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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 Garbage 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 133 misheard song lyrics for Garbage on amIright currently.

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"#1 Crush"
Misheard Lyrics:
I will play for you
Original Lyrics:
I will pray for you
"#1 Crush"
Misheard Lyrics:
I would play for you
Original Lyrics:
I would pray for you
"#1 Crush"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'd make love to you.
Original Lyrics:
I'd make room for you.
"#1 Crush"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'd sell chips for you.
Original Lyrics:
I'd sail ships for you.
"#1 Crush"
Misheard Lyrics:
Vandelay all the love that I'm missing
Throw away all the things that I'm listing
Original Lyrics:
Violate all the love that I'm missing
Throw away all the pain that I'm living
"Androgyny"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bright young jewels that catch your eyes
Don't let a soulmate pass you by.
Original Lyrics:
Collecting jewels that catch your eyes
Don't let a soulmate pass you by.
"Androgyny"
Misheard Lyrics:
Connect and choose to catch your eyes
Don't let a soul mate pass you by
Original Lyrics:
Collecting jewels that catch your eyes
Don't let a soul mate pass you by
"Androgyny"
Misheard Lyrics:
With hand-closed doors and magazines
Original Lyrics:
Behind closed doors and under stars
"As Heaven Is Wide" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
If flesh could crawl
my skin would fall from off my balls
and run away from here.
Original Lyrics:
If flesh could crawl
my skin would fall from off my bones
and run away from here.
"As Heaven Is Wide" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Take it back,
how dare you take it back?
Original Lyrics:
Take it back,
I dare you, take it back
"Bad Boyfriend" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Make you an a**hole I can show all my friends.
Original Lyrics:
Keep you on ice so I can show all my friends.
"Bad Boyfriend" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Say what, Shubert? You wanna get f***ed?
Original Lyrics:
Say what, sugar? You wanna get what?
"Boys Wanna Fight" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
666
or
Sex, sex, sex
or
Sic, sic, sic
Original Lyrics:
I'm sick, sick, sick.
"Boys Wanna Fight" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm sex, sex, sex of saying nothing
Sex, sex, sex, sex of doing nothing
I'm sex, sex, sex of saying nothing.
Original Lyrics:
I'm sick, sick, sick of saying nothing
Sick, sick, sick, sick of doing nothing
I'm sick, sick, sick of saying nothing.
"Boys Wanna Fight" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Sad, sad, city
Original Lyrics:
Sick, sick, sick
"Boys Wanna Fight" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Sex, sex, sex, I'm doing numbers.
Original Lyrics:
I'm sick, sick, sick, of doing nothing.
"Breaking Up The Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Eighty million ways to kill you
Original Lyrics:
They've a million ways to kill you
"Cherry Lips"
Misheard Lyrics:
And suddenly you smell of gas.
Original Lyrics:
And suddenly a spell was cast
"Cherry Lips"
Misheard Lyrics:
With your cherry lips and golden girls
Original Lyrics:
With your cherry lips and golden curls
"Cherry Lips"
Misheard Lyrics:
You could make Roman gas when you go walking past.
Original Lyrics:
You could make grown men gasp when you go walking past.
"Cherry Lips"
Misheard Lyrics:
You could make Roman gas
When you go walking past.
Original Lyrics:
You could make grown men gasp
When you go walking past.
"Cherry Lips"
Misheard Lyrics:
You fart yourself a second chance.
Original Lyrics:
You bought yourself a second chance.
"Cherry Lips"
Misheard Lyrics:
You fought a camel in your heart.
Original Lyrics:
You hold a candle in your heart.
"Cherry Lips"
Misheard Lyrics:
You keep a camel in your heart.
Original Lyrics:
You keep a candle in your heart.
"Cup Of Coffee"
Misheard Lyrics:
I smoke your brand of cigarettes
And pray that you might give me a car.
Original Lyrics:
I smoke your brand of cigarettes
And pray that you might give me a call.
"Dog New Tricks" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't need tricks
Original Lyrics:
Dog new tricks
"Dog New Tricks" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Everyone lies, everyone, s***
Smells like you've done.
Original Lyrics:
Everyone lies, everyone cheats
Not like you've done.
"Drive You Home"
Misheard Lyrics:
And you can't say the word cause I need to know
So I turned around
Original Lyrics:
And you can't say a word cause I leap down your throat
So uptight am I
"Hammering In My Head"
Misheard Lyrics:
A Jew for the choosing
Original Lyrics:
A jewel for the choosing
"Hammering In My Head"
Misheard Lyrics:
Squirt it all out.
Original Lyrics:
Sweat it all out.
"Hammering In My Head"
Misheard Lyrics:
You must be made of coco wheat.
Original Lyrics:
I must be made of concrete.
"Hammering in My Head"
Misheard Lyrics:
Like an atom bomb
You're moving over me
Original Lyrics:
Like an animal
You're moving over me
"Hammering in my Head"
Misheard Lyrics:
Your must be made of concrete
Original Lyrics:
I must be made of concrete
"Happy Home" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I beg my dog to speak and tear me apart.
Original Lyrics:
I beg my god to speak and tear me apart.
"I Think I'm Paranoid"
Misheard Lyrics:
I think of Polaroid
Original Lyrics:
I think I'm paranoid
"I Think I’m Paranoid"
Misheard Lyrics:
It’s alive
Original Lyrics:
It’s alright
"Metal Heart" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Now that we know for sure the ton of lies
We're missing, no one gets hurt and never nobody dies.
Original Lyrics:
Now that we know for sure, they're telling lies
When they say, 'No one gets hurt, and therefore nobody dies.'
"Metal Heart" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Now that we know for sure, let's analyze When they say, 'No one gets hurt,' Remember, nobody dies.
Original Lyrics:
Now that we know for sure, they're telling lies When they say, 'No one gets hurt, And therefore nobody dies.'
"Metal Heart" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Now that we know for sure, let's analyze
When they say, 'No one gets hurt,' remember, nobody dies.
Original Lyrics:
Now that we know for sure, they're telling lies
When they say, 'No one gets hurt, and therefore nobody dies.'
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am Rent-a-kitchen.
Original Lyrics:
I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am Rita Coolidge
Original Lyrics:
I am red hot kitchen
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk I am right talk at cha.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk,
I am red top ketchup
Original Lyrics:
I am milk,
I am red hot kitchen
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk, I am metal kitchen.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk, I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk, I am rental kitchen.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk, I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk
I am rancid kitchen.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk
I am red-hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk
I am ready to get ya.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk
I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk
I am in the kitchen.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk
I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk
I am rectal ketchup.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk
I am red-hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk
I am reincarnated.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk
I am red-hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am milk
I am rental kitchen.
Original Lyrics:
I am milk
I am red-hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am rectacated
Original Lyrics:
I am red hot kitchen
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am red hot chicken.
Original Lyrics:
I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am red hot teacher
Original Lyrics:
I am red hot kitchen
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am rental kitch, yeah.
Original Lyrics:
I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am right of ketchup
Original Lyrics:
I am red hot kitchen.
"Milk" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I am right of ketchup
Original Lyrics:
I am red hot kitchen
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Boy you're misery down on me
Original Lyrics:
Pour your misery down on me
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Boy, I'm misery town
Original Lyrics:
Pour your misery down
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Boy, you're coming to town.
Original Lyrics:
Pour your misery down on me.
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I didn't ask to tell, to tell you that
Original Lyrics:
I didn't accidentally tell you that
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm only happy when I'm constipated
Original Lyrics:
I'm only happy when it's complicated
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm only happy when it's constipating
or
I'm only happy when I'm constipate
Original Lyrics:
I'm only happy when it's complicated
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
It only happens when it rains
Original Lyrics:
I'm only happy when it rains
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
My only comfort is the night gone black
I need a Mexican to turn your hat
I'm only happy when it rains
Original Lyrics:
My only comfort is the night gone black
I didn't accidentally tell you that
I'm only happy when it rains
"Only Happy When It Rains" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You know I love it when the music's back.
Original Lyrics:
You know I love it when the news is bad.
"Parade"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm giving out a smartie
To anyone who shoots a Jew.
Original Lyrics:
A baby in your arms and the smile
He always shoots at you.
"Paranoid"
Misheard Lyrics:
I think I'm proud of you babe
Original Lyrics:
I think I'm paranoid
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Make beings of fire
or
Make beads of fire
or
Baked beans on fire!
or
Baked beans on fire!
Original Lyrics:
Make the beats go harder
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bull shit
Original Lyrics:
Push it
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Bulls***
Keanu Reeves is hotter.
Original Lyrics:
Push it
Make the beats go harder.
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
F*** me up with another pill
Original Lyrics:
Prop me up with another pill
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's a disco fire
Original Lyrics:
Make the beats go higher
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Let the heat get hotter
Original Lyrics:
Make the beats go harder
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Light the bees on fire.
Original Lyrics:
Make the beats go harder.
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Like a beast on fire!
Original Lyrics:
Make the beats go harder!
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Make a disco fire
Original Lyrics:
Make the beats go higher
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Make the bee sting harder.
Original Lyrics:
Make the beats go harder.
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Push it, it is on fire.
Original Lyrics:
Push it, make the beats go harder.
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Push it, let the pistol fire
Original Lyrics:
Push it, make the beats go higher
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Push it, make the penis go harder.
Original Lyrics:
Push it, make the beats get harder.
"Push It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Push it
Make the penus go harder.
Original Lyrics:
Push it
Make the beats go harder.
"Queer" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The queer is not the queer
The strange is not the strange
The cold is not the cool
The lame is not the lame.
Original Lyrics:
The queerest of the queer
The strangest of the strange
The coldest of the cool
The lamest of the lame.
"Queer" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
The queer will stop the queers.
Original Lyrics:
The queerest of the queer
"Right Between The Eyes" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
They're so jealous of my credit store.
or
They're so jealous of my credit start.
Original Lyrics:
They're so jealous of my pretty star.
"Run Baby Run" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
But you're not gonna crap
No you're never gonna crap.
Original Lyrics:
But you're not gonna crack
No you're never gonna crack.
"Run Baby Run" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Run from the nose under sheets
And the loading sun.
Original Lyrics:
Run from the noise of the street
And the loaded gun.
"Run Baby Run" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
When nothing seems too certain, my slave
Original Lyrics:
When nothing seems too certain or safe
"Special"
Misheard Lyrics:
Do you have a pavilion?
Original Lyrics:
Do you have an opinion?
"Special"
Misheard Lyrics:
I gave you a session
Original Lyrics:
I thought you were special
"Special"
Misheard Lyrics:
I thought you were Santa
Original Lyrics:
I thought you were special
"Special"
Misheard Lyrics:
I thought you were essential
Original Lyrics:
I thought you were special
"Special"
Misheard Lyrics:
I thought you were stressed out
Original Lyrics:
I thought you were special
"Special"
Misheard Lyrics:
I used to abuse you
I need not amuse you
Original Lyrics:
I used to amuse you
I knew that I'd lose you
"Special"
Misheard Lyrics:
I've run out of comics
or
I've run out of Comtrex
Original Lyrics:
I've run out of comments
"Special"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're the taco town
Original Lyrics:
We were the talk of the town
"Stupid Girl" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
By washing you
Original Lyrics:
By watching you
"Stupid Girl" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Don’t believe in fate
Original Lyrics:
Don’t believe in faith
"Stupid Girl" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You can't wait
Original Lyrics:
You can't waste
"Stupid Girl" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You stupid girl
Oh, you had to waste it
Original Lyrics:
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
"Stupid Girl" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You stupid girl
Are you happy wasted?
Original Lyrics:
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted.
"Stupid Girl" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
You stupid girl
I'd rather see you wasted.
Original Lyrics:
You stupid girl
All you had, you wasted.
"Temptation Waits"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll tell you something I'm a war-fut
I like to where sheeps grove in
Original Lyrics:
I'll tell you something I am a wolf but
I like to wear sheep's clothing
"Temptation Waits"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll tell you something, I am a wolf boy
I like it where sheep grow in.
Original Lyrics:
I'll tell you something, I am a wolf
But I like to wear sheep's clothing.
"Temptation Waits"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll tell you something: I am a wolf butt.
I like to wear sheep's clothing.
Original Lyrics:
I'll tell you something I am a wolf
But I like to wear sheep's clothing
"Temptation Waits"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll tell you something
I'm a woman I like to whear sheared clothing.
Original Lyrics:
I'll tell you something
I am a wolf but I like to wear sheep's clothing.
"Temptation Waits"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'll tell you something
I am a wolf, but I like to wear cheap clothing.
Original Lyrics:
I'll tell you something
I am a wolf, but I like to wear sheep's clothing.
"The World Is Not Enough"
Misheard Lyrics:
I feel ready
And yet we can prepare.
Original Lyrics:
I feel ready
And yet unprepared.
"The World Is Not Enough"
Misheard Lyrics:
I feel sick
Original Lyrics:
I feel safe
"The World Is Not Enough"
Misheard Lyrics:
I know what to show and what to crucify.
Original Lyrics:
I know what to show and what to conceal.
"The World Is Not Enough"
Misheard Lyrics:
If we can't have a go
Then nobody will.
Original Lyrics:
If we can't have it all
Then nobody will.
"The World Is Not Enough"
Misheard Lyrics:
People lie calm
Know how to survive.
or
People lie cause
Know how to survive.
Original Lyrics:
People like us
Know how to survive.
"The World Is Not Enough"
Misheard Lyrics:
The world is mine.
Original Lyrics:
The world is not enough.
"The World Is Not Enough"
Misheard Lyrics:
The world is nodding off.
Original Lyrics:
The world is not enough.
"Tornado"
Misheard Lyrics:
Come on girls!
Original Lyrics:
Come on Shirl!
"Vow" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I like to eat pie.
Original Lyrics:
I nearly died.
"Vow" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm on a diet.
Original Lyrics:
I nearly died.
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
As a Beastie Boy
Original Lyrics:
I'll be stable
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't take offense
Can I commence
rip it up to shreds an l'nickle
Original Lyrics:
Don't take offense
Can I make amends
Rip it all to shreds and let it go
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't take offense
Let's mend a fence
Rip it up to shreds of evidence!
Original Lyrics:
Don't take offense
Let's make amends
Rip it up to shreds and let it go.
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't take offense
Better make a mess.
Original Lyrics:
Don't take offense
Can I make amends?
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't take the feds
Can I lick my meds?
Rip it all to shreds
And lady go.
Original Lyrics:
Don't take offense
Can I make amends?
Rip it all to shreds
And let it go.
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
I don't walk into the tables.
Original Lyrics:
When I grow up I'll be stable.
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
I hope I'm not too shret to let it go.
Original Lyrics:
Rip it all to shreds and let it go.
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
Trying hard to fenamung you
Original Lyrics:
Trying hard to fit among you
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
We're all too shrekked to let it go
Original Lyrics:
Rip it all to shreds and let it go
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
When I grow up I'll be Steve Waugh
Original Lyrics:
When I grow up I'll be stable
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
When I grow up, I'll be more able.
Original Lyrics:
When I grow up, I'll be stable.
"When I Grow Up"
Misheard Lyrics:
When I grow up, I'll turn the tables.
Original Lyrics:
When I grow up, I'll be stable.
"Why Do You Love Me?" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And you still f*** the most beautiful vase.
or
And you still f*** the most beautiful face.
Original Lyrics:
And you still got the most beautiful face.
"You Look So Fine"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm through, beautiful you.
Original Lyrics:
I'm through bleeding for you.

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