Misheard lyrics

[zjstrunk]

I actually have a lot of these personally, especially for pop songs, I hear them and kind of make up my own lyrics. I think it is because I know I won't like the song, so I just go with something. An example (but not necessarily because I don't like the song):

Cab Driver - Hall and Oates

Actual Lyric:
Cab driver, take me home

My lyric:
Have mother, take me home

[dmb_guitar_play]

Originally Posted by peetee32

whitesnake Here i go again:
Like a drifter i was born to walk alone

A really good friend of mine got hooked on that song once when we were roommates. He thought that the line was "Like a twister I was born to walk alone."

After a month of hearing him belt that line out at the top of his lungs I casually walked into his room with a grin on my face and said, "It's like a DRIFTER you idiot," and went straight back to my room. That song still brings good laughs to this day.

[GSUdawg521]

Oh hay

Listening to 90s hits on Pandora this morning when "Kryptonite" came on. I was reminded of how for the first year or two of that song being out, I thought the chorus went "If I were president, would you still call me superman?"

It still fits dammit

[sheldonlevene]

Wife admitted yesterday that she always thought the Full House theme song went as follows:

"Everywhere you look, everwhere, there's a heart, there's a heart. I hear the horn blowing!"

She was advocating that the horn blowing would of course be in reference to the fact that they were driving on the bridge, and someone may have honked. She is an adult with two degrees.

[cpxc.]

taylor swift - blank space

actual lyric - Got a long list of ex-lovers

what i hear - lonely starbucks lovers

[Beefsteak1138]

Wait, she doesn't say "starbucks lovers"?

[GSUdawg521]

Originally Posted by cpxc.

taylor swift - blank space

actual lyric - Got a long list of ex-lovers

what i hear - lonely starbucks lovers

I always like to think of it as "get along with starbucks lovers" though I know the actual

Originally Posted by Beefsteak1138

Wait, she doesn't say "starbucks lovers"?

s'okay. it's her stupid fault for putting the emphasis on "of ex-lovers"

[jcc522]

Counting Crows tried their very best to make it sound like "put up a fucking lot"

[YouKnowThatItIS]

Originally Posted by GSUdawg521

Oh hay

Listening to 90s hits on Pandora this morning when "Kryptonite" came on. I was reminded of how for the first year or two of that song being out, I thought the chorus went "If I were president, would you still call me superman?"

It still fits dammit

At one point I thought this song was titled "Crib tonight"

[GSUdawg521]

Originally Posted by YouKnowThatItIS

At one point I thought this song was titled "Crib tonight"

that's awesome. I will now be singing that

[DaveHead36]

One I had always misheard was the theme from All In The Family.

Actual: Didn't need no welfare state, gee our ol' LaSalle ran great

Misheard: Didn't need no welfare state, G R O the salad's great.

[M. Steng]

https://soundcloud.com/kfc-radio/mai...isheard-lyrics

[KevinTH]

When I was a kid I always wondered what a "pamel light" was.......

"Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moon light"

[sheldonlevene]

I used to sing;

Dancing...shaggin on the forward wall.

[socopithy]

Originally Posted by sheldonlevene

I used to sing;

Dancing...shaggin on the forward wall.

What song is that?

[Beefsteak1138]

Originally Posted by sheldonlevene

I used to sing;

Dancing...shaggin on the forward wall.

https://www.antsmarching.org/forum/s...d.php?t=334788

[Lcsulla]

How did no one mention CCR yet?

Actual "There's a Bad Moon on the Rise"
Misheard: "There's a Bathroom on the Right"

[GSUdawg521]

Really been on that 90s music kick. Good place to come across songs you always misheard because you were young and dumb.

I had Jagged Little Pill when it came out. I found an image on Google to illustrate a lyric I always misunderstood.

https://jinkiesjameson.files.wordpre...91733575-7.jpg

[M. Steng]

For the longest time I thought the lyrics to "Sugar We're Going Down Swinging" were:

"I'm just a nacho at best bro, and you're just aligned with the sun"

[socopithy]

Originally Posted by GSUdawg521

Really been on that 90s music kick. Good place to come across songs you always misheard because you were young and dumb.

I had Jagged Little Pill when it came out. I found an image on Google to illustrate a lyric I always misunderstood.

https://jinkiesjameson.files.wordpre...91733575-7.jpg

I once mused that the lyric was meant to be understood in two ways.

One as the often misheard, "Cross-eyed bear" to reference a cross-eyed bear David gave her that turned into a symbol of her anger towards him.

And the other as the proper, "Cross I'd bear" referring to the burden she would bear due to all of his incessant woodchuck voices during sex.

[GSUdawg521]

Originally Posted by socopithy

I once mused that the lyric was meant to be understood in two ways.

One as the often misheard, "Cross-eyed bear" to reference a cross-eyed bear David gave her that turned into a symbol of her anger towards him.

Yeah I always figured it was perhaps literally a little stuffed animal whose eyes looked a little crossed.

[GSUdawg521]

Originally Posted by M. Steng

For the longest time I thought the lyrics to "Sugar We're Going Down Swinging" were:

"I'm just a nacho at best bro, and you're just aligned with the sun"

This video is so old, still so funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ChxlK430M

[socopithy]

I remember that video so funny.

[TheLastStop123]

my girlfriend thought taylor swift's "shake it off" went "and the baker's gonna bake bake bake bake bake"

[sheldonlevene]

Originally Posted by socopithy

What song is that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQn_utaYWpA

[TomDMB803]

A friend of mine thought the Billies chorus was "Each dream can be merry".

[space_raven]

DMB - Satellite:
Real lyric: Rest high above the cloud; no restriction
I heard: Rest high above the cloud; holistic sound

[aicdmb]

Thought for sure Gwen was singing "Scream my balls off"...not "Screen my phone calls"

[dvalukis]

I wanna rock n roll all night and part of every day.

[space_raven]

Originally Posted by dvalukis

I wanna rock n roll all night and part of every day.

Like, 3 to 5 hours??