• ZephyrXero
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    64 days ago

    I just learned that in Collective Soul’s Shine, he’s not saying “you haven’t let your light shine down”. But it’s actually a Jesus song and 'heaven let your light shine down." Over 30 years I was wrong lol

  • don
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    426 days ago

    🎶Wrapped up like a douche, another owner in the night🎶

    🎶Hold me closer, Tony Danza🎶

    • @[email protected]
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      105 days ago

      I like to sing, “Wrapped up like a douche, another rubber in the night” but yours sounds closer. That song is great for this. “Blighted by the right, wrapped up like douche, another Romney in the fight”

      • don
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        the full line from the song is

        Yeah, she/he was blinded by the light

        Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night

        • @[email protected]
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          55 days ago

          Not if you’re referring to the Manfred Mann version: that one was “Revved up like a deuce”.

  • @ThatGuy46475
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    255 days ago

    Hey now, you’re a rockstar, get the show on, get laid

  • @[email protected]
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    34 days ago

    I don’t know any misheard lyrics, because I refuse to believe the way I hear the lyrics isn’t correct.

    (Actually I used to have a list, but I’m old and I forgot it 😢)

  • 2ugly2live
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    44 days ago

    “‘E’ for very, very, extra ordinary.” VS “‘E’ for very, very, extraordinary.” The way I heard it performed always sounded like two separate words. I was like, “damn, she couldn’t just be nice the whole song?” I finally read the lyrics when I was older.

    “I don’t want another heartache at my door, don’t want another heartache on my list” VS “don’t want another heartache on my lips.”

  • @Mrkawfee
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    286 days ago

    “It’s too late to roll the dice” instead of “it’s too late to apologize” sounds much more meaningful.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 days ago

      Ooh, I like this one! I thought it was, “it’s too late to call the job” when I first heard it and was pretty unsure what he was going for…

      • @TexasDrunk
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        55 days ago

        He’s sad because he was going to call in sick but waited too long.

        • @[email protected]
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          35 days ago

          Yes! Of course. I now have a whole music video of someone hideously hungover, driving to work singing this… Kind of like the “everybody hurts” video but like crazy shit is happening.

          • @TexasDrunk
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            25 days ago

            So you’re picturing me every morning back when I had to drive in to work. Got it.

            • @[email protected]
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              Ah, so you are a Bexar drunk? I’m further down i10 myself, not sure I could go through that interchange every day.

              Edit: I am being too literal again, I think.

                • @[email protected]
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                  25 days ago

                  I do know her well! Hi neighbor! I hope you don’t have to suffer the i10 610 interchange daily!

    • JackbyDev
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      15 days ago

      That because they really butcher it and say 'poligize.

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        The worst part is you can actually fit the full word in the same beat but it doesn’t sound dumb af

  • Leeroy
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    Like a dog without a bone, like an actor OUT OF ROLE

    For fuck’s sake Jim, actor out on loan, pff! What had he been smoking?

  • @[email protected]
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    135 days ago

    At a punk gig once I heard:

    “Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake!“

    They were actually singing about “Tinnies (Aussie for beer) on Tuesday”. Not as good IMO.

  • @gift_of_gab
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    I always think of Metallica’s Saint Anger:

    🎶 Medallion noose, I hang myself

    Saint Anger 'round my neck

    I feel my world shake

    Like an earthquake

    Hard to see clear

    Is it me? Is it fear?

    I’m not even angry with you

    I’m not even angry with you

    I’m not even angry with you

    I’m not even angry with you

    🎶

    Yet the real lyrics are:

    I’m madly in anger with you

    I’m madly in anger with you

    I’m madly in anger with you

    I’m madly in anger with you

    sigh…

  • Liz
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    125 days ago

    'Cause I’m in too deep
    And I’m trying to keep
    up above in my head
    All the thoughts in my head
    'stead of going under

    • @Lolseas
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      Omfg. I bought All Killer No Filler the first week it was in stores. And I heard your interpretation ever since. Hot damn, thank you so much for chiming in. And fuck.

      • Liz
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        12 days ago

        To be clear “up above in my head” are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.

    • Thomrade
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      35 days ago

      Holy shit.

      I saw them live last year for the finale tour and even live, I heard “up above in my head”

      • @GoosLife
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        35 days ago

        Yeah, those are the actual lyrics. It’s “all the thoughts in my head” that’s misheard.

        • Liz
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          15 days ago

          Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person’s mind though.

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    not always. I saw this in a forum meant years ago, I wish I had saved a screenshot or something…

    the forum thread was about the dumbest lyrics in songs and someone said sanitarium by metallica had these lyrics:

    Got some death to do
    Mirror stairs back hard
    Kill, it’s such a friendly word

    and complained it’s nonsense. why would stairs be made of mirrors, and what did that have anything with the rest… also what does stairs back hard even mean, etc …

    as you may have guessed even if you don’t know the song, the lyrics are “mirror stares back hard”, which means the person is talking about their own reflection having a look in their eyes.

    not only were the misheard lyrics dumb, but I always admired the sheer confidence of the person who, upon hearing these nonsense lyrics, instead of using their internet access to look it up to confirm, used it to complain how stupid it was without thinking twice about whether they could have misunderstood.

  • @[email protected]
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    115 days ago

    Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up

    I always heard:

    Picture yourself (At) the MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting how come You’re in the stands?

    I loved this line as it was calling out the assumption when you picture something big, why are you in the crowd and not the star of the show? It felt motivating and a fun play on the way people imagine themselves in the world.

    It’s actually:

    Picture yourself The MGM Grand Murphy’s fighting Occam You’re in the stands

    Which, just doesn’t do any of the things the misheard lyric does. So disappointing.

  • @[email protected]
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    135 days ago

    Damn it, Mr.Ingle. Can you not sing “in the garden of eden” without sounding like you have a mouth full of pudding?

    Fuck it. We’ll just change the name of the damned song. Who the hell makes a 17 minute long song, anyhow? You’re a damned idiot!