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Matt Morrison wrote:Just had SOAD's Darts pop up on shuffle and it reminded me how I thought for quite a while it said "Life threatening lifestyles: a hitman, a nun, florist."
Well, that's 37 seconds of my life I'll never get back.
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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Just had SOAD's Darts pop up on shuffle and it reminded me how I thought for quite a while it said "Life threatening lifestyles: a hitman, a nun, florist."
Well, that's 37 seconds of my life I'll never get back.
It's 2:41.
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Matt Morrison wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:Well, that's 37 seconds of my life I'll never get back.
It's 2:41.
I'm not sure how I managed to put up with 37 seconds of it.
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Matt Morrison wrote:Just had SOAD's Darts pop up on shuffle and it reminded me how I thought for quite a while it said "Life threatening lifestyles: a hitman, a nun, florist."

Ha, love it!

Phil, that's not the most accessible of their albums, I recommend Toxicity :)
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All my life (well, since the song came out) I thought Taio Cruz was singing 'I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, saying aaaoo, Galileo' instead of 'Gotta let go'. I always thought that was the real lyric and never considered it being anything else... oh well. :oops:
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In (ahem) Carly Rae Jepsen's classic hit "Call Me Maybe", I swear she sings "I missed your school bag, I missed your school, school bag." Something to do with satchels, I expect.
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Green Day's Burnout came on my ipod the other day and I was reminded how I used to think the lyric "I live inside this mental cave " was "I live inside this pencil case", even though the first time I heard the song was when I bought the album and therefore had the lyric sheet. I love that we get lyrics wrong even when we know what the real ones are. It also kind of made me think living in a pencil case would be cool.
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Mark James wrote:Green Day's Burnout came on my ipod the other day and I was reminded how I used to think the lyric "I live inside this mental cave " was "I live inside this pencil case", even though the first time I heard the song was when I bought the album and therefore had the lyric sheet. I love that we get lyrics wrong even when we know what the real ones are. It also kind of made me think living in a pencil case would be cool.
I too used to think this.

As an infant, I thought Wonderwall's chorus was "Because maybe, you're gonna be the one at Sainsbury's".
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In 'Warwick Avenue' by Duffy, I used to think she sang "Promise me you won't stand by the line", so he woudn't be tempted to jump when she told him the bad news.

I watched her video recently with subtitles on a programme about London tunes, and found she really sings "Promise me you won't step out of line". Oops.
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Peter Kay's "The Tour That Didn't Tour" (shown last night on C4) includes a Mondegreen set. On 4OD it runs for seven minutes from 1.13 to 1.20.
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Peter McNamara wrote:Peter Kay's "The Tour That Didn't Tour" (shown last night on C4) includes a Mondegreen set. On 4OD it runs for seven minutes from 1.13 to 1.20.
Aye, there were some great ones there!
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Boney M, Brown Girl in the Ring: "All the world had fruit cake" ("All had water run dry")
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FGTH - Welcome To The Pleasuredome:

There goes a supernova, right up her shoulder

Actually, it's:

There goes a supernova, what a pushover.

I always thought it sounded odd. It's only taken me 28 years to sort that one out.
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Salt N Pepa - Whatta Man

"Whatta man, whatta man, whatta man, whatta honeycomb man."
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Literally only yesterday worked out that Shaggy must have been getting all patois and saying "Mr. Romantic, say mi fantastic" whereas I always thought he was only "semi-fantastic".
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Peter Kay Funny Song Lyrics off You Tube:

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Matt Morrison wrote:Literally only yesterday worked out that Shaggy must have been getting all patois and saying "Mr. Romantic, say mi fantastic" whereas I always thought he was only "semi-fantastic".
...I still hadn't realised that :(

My favourite one (that wasn't mine) was someone who thought the opening line of Reward by The Teardrop Explodes was, rather than "Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news"; "Pass my cotton socks, I'm in the nude"

2 of the ones I've been responsible for:

"Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a lemon tree" ((It made sense in my head))

and a more obscure reference to 1-hit wonder from the 90's Meredith Brooks (but an album track cause my Mum had it)

"I might crap, but I'll never splatter"


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From R Kelly's Ignition (Remix), I interpreted "running my hands through her 'fro" as "running my hands through her throat" which is altogether more sinister.
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From Guns n' Roses Sweet Child of Mine.

I always thought the second verse started "shes got eyes like the bluest sky and fruitcake for a brain"
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Until about a year ago, I thought the chorus of Taio Cruz's Dynamite was 'saying ayooo, Galileo'.
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Thomas Carey wrote:All my life (well, since the song came out) I thought Taio Cruz was singing 'I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, saying aaaoo, Galileo' instead of 'Gotta let go'. I always thought that was the real lyric and never considered it being anything else... oh well. :oops:
Thomas Carey wrote:Until about a year ago, I thought the chorus of Taio Cruz's Dynamite was 'saying ayooo, Galileo'.
Well it's been at least 18 months...
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Zarte Siempre wrote:
Thomas Carey wrote:All my life (well, since the song came out) I thought Taio Cruz was singing 'I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, saying aaaoo, Galileo' instead of 'Gotta let go'. I always thought that was the real lyric and never considered it being anything else... oh well. :oops:
Thomas Carey wrote:Until about a year ago, I thought the chorus of Taio Cruz's Dynamite was 'saying ayooo, Galileo'.
Well it's been at least 18 months...
Oops... :oops:
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Flash Delirium, by MGMT. I was wondering why they put what sounded like a cheat code for a computer game in this song: "six six five five left right shift".

On investigation, it turns out it's "six six five five red battleships".

Not sure that makes any more sense, though.
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After 25 odd years I've just discovered that Paul Simon is actually calling someone Betty, not Daddy, in You Can Call Me Al. Mind=blown.
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And Betty when you call me
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sean d wrote:After 25 odd years I've just discovered that Paul Simon is actually calling someone Betty, not Daddy, in You Can Call Me Al. Mind=blown.
"I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al"
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Chips Ahoy, by The Hold Steady. Instead of "it came in six lengths ahead", hearing "I came with six wanks I had". Don't like the song as much any more.
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In Dead or Alive's 'You Spin me Round', instead of hearing 'All I know is that to me', I kept hearing 'You look like a vasectomy'. I don't know why either.
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Only realised fairly recently that the line in Beyonce's seminal smash hit 'Crazy In Love' I had always heard as "I've been wetting myself/Baby I don't care" is actually "I've been playing myself/Baby I don't care". Bit disappointed as I was impressed by not only her honesty about her incontinence issues, but her blasé attitude towards it. Thought it was pretty edgy. (Genuinely did think those were the lyrics tho :( )
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Gravel Pit: "Wu-Tang is a city with a Travel Inn".
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Jon Corby wrote:Gravel Pit: "Wu-Tang is a city with a Travel Inn".
Actual lyrics: "Lincoln is a city with a Travel Lodge." I'm not surprised you didn't get it first time.
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Didn't realise you were into Wu Tang to be honest.
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Mark Deeks wrote:Didn't realise you were into Wu Tang to be honest.
Nigger please.
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Melody's Echo Chamber: I've seen goats I can't explain.
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Recently-ish, I watched the lyric video for The 1975 - Girls

What SHOULD be "Bite your face to spite your nose"

Was committed to YT as "I like your face despite your nose"
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Many years ago, I heard this song, and assumed the lyrics were "2, 4, 6, 8, never too late" or something like that. (Yes - I know - shush you - let me finish.) Some time more recently someone mentioned the song and called it 2-4-6-8 Motorway, so I then thought I must have heard it wrong. I even remember thinking "I could have sworn it was 'never too late', but oh well."

Even more recently than that I thought to post about it in this thread, thinking that mishearing lyrics which are actually included in the title must qualify as some kind of super-mondegreen and beat all the others. However, remembering it and being in front of my computer never coincided until now. It only remained for me to check what the actual lyrics were, and then it turned out that I was right the first time, and "2-4-6-8 Motorway" never appears in the song.

What is this? A reverse mondegreen? A meta-mondegreen?
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A mondegreem?
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Graeme Cole wrote:Many years ago, I heard this song, and assumed the lyrics were "2, 4, 6, 8, never too late" or something like that. (Yes - I know - shush you - let me finish.) Some time more recently someone mentioned the song and called it 2-4-6-8 Motorway, so I then thought I must have heard it wrong. I even remember thinking "I could have sworn it was 'never too late', but oh well."

Even more recently than that I thought to post about it in this thread, thinking that mishearing lyrics which are actually included in the title must qualify as some kind of super-mondegreen and beat all the others. However, remembering it and being in front of my computer never coincided until now. It only remained for me to check what the actual lyrics were, and then it turned out that I was right the first time, and "2-4-6-8 Motorway" never appears in the song.

What is this? A reverse mondegreen? A meta-mondegreen?
Ah, thanks for that. I had the same problem - at some point I "realised" that I had it wrong, but using the word "motorway" never quite fit properly. lulz
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Heather Styles wrote:A mondegreem?
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"Bob the Builder, Tanmay Dixit?"
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I'm not sure whether it counts if you're pretty sure you're hearing it wrong and can hazard a guess.

But I only thought to confirm today that the lyrics to Pretenders - Middle of the Road don't include the line

"I'm standing in the middle of life with my pants behind me"
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Two from other people I've discovered today.

Someone thought Elton John was singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza" - Plausible.

And that Macy Gray was singing "I blow bubbles when you are not near" - Less plausible.
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Zarte Siempre wrote:Someone thought Elton John was singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza" - Plausible.
That's got to be the best-known one after "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" - it's even been in an episode of 'Friends' (or some similarly bland sitcom of the era). While we're on Elton though, I thought for quite a while that in "Island Girl", he was singing "I Like Girls", which I found highly entertaining for obvious reasons.
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JimBentley wrote:
Zarte Siempre wrote:Someone thought Elton John was singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza" - Plausible.
That's got to be the best-known one after "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" - it's even been in an episode of 'Friends' (or some similarly bland sitcom of the era).
Genuinely didn't know that. Was the first time I'd heard it. (And I don't watch Friends)
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Zarte Siempre wrote:
My favourite one (that wasn't mine) was someone who thought the opening line of Reward by The Teardrop Explodes was, rather than "Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news"; "Pass my cotton socks, I'm in the nude"

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Oh shit! I missed this first time, I never had more than a vague inkling that I had that line wrong!

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JimBentley wrote:
Zarte Siempre wrote:Someone thought Elton John was singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza" - Plausible.
That's got to be the best-known one after "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" - it's even been in an episode of 'Friends' (or some similarly bland sitcom of the era). While we're on Elton though, I thought for quite a while that in "Island Girl", he was singing "I Like Girls", which I found highly entertaining for obvious reasons.
Never heard the Tony Danza one, but I certainly had the 'I like girls' thing going on for a while.
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Two that spring to mind...... Don't bring me down......Bruce . ELO and pulling muscles for Michelle......by Squeeze
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Marc Meakin wrote:... Don't bring me down......Bruce . ELO
I've always thought it was this (up until a couple of minutes ago when I read Marc's post) even though it didn't really make any sense. I've just looked up what it actually is and I think I'm sticking with "Bruce" because the real lyric makes even less sense.
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When they sung it at Glastonbury I could see the backing singers saying Bruce.....but it was Groos originally
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I've been singing Bruce for years... what the hell is Groos?
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There is a sort of explanation on the songs Wiki page that explains the live version version confusion also
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In Everything in its Right Place (the best song ever) I thought he was singing 'Yesterday I woke up sucking on my mum' instead of a lemon. Changed the song a bit for me when I found that out.
Another line in that song, I thought was "There are arctic colours in my head". I like my version better.

When I was about 6 I thought "Georgia's always on my mind" in Back in the USSR was "Jojo's always on my mind", and it was the same Jojo as in Get Back, and that it was maybe a real person. I thought he was like, married to Jojo or something, and the line meant that he missed her when he was away in Russia.
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Only just got around to "in the pines" instead of "in the palace" from Where Did You Sleep Last Night? after doing it on karaoke.
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What do you call it when you know what the actual words are but STILL can't escape that it sounds like something else entirely...

What is it you lot think they're saying is about to explode?

https://youtu.be/gh-pGxZBQ1Y?t=48s
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Zarte Siempre wrote:What do you call it when you know what the actual words are but STILL can't escape that it sounds like something else entirely...

What is it you lot think they're saying is about to explode?

https://youtu.be/gh-pGxZBQ1Y?t=48s
Without having heard this before or read the lyrics, it sounds to me like "the speaker".

Perhaps it's a song about Parliamentary business having been unusually difficult recently.
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The Sue Lawley/So Lonely lyric always gets me
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Graeme Cole wrote:
Zarte Siempre wrote:What do you call it when you know what the actual words are but STILL can't escape that it sounds like something else entirely...

What is it you lot think they're saying is about to explode?

https://youtu.be/gh-pGxZBQ1Y?t=48s
Without having heard this before or read the lyrics, it sounds to me like "the speaker".

Perhaps it's a song about Parliamentary business having been unusually difficult recently.
OK, well you got the right lyric... am I the only person who thinks it sounds like sphincter?!
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All I'm hearing is that you shouldn't buy any components of your sound system from Argos.
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Just realised that I had Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me wrong all these years.

I thought it was:

'I'm hot, can't sleep,
from my head, to my feet'.

That never sat right with me, but I never thought about it hard enough to correct it from 'can't sleep' to 'sticky sweet'.
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Zarte Siempre wrote:
Graeme Cole wrote:
Zarte Siempre wrote:What do you call it when you know what the actual words are but STILL can't escape that it sounds like something else entirely...

What is it you lot think they're saying is about to explode?

https://youtu.be/gh-pGxZBQ1Y?t=48s
Without having heard this before or read the lyrics, it sounds to me like "the speaker".

Perhaps it's a song about Parliamentary business having been unusually difficult recently.
OK, well you got the right lyric... am I the only person who thinks it sounds like sphincter?!
I also heard "speaker", can't speak on behalf of All Other People though.
Mike Brown: "Round 12: T N R S A E I G U

C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
C2: SEATING (7)
Score: 108–16 (max 113)

Another niner for Adam and yet another century. Well done, that man."
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I CANT BELIEVE YOU KISS YOUR C**K AT NIGHT
COUNTDOWN or THE TUBE? Which is better? There's only one way to find out....

Call it a draw :)

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