What is a song lyric that you misheard completely?
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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”.
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
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I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."
https://genius.com/Kiss-rock-and-roll-all-nite-lyrics
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
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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
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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"Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"
I always wondered what a dunder chief is.
It was Thunder Chief for me. I figured he must be bad juju.
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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...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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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”.
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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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
"It's a corned beef sky... alright, is it some other guy..." - The Cars, Bye Bye Love
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https://genius.com/Blink-182-whats-my-age-again-lyrics
This state looks down on sodomy
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".
Yes, me too for that part too.
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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
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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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
For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went "under my arms forever"
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“I set fire, to Lorraine” by Adele (set fire to the rain).
“Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes” by Coldplay (Paradise)Paradise is the song with the weird elephant music video, right?
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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
Heard this the other day, the background vocals "who likes tacos"
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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
some daughtry song about Tijuana.
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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!
wrote last edited by [email protected]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. -
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
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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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
"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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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
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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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
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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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
