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 always thought she said trampoline
“My lovers got no money, he’s got his trampoline!”
He’s always bouncing!
. . .and so are his checks. ._.
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 worldI 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.
I still say it makes slightly more sense in Otherside if he’s saying “the cemetery where I married a thief”.
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.
Pump Up the Jam - Technotronic
At first I heard, “I want, a player Tuesday.”
Then I heard, “I want, a player to stay.”
Apparently it’s actually, “Awa, a place to stay.”
That whole time I thought she was looking for a man (on a Tuesday), but she just wanted everyone to dance together.
“She got too close, so I farted.”
Zac Brown Band, “Knee Deep”
https://genius.com/Zac-brown-band-knee-deep-lyrics
She got too close so I fought it
“Take off for nowhere” rather than “Take my breath away”
“Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat, with you” - Paul Young
Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said “You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!”
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.
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".
That’s not really a fair song to enter in a misheard lyrics thread.
But, there’s so few lyrics in that song, and they say it repeatedly. When I first learned they say lovin’ and not love, all I could think was the McLovin from Superbad. I’m mclovin youuuu…
If anybody remembers this from Del Amitri: https://youtu.be/K_s44LilaYM
I always heard "The wrong guy, the wrong situation. The right time the wrong week.
Nice beaver by the beegees is high on my list https://youtu.be/Otmq80677V0
“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?
I thought it was monkeys
“Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”
Turns out is actually deuce.
That actually makes even less sense.
It’s referring to a two-stroke engine.
Generally it’s a 2-door car, specifically a 1932 Ford.
Not a motorcycle?!?!
This seemed like such a motorcycle song!
It’s a strange song
I always heard “wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night” and happily sung that in bars.
