Misheard Song Lyrics

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Song: "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga

Actual Lyrics: "Want you in my rear window, baby you're sick"

Misheard Lyrics: "Want you tomorrow when your baby is sick"

This single misheard lyric caused me to misinterpret the entire song's meaning. I thought it was about a Faustian contract between the singer and a desperate parent who must engage in a forbidden supernatural romance in exchange for their child's life.

A friend of mine always used to think a line of the chorus was

"Mosquitos and Potatoes"
in Smells Like Teen Spirit.

With the lights out, it's less dangerous <--- Maybe
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious <--- or this one maybe?
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido --- (But look, here it *DOES* have a mosquito!)
Yeah, hey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

Oh Canada
We stand on God for thee ...

(guard)

Maria's theme"I won't "faulter in" what I believe"
I thought it was "I won't "fall doing" what I believe"

My daughter used to sing:

And so you're back
From outer space
I just walked in to find you here with that sad lipstick on your face
I should have changed that stupid lock, I should have made you leave your key
If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me

And of course the classic:

Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard me, for me,

"It dives and it jumps" from "Is it a Crime" by Sade
I thought she was saying "dimes in jars" lol

There was a song by Herman's Hermits called "A Must To Avoid" and I thought the first line was "She's a muscular boy."

Another one was "I'm A Tiger" by Lulu. I thought she was singing "I'm a tiny girl."

In "The Green, Green Grass Of Home" I mistook the line "There's a guard and there's a sad old padre" for "There's a god and there's a sad old portrait."

There was a song "Soldier, Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" in which I mistook "with your musket, fife and drum" for "you must get five-pound drum."

A change to the chorus of Stuck in the middle with you that is apropos to scent-hound fanciers

“Bloodhounds to the left of me,
Bassets to the right.
Here I am, stuck in the middle with food!”

(If you’ve ever owned either breed, or both breeds at the same time, you’ll understand!)

Then there the obscene takeoff on The Beach Boys Help me Rhonda, where Help is replaced by everyone’ favorite F work, and heart is replaced by a vulgarity that means rooster.

a little twist, I think it is really common not to hear the lyrics at all apparently, to Strange Fruit, the most famous version of course was from Billie Holliday. It took me a while to notice as well of course, I do admit I sometimes don't listen carefully to Jazz Lyrics it seems.



Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop