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
EndlessApollo, The bridge to The Four Horsemen by Metallica
🎶Time has taken a stool on you!🎶
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”
Anarch157a, There this French fold band, Skáld that usually sings in Old Norse language. In the song Hross, the first line of the chorus is “Hverir eru þeir tveir?”. The way they sing those first two words sounds like “Fevereiro”, which is the Portuguese (my native language) word for February.
justabigemptyhole, (edited ) For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Ni**as fight on the hill in the early day…” == Make his
Jackthelad, Israelites is a classic.
Me ears are alight.
Schal330, Freed from desire - Gala Rizzatto. I always thought it was “My love has got no money, he’s got his trumbalyse” and I never knew what a trumbalyse was.
Also Peter Kay did a great bit around misheard lyrics.
theit8514, I can’t believe this is 15 years ago. Still hear these in the song today. youtu.be/VWqC4KKiVbU
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.
Naja_Kaouthia, I used to work with this guy who swore the lyrics to Beast of Burden by The Rolling Stones were, “Don’t wanna be, your pizza’s burnin’”.
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
Turious, I was once listening to The Pillows’ “I Think I Can” around a friend. Japanese band, lots of their songs are in English but you’d never know through the singer’s heavy Japanese accent. He repeats the titular line a lot in the song and my friend thought he was singing “I lick my cunt.”
That was 15 years ago and it’s still all I hear when I listen to the song.
neatchee, (edited ) Acting funny, but I don’t know why… 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky kiss this guy
Hendrix. Purple Haze
kambusha,
SeedyOne, How have I never heard this. That was great.
Bishma, The Toadies “Possum Kingdom”
I’m not gonna lie
I’ll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I’ll show you my dark secret dashiki
MajesticSloth, Not me personally, but I worked with a guy that always thought Secret Agent Man was Secret Asian Man.
chilicheeselies, I am that guy. I thought that for a 20 years
neatchee, (edited ) Da Vinci’s Notebook has you covered: youtu.be/ezd_gZxOukw?si=yQJ38BXRZU7BzJ7-
Hellnikko, No joke. Many years ago we went to a biker bar and it happened to be a karaoke night. Asian guy sings Secret “Asian” man and we lost our shit.
MajesticSloth, I’ve since learned it is a fairly common one. But we got a lot of laughs out of it with him. Just out of the blue when he’d come to his desk someone would break out singing it.
ryathal, Honestly I think the singer threw in at least one secret asian man, and Secret aging man.
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