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Misheard Song Lyrics
This has been a thread at least once or twice before, and I thought I'd start it up again! Just post whatever song lyrics you have misheard (bonus points if they're funny).
I listen to the radio a lot (pop) and since I'm not supposed to look up random stuff on the internet, and I don't have a phone or anything, I generally just don't understand the lyrics anyways and I really have no idea what they actually are, but I'm just not hearing them quite enough so I can only think they're saying nonsense words until I really learn what it was. HOWEVER, once in a while I actually honestly hear something as actual words, but they're wrong. Also, some music artists need ENUNCIATION.
That song by Portugal the Man, called Feel It Still? Well, I heard that on the radio quite a few times and there are these lyrics that go "we could fight a war for peace" and until I found out what the real lyrics were, I heard it as "we could find a waffle feast". Seriously. It still cracks me up.
submitted by Leafpool
(December 4, 2018 - 10:48 am)
(December 4, 2018 - 10:48 am)
In "The Club" from In the Heights, Usnavi says "BARTENDER!" but for a really long time I thought he was saying "OCHENDA!" which I thought was some Spanish word. But it isn't.
(December 6, 2018 - 6:10 pm)
In Maroon 5's song Sugar, my friends thought he was saying "Shotgun! Yes, please!" instead of "Sugar!" Like he's trying to call the front seat in the car before anyone else can get there.
I don't know the title for this song, but I think it's probably called "Come on, come on, turn the radio on"? It was pretty popular a few years ago, you've most likely heard it. Anyway, most of the people I know could NOT understand the lyrics! We heard it as, "Come on, come on, turn the radio on/ It's Friday night and it won't turn on (2x)/ Til I hit the dumpster! Hit the dumpster!/ I got all I need!/ I hate Johnny Cash! I hate Johnny Cash!/ I got all I need!" Apparently it's something much more boring, like "it's Friday night and I won't be long" "Til I hit the dance floor" "I ain't got cash". Then there was this bit where a background singer's telling us to "throw away that smorgasbord". I still have no idea what this bit's supposed to be.
(December 6, 2018 - 6:34 pm)
Oh my gosh, that second one made me laugh so hard! I know that song, it's Cheap Thrills by Sia. I looked up the lyrics and I have NO IDEA what the smorgasboard might've been. That's utterly incomprehensible. I'm dying. XD
(December 6, 2018 - 10:26 pm)
Ikr, I was laughing out loud XD
(December 6, 2018 - 10:42 pm)
Oh! That's Cheap Thrills by Sia, I believe...
(December 7, 2018 - 12:57 am)
*gigantic snort*
Oh, those lyrics are SO MUCH better than the actual ones. I LOVE it.
(December 7, 2018 - 4:11 pm)
It's called Cheap Thrills. Maybe the line was "more than diamonds, more than gold"?
(December 7, 2018 - 10:16 pm)
Oh, I donm't get that song either. I always thought it was "Til I hit the guns wrong!" I had no idea... Sigh.
(December 8, 2018 - 11:05 am)
I also thought that one rapped line in Beyoncé's song 'Crazy in Love' was 'My texture is the best fur; Chinchilla" AND HEY GUESS WHAT I WAS RIGHT WHO CAME UP WITH THIS
(December 6, 2018 - 8:11 pm)
You know that lyric in (insert song name, I’m blanking) where he says “I’m a rebel just for kicks then”? Well, me and my mom where convinced that it said; ‘I’m a rebel with a kickstand’. XD
(December 7, 2018 - 10:55 am)
Oh my gosh yes! My friend's brother thinks it's "I'm a rebel just for kickstands", so now whenever my friend and I hear it, we sing it, "I'm a rebel just for kickstands/ I've been kicking it since nineteen sixty-six-stands.
(December 8, 2018 - 11:08 am)
The "this is my fight song" (I'm not sure if thats correct) my brother and I don't really like. So we come up with words that ryme with fight. Great thread.
(December 7, 2018 - 1:17 pm)
I used to think the Eye of the Tiger lyric was And the last known survivor stocks his bread in the night.
Guess when found out I was wrong?
A year ago.
I've been singing about bread for over five years.
Sigh.
(The real lyric was And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night.)
Also, the Fall Out Boy song Centuries has one line that I thought went Heavy metal Pokemon, AHHH!
It's actually Heavy metal broke my heart.
Also Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf has a line that goes Fire all of your guns at once and explode into spaaaaace! but I thought it was Fry all of your guts at once and explode into spaaace!
There's actually a website that archives misheard lyrics called Kiss this Guy, which I think is hilarious (in reference to Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze)
(December 7, 2018 - 5:26 pm)
I’m in a room full of people and trying not to burst out laughing at that last one. XD
(December 7, 2018 - 7:43 pm)
My friend's brother told her that the lyrics of All Star by Smash mouth were "Somebody once told me the world was macaroni/but I wanted tofu instead"
(December 7, 2018 - 10:55 pm)