Misheard Song Lyrics

Yeah, hearing about "I Am The Walrus" mondegreens is pretty fun because no matter what you mishear a line as, the actual lyric isn't going to make much more sense.

Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.

Metallica's "No Leaf Clover" is one I always have fun with. They say "And it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of the tunnel", but I think it sounds more like "And I'm constipated, the soothing light at the end of your tunnel". It gets especially funny near the end when it sounds like he's just shouting "And I'm constipated! And I'm constipay-yay-yay-ed!" It's the singer's own fault for stretching his words out, which is worse during their live recordings I've noticed. I really wish the S&M album had been studio instead of live.

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It's been a really long time since I've heard that album, but I definitely remember Hetfield's vocals getting pretty overwrought. In particular I used to make fun of the fact that in that version of "Nothing Else Matters" the line "open mind for a different view" somehow sounded a lot more like "open mind for a different Hugh".

edited 22nd Oct '10 12:23:12 AM by MikeK

Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.

Speaking of Metallica,

All Nightmare Long

He said:

Cause we hunt you down without mercy

I heard:

Cause we hunt you down on your birthday

edited 22nd Oct '10 4:16:15 PM by Pett62

Same here.

So, in the U.S., randomly stripping is a signal that you want to sing the national anthem? - That Human

I heard:

She sang:

She had diction problems.

edited 23rd Oct '10 11:02:24 PM by Grain

Anime geemu wo shinasai!

Iron Maiden - "The Number of the Beast"

Real lyrics: "Were they reflections of my warped mind staring back at me?"

I heard: "Were they reflections of my Walkman staring back at me?"

edited 24th Oct '10 11:58:09 AM by Nyktos

I guess it is.

In Red Zone I always hear "And a cup of tea EXCUSE ME". The guy actually says "And I got the key It keeps me".

I can't stop listening to this

A classic...

A friend of mine and I were sitting around, listening to Iron Maiden and having a few beers. The song was "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter".

What they were saying...

What we heard...

My friend suddenly turning to the stereo and saying "dude, is he saying 'bring me a doughnut??'" still makes me giggle.

If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~

Sadie's Song by Adrienne Young & Little Sadie.

She sang:

I heard:

edited 15th Nov '10 8:18:49 PM by Ananonymuscat

What happens if you scared half to death twice?

They said:

I heard:

edited 21st Dec '10 10:25:33 PM by GameSpazzer

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist

My sig is one, for Soul Coughing's "Super Bon Bon". It's actually "let the man go through", but M. Doughty's lyrics are weird enough that he could well have been telling us to get out of the way of fruit.

edited 24th Dec '10 7:48:46 PM by MikeK

Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.

"Nothing Left" by Orbital. Not so much something I misheard, but, well...

Alison Goldfrapp sang:

On my fifth or sixth listen I noticed it kinda sorta sounded like:

And now I can't unhear it.

I didn't write any of that.

Didn't take long for "wrapped up like a douche" to get here. :

Lonely Rolling Star - Yoshihito Yano and Saki Kabata (from the Katamari Damacy soundtrack)

Correct lyrics (in chorus): "You're lonely rolling star". Cannot-unhear lyrics (you'll never forgive me for this): "You're on me doggy style".

edited 26th Apr '11 10:33:15 PM by Goomba4001

So, I have this song because it's on a Boston hardcore punk compilation called This Is Boston, Not LA. The chorus is actually "You've got no balls, no balls, no balls, etc", but I keep hearing "no balls" as "snowballs". Like it's an angry hardcore song about a snowball fight.

edited 26th Apr '11 11:13:27 PM by MikeK

Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.

I lent a metalhead friend of mine a few NIN C Ds, among his misheard highlights were "What have I become my Swedish friend?" and "I think I used to have a porpoise but then again it might have been a dream."

The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.

Thread Hop: The issue of misheard cross-lingual lyrics is a big one out here, as people always try to hear Russian words in the English lyrics to facilitate at least phonetic memorization of them. There are countless examples of this on You Tube, but the most epic one comes from Accept's "Dogs on Leads". The refrain of the chorus, to a Russian ear, very explicitly (and clearly, most of all) says PA-TSA-NY!, which, naturally, is patsany (пацаны) or "dudes". Fun times.

edited 27th Apr '11 1:00:38 PM by Noelemahc

Videogames do not make you a worse person... Than you already are.

Rammstein + False Cognates = Lulz

The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.

"Dreams of an Absolution" by Lee Brotherton.

Lee sings:

I hear:

It's actually a song about insomnia.

I didn't write any of that.

Threat Signal's "When All Is Said And Done" is full of this, but my favorite is:

magically becomes

Really. 1:06.

edited 28th Apr '11 12:56:17 PM by NEO

No regret shall pass over the threshold!

Wow, your mind is really meta-oriented, isn't it NEO?

Wonder if it has anything to do with... nah...

That's strange, I remember a thread about Mondegreens taking place sometime earlier. I even remember myself claiming that I LIKE JUICE!

edited 28th Apr '11 1:10:28 PM by Litis

There are whole videos of these, and some are hilarious. (Sturgeon's Law applies, though.)

There are snakes in the grass, so we'd better go hunting!

While looking things up for my The Mars Volta liveblogging, I found out there's one of these for "Inertiatic ESP".

To me these things are slightly less amusing when the song sort of has Word Salad Lyrics to begin with, and "it's musk was fecal in origin" and "the pink eye fountain" actually are in the original lyrics. Still, it's kinda funny anyway. "Nooooow I'm looooosssttt!" really does sound like "Marijuana Were-logs" at a few points.

edited 2nd May '11 11:15:43 PM by MikeK

Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.

Eh, I've come across that one before. I always crack up at "NOW OSLO!" - that one's absolutely spot on

Then there's the other famous misheard Mars Volta lyric;

1:08: I'VE GOT A PENIS THAT WILL RIP THROUGH THE VERY FABRIC OF TIME!

Another Fall Out Boy example. My Heart is the worst kind of weapon:

Real Lyrics: And everyone else that it hits, that it gets to/is nothing more than collateral damage

Misheard Lyrics: And everyone else that it hits, that it gets to/is nothing more than combat of hotel beds.

Though given the meaning of the song, it would work too.