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Imagine, you go your whole life thinking that Elton John was singing 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza.' Your brain must go through the process of inventing some lore to explain why Sir Elton John has a whole ballad about some American actor until you learn that you have simply been wrong your entire life. 

So one person wanted to know what other examples of misheard lyrics are out there and the internet delivered. So if you aren’t afraid of having a song reinvented when you figure out how it actually goes, get comfortable, scroll down, and be sure to upvote the more hilarious examples.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics She was a fax machine
She kept her modem clean

[Original lyrics: She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean

AC/DC - "You Shook Me All Night Long"]

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Haha modem wasn't a common word when this song was written lol

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics I guess it rains down in Africa?

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I’m still somewhat embarrassed to say that I thought it was “god bless the maids down in Africa”. Thought it was some sort of weird political statement.

Is_What_They_Call_Me replied:

I felt some brains down in Africa up until a couple years ago..

milkpen replied:

I always heard it as "I miss the rains down in Africa" and thought that sounded so lovely and melancholic. I was so disappointed by the real lyric lmao

[Original lyrics: I bless the rains down in Africa

Toto - Africa]

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I left my brains down in Africaaaaaaa! Additionally, I always heard, “there’s nothing that a hundred men on mars could ever doooo!”

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics My favorite misheard lyric is 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza' instead of 'Hold me closer, tiny dancer' by Elton John.

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The examples here all fit into the category of a mondegreen, which sounds like a plant from Harry Potter. In reality, it’s when a person mishears something in such a way that a phrase or lyric gets an entirely new meaning. The origin of this strange word is somewhat more understandable. In a 1954 essay, a woman named Sylvia Wright recalled misremembering the last line of a poem, where she substituted “and laid him on the green” with “Lady Mondegreen.”

Even after discovering the mistake, she liked the new version so much that she decided to give the phenomenon a new name, after the entirely imaginary “Lady Mondegreen.” In this particular case, the substitution somehow worked within the context of the poem, "The Bonny Earl of Murray," for those who are interested. But even a nonsensical addition can still be a mondegreen. 
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"You might as well face it, you're a d**k with a glove"

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics My sister thought the Beatles lyrics “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes” was “the girl with colitis goes by”.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics As a kid I thought it was "we'll rob a mexican monkey" and not "we're up all night to get lucky"

[Daft Punk - Get Lucky]

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The reasons our brains sometimes ‘autocorrect’ lyrics are varied. Often, if we don’t know the meaning of a word or have never heard it before, our brain will want to add something to that gap. This is how ‘like a G6’ can so easily become ‘like a cheese sticks,’ if the listener is not familiar with the names of private jets. Our brains want to make sense of things, so they will try, desperately to not leave any blank spaces. Though one has to question how a brain could think ‘like a cheese sticks’ made more sense than ‘G6.’
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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics “It's not fair, to deny me
Of the crosseyed bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know”
-Alanis Morissette

How could you take her crosseyed bear Dave Coulier

[Original lyrics:
"It's not fair to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know"

Alanis Morissette -"You Oughta Know"]

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are a lot of bears in Canada so someone might be giving them away.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics I want to know, have you ever seen Lorain?

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As a child I used to sing 'I can see clearly now Lorraine has gone' and always wondered what poor Lorraine did that was so bad.

[Original lyrics: I can see clearly now, the rain has gone

Johnny Nash - "I Can See Clearly Now"]

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought it was…..I can see Deirdre now Lorraine has gone.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Hit me with a wet sock, FIRE AWAY!!!!!

[Original lyrics: "Hit me with your best shot"; Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"]

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When I was little I thought it was “Hit me with your pet shop”

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Other psychologists believe that sometimes we’ll just mishear a lyric and ‘lock’ it in, even if it doesn’t make much sense at all. There is no reason for Ozzy Osborne to sing “I'm Justin Bieber,” yet some people believe this is a real lyric on ‘Dreamer.’ We just tend to not question our established beliefs and go around thinking that Ozzy really does feel like he is a Canadian pop star, which wouldn't be the strangest thing he's done.

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We were in the car and Guns ‘n Roses Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door was playing and after a minute my then four year old son asked ‘Who’s Kevin?’ It took us a beat to understand the question but from now on, for me this song will always be ‘Knockin on Kevin’s door’ 🤣

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Who's Kevin?" - who cares? Let's knock on his door :)))

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Sweet dreams are made of cheese, who am i to disagree

[Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the correct lyrics are "who am I to diss a brie" ;)

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dogs say goodnight

[Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World]

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Mondegreens are actually more common when listening to something in a language you are fluent in. In a more unfamiliar tongue, your brain, correctly, understands that it doesn’t understand everything and will just leave certain ideas blank. If you are learning a language and you listen to music in it, you’ve probably had the experience of knowing a handful of words while the rest fly past you. Since your vocabulary is limited, you can’t just start making up new phrases and words to ‘explain’ the gaps in the lyrics. 

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics My three year old thinks "Like a G6" is "Like a cheese sticks"

[Far East Movement and The Cataracs - "Like a G6"]

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lmao my 52 yo uncle thought that too and was singing it that way in his car a few years back.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Jimi Hendix - "Purple Haze": 'scuse me while I kiss this guy.

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Roommate back in the day, who would have been about 18 in 1970, told me that Hendrix was aware of the alternate interpretation, and he would gesture at Noel Redding and say "'scuse me while I kiss this guy."

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics My 7th grade teacher had a real hatred for Gwen Stefani and when we finally asked him it was because he thought she was saying “I ain’t no Harlem black girl” in her hit song “holla back girl”

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In our defense, some groups or artists have a style that practically begs to be misheard. The overly synthesized Blue Man Group comes to mind, while older recordings might not be as crisp, leaving some room for interpretation. And it’s not like all artists have perfectly logical and sensical lyrics, indeed, some are pretty eyebrow-raising by themselves. As Hillary Duff once sang, ‘if the light is off, then it isn’t on.’ Which is technically correct I suppose. If you want to see some other examples of nonsense lyrics, check out Bored Panda’s article here. 
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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics When I was 14 my dad was driving me to my boyfriend's house. On the way over “Applause” by Lady Gaga came on & my dad sang “I live for the applesauce applesauce applesauce”. I busted out laughing and mocking him. Laughed so hard he turned the car around and took me home.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gotta think Wierd Al was SO excited the first time he heard "My polka face." (And yes, he did name his medley that.)

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics “Oooh, Dyslexics on fireeeeee”

- Kings Of Leon

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For context, the original lyric is "Oooh, your s.e.x. is on fire". S.e.x. On Fire is the name of the song (spaced to avoid censorship).

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As a kid, I didn't get the chess references in Murray Head's "One Night in Bangkok".

So when he sang "One town is very like another with your head down over your pieces, brother.", I thought he was singing "One town is very like another with your head down over your *feces* brother"

I remember wondering what the hell goes on in Bangkok that would find you with your head down over your own poo.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never understood that song until I saw the musical Chess, where it came from, & now that’s all I can think of when I hear One Night in Bangkok. Such a phenomenal show & would be buying tickets SO fast, if it came back. Though this song is really different from the rest of the show.

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Blinded by the light

Wrapped up like a douche

A running lover in the night

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's deuce: referring to a V8 (eight cylinder) 1932 Roadster, as compared to the four cylinder.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Steely Dan, instead of "Are you reelin' in the years?", got "Are you really into yeast?"

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Concrete jungle, wet dream, tomato.

[Original lyrics: "In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh... "

Jay Z and Alicia Keys – "Empire State of Mind"]

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw this through an old Vine, but I always heard that too, lol.

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Song: "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake

Lyric: "Like a drifter I was born to wear cologne"

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics CCR - bad mood rising
There's a bathroom on the right

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Same

And then my siblings tried to convince me it said “there’s a Batman on the rise”.

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Abba- Take a chance on me. The beginning sounds like they are saying Jackie Chan.

Johnny rivers- Secret agent man- secret Asian man

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics “remove my jacket”
Instead of
“moves like jagger”

Boy I felt dumb.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I want to move like Jagger, naturally first I gotta remove my jacket.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Lion King's Circle of Life:

Pink pajamas penguins on the bottom.

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Don't bring me down, Bruce

by Electric Light Orchestra

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Get your free cone.

[Original lyrics: "Get your freak on", Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On"]

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics "Got along with Starbucks lovers" - Blank Space by Taylor Swift

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even when I know the lyrics and listen closely, I still can't hear anything else!

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I fight with Dorothy & Dorothy always wins...

[editor's note:

Original Lyrics: "I fight authority, authority always wins", John Mellencamp's,"Authority Song" ]

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I know Dorothy, and, yes, that's how it always is with her. (Sigh.)

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics My little sister thought Royals by Lorde said, "You can call me creepy" instead of "You can call me queen bee" I thought that was hilarious. My teacher's son would say, "You can call me green bean" So I guess that was a tricky line for kids lol

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Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon"- Comma comma comma comma comma chameleon.

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A friend's mom insisted Rock the Casbah was F**k the Cash Bar.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's showed up to too many weddings without any money expecting them to be open bar.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Go, go Jason Waterfalls. In my defense, I was like 5.

[Original lyrics: "Don't go chasing waterfalls"
TLC - Waterfalls]

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics There goes my hero, he’s old and hairy.

[Original lyrics: "There goes my hero, he's ordinary"

Foo Fighters - "My Hero"]

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now have this song playing over clips of Mermaid man and Barnacle Boy from Spongebob.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics It took me too long to realize "All my friends are eating steak and snow" is actually "all my friends are heathens take it slow" I always heard it on the radio and they were all eating together.

[Twenty One Pilots - Heathens]

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Give me The Beach Boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your Rock and Roll…

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Kate bush’s Running up that hill, was convinced as a kid that it was “get into small hard places” and not “get him to swap our places”

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"Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you".

[Original lyrics: Every time you go away, You take a piece of me with you", Paul Young's "Every time you go away"

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“Mama say mama saw mama coo saw”
-Michael Jackson

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My mother used to think in pink Floyd's song "Brick in the wall" they said "if you don't clean your feet how can you have any pudding? How can you have any pudding if you dont clean your feet?" Made me and my dad crack up when she was singing it one day

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Dirty Deeds and The Thunder Chief.

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Slipknot's Liberate sounds like they're saying "LIBERATE BANANAS" instead of "liberate the madness"

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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree. Instead of "later we’ll have some pumpkin pie“ I always hear ”later we’ll have some f*****g pie“

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard a morning dj bit where they bleeped Pumpkin just to make it sound dirty.

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Maxwell Jump

While listening to Van Halen my mom asked me who Maxwell was. I was so confused. She said, In this song, Maxwell jump!”
I died

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My supervisor ruined "rock you like a hurricane" for me. She thought it went

Raunchy like a hurricane!

And now I can't unhear it every time it plays.

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Blinded by the Light
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"Revved up like a deuce"
I don't know a human being who didn't have to look that one up.

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I just realized it's "Band on the run" and not "Man on the run".

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The Police’s “Every Breath You Take.” “I’m a pool hall ace….every breath you take!”

10,000 Maniacs’ “Because the Night.” “….the way I feel, I’m the Orkin man!”

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics My mom legit thought it was "oh daddy oh I know" instead of "four dead in Ohio"

[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio]

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I'm Blue

I'm in need of tie

I will eat apple pie

Diabetes with fries

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Regulate - Nate Dogg + Warren G.
"I can't believe, they're taking Lawrence Welk".

I used to hear this song and wonder "Why is a smooth Gangsta like Warren G listening to Lawrence Welk, and why are these thugs stealing his Lawrence Welk records specifically?"
Then someone corrected me. "They're taking Warren's wealth".

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“ I ain’t Jeff” ( Rolling Stones, “Angie”)

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics "You cut me a banana" - Bleeding love [Leona Lewis]

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The Go Gos - our lips are sealed (Alex the seal)

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Free - All Right Now - “let’s move before they raise the f*****g rent” vs “let’s move before they raise the parking rate”

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Ladies leave your man at home
The club is full of ballers and their c**k is full grown

-Destiny’s Child

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now that you mention it, maybe that is what we are supposed to hear

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I will always hear Edge of Seventeen as “just like the one-winged dove”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

whelp..now I know what is SHOULD be...always thought it was one-winged dove.

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"All the young Jews carry the news..." (Mott the Hoople)

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I'm not uptight

Not on a tractor.

Turn me on tonight.

I'm radioactive.

[The Firm - Radioactive]

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#61

Alice In Chains "Rooster," when he says "Walkin' tall, machine gun man," I swear he was saying "the chicken man."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I LOVE Alice In Chains, but it is quite difficult to understand Layne Staley (R.I.P.). And anything sung by Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Friend misheard “I want you autonomy” as “I want you on top of me.” Buzzcocks, Autonomy

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“ I’m sure you’ll have some sort of cosmic rash, y’know.”
Pressure by Billy Joel.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what you get when you have unprotected intercourse with aliens

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#64

Theme song for That 70's show, I thought at the end they said pullover Wisconsin.

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“I Guess It Rains Down In Africa”: 30 People Share Their Most Hilariously Misheard Lyrics Ozzy Osbourne "I'm Just a dreamer" sounds like "I'm Justin Bieber"

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Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth

Actin' like a robot

It's metal brain corrodes

You try to take his balls

Before the head explodes

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always heard "You try to take his boss". Which still sounds weird to me.

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#67

In the House of Stone and Light - "And when I go, with a lump of poop in my eyes!"

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I know that she knows that I’m not from Nebraska - Kooks, Naive

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Periphery - Ragnarok. "It clings to the palm of our ninja turtle way"

Original is "it clings to the palm of my hand eternally"

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RHCP - "with the birth of Cher, it's a lonely view."

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#71

Slipknots, "People=S**t" a friend thought they sang "people eat wolf s**t"

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A girl I knew in high school thought Bush sang ‘Mushy Head’

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#73

I always kind of know what the right lyrics are, but when I think of the opening theme of Late Night with Craig Ferguson as "It's hard to stay up It's been a long long day And you've got a madman at your door" instead of "the sandman at your door".

It makes it seem like the penultimate scene of a horror movie. You've reached the house, locked the door, think you can relax for a moment, but the killer isn't done with you yet

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Chiming in for the most well-known example in K-Pop, there’s a girl group called Twice that are among the biggest names in the industry. About five years ago they had a single called “Heart Shaker” where one of the lyrics is “**isanghagae**” (it’s weird). It’s commonly misheard as “**Is Sana gay?**” and is extra appropriate because one of the group’s members, Sana Minatozaki, is affectionate towards other members of the group (she’s the girl who puts her arms around another girl’s hips in the music video).

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