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1960s | |
The Left Banke's, "Walk Away Renee"
Misheard Lyrics: Just walk away Renee
You won't see me falling over the wall Original Lyrics: Just walk away Renee
You won't see me following you back home |
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1970s | |
Chicago's, "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
Misheard Lyrics: A Krypton lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had stopped all day
Original Lyrics: A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had stopped cold dead
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Chicago's, "Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is?"
Misheard Lyrics: Alcohol
Original Lyrics: Oh no, no
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Iggy Pop's, "Lust for Life"
Misheard Lyrics: Here comes Johnny Indian
Original Lyrics: Here comes Johnny Yen again
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John Denver's, "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Misheard Lyrics: West Virginia, mount banana
Take me home, country roads. Original Lyrics: West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads. |
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1)"
Misheard Lyrics: You! You behind the flagstaff!!
Stand still laddie!! Original Lyrics: You! Yes, you behind the bike sheds!
Stand still, laddie! |
The Brothers Johnson's, "Strawberry Letter 23"
Misheard Lyrics: I heard a p*** from you
Original Lyrics: I heard a kiss from you
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1980s | |
Billy Joel's, "Uptown Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: With an uptown girl
She's been living in her white pleb world. Original Lyrics: With an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world. |
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Dan Reed Network's, "Ritual"
Misheard Lyrics: You are habitual.
Original Lyrics: You are my ritual.
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Dave Edmunds', "Me and the Boys"
Misheard Lyrics: We just been angels so long
Those fancy drivers tell us how to drive Original Lyrics: Feels so good feels so alive
No backseat drivers tell us how to drive |
Michael Jackson's, "Billie Jean"
Misheard Lyrics: But the chance is not my son.
Original Lyrics: But the kid is not my son
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Paul Simon's, "Graceland"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm going to grapes, man
Original Lyrics: I'm going to Graceland
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Queen's, "Save Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Said we made a perfect pie
Original Lyrics: Said we made a perfect pair.
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The Buggles', "Video Killed the Radio Star"
Misheard Lyrics: Very young kid, the radio star
Original Lyrics: Video killed the radio star
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1990s | |
Shamen's, "Ebeneezer Goode"
Misheard Lyrics: Knees are good, knees are good
These seven knees are good Original Lyrics: Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode
He's Ebeneezer Goode. |
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2000s | |
Bowling for Soup's, "Girl All the Bad Guys Want"
Misheard Lyrics: And I got no semen pass
Original Lyrics: And I got no season pass
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Fall Out Boy's, "20 Dollar Nose Bleed"
Misheard Lyrics: Call me, Mr Ben a dream
Original Lyrics: Call me Mr. Benzedrine
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Fall Out Boy's, "7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)"
Misheard Lyrics: Saying that this is all I wore
Trying to forget everything that isn't you I'm not going on a low Original Lyrics: Sitting out dances on the wall
Trying to forget everything that isn't you I'm not going home alone |
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Fall Out Boy's, "America's Suitehearts"
Misheard Lyrics: Dancing whoa, oh oh hands, America bling
Original Lyrics: Down, set, one, hut, hut, hike, Media Blitz
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Fall Out Boy's, "Carpal Tunnel of Love"
Misheard Lyrics: I believe it's kissing me inside of this room
Original Lyrics: Robbing lips, kissing banks under this moon
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Fall Out Boy's, "Carpal Tunnel of Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Pull out/punish the words out the mockingbirds, see me
Original Lyrics: And we bullet the words at the mockingbirds singing
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Fall Out Boy's, "Dance, Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: Why don't you show me your little beauty spot
Original Lyrics: Why don't need you show me a little bit of spine
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Fall Out Boy's, "Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes"
Misheard Lyrics: Little girl, got me staring eyes
Or was that just a telescope with camera eyes P-p-paint the dolls in the high with truck love laws Love lizard scales in the night-time moon All your rookies leave you bad and the gun and the desk When you leave the room Original Lyrics: Little girl, got me staring odd
Or was that just a telescopic camera nod P-p-painted dolls in the highway truckstop stalls Lot lizard scales cool your nightlife moods All the rookies leave your badge and your gun on the desk When you leave the room |
Fall Out Boy's, "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?"
Misheard Lyrics: They sing, kings of everything
We won a bank on a seeing ship There's a world outside of my fun door Original Lyrics: They say quitters never win
But we walk a plank on a sinking ship There's a world outside of my front door |
Fall Out Boy's, "Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying"
Misheard Lyrics: If you are so sure, I am the wait, begging for good news
I'm letting manners to adresses in a ghost town Original Lyrics: If you are the shores, I am the waves begging for big moons
I’m mailing letters to addresses in a ghost town |
Fall Out Boy's, "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet"
Misheard Lyrics: Sort out bay way fill back to four
Like all hell light sit the puddle boo again Heck, like a seal trap ... Of the crickets that kick kings like me to crawl in the night? ... Temper in the teacup, get unique Paradoxes parted shine like sharp teeth ... It's a sign, but if you eat early? Original Lyrics: Surfed out brain waves flick back and forth
Like old headlights sniffing model glue again Head like a steel trap .... Of the crickets that would convince me to call it a night? ... Tempest in a teacup, Get unique Peroxide princes shine like shark teeth ... It's a sign-what if you peaked early? |
Fall Out Boy's, "Hum Hallelujah"
Misheard Lyrics: Hands on instruction cruise ...
To death to us must part ... My world is fake, my help is all good name A remix of your guts, your inside an X-ray ... We're to fall, you're here in just to show a stop ... There's some trouble in the hospital Original Lyrics: Hired a construction crew ...
Till tonight do us part ... My words are my faith to hell with our good name. A remix of your guts, your insides X-rayed ... We're a bull, your ears are just a china shop ... There's a chapel in a hospital |
Fall Out Boy's, "I Don't Care"
Misheard Lyrics: Let shimmer glow in flames
Earn myself and let go Started over again in Mexico ... Take a chance, let your body be on top of it I'm not a chance, put a headway in your passport Breath, like another cigarette Pull shop on trading marks Original Lyrics: And let December glow in flames
Erase myself and let go, start it over again in Mexico ... Oh take a chance, let your body get a tolerance I'm not a chance, put a heat wave in your pants Pull a breath like another cigarette Pawnshop heart trading up |
Fall Out Boy's, "I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I .."
Misheard Lyrics: I'm the first kid, to ride a horse of a friend
And I got everything in sale, two assignments Oh, and I'm the first kid to ride a horse of a friend now ... Raise yourself, bite your lips I'm sending all fingernails in empty bottle to sip ... They call killers in stores and the store Oh, but what we've become, we just feel more alive Always weigh with my lose against my less So pull out a pore, I am missing you to death Original Lyrics: I'm the first kid, to write of hearts, lies, and friends.
And I've got arrogance down to a science Oh, and I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends, now ... Brace yourself, bite your lips I'm sending your fingernails and empty bottles you've sipped ... They call kids like us vicious and carved out of stone But for what we've become, we just feel more alone Always weigh what I've lost against what I left So progress report: I am missing you to death |
Fall Out Boy's, "I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying.."
Misheard Lyrics: I only keep my death to stick in the dead
'Cause I know how the words get you We're the new face of failure Pretty-eyed and younger, but not any better off Better full loneliness, Abbey, Abbey ... Collected best hands if That you couldn't bear to keep Out of the worlds that I love But see, I used to lay beneath Kiss teeth stained red For a shower bottle baby girl With eyes the the size of Bambi worlds Original Lyrics: I only keep myself this sick in the head
'Cause I know how the words get you We're the new face of failure Prettier and younger but not any better off Bullet proof loneliness, at best, at best ... Collect the bad habits That you couldn't bare to keep Out of the woods but I love A tree I used to lay beneath Kissed teeth stained red From a sour bottle baby girl With eyes the size of baby worlds |
Fall Out Boy's, "I've Got All This Ringing in My Ears, And..."
Misheard Lyrics: You're a canary, I'm a cold mine
'Cause some ohhhh is just all the way ... Do you remember the way I held your hand? Under the land post land, oh This way, so many times I could close my eyes Original Lyrics: You're a canary, I'm a coal mine
'Cause sorrow is just all the rage ... Do you remember the way I held your hand? Under the lamp post and ran home This way so many times I could close my eyes |
Fall Out Boy's, "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner"
Misheard Lyrics: Dip down that carry bully seeeeeeeee
Come spit off bridges with me Just to keep us warm Light a match to leave, McBee Light a match to leave meeeeeee ... Hold it in the pen and leave a feather every day Original Lyrics: Drink down that Gin and Kerosene,
And come spit on bridges with me, Just to keep us warm. Light a match to leave me be. Light a match to leave me be. ... The hand behind this pen relives a failure every day. |
Fall Out Boy's, "The (Shipped) Gold Standard"
Misheard Lyrics: Paint paint trees on Lake Michigan before it gets cold ...
All the yes men said no comment My mind got go away, the wrong way And all my cows started sowing ... Tell me now I'll look at it all now Likable, I'll turn it all down Super and the poppet are balls for the billing of soap Original Lyrics: Plant palm trees on lake Michigan before it gets cold ...
All the Yes men said 'no comment' My mouth got going the wrong way and all the calls started snowing ... Tell that boy I'll leave you alone now Like a stove, I'll turn my love down Supra and the prophet are both in the business of souls |
Fall Out Boy's, "The Take Over, The Break's Over"
Misheard Lyrics: Would you rather be a weirdo, than the divorce see?
Styling with your fashion magazines ... What are we doing in the dark? With smiles on our faces We're trapped and well, so cleaned Original Lyrics: Would your rather be a widow than a divorcée?
Style in the wake of fashion magazines ... We do it in the dark with smile on our faces We're dropped and well concealed |
Fall Out Boy's, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"
Misheard Lyrics: I am an arms dealer, filling you with weapons in the form of words
And don't really care, wish I had wings Long is the road that's singing I'm in my business I'm in, yeah ... I'm a maiden man And my lies are evil Oh so intellect, oh so intellect Original Lyrics: I am an arms dealer
Fitting you with weapons in the form of words And don't really care which side wins As long as the room keeps singing That's just the business I'm in, yeah ... I'm a leading man And the lies I weave are oh so intricate, Oh so intricate |
Fall Out Boy's, "Tiffany Blews"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm not the crap, baby, I'm the crap baby
I got a pillar that got stuck Mr Wolf come quick with Ms Widler A long walk to a dark house A Roman keeps the heart and the car far apart I'm a caffeine, partly doing all right Maybe maybe maybe I'm a piece of art Oh, my friends are all insane Original Lyrics: I'm not a crybaby, I'm the crybaby
A caterpillar that got stuck Mr. Moth come quick with any luck A long walk to a dark ha-ha-house A roman candle heart keep us far apart I'm cocktail party doing all right Hate me baby, maybe I'm a piece of art Oh my friends all lie and say |
Fall Out Boy's, "West Coast Smoker"
Misheard Lyrics: Come on in the water war
Come on like a sugar cube with with a kick in the head Like putting wings on the dead And your eyes are black in my starlight I'm the last of my kind, and that's all that should matter to you Following the disenchanted regions of my head And we'll never get a costume Let's just take off and get instead Go all the green, in the gutter My heart broken many times in the league Original Lyrics: Come on in, the water's warm
Come on like a sugar cube but with a kick in the head Like putting wings on lead And your eyes are blocking my starlight I'm the last of my kind, and that's all that should matter to you Follow the disorganized religion of my head And we'll never get through customs Let's just take off again instead Got my degree in the gutter, My heart broken in the dorms of the ivy league |
Lisa Marie Presley's, "Lights Out"
Misheard Lyrics: Someone turned the lice out there in Memphis
Original Lyrics: Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis
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Ozzy's, "Dog the Bounty Hunter"
Misheard Lyrics: There's beer and darkness all around you.
The criminals are on the run. No use in hiding in a park..... Original Lyrics: There's fear and darkness all around you.
The criminals are on the run. No use in hiding in the dark. |
Ozzy's, "Dog the Bounty Hunter"
Misheard Lyrics: There's dear and darkness all around you,
The criminals are on the run. No use in hiding in the dark I'll hunt you down 'cause I'm the dog. I'm the dog, the big bad dog The bounty hunter, The bounty Hunter. Haha ha ha ha ha ha. Original Lyrics: There's fear and darkness all around you, the criminals are on the run...
No use in hiding in the dark. I'll hunt you down 'cause I'm the dog. I'm ,the dog the big bad dog. The bounty hunter. The bounty hunter. Ha haha haha. |
2010s | |
Fall Out Boy's, "Fourth of July"
Misheard Lyrics: I miss you in a joke one, too ...
And the bridges on the arm make the way back home ... Oh I'm sorry, I don't love any other ... You were my first star at night ... My favourite part is cutting open all scars ... Hell my doubt, bell a little out You are my death And I'm the only you can't live without They could either cool the room the room And oh, don't tell me you're fine ... The fortune of small talk with the one you used to love Original Lyrics: And I miss you in the June gloom, too ...
May the bridges I have burned light my way back home ... Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean any of it ... You were my Versailles at night ... My 9 to 5 is cutting open old scars Had my doubts, but I let them out You are the drought And I'm the holy water you have been without They could heat or cool the room And no, don't tell me you're crying ... The torture of small talk with someone you used to love |
Fall Out Boy's, "Irresistible"
Misheard Lyrics: I just followed the saint, you can just follow my smile
All your flaws are aligned in the moon of mine Colourful in the bone, nothing left to leave behind ... Fret me up on the wall just to keep me out of trouble Like a month I am trapped, I am light to fixation Tune it in lovely babe, I'm talking no inflation Too many wall rooms and not enough walls Took few rounds foreign in to the not settled scores Too many shocks, not enough blood in the way You know I give my love to the fortune letter, heyyyy ... Moon cherries, but you too catches up with us eventfully Try to stay live, live to left life But I'm no good, good at dancing this Except when I'm yours, meet the mores I'm coming for you and I'm making more Original Lyrics: I just followed your scent, you can just follow my smile
All of your flaws are aligned with this mood of mine Cutting me to the bone, nothing left to leave behind ... I'm gonna get you to burst just like you were a bubble Frame me up on your wall just to keep me out of trouble Like a moth getting trapped in the light by fixation Truly free, love it baby, I'm talking no inflation Too many war wounds and not enough wars Too few rounds in the ring and not enough settled scores Too many sharks, not enough blood in the waves You know I give my love a f-f-four letter na-na-name ... Mon chéri, but the truth catches up with us eventually Try to say live, live and let live But I'm no good, good at lip service Except when they're yours, mi amor I'm coming for you and I'm making war |
Fall Out Boy's, "The Kids Aren't Alright"
Misheard Lyrics: From the heroes who quit too late ...
Oh, mores Wendy made it pour Say third tea like before ... It's our time now if you want it to be Mow the world like a car in the best set free And your love is a manic Original Lyrics: Former heroes who quit too late. ...
I'm yours. When it rains it pours. Stay thirsty like before. ... And it's our time now if you want it to be. Maul the world like a carnival bear set free. And your love is anemic. |
Fall Out Boy's, "The Mighty Fall"
Misheard Lyrics: Your cookie love is just a peanut on skin
And I'm ditzy on dreams Original Lyrics: Your crooked love is just a pyramid scheme
And I'm dizzy on dreams |
Jessie J's, "Masterpiece"
Misheard Lyrics: Oooh, oooh (Stop working on, stop working on)
Oooh, aaah (Stop working on my masterpiece) Original Lyrics: Oooh, oooh (Still working on, still working on)
Oooh, aaah (Still working on my masterpiece) |
Miley Cyrus', "Wrecking Ball"
Misheard Lyrics: Left me crouching in a blaze and fall
Original Lyrics: Left me crashing in a blazing fall
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Sam Hunt's, "House Party"
Misheard Lyrics: We're gonna have a house farting.
Original Lyrics: We're gonna have a house party.
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