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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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    I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

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    • canopyflyer@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

      Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded by the Light has entered the chat. Probably the most misheard lyrics in the entire history of modern music.

      It's "Revved up like a deuce."

      Wait... Manfred Mann's version is a cover? Yep, Blinded by the Light was originally performed Bruce Springsteen.

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      And the Springsteen version very clearly says deuce which means Manfred Mann had to deliberately change it.

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      • W [email protected]

        We like to joke about non Spanish lyrics that sounds like Spanish. I love Apolocatv channel for that and 🐱 costumes.

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        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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          I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

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          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gazNwzC4H0

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          • S [email protected]

            Nirvana, On a Plain
            "The finest day, I ever had, was when I learned to cry like a man."

            It's supposedly "cry on command."

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            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c023U4oQGr4&t=23

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            • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.worksC [email protected]

              Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?

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              https://genius.com/Michael-jackson-smooth-criminal-lyrics

              "Annie, are you okay?"

              etc

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_D3VFfhvs4&t=100

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              • R [email protected]

                Oh I was singing loudly along with Elton John one day, "Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another maaaan" as I had done every time I heard the song when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't something someone would sing in the 1970s, looked it up and the NAME of the song is Love Lies Bleeding.

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                https://genius.com/Elton-john-funeral-for-a-friend-love-lies-bleeding-lyrics

                And love lies bleedin' in my hands
                Oh, it kills me to think of you with another man

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REfKNbNndzo&t=377

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                • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                  "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!" - Jimmi Hendrix

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                  https://genius.com/The-jimi-hendrix-experience-purple-haze-lyrics

                  'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoDaYjdfSg&t=45

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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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                    https://genius.com/Ac-dc-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap-lyrics

                    Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsjdjWGDvFk&t=59

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                    • J [email protected]

                      Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"

                      If you know, you know.

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                      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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                      • dan1101@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

                        Instead of the Go Go's saying "Our lips are sealed" I thought they were saying "Honest, Lucille."

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                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kQlzOi27M&t=70

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                        • B [email protected]

                          “Blinded by the light.

                          Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”

                          Turns out is actually deuce.

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                          https://genius.com/Manfred-manns-earth-band-blinded-by-the-light-lyrics

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzk3x3HZbJI&t=10

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                          • lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.orgL [email protected]

                            For a long time, I thought in the song Inagadadavida, the lyrics went '"doncha know that I love you", but it turns out, they say "l'm lovin' you".

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                            https://genius.com/Iron-butterfly-in-a-gadda-da-vida-lyrics

                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfpn3wHoNGA&t=25

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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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                              https://genius.com/Adele-set-fire-to-the-rain-lyrics

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJdu4Lfy8aI&t=58

                              https://genius.com/Coldplay-paradise-lyrics

                              And dreamed of para-, para-, paradise

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4isv_Fylg&t=53

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                              • R [email protected]

                                Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said "You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!"

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                                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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                                • E [email protected]

                                  Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

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                                  https://genius.com/Tlc-waterfalls-lyrics

                                  Don't go chasing waterfalls
                                  Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to

                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4&t=116

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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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                                    https://genius.com/Spin-doctors-little-miss-cant-be-wrong-lyrics

                                    Little miss, little miss, little miss can't be wrong

                                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWbMu4PtpE&t=44

                                    https://genius.com/Toto-africa-lyrics

                                    As sure as Kilimajaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

                                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY&t=117

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                                    • zombiepirate@lemmy.worldZ [email protected]

                                      I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."

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                                      https://genius.com/Kiss-rock-and-roll-all-nite-lyrics

                                      I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day

                                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMD7Usflbg&t=62

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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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