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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. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.

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!).


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Survivor's, "Eye Of The Tiger"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And the last known survivor stuffs his bread in the night.
The Real Lyrics:
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night.
The Story: They played it on some Portland 80's station. I wondered why a survivor would stuff bread (though somehow it made perfect sense to me when I first heard the song). So I typed in 'Eye of the Tiger lyrics' into Google and up comes the misheard lyrics site. What did people do before the internet? - Submitted by: Krey Price
Survivor's, "The Search Is Over"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I was living for rotary
Loving for a moment
Taking on no one
That was just my style.
The Real Lyrics:
I was living for a dream
Loving for a moment
Taking on the world
That was just my style.
The Story: I never knew what 'living for rotary' meant. I thought perhaps it was something like playing roulette-taking chances with silly girls when the nice girl was right there. I guess it was not so complicated after all! - Submitted by: Michelle
Survivor's, "The Search Is Over"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Now the miles stretch out behind me
Loves that I have lost
Broken hearts like victims of the plague.
The Real Lyrics:
Now the miles stretch out behind me
Loves that I have lost
Broken hearts lie victims of the game.
The Story: I know it sounds rather gross/violent. But for a long time, it sounded like he was comparing the broken hearts to "victims of the plague". :( - Submitted by: Shari

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