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!).
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Whitesnake's,
"Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City"
Anal love in the heart of the city.
Ain't no love in the heart of the city.
The Story: My father heard this tune way back when, and sat and steamed more and more as the song went on ('Ain't no love' is repeated every other line for most of the song) until he got fed up and yelled, 'This is disgusting!' It took my girlfriend (at the time) and I about 10 minutes of hysterical laughter to explain to him what was so funny, once he told us what he thought the disgusting line in the song was. - Submitted by: Rogue
Here I go again on my own
Going down the only road I've never known.
Like a drifter I was born to wear cologne.
Here I go again on my own
Going down the only road I've never known.
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone.
The Story: My uncle thought this was what it said for years, and since there was no Internet to look it up, he didn't find out until way later! - Submitted by: Claire Nelson
Like A Drifter I Was Born To Wear Cologne
Like A Drifter I Was Born To Walk Alone
The Story: I thought it made perfect sense because a drifter wouldn't be able to bathe regulary and would need cologne. - Submitted by: Mona Lisa
Like a homo I was born to walk alone
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone.
The Story: Whitesnake's song originally aired with the hobo in it. It was only changed to drifter for US audiences. You can find the original still. Anyway, I thought he was singing about feeling like a gay dude because in the 80s we called them in school "flaming homos." It was hilarious. Millenials are SO uncool everything bothers them they are like 80 year olds. We had fun in the 80s and EVERYONE had a sense of humour even gay people. - Submitted by: Tatiana
Like a twister I was born to walk alone.
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone.
The Story: My friend Brent in high school loved to throw out lines from songs whenever it fit into the conversation. One time we got into a big debate over whether the lyric was 'like a twister' (his interpretation) or 'like a drifter' (mine). I kept insisting that his version didn't make sense. And I think he knew I was right, but enjoyed watching me get all flustered about it. We re-established contact recently and he brought up this song again--too funny. - Submitted by: Corinne
Like a twister, I was born to walk alone.
Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.
The Story: I had an argument in the car with pregnant girlfriend about these lyrics. She was right! - Submitted by: Rick Jr
To walk along the lonely streenid dreams.
To walk along the lonely street of dreams.
The Story: I had no idea what streenid dreams were, but I thought David Coverdale was suffering from them. Maybe they are like nightmares? - Submitted by: Phil
I can feel my heart is shrinking
I can feel my heart is breaking
The Story: Were they thinking of how the Grinch stole Christmas? - Submitted by: Cody Finke
My heart is feeling constipated,
It's beating like a big bass drum
My heart is beating faster, babe,
It's beating like a big bass drum
The Story: My wife heard this on the cd in my car. All of a sudden she starts laughing. I asked her what was so funny. In between fits of laughter she asked, 'Did he just say, 'My heart is feeling constipated', there?'. Hence, another misheard lyric was born on 3/22/2002. Thanks, Bunny. - Submitted by: PunkBass
An' look at my erection
An' look in my direction
The Story: I swear it could have sounded like pornography. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
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