So Kanye’s album “The Life of Pablo” album has been out for 2 years now, and I’ve only just discovered I had the lyrics wrong for one part.

“Blac Chyna fuckin Rob helped him with the weight. I wish my trainer would tell me what I overate...[so when i’m over K I need to kick back]
heh?”

I thought that line was funny, with the double entendre of being over K (over KG, overweight) and not sleeping with Kim anymore he’d need to exercise more (relating to the first line). And the sound he makes at the end is like “heh? Get it”

But the lines actually

“so when i’m on vacay I need to kick back” 🤦🏻‍♀️

And I’m devastated.


Though I’m guilty of a few misheard lyrics, though normally pick it up a lot quicker than that 😂.


This probably doesn’t sound like it to those with an American accent, but when I heard this the first time I heard “and all my f****t stains” instead of my Frankenstein’s.



I also originally thought it was “She’s got holes” repeated, not “She’s Gone” despite the song being called “She’s Gone Away” 😂. In my defence, Trent Reznor seems to have a fascinating with holes in his lyrics so it wouldn’t be farfetched.


A few rap lyrics I’ve gotten slightly wrong but that can be understandable giving the lyrics.



Both myself and the lyrics listed on google have it as
“Get the fatter check split
How much for 100,000 tons of correct shit”

when it’s Corexit.

Though google also hilariously has the first lines as

Catch a throatful
From the fire vocal
Ash and molten glass like
Like I am John LaRocca
Volcano out of Iceland

Ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull

is the correct lyric. But he understandably butchers the pronouncation followed by an audio sample of it corrected after, so can’t blame it if it’s auto detected.

Also Genius didn’t have the line in Astral Traveling about going toe to toe with Finn Balor and Samoa Joe until recently, you can’t edit the lyrics anymore sadly.
genius.com/Czarface-astral-traveling-lyrics

Anyway, what lyrics have you misheard only to find out you were mistaken later?

Up until like a year ago I was convinced Tom Petty was saying running down the DRAIN. Turns out it's DREAM.

I used to think the song was "Werewolves of Thunder."

Not a misheard lyric, but for years (I was a young'n) I wondered why they named an operatic rock song "Bohemian Rap City."

My favorite:



FREE THE BANANAS!!!

Hold me closer Tony Danza is a great one too. Completely changes the way you look at the song.

This one is great as well.

Pigface has the best song for dividing fans on what is being said. Insect/Suspect has different lyrics on every lyric site and I do not believe any of them are correct compared to the official lyrics. I still hear sit your ass down and said power to the fags despite knowing that is not what is said.

YES! Love the premise for this thread. I love when this happens but am also so terrified of it happening to me if I were to be singing along to something that it full stop flat out stops me from singing (way more so than whether or not I'm tone deaf and can even carry a tune).

I feel like the best artists/songs for this are the mumbling marble mouth types. I'm sure the grunge genre is full of songs that could be misheard in hilarious ways, as well as some more contemporary stuff like Bon Iver.

Aug 2, 2018 14:18:34 GMT 🤯 said:

YES! Love the premise for this thread. I love when this happens but am also so terrified of it happening to me if I were to be singing along to something that it full stop flat out stops me from singing (way more so than whether or not I'm tone deaf and can even carry a tune).

I feel like the best artists/songs for this are the mumbling marble mouth types. I'm sure the grunge genre is full of songs that could be misheard in hilarious ways, as well as some more contemporary stuff like Bon Iver.

Reminds me of that Weird Al song about Nirvana lyrics.

I have misheard hundreds of lyrics over the years but the one that always stands out is Manfred Mann's Blinded By The Light. It's supposed to be...

Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night

While the Baker interpretation is....

Blinded by the light
Wake up like a douche
In the river of the night

Another good one is my friend Will mishearing "Down to Gorky Park" as "Down to Donkey Kong" in Wind of Change by Scorpions.

Aug 3, 2018 0:08:10 GMT Baker said:

I have misheard hundreds of lyrics over the years but the one that always stands out is Manfred Mann's Blinded By The Light. It's supposed to be...

Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night

While the Baker interpretation is....

Blinded by the light
Wake up like a douche
Another river in the night

Another good one is my friend Will mishearing "Down to Gorky Park" as "Down to Donkey Kong" in Wind of Change by Scorpions.

A real bad one for me is the CCR song "Down On The Corner."


Down On The Corner, out in the street,
Willy and the Poorboys are playin';
Bring a nickel; tap your feet.

To me was...

Down On The Corner, out in the street,
Where the Poorboys are playin';
Bring a n***er at your feet.

I always wondered how that got past the censors on the radio.

Aug 2, 2018 14:18:34 GMT 🤯 said:

YES! Love the premise for this thread. I love when this happens but am also so terrified of it happening to me if I were to be singing along to something that it full stop flat out stops me from singing (way more so than whether or not I'm tone deaf and can even carry a tune).

I feel like the best artists/songs for this are the mumbling marble mouth types. I'm sure the grunge genre is full of songs that could be misheard in hilarious ways, as well as some more contemporary stuff like Bon Iver.

The all timer in this category for me is Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Especially this line....

A mulatto 
An albino

Which I always misheard as....

Kama D'Lo
And did you know

I didn't get into Nirvana until around 1998 (as a general rule of thumb you can always count on me to be at least five years behind the times) when The Nation was going strong. I knew my interpretation had to be wrong but I didn't know the truth until tonight. Same goes for that Manfred Mann mishearing. Have to admit I'm a little bummed out to have definitive proof that Kurt Cobain was not, in fact, a time travelling Nation of Domination fan. 

"I nutted on her cheek her new nickname is Baby Face" - 21 Savage on the new Travis Scott album.

Oh wait that's the actual line? OK continue. :lol:

Ozzy is the big one for me, my band in high school would play a shitload of Ozzy and i was the singer so i had to try to figure out the lyrics, its almost impossible to figure out what hes saying in parts of Crazy Train and Mr Crowley, i would rewind and listen to the same parts over and over again 100 times and would still end up making up my own shit that was nothing at all what he was saying

Just remembered another one I got wrong for years. There was an early 90s country song called Feed Jake. For years my brother and I didn't even get the song title right. We thought it was Be Jake. The real lyrics are....

If I die before I wake
Feed Jake

Whereas my brother and I heard....

If I die before I wake
Be Jake

Which makes absolutely no sense. In our defense, we were awfully young.

Higher Ground (RHCP version, at least), I always heard "because it won't be too long" as "until the bullet hits the bone."

Aug 5, 2018 4:29:13 GMT RagnarokMike said:

Higher Ground (RHCP version, at least), I always heard "because it won't be too long" as "until the bullet hits the bone."

There's because Anthony Keidis annunciates so fucking weird. Add in his own nonsense lyrics whenever they're not covering a Stevie Wonder song, and most of their songs are straight up incomprehensible.

Oh my shuffle just reminded me of a good one. "I wanna be a door" - Stone Roses

When I was a kid, I always thought Eiffel 65 said “I’m blue, if I was green I would die. If I was green, I would die, if I was green I would die!”

Only to find out it was just Da ba dee Da ba Da. What a screw up by them.

There was a radio contest here and you had to guess the song. It was 'More Than a feeling' by Boston and the girl said 'Morgan Freeman'. If I hadn't heard it myself I wouldn't have believed it.

I thought 'The Stroke' by Billy Squire was saying 'Strong man, strong man' not 'stroke me, stroke me'. :suspic:

Finally thought of a huge one for me. Old school country song called Living On Tulsa Time came on today, all these years i thought he was saying Living On Toast And Time.

Aug 8, 2018 14:49:01 GMT KING KID said:

When I was a kid, I always thought Eiffel 65 said “I’m blue, if I was green I would die. If I was green, I would die, if I was green I would die!”

Only to find out it was just Da ba dee Da ba Da. What a screw up by them.

I thought it was "I will beat other guys."


My mom thought "Let the bodies hit the floor" by Drowning Pool was "Let the party system flow." It's all I've been able to sing since.

Pantera's Walk I never heard until RVD. For whatever reason I thought the lyrics was "breathe, sweat" instead of respect. Guess I was convinced it was a workout song...

Aug 26, 2018 0:01:46 GMT @ness said:

Pantera's Walk I never heard until RVD. For whatever reason I thought the lyrics was "breathe, sweat" instead of respect. Guess I was convinced it was a workout song...

You just blew my mind. I thought it was breathe, sweat too. For sure.

Until yesterday I thought this line in Ænema

Was
“Cause I’m praying for mayhem”

When it’s
'Cause I'm praying for rain
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
I wanna watch it all go down“

Which makes a lot more sense in context but the pronunciation just sounds odd to me 😅

Rebel Yell, the line is "pray help from above," what I heard, "rain hell from above."

Offspring's "Bad Habit" is "I've gotta a bad habit, of blowing away." what I heard was, "I've gotta find Heaven, and blow it away."

When I look up a song on YT I actually avoid lyric videos because I don't wanna know the truth. Especially if it's a song I've enjoyed for a long time. Nah fam, IT IS WHAT IT IS.

Reading Youtube comments during yesterday's 90s country binge reminded me of an all timer...

Top comment and I both misinterpreted The Kentucky Headhunters Dumas Walker as "Let's all go down to do Miss Walker."  :lol:  Thought the song was about a bunch of guys heading out to roger Miss Walker until hearing the local country station DJ explain who Dumas Walker was. Until then it was the country music equivalent of that time I read about sailors ejaculating in the 3nd Narnia book. 

HOWEVER other commenters theorized the whole Dumas Walker thing was a sly trick to get around those pesky censors and the song really is about doing Miss Walker. The lyrics can work that way and I honestly hope it is the case. UT you know this one?

I had no idea what the song actually said/meant. I don’t even think I think it was Miss Walker but like the name of some podunk town. Weird.

Hotel California really blew my mind when I got older and learned what the song was actually about.

Marylin Manson, the line is "GET. YOUR. GUN." when I was young I heard "DING. DONG. DONE."