Lyrics that you got wrong for years

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No, I'm not taking the "Kiss the sky" bait for the No Context thread.

Zilnad wrote:If that's a Spaced reference, it might suprise you to know that Daisy actually mishears the lyric as "almond cookies".

Ugh, timewarp?!

So there's a Fallout Boy song that (google tells me) goes:

We're goin' down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're goin' down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

It doesn't matter how many times I've heard it and looked it up, I always come back to:

We're goin' down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're goin' down swinging
(Some indecipherable mumbling)
And now you've got a cornflake stuck in your mullet

Yeah that song is both gooseberry fool and completely indecipherable

Tomous wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:Kiss from a rose on a string (kiss from a rose on the grey)

Wait, what?!

I thought for a long time it was Kiss from a rose on the grave.

Pretty sure the music video is the guy singing it in a graveyard, so maybe that's why.

When it comes to misheard lyrics, this Trivium interpretation takes some beating

Generally one of my biggest sources of these is songs from the GTA soundtracks, which I was hearing when I was 10/11. It was introducing me to all sorts of metal songs, like Peace Sells by Megadeth (my underdeveloped brain interpreted the refrain of "Peace sells, but who's buying??" as something like "serbs, craawwwwsss fire!"). This was great by the time I was 13 or 14 and worked out what they were actually saying, but made for a confusing few years while I got there!

I do love this one.

Wrathy wrote:... like Peace Sells by Megadeth (my underdeveloped brain interpreted the refrain of "Peace sells, but who's buying??" as something like "serbs, craawwwwsss fire!").

What the strawberry float :lol:

PuppetBoy wrote:So there's a Fallout Boy song that (google tells me) goes:

We're goin' down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're goin' down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

It doesn't matter how many times I've heard it and looked it up, I always come back to:

We're goin' down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're goin' down swinging
(Some indecipherable mumbling)
And now you've got a cornflake stuck in your mullet

FOB is cheating when it comes to misheard lyrics - no one has ever heard them correctly. I will never accept anything other than 'Down Taaa in a leelularah'.

One from my mate, he always heard the repeated "a denial" lyric from the end of Smells Like Teen Spirit as...

"Bloody Nile"

:lol:

"Gay paradise, put up a parking lot" (Paved paradise etc)

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:"Gay paradise, put up a parking lot" (Paved paradise etc)

On a similar note, a friend had definitely maybe but someone had taped it for him, meaning he didn't know what any of the songs were called. He thought cigarettes and alcohol was called "something in the Albert hall" :lol:

But all I need is something in the Albert haaaaallll

Victor Mildew wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:"Gay paradise, put up a parking lot" (Paved paradise etc)

On a similar note, a friend had definitely maybe but someone had taped it for him, meaning he didn't know what any of the songs were called. He thought cigarettes and alcohol was called "something in the Albert hall"

But all I need is something in the Albert haaaaallll

Victor Mildew wrote:On a similar note, a friend had definitely maybe but someone had taped it for him, meaning he didn't know what any of the songs were called. He thought cigarettes and alcohol was called "something in the Albert hall"

But all I need is something in the Albert haaaaallll

I used to think Bon Jovi was living on bread (like he's so poor, he has to subsist only on bread). I was honestly disappointed when I found out he was living on a prayer.

Turning twenty two - Ten in 2010 - Bad Religion

Admittedly I didn't know the name of the song at the time and even if I listen to it know I still hear it wrong :lol:

It's not a lyric that I got wrong (I had no idea what he was singing!) but my brother always sang the wrong lyrics to Freddie Mercury's "Living on my Own".

Instead of "Dee do de de, dee do de de" (which I just had to Google), my brother used to sing "free ya willy".

Because of that I can't help singing my brother's version even though I know he was just messing around.

Moggy wrote:It's not a lyric that I got wrong (I had no idea what he was singing!) but my brother always sang the wrong lyrics to Freddie Mercury's "Living on my Own".

Instead of "Dee do de de, dee do de de" (which I just had to Google), my brother used to sing "free ya willy".

Because of that I can't help singing my brother's version even though I know he was just messing around.

My friend's mum thought the middle-8 to that song went "be my banana, rump me, pump me".

Lyrics that you got wrong for years

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