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1950s
Ritchie Valens', "Donna"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hold on now
Original Lyrics:
Oh Donna
 
1970s
AC/DC's, "Highway to Hell"
Misheard Lyrics:
Season drinker on the one way to riot.
Original Lyrics:
Season ticket on a one way ride.
Bob Seger's, "Still the Same"
Misheard Lyrics:
Turning on the charm
Long enough to get you back
Original Lyrics:
Turning on the charm
Long enough to get you by
Chaka Khan's, "I’m Every Woman"
Misheard Lyrics:
I can read your quotes right now
Original Lyrics:
I can read your thoughts right now
Earth, Wind & Fire's, "That's the Way of the World"
Misheard Lyrics:
Challenge Butter
Original Lyrics:
Child is born
Elton John's, "Song For Guy"
Misheard Lyrics:
Is a tambourine playing?
Original Lyrics:
is a temporary thing
Human League's, "Blind Youth"
Misheard Lyrics:
When take hope, you know
Just hope your time is due
Make phone call soon
Original Lyrics:
Blind youth take hope
You're no Joe Soap
Your time is due
Big fun come soon
Lou Rawls', "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"
Misheard Lyrics:
Play the midnight hour baby
Original Lyrics:
Late in the midnight hour baby
R Dean Taylor's, "Indiana Wants Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
Indiana wants me
Build a castle Baghdad
Original Lyrics:
Indiana wants me
Lord, I can't go back there.
R. Dean Taylor's, "Indiana Wants Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
I’m a shocker to...to talk to
Original Lyrics:
I wish I had you to talk to.
Robert Palmer's, "Addicted to Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hiders wear faces, you're addicted to love
Original Lyrics:
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Robert Palmer's, "Addicted to Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
Your candy save
Original Lyrics:
You can't be saved
The Who's, "Baba O'Riley"
Misheard Lyrics:
Out here in the fields I fight for higher yields
Original Lyrics:
Out here in the fields I fight for my meals
 
1980s
Belinda Carlisle's, "Mad About You"
Misheard Lyrics:
We start to sing.
Original Lyrics:
We start to see
Bruce Hornsby and the Range's, "The Valley Road"
Misheard Lyrics:
Won't go
Original Lyrics:
Walk on
Crosby, Stills, and Nash's, "Southern Cross"
Misheard Lyrics:
Looking for that common girl
Original Lyrics:
looking for that woman, girl
Def Leppard's, "Foolin'"
Misheard Lyrics:
S-s-stupid!
Original Lyrics:
F-f-foolin'!
Eurythmics', "Sweet Dreams(are made of these)"
Misheard Lyrics:
Sweet dreams are made of cheese.
Who am I to disabrie?
Original Lyrics:
Sweet dreams are made of these.
Who am I to disagree?
Janet Jackson's, "When I Think of You"
Misheard Lyrics:
Soaked in blood
Original Lyrics:
So in love
Rita Coolidge's, "All Time High"
Misheard Lyrics:
My heart was telling me lies, for you there too
Original Lyrics:
My heart was telling me lies, for you they're true
Run-DMC's, "It's Tricky"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's tricky to rock around
To rock around this rotten town.
Original Lyrics:
It's tricky to rock a rhyme
To rock a rhyme that's right on time.
Talking Heads', "Once in a Lifetime"
Misheard Lyrics:
Working at a ShopRite sale
Original Lyrics:
Living in a shotgun shack
The Bangles', "Hazy Shade of Winter"
Misheard Lyrics:
He’s so brown
Original Lyrics:
Leaves are brown
The Clash's, "I Fought the Law"
Misheard Lyrics:
I fought the mall and the mall won
Original Lyrics:
I fought the law and the law won
Utopia's, "Hammer in My Heart"
Misheard Lyrics:
It's like that goddamn song
I hear it all day long
Original Lyrics:
It's like a top ten song
I hear it all day long
 
1990s
Black Crowes', "Hard To Handle"
Misheard Lyrics:
Pretty little thing
Let me light your chemicals
Now mama, I'm sure de-hen-a-na
Mess around.
Oh, de-hen-a-na
Original Lyrics:
Hey little thing
Let me light your candle
'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now
Gets around.
Yeah, hard to handle now
Engelbert Humperdinck's, "Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing"
Misheard Lyrics:
And your fingers touched my sorta horny thing... how to say
Original Lyrics:
And your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it... how to sing
Hootie & The Blowfish's, "Let Her Cry"
Misheard Lyrics:
She says Dad's the one I love the most
And Stipe's not far behind.
Original Lyrics:
She says Dar's the one I love the most
And Stipe's not far behind.
Misfits', "The Shining"
Misheard Lyrics:
Cattle ram
Original Lyrics:
Carol Anne
Nirvana's, "Territorial Pissings"
Misheard Lyrics:
Got fart a wire, fart a wire, fart a wiiiiire
Original Lyrics:
Gotta find a way
A better way
When I'm there
SWV's, "Right Here (Human Nature Mix)"
Misheard Lyrics:
Our love will go
Original Lyrics:
Our love will grow
Slipknot's, "(Sic)"
Misheard Lyrics:
Little League! Either way it better be!
Original Lyrics:
Readily! Either way it better be!
The Cranberries', "Linger"
Misheard Lyrics:
But a mink's so you
Original Lyrics:
But I'm in so deep
 
2000s
AFI's, "Silver & Cold"
Misheard Lyrics:
Lobers sing to me!
Original Lyrics:
your sins in to me
Fall Out Boy's, "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race"
Misheard Lyrics:
This ay a scene it's a ga da arr ray
Original Lyrics:
This ain't a scene, it's a g**d*** arms race.
Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys', "Empire State of Mind"
Misheard Lyrics:
Concrete jungle with cheese and mayo
Original Lyrics:
Concrete Jungle where dreams are made of
Raven Symone's, "Grazing in the Grass"
Misheard Lyrics:
And it's real, surreal, surreal, surreal, surreal
Original Lyrics:
And it's real, so real, so real, so real, so real
Slipknot's, "New Abortion"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm ethereal, my children are eating cereal
Original Lyrics:
I'm ethereal, my children are legion, serial.
The Cult's, "American Gothic"
Misheard Lyrics:
Black trash, white trash
Original Lyrics:
Black star, white light
 
2010s
Ariana Grande's, "Get Well Soon"
Misheard Lyrics:
Is there such a law to talking about this?
Maybe I should cry myself where the night is
Before I go
Original Lyrics:
Is there such a ladder to get above this?
Maybe I should ground myself where the mud is
Before I'm gone
Ariana Grande's, "Hands On Me"
Misheard Lyrics:
Picture me and you naked
Making sweet love, baby give it to me
Original Lyrics:
Picture me and you making
Making sweet love, baby give it to me
Commercial's, "Optima Tax Relief"
Misheard Lyrics:
Hop 'til my taxi leaves
Original Lyrics:
Optima Tax Relief
Lewis Capaldi's, "Someone You Loved"
Misheard Lyrics:
Somebody to hear
Original Lyrics:
Somebody to heal
Sam Smith's, "Dancing with a Stranger"
Misheard Lyrics:
How would somebody knew
Original Lyrics:
I'm with somebody new
Sia's, "Cheap Thrills"
Misheard Lyrics:
Till I hit the ganja
Hit the ganja
Original Lyrics:
Till I hit the dance floor
Hit the dance floor
Swedish House Mafia's, "Don't You Worry Child"
Misheard Lyrics:
Tien's got a plan for you
Original Lyrics:
See heaven's got a plan for you
Taylor Swift's, "Ready For It"
Misheard Lyrics:
Why'd you do this Taylor?
Original Lyrics:
Burton to his Taylor.
Twenty One Pilots', "Stressed Out"
Misheard Lyrics:
When the mother said "I still sleep but now we're stressed out!"
Original Lyrics:
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
 
country
Sam Hunt's, "Body Like a Back Road"
Misheard Lyrics:
Body like a back road, drive it up my a**hole
Original Lyrics:
Body like a back road, driving with my eyes closed
 
misc
Commercial's, "Cotton Incorporated"
Misheard Lyrics:
The faggot of our lives
Original Lyrics:
The fabric of our lives

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