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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
 
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
Chicago's, "Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is?"
Misheard Lyrics:
Alcohol
Original Lyrics:
Oh no, no
Iggy Pop's, "Lust for Life"
Misheard Lyrics:
Here comes Johnny Indian
Original Lyrics:
Here comes Johnny Yen again
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
 
1980s
Anita Baker's, "Sweet Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
I feel no shade
Original Lyrics:
I feel no shame
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.
Dan Reed Network's, "Ritual"
Misheard Lyrics:
You are habitual.
Original Lyrics:
You are my ritual.
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
Paul Simon's, "Graceland"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm going to grapes, man
Original Lyrics:
I'm going to Graceland
Queen's, "Save Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
Said we made a perfect pie
Original Lyrics:
Said we made a perfect pair.
The Buggles', "Video Killed the Radio Star"
Misheard Lyrics:
Very young kid, the radio star
Original Lyrics:
Video killed the radio star
 
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.
 
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
Fall Out Boy's, "20 Dollar Nose Bleed"
Misheard Lyrics:
Call me, Mr Ben a dream
Original Lyrics:
Call me Mr. Benzedrine
Fall Out Boy's, "27"
Misheard Lyrics:
You're a battle scar
Original Lyrics:
You're a bottled star
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sam Hunt's, "House Party"
Misheard Lyrics:
We're gonna have a house farting.
Original Lyrics:
We're gonna have a house party.
 
christian
Grits', "Stop Bitin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
Snot funny!
Original Lyrics:
Stop bitin'!

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