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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!).


Flagpole Sitta album at Amazon.com
Harvey Danger's, "Flagpole Sitta"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But if you're bought then you're boring
The Real Lyrics:
But if you're bored then you're boring
The Story: - Submitted by: Alex Loop
Harvey Danger's, "Flagpole Sitta"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like a story
But if you're poor then you're boring!
The Real Lyrics:
Hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring
But if you're bored then you're boring.
The Story: I was singing it, and then my friend called me a bastard for saying poor people are boring. - Submitted by: Cadillac
Harvey Danger's, "Flagpole Sitta"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm not sick but I'm not wet
The Real Lyrics:
I'm not sick but I'm not well
The Story: Interestingly, I had debate over "well" and "wet". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Harvey Danger's, "Flagpole Sitta"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Paaa... (I’m not sick) ba-da pa paaaa!
The Real Lyrics:
I'm not sick, but I'm not well
The Story: My grasp on the English language was all but tenuous in the '90s. All I could make out from the lyrics was the “paaa”, that begins the chorus, and since I couldn’t understand what “I’m not sick” meant at the time, the lyric “but I’m not well” just sounded like scat singing - Submitted by: A G

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