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Misheard Song Lyrics -> Artist -> E -> Echo & The Bunnymen

Misheard song lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Echo & The Bunnymen that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.

There are 41 misheard song lyrics for Echo & The Bunnymen on amIright currently.

"All My Colours (Zimbo)" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They've come to get me but nicely
Original Lyrics:
That box you gave me burned nicely
"All That Jazz"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hurts to look back on all that jazz
Original Lyrics:
Hair slicked back and all that jazz
"Bedbugs And Ballyhoo" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Cannonball and white folk
Original Lyrics:
Cannonball and rifle
"Bedbugs And Ballyhoo" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Valium and bedbugs
Original Lyrics:
Ballyhoo and bedbugs
"Bring On The Dancing Horses"
Misheard Lyrics:
And shaking while I'm breaking
Your pretzel heart
Original Lyrics:
And shaking while I'm breaking
Your brittle heart
"Bring On The Dancing Horses"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bring on the hairless horses.
Original Lyrics:
Bring on the headless horses.
"Bring On The Dancing Horses"
Misheard Lyrics:
Jimmy Bob
Made of stone
Charlie Clyde
No way home.
Original Lyrics:
Jimmy Brown
Made of stone
Charlie Clown
No way home.
"Bring on the Dancing Horses"
Misheard Lyrics:
Megastore
Original Lyrics:
Made of stone
"Lips Like Sugar" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
It looks like chicken
Original Lyrics:
Lips like sugar
"Lips Like Sugar" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Lips like chicken, chicken kisses
Original Lyrics:
Lips like sugar, sugar kisses
"Lips Like Sugar" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Lips like chicken
Deep-fried chicken.
Original Lyrics:
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses.
"Lips Like Sugar" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Lips like chicken
Original Lyrics:
Lips like sugar
"Lips Like Sugar" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Looks like sugar
Original Lyrics:
Lips like sugar
"Lips Like Sugar"
Misheard Lyrics:
Looks like sugar
Original Lyrics:
Lips like sugar
"Lips Like Sugar" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
S**t on my mirror.
Reflect what I am.
Original Lyrics:
She'll be my mirror
Reflect what I am
"Lips Like Sugar" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
She floats like a stone that skates on the water.
Original Lyrics:
She floats like a swan, grace on the water.
"Lips Like Sugar" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Sugar my mirror
Reflect what I am
Who's the winner?
The King of Siam.
Original Lyrics:
She'll be my mirror
Reflect what I am
A loser and a winner
The King of Siam.
"Lips Like Sugar"
Misheard Lyrics:
Who’s gonna win it?
Original Lyrics:
Loser and winner
"Monkeys"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll beg to your horse
If you'll bank with mine
Original Lyrics:
I'll bagsy yours
If you'll bagsy mine
"Never Stop" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Mesopotamia with chicken pox
Original Lyrics:
Measure by measure, drop by drop
"New Direction"
Misheard Lyrics:
I’m looking for a nude erection
Original Lyrics:
I’m looking for a new direction
"Rescue"
Misheard Lyrics:
Won't you come on down to mine? Let's screw.
Original Lyrics:
Won't you come on down to my rescue?
"Ripeness"
Misheard Lyrics:
Made choices
At the wrong time
Wrote my age in skin
'Cause age was mine
I don't feel dead
Smelt like roses
Harvested my thought
'Cause it was time
Original Lyrics:
Mature you said
At the wrong time
Broke my aging skin
'Cause age was mine
Had a field day
Smelt like roses
Harvesting my thoughts
'Cause it was time
"Ripeness"
Misheard Lyrics:
Yeah, should be policed
Or something
Original Lyrics:
Death should be unleashed
Or something
"Silver"
Misheard Lyrics:
Swapped from a chandelier
or
S.W.A.T. from a chandelier
Original Lyrics:
Swung from a chandelier
"The Back Of Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
When you say it's love
Do you mean tobacco love
Original Lyrics:
When you say it's love
Do you mean the back of love
"The Cutter" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Am I the worthy cause
Original Lyrics:
Am I the worthy cross
"The Cutter" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Watch the fingers close
Pineapples are cold
Original Lyrics:
Watch the fingers close
When the hands are cold
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Fate of the gangster whale.
Original Lyrics:
Fate, up against your will.
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Fate up against the rain
or
Fate up against the wait
Original Lyrics:
Fate up against your will
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Fate up against the wind
Original Lyrics:
Fate up against your will
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Fate up the gangster whale.
or
Fate, up against a wall.
Original Lyrics:
Fate, up against your will.
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Fate
Up against a whale.
Original Lyrics:
Fate
Up against your will.
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Feet up against your will
Original Lyrics:
Fate up against your will
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
In scarlet nights I saw you
Original Lyrics:
In starlit nights I saw you
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
In stolid nights I saw you
Original Lyrics:
In starlit nights I saw you
"The Killing Moon" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Up in your arms Kool-Aid too bigger
Original Lyrics:
Up in your arms too late to beg you
"Turquoise Days" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And my pistols packed
And my goggles with me
I feel easy
Original Lyrics:
And my pistols packed
And my God goes with me
I fell easy
"Villiers Terrace"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bop chewadda wanna say good morning
Original Lyrics:
Bopsie waddie waddie, shake your money
"What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?"
Misheard Lyrics:
I wander around in my underwear
Original Lyrics:
I wonder how, not wonder when

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