Misheard Lyrics

One of these days I'll remember not to put myself in the position where I have to sing on the Internet.

[feiradragon]

I remember mishearing "I'm a creep. I'm a weirdo." as "I'm a creep. I'm a widow." and that made the song so much sadder than it was supposed to be.

[alicered]

My sister once very confidently sang "You give love a band-aid" instead of "you give love a bad name" and we refuse to let her live that down.

[CompletelyNormal]

Apparently so many people heard "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" from Purple Haze as "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" that Jimi Hendrix started deliberately singing it wrong to mess with people.

[elenakindt]

Bohemian Rhapsody.
“Spare him his life from this monstrosity”
“Spare him his life from this warm sausage tea”

[Andy-the-crow]

Matt should release an album with his amazing vocals

[breezyxsky]

The best thing is some of the misheard lyrics you hear are better than the actual lyrics

[pocketscarf]

In Queen's "Another one Bites the Dust" there's a part where Freddie hurriedly says what I'm pretty sure is "bite the dust, yeah!" but for years my mom and I misheard it as, "I'm adopted!" We still jokingly sing it incorrectly despite knowing better. Honestly, we always knew that couldn't REALLY be the lyric. It's just funnier to imagine him randomly admitting to being adopted in a song that otherwise has nothing to do with it.

[Hardcherrysweetie]

When I was little I was in the car listening to the radio, where Taylor Swift’s ‘Wildest Dreams’ was playing. I misheard the line “spinning in a nice dress” as “spinning in an ice chest”

I sang my version super loud and my mom looked at me like I had 3 heads, until she realized I misheard it and started laughing so hard she went into a coughing fit.

[blackoutlol]

4:02 I love how this is not only a misheard lyric but one that is pretty much the exact opposite of what was intended 😂 in the original “I’m only human after all” was meant to show that people make mistakes and can be forgiven or whatever yet the misheard lyric of “how many humans left to go” makes him sound like the terminator who is actively trying to hunt everyone down 💀

[ellibobble]

I grew up thinking it was “I’m a single lettuce” and not “all the single ladies” and my mum would burst into laughter and I would always wonder why she was laughing

[ochonnidaecunniculus]

My sister turned on the radio in the car once without realizing that our mom had left it on some Christian station and we were immediately blasted with the words “I’VE BEEN HELD BY THE SAVIOR”
The singer had a distinct Southern accent.
My sister turned to me and said, with a look of vague confusion “I’ve been hit by a seagull?”

[___TNatF]

“But you did it have to cut me off!
Nehawuhmeteahaeamer muffin”

[SharpScales]

For years, I thought the chorus to Can't Hold Us was "So we put our hands up, like the silly can holders." No one corrected me until I found the actual lyrics

[ardenlolli]

My little sister confidently belts “Talk to a baby” instead of “Talk to me, baby” when singing Cake By The Ocean and it is still hilarious

[andrewpotts]

I remember mishearing "living on a prayer" as "living on the prairie" and thought that the song was the next level of country music.

[granhairdo]

for years i always thought the lyric "so here's the frozen proof" from centuries by fall out boy was "so here's the frozen fruit" and was so confused forever

[baacloud]

My parents always laughed when I kept singing "Dirty Little Sea Crab" instead of the actual "Dirty Little Secret" by the All-American-Rejects. The childhood innocence

[viljamtheninja]

Fun fact: the word Mondegreen is a misheard lyric as well (but as in, poetry). Can't remember who coined it but she said how as a child she remembered a poem that was often recited to her, and there was a passage in it with something about "laid him on the green", which she misheard as "Lady Mondegreen."

[SunsetDragon]

My Oma, who was from the Netherlands, learned English and started listening to our songs when she moved to the USA. For YEARS, she thought that "Moves Like Jagger" (or however it's spelled) went "I'm gonna loose my jacket, I'm gonna loose my jacket, I'm gonna LOOOoOoOooOoOoOoseeEE my jackeeeet, " and she sang it that way until my aunt FINALLY corrected her.

[L.O.G.A.N]

When I was really little, In the song radioactive when he says, “don’t you make my system blow” I always thought he said “don’t you make my sister blow” and the thought of my sister exploding made me cry.