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1960s | |
The Beatles', "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby"
Misheard Lyrics: They took some buds from a tree
Dressed it up to make all the tea Original Lyrics: They took some honey from a tree
Dressed it up and they called it me |
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1970s | |
ABBA's, "Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A Man After Midnight)"
Misheard Lyrics: Take me to the doctors
Original Lyrics: Take me through the darkness
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Dionne Warwick's, "I'll Never Love This Way Again"
Misheard Lyrics: You know I'll never love, it's late again
Original Lyrics: I know I'll never love this way again
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John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's, "You're The One That I Want"
Misheard Lyrics: I got juiced, my motor's flying
Original Lyrics: I've got chills, they're multiplyin'
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Olivia Newton-John's, "A Little More Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Will a little more love make you constipated.
Original Lyrics: Will a little more love make you start depending
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The Who's, "My Generation"
Misheard Lyrics: Coffee and my generation
Original Lyrics: Talking about my generation
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The Who's, "Who Are You?"
Misheard Lyrics: I remember throwing donkeys around and reaching for my chair
Original Lyrics: I remember throwing punches around and preaching from my chair
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1980s | |
Climax Blues Band's, "I Love You"
Misheard Lyrics: You said you're much too young to eat egg foo yung, let's walk for awhile
Original Lyrics: You said you're much too young, your life ain't begun, let's walk for awhile
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Debbie Gibson's, "Foolish Beat"
Misheard Lyrics: I could never love again, not that we're apart.
Original Lyrics: I could never love again, now that we're apart.
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Glass Tiger's, "I'm Still Searching"
Misheard Lyrics: I steal subjects
Original Lyrics: I'm still searching
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Martika's, "I Feel the Earth Move"
Misheard Lyrics: I feel the sky thundering down
Original Lyrics: I feel the sky tumbling down
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Martika's, "More Than You Know"
Misheard Lyrics: You know you got me here in time
Original Lyrics: You know you got me hypnotized
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Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: And we can dress real neat from our hearts to our feet
Original Lyrics: And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
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Men Without Hats', "Safety Dance"
Misheard Lyrics: As long as we have music
Never gonna lose it. Original Lyrics: As long as we abuse it
Never gonna lose it |
Michael Jackson's, "Bad"
Misheard Lyrics: You talk of sheep, you naughty man.
Original Lyrics: Your talk is cheap, you're not a man.
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Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard's, "Suddenly"
Misheard Lyrics: Suddenly the wizard emotion
Original Lyrics: Suddenly, the winds are in motion.
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Sade's, "Maureen"
Misheard Lyrics: Tell that fat guys gaining weight
Original Lyrics: 'Til you're back I'll stay awake.
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Split Enz's, "Message to My Girl"
Misheard Lyrics: This is where God had a bath.
Original Lyrics: Visions swept under the mat.
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The Human League's, "Don't You Want Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't you love me baby?
Original Lyrics: Don't you want me baby?
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Van Halen's, "Jump"
Misheard Lyrics: I eat the ones that you've seen
Original Lyrics: I ain't the worst that you've seen
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1990s | |
Dream Theater's, "Beyond This Life"
Misheard Lyrics: Headline: “Murder, Young Girl Killed.
Desperate shooting at Echo’s Hill. Dreadful ending, killer died. Ever deadly suicide.” Original Lyrics: Headline: “Murder, Young Girl Killed.
Desperate shooting at Echo’s Hill. Dreadful ending, killer died. Evidently suicide.” |
Korn's, "Freak On A Leash"
Misheard Lyrics: Archie Bunker would agree
Original Lyrics: A cheap f*** for me to lay
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Radiohead's, "Karma Police"
Misheard Lyrics: Call the police, arrest this man
Who talks in mouths It puzzles like in French Just like on day tube radio Original Lyrics: Karma Police, arrest this man
He talks in maths He buzzes like a fridge He's like a detuned radio |
Radiohead's, "Karma Police"
Misheard Lyrics: It's like a daydream, radio
Original Lyrics: He's like a detuned radio.
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Scooter's, "How Much Is the Fish?"
Misheard Lyrics: Transporting the Jews
Original Lyrics: Transforming the tunes!
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2000s | |
Bemani's, "True Love"
Misheard Lyrics: Making plans to make him strong
Make him pants to last the whole night long Original Lyrics: Make him handsome, make him strong
Make him kind to last the whole night long |
Leona Lewis', "Bleeding Love"
Misheard Lyrics: You call me a banana! Keep eating.
Original Lyrics: You cut me open and I keep bleeding
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Missy Elliott's, "Work It"
Misheard Lyrics: It's your premonition plan yet
Original Lyrics: I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it (played backwards)
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Missy Elliott's, "Work It"
Misheard Lyrics: It's your premonition plan yet
Original Lyrics: ('Put my thing down, flip it and reverse it' played backwards)
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Nadia Gifford's, "Just Shout It Out"
Misheard Lyrics: your finger existence
Original Lyrics: your being, your existence
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Panic! At the Disco's, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
Misheard Lyrics: Closing the garden door
Original Lyrics: Closing the Goddamn door
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Rihanna's, "Don't Stop the Music"
Misheard Lyrics: Please don't Doctor Seuss it.
Original Lyrics: Please don't stop the music.
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The Rembrants', "I'll Be There For You"
Misheard Lyrics: Your love life's deal a lay
Original Lyrics: Your love life's DOA
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Three Days Grace's, "Animal I Have Become"
Misheard Lyrics: No one would ever change the set of a riot become
Original Lyrics: No one would ever change this animal I have become
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Venetian Loafer's, "Oatmeal"
Misheard Lyrics: Oatmeal
My Barbie dolls Are full of oatmeal Original Lyrics: Oatmeal
My toilet bowls Are full of oatmeal |
‘N Sync's, "It’s Gonna Be Me"
Misheard Lyrics: It’s gonna be nay
or It’s gonna be neigh Original Lyrics: It’s gonna be me
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2010s | |
Commercial's, "Wayfair"
Misheard Lyrics: Wayfair, what's that in your heiney?
Original Lyrics: Wayfair, you got just what I need
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DNCE's, "Cake by the Ocean"
Misheard Lyrics: Goddamn,
Drinking from the faucet like an old man Original Lyrics: Goddamn
See you licking frosting from your own hands |
Jessie J's, "Domino"
Misheard Lyrics: Daddy dancing in the moonlight
Original Lyrics: Dirty dancing in the moonlight
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Portugal the Man's, "Feel It Still"
Misheard Lyrics: Now I've had your filth, but feel it still.
Original Lyrics: Might've had your fill, but you feel it still.
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Post Malone's, "Otherside"
Misheard Lyrics: Save my breath, but I lost faith a long time ago
Original Lyrics: Say my prayers, but I lost faith a long time ago
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Post Malone's, "Psycho"
Misheard Lyrics: I may be going psycho, my mama feel like Michael
Original Lyrics: My AP going psycho, li'l mama bad like Michael
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Studio Killers', "When We Were Lovers"
Misheard Lyrics: I just spawned out the seeds
Original Lyrics: I just warmed up the seat
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Twenty One Pilots', "Ride"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh, oh, I'm boring
So I'm taking my time on my ride Oh, I'm boring So I’m taking my time on my ride Original Lyrics: Oh, oh, I'm falling
So I'm taking my time on my ride Oh, I'm falling So I'm talking my time on my ride |
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Twila Paris', "Could You Believe"
Misheard Lyrics: Could you believe if I carried my own cross,
If I saw that the children were fat? Original Lyrics: Could you believe if I carried my own cross,
If I saw that the children were fed? |
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country | |
Steve Wariner's, "Your Memory"
Misheard Lyrics: You're a memory, you're a memory
It's something I'm not over yet You're a memory, you're a memory You're a memory, don't know the word forget. Original Lyrics: Your memory, your memory
Is something I'm not over yet Your memory, your memory Your memory don't know the word forget. |
Terri Clark's, "A Little Gasoline"
Misheard Lyrics: Just give me a rub with a little vasoline
Original Lyrics: Just give me a road and a little gasoline
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