What's the funniest mishearing of song lyrics you've had?
Tears in Heaven
[chorus] I must be strong == I must destroy
Lets hear em
Tears in Heaven
[chorus] I must be strong == I must destroy
Lets hear em
Insig, José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad.
Sounds like he is saying ‘release mum and dad.’ interlace with him singing ‘I want to wish you a merry christmas’
I was in stitches at the dinner table when I heard it. Trying to tell my brother while crying and hyperventilating with laughter made it even better.
MIDItheKID, I hear this song in my head every time I see a “for lease” sign…
For lease navidad.
SirSamuel, Blinded By the Light
Roll up like a douche Rev up like a deuce
bcgm3, 🎵 Another boner in the night 🎵
ZeroGravitas, (edited ) Call Me Maybe / Carly Rae Jepsen
You took your time with the call
I took no time with the fall
You gave me nothing at all
But still, you’re in my way
I beg and borrow and steal
Swear to Satan it’s real At first sight, and it’s real
I didn’t know I would feel it
But it’s in my wayYep. Knew it was wrong, but that’s what I heard. TIL what the actual lyrics are.
Sea_pop, Another Carly Rae one:
Fake Mona Lisa
He was born in Vegas
The way she sings it, it sounds like
It’s morning fa**ots
dingus, Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee
When I was a kid, I swear the lyrics sounded like “later we’ll have some fucking pie”, but it’s “later we’ll have some pumpkin pie”.
HonkTonkWoman, Oh I am absolutely teaching that one to my nephew before next holiday season…
cheese_greater, How old?
dingus, Can’t say I remember. It’s one of those songs that has been played every year for ages upon ages. Maybe around 10 or something.
Hux, Simon & Garfunkel; Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
=
She’s a slut more than you could know—whoa, who, whoa!
HonkTonkWoman, That’s “The Graduate Remix”
Gregorech, Pearl Jam; Daughter
Center of a Rhododendron = Center of he own attention.
HonkTonkWoman, Always loved Eddie making fun of Mike for thinking the Kiss lyrics were, “I wanna rock n roll all night, and part of every day.”
themeatbridge, (edited ) Pearl Jam feels like cheating.
Here’s the classic Yellow Ledbetter
VaultBoyNewVegas, I still don’t know the full lyrics of even flow. Every time I hear it fucks with my head and I forget the words.
Bishma, Yellow Ledbetter doesn’t count. It’s mumbled in recordings because the lyrics change over time to adapt to whatever conflict we’re currently wasting life on.
kambusha,
SeedyOne, How have I never heard this. That was great.
papalonian, (edited ) Taylor Swift - Blank Space
“Got a long list of ex lovers”
As
“Gotta love those Starbucks lovers”
I thought it was supposed to be a self aware “white girl” joke.
dingus, Lmao I also heard it as that and was so confused at wtf it was supposed to actually be
0ops, She’s got electric boobs… Something something… B-b-b-benny and the jetsssss
cheese_greater, Its funny, I always felt Benny was more crocodiley than Crocodile Rock. Like that snappy piano riff at the beginning sounds like the musical/thematic equivalent of a crocodile with its mouth wide open snapping shut
betterdeadthanreddit, (edited ) Golden Earring - Radar Love
We’ve got a thing that’s called red hot love
We’ve got a wave in the air
Red hot love
In my defense, I was hearing this over sometimes-fuzzy analog radio rather than off a tape or CD where the track title might clue me in. Less defensible: not noticing the other words that make more sense when talking about radar.
Rhynoplaz, I always thought that song was “Red Alert”
cheese_greater, SureSure
dmention7, I always thought it was redeye love, in the same context as a redeye flight.
thefartographer, Hemorrhage by Fuel
Leave love bleeding in my hands, in my hands again We all livin’ in my pants, in my pants oh yeah
cheese_greater, The mind hears wat it wantz to hear 🔮
RBWells, I was driving one day, in the early 1990s, singing along with Elton John, “love I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I could do with another man…” as I had since I was a little kid, when I suddenly realized that probably wasn’t what he was saying. It still sounds like that is what he is saying.
I see quite a lot of Elton John in these answers, maybe he just didn’t enunciate.
EvilTwin, There’s a bathroom on the right.
CheeseChief, Working with guys who’s 1st language isn’t English singing “Take me to Monkey Town”, instead of “Take me to Funky Town.”
rbhfd, If you like peeing on koalas and getting caught in the rain
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