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Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby torn80 » Wed May 19, 2021 8:11 am

Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics :dizzy:
Misheard and weird lyrics are pretty common. The most famous example is probably the PELICAN song by Pearl Jam. Just do a search for PELICAN and PEARL JAM and you'll get the song embedded below. The word pelican is not included in the song, but that's what most people hear!
A mondegreen /ˈmɒndɪɡriːn/ is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, writing that as a girl, when her mother read to her from Percy's Reliques, she had misheard the lyric "layd him on the green" in the fourth line of the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray" as "Lady Mondegreen".

LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby sandman » Mon May 24, 2021 6:13 am

BOB DYLAN: "Blowin' In The Wind
MISHEARD LYRICS:
The ants are my friends
They're blowin' in the wind
The ants, they are blowin' in the wind

ACTUAL LYRICS:
The answer, my friend
Is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby dilbert » Mon May 24, 2021 6:49 am

Unknown - There's A Bathroom On The Right
A bunch of people in the comments say that this parody was done by Bob Rivers Comedy Corp and that Bob Rivers is/was a DJ up in Seattle.
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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby hand » Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:31 pm

Every Breath You Take Explained Sting
It's not so much that people mishear the lyrics. It's that they misinterpret them.
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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby panamint_patty » Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:23 am

Hendrix Sings 'Scuse me While I Kiss This Guy
The actual lyric is "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky," but as a joke Hendrix sometimes sang it to match what people misheard it as.
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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby CrustyOldFart » Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:51 am

panamint_patty: I always thought it was PUKE AND DIE!
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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby dilbert » Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:27 pm

Dean Martin - Ain't That a Kick in the Apple Bottom Jeans? (1960)
Do a search for Apple Bottom Jeans and you'll be amazed by all the "artists" who have a version of this song. It's a YouTube phenomenon to be sure and without a doubt.
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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby defcon » Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:06 pm

Third Eye Blind- Semi-Charmed Life Lyrics
Forever I thought that the lyrics were "Then I fucked the cat, then I fucked the cat" starting about about 1:31 into the song. It turns out that he really says, "Then I bumped again, then I bumped again." The weirdest lyrics in the song which really are the real lyrics are:
Doing crystal meth
will lift you up
until you break
It won't stop

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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby wabbit » Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:31 am

8 More Misheard Lyrics About Food
Why does Selena Gomez sing about farting carrots? That sounds like a problem she should get checked out by a medical professional!
MORE:
Got a Kit-Kat (Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas)
The tears from my eyes like balogne fries" (Waterfalls - TLC)
And you were waiting there, swimming through a pile of cheese" (The Metro - Berlin)
"You keep making me reek, yeah, frozen in Cadbury" (One Thing - One Direction)
"Ah ah ah ah, steak and a knife" (Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees)
"Dreams of war, dreams of lies, dreams of dragons fire, and a baked apple pie" (Enter Sandman - Metallica)
"Honestly you promised me I never gonna find your bacon" (Complicated - Avril Lavigne)

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Re: Mondegreens and Misheard Rock Lyrics

Postby twister » Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:47 am

WAKE UP PUSSY :laugh:
For some reason the first time I heard this it sound like he was saying pussy, but it's really Chrissy.
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