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1950s | |
Jerry Lee Lewis', "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
Misheard Lyrics: Let's shake, make us shake
Original Lyrics: Let's shake, baby, shake
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1960s | |
Chubby Checker's, "Let's Twist Again"
Misheard Lyrics: Like we did that summer
Original Lyrics: Like we did last summer
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Dean Martin's, "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"
Misheard Lyrics: Rockapella once said
Original Lyrics: Like the fella once said
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1970s | |
Commodores', "Fancy Dancer"
Misheard Lyrics: Such a real good feelin’ charm
Original Lyrics: Such a real good feelin’ child
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Commodores', "Flying High"
Misheard Lyrics: Flying high on a buffet
Original Lyrics: Flying high on a good thing
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Commodores', "Still"
Misheard Lyrics: Two people lost in a store
Original Lyrics: Two people lost in a storm
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Dr. Hook's, "Sylvia's Mother"
Misheard Lyrics: Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's marrying
So tell that dumb gal to stay away Original Lyrics: Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's marrying
A fella down Galveston way |
Neil Diamond's, "I Am...I Said"
Misheard Lyrics: And the feeling is laid back
... And no one heard at all Not even would share ... And I am lost and I can Even say why ... Well except for the names And a few of the changes Original Lyrics: And the feeling is "lay back"
... And no one heard at all Not even the chair ... And I am lost and I can't Even say why ... Well except for the names And a few other changes |
The Beatles', "Across the Universe"
Misheard Lyrics: Pools of sunlight
Original Lyrics: Pools of sorrow
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The Bee Gees', "Night Fever"
Misheard Lyrics: I got a hair in my mouth, and I can't hide it in Milwaukee
Original Lyrics: I got fire in my mind I got higher in my walking
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1980s | |
Berlin's, "Take My Breath Away"
Misheard Lyrics: On this endless ocean, finally love has no more shame
Original Lyrics: On this endless ocean, finally lovers know no shame
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Bryan Adams', "Hearts on Fire"
Misheard Lyrics: He thinks his guilty passions are your source/sword.
Original Lyrics: Defense is guilty, passions out of control.
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Commodores', "Old-Fashion Love"
Misheard Lyrics: I’m in love with a painful, sinful girl
Original Lyrics: I’m in love with a plain and simple girl
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Commodores', "Wonderland"
Misheard Lyrics: Come into this wonderland of mind
Original Lyrics: Come into this wonderland of mine
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Kenny Loggins', "Danger Zone"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm into the danger zone
OR I made it to the danger zone Original Lyrics: Highway to the danger zone
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Madonna's, "Lucky Star"
Misheard Lyrics: You must be my Rocky star
Original Lyrics: You must be my lucky star
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Pretenders', "Don't Get Me Wrong"
Misheard Lyrics: Icy neon lights
Original Lyrics: I see neon lights
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Pretenders', "My City Was Gone"
Misheard Lyrics: I went back to Mullholland
Original Lyrics: I went back to Ohio
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Robin Beck's, "First Time"
Misheard Lyrics: It began when I heard all of you for the very first time
Original Lyrics: It began when I heard "I love you" for the very first time
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The Stranglers', "Skin Deep"
Misheard Lyrics: Beauty's only skating
Original Lyrics: Beauty's only skin deep
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The Stranglers', "Skin Deep"
Misheard Lyrics: Better watch out for the tree
Original Lyrics: Better watch out for the skin deep
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They Might Be Giants', "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
Misheard Lyrics: My name is Luke
But everyone spells it L-I-T-E My story's infinite Like the laundry, it's infinite It doesn't rest Original Lyrics: My name is blue canary
One note spelled l-i-t-e My story's infinite Like the Longines Symphonette It doesn't rest |
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1990s | |
Michelle Gayle's, "Happy Just to Be with You"
Misheard Lyrics: Trip to 1995 into the new style
(Later) Every day I say a prayer that you'll steal with me all of the time OR Every day I say a prayer that you'll deal with me all of the time (Later) My mind goes to ya when I'm painting down Your picture takes away my local crown My heart is winking when I'm feeling good (Later) I'm nifty, my fans parked at 350 I'm nimble, I think I'll change my name to Sybil Original Lyrics: Uh, from ‘79 to ‘95, old to the new style
(Later) Every day I say a prayer that you'll stay with me all of the time (Later) My mind goes to ya when I'm feeling down Your picture takes away my lonely frown My heart is with ya when I'm feeling good (Later) I'm nifty, I dance, part of 350 I'm nimble, I think I'll change my name to a symbol |
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Soundgarden's, "Burden in My Hand"
Misheard Lyrics: Follow me into the devil
Original Lyrics: Follow me into the desert
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TLC's, "No Scrubs"
Misheard Lyrics: Hanging on the pacifier
Original Lyrics: Hanging on the passenger's side
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Toni Braxton's, "You're Making Me High"
Misheard Lyrics: I'll always think of you inside of my private parts
(Later) I won't fit your heart and soul inside of me OR I want to fit your heart and soul inside of me Original Lyrics: I'll always think of you inside of my private thoughts
(Later) I want to feel your heart and soul inside of me |
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2000s | |
Evan and Jaron's, "Crazy for This Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm crazy for this bird
Original Lyrics: I'm crazy for this girl
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Justin Timberlake's, "Like I Love You"
Misheard Lyrics: Just remember
Original Lyrics: Just be limber
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Linkin Park's, "New Divide"
Misheard Lyrics: And teach me crack, and teach me vine
Original Lyrics: And each regret, and each goodbye
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Meshuggah's, "Rational Gaze"
Misheard Lyrics: Spread your eyes & seek L.A.!
No reality to make a trail! Let focus go from Johnny's seething eyes! To know what's been concealed! We're open, Rite-Aid! Suck a chubby jeweled misinformation! A systematic denial of the grass's line! Goes in a fine blade! Towering! Dying outwards! The cotton text of battle intros! Defy a fragmentation! I like juice! Finish your juice! Filtered vitamin substance! Ass arise! What a hare's doing to it implies! Everything is salmon! Separate them, one thing at a time! That highway's out of my country club! Dis-in-te-gra-tion! De-so-lu-tion! Ice! We're open! Raise your name! Soak in lies! It's out there! It's out there in my head! Resistance is falling! The ladder? Hid it on the grass! Since we met her, it's been forever! Hit him! Where's the true knowledge? Where Enya shops & saves my Insanity merch! The clergy in a Yoda cage! Let me hella Jay on Dutch Amal's transference! Hem this apple to our dicks! It's great to feel some fishing! My Sis is taking photographs of Russel Rhodes! Bum sex! Outta control! I have got a second thing for wretched old guys! I lied! Forever! We walk among pee in the rugs! Never stray from the camel lines! Original Lyrics: Squint your eyes to see clearly
Blur reality to make it real Let focus go from your deceiving eyes to know what's been concealed We've all been blinded Subjects to visual misinformation A systematic denial of the crystalline To see the fine grain, to read the hidden words The context of parallel truth Devoid of fragmentation Our light-induced image of truth Filtered blank of its substance As our eyes won't adhere to intuitive lines Everything examined, separated, one thing at a time The harder we stare The more complete the disintegration Dissolution Eyes re-opened Reasoning focalized Receptors activated Perspectives distorted The ladder beyond our grasp The twin-headed serpent forever hidden Where's the true knowledge Where engines of the sane and insanity merge The clarity, the unity Reality untouchable, transparent Invisible to our fixed, restricted fields of vision Existence taken for granted Absolute Possessed, owned, controlled By the common sense-infected rational gaze Onward forever we walk among the ignorant Never stray from the common lines. |
Sarah Connor's, "Bounce"
Misheard Lyrics: Bounce, baby, out the dough
Original Lyrics: Bounce, baby, out the door
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Theme Song's, "The Rubbadubbers"
Misheard Lyrics: Tear her, word owner!
Original Lyrics: Terence! Winona!
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2010s | |
Lady Gaga's, "Poker Face"
Misheard Lyrics: Beddy bye, beddy bye
Original Lyrics: Can't read my, can't read my...
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Panic! at the Disco's, "High Hopes"
Misheard Lyrics: Always gonna be that one in a minute
or Always gonna be that one in a Minion Original Lyrics: Always gonna be that one in a million
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Barbara Mandrell's, "One of a Kind Pair of Fools"
Misheard Lyrics: Two in love one man's been lying to
Original Lyrics: Two women one man's been lying to
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Kellie Pickler's, "Don't You Know You're Beautiful"
Misheard Lyrics: But he'll still love you if you don't fit in
Original Lyrics: But he'll still love you if you don't give in
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Sly And The Family Stone's, "Dance To The Music"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm gonna add vibrato
Original Lyrics: I'm gonna add some bottom
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misc | |
Latto's, "Big Energy"
Misheard Lyrics: Tryna rock that mic' like Cherry O'Keefe
Original Lyrics: Tryna rock that mic' like karaoke
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