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1960s | |
Bobby Darin's, "If I Were A Carpenter"
Misheard Lyrics: Would you miss your colour bar? What does color box mean anyway???
Original Lyrics: Would you miss your colored blouse?
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Elvis Presley's, "Suspicious Minds"
Misheard Lyrics: We called it a crap
Original Lyrics: We're caught in a trap.
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Iron Butterfly's, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't you know that I'm always the truth?
Original Lyrics: Don't you know that I'll always be true?
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King Crimson's, "Epitaph"
Misheard Lyrics: On future, will be my epitaph.
'Cause I crawl, I cracked, and broken path. If we make it we can all sit back and laugh. 'Cause I will tomorrow I'll be crying. Yes I will tomorrow I'll be crying. Yes I will tomorrow I'll be crying. Original Lyrics: Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path. If we make it we can all sit back and laugh. But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying. Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying. Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying. |
1970s | |
Andrea True Connection's, "More More More"
Misheard Lyrics: Moo, moo, moo
How do you like it (milk), how do you like it? Original Lyrics: More, more, more
How do you like it, how do you like it? |
Black Sabbath's, "Behind The Wall Of Sleep"
Misheard Lyrics: Hey ol' army boys Touch your body to a corpse
Original Lyrics: If you want all remorse
Take your body to a corpse. |
Cledus Maggard & the Citizens Band's, "White Knight"
Misheard Lyrics: My tail in jail and my rear gettin' pounded
Original Lyrics: My tail in jail and my rig impounded
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Gilbert O'Sullivan's, "Get Down"
Misheard Lyrics: You're a bag of gravy
Original Lyrics: You're a bad dog, baby
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Queen's, "You're My Best Friend"
Misheard Lyrics: You're the bandstand that I ever had
Original Lyrics: You're the best friend that I ever had
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Ten Years After's, "Think About the Times"
Misheard Lyrics: Think about a time.
Original Lyrics: Think about the times.
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The Miracles', "Love Machine, Part 1"
Misheard Lyrics: And let me love you from noon to one
Original Lyrics: And let me love you for a little while
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1980s | |
Bananarama's, "I Heard a Rumor"
Misheard Lyrics: I cannot forgive nor soon forget
Original Lyrics: How can I forgive or soon forget?
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Culture Club's, "Move Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Move move move away from the Dalek
Original Lyrics: Move move move away from me darling
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Foreigner's, "Say You Will"
Misheard Lyrics: Say you will, say you want to make up your mind tonight.
Say you do, say you don't want to be mine. Say you will, say you want to make up your mind this time. Original Lyrics: Say you will, say you won't make up your mind tonight.
Say you do, say you don't want to be mine. Say you will, say you won't make up your mind this time. |
James Ingram's, "One Hundred Ways"
Misheard Lyrics: Sweet as the dead
Original Lyrics: The sweetest of debts
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Metallica's, "Disposable Heroes"
Misheard Lyrics: Friends who kill them all
Original Lyrics: Bred to kill them all
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Roxette's, "Listen to Your Heart"
Misheard Lyrics: Listen to your heart.
When his calling for you. Original Lyrics: Listen to your heart.
When he's calling for you. |
Roxy Music's, "More Than This"
Misheard Lyrics: Modern air I know there's nothing
Original Lyrics: More than this I know there's nothing
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Tears for Fears', "Shout"
Misheard Lyrics: Shop
Shop Ready or not Original Lyrics: Shout
Shout Let it all out |
Van Halen's, "And the Cradle Will Rock"
Misheard Lyrics: And the credo will rock
Yes the credo, the credo will rock Original Lyrics: And the cradle will rock
Yes the cradle, the cradle will rock |
Van Halen's, "Jump"
Misheard Lyrics: F**K you!
Who said that? Baby how you been? You say you don't know, you won't know until eat ten. Original Lyrics: Hey you!
Who said that? Baby how you been? You say you don't know, you won't know until we begin. |
Van Halen's, "Panama"
Misheard Lyrics: You'll lose her in that touch. I'll get HUNG!
Original Lyrics: You'll lose her in that turn. I'll get her!
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1990s | |
Counting Crows', "Omaha"
Misheard Lyrics: In the middle of the night there's an old man threading his TOAST through a bucket of rain.
Original Lyrics: In the middle of the night there's an old man threading his TOES through a bucket of rain.
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Jay Z's, "Bib Pimpin'"
Misheard Lyrics: We be big pimpin', spinnin' cheese
Original Lyrics: We be big pimpin', spendin' cheese
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Nirvana's, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Misheard Lyrics: A Mulatto, an Albino have a Skittle, have a Frito
Original Lyrics: A Mulatto, an Albino, a Mosquito, My Libido
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Paula Abdul's, "Opposites Attract"
Misheard Lyrics: It ain't pictures, just unnatural fat
Original Lyrics: It ain't fiction, just a natural fact
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Semisonic's, "Closing Time"
Misheard Lyrics: One less call for alcohol
So vanish your whiskey or beer Original Lyrics: One last call for alcohol
So finish your whiskey or beer |
Spin Doctors', "Two Princes"
Misheard Lyrics: I don't want a prince, another heart to beat
Original Lyrics: I know what a prince and lover ought to be
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Talking Heads', "Once in a Lifetime "
Misheard Lyrics: And it tastes no fun
Original Lyrics: Letting the days go by
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2000s | |
Anna Nalick's, "Wreck of the Day"
Misheard Lyrics: Driving away from the wreck of the day.
And the light's always red with you. Desperately close to a coffin of hope. I'd cheat destiny just to be near you. Original Lyrics: Driving away from the wreck of the day.
And the light's always red in the rear-view. Desperately close to a coffin of hope. I'd cheat destiny just to be near you. |
Black Eyed Peas', "Weekend"
Misheard Lyrics: Big machines and razor blades
Original Lyrics: Smoke machines and laser rays
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Black Eyed Peas', "Weekend"
Misheard Lyrics: Fake machines and roller blades
Original Lyrics: Smoke machines and laser rays
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Jimmy Eat World's, "Big Casino"
Misheard Lyrics: And they'll say, "All this stuff in the world couldn't melt that ass"
Original Lyrics: And they'll say, "All the salt in the world couldn't melt that ice"
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Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx's, "Gold Digger"
Misheard Lyrics: She kill me mom, when I'm in need
Original Lyrics: She gives me money
When I'm in need. |
Linkin Park's, "Faint"
Misheard Lyrics: Time will tell, disparaged anymore
Original Lyrics: Time won't heal this damage anymore
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Toni Braxton's, "He Wasn't Man Enough"
Misheard Lyrics: Do you know I'm not your husband, girlfriend?
And I thank you, but, hey Why'd you marry him? Original Lyrics: Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?
I'm not thinkin' 'bout him But you married him |
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2010s | |
Adele's, "Set Fire to the Rain"
Misheard Lyrics: Set fire to the ref
Original Lyrics: Set fire to the rain
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Charlie Puth's, "Attention"
Misheard Lyrics: You just want a tattoo
Original Lyrics: You just want attention
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Clooney's, "Shine Like You Mean It"
Misheard Lyrics: Summer's on your side
Your soul is made of white. Original Lyrics: Summer's on your side
Your soul is made of light. |
Ed Sheeran's, "Castle On The Hill"
Misheard Lyrics: We watched the sunset
Over the cars. So lonely you. Original Lyrics: We watched the sunset
Over the castle on the hill |
Jason Derulo's, "Swalla"
Misheard Lyrics: Shimmy shimmy yay, shimmy yay, shimmy ya (Drake!)
Original Lyrics: Shimmy shimmy yay, shimmy yay, shimmy ya (drank)
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Lorde's, "Green Light"
Misheard Lyrics: But only I'll be seein' you, ever, I go
But only I'll be seein' you down every road Original Lyrics: But honey I'll be seein' you, ever, I go
But honey I'll be seein' you down every road |
Pharrell Williams', "Happy"
Misheard Lyrics: Bring me down, Katelyn
Bring me down, your love is cool Original Lyrics: Bring me down... can't nothing...
Bring me down... my level's too high... |
Taylor Swift's, "Style"
Misheard Lyrics: You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye
And I got that red little plastic thing that you like Original Lyrics: You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye
And I got that red lip classic thing that you like |
Twenty One Pilots', "Holding On to You"
Misheard Lyrics: And I turn my face
Original Lyrics: Entertain my faith
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John Michael Montgomery's, "The Little Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: And the shrinking and the farting
Original Lyrics: And the drinking and the fighting
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misc | |
Vengaboys', "We Like to Party"
Misheard Lyrics: We like the gorgon, we like, we like the hairy gorgon
Original Lyrics: We like to party
We like, we like to party |
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xmas | |
Traditional's, "We Three Kings"
Misheard Lyrics: Field and fountain, Mormon mountain
Original Lyrics: Field and fountain, moor and mountain
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