Am I the only one this happens to? I used to "feel it coming in the yellow night" with Phil Collins. What are yours?
In Germany we call these misheard lyrics "Agathe Bauer Songs" (misheard "I got the power"), it happens mostly when some lyrics in english songs sound like a german sentence or name.
edit: found this: https://youtu.be/hPV3wHnd5lo?si=Z1GiyHfe89iCMizH
Some of those are really funny 🤣
They are called Mondegreens in English, after Sylvia Wright wrote an essay about how she misheard "laid him on the green," as Lady Mondegreen.
when I lived in Switzerland I learned "the eye of the tiger - die eier von tiger (the balls or effs of the tiger)
"Wrapped up like a douche"
-- Blinded by the Light, Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Hahaha that was one of mine too, I mean that song, that line lol... I didn't have douche but I had a few wacky versions of that line 😂
From Wikipedia:
Springsteen has joked about confusion over the lyrics, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a feminine hygiene product that it became popular.
'scuse me while I kiss this guy
I remember the singer saying he would actually sing "kiss this guy" to mess with people.
Wait, that's supposed to be something else?
Kiss the sky.
This part of the song in Shaggy's Angel:
"You're my angel, you're my darling angel. Closer than pizza your are to me"
Like, I knew that can't possibly be what he was saying, but I couldn't hear otherwise. Even now, I know he says "peeps", but I keep hearing "pizza".
"I can see clearly now the rain is gone, I can see all icicles in my way"
"Snow White, take it easy..."
I thought Foghat were singing about a nympho fairy tale character.
😂
"Don't bring me down... Bruce!" as heard by everyone ever.
(It's "gross," supposedly. Apparently Jeff Lynne sings "Bruce" sometimes in concert just to mess with his fans.)
I can tell you, my love for you will still be strong After the poison summer has gone.
I genuinely thought Don Henley was having a bad summer...
"retarded fuckface" Depeche mode - personal Jesus. What the lyrics really say: "reach out and touch faith"
This one really feels like you need to be hating on the song...
Really big reach...
“Why is Bowie singing about Surfer Jet City?”
“Dude, the song is called Suffragette City.”
“Oh. Uh, what the hell is-”
“Dude, I dunno.”
"There's a bathroom on the right."
"I'm blue, if I were green I would die / I'm in need of a guy / I'ma beat up a guy . . . ."
Also, I fondly recall a YT commenter on Major Lazer's Lean On that thought "Blow kiss, fire a gun" was "Marcus Firagon."
She's got electric boobs! Benny and the Jets
For the longest time, I thought this lyric in The Decemberists' Annan Water was:
"...though my mother cries, that if I try, I sure will drown in pee..."
They repeat it 4 times; the last one, especially, I just can't hear otherwise.
The first ones that came to my mind for some reason despite not hearing any of the songs for years were:
I'm friends with the mustard that's under my bed
'Cause I keep givin' you a sexy oven
Don't you worry, don't you worry child. She hasn't got a pen for you
Hold me closer Tony Danza
Hold me close, young Tony Danza
“Should I give up? Or should I just keep chasing penguins?”
If you chasing them on land and can't catch them something is wrong... And if you try to chase them in water then yes give up lol
Most of these don't sound remotely like what is actually being sung, what the hell is happening here? how are so many people getting this wrong?
English is a stress based language (if you heard a peanuts-style audio blurrer, you’d still hear regular ups and downs, whereas Spanish would sound monotone), so English speakers rely on that emphasis to determine where one word ends and another begins. When we sing, we lose a lot of the stress indicators, so it’s pretty common for songs in stress based languages to be misunderstood.
Plus people get audiologically confused by all the sounds in any language
And once you hear it wrong the first time, your brain keeps perceiving it that way every time you hear the song lol
"I swear that I can see forever in your eyes.... parrot eyes"
What was it supposed to be?
Paradise not parrot eyes, but I always hear parrot eyes 😂
I cannot unhear Fishmaster.
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I used to think that the Family Guy theme had Stewie singing "effing cry" when he was really singing "laugh and cry".
Cum in my hair do it I dare
In Harder to Breathe (Maroon ) it always sounded to me like he said the n-word 😬 but I know he said something else lol
Cheap wine and a free can of coke
One Week by Barenaked Ladies is a mindfuck, as is REMs It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).
Chiggity China the Chinese chicken?