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1960s | |
Buffalo Springfield's, "For What It's Worth"
Misheard Lyrics: There's a man with a gum over there
Original Lyrics: There's a man with a gun over there
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1970s | |
10cc's, "The Things We Do for Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Communication is the problem to the a**hole
Original Lyrics: Communication is the problem to the answer
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Ambrosia's, "How Much I Feel"
Misheard Lyrics: That's how much champagne
Original Lyrics: That's how much I feel
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Barry Manilow's, "It's a Miracle"
Misheard Lyrics: Now you're hearing my arms all around you
And baby they'll be dancing Meryl Streep Original Lyrics: Now you're here in my arms all around you
And baby they'll be dancing in the street |
Billy Joel's, "The Stranger"
Misheard Lyrics: Everyone goes sour
Every now and then Original Lyrics: Everyone goes south
Every now and then |
Dobie Gray's, "Drift Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Give me a cheese dog to feed my soul
Original Lyrics: Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul.
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Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions', "Boogie Wonderland"
Misheard Lyrics: Midnight greats so lonely into hearts Omen who need more than they get
Original Lyrics: Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men who need more than they get
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Edward Bear's, "Last Song"
Misheard Lyrics: Did you know my goat's asleep
Original Lyrics: Did you know I go to sleep
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Eric Clapton's, "Cocaine"
Misheard Lyrics: It don't lie
It don't lie It don't lie Croquet Original Lyrics: She don't lie,
she don't lie, she don't lie, cocaine. |
Five Man Electrical Band's, "Signs"
Misheard Lyrics: And the sign said "Won't be freaky"
Original Lyrics: And the sign said "Long hair freaky"
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John Prine's, "That's the Way the World Goes 'Round"
Misheard Lyrics: There's a happy enchilada and it thinks it's going to town
Original Lyrics: There's a half an inch of water and you think your gonna drown
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Schoolhouse Rock's, "I'm Just a Bill"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm just a bell
Yes, I'm only a bell or I'm just a pill Yes, I'm only a pill Original Lyrics: I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill |
Schoolhouse Rock's, "Interjections!"
Misheard Lyrics: He cured the infection with one small infection
While Reginald uttered some indigestion Original Lyrics: He cured the infection with one small injection
While Reginald uttered some interjections |
Schoolhouse Rock's, "Mother Necessity"
Misheard Lyrics: Mother no sesame
Original Lyrics: Mother Necessity
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Schoolhouse Rock's, "Schoolhouse Rocky (theme song)"
Misheard Lyrics: A chip off the plot of your favorite schoolhouse
Schoolhouse Rock! Original Lyrics: A chip off the block of your favorite schoolhouse
Schoolhouse Rock! |
Schoolhouse Rock's, "The Great American Melting Pot"
Misheard Lyrics: With her book of masterpiece
Original Lyrics: With her book of recipes
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Schoolhouse Rock's, "Three is a Magic Number"
Misheard Lyrics: Trees, it's a magic number
Original Lyrics: Three is a magic number
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Sex Pistols', "Holidays in the Sun"
Misheard Lyrics: Clintaphoria
It's too much paranoia There's too much traffic So when will we fall And now I gotta reason - it's no real reason - to be waiting : the Berlin wall I gotta go over the Wall, I don't understand this myth at all, These herd-like like beat-moving chumps Cheat, die alone, cheater since you seen me Original Lyrics: Claustrophobia, there's too much paranoia
There's too many closets I went in before And now I gotta reason - it's no real reason - to be waiting : the Berlin wall I gotta go over the Wall, I don't understand this bit at all, This third-rate, B-movie show Cheap dialogue/cheap, essential scenery |
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1980s | |
ABBA's, "When All Is Said and Done"
Misheard Lyrics: A lion on the phone
Original Lyrics: And lying on the floor
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Ambrosia's, "Biggest Part of Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Make a list baby
Original Lyrics: Make a wish baby
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Great White's, "Once Bitten Twice Shy"
Misheard Lyrics: There's blood on my ass and by left ball's beat.
Original Lyrics: There's blood on my amp and my Les Paul's beat.
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Judas Priest's, "Turbo Lover"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm your terrible brother
Original Lyrics: I'm your Turbo Lover
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Lipps Inc.'s, "Funkytown"
Misheard Lyrics: Won't you take me to Fuckingtown?
Original Lyrics: Won't you take me to Funkytown?
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U2's, "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Misheard Lyrics: Buddies strewn across the dead orange street
Original Lyrics: Bodies strewn across the dead end street
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1990s | |
Ace of Base's, "Beautiful Life"
Misheard Lyrics: You're looking for someone to the north
You're sending all along For someone to guide you all away Now and Beretta Original Lyrics: You're looking for somewhere to belong
You're standing all alone For someone to guide you all the way Now and forever |
Beastie Boys', "Body Movin'"
Misheard Lyrics: Like a bottle of Chateau, I love to pap
Original Lyrics: Like a bottle of Chateau Neuf Du Pap
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Beastie Boys', "Three MCs And One DJ"
Misheard Lyrics: You'll wanna get next to me in a Rolls-Royce
Original Lyrics: I wanna get next to you like Rose Royce
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Destiny's Child's, "Say My Name"
Misheard Lyrics: Cinnamon, cinnamon!
Original Lyrics: Say my name, say my name!
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Eiffel 65's, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm blue if I was green I would die...if I was green I would die
Original Lyrics: I'm blue (da ba dee da ba di)
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Justice Crew's, "Gangsta Paradise"
Misheard Lyrics: rollo de huevo
Original Lyrics: too much television
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Korn's, "Freak on a Leash"
Misheard Lyrics: Some things they...KORN!
Original Lyrics: Some things they DIE!
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Nightcrawlers', "Push the Feeling On"
Misheard Lyrics: Been lied to again, been lied to by a foolish spoon.
Original Lyrics: Their lives again, their lives ... to pull us through.
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Nirvana's, "About A Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm taking Benadryl
You leave me out to dry. Original Lyrics: Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry. |
Nirvana's, "Aneurysm"
Misheard Lyrics: She keeps a pumpkin straight in my heart
Original Lyrics: She keeps it pumpin' straight in my heart
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Nirvana's, "Lounge Act"
Misheard Lyrics: Jealous f*cking c*nt
Original Lyrics: 'Til it's f***ing gone.
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Queen Latifah's, "Just Another Day..."
Misheard Lyrics: Just another day
Nothing in the hood Original Lyrics: Just another day
Living in the hood |
Queen Latifah's, "We Are Living Single (Living Single theme)"
Misheard Lyrics: In a nanny's kind of world
Original Lyrics: In a '90s kind of world
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Train's, "Meet Virginia"
Misheard Lyrics: and Shea Boulevard, is unusual
Original Lyrics: And the shape of her body, unusual
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Trippin' Daisy's, "I Got a Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: I got a girl
She's but a guy! Original Lyrics: I got a girl
She's got a guy! |
2000s | |
Blink-182's, "First Date"
Misheard Lyrics: On it!
Checkmate! This may last forever! Original Lyrics: Honest!
Let's make! This night last forever! |
Destiny's Child's, "Jumpin' Jumpin'"
Misheard Lyrics: Ladies leave your man at home
The club is full of bottles and the bucket's for the grown Original Lyrics: Ladies leave your man at home
The club is full of ballers and their pockets full grown |
Duffy's, "Mercy"
Misheard Lyrics: You got me begging you for birdseed
Original Lyrics: You got me begging you for mercy
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Fall Out Boy's, "Dance Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: This is
A falling apart For the last time Original Lyrics: Dance, dance
We're falling apart to halftime |
Muse's, "Time Is Running Out"
Misheard Lyrics: Now that you know I'm trapped since ovulation
Original Lyrics: Now that you know I'm trapped, sense of elation
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Rascal Flatts', "Bless the Broken Road"
Misheard Lyrics: Let God blast the broken road
That led me straight to you Original Lyrics: That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you |
2010s | |
Grouplove's, "Tongue Tied"
Misheard Lyrics: I peed the bed up in the sky.
Original Lyrics: Like Peter Pan up in the sky
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Hozier's, "Take Me to Church"
Misheard Lyrics: Take me to church and I'll worship like a dog on a Saturday night
Original Lyrics: Take me to church and I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
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Imagine Dragons', "Gold"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm dying to feel again, again
Oh, anything at all, oh, anything at all, But oh, I feel nothing, nothing, nothing, NUTSACK! Original Lyrics: I'm dying to feel again, again,
Oh, anything at all, oh, anything at all, But oh, I feel nothing, nothing, nothing, NOTHING! |
Major Lazer's, "Lean On"
Misheard Lyrics: Marcus, fire a gun
Original Lyrics: Blow a kiss, fire a gun
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