Times in which you misheard the lyrics to a song, but you liked your misheard lyrics better?

[GamerJM]

I hate the song "Congratulations" by Post Malone. I think it's obnoxious and droning. But I used to think I liked this line in the song:

Sunset don't change, ever since we was young

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Because it seemed like an almost poetic reflection on life and growing up, on reminiscing on youth and how fame has or hasn't changed us over the years but simple aspects of life, such as the sun setting every evening, remain the same day after day. I even gave him a pass for rhyming "young" with "young" because of this.

But apparently the line is:

Said shit done change, ever since we was on

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Which just sounds like some dumbass bro reflecting on how fame has changed him in a somewhat shallow way. Probably because that's exactly what's happening here.

 

[Deleted member 412]

I don't have any concrete examples, but this happens to me all the time, to the point where I have stopped reading lyrics. I rather not have my poignant interpretations crushed.

 

[Smurf]

starbucks lovers

 

[Brian McDoogle]

Hey, the bathroom's on the right.

 

[BarryFishFinger]

'I'm Stevie Nichols, smiling, I feel no disgrace'.

The Verve, Bittersweet symphony. The real lyrics are 'stood here naked' I think.

 

[Sacrilicious]

My darling I
Can't get a viola player
I don't know, I don't know whyyy
Can't get a viola player

 

[JigglesBunny]

"And I'll tell ya baby, it was easy coming back into you once I fingered an owl."

 

[sir_crocodile]

 

[mugwhump]

DON'T YOU GIMME YOUR LOVE INFECTION

 

[BLEEN]

"So foooook me, don't soooook me! I'm not your oxygennnn!"

 

[Dice]

Should I just keep chasing rainbows

Dunno how I misheard this one (but when I looked up 'rainbows' someone else asking what song it is also made the same mistake)...sure is better than pavement. :P

 

[Deleted member 16657]

Oh I have the perfect example.

The Black Panther trailer used the Run the Jewels song Legend has It which has a line that I heard as "step into the spotlight, woo!" Which was a perfect line considering the context of the movie. But the actual line is "step into the spot like woo!" Which I don't like as much.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Oh I have the perfect example.

The Black Panther trailer used the Run the Jewels song Legend has It which has a line that I heard as "step into the spotlight, woo!" Which was a perfect line considering the context of the movie. But the actual line is "step into the spot like woo!" Which I don't like as much.

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I am now burdened with this knowledge

 

[Vilix]

Just like a runny sack - be my little baby
-Eddie Money, Take Me Home Tonight

 

[Stiler]

Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away.

-Dobie Gray - Drift Away.


I grew up listening to the Beach Boys and similar music and for the longest time I thought that was how the song went. Then I found out it was "Give me the beat boys" and was disappointed.

 

[lil jetski]

Post Malone - White Iverson
Heard: "Cigarettes in heaven"
Actual: "Cigarettes and a headband"
2:12


Lil Yachty - Run Running
Heard: "Y'all niggas just run in circles"
Actual: "Young nigga just ran a sack up"
0:22

 

[Deranged Hermit]

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another boner in the night

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another boner in the night

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Wrapped up like a douche might as well be official. Mankind has rejected the written ones.

 

[Kinggroin]

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another boner in the night

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Wtf. Exactly the same made up lyrics I have!

 

[Brazil]

Oh I have the perfect example.

The Black Panther trailer used the Run the Jewels song Legend has It which has a line that I heard as "step into the spotlight, woo!" Which was a perfect line considering the context of the movie. But the actual line is "step into the spot like woo!" Which I don't like as much.

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What the fuck man

Even in the context of the RTJ music video spotlight makes more sense

I wish I'd never entered this thread

 

[Typhon]

Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away.

-Dobie Gray - Drift Away.


I grew up listening to the Beach Boys and similar music and for the longest time I thought that was how the song went. Then I found out it was "Give me the beat boys" and was disappointed.

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WHAT?!!

 

[Vilix]

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another boner in the night

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Honk my hooter! I remember hearing the same thing. My mom would yell at me to stop singing those words out loud.

 

[Medalion]

ARE WE HUMAN... OR ARE WE DENSER?

Actual lyrics: Are we human, or are we dancer?

"Human" by The Killers

 

[Strax]

I'm thinking about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when you going to ring it
Yeah, I'm thinking about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when you going to ring it
Yeah, I'm thinking about my doorbell
When ya gonna ring it, when you going to ring it
Yeah, I been thinking about my doorbell

My friend used to hear it as

I'm thinking about my dog, Bill
When ya gonna bring it, when you gonna bring it.

I kinda like that.

 

[Wag]

Every other Springsteen song.

 

[Imperfected]

I feel like I've misheard every Fallout Boy song in ways that seem to make more sense, and it seems like that might be on purpose?

 

[meowdi gras]

'scuse me while I kiss this guy.

 

[Green Yoshi]

As a kid that happened a lot to me since I'm not a native speaker.

"I want love on mountains"

instead of

"I want love on my own terms"

 

[Ruruja]

What I thought it was

"Drink cider from a LOO a LOO a LOO..."

Actual

"Drink cider from a LEMON LEMON LEMON..."

at 1:20.

 

[Accoun]

The "She gets high" part of Break On Through by The Doors.

She gets high,
She gets high,
She gets high
She gets hiiiiiiIIIIIGGGGGHHHH, YEAH

I never heard the first highs except for the last one, so it made for a cooler build-up and release than what actually was in the song.

[EDIT]
Now that I look, it seems to be how it was performed live. Guess the band agreed. :>

 

[Deleted member 1088]

From Radiohead's True Love Waits

"I'll drown my beliefs
To have your babies"

What i originally heard it as was
"I'll drown my beliefs
To have you be in peace"

 

[blinky]

You've got another think comin'.

 

[Bleepey]

T pain has ones that will fuck you up. Like you might want me to spoiler tag the true lyrics to Buy you a drank
"Can I buy you a drank, oooooh weeeee"

It's actually

"Can I buy you a drank, and theeeeeen"

All I do is win:

"Throw your hands up, and they say yeah, and they say yeah

"Throw your hands up, and they stay there, and they say yeah

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/geni...n-getting-the-lyrics-to-all-i-do-is-win-wrong

 

[Emmz]

Wet dream tomato.

 

[Etain]

There's a song that has "put up a parking light" but I couldn't figure out that was parking for the longest time and so it sounded like "put up a fucking light" to me.

 

[Strangelove_77]

Don't go Jason waterfalls

 

[amanset]

I hear "Rain Falls Like Elvis Did"

It is really "Rain Falls Like Elvis' Tears"

 

[i_am_ben]

Katy Perry - Dark Horse

"so you wanna play with my dick"

 

[zer0blivion]

There's a song that has "put up a parking light" but I couldn't figure out that was parking for the longest time and so it sounded like "put up a fucking light" to me.

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If you're talking about Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, it's "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

 

[imbarkus]

There was a whole book about this my wife picked up years ago, whose title became my new favorite:

 

[Sphinx]

the Daftpunk song's name is "Mexican Lucky"

PERIOD, END OF THE DISCUSSION.

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Boots instead of roots.

 

[Hey Please]

From GUNSHIP - Art3mis & Parzival (Ready Player One).

"When we're fighting the same side, dreaming the same dream"- is what I heard. "When we're fighting the same fight" is the actual lyrics.

 

[Etain]

If you're talking about Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, it's "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

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Oh... damn, I misheard a whole lot of that. Come to think of it I thought I heard "gay paradise" too. So I guess the misheard version was about sending the fucking signal in gay paradise.

 

[Walter White Walker]

"Hold me closer Tony Danza" will never not be a thing to me.
(really "hold me closer tiny dancer")

 

[Daria]

Now excuse me while I kiss the guy

 

['3y Kingdom]

OMD, "Joan of Arc":

Misheard: "She shouldn't oughta promise. Christ, it's just pretend."
Actual: "She shouldn't oughta promise, 'cause it's just pretend."

I enjoyed the casual religious swear in a song about the horrible sway of religion and the feeling of being rejected by Joan of Arc. The real lyric still has some of that blasphemy, but is comparatively ambiguous and boring.

 

[Royalan]

I'mma BUY you a drank
OOOOuuuuuEEEEEuuuuuoooo
I'mma take you home with meeeee

 

[Stinkles]

Look at all those Starbucks lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane

 

[Deleted member 5334]

Digimon.

Digital Monsters.

Digimon Garlic Champions.

For the LONGEST time, that's how I heard those lyrics. And having seen a recent meme with the singing bird, seems I'm not the only one.