I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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Heard this the other day, the background vocals "who likes tacos"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I always thought Gala said Stromboli (he's got his Stromboli...) which would make half sense since she is italian

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Mice Roller

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  • Don't tell your friends about the tour bus.

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  • some daughtry song about Tijuana.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    “Blinded by the light.

    Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”

    Turns out is actually deuce.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That actually makes even less sense.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I always heard it as trombeleese, which I imagined to be some exotic musical instrument like this:

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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"

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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”.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    “I set fire, to Lorraine” by Adele (set fire to the rain). “Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes” by Coldplay (Paradise)

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hoobastank, the Reason.

    Real lyric: "a reason to start over new".

    What i heard as a child: "the reason tostadas are new"

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"

    I always wondered what a dunder chief is.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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__()

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"

    If you know, you know.

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    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said "You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhXHvRoUd0&t=75

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!" - Jimmi Hendrix

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I have an auditory processing disorder sooo all of them lol

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went "under my arms forever"

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's not really a fair song to enter in a misheard lyrics thread.

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    Nice beaver by the beegees is high on my list https://youtu.be/Otmq80677V0

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The women glow, and men plunder! :D

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What does it even mean? I mean the "glow" part.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "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"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I still say it makes slightly more sense in Otherside if he's saying "the cemetery where I married a thief".

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I always thought she said trampoline

    “My lovers got no money, he’s got his trampoline!”

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