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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!).


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Bush's, "Chemicals Between Us"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Carrie comes between us
The Real Lyrics:
Chemicals between us
The Story: A whole lot of my friends and I thought the song was really cool becuase it said my name, and then we found out that it didn't. It was funny, because I really like Gwen Stefani, but I've always had this huge crush on Gavin Rossdale too. Haha. - Submitted by: Carrie
Bush's, "Chemicals Between Us"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Kevin Costner's p****
The Real Lyrics:
Chemicals between us
The Story: I was listening to WAPL-the Rockin' Apple, and a (female) caller requested 'the song about Kevin Costner's p****'. The DJs were laughing so hard they just cut to the song! I'm sure myself and many others had a good laugh at that. - Submitted by: Andrew
Bush's, "Comedown"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Shira, Shaira
The Real Lyrics:
Shoot up, shoot up!
The Story: I know a Shira and she even thinks her name is said. - Submitted by: David
Bush's, "Everything Zen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Schlossy wants my wild eye.
The Real Lyrics:
Try and see it once my way.
The Story: My daughter and I both love Bush the band, and we thought that 'Schlossy' must be some Buddist God who wanted people to give up their wild lifestyle. When we finally read the real lyrics we couldn't stop laughing! - Submitted by: sandybeach
Bush's, "Everything Zen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Slushy was my way,
Everything's in, everything's in,
I don't think so.
The Real Lyrics:
Try and see it once my way
Everything zen, everything zen
I don't think so
The Story: Bar jukebox many years ago. - Submitted by: A Nonny Mouse
Bush's, "Everything Zen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Straussie was my wife.
The Real Lyrics:
Try and see it once my way.
The Story: My best friend and I were in 8th grade when Bush was popular. No one knew who they were at our school really but us. We used to listen to this song on our discman and try to figure out what the heck he was saying. We knew this was not right but we honestly had no clue what he was saying so we just pretended that he was in love with some woman, strangely named Straussie, and laughed about it a lot. Ahh, the days before being able to check the lyrics on the internet. - Submitted by: Mel
Bush's, "Everything Zen"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Trust you once why should I
The Real Lyrics:
Try to see it once my way
The Story: I didn't even think it was incorrect until I looked up the song to find out if two other parts were being misheard by me (I can't believe that Elvis is dead & Mickey Mouse was born of a cow) and then I discovered that I was way off on that first one! - Submitted by: Carol Penna
Bush's, "Glycerine "
The Misheard Lyrics:
Must be the scent, of CK-N!
The Real Lyrics:
It must be your skin, I'm sinking in
The Story: I thought they were advertising a new CK fragrance. I mean, CK Be was around at the time, and CK One followed soon after... - Submitted by: Al
Bush's, "Glycerine"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Listerine
The Real Lyrics:
Glycerine
The Story: When this song played on the radio, we called it the listerine song. - Submitted by: DonnyMack
Bush's, "Glycerine"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Our old friend Phil in you and me.
The Real Lyrics:
Our old friend fear and you and me.
The Story: I thought that he and this girl he's singing about, whose name I thought surely must have been Glycerine, were swingers, involved in some twisted three way romance with some dude named Phil. I like my version of reality better. - Submitted by: David
Bush's, "Glycerine"
The Misheard Lyrics:
bad mood wine again
The Real Lyrics:
Bad moon, white again
The Story: No one knew what the lyrics were back then on this classic off beat verse. But bad mood wine again suggest after drinking wine she gets in a bad mood...again. story of my life on a misheard lyric. - Submitted by: Adam
Bush's, "Machine Head"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I got a mushy head
The Real Lyrics:
I got a machine head
The Story: Saying 'I got a mushy head' is now an accepted and appropriate phrase in our circles of friends to indicate one's feelings of confusion, headache, hangover, or the like. - Submitted by: Kate Garrenson
Bush's, "Machinehead"
The Misheard Lyrics:
God, I must see Heaven
It's better than the rest
Agree to rest, must see Heaven.
The Real Lyrics:
Got a machinehead
Better than the rest
Green to red machinehead.
The Story: It wasn't until recently that I figured out they were saying 'machinehead' when I downloaded the song and read the title. I just thought it was a religious song. - Submitted by: Laura
Bush's, "Machinehead"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We live, sweetheart,
We live, sweetheart.
The Real Lyrics:
Breathe in, breathe out,
Breathe in, breathe out.
The Story: I honestly thought those were the lyrics until recently. - Submitted by: A-Lean
Bush's, "Mouth"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Nothing hurts like your meowth.
The Real Lyrics:
Nothing hurts like your mouth.
The Story: This is not a song parody fragment. I was thinking about Pokemon when I first heard this song: 'Why did he say your meowth hurts the most?' - Submitted by: Alan The Ottoman

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