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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know any misheard lyrics, because I refuse to believe the way I hear the lyrics isn’t correct.

    (Actually I used to have a list, but I’m old and I forgot it 😢)

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  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just learned that in Collective Soul’s Shine, he’s not saying “you haven’t let your light shine down”. But it’s actually a Jesus song and 'heaven let your light shine down." Over 30 years I was wrong lol

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  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “‘E’ for very, very, extra ordinary.” VS “‘E’ for very, very, extraordinary.” The way I heard it performed always sounded like two separate words. I was like, “damn, she couldn’t just be nice the whole song?” I finally read the lyrics when I was older.

    “I don’t want another heartache at my door, don’t want another heartache on my list” VS “don’t want another heartache on my lips.”

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  • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “go to lonely starbucks lovers” my beloved

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  • leeroy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like a dog without a bone, like an actor OUT OF ROLE For fuck’s sake Jim, actor out on loan, pff! What had he been smoking?

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  • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looking back on when we fisted
    I cannot escape and I cannot forget
    Baby, you’re the one, you still turn me on
    You can make me whole again

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ‘Carry a laser down the road that I must travel
    Carry a laser through the darkness of the night’

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  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Superchunk has a song hyper enough. It sounds like they say “Laughter guns” but it’s actually “Lofter winds”

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  • devilish666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like this is Reebok or Nike song turns out to be this is the rhythm of my night

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    • FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A classic. Funny how the DJ was able to decipher that. I believe the guy asked: essos es Reebok or son Nike ( is it Reebok or is it Nike)

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  • volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve always heard promises promises give an end to those promises in the bridge of Lady Gaga’s Pokerface

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  • WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Arrow in my head, arrow in my head, arrow has flew right trough my head, arrow that caused me this great pain, arrow that ruined my day!..

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  • gladflag@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At a punk gig once I heard:

    “Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake!“

    They were actually singing about “Tinnies (Aussie for beer) on Tuesday”. Not as good IMO.

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    in my mind, the lyrics of no surprises by radiohead will always be

    no one laughs and no surprises

    rather than

    no alarms and no surprises

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    not always. I saw this in a forum meant years ago, I wish I had saved a screenshot or something…

    the forum thread was about the dumbest lyrics in songs and someone said sanitarium by metallica had these lyrics:

    Got some death to do
    Mirror stairs back hard Kill, it’s such a friendly word

    and complained it’s nonsense. why would stairs be made of mirrors, and what did that have anything with the rest… also what does stairs back hard even mean, etc …

    as you may have guessed even if you don’t know the song, the lyrics are “mirror stares back hard”, which means the person is talking about their own reflection having a look in their eyes.

    not only were the misheard lyrics dumb, but I always admired the sheer confidence of the person who, upon hearing these nonsense lyrics, instead of using their internet access to look it up to confirm, used it to complain how stupid it was without thinking twice about whether they could have misunderstood.

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  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here’s to you Mrs. Robinson; She’s a slutty moron you should know.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That could fit with the film.

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  • Liz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    'Cause I’m in too deep
    And I’m trying to keep
    up above in my head
    All the thoughts in my head
    'stead of going under

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    • Lolseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Omfg. I bought All Killer No Filler the first week it was in stores. And I heard your interpretation ever since. Hot damn, thank you so much for chiming in. And fuck.

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      • Liz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        To be clear “up above in my head” are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.

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    • Tum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Holy shit.

      I saw them live last year for the finale tour and even live, I heard “up above in my head”

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      • GoosLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, those are the actual lyrics. It’s “all the thoughts in my head” that’s misheard.

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What the hell do you mean “like a kiss from a rose on the gray!?”

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    • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No idea what song it is but what if it’s intentional that it sounds so similar …

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      • MonkeyTown@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwdweif1YI0

        Honestly there’s a several weird pseudo-deep lyrics so… maybe but probably not on that one.

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hey now, you’re a rockstar, get the show on, get laid

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    • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I refuse to accept that those aren’t the lyrics.

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      • Carl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It was but they had to change it for Shrek and the G-rated version became the canonical one.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Someone once told me that they thought the line in Uptown Funk was, “I’m too hot, hot ham!” and I’ve been hearing it that way ever since.

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up

    I always heard:

    Picture yourself (At) the MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting how come You’re in the stands?

    I loved this line as it was calling out the assumption when you picture something big, why are you in the crowd and not the star of the show? It felt motivating and a fun play on the way people imagine themselves in the world.

    It’s actually:

    Picture yourself The MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting Occam You’re in the stands

    Which, just doesn’t do any of the things the misheard lyric does. So disappointing.

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, my shit is borderline unintelligible madness.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I heard it properly the one time I heard the song on good speakers, but I always heard “I hope you dance” as “I want you dead”

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  • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably a tad obscure, but at the end of Set (Extended Mix) there’s a section where they repeat “converge” but I can’t help but hear ‘you’re a virgin’ XD

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      GaaaAAAaaaay meeeen, gaaaaaaay men

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lady Mondegreen sounds bad ass

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  • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I always think of Metallica’s Saint Anger:

    🎶 Medallion noose, I hang myself Saint Anger 'round my neck

    I feel my world shake Like an earthquake Hard to see clear Is it me? Is it fear? I’m not even angry with you I’m not even angry with you I’m not even angry with you I’m not even angry with you 🎶

    Yet the real lyrics are:

    I’m madly in anger with you I’m madly in anger with you I’m madly in anger with you I’m madly in anger with you

    … sigh…

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When you’re in Morrowind, oh, baby, that’s sick

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    • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I need to know the song title for this one

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      • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bad Romance - “Want you in my rear window, baby, you’re sick”

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In lay me down by the dirty heads, the line:

    But they were seen by the good eye of the mean billy green

    Should have been:

    But they were seen by the keen eye of the mean billy green

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  • codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s a break-up song on Chvrch’s debuted album called Tether. One line, frequently repeated, goes “I’m feeling capable of… seeing the end.” A fine lyric, very breakup, much hopeful.

    Except, I can’t tell when listening that she isn’t saying “I feel incapable of…” I don’t know if it’s intentional but I think the ambiguity really elevates the song from semi-empowering breakup song to powerfully-relatable song about the chaos of seeing a relationship end; simultaneously believing you can get through it while also having no idea how you’ll ever get through it.

    It’s just fun wordplay too: feeling capable/feel incapable. Makes me want to use that structure more in my own writing.

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    • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That reminds me of Night Sky, which has “I will ne’er be free” but it sounds a lot like “I will now be free”

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The ambiguity might be intentional too! It would allow different ways of reading into the emotions

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