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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by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see
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misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).
Blondie - Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
Blondie's,
"Hanging On The Telephone"
I'm in the phonebook
If you want to call a whore.
I'm in the phonebox
It's the one across the hall.
The Story: I first heard this song when I was about 8. What I thought was the opening line absolutely terrified and intimidated me. I couldn't imagine what kind of person could be that blunt. However last year after working with the group on a UK tour, I was incredibly disappointed to learn the real lyrics. - Submitted by: BOB
Yeah, fighting Zion, the true Jewish lie.
Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light.
The Story: I was always shocked by this lyric, as it was certainly the most politically incorrect lyric I'd ever heard. At the very least, it was certainly capable of sparking fights about strategy in the Middle East. Furthermore, I never thought Blondie was all that political a band. It wasn't until this past year that I finally realized Harry was singing the obviously much more benign, but still nonsensical lyrics 'riding high on love's true bluish light'. Phew! - Submitted by: Sheila
She likes a millionaire
Walking in her underwear.
She's like a millionaire
Walking on imported air.
The Story: I heard this song durin a visit to the 24H of Lemans, 1999. A guy from England sat in a café wearing only his underpants. - Submitted by: New Number 2
And it's finger fucking 24 hour sucking rapture
And it's finger popping 24 hour shopping rapture
The Story: My mother refused to let me play this song because one of her friends told her these were the words. I knew these were not the words, but it was all just too funny, all of these 'ladies who lunch' whispering about finger fucking and blowjobs and stuff, so I 'admitted' to her that yes, it was all true, and all my friends knew about it and laughed whenever they played the song on the radio. My Mom wrote an incensed letter to a local radio station about this outrage, and demanded that they stop playing this song. She received a very nice response back, with a copy of the actual lyrics from the album. I still tease her about it to this day. Like when she goes on a rant about something, I start humming the music...Good yuks! - Submitted by: Kent Willams
Francois says 'Come, flash my tool'
Francois c'est pas flashe non due
The Story: I have heard this song millions of times and believed that this was the actual lyric. When Erasure decided to cover and release it, I thought that they were making a joke by screaming that line out until today (almost 6 years after I first heard the song) to find out if that was the actual line and I found out I was wrong - Submitted by: Steve Hayes
The tide is high, but I'm moving on.
The tide is high, but I'm holding on.
The Story: I've always sung this song incorrectly, as has my sister. We both really didn't pay attention to the entire lyrics, and just sang the chorus. One day, my husband was playing a Blondie CD, and I was singing. He asked me, incredulously, to repeat what I had sung. Then, he said, 'You do realize that what you are saying is pretty much the opposite of what she is actually singing, don't you?' - Submitted by: Kimberly Barnhart
The time is right but I'm coming home.
The tide is high but I'm holding on.
The Story: My husband belted this out twice in a row --same stanza, mind you -- then argued with me over the lyrics. I won a quarter over this bet. My husband tries really, really hard to sing. It's perfectly mean of me to point these misheard lyrics to him. It's also really, really fun. - Submitted by: Rebecca Vigon
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