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

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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