Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody.
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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.
Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not
by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see
misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and
misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).
Sixteen Stone album at Amazon.com
Bush's,
"Chemicals Between Us"
Carrie comes between us
Chemicals between us
The Story: A whole lot of my friends and I thought the song was really cool becuase it said my name, and then we found out that it didn't. It was funny, because I really like Gwen Stefani, but I've always had this huge crush on Gavin Rossdale too. Haha. - Submitted by: Carrie
Bush's,
"Chemicals Between Us"
Kevin Costner's p****
Chemicals between us
The Story: I was listening to WAPL-the Rockin' Apple, and a (female) caller requested 'the song about Kevin Costner's p****'. The DJs were laughing so hard they just cut to the song! I'm sure myself and many others had a good laugh at that. - Submitted by: Andrew
Schlossy wants my wild eye.
Try and see it once my way.
The Story: My daughter and I both love Bush the band, and we thought that 'Schlossy' must be some Buddist God who wanted people to give up their wild lifestyle. When we finally read the real lyrics we couldn't stop laughing! - Submitted by: sandybeach
Straussie was my wife.
Try and see it once my way.
The Story: My best friend and I were in 8th grade when Bush was popular. No one knew who they were at our school really but us. We used to listen to this song on our discman and try to figure out what the heck he was saying. We knew this was not right but we honestly had no clue what he was saying so we just pretended that he was in love with some woman, strangely named Straussie, and laughed about it a lot. Ahh, the days before being able to check the lyrics on the internet. - Submitted by: Mel
I got a mushy head
I got a machine head
The Story: Saying 'I got a mushy head' is now an accepted and appropriate phrase in our circles of friends to indicate one's feelings of confusion, headache, hangover, or the like. - Submitted by: Kate Garrenson
God, I must see Heaven
It's better than the rest
Agree to rest, must see Heaven.
Got a machinehead
Better than the rest
Green to red machinehead.
The Story: It wasn't until recently that I figured out they were saying 'machinehead' when I downloaded the song and read the title. I just thought it was a religious song. - Submitted by: Laura
Nothing hurts like your meowth.
Nothing hurts like your mouth.
The Story: This is not a song parody fragment. I was thinking about Pokemon when I first heard this song: 'Why did he say your meowth hurts the most?' - Submitted by: Alan The Ottoman
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