Misheard Song Lyrics

Pity it wasn't actually this.

Yeah, birthday makes sense because of the reference to blowing out candles, but I was hoping it was "you're like a bidet" because somehow that just sounds so much more like something that would be in a Marilyn Manson song.

i'm the new blublood
i'm the great white whore

Whenever I listen to Bohemian Rhapsody, I always hear "I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy" as "I'm just a poor boy, I need those pennies please".

In the intro verse to Bloc Party's "Like Eating Glass", I keep hearing the lead singer sing, "Open mouth, swollen ass". I know those can't be the lyrics but I'm not going to look them up because whatever it really is probably won't be nearly as entertaining.

Also, on The Mars Volta's "Conjugal Burns", on the lyric, "I've got a pain inside that'll rip through the very fabric of time", it sounds like Cedric sings, "I've got a penis that'll rip through the very fabric time." I'm not the only one who heard this; That particular mondegreen reached Memetic Mutation within the TMV fan community.

edited 21st Nov '11 7:46:26 PM by Dekunobo

Very obscure but both the lyrics that are misheard and the original song are actually amazing.

'Here the Turk was beckoning! We're in the sauce! We're in the sauce baking, too pissed to taste the sauce that bakes us!'

edited 22nd Nov '11 11:37:11 AM by Yachar

There was a 5 page debate on dubstepforum about whether or not this song advocated "killing sodomites", the general consensus was no.

edited 22nd Nov '11 12:00:22 PM by inane242

Oh yeah, I just remembered the fact that when I was a kid, I thought the pretty nurse in 'Penny Lane' was selling puppies from a tray, not poppies.

I used to think the song itself was named "Penny Legs".

On "Paradise City" by Guns N Roses, I thought the line "Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber" was "Trapped in the terror of the city's gas chamber", though that doesn't make much of a difference in terms of meaning. Also, I thought the line "Captain America's been torn apart now" was "Captain America should get the fuck out".

Concrete jungle wet dream tomato!

I originally thought that Robert Plant was singing "Sun machine" instead of "Seventeen" in "Good Times Bad Times." Admittedly, that made no sense.

This is how I hear the first verse of the clean version of Hot Action Cop's Fever For The Flava:

I might have it entirely wrong, since I didn't check.

edited 4th Dec '11 1:40:45 AM by RocketDude

When I first listened to "Live and Let Die" by Wings, I thought "give the other fella hell" was "give the other man a hand."

Another Weird Al one:

"Midnight Star:

Actual lyric: Tell me, tell me, tell me how to make my bustline grow.

How I heard it: Tell me, tell me, tell me how to make my rump side grow.

edited 6th Dec '11 8:18:55 AM by Buscemi

Yachar and Inane have inadvertently just made my life by mentioning Christian Vander and Kevin Martin consecutively.

But yes, "Skeng" is basically incomprehensible if you don't have at least a cursory knowledge of London Rasta slang. And Magma... are Magma.

In The Cult's "Love Removal Machine", I keep hearing "you little soul shaker!" as "you little saltshaker!". Mostly funny because of how hammy Ian Astbury gets during that line. I also just now found out that it's "she got me in fear", not "she got me a beer".

edited 10th Dec '11 11:43:49 AM by MikeK

Ian Astbury is made of Ham and Cheese. I thought that this was established fact.

This is true, but to me "SALT SHAKER!" is one of the hammiest parts of the song, although maybe not as much as "babybabybabybaby!". Also, I totally want someone to photoshop a very passionate-looking Ian Astbury holding a salt shaker, maybe instead of a microphone or something.

edited 10th Dec '11 5:45:32 PM by MikeK

In "Smooth" by Santana ft. Rob Thomas, when he says "my muñequita", I thought he said "I'm on a keytar".

edited 10th Dec '11 4:30:37 PM by djbj

I misheard that Santana somg the same way! Here's "Man in the Box", by Alice in Chains. I thought he was singing "Jaaaaaaaaaaaaason Kreis, denial maker".

If you don't get it, he was the voice of Gex in Deep Cover Gecko.

When I heard Everlong, I tought the extra long Hello on the beginning of the song was David singing Everlong.

In Buzzcocks' "Whatever Happened To?" I kept hearing a line as "Whatever happened to Courtney Love?", which in no way could possibly be right because it came out in 1978. It turns out to actually be "plug-in love".

I also just remembered that the first time I heard "Pumped Up Kicks" I thought it was "you better run, better run, faster than a bunny". Which would be a strangely adorable way of referring to running from a crazed gunman, not that I even understood the lyrics enough to get what it was all about then.

edited 1st Jan '12 8:04:13 AM by MikeK

In Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love", I heard the line "I'll soon be with you my love / and give you my dawn surprise" as "I'll soon be with you my love / and give you my Dull Surprise".