Misheard Song Lyrics -> Stories -> Nirvana

The Story: I thought it was the first, my sister thought it was the second. How can anyone understand him? - Submitted by: Ceej

The Story: Just realized it was wrong from looking at this website - Submitted by: E

The Story: I guess not ALL of us are wrong. But I was. - Submitted by: Mike

The Story: I thought this was the real lyric - Submitted by: Logan

The Story: I knew what I heard was nonsense. - Submitted by: Steve K

The Story: I don't know why this made sense to me. - Submitted by: Artemis

The Story: I was SURE this was the correct lyric! - Submitted by: J. Alexander

The Story: I can't understand a blessed thing Kurt Cobain ever sang. I was surprised to find that I heard something somewhat close to what was actually being sung! - Submitted by: Ga

The Story: Uhhh, I misheard him singing it on MTV unplugged, uh, like, 20 + years ago? - Submitted by: Jon Hogan

The Story: I think this misheard lyric is a bit of an anachronism. Bath salts, a group of psychoactive drugs disguised as epsom salt, weren't widely used until after 2010. - Submitted by: Ryan Miller

The Story: I think this a reference to Courtney. I don't know. Just makes the most sense to me. - Submitted by: Bj

The Story: Kept thinking it sounded like it had to do with what was in this song. - Submitted by: Cody Finke

The Story: Driving to work, I got this lasagna song stuck in my head, I had to look it up and found myself wasting time here ! - Submitted by: phil

The Story: People now ask me 'Who's Oh-wee-oh?' - Submitted by: Seiko

The Story: I thought Kurt was referring to Walt Disney (whose movies he kept watching) or Herbert Lom (who he feared and wanted to karate-chop). - Submitted by: The Rev. A. Palgut

The Story: I sang it at school (on stage), and this guy shouted out 'The toilets!' He told everyone what the real lyrics were. - Submitted by: Mia

The Story: At first I thought the Foo Fighters (featuring ex Nirvana drummer) song 'Big Me' was a reference to this song because of the lyric 'Big me, I'm a man.' But after a few hundered listenings, I decided it was 'Big meat, almond man,' which would explain why he's having an aneurysm ... too much meat and almonds, not enough veggies ! - Submitted by: Randy James

The Story: I interpretated this lyric as Kurt Cobain finding it ok to be scared. One day my friend ZuperRudy heard me 'raping' the lyric, he started laughing and he told me what the lyrics really are. - Submitted by: Pieter Hontel�

The Story: It's unfortunate, I've been a Nirvana fan for years, but it wasn't until last month, when I heard the Manic Street Preachers' cover that I realised what the real lyrics were. No, the title didn't give it away. - Submitted by: Lauren

The Story: I just figured it was another one of Kurt's weird lyrics where he's just trying to rhyme words and make them fit in together. - Submitted by: Connor

The Story: I thought he was singing my name. - Submitted by: Giselle

The Story: A saiyan is a fictional alien race from the popular '90s anime Dragonball Z. - Submitted by: Ryan Miller

The Story: What my 11-year-old daughter thought it was! Totally made me laugh! - Submitted by: AKC

The Story: In my defense, I first heard this song after playing Persona 4 for entirely too long. - Submitted by: Margot

The Story: Was wrong for many years on this. I kind of like my version better! - Submitted by: Ron Rice

The Story: I’ve been listening to Nirvana since I was born because my dad always played them and I thought Kurt Cobain said "dapt in mud sept in bleach". When I found out dapt wasn’t a word and sept was just a nape of a clan in Ireland I was confused so I looked up the lyrics after listening to this song my whole life. - Submitted by: Iain

The Story: As a kid from NY I had a hard time understanding Kurt's Seattle accent. I didn't realize until the lyric book came out years after the album that he was saying "soaked" with a really exaggerated West Coast surfer "o" sound. - Submitted by: Alex M

The Story: In high school, we asked our English teacher to help us figuring out the lyrics. And the word "b****" instead of "bleach" was suggested by one of the student, while the teacher blushed. - Submitted by: kurt

The Story: I was watching 'What's My 20' on VH-1 with my mom, and the topic was songs with difficult to understand or easily misheard lyrics. This song was on there, and they were listing all the other ways people had misheard it ('I don't have a god', etc.), then revealed what it really was. My mom said 'He's saying 'gun'? I always thought it was 'I don't have a job'!' Poor Kurt, she thought he was a slacker, I guess... - Submitted by: Kerianne

The Story: My boyfriend really drunk at a karaoke bar in front of 50 people. How embarassing! - Submitted by: Melissa

The Story: Possibly actually the correct lyrics; Cobain liked to mislead people w/ the titles of songs - Submitted by: Derek

The Story: Actually, my friend Grimmer misheard this lyric in high school. I believed him too- until I look it up in the liner notes. I still like his version better. - Submitted by: Mike

The Story: Every time I hear this song, I get a picture of Kurt Cobain eating meat, then placing it into David Grohl's mouth through a passionate kiss. - Submitted by: Kayla Thompson

The Story: A friend of mine heard the song on the radio someplace and thought that the song was called 'African Doll'. After he had heard it, he told the CD store clerk, "Hey, I heard this great Nirvana song. It's called 'African Doll' Do you have that song anywhere?" My friend was quite high at the time (he usually was). When he wasn't stoned, he just seemed brain damaged. But it does sounds like Kurt is saying, 'African doll' after my friend pointed it out. - Submitted by: BW

The Story: I didn't have the cd, I heard the song from radio and recorded it and began writing the lyrics to share them to my classmates. I thought it was a really human deep song, because the rest of the lyrics is so depressing I'd say to myself, 'Man, Kurt is getting a good touch with these songs dedicated to all those poor people in Africa going down'. - Submitted by: har_dick

The Story: I figured the patient's patience came from having a lake called Puget Sound to look at to help calm him in tranquility. I can take comfort in my own stupidity then, I reckon. - Submitted by: Mike

The Story: I dunno, that's just how I heard it when I was a kid. I still hear the "Dededede" part today. - Submitted by: Really

The Story: At every gig, I always did a cover. Kurt's lyrics are weird enough, so I didn't even question them until this one gig, where some guy in the front row started laughing and almost fell out of his chair. The embarassing part was that I had been doing this cover for 3 years. - Submitted by: ethan gerlach

The Story: I thought he was just Scat singing or something...honestly... - Submitted by: DrClash

The Story: I've been a Nirvana fan for years. For the first 2, maybe 3, years of loving them, I would sing 'Hey Wait, I got a riff to play.' very loudly. That is until a much cooler Nirvana fan with much more 'scene points' pointed out to me in front of many a people how wrong I was. I still think it sounds good. - Submitted by: Matty

The Story: I was dating a REALLY dumb guy who was convinced that he was the next Kurt Cobain at the time. I asked him to give me a demo of his skills and THAT is what I ended up with! The funniest thing was that he genuinely thought it was the right lyric until I dug out the CD..*doh!* - Submitted by: Binkey

The Story: I thought he was referencing his daughter, Frances Bean, as the 'new Cobain'. Guess not. - Submitted by: Jobo

The Story: I swear I thought I just heard him say his name while listening to the song. I spent weeks trying to figure it out. I thought, "Man, he's pretty cocky to say that in a song." - Submitted by: Braddy Knives

The Story: I thought it was really funny so I started singing it. I knew the real lyrics though but I kept hearing this. - Submitted by: Ray

The Story: My mom said she was enjoying listening to a rock radio station until she 'heard some gross song about eating cancer!' I didn't get what she was talking about, but then I figured out she might have heard this (I had seen it before on this site). She did, and even though she now knows the right lyrics, she still kind of hates Nirvana for their 'disgusting lyrics.' - Submitted by: Emily

The Story: Sounds like he was going to have a snack but decided to save it for a midnight snack. - Submitted by: Doommaster1994

The Story: I'm listening to this song with my friend. I turn to her and say, 'Is he really saying. "I've got to lose some weight"?' So we look it up on the computer and find the real lyrics. But then we agree we like the 'misheard' way better and to sing those lyrics instead. - Submitted by: S.A.D.

The Story: I have many stories for these lyrics. I thought he referred to Pez candy. I also actually have a magnemite top. But why in the world would Kurt Cobain announce himself in this song? And why is he talking about King Dedede from Kirby? That's what I want to know. - Submitted by: Alan The Ottoman

The Story: I always thought he's singing: "But he don't know what it means." Comments on this lyric say they both may be correct in different parts of the song. And, anyway they mean the same thing. There is a YouTube video that lifts the vocals ONLY from this song (with zero music). Cobain is definitely (and clearly) singing: "But he knows not what it means." Blended with musical accompaniment it SOUNDS like: "But he don't what it means." - Submitted by: Gary R

The Story: I was always puzzled by this lyric wondering if he was talking about God? Because there's nothing else in the song referring to God or Jesus, so it had no context at all. It wasn't until 2015 that I saw the the actual lyrics and privately felt embarrassed for the probable thousand times I sang along with this song in the car and what I thought the lyrics were m. And...: there's more. See the part about bruising fruit. - Submitted by: jcastanza

The Story: This is the 2nd misheard part of the song for me (see "He's the one...") and this one, despite finally seeing the actual lyrics - and not until 2016 - this is what I still hear and have to concentrate to sing the correct lyric after having it wrong for over two decades! - Submitted by: jcastanza

The Story: I was playing the guitar left handed (I'm right handed) behind my back (I'm sane) and these lyrics just came to me. I was like this must be how it goes, because they fit the music I was playing. I then looked up the right lyrics on the internet web pages search engine. I still sing this song my way. Just so I can say 'I did it my way'. - Submitted by: stratdawg

The Story: I thought Brookham was the name of a mental institution. - Submitted by: Debbie

The Story: My friend said this is what he heard. I said “That’s not the lyrics.” - Submitted by: NotShiny

The Story: Here was me thinking that Kurt and Co. were singing about the extremes they would go to prove to someone their undying interest and love. So much that they were willing to either permanently retain their feces or leave eternally. How disappointed I am! - Submitted by: Devil Jones

The Story: Dude really was thinking about someone so probably that's why I heard different lyrics dunno🤷‍♀️ - Submitted by: Whatsername

The Story: He was probably right... - Submitted by: Your Name

The Story: Yeah so 1 time I was in the car. I heard this song for the millionth time and I was so mad I couldn't find out the lyrics. I could've sworn the lyrics were 'I'm so horny, but that's okay cuz I found my cat', but then I kept thinking that those could't be the lyrics. So I asked my friend the real lyrics and she dint noe, but we craked up. So now that we have that stuck in r heads itz just fun to sing that. 'I'm so horny...but that's okay...cuz I found my cat.....'. Uh, yeah... - Submitted by: Jamie

The Story: I had a friend who used this line as ammunition in his argument that Nirvana supports homosexuality, because candle meant another, semi-candle shaped object. - Submitted by: David Jonson

The Story: I was watching Kids React to Nirvana, and during Lithium, one of the kids says “‘I’m so ugly’ What”? I was like, “Umm… the lyric is actually ‘I’m so worried’”. Turns out the kid heard it right and I didn’t. - Submitted by: Julia Dworkin

The Story: I always thought this was some sort of reference to Hanukkah. - Submitted by: Zach

The Story: I always thought this song was about gay sex. Well, at least about Kurt wanting to have sex with a man because he smelled like some chick. - Submitted by: Nikki

The Story: I was listening to this song at the house of a guy who I really liked, and wanted to impress him by by singing really loud, and showing him that I knew the words to one of the less performed songs of, what was at the time, the most popular band around, and make him think I really knew alot about them. I had read somewhere (in a very mean article, I realize that now)that Kurt Cobain wrote his songs while he was drunk, so the fact that those two sentences made no sense together seemed so logical to me. You can guess how embarassed I was when his pop came out of his nose and he started laughing! - Submitted by: Joann

The Story: meaning truth is covering an insecurity. - Submitted by: Rathead

The Story: I honestly thought the song had a food theme. - Submitted by: LadyGaladriel

The Story: Singing misheard lyrics loud in the car 101 - Submitted by: Tito Lossa

The Story: I heard this crap - Submitted by: name Jeff

The Story: Don’t know why but that’s what I heard lol - Submitted by: Tito Lossa

The Story: Creep entertain us Adored by others - Submitted by: Jay Conrad

The Story: I should have known off course, what else could it have been? I mean come on, chinese little girl?? What the hell has that got to do with things, anyway, that was just the way I always heard it. - Submitted by: Pieter Hontel�

The Story: After Cobain's suicide, Geraldo Rivera had a show questioning the appeal of Nirvana. He mentioned something about Kurt being bisexual. I wonder if this song is where he got that impression. - Submitted by: The Skuz

The Story: I don't know, it just sounded totally logical to me, more logical than the authentic lyrics anyway. But with Kurt Cobain, one can just never tell, no logic in his lyrics. - Submitted by: Pieter Hontel�

The Story: My mother, my brother, two of our friends and I were driving in the car, when my brother turned on the radio, which was playing this song. After a minute, my mother was asking, 'Why are we listening to this song?' My brother said, 'Why not? What's wrong with it?' Then someone told him it said 'Rape me'. Then he replied, 'Oh. I thought it was saying 'Rake leaves'. My brother is so naive. - Submitted by: Cassi

The Story: I always thought this was about amiright's parodies begging to be rated. - Submitted by: Sir Alan George Palgut

The Story: 'You're off school again' is just one of the many and varied interpretations I had for that line. But in all of 'my' versions, I thought Kurt was screaming 'You're not gonna get' before 'No recess'. - Submitted by: echo

The Story: I learnt the real lyrics the hard way. I was hanging with my best friends listening to Nirvana one day. I had always wondered what grudge Kurt had against Neil Young, but had never considered that I was mishearing the lyrics. Anyway, we were singing along, and when the song came to that part I sang real loud. My friends started to laugh at me. I continued singing alone, thinking my friends had gone nuts for some reason. It wasn't untill the next day at school that one of them explained to me my goof. I was embarrased. But whenever we listen to 'Scoff' together, my friends still snicker and sing my incorrect lyrics really loud. - Submitted by: Emelye

The Story: Usually I can understand Kurt despite the moaning, but even on Spotify, when listening to "In Utero," I misheard it. Both lyrics actually make sense given Kurt. - Submitted by: Spencer Andersen

The Story: This is what I actually thought Kurt was singing. I thought so for years until I was scrolling through some guitar tabs with lyrics in them. - Submitted by: Jimmy

The Story: Playing singstar with a friend, confident that I knew the words I chose not to look at the screen. Big mistake. - Submitted by: Jade

The Story: Hearing this song playing on my way to a ska concert on the radio with my sister's boyfriend at the time, I did not like him, in my head I would sing that line in my head. - Submitted by: Bradley Atkinson

The Story: For the longest frigging time I thought this song was about imitators. - Submitted by: steven

The Story: MY friend would sing it in the middle of class and sing these funny misheard lyrics. - Submitted by: Destiny

The Story: We used to sing this lyric all the time on our swim team. - Submitted by: Josh

The Story: OK - I still think I'm right about this, because it MAKES PERFECT SENSE, and "my libido" does not in context. They are talking about opposites (or not quite opposites). In Gilligan's Island (you remember the show, right?), a rock and roll band land on the island (season 2 (1965), episode 48, "Don't Bug the Mosquitoes"), and they were called "The Mosquitoes". They were an obvious take-off on the Beatles, who were popular then! So the lyric "A mosquito, not a beatle" makes perfect sense. The guys from Nirvana are my age, and surely grew up on the same reruns on Gilligan's Island that I did!! - Submitted by: Shags

The Story: My friends and I all loved this song, and immediately learned how to play it. I was demonstrating how to play the four chords to someone and got carried away, started singing along: A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, Palomino! Yeah! Another friend attempted to correct me: It's "my libido," Mick. "Wha--? No, it's 'palomino.' Like the horse. 'Palomino, yeah! I've listened carefully.'" "It's 'my libido,' Mick. Trust me." - Submitted by: Mick Deaver

The Story: I was riding in my dad's car and came across this song (Smells Like Teen Spirit) and this part of the song was on I started screaming: "A POTATO, A LAUGH AND NO, A MOSQUITO, STOLE MY SPEEDO!" My dad said the misheard lyric I had just heard too lol. - Submitted by: Lesia Marymarcoge

The Story: Me and my friends used to laugh about this whenever it played. I'm not kidding we actually thought this - Submitted by: Camryn S

The Story: My Millenial daughter things it's funny that all of us Gen-Xers just make up lyrics rather than googling the correct ones. - Submitted by: Hilary's

The Story: My entire class thought it was this since the heard it, and our music teacher WOULD NOT STOP LAUGHING!!! XD - Submitted by: Mason

The Story: When I heard the song the first time, I thought it was a bunch of hype and I particularly thought the last line of the song, "Cut his eye out" was just plain old disturbing and twisted. Then, the day Kurt died, I saw the video for "Heart Shaped Box" and finally this music struck a chord in me. From then on, they became one of my favorite bands, but when I hear "Smells Like Teen Spirit" I still think he's saying "Cut his eye out" and not "A denial"!!!! - Submitted by: Nat Stephenson

The Story: I don't know if it's because the lyrics are stupid or because of how Kurt Cobain delivers them, but when I first heard this song I busted out laughing and looked looked at the lyrics which made as little sense as what I heard. - Submitted by: MK

The Story: When I saw the video clip (on MTV), a bright light was shining on the singer, hence heavy neon (light)... :D - Submitted by: Peter

The Story: As I kid I thought this was the lyric. And I was dumbfounded to see actual lyrics in the Official Nirvana Website - Submitted by: NotShiny

The Story: I was hearing this song and it seemed weird that I thought those lyrics when I found the real ones I had laughed very hard. - Submitted by: Evie

The Story: Heard it in a YouTube video by Stevie T. - Submitted by: Not Telling You

The Story: I was listening on the radio and I thought it was a song about food! My mistake! (Then I looked up the lyrics) - Submitted by: Anne

The Story: I heard it say: Here we are now, in containers, avacado, hell if I know! in a Steve TerryBerry video, called Hillarious Misheard Lyrics according to Google Translate GO JOIN HIS 3MILSUBCLUB OR ELSE- - Submitted by: REEEEEEEE

The Story: Someone I know who doesn't speak English too well is the one who misheard this. It was pretty funny, because she was trying to figure out what it meant. - Submitted by: Hotaru

The Story: My freind and her cousin were listening to this on the radio. Her cousin starts singing into a hairbrush 'mashed potatoes'. We laughed so hard - Submitted by: Mia

The Story: I thought the stanza was about fame & fortune. ( I like my lyrics better. They have an understandable point--how will I know when I've made it... I feel like an insect and not like the Beatles) - Submitted by: Beck

The Story: I thought this was the lyric for years wo question. Eventually learned the truth, then not much longer Kurt Cobain *did* die young (RIP) *27 club - Submitted by: Marz Star

The Story: Could have sworn it was about Snoopy! - Submitted by: Cody Finke

The Story: I was watching the video on TV when my brother turned to me and asked me if he just said 'I'm a female' and I laughed so hard... :D - Submitted by: HaHaYou'reDead

The Story: This was a long time ago so, my friend was trying to sing this song and he asked me what the lyrics were 'cause he was singing "a potato avocado a speedo the people yah!" and I said that I think the lyrics are "I'm a liar; I'm on fire, a big skateboard, my bottle hey!" - Submitted by: selene

The Story: I was singing the song with my brothers, and I literally sang "I'm a skittle, I'm a beetle" - Submitted by: Karissa

The Story: My dad is a bit slow. He was trying to be cool in the car one day with my friends, so he started singing the lyrics. Along with getting about 90% of the other lyrics wrong (but at least it sounded kind of like what Kurt was actually saying), he screamed LA DE DA YA. My friends thought my dad had lost it. - Submitted by: Ka

The Story: Since Krist Novoselic (the bass player from Nirvana) is from Croatia, it's one of the internal jokes. - Submitted by: Mile Kitic

The Story: That's a BFYE FM version of misheard song (which requested by Nipon, then reused by Grizz for Boxing training) - Submitted by: BlessingsForYourEveryday

The Story: My older sister, Nathalia, is really into rock and heavy metal. When she came to visit from the university, she brought her vast collection of the stuff. Now I'm not that into rock, but I decided to nick her CD of Nirvana because I've got a mate from school who's a bit of a metal freak. She said it was a life-changing cd. So imagine my surprise when it got to 'Smells like Teen Spirit' and they were singing about the contents of their fruitbowl and vegetable rack! Of course, when Nathalia caught me absent mindedly singing, 'Mashed bananas, and potatas!!!' Quite loudly she corrected me like the goody-goody know-it-all student she is. - Submitted by: Victoria Jennings

The Story: We were having a party and were inviting 4 families. My freind's brother put Nirvana on the stereo, and when it got to the 'Entertain us' part I said 'Hey, doesn't that sound like Mashed potatos?' They said 'Yeah',and we started to sing 'Mashed potatos' everytime they sang 'Entertain us', and my freind's oler brother kept on saying 'Its entertain us!' - Submitted by: evildog300

The Story: My mom misheard this lyric and once you hear it, you can’t unhear it XD - Submitted by: Cheeselord

The Story: As a child I heard the song. I mistook the lyric for this because my father told me that "pepatated" was a scientific term for farting. My brothers and I actually re-recorded the song in our own fashion with the misheard lyrics using a harmonica as the music. I must have been 7 or 8 years old. We used to play our version over and over. If I could only find that tape. We also made a song called "Anthology of Bread". Because of an album I saw on the old Colombia stamps. We made fun of everything. - Submitted by: Dave K

The Story: My 8 year old brother was singing it like that, and I just cracked up laughing. 1-I didn't want to correct him and tell him what libido meant. 2-How did he turn libido into amphibian? - Submitted by: Tyler

The Story: I wish I were making this one up. In high school, the father of a friend of mine was convinced that Cobain was singing 'naughty narwhal' repeatedly at the end of the song. - Submitted by: Joshua McGee

The Story: I was just a kid at the time, but old enough to know that drugs can turn your brain to mush, let alone give you hallucinations, so I just figured Kurt was seeing all sorts of night creatures and inviting them for a little get-together. Hey, most of his original lyrics are much wackier, so i guess you can't really blame me! - Submitted by: space_cadette

The Story: I thought it was an alternative pronunciation of Dio's name! - Submitted by: Frank

The Story: I am crazy - Submitted by: Kimberly

The Story: Im a little deaf and Kurt simply does not open his mouth and e-NUN-ci-ate!! Joke..but I have been losing my hearing from age 30... - Submitted by: Jan French

The Story: Pretty much hear the lyrics this way all my life until right now when I looked them up. Funny enough, the lyrics have always made total sense to me with respect to the title and the band itself, so I will probably continue to sing them that way. - Submitted by: Colby

The Story: I was planning to go to my cousin Cody's graduation party and the theme was Nirvana. We were all given lists on what occupation we would have. My sister Alyssa and I were given the job of being operators of the karaoke machine. We came in the next week and set up the machine. When we were done we were just in time for the acts. They were preforming Smells Like Teen Spirit. They insisted we bring no lyrics because they had already memorized the song. When we listened to them I couldn't understand the song because the speaker was small and I was in the back. After the party I asked the performer why the song was so out of shape and I told him what I heard then he explained to me what the lyrics were. I left that party feeling very stupid. - Submitted by: Hailey

The Story: Similar to "I Want to Know What Love Is" from Foreigner, I have this song and now placed on my playlist. Once again the misheard lyric story is lyric in this song in the chorus there are parts that make peoples are shocked and sometimes frightened with this lyric line. First, Kurt Cobain sang "Jessie is dangerous" even though Cobain not know who it was Jessie? Second, "...any dangers" indicates that Cobain was afraid with the popularity of his band until he had to be willing to die even though he is not yet dead body and soul. Instead, this line alarmed all peoples who don't know music, pop singers, even cute girls also feel fear because of this line and some of them all are also want to be like Cobain. Then, according to rock historian who resistant with this song that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" became a sign that the era of Seattle music has been born and tamed dance music and pop metal at the time. Third, "Flying Yoyok". Although Cobain also not know Pak Yoyok, but I know why Cobain also say this ridicule to make me stress like this. - Submitted by: Wisnu Aji

The Story: I was in my Freshmen Focus class one day singing this song, and there was a huge Nirvana fan sitting beside me. He looked at me like I was completely stupid for a few seconds, and then started laughing hysterically. In all the years that Smells Like Teen Spirit was popular, I never knew what they were really saying! - Submitted by: Stan

The Story: Always thought it was a creative turn of phrase to describe life as contagious. - Submitted by: McX

The Story: I'm starting to hear words that don't exist like "meeto". Very weird. Guess Nirvana is not contagious and they are.... dough? - Submitted by: angmarsh

The Story: Guess Seinfeld smells like Teen Spirit. - Submitted by: Cody Finke

The Story: FUnny body - Submitted by: WERE

The Story: smells like mah jong - Submitted by: alberto

The Story: This caused a very disturbing mental picture involving Kurt, Courtney and sausage links. Ewww! - Submitted by: Hairspray Queen

The Story: Heard it this way since I was a kid when the album first came out. The misheard lyrics still randomly run through my head repeatedly once a year or so. - Submitted by: kcirts

The Story: Wait sounded like WIFE - Submitted by: CJ Etelomar

The Story: Alien was misheard as "idiot" - Submitted by: Shing

The Story: Man, my Mexican cousin had bought this tape of Nirvana (The Unplugged One). He asked me to translate this song for him. Unfortunately, I didn't even know what Nirvana was singing. So I did the best I could. And Voila!!! I got a song out of whales and a lost dude. Crazy, huh? - Submitted by: ANGELIQUE

The Story: Thought this all the way up to my first high school year. - Submitted by: Danny Sanchez

The Story: The first line sounds even more like 'In my pants' in certain accents where 'my' is pronounced as 'ma'; South Africa and various regions of Great Britain for instance. This is due to the way Kurt Cobain doesn't clearly enunciate the word 'the'. The following line 'Where the sun don't ever shine' adds to the confusion if the listener is familiar with the expression 'stick it where the sun don't shine'. The implication of which is up the anus....commonly found 'in the pants'. - Submitted by: Anon

The Story: Well I'm German and not that good in English - I mean, i knew that it was impossible that Cobain would sing about a guy whose head was found in a mill run by dwarves but... it made sense to me all the years - until I found the lyrics when I looked up a guitar tab of the song. - Submitted by: Lazy

The Story: Listen to the vocals only version on YouTube. - Submitted by: Cacomistle

The Story: I listened to the vocals only version of this song at slower speed. He says Hey, NOT pain. - Submitted by: Cacomistle

The Story: I had no idea if Kurt Cobain was referring to a metaphorical or literal pig in the bridge and then heard the chorus, which at the time I misinterpreted as 'you know you're right'. I just assumed Cobain was having some Dr. Doolittle complex and talking to animals with no actual relation to anything else in the song. - Submitted by: Devil Jones