Have you ever misheard lyrics to a song?

[kittysan]

Taylor swift blank space
got a long list of exlovers they'll tell you I'm insane
i heard call all my Starbucks lovers they'll tell you i'm insane

 

[AmericanBeauty]

does anybody else think that sometimes misheard lyrics are better than the actual ones?

 

[jiny]

does anybody else think that sometimes misheard lyrics are better than the actual ones?

Yes! I totally agree with this.

 

[AmericanBeauty]

Yes! I totally agree with this.

yay! haha. i used to watch misheard lyric videos on youtube and laugh my ass off, but some of them were actually deeper and had more meaning!

 

[Feyre]

"so testosterone boys and hug ugly girls" instead of "so testosterone boys and harlequin girls" from Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off by P!ATD

 

[jiny]

yay! haha. i used to watch misheard lyric videos on youtube and laugh my ass off, but some of them were actually deeper and had more meaning!

Yeah, I used to watch those too, but I haven't seen any new ones in a while :/

 

[visibleghost]

in paramore's song proof i thought she sang "if i'm a woman with no feet just like i claim i am", when she actually doesn't sing "feet", she sings "fear" //:

 

[hemming1996]

"You can dance, you can die having the time of your life"
"In New York, Concrete jungle wet dream tomato"
"I'm blue I will pee on a guy"

I was pretty upset when I found out these weren't the real lyrics

 

[Big Matt9685]

Most songs I hear, I mishear at least 1 line. It doesn't bother me, it's just weird when I actually listen to it properly and hear something different.

 

[Raffy]

ITS GONNA BE MAY

 

[Acruoxil]

Several times, omg

There's blank space by Taylor Swift, Whistle by Florida, The Bleeding by FFDP, and a slight typo in Addicted by Enrique, iirc.

 

[Ghost Of Mascevanje]

That has happened to me numerous times with different songs. One song that instantly comes to mind is Collective Soul's "December". For quite some time, I thought that one of the opening lines said "just took my son to a drugged-up man". When I finally bothered to look up the lyrics many years later, I found out that it was actually "just tilt my sun towards your domain".

 

[LadyDestani]

Absolutely! I can't think of every example because there have been many, but the main one that comes to mind is Blinded by the Light. In all fairness, I had no idea what 'revved up like a deuce' even meant for the longest time so there was no way that line would have made sense to me even if I did hear it correctly.

 

[JemAC]

Yeah I've misheard loads of lyrics before, can't remember them all but the ones that come to mind are:

• 'living with me must have damn near killed you' (How You Remind Me by Nicelback) - I always sang this as 'little women must have damn near killed you' it always seemed like an odd lyric but I just presumed he was talking about the book Little Women
• 'I found out from him' (Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake) - for years I heard this as 'my children broke in' which seemed strange as he didn't have children when he released the song, just thought he'd put the lyric in for extra effect
• 'Tommys got his six string in hock' (Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi) - honestly I have no idea what this lyric even means but that definitely was not what I'd been singing

I also used to think I'd misheard quite a bit of the lyrics of Smells Like Teen Spirit but turns out the lyrics are just as random as I thought and a personal favourite, misheard by my mum rather then me

• 'the smell of wine and cheap perfume' (Don't Stop Believing by Journey) - this has been one of my mums favourite songs since it was released but it wasn't till a few years ago that I realised she'd got the lyrics wrong when she sang 'the smell of wine and sheep with you' - no idea what she even thought this meant but she had sung it like that for over 30 years

 

[Diegoboy]

Okay, this one goes back a long time. The song is "Never gonna give you up", by Rick Astley.
The proper lyrics of the chorus
(for those that never heard it) go like this.


Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you


What i have heard for a long time, despite knowing the title...

Then I'm gonna give you up
Then I'm gonna let you down
Then I'm gonna run around and desert you
Then I'm gonna make you cry
Then I'm gonna say goodbye
Then I'm gonna tell a lie and hurt you

I've never told this mixup to anyone, and I seriously doubt anyone else heard it like I did.

 

[Plainbluetees]

When I was really little, I heard the song “Dude looks like a lady” as “Doodle-in-your-face-y” like something out of the Animaniacs, LOL.

 

[dragonpisces69]

Very often did and still occasionally do for instance, in Random Encounters's "Watch Out", I first misheard "flooring can kill you" as "fluorine/chlorine can kill you"

 

[Beanz]

I heard a Come & Get It by Selena Gomez remix on a radio station. The remix starts with "When you're ready" but it's sped up really fast and I thought she was saying "Weiner bread." I spent a whole 5 minutes laughing at it. The radio station that I listen to plays it regularly and whenever I hear it I call it the Weiner bread song.

 

[Shawna]

There is a song called "Heartache Tonight" by the Eagles, before I read the title, I used to hear the lyrics as "There's gonna be PARTY, tonight, PARTY tonight."

 

[CasualWheezer]

I mishear song lyrics a lot. When I first heard "Wake Me Up" by Avicii, I first thought he was singing "peace on earth" when the lyrics said "so wake me up when it's all over".