Rock the Casbah misheard as Rock the cash-bar. I thought it was a song about people drinking and being punished for drinking. In my defense, I was 4, and sadly I knew what a cash-bar was.
I used to think the KISS song went I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day.
It’s far less hard core that way.
Like at least try to get one rock in during the afternoon
Don’t skip roll day though or you’ll regret it later.
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My roommate used to think Jimi Hendrix sang “excuse me while I kiss this guy” until I explained it was “sky”.
Although in his defense years later I heard a live version where I’m pretty sure he changes it for a verse or two to “kiss this guy.”
You’re correct, he started occasionally singing “kiss this guy” live after someone pointed the mondegreen out to him and he found it really funny.
That’s such a popular one that there’s a misheard lyrics site named kissthisguy.com
Another popular one is There’s a bathroom on the right=There’s a bad moon on the rise.
Dirty deeds and the THUNDER CHIEF
Dirty deeds DONE WITH SHEEP
BAaaaaaaa means no.
That was for the NZ market
You got a thing for ewes
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE. WE ARE BONDED BY FATE. Lmao
THUNDER CHEESE
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Probs a common one but when ever Blinded By The Light came on I only heard “woke up like a douche” instead of “revved up like a deuce”
I only knew about ‘deuce’ as a synonym for poop, when I first heard the song, which made it very confusing.
Turns out it’s a pretty versatile word.
Deuce = 2, or a “number 2”. Pretty sure that’s why we use it for poop
Yeah that’s what I found out. Figured Bruce Springsteen want writing songs about nighttime shitting.
Bruce’s version lyrics are “… cut loose like a deuce” which sounds wayyyyy more intentionally like taking a shit
I heard, “Wrapped up like a douche,” which always went well with misunderstanding the lyric after it, “Another rumor in the night.” (Correct line is “Another runner in the night.”)
When I was about 10, instead of “smoke two joints”, I thought it was “spoke to Joyce”.
I spoke Joyce in the morning I spoke to Joyce at night I spoke to Joyce in the afternoon it makes me feel alright I spoke to Joyce in time of peace and too in time of war I spoke to Joyce before I spoke to Joyce and then I spoke some more I spoke to Joyce when I get up In the car I spoke to Joyce I spoke to Joyce when I play videogames and at every 10,000 points I spoke to Joyce!My mom laughed for 5 full minutes when I told her.
makes it sound more like a love song
Chop Suey:
Why’d you leave the kids upon the table?
I still sing it like that for the absurdism.
Still a good question.
Removed by mod
“I just masturbated with the shade up” instead of “Hide the scars and fade away the shakeup” it very oddly works
B.Y.O.B.
Why do you always sit in the corner?
You wanted to.
I always heard “I see a brand new horizon” instead of “I see a bad moon rising”. I feel like my version is waaay more optimistic!
“Therrrre’s a bathroom on the right!”
For us Dutch it is a mondegreen to hear “fok die kerstman” instead of “rock the casbah”.
In the song Brown Eyed Girl:
Whatever happened
to Tuesday and so slow
Gun down the old man with a
transistor radio
I was picturing someone holding out a radio in front of them, brandishing it at the old man like how you’d wave a cross at a vampire. The old man doesn’t like that newfangled rock and roll music, so they’re shooting the sound waves at him to scare him off.
(It’s “going down the old mine with a transistor radio,” but whatever.)
The really incredible thing is that the song was originally called, ‘brown skinned girl’ but he changed the title in what’s considered a very lucky move.
Same thing with the Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar, which was originally ‘black pussy’.
It’s a different category, as they’re not misheard lyrics, but yeah
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My fave when this subject comes up: “last night I dreamt of some bagels” as the opening line to La Isla Bonita by Madonna
I’m still annoyed that my older teen finished the bagels. The entire package, gone before I had any. I have been dreaming of some bagels
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The Decemberists have a rock opera called Hazards of Love and in one song, Annan Water, the main character is trying to strike a bargain with a river to allow him passage across it. It includes the line:
Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drowned be
For the longest time, I would have sworn the lyric was:
Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drown in pee
Have a listen and tell me you don’t hear that, too.
When the song was new, my dad heard I’m Your Venus played over the school cafeteria speakers, but everyone else knew the song so they didn’t react to it. He went years never understanding the meaning of that song.
My wife was singing “Hello darkness, smile friend” until she met me. When I heard it I was like, “can you sing that back for me one more time?”
I don’t know how long we laughed but it was equally funny the next day when we remembered it again.
HAMSTER
Misheard lyrics, also called ‘mondegreens’.
I have a friend who thought Sinead O’Connor must’ve been a mechanic.
Every time she heard the song"Mandinka" she would sing along with it.
And I do love, mending cars
