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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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    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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    • quazatron@lemmy.worldQ [email protected]

      "Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"

      I always wondered what a dunder chief is.

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      It was Thunder Chief for me. I figured he must be bad juju.

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      • tal@lemmy.todayT [email protected]

        I'm not absolutely sure if this is the right snippet of the song, but I don't see a more-likely bit:

        https://genius.com/Kings-of-leon-use-somebody-lyrics

        You know that I could use somebody
        Someone like you...

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhXHvRoUd0&t=75

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        That's it. I still can't hear "use" even though I now know it's the name of the song.

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        • pandantic@midwest.socialP [email protected]

          I used to sing Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong as “Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids, pyramids can’t be wrong”.

          Also, in Africa, I definitely thought they said “rises like a lepress (like a female leopard) above the Serengeti”. The real lyric is “Olympus”.

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          With Little Miss Can't Be Wrong I used to hear "ain't nobody gonna come when your sound is gone" instead of "when you sound your gong".

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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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            "It's a corned beef sky... alright, is it some other guy..." - The Cars, Bye Bye Love

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            • tal@lemmy.todayT [email protected]

              https://genius.com/Blink-182-whats-my-age-again-lyrics

              This state looks down on sodomy

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7l5ZeVVoCA&t=49

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              I was a huge blink182 fan back in 99-02. I didn't understand what the prank in that prank call was. It wasn't until much much later that I started going through their albums again that I realized what Mark was actually saying. Looked up the lyrics and my jaw hit the floor. I remember sitting in front of my computer laughing until I was sweating at not only how that's a legit good prank call but I'd been singing it wrong for the better part to two decades.

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                With Little Miss Can't Be Wrong I used to hear "ain't nobody gonna come when your sound is gone" instead of "when you sound your gong".

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                Yes, me too for that part too.

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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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                  At one point in Another One Bites the Dust, Freddie says "Bite the dust, yeah" which for years I could not hear as anything but "I'm adopted". Seemed like a weird way to share that information.

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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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                    For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went "under my arms forever"

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                    • S [email protected]

                      “I set fire, to Lorraine” by Adele (set fire to the rain).
                      “Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes” by Coldplay (Paradise)

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

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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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                        #77

                        Heard this the other day, the background vocals "who likes tacos"

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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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                          some daughtry song about Tijuana.

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                          • R [email protected]

                            In yoga, they have us sit in "sucasana" (also known as criss-cross applesauce) and I always t hear it as the polite form of tu casana, and Namaste also sounds like a Spanish word to me, every time. Tu Namaste tambien!

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                            Yeah, the su/tú (you) form is easy and tricky to learn: su/vuestro(a)/su mercé are polite forms; tú/vos are informal forms.
                            Our brains trick us with the easy/most used path to identify patterns and meanings.

                            Sukhasana (from Sanskrit) sounds like a mix of su (Spanish) Casana (from Italian/Trukish) 😃

                            I think you heard from some novela the phrase: ¿(tú) me amas(te) también?
                            Good to know that I'm not the one that fights with my brain mixing words in 4-5 languages.

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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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                              Owner of a lonely horse...

                              Real lyric: owner of a lonely heart.

                              I never understood why there'd be a song about a lonely horse.

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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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                                "You know I'd like to keep my cheating strategy"

                                Actual lyrics: "You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today"

                                Blind Melon, "No Rain"

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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'm here to say that I figured out "stomp on the stoop when you hear the funk loop". It took me 30 years.

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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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                                      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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