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"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I wanna be Anne of Cleves.
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I want to be anarchy.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I won't obey, anarchy.
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I want to be anarchy.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna bang Ann R. Keys.
Original Lyrics:
I want a big anarchy.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna be an Arkie.
Original Lyrics:
A wanna be anarchy.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy ... ponsempate.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy passers-by.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy Ponsonby
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy passers-by.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy a poster boy.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the passerby.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy block supply.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy passers-by.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy blood supply.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the passerby.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy box supply
or
I wanna destroy bomb supply
or
I wanna destroy bomb supply
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the passerby
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy possibly
'Cuz I wanna be anarchy
No doubt funny
'Cuz I wanna be anarchy
No doubt funny
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the passer-by
'Cuz I wanna be anarchy
No dogsbody
'Cuz I wanna be anarchy
No dogsbody
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy punk supply.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the passerby.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the bomb supply.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the passerby.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the pot supply
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the passerby
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy, pass the pie.
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy the passerby.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I want to be anarchy
Original Lyrics:
I want to be an anarchist
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I want to destroy, to falsify.
Original Lyrics:
I wan to destroy the passersby.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Is this the MPLE
Is this the U.D.E
Or is this the I.R.E
I thought it was the new key.
Is this the U.D.E
Or is this the I.R.E
I thought it was the new key.
Original Lyrics:
Is this the M.P.L.A.
Is this the U.D.A.
Or is this the I.R.A.
I thought this was the U.K.
Is this the U.D.A.
Or is this the I.R.A.
I thought this was the U.K.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Just another council tendency!
Original Lyrics:
Just another council tenancy!
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Of many ways to get what you want
I is the best
I's the molesta
I use the enemy
I use a monkey.
I is the best
I's the molesta
I use the enemy
I use a monkey.
Original Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
A is the best
A is the rest
A is the enemy
A is anarchy.
A is the best
A is the rest
A is the enemy
A is anarchy.
Original Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I is the best
I is the rest
I is the enemy
I is anarchy.
I is the best
I is the rest
I is the enemy
I is anarchy.
Original Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use the wrist.
I use the best, I use the wrist.
Original Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best, I use the rest.
I use the best, I use the rest.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use a vest!
I use the best
I use a vest!
Original Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest.
I use the best
I use the rest.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
Why use the rest?
I use the best
Why use the rest?
Original Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest.
I use the best
I use the rest.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the NME
I use anarchy.
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the NME
I use anarchy.
Original Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Your future dream is a shopping scheme
Original Lyrics:
Your future gleam is a shopping scheme
"Anarchy In The U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Your future dream is a shopping spree
Original Lyrics:
Your future dream is a shopping scheme
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"Anarchy In The U.K" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Anarchy for a new key
Original Lyrics:
Anarchy in the U.K.
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"Anarchy in the U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I is the enemy
Original Lyrics:
I use the NME
There seem to be different versions of the "correct" lyric out there, but as I recently learned they were apparently referring to the magazine New Musical Express which gave the Sex Pistols some of their earliest press coverage.
"Anarchy in the U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I wanna destroy, pass us by
Original Lyrics:
I wanna destroy passersby
"Anarchy in the U.K." (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy.
Original Lyrics:
So many ways to get what you want
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the N.M.E.
I use anarchy.
I use the best
I use the rest
I use the N.M.E.
I use anarchy.
"Anarchy in the UK" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
'Cause I wanna be Anarchy No Doug Funnie
Original Lyrics:
'Cause I wanna be Anarchy No dogsbody
"Anarchy in the UK" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Your future dream is a sharpened skein.
Original Lyrics:
Your future dream is a shopping scheme.
"Bodies"
Misheard Lyrics:
A nine-month party jiggling free.
Original Lyrics:
Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree.
"Bodies"
Misheard Lyrics:
And I was pulling sugars in the tree.
Original Lyrics:
Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree.
"Bodies"
Misheard Lyrics:
F*** this and f*** that, f*** it all
F*** now, she's f***ing blacks
She don't wanna baby that looks like that
I don't wanna baby that looks like that.
F*** now, she's f***ing blacks
She don't wanna baby that looks like that
I don't wanna baby that looks like that.
Original Lyrics:
F*** this and f*** that, f*** it all and
F*** the f***ing brat
She don't wanna baby that looks like that
I don't wanna baby that looks like that.
F*** the f***ing brat
She don't wanna baby that looks like that
I don't wanna baby that looks like that.
"Bodies"
Misheard Lyrics:
Her name was Polly, she lived in a dream.
Original Lyrics:
Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree.
"Bodies"
Misheard Lyrics:
In a packet in a lemon tree
Original Lyrics:
In a packet in a lavatory
"Bodies"
Misheard Lyrics:
She was bodiless Christ.
Original Lyrics:
She was a bloody disgrace.
"E.M.I."
Misheard Lyrics:
And you thought that we were Vikings
Original Lyrics:
And you thought that we were faking
"E.M.I."
Misheard Lyrics:
Too many people have the sus
Too many many people self-posses
Too many many people self-posses
Original Lyrics:
Too many people have the sus
Too many people support us
Too many people support us
"E.M.I."
Misheard Lyrics:
Too many people hit the sauce
Too many people support us
Too many people support us
Original Lyrics:
Too many people have the suss
Too many people support us
Too many people support us
"Friggin In The Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was a horrid man with a mouthful of dead man penis.
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed And the mast was a rampant penus.
Filthy old song !
"Friggin In The Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And it must have been my penis
And it must have been my penis
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a rampant penis
And the mast was a rampant penis
"Friggin In The Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed and the mast was a rampant penis
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed and the mast was a mammoth penis.
"Friggin In The Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And it must have been my penis.
And it must have been my penis.
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a rampant penis.
And the mast was a rampant penis.
"Friggin In The Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a redwood peanut.
And the mast was a redwood peanut.
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a rampant penus.
And the mast was a rampant penus.
"Friggin in the Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was whore in bed
And the monsterman was penis
And the monsterman was penis
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a rampant penis
And the mast was a rampant penis
"Friggin' In The Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a f***in' n*****
He stuffed his a** with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper.
He was a f***in' n*****
He stuffed his a** with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper.
Original Lyrics:
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a f***in' nipper
He stuffed his a** with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper.
He was a f***in' nipper
He stuffed his a** with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper.
In the British Navy: the hands whose job it was to 'nip' a sailing ship's anchor cable to the endless belt activated by the capstan when the anchor was being weighed were always the smallest and youngest men on board. Hence, the word 'nipper' has come to mean a youngster.
"Friggin' In The Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was a horn in bed
And a master of my pnis.
And a master of my pnis.
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast, a mammoth pneis.
And the mast, a mammoth pneis.
"Friggin' In The Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast a rampant penis.
And the mast a rampant penis.
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast a mammoth penis.
And the mast a mammoth penis.
"Friggin' In The Riggin"
Misheard Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a big bent penis
And the mast was a big bent penis
or
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And a mouse with a big bent penis
And a mouse with a big bent penis
or
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And a mouse with a big bent penis
And a mouse with a big bent penis
Original Lyrics:
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast, a mammoth penis
And the mast, a mammoth penis
"Friggin' In the Riggin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a fuckin' nigger
He was a fuckin' nigger
Original Lyrics:
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a fuckin' nipper
He was a fuckin' nipper
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And off with her head!
She's not what she seems!
She's not what she seems!
Original Lyrics:
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Is not what she seems
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
And where there's no future they can't even see it
Where there's no earthly and a glass Fiat
Where there pose Eddie and a woman machine
Where's the future, your future?
Where there's no earthly and a glass Fiat
Where there pose Eddie and a woman machine
Where's the future, your future?
Original Lyrics:
And where there's no future how can there be sin?
We're the flowers in your dustbin
We're the poison in your human machine
We're the future, your future
We're the flowers in your dustbin
We're the poison in your human machine
We're the future, your future
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the Queen
Her name was Regine
God made her a martyr
Her name was Regine
God made her a martyr
Original Lyrics:
God save the Queen
Her fascist regime
It made you a moron
Her fascist regime
It made you a moron
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the Queen
The fashion regime.
The fashion regime.
Original Lyrics:
God save the Queen
The fascist regime.
The fascist regime.
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the Queen
The fattest regime
The fattest regime
Original Lyrics:
God save the Queen
The fascist regime
The fascist regime
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the Queen
You mean that man?
You mean that man?
Original Lyrics:
God save the Queen
We mean it, man.
We mean it, man.
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the Queen
F****ts wear jeans.
F****ts wear jeans.
Original Lyrics:
God save the Queen!
The fascist regime!
The fascist regime!
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the Queen
Those tourists are mean
And our figurehead
Is not what she sings
Oh God, save history
God save your mad Christ
The Lord God heard nothing
All drugs are pain.
Those tourists are mean
And our figurehead
Is not what she sings
Oh God, save history
God save your mad Christ
The Lord God heard nothing
All drugs are pain.
Original Lyrics:
God save the Queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Oh, God, save history
God save your mad parade
Oh, Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid.
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Oh, God, save history
God save your mad parade
Oh, Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid.
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the queen,
and that's just what he means
It made you unmodern
Protect your ex-farm
and that's just what he means
It made you unmodern
Protect your ex-farm
Original Lyrics:
God save the queen,
her fascist regime
It made you a moron
A potential h-bomb
her fascist regime
It made you a moron
A potential h-bomb
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the spleen!
The fascist regime!
The fascist regime!
Original Lyrics:
God save the Queen!
The fascist regime!
The fascist regime!
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God says the Queen
A facist have been
or
God gave the Queen
A facelift for free
A facist have been
or
God gave the Queen
A facelift for free
Original Lyrics:
God save the Queen
Her facist regime
Her facist regime
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
It don't entitle 'em to what you want
And it don't entitle 'em to what you need.
And it don't entitle 'em to what you need.
Original Lyrics:
Don't be told what you want
And don't be told what you need.
And don't be told what you need.
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
No fuchsia
No fuchsia
No fuchsia for you.
No fuchsia
No fuchsia for you.
Original Lyrics:
No future
No future
No future for you.
No future
No future for you.
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Protect your wife's bum.
Original Lyrics:
Potential H-Bomb
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
There is no future
And England's screaming
Don't look forward to what you want
And don't look forward to what you need.
And England's screaming
Don't look forward to what you want
And don't look forward to what you need.
Original Lyrics:
There is no future
In England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need.
In England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need.
"God Save The Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Will touch your wife's bum
Original Lyrics:
Potential H-bomb
"God Save the Queen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
God save the queen, her facist regime
It made you a moron
Protect your wife's bum
It made you a moron
Protect your wife's bum
Original Lyrics:
God save the queen, her fascist regime
It made you a moron
A potential h-bomb
It made you a moron
A potential h-bomb
"Holidays In The Sun" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
A sit-around sound in a Jewish war
Original Lyrics:
In sensurround sound in a two-inch wall
"Holidays In The Sun" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Now I got a raisin, now I got a raisin
Original Lyrics:
Now I got a reason, now I got a reason
"Holidays In The Sun" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
This is a round sound in a two inch wall
Original Lyrics:
In Sensurround sound in a two inch wall
"Holidays in the Sun" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Clintaphoria
It's too much paranoia
There's too much traffic
So when will we fall
And now I gotta reason - it's no real reason - to be waiting : the Berlin wall
I gotta go over the Wall, I don't understand this myth at all,
These herd-like like beat-moving chumps
Cheat, die alone, cheater since you seen me
It's too much paranoia
There's too much traffic
So when will we fall
And now I gotta reason - it's no real reason - to be waiting : the Berlin wall
I gotta go over the Wall, I don't understand this myth at all,
These herd-like like beat-moving chumps
Cheat, die alone, cheater since you seen me
Original Lyrics:
Claustrophobia, there's too much paranoia
There's too many closets I went in before
And now I gotta reason - it's no real reason - to be waiting : the Berlin wall
I gotta go over the Wall, I don't understand this bit at all,
This third-rate, B-movie show
Cheap dialogue/cheap, essential scenery
There's too many closets I went in before
And now I gotta reason - it's no real reason - to be waiting : the Berlin wall
I gotta go over the Wall, I don't understand this bit at all,
This third-rate, B-movie show
Cheap dialogue/cheap, essential scenery
"Holidays in the Sun" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I didn't ask for sunshine, and I got one for free
Original Lyrics:
I dared to ask for sunshine, and I got World War Three
"Holidays in the Sun" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm coughing over the wall
And they're coughing at me
And they're coughing at me
Original Lyrics:
I'm looking over the wall
And they're looking at me
And they're looking at me
"Liar"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're in suspension you're a liar
Original Lyrics:
You're in suspicion you're a liar
"New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody knows it's coming to this, and...
Original Lyrics:
Everybody knows Japan is a dish pan.
"New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody knows your head is a dish pan.
Original Lyrics:
Everybody knows Japan is a dish pan.
"New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
Everybody knows your mother's a douche pan
or
Everybody knows your brother's a douche pan.
or
Everybody knows your brother's a douche pan.
Original Lyrics:
Everybody knows Japan is a dish pan.
"New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
Kiss this, gayboy.
Original Lyrics:
Kiss this, playboy.
"New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
You murdered your parents on cheese day f***
Original Lyrics:
You're made in Japan from cheese and chalk
"New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're made in Japan like Cheech and Chong.
Original Lyrics:
You're made in Japan from cheese and chalk.
"New York"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're made to jump in from cheese and chalk.
Original Lyrics:
You're made in Japan from cheese and chalk.
"Pretty Vacant" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't need evolution
cause too much ain't for real
cause too much ain't for real
Original Lyrics:
I don't believe illusions
cause too much is for real
cause too much is for real
"Pretty Vacant" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I just see it in my jaundiced eye.
Original Lyrics:
Oh, just remember I don't decide.
"Pretty Vacant" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
I was waitin' for the Communist call.
Original Lyrics:
Too much is real so stop you're cheap comment.
"Pretty Vacant" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We're so British
Oh so British
Yeah, we're bacon
British bacon.
Oh so British
Yeah, we're bacon
British bacon.
Original Lyrics:
We're so pretty
Oh so pretty
Yeah, we're vacant
Pretty vacant.
Oh so pretty
Yeah, we're vacant
Pretty vacant.
"Pretty Vacant" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We're so fruity, oh so fruity yeah, we're bacon
Original Lyrics:
We're so pretty, oh so pretty yeah, we're vacant
"Pretty Vacant" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
We're so pretty, oh so pretty yeah
Whoopee! C*nt!
Whoopee! C*nt!
Original Lyrics:
We're so pretty, oh so pretty yeah
We're vacant.
We're vacant.
"Problems" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Rob Lowe, Rob Lowe, Rob Lowe!!!
Original Lyrics:
Problems, problems, problems!!!
"Seventeen" (MP3)
Misheard Lyrics:
Being nice is a choice
It's what we wanna do.
It's what we wanna do.
Original Lyrics:
Making noise is a choice
It's what we wanna do.
It's what we wanna do.
"The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle"
Misheard Lyrics:
I just wanna play with my hand
Are you good enough for me?
Are you good enough for me?
Original Lyrics:
I just wanna play with my band
Are you good enough for me?
Are you good enough for me?
"Who Killed Bambi?"
Misheard Lyrics:
Birds on the air piss over there.
Original Lyrics:
Birds of the air, beasts of the earth.
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