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There are 52 misheard song lyrics for Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers on amIright currently.
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"A One Story Town"
Misheard Lyrics:
The spaceship comes down,
Nothing turns around
Nothing turns around
Original Lyrics:
The same shit goes down,
Nothing turns around
Nothing turns around
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
After all, it was a great big world
With lots of faces to run to.
With lots of faces to run to.
Original Lyrics:
After all, it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to.
With lots of places to run to.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
And if she ever stopped trying.
Original Lyrics:
And if she had to die trying.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
God is so painful.
Original Lyrics:
God, it's so painful.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Microwaves crashing on the beach.
Original Lyrics:
Like waves crashing on the beach.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
She couldn't ever thinking that there was a little old life somewhere else
After all, it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had the doubt
Trying she, had one little promise she was gonna keep.
After all, it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had the doubt
Trying she, had one little promise she was gonna keep.
Original Lyrics:
She couldn't help thinking there was a little more to life somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die trying
She had one little promise she was gonna keep.
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die trying
She had one little promise she was gonna keep.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
She couldn't help thinkin' that that was a little boy like you, somewhere else.
or
She couldn't help thinkin' that death was a little boy like you, somewhere else.
or
She couldn't help thinkin' that death was a little boy like you, somewhere else.
Original Lyrics:
She couldn't help thinkin' that there was a little more to life, somewhere else.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
She stood alone on a bag of meat.
or
She stood alone and she barked at me.
or
She stood alone and she barked at me.
Original Lyrics:
She stood alone on the balcony.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
She stood alone on the back of me.
Original Lyrics:
She stood alone on the balcony.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
She was an American girl
Raised out in Providence.
Raised out in Providence.
Original Lyrics:
She was an American girl
Raised on promises.
Raised on promises.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Well it was kind of cold at night
She stood alone on a bed of nails
Yeah she caught all the cars roll by, it was like hollywood
Like waves crashing on the beach.
She stood alone on a bed of nails
Yeah she caught all the cars roll by, it was like hollywood
Like waves crashing on the beach.
Original Lyrics:
Well it was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on a balcony
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by out on 441
Like waves crashing on the beach.
She stood alone on a balcony
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by out on 441
Like waves crashing on the beach.
"American Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll back
An old folk thought it was
Like waves crashin' on the beach.
An old folk thought it was
Like waves crashin' on the beach.
Original Lyrics:
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach.
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' on the beach.
"Don't Come Around Here No More"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't come in my rear no more.
Original Lyrics:
Don't come around here no more.
"Don't Come Around Here No More"
Misheard Lyrics:
Give it up. Stop!
Don't wait a little longer.
Give it up. I'm goin' on, feeling stronger.
Don't wait a little longer.
Give it up. I'm goin' on, feeling stronger.
Original Lyrics:
I've given up. Stop!
On waiting any longer.
I've given up on this love getting stronger.
On waiting any longer.
I've given up on this love getting stronger.
"Don't Come Around Here No More"
Misheard Lyrics:
I've given up. Stop!
On waiting any longer
I've given up, all this love getting stronger.
On waiting any longer
I've given up, all this love getting stronger.
Original Lyrics:
I've given up. Stop!
On waiting any longer
I've given up on this love getting stronger.
On waiting any longer
I've given up on this love getting stronger.
"Don't Do Me Like That"
Misheard Lyrics:
And milk ain't shaking no more
Original Lyrics:
And you can't take it no more
"Don't Do Me Like That"
Misheard Lyrics:
Baby you were very mean.
Original Lyrics:
Baby you would bury me.
"Don't Do Me Like That"
Misheard Lyrics:
Baby you're a-very me
or
Baby you'll bury me
or
Baby you'll bury me
Original Lyrics:
Baby you would bury me
"Don't Do Me Like That"
Misheard Lyrics:
Baby, will you marry me?
Original Lyrics:
Baby, you would bury me.
"Don't Do Me Like That"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't turn the lights out.
Original Lyrics:
Don't do me like that.
"Don't Do Me Like That"
Misheard Lyrics:
Talk to me like that.
Original Lyrics:
Don't do me like that.
"Free Fallin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
All the valentines walkin' through the valley
or
All the film empires walkin' through the valley
or
All the film times walkin' through the valley.
or
All the film empires walkin' through the valley
or
All the film times walkin' through the valley.
Original Lyrics:
All the vampires walkin' through the valley.
"Free Fallin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
Freebasing
Original Lyrics:
Free fallin'
"Free Fallin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
I want to write her naming this guy.
Original Lyrics:
I want to write her name in the sky.
"Free Fallin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
Loves Cheez-its and America, too.
Original Lyrics:
Loves Jesus and America, too.
"Free Fallin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
Loves cheeses, and America too.
Original Lyrics:
Loves Jesus, and America too.
"Free Fallin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
She's a good girl, crazy about elves.
Original Lyrics:
She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis.
"Free Fallin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
There's a freeway running through the yarn.
Original Lyrics:
There's a freeway running through the yard.
"Here Comes My Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Whatcha want?
Original Lyrics:
Watch her walk.
"Into The Great Wide Open"
Misheard Lyrics:
A rebel without shampoo
Original Lyrics:
A rebel without a clue
"Into The Great Wide Open"
Misheard Lyrics:
Mary and Armand said 'I don't hear a single'.
Original Lyrics:
Their A & R man said 'I don't hear a single'.
"Into The Great Wide Open"
Misheard Lyrics:
Perry and Armand said, "I don't hear a single."
Original Lyrics:
Their A & R men said, "I don't hear a single."
"Into The Great Wide Open"
Misheard Lyrics:
There ain't an Army said
'I don't hear a single.'
'I don't hear a single.'
Original Lyrics:
The A and R man said
'I don't hear a single.'
'I don't hear a single.'
"Into The Great Wide Open"
Misheard Lyrics:
There ain't an album that I don't hear a single
Original Lyrics:
Their A & R men said, 'I don't hear a single'
"It's Good To Be King"
Misheard Lyrics:
When you pull dark bars
You'll be merry, seems
Yes, I'll be king
When dark's get ringed
You'll be merry, seems
Yes, I'll be king
When dark's get ringed
Original Lyrics:
When your bulldog barks
And your canary sings
Yes, I'll be king
When dogs have wings
And your canary sings
Yes, I'll be king
When dogs have wings
"Mary Jane's Last Dance"
Misheard Lyrics:
Lookin’ down from a hotel room, Snack bar will be coming soon.
Original Lyrics:
Lookin’ down from a hotel room, Nightfall will be coming soon.
"Nightwatchman"
Misheard Lyrics:
Every night you watch me
Original Lyrics:
I'm the night watchman
"Rebels"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hey Hey Hey
I was Barney Rubble
I was Barney Rubble
Original Lyrics:
Hey Hey Hey
I was born a rebel
I was born a rebel
"Rebels"
Misheard Lyrics:
I was Barney Rubble
Original Lyrics:
I was born a rebel
"Refugee"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't hate the little Affro refuges.
Original Lyrics:
Don't have to live like a refugee.
"Refugee"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't have to live life in effigy.
Original Lyrics:
Don't have to live like a refugee.
"Refugee"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't have to live like a deputy.
Original Lyrics:
Don't have to live like a refugee.
"Refugee"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't have to live like a rat and cheese
Original Lyrics:
Don't have to live like a refugee
"Refugee"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't mess around with the love machine.
Original Lyrics:
Baby, you don't have to live like a refugee.
"Refugee"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't have a liver like a refugee
or
It's okay to live like a refugee
or
It's okay to live like a refugee
Original Lyrics:
Don't have to live like a refugee
"Refugee"
Misheard Lyrics:
Love is a little like a refugee
Don't mess around with the refugee.
Don't mess around with the refugee.
Original Lyrics:
Don't have to live like a refugee
Don't have to live like a refugee.
Don't have to live like a refugee.
"Refugee"
Misheard Lyrics:
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must get
Kicked you around, son
Kicked you around, son
Original Lyrics:
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have
Kicked you around some
Kicked you around some
"Yer So Bad"
Misheard Lyrics:
Now she's a singer, a Dave Dinger Singer.
Original Lyrics:
Now she's a swinger dating a singer.
"You Wreck Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
Erect me baby!
Original Lyrics:
You wreck me baby!
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
Anthology: Through the Years album at Amazon.com
Into the Great Wide Open album at Amazon.com
Echo album at Amazon.com
Damn the Torpedoes album at Amazon.com
Southern Accents album at Amazon.com
Hard Promises album at Amazon.com
Pack up the Plantation: Live! album at Amazon.com
Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) album at Amazon.com
Playback album at Amazon.com
