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1960s | |
Brenton Wood's, "Gimme Little Sign"
Misheard Lyrics: Gimme a little slander
Original Lyrics: Gimme a little sign girl
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The Four Tops', "Reach Out I'll Be There"
Misheard Lyrics: Now if you feel that you can't go up
(Later) When you feel lost and about to get up (Later) I can tell the way you hang your hair Original Lyrics: Now if you feel that you can't go on
(Later) When you feel lost and about to give up (Later) I can tell the way you hang your head |
1970s | |
Bee Gees', "You Should Be Dancing"
Misheard Lyrics: Watcha doin' when you been infected, yeah!
Original Lyrics: What you doin' on your back, yeah!
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Cat Stevens', "Father and Son"
Misheard Lyrics: From the moment I could talk, I was honored to listen
Original Lyrics: From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen
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Cat Stevens', "Father and Son"
Misheard Lyrics: Look at me, I am old but I'm Kathy
Original Lyrics: Look at me, I am old but I'm happy
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Elton John's, "Candle in the Wind"
Misheard Lyrics: It seems to me you lived your life
Like a sandwich in the rain. Original Lyrics: It seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind. |
Elton John's, "Candle in the Wind"
Misheard Lyrics: The candle burned out long before
The legend of a dead. Original Lyrics: Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did. |
Elton John's, "Candle in the Wind"
Misheard Lyrics: They said you were a treadmill,
And they made you change your name Original Lyrics: They set you on a treadmill,
And they made you change your name |
Elton John's, "Candle in the Wind"
Misheard Lyrics: Your spindles burned down long before
The strangled heaven did. Original Lyrics: Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did. |
Joni Mitchell's, "Big Yellow Taxi"
Misheard Lyrics: They paved paradise to put up a f**king lot
Original Lyrics: They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
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Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
Misheard Lyrics: The Duke of Haslem in the classroom
Original Lyrics: No dark sarcasm in the classroom
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Rodriguez's, "Crucify Your Mind"
Misheard Lyrics: Secrets shiny and you
Original Lyrics: Secrets shiny and new
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1980s | |
Billy Ocean's, "Love Zone"
Misheard Lyrics: Can't hold on much longer
Original Lyrics: Can't hold out much longer
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Hall & Oates', "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)"
Misheard Lyrics: Mountain Dew
Original Lyrics: No can do
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's, "That Smell"
Misheard Lyrics: The smell of death surrounds you
Original Lyrics: The smell of death's around you
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Tina Turner's, "What's Love Got to Do with It"
Misheard Lyrics: Walk slow da-ta-doo da-ta-doo with it?
Original Lyrics: What’s love got to do, got to do with it?
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1990s | |
4 Non-Blondes', "What's Up?"
Misheard Lyrics: I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world wasn't made up of this rubber hood of man Or whatever that means Original Lyrics: I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man For whatever that means |
Erasure's, "Love To Hate You"
Misheard Lyrics: I only hate you
or I love to hit you Original Lyrics: I love to hate you
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Fatboy Slim's, "Praise You"
Misheard Lyrics: I have to praise you, Pikachu
Original Lyrics: I have to praise you like I should
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Manic Street Preachers', "If You Tolerate This"
Misheard Lyrics: Minor prints put from pen to paper turns me into a gutless Womble
(Later) Gravity keeps my head down, oh it is maybe shame At being so young and being so brave Original Lyrics: Monuments put from pen to paper turns me into a gutless wonder
(Later) Gravity keeps my head down or is it maybe shame At being so young and being so vain |
Michael Jackson's, "Blood On The Dance Floor"
Misheard Lyrics: And don't you dare forget it!
Original Lyrics: And now you do regret it
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Sheryl Crow's, "Everyday Is a Winding Road"
Misheard Lyrics: I've been living on coffee and newtons
Original Lyrics: I've been living on coffee and nicotine
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Sophie B. Hawkins', "Right Beside You"
Misheard Lyrics: Beside myself my sympathy
Original Lyrics: Beside myself my soul to keep
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Vanessa Williams', "Colors of the Wind"
Misheard Lyrics: In a circus, in a hoop that never ends
Original Lyrics: In a circle, in a hoop that never ends
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2000s | |
As I Lay Dying's, "Through Struggle"
Misheard Lyrics: With a baseball bat to kill your wife
Original Lyrics: With a piece of me taken away
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Commercial's, "WCBS-TV: No Place I'd Rather Be"
Misheard Lyrics: There's no place I'd rather sleep
Original Lyrics: There's no place I'd rather be
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Dido's, "Hunter"
Misheard Lyrics: I want to be a huntsman again.
Original Lyrics: I want to be a hunter again.
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Dido's, "Thank You"
Misheard Lyrics: My tea’s gone cold I’m wonderin’ why,
And I don’t beg at all. Original Lyrics: My tea's gone cold, I wonder why I got out of bed at all.
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Sting's, "Brand New Day"
Misheard Lyrics: "Love is pink", I hear you say
or "Love is paid", I hear you say Original Lyrics: "Love is pain", I hear you say
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The Black Dahlia Murder's, "Deathmask Divine"
Misheard Lyrics: my darling cordon bleu
Original Lyrics: my darling cold and blue
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The Black Dahlia Murder's, "Of Darkness Spawned"
Misheard Lyrics: Demon spawned of Mexican's tostadas
Original Lyrics: Demons born of mans sickest desire
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Theme Songs', "Fairly Odd Parents "
Misheard Lyrics: Loady brownie things
Original Lyrics: Floaty crowny things
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2010s | |
Attila's, "About That Life"
Misheard Lyrics: Got a juicebox but I do not give them to anyone
Original Lyrics: Got a few f***s, but I do not give them to anyone
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Bastille's, "Good Grief"
Misheard Lyrics: Shame we have to see their butt
Original Lyrics: Shame we have to see them burn
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Jamie's Elsewhere's, "Giants Among Common Men"
Misheard Lyrics: I find myself in the Qur'an
Original Lyrics: I find myself in the current
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Kodak Black's, "There He Go"
Misheard Lyrics: You ain't never run off with a boss anal
Original Lyrics: You ain't never run off with a boss, ain't ya?
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Parkway Drive's, "Karma"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm horny, locked in a box with my cornflakes
Original Lyrics: A body, locked in the vice grip of conflict
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Parkway Drive's, "Karma"
Misheard Lyrics: SHAVE THAT, SHAVE THAT CORNHOLE!
Original Lyrics: Seasick, seasick heart home
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Parkway Drive's, "Wild Eyes"
Misheard Lyrics: We are the ones that refused to Bro Code
Original Lyrics: We are the ones that refused to grow cold
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The Ghost Inside's, "Between the Lines"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm never washing my hands agains
Original Lyrics: And now I'm washing my hands of this
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Thy Art Is Murder's, "Reign of Darkness"
Misheard Lyrics: I am the Butter King battered in fish
Original Lyrics: I am the violence embedded in flesh
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misc | |
Bring Me the Horizon's, "DiE4u"
Misheard Lyrics: This isn't love, this is a cock rash
Original Lyrics: This isn't love, this is a car crash
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Fall Out Boy's, "I Am My Own Muse"
Misheard Lyrics: Special nugget sauce
Original Lyrics: Smash all the guitars
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Olivia Rodrigo's, "Good 4 U"
Misheard Lyrics: I cross my mind, I've spent the night crying on the floor of my bathroom
Original Lyrics: I've lost my mind, I've spent the night crying on the floor of my bathroom
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