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.
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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.
Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not
by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see
misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and
misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).
Billy Idol - Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
How's about a date?
Eyes without a face.
The Story: My sister was singing up a storm to this song one night back in the early 1980's, and I asked her, 'What are you singing?!' She said, 'You know, that song by Billy Idol called 'How's about a date.'' I laughed and said 'It's 'Eyes Without a face!' She said, 'Why would it be that? That doesn't make sense.' To this day, whenever she hears the song she continues to sing it 'her' way. - Submitted by: Mindy Blazer
How's about a date?
Eyes without a face
The Story: My best friend and I used to sing songs when we spent the night together. She was singing this with lots of passion. We laughed so hard we almost (urinated in) our pants! - Submitted by: Michelle Blackmon
I'll supply the paste.
Eyes without a face
The Story: In 1984, I was riding with an associate from the recording studio we worked in. I complained that although I had good hearing, I often had trouble understanding lyrics. I said it was partially because I thought the singers mumbled and partially because the lyrics were often so strange to me that I couldn't imagine why anybody would ever say some of them. He wanted to test my problem, so he turned on the car radio. Billy Idol was playing. He asked me what he was singing. I had heard that song, but I had never attempted to understand the lyrics. I took one listen and said 'I'll supply the paste.' - Submitted by: Joel
I'm all out of dope
One more bag of grey could bring a fall
or
I'm all out of coke
One more bag of grey could bring a fall
I'm all out of hope
One more bad dream could bring a fall.
The Story: I was driving to the 7-11 on a rainy evening after watching the movie '21 Grams'. I just so happened to be listening to Billy Idol's Greatest Hits album, and for some reason, the lyrics sounded like they said, 'I'm all out of coke/One more bag of grey could bring a fall.' I had to look up the real lyrics immediately as I couldn't remember what he really said from adolescence when the song first came out. - Submitted by: Chismo
Rip your eyeball out and you'll lactate butter.
Well, he's out all night to collect a fare.
The Story: I spent hours trying to decipher this one and thought this interpretation was the most rational. - Submitted by: JB_Finesse
Hey little sister what's your finest wish
or
Hey little sister what's your final wish
Hey little sister what's your fascination
The Story: Our band decided to do a cover of this song. Our bass player sings this one and he still sings 'finest wish', but the lead singer couldn't work out what the words should be and put it down as 'Fiezelwish' -
What's your fiezelwish?
I have no Idea, what's yours?
We very nearly named the band Fiezelwish in her honour. - Submitted by: Steve Rollinson
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