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What is a song lyric that you misheard completely?

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  • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

    I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

    My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

    Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

    Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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    That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.

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    • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

      I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

      My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

      Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

      Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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      #84

      I can't think of any off the top of my head, but this bit by Peter Kay always has me in tears.

      Also, the technical term is 'Mondegreen'

      Edit: I'm also reminded of a Colin Hay one man show I went to years ago where he told a story about a bloke that requested the 'song about the goats' at a gig. Turns out it was Overkill - "Goats appear and fade away". He then went on to tell a long story about a sharehouse he lived in in his youth that decided to get a goat to keep the lawn down. Man that was a good show.

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      • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

        I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

        My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

        Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

        Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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        Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

        For a chunk of my childhood, I always heard, "I've got heartaches in my pocket, I've got pickles in my head," rather than "echoes in my head." To this day, it's hard to unhear it.

        Timestamp link to relevant part.

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        • quazatron@lemmy.worldQ [email protected]

          "Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"

          I always wondered what a dunder chief is.

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          You're not alone, kindred spirit! Even when I knew the correct lyrics, I still hear it.

          And when I learned about "dunder" or "double underscore" methods in Python, my first thoughts were:

          __Chief__()

          __Mifflin__()

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            Generally it's a 2-door car, specifically a 1932 Ford.

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            Not a motorcycle?!?!

            This seemed like such a motorcycle song!

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              That thing looks like a Fremen sandworm saxophone

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              "It's him. It's Kenny Al G!"

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                That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.

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                The women glow, and men plunder! 😄

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                • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

                  I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

                  My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

                  Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

                  Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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                  I still say it makes slightly more sense in Otherside if he's saying "the cemetery where I married a thief".

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                  • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

                    I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

                    My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

                    Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

                    Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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                    #91

                    Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Southern Cross

                    "Who knows love can endure" --> "Who knows love Ganondorf"

                    Obviously not the correct lyric but they clearly end "endure" with an F sound somehow


                    Elton John - Your Song

                    I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
                    That I put down in the words
                    How wonderful life is
                    While you're in the world

                    I misheard the "world" as "woods", as in, someplace far away, which changes the entire point of the song. The lyrics in this part starting with "I hope you don't mind that I put down in the words" imply a change of tone to something regretful, so a line to recontextualize that that the PoV character doesn't actually feel close to their supposed love would fit; but I guess that wasn't the intention.

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                      Hoobastank, the Reason.

                      Real lyric: "a reason to start over new".

                      What i heard as a child: "the reason tostadas are new"

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                      Great song by the way. Also, great video.

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                        The women glow, and men plunder! 😄

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                        What does it even mean? I mean the "glow" part.

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                        • apeman42@lemmy.worldA [email protected]

                          I still say it makes slightly more sense in Otherside if he's saying "the cemetery where I married a thief".

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                          It definitely sounds like it

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                            What does it even mean? I mean the "glow" part.

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                            You know what they say... you never shine if you don't glow

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                            • tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneT [email protected]

                              Paradise is the song with the weird elephant music video, right?

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                              I thought it was monkeys

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                              • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

                                I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

                                My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

                                Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

                                Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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                                I always thought she said trampoline

                                “My lovers got no money, he’s got his trampoline!”

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                                  What does it even mean? I mean the "glow" part.

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                                  What does it even mean? I mean the "glow" part.

                                  I think it simply means they're pretty, radiant, stunning. 🙂

                                  ...or have absorbed a crazy amount of radiation ☢️.

                                  Lol but yeah, the song seems to mainly be about the splendor of Australia, its abundance, and warm friendliness to outsiders, as the singer's perspective seems to be.

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                                    You know what they say... you never shine if you don't glow

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                                    Hey now!

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                                      I always thought she said trampoline

                                      “My lovers got no money, he’s got his trampoline!”

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                                      He's always bouncing!

                                      . . .and so are his checks. ._.

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                                        "It's him. It's Kenny Al G!"

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                                        This made me laugh pretty good. Delightful!

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                                        • reef@lemmy.caR [email protected]

                                          I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

                                          My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

                                          Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

                                          Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

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                                          I always thought Gala said Stromboli (he's got his Stromboli...) which would make half sense since she is italian

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