Heard this the other day, the background vocals "who likes tacos"
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I always thought Gala said Stromboli (he's got his Stromboli...) which would make half sense since she is italian
Mice Roller
Don't tell your friends about the tour bus.
some daughtry song about Tijuana.
I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."
Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.
“Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”
Turns out is actually deuce.
That actually makes even less sense.
It's referring to a two-stroke engine.
I always heard "wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night" and happily sung that in bars.
I always heard it as trombeleese, which I imagined to be some exotic musical instrument like this:

That thing looks like a Fremen sandworm saxophone
It wasn't until my first job at a grocery store during Christmas time that I learned it was "Feliz Navidad" being sung.
Before that, I couldn't figure out why the cheerful song that only appeared around Christmas time was saying "Police shot my dad"
I used to sing Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong as “Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids, pyramids can’t be wrong”.
Also, in Africa, I definitely thought they said “rises like a lepress (like a female leopard) above the Serengeti”. The real lyric is “Olympus”.
Untill this day, I thought it was lepress too.
I love that lyric, it's so supid.
I know that I must do what's right, sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
Mount Olympus (assuming we're talking the one in Greece and not the one on Mars) is like 3,000 feet tall, Kilimanjaro is 7,000 feet tall. Kilimanjaro would put Olympus to shame, except Olympus is whiter than Kilimanjaro.
Also, you can't see Kilimanjaro from the Serengeti. There's a small area where the summit is above the horizon but the air is too hazy.
Even more reason why it should have been a lepress!
Also, if he knows he must do what’s right “as sure as Kilimanjaro rises… above the Serengetil”, and it doesn’t, I guess that means that he must not do what’s right? Or only a little bit, and it’s a bit hazy… 😋
Thanks for the great info!
With Little Miss Can't Be Wrong I used to hear "ain't nobody gonna come when your sound is gone" instead of "when you sound your gong".
https://genius.com/Spin-doctors-little-miss-cant-be-wrong-lyrics
Little miss, little miss, little miss can't be wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWbMu4PtpE&t=44
https://genius.com/Toto-africa-lyrics
As sure as Kilimajaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded by the Light has entered the chat. Probably the most misheard lyrics in the entire history of modern music.
It's "Revved up like a deuce."
Wait... Manfred Mann's version is a cover? Yep, Blinded by the Light was originally performed Bruce Springsteen.
Speaking of blinding, my honey used to think a different song went "she blinded me with oven mitts, it opened up my eyes"
And the Springsteen version very clearly says deuce which means Manfred Mann had to deliberately change it.
Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?
“I set fire, to Lorraine” by Adele (set fire to the rain). “Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes” by Coldplay (Paradise)
https://genius.com/Adele-set-fire-to-the-rain-lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJdu4Lfy8aI&t=58
https://genius.com/Coldplay-paradise-lyrics
And dreamed of para-, para-, paradise
Paradise is the song with the weird elephant music video, right?
Hoobastank, the Reason.
Real lyric: "a reason to start over new".
What i heard as a child: "the reason tostadas are new"
"Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"
I always wondered what a dunder chief is.
https://genius.com/Ac-dc-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap-lyrics
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
You're not alone, kindred spirit! Even when I knew the correct lyrics, I still hear it.
And when I learned about "dunder" or "double underscore" methods in Python, my first thoughts were:
__Chief__()
__Mifflin__()
Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"
If you know, you know.
https://genius.com/Blink-182-whats-my-age-again-lyrics
This state looks down on sodomy
I was a huge blink182 fan back in 99-02. I didn't understand what the prank in that prank call was. It wasn't until much much later that I started going through their albums again that I realized what Mark was actually saying. Looked up the lyrics and my jaw hit the floor. I remember sitting in front of my computer laughing until I was sweating at not only how that's a legit good prank call but I'd been singing it wrong for the better part to two decades.
Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said "You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!"
I'm not absolutely sure if this is the right snippet of the song, but I don't see a more-likely bit:
https://genius.com/Kings-of-leon-use-somebody-lyrics
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you...
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!" - Jimmi Hendrix
https://genius.com/The-jimi-hendrix-experience-purple-haze-lyrics
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
At one point in Another One Bites the Dust, Freddie says "Bite the dust, yeah" which for years I could not hear as anything but "I'm adopted". Seemed like a weird way to share that information.
I can't think of any off the top of my head, but this bit by Peter Kay always has me in tears.
Also, the technical term is 'Mondegreen'
Edit: I'm also reminded of a Colin Hay one man show I went to years ago where he told a story about a bloke that requested the 'song about the goats' at a gig. Turns out it was Overkill - "Goats appear and fade away". He then went on to tell a long story about a sharehouse he lived in in his youth that decided to get a goat to keep the lawn down. Man that was a good show.
Oh I was singing loudly along with Elton John one day, "Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another maaaan" as I had done every time I heard the song when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't something someone would sing in the 1970s, looked it up and the NAME of the song is Love Lies Bleeding.
https://genius.com/Elton-john-funeral-for-a-friend-love-lies-bleeding-lyrics
And love lies bleedin' in my hands
Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man
Owner of a lonely horse...
Real lyric: owner of a lonely heart.
I never understood why there'd be a song about a lonely horse.
If anybody remembers this from Del Amitri: https://youtu.be/K_s44LilaYM
I always heard "The wrong guy, the wrong situation. The right time the wrong week.
For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went "under my arms forever"
Pump Up the Jam - Technotronic
At first I heard, "I want, a player Tuesday."
Then I heard, "I want, a player to stay."
Apparently it's actually, "Awa, a place to stay."
That whole time I thought she was looking for a man (on a Tuesday), but she just wanted everyone to dance together.
Nirvana, On a Plain "The finest day, I ever had, was when I learned to cry like a man."
It's supposedly "cry on command."
For a long time, I thought in the song Inagadadavida, the lyrics went '"doncha know that I love you", but it turns out, they say "l'm lovin' you".
That's not really a fair song to enter in a misheard lyrics thread.
Nice beaver by the beegees is high on my list https://youtu.be/Otmq80677V0
That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.
The women glow, and men plunder! :D
What does it even mean? I mean the "glow" part.
I think it simply means they're pretty, radiant, stunning. :)
...or have absorbed a crazy amount of radiation ☢️.
Lol but yeah, the song seems to mainly be about the splendor of Australia, its abundance, and warm friendliness to outsiders, as the singer's perspective seems to be.
You know what they say... you never shine if you don't glow
Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Southern Cross
"Who knows love can endure" --> "Who knows love Ganondorf"
Obviously not the correct lyric but they clearly end "endure" with an F sound somehow
Elton John - Your Song
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in the words
How wonderful life is
While you're in the world
I misheard the "world" as "woods", as in, someplace far away, which changes the entire point of the song. The lyrics in this part starting with "I hope you don't mind that I put down in the words" imply a change of tone to something regretful, so a line to recontextualize that that the PoV character doesn't actually feel close to their supposed love would fit; but I guess that wasn't the intention.
I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.
"You know I'd like to keep my cheating strategy"
Actual lyrics: "You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today"
Blind Melon, "No Rain"
I still say it makes slightly more sense in Otherside if he's saying "the cemetery where I married a thief".
I always thought she said trampoline
“My lovers got no money, he’s got his trampoline!”


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