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.
I love the Rolling Stones, but no one can understand a word Mick sings. I have alternate lyrics for all my favorite Stones songs - Gimme Shelter, Jumping Jack Flash, Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Women…
Chevelle - self destructor
*Go fight yourself" I somehow heard “go bite your tongue” Which is a form of suicide requiring extreme will. It made sense that the person in the song is so dead set they’d rather die than fail/admit they are wrong.
Blinded by the light, revved up like a “douche” another runner in the night
Had no idea what they meant by that
What have I become my Swedish friend?
FYi, these are called Mondegreens after a famous song that was mis-heard by pretty much everyone. I think it was Welsch.
Mine is England Dan and John Ford Coley’s I’d really love to see you tonight.
Thought he sang, “I’m not talkin bout my linen.”
Instead of, "I’m not talkin bout movin in "
Made up a whole story in my mind about how they met in a Laundromat.
Hendrix’s “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” is a pretty famous one
Ever since I was a kid I thought in Bon Jovi’s “Dead or Alive” he sang “on a stale horse I ride”. I figured he had been riding his horse out in the desert a long time, it’s all tired, no water… yeah it’s a stale horse. My partner will never let me live it down.
Also my niece and nephew thought Lady Gaga sang “I don’t want to be French” instead of “I don’t want to be friends” in Bad Romance. It fit too, as she sings in French right before that.
When I was a kid I heard The Go-Go’s Our Lips Are Sealed as “Alex the seal”.
Doesn’t matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Alex the seal
I thought it was about a sad bullied seal.
To this day I hear “Diarrhea Jane” instead of “Diary of Jane”
People are Strange by the Doors “Streets are up when you’re going down.” I.E. “The whole world is happy when you’re depressed.”
George Thoroughgood’s Bad to the Bone. Thought the line was "The head nurse spoke up. She said, leave us alone. " Instead of “Leave this one alone.”
I thought, damn, that new born is gonna screw the head nurse. That IS bad to the bone!
LOL
Billy Jean is not my lover
She’s just a girl that thinks that I am the one
But
The chair is not my size
Jeff Davis of Who’s Line is it Anyway has a story about a friend of his mishearing “reach down, ease the seat back” in Van Halen’s Panama as “reach down, ease the seed bag”, as in adjusting his nuts. Always cracks me up when I think of that or hear the song
I thought the velvet underground “run run run” was
Run run run run run take your jacket too
Instead of “take a drag or two”
Good advice when it’s cold out!
Well I know how I’m singing this song from now on.
I… Didn’t listen well to the flip in Valhallalelluja and misheard the whole rest of the song for like 6 years until I saw the videoclip. If you know, you know. I didn’t even hear the word IKEA.
“Sharp dressed man” always heard it as “Shy best man” this may have had a minor counterproductive impact on my behavior when I was a teenager.
Every woman loves a shard glass man
What you thought it was a song about being popular with bridesmaids?
No, my stupidity went further than that, “best man” was just “good guy”
Not a mondegreen, but I like to sing it as “Shark dressed man.”
