern!" to make sense, though.
edited 26th Apr '13 2:55:52 PM by Flanker66
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