The Misinterpreted Song Lyrics Game

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I nearly jumped for joy when I saw this topic... I mishear lyrics ALL THE TIME X) here are some of my more epic examples:

Have some composure! Where is your kosher? -what I heard
What is really was: Have some composure! Where is your posture?

He pawned his sewing machine to buy the tallest tree -what I heard
What it really was: I parked my time machine behind the tallest tree

...in the light of his coffee and cream -what I heard
-what it really was: ...in the light of his glory and grace

I always used to think the song "hot blooded" was "hot butter", which in retrospect doesn't sound too rock n' roll

At one time, I thought that:

I'm a rocket man, burning up the steam up here, alone
was

I'm a rocket man, burning up the seats of everyone

For years I heard

"Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh" as

"Dashing through the snow in a one whore soap and sleigh". Always wondered what soap and whores had to do with christmas

My parents thought that Мальчик-гей by t.A.T.u (pronounced malchik gay, Russian for gay boy) sounded like they were saying "munchy pig".

In Craving, also by t.A.T.u, I thought that the line "and creativity, it soaks my soul" was "and be a DVD; it soothes my soul".

In Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park, my brother and I always thought that "I don't want to be the one the battles always choose" sounded like "I don't want to be the one that battles on with shoes".

So I was listening to Meding of The gown by Sunset Rubdown and i heard this line which seemed to refrence Danny Phantom, I thought it wass a coucidence and russhed home only to find....

What I heard
This one's for Maddie, this one's for Sam.
This one's for Maddie, this one's for Sam.
Oh, any other random spirit lover busted, I have lusted after you

What it acutally was
This one's for Maggie, this one's for Sam.
This one's for Maggie, this one's for Sam.
Oh, any other random spirit lover busted, I have lusted after you

No clue what it means in the scheme of the show but, but, but Random Spitrit Lover!! ! *explodes*

back in the 70s, i remember the BeeGee's "Jive talkin'" as sounding more like "Chive talkin'" [as in musical green onions]
my mother heard the Beatles song "Let it be" and thought it was "Tennessee."
in the Mungo Jerry song "In the summertime" they sang about driving "...a ton and twenty five" [british slang for one hundred and twenty-five miles per hour] and i thought they said "the toilet training five."
when i was in high school, i heard some clueless fella singing along with the Blues Brothers on the radio, doing their big hit ["I'm a] Soul man", and mr. clueless was moaning, "I was SOooo MAD!"
i am thankful to find out such misconstrued lyrics are called "Mondegreens" so now i don't have to say "misconstrued song lyrics" anymore.

Def Leppard - Action Not Words

With their particular style combined with the deliberate distortion placed on the vocals, "shock me!" really sounds like "f**k me!" no matter how much I try not to hear it that way!

I'll be there for you" by the Rembrandts (The "Friends" theme song)
Misheard Lyrics:
When it hasn't been your day, we come up and breathe in your ear.
Actual Lyrics:
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.


"How Soon is Now" by the Smiths ("Charmed" theme song)
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm the start and the end
Original Lyrics:
I am the son and the heir

Misheard Lyrics:
I am Heaven and I need to be loved.
Original Lyrics:
I am human and I need to be loved.

I believe that you're meant to briefly wonder if it's "I am the sun and the air."

I always thought it's I'm a son of the air.

Other:
Me: silence is gone, ignorance blitz
Original: silence is gold, ignorance bliss

Me: you're walking down in converse
Original: You will condemn, I'll convert

Me: mach mich Eis (make me ice)
Original: mach mich heiß (make me hot)

Me: where is mein Licht (but I knew it's nonsense)
Original: Vergissmeinnicht (forget-me-not)

I often mishear the lyrics, doesn't matter which language, so I usually search the lyrics. Lyrics can be about everything and I'm not good in poetry.
I mishear also movies and normal coversations, so I prefer subtitles and chatting.

I mishear lyrics all the time, but I can't say exactly which songs.

Robbie Williams - Supreme
Me: Eins, zwei, all right, all right
Original: I spy with my little eye

Björk - Declare Independence
Me: Racial flag!
Original: Raise your flag!

Björk - Crying
Me: Because I need you, claim again, feel you too
Original: Crying 'cause i need you, crying i can feel you

"She doesn't want to live, she's just wondering if there's life after death"

Turns out the real lyrics are:

"She doesn't want to leave, she's just wondering if there's life out there"

Taylor Swift's Blank Space: "Got a long list, Starbucks-lovers!"

Blinded by the light,
Revved up like a douche!

The lyrics actually say "revved up like a deuce," which is a type of car or something...