(When you thought the lyric was one thing but it turned out to be totally different)
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There is a famous one here in Germany that everyone gets wrong.
The original line being sung: “Es tobt der Hass da vor meinem Fenster”, meaning “Hatred is raging in front of my window”.
What everyone hears: “Es tobt der Hamster vor meinem Fenster”, meaning “The hamster is raging in front of my window”.Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
I always heard… Hold me closer, I’m tired of dancin’.
Excuse me, while I kiss this guy! 😘
wicked guitar fill
Wrapped up like a douche
Actual lyrics
Revved up like a duece
- Blinded by the light
I mean the actual lyric makes me think about someone straining on the toilet.
Bruce Springsteen is probably the hardest english language singer to understand in history. At least in his more energetic songs.
I always heard it as “ran off like a douche” which made way more sense
12 year old me is at the dentist in the middle of getting a cavity filled when Benny and the Jets comes on.
I’m trying not to laugh while the radio keeps saying “She’s got electric boobs!”
This was mine too, lol
There’s a bathroom on the right.
- why would they sing this?
There’s a bad moon out tonight
- oh, that makes sense
Get lucky by daft punk, when the robot voices say ‘we’re up all night to get lucky’ I can’t unhear ‘we’ll rub up a mexican monkey’.
I’m sorry for ruining this song for you.I 100% genuinely thought “Lose yourself to dance” was “You just suck the dicks” when I first heard it on the radio.
I was wondering who it was by and why it wasn’t censored being played at lunchtime.
I had to go and listen to this song because of how outrageous I thought this interpretation was… But it’s real!!!
You will not be able to unhear it. I’m so sorry. To make it up to you on the youtube version that is just the audio with the picture of the dudes in front of the sun there is an easter egg for a few seconds when they start saying we’ll rub a mexican.
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her merry chopsticks.Not mine but one day my buddy’s 6 year old asked “what’s parking tips?” My buddy being a veteran dad gives him some generic parking advice, doesn’t think much of it until later when he hears his kid singing along to the shaboozy song but instead of “everyone at the bar getting tipsy” he’s sing about how everyone getting parking tips.
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
It always sounds like the lady wants some “fuckin’ pie.”
Been singing that for years. My wife can’t unhear it.
In Jingle Bell Rock, I always hear “giddy up, jingle whores, pick up your feet!”
Not originally me but I sure hear it now, in Empire State of mind Alicia keys says “concrete jungle where dreams are made of” which is a pretty shit bar in an otherwise good song. A popular way to mishear it is “concrete jungle wet dream tomato”, which makes only slightly less sense
I thought it was “I’ve become a wet dream tomato, there’s nothing you can do.”
What prompted the post: I feel silly even saying it, but there was a rap song playing at my gym with female vocals in the chorus singing what sounded like “it’s the batteries of your mom”, which I’m certain are not the correct lyrics.
As much as I hoped for someone to be able to identify the song from my bungled lyrics, nope, that’s not the one. The song I heard was a more serious sounding rap song.
From Rock and Roll All Nite by Kiss: I want to rock and roll all niiiite, and part of ev-er-y day!
My childhood best friend absolutely loved this song and sang it out loud ALL the time with these incorrect lyrics, I was totally convinced and would sing along with him. My mom thought it was HILARIOUS and so she never told us lol 😆
(The correct lyrics are and party ev-er-y day)
Oh man, reminds me of kissthisguy.com. Back when the internet was still run by humans.
Tell you one I recently realized: Chattanooga Choo Choo. I don’t know who the “original” artist of that one was, it’s been a country-western staple for awhile. Came back into my attention recently because I was rewatching Hyce & KaN’s Let’s Podcast of Railroads Online, and one of several backing tracks is an instrumental version, so the song got stuck in my head. Singing it while doing dishes, I got to a lyric I never understood, and looked it up.
The lyric I heard:
There’s gonna be a certain party at the station
Satin and lace, a hustacauphanie face
I…didn’t know what “hustacauphanie” meant. My brain did that thing where I assume a word exists I’m not familiar with. Like, you know how sometimes women’s skin is compared to alabaster? Hustacauphanie might have been dead people talk for some luxurious or exotic material or…something. So I looked it up. The actual lyric is:
There’s gonna be a certain party at the station,
Satin and lace, I used to call ‘funny face’
The songwriter managed to pack the entire second act of It’s A Wonderful Life into half a lyric. We don’t have compression algorithms that good anymore.
