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1960s | |
The Regents', "Barbara Ann"
Misheard Lyrics: Bop Bop Bop, Bop Bop a ran/ren
Original Lyrics: Bar bar bar Barbara Ann
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West Side Story's, "America"
Misheard Lyrics: If you're not white in America
Original Lyrics: If you're all-white in America
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1970s | |
John Stewart and Stevie Nicks', "Gold"
Misheard Lyrics: Ah, my buddy Jim Bass, he's a-working pumping gas
And he makes two-fifty for an hour Original Lyrics: Ah, my buddy Jim Bass, he's a-working pumping gas
And he makes two-fifths for an hour |
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1980s | |
Peter Gabriel's, "Games Without Frontiers"
Misheard Lyrics: Whistling tunes we p*** on the c--ns in the jungle.
Original Lyrics: Whistling tunes we piss on the Goons in the jungle.
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2000s | |
Avril Lavigne's, "Girlfriend"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause he's like so forever
And you could do so much better Original Lyrics: Because she's like so whatever
And you could do so much better |
Avril Lavigne's, "Girlfriend"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause he's like so wherever
And you could do so much better Original Lyrics: Because she's like so whatever
And you could do so much better |
Avril Lavigne's, "Girlfriend"
Misheard Lyrics: Don't pretend, I think you know I'm that precious
And Lamelle, yeah, I'm the one and only princess Original Lyrics: Don't pretend, I think you know I'm damn precious
And hell, yeah, I'm the motherf***ing princess |
Avril Lavigne's, "Girlfriend"
Misheard Lyrics: I think about you all the time, you're so the Take That
Original Lyrics: I think about you all the time, you're so addictive
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Avril Lavigne's, "Girlfriend"
Misheard Lyrics: So come over here and tell me what I wanna hear
Better get to make your girlfriend disappear Original Lyrics: So come over here and tell me what I want to hear
Better yet, make your girlfriend disappear |
Avril Lavigne's, "Losing Grip"
Misheard Lyrics: Grinning with a lobster
Original Lyrics: Grinning with a lost stare
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Avril Lavigne's, "Losing Grip"
Misheard Lyrics: Grinning with the washed hair
Original Lyrics: Grinning with the lost stare
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Avril Lavigne's, "Losing Grip"
Misheard Lyrics: I was left to cry there, waiting outside there
Grinning with the wash dear, that's when I decided Original Lyrics: I was left to cry there, waiting outside there
Grinning with a lost stare, that's when I decided |
Avril Lavigne's, "Losing Grip"
Misheard Lyrics: You used to love me, you used to hump me
Original Lyrics: You used to love me, you used to hug me
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Bruno Mars', "Locked Out of Heaven"
Misheard Lyrics: But swimming in your world of something cynical,
I'm bored again every time you spend the night. Original Lyrics: But swimming in your water's something spiritual,
I'm born again every time you spend the night. |
Bruno Mars', "Treasure"
Misheard Lyrics: Baby squirrel, use a saxy motherf***er.
Original Lyrics: Baby squirrel, you's a sexy motherf***er.
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Justin Timberlake's, "Sexy Back"
Misheard Lyrics: Give me your child (go eh bee go)
Original Lyrics: Go 'head child (go 'head be gone with it)
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Linkin Park's, "Faint"
Misheard Lyrics: Half of my cool planes, but I can't help the Batman
That everyone can see these cars Original Lyrics: Handful of complaints, but I can't help the fact
That everyone can see these scars |
Linkin Park's, "Faint"
Misheard Lyrics: Half of my cool planes, but I can't help the Batman
That everyone can see these stars Original Lyrics: Handful of complaints, but I can't help the fact
That everyone can see these scars |
Linkin Park's, "Figure.09"
Misheard Lyrics: I can't separate myself from all night long
Giving up a part of me, I've let myself be wrong to you Original Lyrics: I can't separate myself from what I've done
Giving up a part of me, I've let myself become you |
Linkin Park's, "No More Sorrow"
Misheard Lyrics: Days and hypo cracks
Original Lyrics: Thieves and hypocrites
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Linkin Park's, "No More Sorrow"
Misheard Lyrics: Days and hypo greats
Original Lyrics: Thieves and hypocrites
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Linkin Park's, "No More Sorrow"
Misheard Lyrics: No, no more heroes
Original Lyrics: No, no more sorrow
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Linkin Park's, "No More Sorrow"
Misheard Lyrics: Your time has come to be a rocks!
Original Lyrics: Your time has come to be replaced!
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Linkin Park's, "No More Sorrow"
Misheard Lyrics: Your time has come to be a rocks!
Original Lyrics: Your time has come to be erased!
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Linkin Park's, "No More Sorrow"
Misheard Lyrics: Your time is tomorrow
Original Lyrics: Your time is borrowed
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Linkin Park's, "The Little Things Give You Away"
Misheard Lyrics: But now there will be no mistaking,
The anthems are breaking Original Lyrics: But now there will be no mistaking,
The levees are breaking |
Linkin Park's, "The Little Things Give You Away"
Misheard Lyrics: But now there will be no mistaking,
The heavy's are breaking Original Lyrics: But now there will be no mistaking,
The levees are breaking |
Linkin Park's, "The Little Things Give You Away"
Misheard Lyrics: The Russian way, as a nation simply stairs
Original Lyrics: Washed away, as a nation simply stares
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Linkin Park's, "The Little Things Give You Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Thriller rain, like an ocean, everywhere
Original Lyrics: Chilling rain, like an ocean, everywhere
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Uncle Kracker ft. Dobie Gray's, "Drift Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Give me the beer boys
Original Lyrics: Give me the beat boys
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2010s | |
Avril Lavigne's, "What the Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: All my life I've been goat, but now,
Oh, I'm pinky what the hall Original Lyrics: All my life I've been good, but now,
Oh, I'm thinking what the hell |
Avril Lavigne's, "What the Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: But, oh, Nestle, I just man to be a Lil' Crazy
Original Lyrics: But, honestly, I just need to be a little crazy
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Avril Lavigne's, "What the Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: If I'm crazy, like Jay-Z.
Original Lyrics: If you love me, if you hate me.
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Avril Lavigne's, "What the Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: If you law me, if you hat me.
Original Lyrics: If you love me, if you hate me.
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Avril Lavigne's, "What the Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: You say better missing with your hell
All 'cause I was making out with yo, Fred Original Lyrics: You say that I'm messing with your head
All 'cause I was making out with your friend |
Avril Lavigne's, "What the Hell"
Misheard Lyrics: You're on your nails begin, please, stay with May.
Original Lyrics: You're on your knees begging please, stay with me.
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Bruno Mars', "Gorilla"
Misheard Lyrics: 'Cause what I got for you, I promise it's you, get it
You'll be back it on my chest, bang bang, gorilla Original Lyrics: 'Cause what I got for ya, I promise it's a killer
You'll be bangin' on my chest, bang bang, gorilla |
Bruno Mars', "Gorilla"
Misheard Lyrics: I got a body full of lake and with a cock again, kicker
And I'm feeling like I'm dirty feet talk Original Lyrics: I got a body full of liquor with a cocaine kicker
And I'm feeling like I'm thirty feet tall |
Bruno Mars', "Gorilla"
Misheard Lyrics: I got your body travelling like it should, it should
Original Lyrics: I got your body trembling like it should, it should
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Bruno Mars', "Gorilla"
Misheard Lyrics: Yeah, I got a face full of your hair
But you don't look like you're scared Original Lyrics: Yeah, I got a fistful of your hair
But you don't look like you're scared |
Bruno Mars', "Treasure"
Misheard Lyrics: Baby squirrel, use a saxy motherf***er.
Original Lyrics: Baby squirrel, you's a sexy motherf***er.
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Bruno Mars', "Young Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive the four eyed hun, the four eyed hun Original Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive them all night long, all night long |
Bruno Mars', "Young Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive the four eyed hun, the four eyed hun Original Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive them all night long, all night long |
Bruno Mars', "Young Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive them for Ryan Dunn, for Ryan Dunn Original Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive them all night long, all night long |
Bruno Mars', "Young Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive them for Ryan Dunn, oh, Ryan Dunn Original Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive them all night long, all night long |
Bruno Mars', "Young Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive them for Ryan Dunn, poor Ryan Dunn Original Lyrics: All these roads steer me wrong
But I still drive them all night long, all night long |
Bruno Mars', "Young Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: All you young wild girls, you making meth for me
Original Lyrics: All you young wild girls, you make a mess of me
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Steve Aoki feat. Linkin Park's, "Darker Than Blood"
Misheard Lyrics: The battlefields have left me only stars
Original Lyrics: The battlefields have left me only scars
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xmas | |
Josh Groban's, "Thankful"
Misheard Lyrics: But even with our different this,
There is a face with all connect it. Original Lyrics: Even with our differences,
There is a place we're all connected. |
Josh Groban's, "Thankful"
Misheard Lyrics: But even with our different this,
There is a space with all connect it. Original Lyrics: Even with our differences,
There is a place we're all connected. |