Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.
1950s | |
1970s | |
AC/DC's, "Highway to Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: Season drinker on the one way to riot.
Original Lyrics: Season ticket on a one way ride.
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Bob Seger's, "Still the Same"
Misheard Lyrics: Turning on the charm
Long enough to get you back Original Lyrics: Turning on the charm
Long enough to get you by |
Chaka Khan's, "I’m Every Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: I can read your quotes right now
Original Lyrics: I can read your thoughts right now
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Earth, Wind & Fire's, "That's the Way of the World"
Misheard Lyrics: Challenge Butter
Original Lyrics: Child is born
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Elton John's, "Song For Guy"
Misheard Lyrics: Is a tambourine playing?
Original Lyrics: is a temporary thing
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Human League's, "Blind Youth"
Misheard Lyrics: When take hope, you know
Just hope your time is due Make phone call soon Original Lyrics: Blind youth take hope
You're no Joe Soap Your time is due Big fun come soon |
Lou Rawls', "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"
Misheard Lyrics: Play the midnight hour baby
Original Lyrics: Late in the midnight hour baby
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R Dean Taylor's, "Indiana Wants Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Indiana wants me
Build a castle Baghdad Original Lyrics: Indiana wants me
Lord, I can't go back there. |
R. Dean Taylor's, "Indiana Wants Me"
Misheard Lyrics: I’m a shocker to...to talk to
Original Lyrics: I wish I had you to talk to.
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Robert Palmer's, "Addicted to Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Hiders wear faces, you're addicted to love
Original Lyrics: Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
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Robert Palmer's, "Addicted to Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Your candy save
Original Lyrics: You can't be saved
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The Who's, "Baba O'Riley"
Misheard Lyrics: Out here in the fields I fight for higher yields
Original Lyrics: Out here in the fields I fight for my meals
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1980s | |
Belinda Carlisle's, "Mad About You"
Misheard Lyrics: We start to sing.
Original Lyrics: We start to see
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Crosby, Stills, and Nash's, "Southern Cross"
Misheard Lyrics: Looking for that common girl
Original Lyrics: looking for that woman, girl
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Eurythmics', "Sweet Dreams(are made of these)"
Misheard Lyrics: Sweet dreams are made of cheese.
Who am I to disabrie? Original Lyrics: Sweet dreams are made of these.
Who am I to disagree? |
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Rita Coolidge's, "All Time High"
Misheard Lyrics: My heart was telling me lies, for you there too
Original Lyrics: My heart was telling me lies, for you they're true
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Run-DMC's, "It's Tricky"
Misheard Lyrics: It's tricky to rock around
To rock around this rotten town. Original Lyrics: It's tricky to rock a rhyme
To rock a rhyme that's right on time. |
Talking Heads', "Once in a Lifetime"
Misheard Lyrics: Working at a ShopRite sale
Original Lyrics: Living in a shotgun shack
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The Bangles', "Hazy Shade of Winter"
Misheard Lyrics: He’s so brown
Original Lyrics: Leaves are brown
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The Clash's, "I Fought the Law"
Misheard Lyrics: I fought the mall and the mall won
Original Lyrics: I fought the law and the law won
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Utopia's, "Hammer in My Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: It's like that goddamn song
I hear it all day long Original Lyrics: It's like a top ten song
I hear it all day long |
1990s | |
Black Crowes', "Hard To Handle"
Misheard Lyrics: Pretty little thing
Let me light your chemicals Now mama, I'm sure de-hen-a-na Mess around. Oh, de-hen-a-na Original Lyrics: Hey little thing
Let me light your candle 'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now Gets around. Yeah, hard to handle now |
Engelbert Humperdinck's, "Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing"
Misheard Lyrics: And your fingers touched my sorta horny thing... how to say
Original Lyrics: And your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it... how to sing
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Hootie & The Blowfish's, "Let Her Cry"
Misheard Lyrics: She says Dad's the one I love the most
And Stipe's not far behind. Original Lyrics: She says Dar's the one I love the most
And Stipe's not far behind. |
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Nirvana's, "Territorial Pissings"
Misheard Lyrics: Got fart a wire, fart a wire, fart a wiiiiire
Original Lyrics: Gotta find a way
A better way When I'm there |
SWV's, "Right Here (Human Nature Mix)"
Misheard Lyrics: Our love will go
Original Lyrics: Our love will grow
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Slipknot's, "(Sic)"
Misheard Lyrics: Little League! Either way it better be!
Original Lyrics: Readily! Either way it better be!
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2000s | |
Fall Out Boy's, "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race"
Misheard Lyrics: This ay a scene it's a ga da arr ray
Original Lyrics: This ain't a scene, it's a g**d*** arms race.
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Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys', "Empire State of Mind"
Misheard Lyrics: Concrete jungle with cheese and mayo
Original Lyrics: Concrete Jungle where dreams are made of
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Raven Symone's, "Grazing in the Grass"
Misheard Lyrics: And it's real, surreal, surreal, surreal, surreal
Original Lyrics: And it's real, so real, so real, so real, so real
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Slipknot's, "New Abortion"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm ethereal, my children are eating cereal
Original Lyrics: I'm ethereal, my children are legion, serial.
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The Cult's, "American Gothic"
Misheard Lyrics: Black trash, white trash
Original Lyrics: Black star, white light
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2010s | |
Ariana Grande's, "Get Well Soon"
Misheard Lyrics: Is there such a law to talking about this?
Maybe I should cry myself where the night is Before I go Original Lyrics: Is there such a ladder to get above this?
Maybe I should ground myself where the mud is Before I'm gone |
Ariana Grande's, "Hands On Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Picture me and you naked
Making sweet love, baby give it to me Original Lyrics: Picture me and you making
Making sweet love, baby give it to me |
Commercial's, "Optima Tax Relief"
Misheard Lyrics: Hop 'til my taxi leaves
Original Lyrics: Optima Tax Relief
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Lewis Capaldi's, "Someone You Loved"
Misheard Lyrics: Somebody to hear
Original Lyrics: Somebody to heal
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Sam Smith's, "Dancing with a Stranger"
Misheard Lyrics: How would somebody knew
Original Lyrics: I'm with somebody new
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Sia's, "Cheap Thrills"
Misheard Lyrics: Till I hit the ganja
Hit the ganja Original Lyrics: Till I hit the dance floor
Hit the dance floor |
Swedish House Mafia's, "Don't You Worry Child"
Misheard Lyrics: Tien's got a plan for you
Original Lyrics: See heaven's got a plan for you
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Taylor Swift's, "Ready For It"
Misheard Lyrics: Why'd you do this Taylor?
Original Lyrics: Burton to his Taylor.
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Twenty One Pilots', "Stressed Out"
Misheard Lyrics: When the mother said "I still sleep but now we're stressed out!"
Original Lyrics: When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
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Sam Hunt's, "Body Like a Back Road"
Misheard Lyrics: Body like a back road, drive it up my a**hole
Original Lyrics: Body like a back road, driving with my eyes closed
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Commercial's, "Cotton Incorporated"
Misheard Lyrics: The faggot of our lives
Original Lyrics: The fabric of our lives
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