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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!).


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Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Here! Yes Here!...No?.....Get away then! (Heard with angry London accent rather than Scottish as for real lyrics)
The Real Lyrics:
You! Yes You! Stand still, Laddy!
The Story: I heard this with an angry London accent rather than Scottish one as for real lyrics and thought the person yelling was addressing the chopper in the background. To this day, if I imagine a London accent, the song in the Wall album still sounds like this, even though at the concerts Floyd did it was definitely the Scottish version. - Submitted by: Paul Crispin
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Stand still Larry!
The Real Lyrics:
You! Yes You! Stand still, Laddy!
The Story: I was using Siri to say the real lyrics and she first spelled out, “stand still Larry”. Then as I sent it, Siri corrected it to, “stand still Lady”. - Submitted by: BoB
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You! Yes, You behind the paint shed!...
Don’t spill any!
The Real Lyrics:
You! Yes, you!
There behind the grandstand
Stand still, Laddie!
The Story: Grateful for your misheard lyrics page. I’m 46yo and all this time I thought I was interpreting what I was heard correctly. What a rube! - Submitted by: David
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Go home, beat the kids!
The Real Lyrics:
Wrong! Do it again!
The Story: While listening to this with my family, my mom was like "Go home, beat the kids!" And I laughed thinking it was a joke. But then she told me "That's actually what he's saying," and I was like "No, it's 'Wrong, do it again," and she was amazed - Submitted by: David
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
How can you have any pudding if you don't beat yer meat?
The Real Lyrics:
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?
The Story: Every time I hear this song that is what I hear - Submitted by: Patrick Wilson
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No Dukes of Hazard in the classroom
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasms in the classroom
The Story: I knew what the correct lyric was but the guy I was with insisted it was "no Dukes of Hazard in the classroom" but then again he was usually high on something. - Submitted by: john tracy
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ohh your a dickhead...how can u have any pushing if ya don't kick your feet
The Real Lyrics:
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: I've always known what the actual lyrics are but for some reason last night what I heard was how can ya have any pushing if ya don't kick your feet!.. still pretty sure the lyrics that lead into those are "OHHH YOUR A DICKHEAD!". - Submitted by: Vito
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
School. You d*ckhead!
School. You d*ckhead!
OR School. Do you miss it?
School. Do you miss it?
The Real Lyrics:
Wrong! Do it again!
Wrong! Do it again!
The Story: The cassette version of this album had a few pictures but no lyrics whatsoever. It was all guessing games for a while. Besides, with the line about "need no education" the stuff of "School. Do you miss it?" seemed logical to me. I figured maybe the kids burned the place down. If I went to such a school environment like the child Pink did in the movie maybe I'd like to torch it too! - Submitted by: I Love Mary Jane
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The thoughts are castles in the classroom
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
The Story: Mine is better. It’s about children’s imagination and how school stifles it. Crushed to read I had it wrong all these years. - Submitted by: Molly
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Com'on, hit the deck!
Com'on, hit the deck!
The Real Lyrics:
Wrong! Do it again!
Wrong! Do it again!
The Story: I thought it was an illustration of the Physical Education class treated as boot camp. - Submitted by: Julie
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Sounds like two things: First, 'if you don't kick your feet,' then 'if you don't eat your meat,' then (repeating) 'if you don't kick your feet' and then 'if you don't eat your meat.' Kids in the background in a pool?
The Real Lyrics:
Wrong! Do it again!
Wrong! Do it again!
If you don't eat your meat
You can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: Oh, just argued this one with friends for decades, that's all! - Submitted by: Bill
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Part Two)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We don't need no cruise control.
The Real Lyrics:
We don't need no thought control.
The Story: I was walking with a group of friends and we were singing this song. When we came to this part, I blurted out 'we don't need no cruise control'. Everyone looked at me and started laughing and corrected me. Every time we here this song, we think of that. And now I know the real lyrics. - Submitted by: Gerri Iovino
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Pt 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hol ihn, hol ihn unters Dach (German for 'Take him, take him under the roof')
The Real Lyrics:
All in all you're just a...
The Story: Somebody told me that the evil Teacher (who is supposed to be German) was finally 'taken under the roof' by the children who sing this line... - Submitted by: Rocco
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
The Story: True that my college roommate thought these were the actual lyrics. - Submitted by: Greg S.
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall (part Two)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If you don't me - dag nab it!
How can you have any pu*sy if you don't me?
The Real Lyrics:
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: This was a source of many misheard versions when I was in school and the Armed Forces. The cassette tape had no lyric sheet. - Submitted by: Big Time Stoner
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall II"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Dogs and cats are in the classroom
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
The Story: Well, I am a huge Pink Floyd fan. However, my wife is not. In fact, she really hates them. So, I can only really play my Floyd cds when she's not home. One day, she comes in to the apartment, and I have The Wall on. Now, my wife is Finnish, and English isn't her mother tongue. Just as she walks in, 'Another Brick in the Wall II' is playing. And this is when I hear for the first time, the cutest misheard lyrics in the world. By the way, if she knew that I was posting this one on the Internet, I would have my 'Frank and Beans' kicked in. Cheers, and I hope that you get a chuckle out of this one. I did. - Submitted by: Jay
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall Part 3"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I don't need no walls around me, and I don't need no c*nts to calm me
The Real Lyrics:
I don't need no arms around me, and I don't need no drugs to calm me
The Story: In the movie Pink trashes the trailer and we see scenes of his wife in an act of infidelity. The young groupie runs out of the trailer scared. She ain't getting no sex today. The featured song is played around this time. - Submitted by: Orange Blossom Special
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall Part III"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I don't need no walls around me and I don't need no c**t to call me
The Real Lyrics:
I don't need no arms around me and I don't need no drugs to calm me
The Story: The album lyric sheet gives the whole picture. - Submitted by: Selfish Giant
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And I don't need no c*nt to calm me.
The Real Lyrics:
And I don't need no drugs to calm me.
The Story: I just figured that the protagonist wasn't in the mood for sex. After all, he had just smashed a TV set! - Submitted by: Mary Jane's Boyfriend
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And I don't need no walls around me.
The Real Lyrics:
And I don't need no arms around me.
The Story: OK, I figured this because of the album title "The Wall". I later realized it's a reference to an overprotective mother. - Submitted by: Tear Down The Wall
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All in all, it's just another break in the wall.
The Real Lyrics:
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
The Story: Kind of funny, maybe boring to everyone else. But when I saw them live at Los Angeles Sports Arena in 1980 (or was it '81? Gadzooks, how time flies), I was expecting to see a big wall at the beginning of the concert that would slowly be taken down during the course of the show. I thought that when they said 'another break in the wall' would mean that more of the wall was coming down. To my surprise, the wall got bigger and bigger as the show progressed and finally came crashing down in one fell swoop at the end of the show. - Submitted by: Roger Kieth Barrett
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
How can you have any pudding if you don't clean your teeth?
The Real Lyrics:
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: I commented to a friend of mine, who is a big Pink Floyd fan, that it would make a lot more sense if the children were encouraged to clean their teeth *after* having eat the pudding. He soon corrected me on the lyrics :) - Submitted by: Paul
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No "Dukes of Hazzard" in the classroom.
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
The Story: I was driving my 12 year old to the store, when this song came on. He was singing along in the back seat. When he got to the part about the "Dukes of Hazzard", I almost wrecked the car from laughing so hard. The best part is that he later asked who the "Dukes of Hazzard" were. - Submitted by: Steve
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The Dukes of Hazzard are in the classroom.
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
The Story: My brother-in-law, when he was a kid, would get into fights with my wife over this. I think he still thinks his version is right to this day. - Submitted by: JWinn
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick In The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The dogs and cats are in the clock room.
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
The Story: I used to sing these lyrics when I was younger. My mom and dad never corrected me because they thought it was funny. As I got older I heard that what I was singing did not go with the song, so I looked it up :) - Submitted by: Emerald Dukes
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in The Wall (Part Two)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
School. Do you miss it? School. Do you miss it?
If you can't hear me - dag nab it!
How can you have any p***y if you don't even hear me?
You - will still like it!
OR
School. You d**khead! School. You d**khead!
If you can't hear me - God d**n it!
How can you have any p***y if you don't even hear me?
You - will still like it!
The Real Lyrics:
Wrong! Do it again! Wrong! Do it again!
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: Even the modern CD release doesn't have the full lyrics to this song so needless to say me and my classmates in school made plenty of guesses as to what Roger was saying. - Submitted by: I Remember Late 1979 Fondly
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in The Wall Part II"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No dogs or castles in the classroom
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
The Story: My three year old son sings this song with his own version of the lyrics. - Submitted by: Ben Lorincz
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All in all it's just a nother break in the wall
The Real Lyrics:
All in all it's just a nother brick in the wall
The Story: My sister informed me snottily that I was not singing the lyrics correctly. I was 3 when I heard this song and she is a decade older. - Submitted by: Tatiana
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall (part II)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No dog's orgasm in the classroom.
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
The Story: This was misheard by someone on another website who didn't have English as a first language. - Submitted by: Thaddeus Gammelthorpe
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All in all you're just another prick with no balls
The Real Lyrics:
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
The Story: too stoned one night - Submitted by: buzz
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If you don't heat your meat you can't have any pudding!
How can you have any pudding if you don't heat your meat?
The Real Lyrics:
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: Yorkshire pudding requires meat drippings to cook. Brits are notorious for dropping the "H" at the beginning of words. So even though it sounded like "eat" I thought it really meant "(h)eat" because you can't make Yorkshire pudding if you don't heat your meat. - Submitted by: Ogr8bearded1
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Wrong! Do it again!
Wrong! Do it again!
If you don't beat your meat,
You can't have any pussy
How can you have any pussy if you don't beat your meat?
The Real Lyrics:
Wrong! Do it again!
Wrong! Do it again!
If you don't eat your meat,
You can't have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: I realise that this could not be the words I heard, but it is what I thought it said. Smitty. - Submitted by: Leon Smith
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Go on check again...
Go on check again...
If you don't check your feet, you can't have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding if you don't check your feet?
The Real Lyrics:
Wrong! Do it again!
Wrong! Do it again!
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: Presumed the children didn't wipe their muddy feet before entering the cafeteria. My highschool courtyard would get flooded with mud and was adjacent to the cafeteria. Additionally, one of the teachers played "Another Brick in the Wall" rather often with a bad cassette player. - Submitted by: Ed
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All in all, you're just a netherbrick in the wall.
The Real Lyrics:
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
The Story: I play too much minecraft. - Submitted by: Jimmy Rustles
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We don't need no end potato
The Real Lyrics:
We don't need no education
The Story: I don't know what was really up with "end potato"! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3 "
The Misheard Lyrics:
I don't need no walls around me
And I don't need no drunks to call me!
The Real Lyrics:
I don't need no walls around me
And I don't need no drugs to calm me!
The Story: I've misheard this lyric for more than 25 years. :-O - Submitted by: Craig Johnson
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall, part 2"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We don't need no forced control
Thoughts together, in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Lead those kids along!
All along you're just one, now you're breaking the mold
The Real Lyrics:
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall
The Story: I heard the first verse correctly, but heard the second verse wrong and sang it that way for years. It took a classmate pointing out that the song is called "Another Brick In The Wall" for me to realize that I'd been getting the last line wrong, and even then I sang it as "All along you're just another brick in the wall" and kept singing the rest of the verse wrong. - Submitted by: Kat
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Hey! Deja! Leave those kids alone!
The Real Lyrics:
Hey! Teacher Leave those kids alone!
The Story: "Deja" is not a person. It is part of something called "Deja Vu". - Submitted by: Shae Allen
Pink Floyd's, "Another Brick in the Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No dogs or cats are in the classroom
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
The Story: Heard it on the radio. - Submitted by: Alyssa
Pink Floyd's, "Anpther Brick in the Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We don't need no Borg Patrol
The Real Lyrics:
We don't need no thought control
The Story: I was singing this at karaoke one night, and when I sang this line, the whole pub looked at me like I was an alien or something. I finished the song, but the bartender now calls out ' Hey!, It's the Borg Patrol!' whenever I pop over for a drink. I also think this would make a good band name for a bunch of Trekkers. Think about it... The Borg Patrol. - Submitted by: Mazotti Jordan
Pink Floyd's, "Astronomy Domine"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Around me I see Waters underground.
The Real Lyrics:
Around the icy waters underground.
The Story: When I first heard this song, I thought that was a rather mean lyric. Poor Roger! Then I read the proper lyrics. - Submitted by: Cameron Sinclair Harris
Pink Floyd's, "Brick In The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No dog's orgasm in the classroom
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
The Story: Hmmmmm..no. - Submitted by: dinesh
Pink Floyd's, "Comfortably Numb"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I have become comfortably known
The Real Lyrics:
I have become comfortably numb
The Story: I always thought the word was 'known'...then one drunken night (about 10 years after I first heard the song) I was feeling no pain, and was going to sing a 'parody' to relate to my state of being...when I sang 'I have become comfortably numb', it struck me stupid, that those words actually made sense, and I was an idiot for ten years. so, cheers to drunken revelations! - Submitted by: renee
Pink Floyd's, "Comfortably Numb"
The Misheard Lyrics:
There is no brain, you are receiving,
a distant chipmunk on the horizon
The Real Lyrics:
There is no pain, you are receding,
a distant ship's smoke on the horizon
The Story: I am a musician in Louisiana, and a big Floyd fan. My son was singing along with a symphonic version of the song and I caught this blooper. I couldn't get it out of my head, and began to sing the line in live performance. I have since heard several bands use this line as it has traveled from band to band with other musicians. I think it's kind of neat that it started with my kid. - Submitted by: Frank Wiley
Pink Floyd's, "Comfortably Numb"
The Misheard Lyrics:
There is no pain, you are a ceiling
My hands felt just like two lamoons.
The Real Lyrics:
There is no pain, you are receding
My hands felt just like two balloons.
The Story: A friend of mine had these wrote out in a book of lyrics he used on for practice. There were more ridiculous mistakes in that book as well. I just can't remember them all. (And I still have no idea what a lamoon is supposed to be, LOL.) - Submitted by: Sheldon Jeddore
Pink Floyd's, "Coming Back to Life"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Where were you...
When I was born in Brooklyn.
The Real Lyrics:
Where were you...
When I was burn and broken.
The Story: For a long time I imagined Gilmore to have grown up in some shady neighborhood of New York among hardships, gang wars, etc. ... and pointing this out to a partner who comes from a more privileged upbringing. (In fact they are British :)) - Submitted by: Laszlo
Pink Floyd's, "Have A Cigar"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Come and hit a deer, boy; have a cigar.
The Real Lyrics:
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
The Story: I didn't know Floyd were into killing animals... - Submitted by: Alice Mayne
Pink Floyd's, "Have a Cigar"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And if we tell you the name of the game, boy,
You're gonna ride on the great big train
The Real Lyrics:
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it riding the gravy train
The Story: First time I heard it I was clueless as to the words. This is what I initially thought. - Submitted by: Mathew
Pink Floyd's, "Hey You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And the wolves ate into his brain
The Real Lyrics:
And the worms ate into his brain
The Story: I was a painter/decorator, working for the first time with a production painter, who to my displeasure was one of those who liked to sing with the radio. Ugh! He sang wolves instead of worms. It's not wolves dude! He said his brother told him that it was wolves. "Haven't you seen the movie?" He didn't know there was a movie!" I told him he must see it, there are plenty of worms, no wolves. - Submitted by: Sharie
Pink Floyd's, "Hey You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Breaking bubbles in the hall
The Real Lyrics:
Breaking bottles in the hall
The Story: I consider myself an expert on all things drugs. I think that almost every song from Pink Floyd is drug related. So, I thought that the lyric was "breaking 'bubbles' in the hall" - meaning bursting bubbles of smack under the skin left there by sub-cutanious injection. That is, until my friend showed me that I am a complete fool. - Submitted by: Bob-o
Pink Floyd's, "Learning To Fly"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound mystic eye.
The Real Lyrics:
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I.
The Story: This was my mum's boyfriends favorite song, yet it wasn't until a couple of years ago when he was playing it I sang along with the correct lyrics and he was convinced I was the one getting it wrong. - Submitted by: skoby
Pink Floyd's, "Learning To Fly"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Tongue-tied and twisted
Just an earth-bound distant high
The Real Lyrics:
Tongue-tied and twisted
Just an earth-bound misfit
The Story: I sang this for almost 2 decades & swear I still hear this. To my embarrassment, a laughing roommate finally called me out in it, but to this day I'm gumptious enough to think 'my version' was maybe a little bit better! - Submitted by: Rausch Tallison
Pink Floyd's, "Money"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm in the high fidelity first class traveling set and I think i need a lear jet.
The Real Lyrics:
I'm in the high fidelity first class traveling section. I think I need a lear jet.
The Story: It's quite clear if you listen to the song! - Submitted by: Cathie
Pink Floyd's, "Money"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You think caviar’s four-star? Baby,
Think about a New York football team!
The Real Lyrics:
New car, caviar, four-star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team.
The Story: Was sure the artists we’re comparing people’s concept of a luxury (=caviar) to a billionaire’s concept of luxury (= a New York football team). - Submitted by: David
Pink Floyd's, "One Of My Turns"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate a violent threeway?
The Real Lyrics:
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
The Story: Nothing really funny. It was just what I heard the lyrics to be the first few times I heard the song until I looked them up. Still funny, and sometimes now I still sing the misheard lyrics just for fun, since it sounds like something Roger would say. - Submitted by: Erik
Pink Floyd's, "One of These Days"
The Misheard Lyrics:
One of these days I'm going to eat with the little sheep.
The Real Lyrics:
One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces..
The Story: The real lyrics was shocking when we learned it, though just as incongruous. My friend was still convinced it was "One of these days I'm going to dance with the evil sheep". - Submitted by: junipero
Pink Floyd's, "Pigs (Three Different Ones)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I should write you up
The Real Lyrics:
Haha charade you are
The Story: This entire time I thought "Pigs" was a song about cops or something, and that said cops were abusing their power, writing up a bunch of tickets, or maybe some report. - Submitted by: Kent
Pink Floyd's, "Run Like Hell"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ooh, I need an Italian woman.
The Real Lyrics:
Ooh, I need a dirty woman.
The Story: When this came out (and we went to see the Earl's Court concert), I was completely infatuated with my neighbor, Ivana (who was my first 'love' and is Italian). I don't know if this had any bearing on how the lyrics seemed to my developing pubescent mind! - Submitted by: Nyk Fry
Pink Floyd's, "Run Like Hell"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pud, pud, pud, pud
The Real Lyrics:
Run, run, run, run
The Story: I was just a teen then and words like "pud" and "pudwacker" were "big boys" talk. - Submitted by: 1979 Rebel
Pink Floyd's, "Run Like Hell"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Punk, punk, punk, punk
The Real Lyrics:
Run, run, run, run
The Story: Ramones, Clash, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Plasmatics - punk rock is kicking the Top 40 doldrums right in the butt! A needed shot in the arm to rock'n'roll. - Submitted by: Ready For The 80s
Pink Floyd's, "San Tropez"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Rita Pavone
The Real Lyrics:
Reach you by phone.
The Story: When The Amazing Pudding (Pink Floyd fanzine) did the stories behind all the Floyd songs, they referred to Rita Pavone while explaining this! It was cleared up later. - Submitted by: pickle*
Pink Floyd's, "The Wall [Part Two]"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The dogs orgasm in the classroom
The Real Lyrics:
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
The Story: I always liked this song and sang it a lot, [god knows how many people heard me say the wrong lyrics!]. One day, while I was singing it at a friends house, he just started laughing his head off. At first I though it was because of the funny lyrics, but when he told me it was wrong I just felt so embarassed that I practically hid my head in the concrete wall. - Submitted by: Andy Cesar
Pink Floyd's, "The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
How can you have any pudding if you don't kick your feet?
The Real Lyrics:
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: My brother-in-law is a very big Pink Floyd fan enamoured with The Wall. He also played guitar for a while. We were at dinner table when his version of the lyrics came out in conversation. It seemed so absurd that he would get those lyrics wrong and never picked up on it before. We were all in hysterics - my husband couldn't stop laughing with his 'kid' brother (now 40). Dave had never questioned the lyrics until we went "what???" - Submitted by: Dave's sister-in-law
Pink Floyd's, "The Wall"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!
The Real Lyrics:
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
The Story: I was on the phone with my friend, who was making dinner for her kids. She said to them, "You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!" So I laughed, thinking she was making a joke for my benefit. She had no idea what I was laughing about. When I quoted the song, she said that she never knew the words. - Submitted by: Andrew's Mom
Pink Floyd's, "Time"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Grandad needs a country walk
So have the pavement sprayed with mines
The Real Lyrics:
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
The Story: I probably misheard the lyric due to all the dope we were smoking at the time, but in its own way it made a weird kind of sense! - Submitted by: Gary Mcleod
Pink Floyd's, "Time"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the owls in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
The Real Lyrics:
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
The Story: I was binging on the Harry Potter series around the time I first started listening to Pink Floyd, so I had owls on my brain a lot. - Submitted by: Andy C
Pink Floyd's, "Us and Them"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Haven't you heard?
It's a battle of words, and nothing is on my mind....
The Real Lyrics:
Haven't you heard?
It's a battle of words
The posterbearer cried.
The Story: never heard the song any other way than that....didn't make sense to me...I was OK with the search for a deeper meaning... - Submitted by: tommy
Pink Floyd's, "Waiting for the Worms"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Waiting,
To smash in their windows and piss in their doors
The Real Lyrics:
Waiting,
To smash in their windows and kick in their doors
The Story: I've heard the lyrics "...piss in their doors" since I first got this album right around 1979; only fairly recently (within the last several years) did I realise they were saying "...KICK in their doors". - Submitted by: Craig Johnson
Pink Floyd's, "Waiting for the Worms"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Waiting...
To smash in your windows and piss in your door
The Real Lyrics:
Waiting...
To smash in their windows and kick in their doors
The Story: I've misheard this particular lyric from when I first heard this song in 1979 until at least mid-2010. - Submitted by: Craig Johnson
Pink Floyd's, "Waiting for the Worms"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Waiting...to smash in their windows and piss in their doors
The Real Lyrics:
Waiting...to smash in their windows and kick in their doors
The Story: I've misheard this lyric ("..piss in their doors") since I purchased the album in 1979. :-O - Submitted by: Craig Johnson
Pink Floyd's, "Waiting for the Worms"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Waiting...to weed out the weaklings
Waiting...to smash in their windows
And piss in their doors
The Real Lyrics:
Waiting...to weed out the weaklings
Waiting...to smash in their windows
And kick in their doors
The Story: I've misheard this lyric since the late-1970s when this album came out until just a few years ago. - Submitted by: Craig Johnson
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
A walk on by in the park, for a leaf grown in a cage
The Real Lyrics:
A walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage
The Story: It REALLY seemed to me at the time that I as a foster child was forced to exchange a walk by in the park for a leaf grown in a cage (captivity). - Submitted by: Anon
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
A walk on part in the war, for a Negro in a cage
The Real Lyrics:
A walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage
The Story: I was high, it was a time of social unrest, though the lyric was trying to undo an injustice - Submitted by: Dan Sheppard
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Can you tell a green feel from a coasty rain?
The Real Lyrics:
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
The Story: "Green feel" is a feeling which is hard to put to words. The speaker in the song asks ironically and grievingly if you are able to tell it apart from pure melancholy and depression, "coasty rain", rain, that's always there because of the conditions, something you can't escape. Both feelings, the green feel and the rain are something you can't fully relate to. However, in the song you are challenged to do so. - Submitted by: Kalags
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war
For a Negro in a cage?
The Real Lyrics:
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
The Story: When my brother was about 10 or 11, he told me that this was a really bad song. I asked him why and he said it was racist. I was pretty confused, so I asked him what was racist about it and he repeated those lyrics to me. - Submitted by: Heather Brown
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in 'The Wall'
For an egg roll in a cave?
The Real Lyrics:
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
The Story: When I was 14 I moved to another town, and before I did, my best friend Caycee inscribed my junior high yearbook with the entire 'lyrics' from the Pink Floyd song, Wish You Were Here. These are some of the actual lines she wrote. - Submitted by: Marni Jean
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The walk on part in the war, for a leero in a cage.
The Real Lyrics:
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
The Story: That's how I have been singing along with it all my life, and I'm 55. Funny when I just googled it, it knew what I was saying, LOL. I listened to Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon, and The Wall, albums until they turned white. I had to get new albums they were played so many time's. - Submitted by: John Seychel
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We're just two a**holes
Swimmin' in a fishbowl...
The Real Lyrics:
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
The Story: Playing cards with my Bro-in-law, his girlfriend and my wife, drinking beers, doing some Christmas baking after the kids went to bed, my wife is happily belting out the tune while placing cookie dough on a baking sheet... my BIL and I looked at each other and said "WHAT???" We still laugh about it. - Submitted by: DJKen Heath
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We're just two lost souls swimming in a s***hole
The Real Lyrics:
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl.
The Story: At a party and this song came on and I overheard someone sing these lyrics lol - Submitted by: Tara Snell
Pink Floyd's, "Wish You Were Here"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Wish you worked here.
The Real Lyrics:
Wish you were here
The Story: I was young. But coming before the line about two lost souls in a fishbowl, it could describe a modern office. - Submitted by: Graeme Orr
Pink Floyd's, "Young Lust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ooh, I hear your daddy's a woman;
Ooh, I hear your daddy's a clown.
The Real Lyrics:
Ooh, I need a dirty woman
Ooh I need a dirty girl
The Story: Cheap stereo system - Submitted by: Jim Leszczynski
Pink Floyd's, "Young Lust"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Ooohhh, I heard your dad died in the war man
Ooohhh, I heard your Dad died in the war.
The Real Lyrics:
Ooohhh, I need a dirty woman
Ooohhh, I need a dirty girl.
The Story: I didn't actually mishear the lyrics. It was a friend of mine. It actually took us watching The Wall one night with him singing along that I pointed it out to him. For years we razzed him about it! - Submitted by: Deanna Darling

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