Rock the Casbah misheard as Rock the cash-bar. I thought it was a song about people drinking and being punished for drinking. In my defense, I was 4, and sadly I knew what a cash-bar was.
My wife was singing “Hello darkness, smile friend” until she met me. When I heard it I was like, “can you sing that back for me one more time?”
I don’t know how long we laughed but it was equally funny the next day when we remembered it again.
In the song “Coming Undone” by Korn I thought the line was “i fight my demons with my friends” which is kinda wholesome but its actually “I thought my demons were my friends” which is much sadder :(
When I worked at a grocery store I always heard ‘I hope you dance’ as ‘I want you dead’. The pa speakers were kinda shit and when the song eventually came up on radio on the drive home I was like “ooooooohhh!” out loud in the car by myself because I was wondering what it could possibly be since it was obviously not what I heard it as.
I’m not sure this song ever made it out of Canada, but Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies has a verse where a girl in school wouldn’t change with the other girls, and when they made her, she had, in what I thought the lyric was, “burn marks all over her body”. I assumed the song was about child abuse, and they were cigarette burns. The other verses are about a kid with a shock of white hair from “a car crash” and a kid who always has to come home right after school, so it kinda made sense in a consistent enough way…
Anyway, for basically my whole life I thought that’s what the song was about. Turns out the lyrics are “birth marks all over her body”, and the point of the song is more about kids being othered for things outside their control.
I still think I prefer my version…
Great song, it definitely had airplay in both Europe and the US.
Dirty deeds done with sheeps. They’re dirty deeds and they’re done with sheeps.
To be fair, I think there is a parody version that has those lyrics.
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get rid of my friends
My contribution here is to let those who did not know (like me until recently) that the misheard version of lyrics (or phrase) causing them to have a new meaning is called “Mondegreen"
Apparently when I was 3, the song, “If you’re gonna play in Texas,” by Alabama, came out.
I heard, “If you’re gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a parallelogram.”
When I was about 10, instead of “smoke two joints”, I thought it was “spoke to Joyce”.
I spoke Joyce in the morning I spoke to Joyce at night I spoke to Joyce in the afternoon it makes me feel alrightI spoke to Joyce in time of peace and too in time of war I spoke to Joyce before I spoke to Joyce and then I spoke some more Spoooooke to Joyce that’s what I do!My mom laughed for 5 full minutes when I told her.
makes it sound more like a love song
I know the super trooper.
Lights are gonna find me.
That little pause confused me as a kid, not knowing what a “super trooper light” or that a thing like that exists.
From Rush’s “Farewell to Kings”…
Bleating at the marketplace, And stopping at the “Y”
Very unusual behaviour for those scheming demons.
I don’t think Nikki Minage (spelling?) meant to say: “I want you to fart on my young”
🤣 She probably does wanna fart on her young
I used to think the KISS song went I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day.
It’s far less hard core that way.
🤣
Probs a common one but when ever Blinded By The Light came on I only heard “woke up like a douche” instead of “revved up like a deuce”
I heard, “Wrapped up like a douche,” which always went well with misunderstanding the lyric after it, “Another rumor in the night.” (Correct line is “Another runner in the night.”)
I only knew about ‘deuce’ as a synonym for poop, when I first heard the song, which made it very confusing.
Turns out it’s a pretty versatile word.
My roommate used to think Jimi Hendrix sang “excuse me while I kiss this guy” until I explained it was “sky”.
Although in his defense years later I heard a live version where I’m pretty sure he changes it for a verse or two to “kiss this guy.”
