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!).
In Your Honor album at Amazon.com
I'm nothing but a hypnotist.
I love it but I hate the taste.
The Story: My brother actually misheard the same thing as I did, but on a separate occasion. He was as shocked as I was when I told him. We can still hear it both ways if we think about it. Kinda makes more sense the proper way. - Submitted by: Eleanor
Son of my dear Andrea
Sun is on Arlandria
The Story: I heard this song and thought the lyrics were Andrea which is my girlfriend so even though I know the correct lyrics to this day I still sing it the wrong way. - Submitted by: Ben Guevara
Don't wanna be your monkey b****.
Don't want to be your monkey wrench.
The Story: I was in my cousin's car, and this came on, and we both misheard it, laughed about it, and it stuck in our head. Later her husband was in the car with us, and it came on again, and we started singing, and he started cracking up. He told us the right lyrics and it made much more sense. - Submitted by: !~Mayme~!
What do you do
When all your enimies are French?
What do you do
When all your enimies are friends?
The Story: In an mtv interview, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins admitted that he had misheard the lyric this way. - Submitted by: Erin H.
There goes my hero, Sergeant Air Raid.
There goes my hero, he's ordinary.
The Story: I thought Sergeant Air Raid would be a cool guy to sing about. I always thought that's who the Foo Fighters were immortalizing. - Submitted by: Bud Trujillo
There goes my hero, Sergeant Mary.
or
There goes my hero, Sergeant Larry.
There goes my hero, he's ordinary.
The Story: At first, I thought this was the story of some female military hero, Sergeant Mary. But on closer listening, I decided it was Sergeant Larry. For months, I sang about, and thought there was, some wonderful man, worshipped by the Foo Fighters as a hero, called Sergeant Larry. After Googling a number of Sergeant Larry's, I eventually Googled the lyrics, and found my mistake. - Submitted by: Felicity
There goes my hero, sudden air raid
There goes my hero, he's ordinary
The Story: I first heard this song when I saw the movie Varsity Blues. Being a football movie I assumed the song was written for sports so I heard a lot or sports lyrics for some reason until my brothers pointed out my mistakes. - Submitted by: Ben Guevara
One of these things is not like the others.
What if I say I'm not like the others?
The Story: The song was 2 rooms away and loud enough that it woke me. I thought the Foo Fighters were covering Sesame Street tunes. - Submitted by: Carla
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