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I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing
My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse
Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term
Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623
It wasn't until my first job at a grocery store during Christmas time that I learned it was "Feliz Navidad" being sung.
Before that, I couldn't figure out why the cheerful song that only appeared around Christmas time was saying "Police shot my dad"
Best laugh I had in a long time 🤣😭
I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."
Moderation is key for everything, after all.
I mean, partying every day just results in Slurms McKenzie.
We found Lois Griffin
Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.
“Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”
Turns out is actually deuce.
That actually makes even less sense.
It's referring to a two-stroke engine.
Generally it's a 2-door car, specifically a 1932 Ford.
Not a motorcycle?!?!
This seemed like such a motorcycle song!
"Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"
I always wondered what a dunder chief is.
You're not alone, kindred spirit! Even when I knew the correct lyrics, I still hear it.
And when I learned about "dunder" or "double underscore" methods in Python, my first thoughts were:
__Chief__()
__Mifflin__()
It was Thunder Chief for me. I figured he must be bad juju.
I always wondered what a dunder chief is.
Michael Scott I guess ?
Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?
I always heard it as trombeleese, which I imagined to be some exotic musical instrument like this:
That thing looks like a Fremen sandworm saxophone
"It's him. It's Kenny Al G!"
This made me laugh pretty good. Delightful!
I used to sing Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong as “Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids, pyramids can’t be wrong”.
Also, in Africa, I definitely thought they said “rises like a lepress (like a female leopard) above the Serengeti”. The real lyric is “Olympus”.
I love that lyric, it's so supid.
I know that I must do what's right, sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
Mount Olympus (assuming we're talking the one in Greece and not the one on Mars) is like 3,000 feet tall, Kilimanjaro is 7,000 feet tall. Kilimanjaro would put Olympus to shame, except Olympus is whiter than Kilimanjaro.
Also, you can't see Kilimanjaro from the Serengeti. There's a small area where the summit is above the horizon but the air is too hazy.
Untill this day, I thought it was lepress too.
It makes more sense as the mountain isn't even located there to begin with
Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded by the Light has entered the chat. Probably the most misheard lyrics in the entire history of modern music.
It's "Revved up like a deuce."
Wait... Manfred Mann's version is a cover? Yep, Blinded by the Light was originally performed Bruce Springsteen.
“I set fire, to Lorraine” by Adele (set fire to the rain). “Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes” by Coldplay (Paradise)
Hoobastank, the Reason.
Real lyric: "a reason to start over new".
What i heard as a child: "the reason tostadas are new"
I always thought she said trampoline
“My lovers got no money, he’s got his trampoline!”
He's always bouncing!
. . .and so are his checks. ._.
Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Southern Cross
"Who knows love can endure" --> "Who knows love Ganondorf"
Obviously not the correct lyric but they clearly end "endure" with an F sound somehow
Elton John - Your Song
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in the words
How wonderful life is
While you're in the world
I misheard the "world" as "woods", as in, someplace far away, which changes the entire point of the song. The lyrics in this part starting with "I hope you don't mind that I put down in the words" imply a change of tone to something regretful, so a line to recontextualize that that the PoV character doesn't actually feel close to their supposed love would fit; but I guess that wasn't the intention.
I still say it makes slightly more sense in Otherside if he's saying "the cemetery where I married a thief".
Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.
Pump Up the Jam - Technotronic
At first I heard, "I want, a player Tuesday."
Then I heard, "I want, a player to stay."
Apparently it's actually, "Awa, a place to stay."
That whole time I thought she was looking for a man (on a Tuesday), but she just wanted everyone to dance together.
At one point in Another One Bites the Dust, Freddie says "Bite the dust, yeah" which for years I could not hear as anything but "I'm adopted". Seemed like a weird way to share that information.
I always thought Gala said Stromboli (he's got his Stromboli...) which would make half sense since she is italian
I can't think of any off the top of my head, but this bit by Peter Kay always has me in tears.
Also, the technical term is 'Mondegreen'
Edit: I'm also reminded of a Colin Hay one man show I went to years ago where he told a story about a bloke that requested the 'song about the goats' at a gig. Turns out it was Overkill - "Goats appear and fade away". He then went on to tell a long story about a sharehouse he lived in in his youth that decided to get a goat to keep the lawn down. Man that was a good show.
Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"
If you know, you know.
Owner of a lonely horse...
Real lyric: owner of a lonely heart.
I never understood why there'd be a song about a lonely horse.
Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said "You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!"
Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
For a chunk of my childhood, I always heard, "I've got heartaches in my pocket, I've got pickles in my head," rather than "echoes in my head." To this day, it's hard to unhear it.
