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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#476: Sep 13th 2014 at 4:02:50 PM

I named a character after misheard lyrics from Nightwish's Amaranth: Caress the one, the never-fading Raney Noirhart, with tears of snow-white sorrow.

She translates pop music into the Black Speech, and tries to teach her pet spiders to weave heart-shaped webs. She is The Perkiest Goth in The World.

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Nettacki Since: Jan, 2010
#477: Sep 25th 2014 at 4:30:05 PM

I hear Megadeth's Rust in Peace...Polaris, and every time Dave sings "Rotten egg air of death," I keep hearing "Rotten n*gger of death," which half-amusingly makes him look like a closet racist (admittedly, considering the things I've read about him recently, he not-so-amusingly might be).

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#478: Sep 25th 2014 at 7:57:54 PM

My favorite mondegreen is from "Maneater" by Hall & Oates:

"Whoa oh, here she comes / She's an anteater"

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#479: Sep 26th 2014 at 7:20:12 PM

A deliberate one I came up with to amuse myself while hearing the same handful of top 40 songs over and over again at work, in this case "Can't Hold Us" by Macklemore: "So we put our hands up like the ceiling cat told us".

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#480: Sep 27th 2014 at 3:35:59 AM

[up] Dammit, that's even better then my "ceiling fan".

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
HMeyer from Flying so high, defying gravity Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#481: Sep 30th 2014 at 1:28:17 AM

First time I heard "Popular" from Wicked, I misheard a word in the line, "it's the way you're viewed" as "it's the way you're nude".

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Bigmaddraco Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#482: Sep 30th 2014 at 11:54:05 AM

From Pompeii:

What was sung: "How am I going to be an optimist about this?"

What I heard: "Now I'm going to be an optimist about this."

Halberdier17 We Are With You Zack Snyder from Western Pennsylvania Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
ColonelCathcart Since: Jun, 2013
#485: Sep 30th 2014 at 1:38:36 PM

"Cut mouth bleeding razors / Spaghetti the pain" for "Cut mouth bleeding razors / Forgetting the pain" in The Black Angel's Death Song

It all comes across as a word salad to me anyway, so I prefer spaghetti the pain.

Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
#486: Oct 1st 2014 at 4:55:33 PM

Rush: “Limelight”

Actual lyric: “Living in a fisheye lens...”

...but I keep hearing: “Living in the Fish Islands...”

edited 1st Oct '14 4:55:44 PM by Bananaquit

Ms.Reverie She rolls. from My room because I'm a lazy butt. Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
She rolls.
#487: Oct 4th 2014 at 8:08:12 PM

When I used to listen to E.T by Katy Perry, I used to always hear "It's Supernatural, it's treacherous trio!" but it was actually "It's supernatural, extraterrestrial."

edited 4th Oct '14 8:12:01 PM by Ms.Reverie

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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#488: Oct 5th 2014 at 12:10:49 AM

[up]My big mondegreen from that song is "Getting stupid-ass straight about The JoJ." (Even more amusingly, another YouTube Pooper pointed that out before cs188 himself did.)

edited 5th Oct '14 12:11:01 AM by Twentington

Halberdier17 We Are With You Zack Snyder from Western Pennsylvania Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
We Are With You Zack Snyder
#489: Oct 9th 2014 at 8:34:52 AM

I just remembered I used to think the lyrics for "Fly like an Eagle" by the Steve Miller Band went: "Feed the babies who don't have enough to eat. Shoot the children with no shoes on their feet. Hows the people living in the streets?"

The real lyrics are: "Feed the babies who don't have enough to eat. Shoe the children with no shoes on their feet. House the people living in the streets."

Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure
djbj Since: Oct, 2010
#490: Oct 11th 2014 at 7:22:30 AM

I've never heard "shoe" used as a verb before. Then again, Steve Miller generally seemed fond of using (no pun intended) Lyrical Shoehorn.

murazrai Since: Jan, 2010
#491: Oct 16th 2014 at 7:16:49 AM

Back when I was young I misheard and I swear into and I'm Sue, which means I'm unlucky in Hokkien dialect.

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
Ramen Fairy
#492: Oct 16th 2014 at 8:06:14 AM

Did you know it was possible to mishear the lyrics to "Turn Down For What"? I heard "five to now" as "fire a round".

Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Nettacki Since: Jan, 2010
#493: Oct 17th 2014 at 1:20:01 AM

Opeth's "Bleak." I hear "I am dying fast inside your tears" as "I am dying fast inside your penis" for some reason.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#494: Oct 17th 2014 at 3:39:08 PM

[up] x 4: I looked it up on dictionary.com, and that is apparently a valid definition for "shoe" ("to provide or fit with a shoe or shoes"). I had heard it used as a verb before, but only in the sense of shoeing a horse - putting horseshoes on poor, shoeless children is kind of a terrifying mental image.

Another deliberate mondegreen born out of having the mix station on at work all day, from Avril Lavigne's "Complicated": "promise me I'm never gonna find you naked" (instead of "...find you fake it").

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#495: Nov 16th 2014 at 10:13:03 PM

U2's "Beautiful Day": "Sky's full of felines / It's a beautiful day". It's actually "Sky falls, you feel like / It's a beautiful day". But I like the idea of Bono happily looking up at a sky full of flying cats. Although maybe he should be more concerned.

edited 16th Nov '14 10:17:27 PM by MikeK

CardsOfWar Handy-Dandy Chord Finder from The Ocean Bed Since: Apr, 2013
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#496: Nov 23rd 2014 at 5:11:57 AM

I really painful mondegreen for Manilla Road's song The Riddle Master that really takes me out of the moment for an otherwise amazing track.

Where he says, "What lies in dark dungeons of holy men's fears," it sounds to me like he says, "What lies in dark dungeons of holy men's beards."

"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical Stamina
ColonelCathcart Since: Jun, 2013
#497: Dec 4th 2014 at 5:40:39 PM

In the song Alone Again Or, it's actually "And I will be alone again tonight, my dear", not "And I will be alone again tonight with you".

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#498: Dec 5th 2014 at 10:06:32 AM

Taylor Swift's "Blank Space": "Go to lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane". When in fact it's a long list of ex-lovers, not a bunch of lonesome caffeine addicts, who will tell you Taylor is insane.

GeekCodeRed Since: Sep, 2010
#499: Dec 7th 2014 at 5:47:08 AM

I keep hearing a certain line from Fixer Upper wrong:
What I Hear: "His isolation is confirmation of his desperation for human hugs!"
Actual Line: "His isolation is confirmation of his desperation for healing hugs!"

Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!

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