“Hey satan! Hey now jews! Reelin’ in a rocket bay” Is actually… “Paid satan, paid my dues. Playin in a rockin band” From Hi. Way to hell?
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I repeated the namesake of these mishearings before I knew they had a name… There is no "Lady Mondegreen" in "The Bonny Earl of Moray"!
I grew up in the 90s. Basically all the lyrics. Even when you knew the actual words they made no sense.
It was a very long time before I realized the song was not "Just like the wild winged dove"
The music plays Shabbat Shalom.
I always wondered what was up with the cross-eyed bear that Dave Coulier gave to Alanis.
I only found out a couple of years ago that Pearl Jam's Black song doesn't start with: Legs spead out before me...
In "California," Rufus Wainwright sang, "I fell / For a streaker" But I thought he sang "I fell / For a straight girl"
I thought Rihanna was saying “I want you to love me like I’m a hot pie” in Only Girl in the World.
When I was like 10 my mom was playing "Stop in the Name of Love" and I started singing along with great enthusiasm thinking it said "Stop in the Neighborhood"
Saturday night’s all right for fighting, better than election year. And Rocket Man, bada mada foos I’ve ever known.
When i was a kid, I used to think Steve Winwood was singing "Bring me a pile of love."
My all-time favorite isn’t mine but my brother’s, who heard “You got it tough / I've seen the toughest around” from Van Halen’s “Jump” as “You got a tub / And that tub is so brown”
The classic Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers duet: “I Live in the Street.”
In the RHCP song Californication, there is a line that goes: First born unicorn Hardcore soft porn But what I heard was: First born unicorn Hot cole slaw porn 😂
🎶The cross-eyed bear that you gave to me, You, you, you oughta know🎵 youtu.be/NPcyTyilmYY?...
Beelzebub has the devil for a cyborg!
“I’m a rubber duck, I’m a rubber duck, and nothin’s gonna knock this girl down” -No Doubt, Settle Down
Def Leppard, ‘Rocket’ “Rock it” The shame, the shame.
Despite all my rage I am still just a-ready to cage (Cage fight? Boxing ears? Not entirely sure what it was supposed to be. "...a rat in a cage")
“Why would you lie ‘bout how much coke you have?” (made more sense to me than the actual lyric, which is about *coal*…)
For years I thought they said "I saw the sun" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu1...
I'm a rebel with a kickstand. Been feeling it since 1966 man. Was singing it LOUD too.
“Just like the one-winged love” — Stevie Nicks, Edge of Seventeen
Al B. Sure - Off On Your Own Definitely thought he was saying “I wanna get off on your home girl” 🙃
The other day I listened to You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette and it really sounds like she's singing "cross eyed bear" instead of "cross I bear" LOL
My friend is insistent the “Your Move” in the English opening to Yugioh is “Yamu”
Bush "Comedown" #MusicSky 🎶 I thought it was "Screwed up, screwed up, screwed up..." But it's a drug song: "Shoot up, shoot up, shoot up..." 🫣 youtu.be/xS3GiUAvjJ8?...
This week I learned that blink 182 is saying "well I guess this is growing up" and not "well I guess Sissy's growing up"
To this day I don’t know who Jason Waterfalls is, nor why he needs to stick to rivers and lakes
My favorite: “ He’s so African and bold”
“She vegan, she soaking wet” Couldn’t figure out for a moment whythe Ying Yang Twins cared what shawty ate
I will always hear Rihanna asking her man to love her like she's a hot pie.
“She’s so funky, yeah” Instead of: “Je sans frontier” In Games without Frontiers, Peter Gabriel
Even if you know it's "poise and rationality" you're 100% still gonna think it's "poisoned rationality"
I have Auditory Processing Disorder so pretty much all of them but SKY TRAIIIIIIIIIN was my mum’s favourite when I was wee
🎶 "Sheee doooesn't fully understaaaaand meee. 'Cause rather eeeeeeat a piece of cheeeeeese!" 🎶 I know it doesn't make any sense, but I had no idea what Donnell Jones was saying for the longest time in 'Where I Wanna Be.' 🤭
"I don't wanna be French!" (Misheard by my teenager just last week)
I initially thought Beyonce was saying: Broken glass in the disco Sex on the brain Watch my reflection **** ON my face youtu.be/UlbVbKSiTuM?...
Afternoon delight I always thought the lyric "my motto's always been, when its right, its right" was ... "My mama always said, when its right, its right." Which made the song infinitely more ick to me. Hahaha
I listened to REM before the internet *opens book*
"I don't think you're ready for fish jelly" my mishearing of "Bootylicious" by Destiny's Child at the time it came out
“Later we’ll have some fuckin’ pie” in Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree always gets me
"Hit the Bee Square" 🤡 This is why I always try to watch Movies/Shows with Subtitles
🎶When the rain washes you Clean your nose...🎶 - Dreams, Fleetwood Mac
I thought it was Mysterious Girl not Promiscuous Girl until 2013 🤣
Macy Gray “I wear goggles when you are not near”
When I was a kid, I thought she said “you’re a poot, you’re a poot, you’re a poot, mister you’re a poot” youtu.be/e0vJNp5asqc?...
Diamond in back 💎 Sun rooftop 🥁 Digging the scene 🎶 with GASOLINE ⛽ [for like THIRTY YEARS😭😭😭]
Stevie Nicks' Edge of Seventeen - "Just like the wild winter"
