"Up to no Good" by Rancid, my punk friend, and I mean punk like he would kick your ass if you call good charlotte or green day punk, made me listen to this song, and I swear the lyrics to parts of the song were: Like a sparkling wine...we're bad motherfuckers up to no good...quick like a slick, he'll even steal the blaster of the ceiling....criminals, I cannot stand them...portal ruse, and we end up in the system. After getting a sucker punch for singing those lyrics, I was told the words to those parts of the song were: Like a spark of wire, but that motherfuckers up to no good, quick like a snake, he'll even steal the plaster of the ceiling, criminals I understand them, born to lose and we end up in the system.

Another Rancid example from "Gave It Away": the second verse begins with "I've seen you finish, I saw you at the start". For more than ten years, I was convinced that the guy sings "I've seen the British..." What's more, now I know the actual lyrics but still hear "the British".

This Troper just did it with AlanisMorissette's "Knees Of Your Bees". "You are a-fishing, and live by the singles of Sonic and intuition, that's your guy," (You are a vision who lives by the singles of stomach and intuition as your guide"

The next line: "You are a sailor with God on a platter who walks while he talks so he copes when he's died" (You are a sliver of God on your platter who walks what he talks and who copes when he's lied"

Despite an embarassing correction, I keep hearing one of the lines from David Bowie's ''Life on Mars'' as "...look at those gay men go" (the correct lyrics are "...look at those '''cavemen''' go"). It doesn't help that it's preceded by "Sailors fighting in the dance hall".

As a child I was convinced, with the encouragement of an elder evil sibling, that "I feel stupid and contagious" from Smells Like Teen Spirit, was in fact "I feed two pigs, from containers"

You're not alone. I did the same to my cousins.

It's "I feel stupid and contagious"? I thought it was "Life is stupid and contagious".

Is it just me, or is it kind of ironic to find mondegreens in a song that's based on a misinterpretation of an ad slogan? (Teen Spirit is a deodorant, not the spirit of teenagers.)

I always hear a certain line in the Dragonforce song "Strike of the Ninja " as "My ass open wide" The original it's just "My eyes open wide"

In the Linkin Park song "Numb" "Walking in your shoes" becomes "Fucking in your shoes" for some reason.

No matter how often I hear the Manic Street Preachers song "Repeat (Stars and Stripes)" I hear "Loses an erection" not "Useless generations".

I always heard the last bit of "Ra ra ah ah ah roma ro ma ma ga ga ooh la laa WANT YOUR BAD ROMANCE" as "Wash your bedroom hands." Never mind that the song is actually ''called'' "Bad Romance." Or that the title is dropped all over the rest of the song.

The first time I heard the song, without knowing it's title, I thought the line 'want your bad romance' was 'watch out for romance'. Makes about as much sense.

Another one from Bad Romance, This Troper thought "Want you in my rear window/Baby its sick" was actually "Want you tomorrow when your baby is sick"

I thought the line "You and me could write a bad romance" was "You and me could ride a bed romance" the first time I heard it without knowing the title. I was very confused.

Misheard 'Caught in a Bad Romance' as 'Caught in a trap of my own'. Only figured it out when I heard a much clearer cover version.

I kept hearing "Want you in my rear window" as "Want you in my Morrowind".

Used to think that the "Want your bad romance" was just more of the gibberish preceding it.

"A jumpy romance"? Not like "Just Dance" was any clearer.

More of a retroactive Mondegreen, but I realized "I don't wanna be friends" could be made to sound like "I don't wanna be french..."

May I direct you to this comic?

I thought the line "Want you in my rear window/Baby its sick" was "Want your bone marrow when your baby's sick"

Original troper for the above entry here with another Gaga mondegreen: In "Born This Way," I''still'' hear "Hold your head up, girl, and you'll go far" as "Hold your handgun and you'll go far."

Marina's and the Diamond's 'Hollywood' opening lines: "Because I don't want to end up living in a dive on Vine" sounds like "Because I don't want to end up living in Dublin 5"! Listen to it. It can't just be me!

I once heard someone singing along with Blur's "Song 2", and they sang the line "I got my head checked by a jumbo jet" as "I got my head shaved by a Zamboni". ...In their defense, neither lyric makes much sense.

Kings Of Leon. Full stop. Especially their early stuff: try listening to Red Morning Light or Trani and making sense of the lyrics. "Playing in the dirt, shittin' out his teeth" (from Trani) CANNOT be right.

In a RealLife ''subversion'', I actually used to think Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" titular lyric was a Mondegreen, and tried to hear it as "Do it like a lady". It was made that much funnier when I realized the truth.

I always heard it as "do the lucky lady".

I though it was "Do the funky lady" as a kid

"Doodle like a lady" here.

And here this troper thought they were singing "do the macarena".

The first time I heard the song, I felt that it could also sound like "Dude, look at that lady".

This troper first heard the song when watching ''Mrs Doubtfire'', heard it as "You look like a lady," and wondered why the next line wasn't "You act like a man," or something along those lines.

Inversion.

This troper always hears "It's written all over your face" in Beyonce's "Halo" as "I'm spitting all over your face." Makes sense to me.

Alice In Chains has a song called "Rooster," the actual lyric is "walkin' tall machine gun man" but I hear the much more appropriate "walkin' talkin' chicken man."

This troper first heard the Steve Miller song "Jet Airliner" at the age of eight, when her younger brother's best friend was named Jeremy, nicknamed "Jer" -- so she heard "Big ol' jet airliner" as "Big ol' Jer left the light on".

I've always heard 'Jet Airliner' as 'Carolina.'

In "Apologize" by OneRepublic, when it said "it's too late to apologize," this troper heard it as "it's too late for the john."

This troper first heard it as "It's too late to call a judge".

I can't be the only troper to have heard the "I don't like your girlfriend" line in Avril Lavigne's song, "Girlfriend" as "I don't ''want'' your girlfriend."

This Troper thought the mock lyrics to "The Legend Of Zelda" went: "And Ganon lilies greatly." (The actual "lyrics": "Put Ganon in his grave.")

I heard it as "But Ganon, he is crazy!" at first.

Also, in "Misery", the word "brag" is sung really weirdly, so every time I always think it's "I never meant to ''break''", which doesn't really make sense.

John Reuben's "Do Not": "Do not tell me what I can and cannot do when I rock" sounds for all the world like, "Do not tell me what I can and cannot do in Iraq".

Ha ha politics joke!

Or something a CompositeCharacter of Locke and Sayid would say.

When listening to "Going Somewhere Fast" by [=FurtherMore=], I keep hearing "Going somewhere fast, fucked up, so I don't ask where" (rather than the lyrics listed in the liner notes, "Going somewhere fast, ''I'm dumb'' so I don't ask where"). The lyrics in question are in the chorus; I can't help but wonder if this was intentional.)

Both this troper and his sister went to the same high school, and we used to listen to her [=iPod=] on the way in (it was a 40 minute drive, we lived in a different town). One of the songs she had was Dido's "White Flag." To this day we both still think she says "I won't poke my eyes out and surrender." (The lyrics say "put my hands up" but we know they're lying.)

In Queen's "Under Pressure", I heard the line "Why can't we give love that one more chance" as "Give every good bloke that one more chance"

Surely I can't be the only person who thought U2 were singing "Hello, hello, I'm in a place called Birmingham!"

I knew it was "Vertigo" (since, you know, the song is called that) but I had a couple of misheard lyrics from that song too. "Always, always confused..." ("All of this, all of this could be yours...") and "I can feel danger behind" ("I can feel your love teaching me how").

I originally heard the naming line in the [=BareNaked Ladies'=] song "Alternative Girlfriend", as "You're, right on time, and tan, girlfriend", when it's really "You're my alternative girlfriend".

This troper lives in a country that doesn't speak English as first language. So, whenever this troper's father sings any songs in English, he ALWAYS sings in mondegreen much to this troper's annoyance. Even though He collects lyrics of so called song, he keeps doing that. Like Valentina Hassan's infamous "Ken Li" but more of a mumbling than actual singing.

This troper's cousin was fond of singing, " 'Cuz I'm feelin' like a crim in the hole!" ("...like a criminal") to Fiona Apple's song "Criminal." When asked what she thought a "crim" was, she replied that she thought it was just a word she didn't know (yet).

This troper, meanwhile, was briefly convinced it was "Cuz I'm feelin' like a criminal ho".

This editor thought that Beck's "Devil's Haircut" was "Devil With Handcuffs" ever since I heard the song until only recently. I still think my version makes more sense.

Same editor here: I also have mistaken "Go, airstream driver" in Gomez's "Airstream Driver" as "Zoroastrian driver".

It keeps happening to me, this time with Row Row Fight The Power. The "white power" thing may be well known, but it was different for me: I looked at the lyrics and was actually surprised when I saw that it was "Break the roof and you'll see the truth" and not "Break the rules when you want to", which actually fits. Also, it's "Power for the dreams", not "Power for the team", and "See how easy they all break down", not "go down".

One of the more hilarious unintended mondegreens this troper once saw on the alt.music.lyrics newsgroup was the Beatles' ''Come Together'' explained as "hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease". The correct lyric is of course actually "hold you in his arms, yeah". The Ike and Tina Turner cover averts this problem by singing that line as "hold you in his arms 'til you can feel his disease".

The lyric actually IS "hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease."

"I could not stop the senile gnomes" ("I could not stop what you now know", Coldplay's "Clocks" -- this troper thinks it makes more sense the "wrong" way)

I have always misheard it as "I could not stop the tune I know". Definitely not helped by the lack of lyrics in the liner notes (which Coldplay does because they want listeners to come up with their own interpretations).

In the Coldplay song "Sparks", whenever he sings, "And I saw sparks", it always sounds like, "And I saw ''starks''", because he pronounces the 'sp' in 'sparks' as 'st' like 'stars', which makes it extremely confusing.

This troper's husband heard the line "Die, die, we all pass away" in the song "Remains of the Day" in CorpseBride as "Die, die, the old-fashioned way".

The best one this troper has ever heard was for Clint Black's "No Time To Kill"-- instead of "a bell to mark each one to pass", "Imelda Marcos' underpants". Not helped by the fact that the next line is "and see just how they fly"...

For some time this Troper's brother was under the impression that NeilDiamond had written a song with the refrain 'For Reverend Blue Jeans', assuming it to be an ode to an unlikely hip, progressive figure from Diamond's past. He now knows it to be 'Forever In Blue Jeans'.

This troper heard the line 'So why'd you have to lie?/I take it I'm your crutch' in Damien Rice's 'Elephant' as 'So why'd you have to lie/Take it on your crotch'. It sounded very strange...

The first times this troper heard Bob Dylan's "Shelter from the Storm", she heard the line "I came in from the wilderness, a preacher-boy to form" ("I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form").

This troper fins it hard to believe she's the only one hearing "Travel the world in the seventies" in Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (instead of "Travel the world and the Seven Seas".

In Five for Fighting's song Easy Tonight, my sister and I heard "I've got two dimes in the telephone" consistently as "I've got two dogs in the telephone." We were corrected by our father some time later.

In ''GearsOfWar'' 2, a Mondegreen of one of Chairman Prescott's COG Victory lines--"That's what I like to see out on the field! Teamwork! '''Nudity'''!" (actually "...Teamwork! '''Unity'''!")--have made him, to this troper and his cousin, a Memetic Gay DirtyOldMan whose primary source of FetishFuel is making his soldiers fight naked. We have since purposely Mondegreened most of his other COG Victory lines and at least one of his Locust Victory lines to accommodate the meme ("You men were precise, efficient, and above all...'''legal'''! Keep up the good work!").

I kept hearing the first words of JonathanCoulton's song "A Talk With George" as "there's a dolphin man standing in the shadows" instead of "there's a tall thin man standing in the shadows".

This troper was very much confused when listening to a beautiful, poetic Joni Mitchell song where the chorus and every verse contain the phrase "urge for bowling". It seems the whole song is a melancholy ballad about her wanting to go bowling whenever winter comes around, and how her lover left her to go bowling, and eventually even the geese do it too: #QUOTE# See the geese in chevron flight flapping and racing on before the snow #QUOTE# They've got the urge for bowling, they've got the wings to go

Needless to say it makes a lot more sense when you realize the title is "Urge for ''Going''".

This Troper doesn't know if it goes under LionKing or Elton John, but until she looked up the actual Zulu lyrics, she heard the opening chant to "Circle of Life" as 'Big Obama, penguins on the bomb, big Obama, penguins on the bomb'

This Troper hears it as "Here we are, the penguins in pajamas. Either way, EverythingsBetterWithPenguins.

Are you by any chance, the great Andrew Kepple? The one who mondegreened it as "In a vineyard, penguins in Pyjamas" and made an animutation out of it?

This troper swears that when she was little, she heard a source state that it was 'pink pajama, penguin on the bottom'. Obviously I know it's not anything in english, but I can't help but hear it that way even now.

This troper's brain has a bad habit of trying to make English words out of foreign languages (gibberish too, but that's another story). As a child, she always heard, "Naaaa, it's a vinyard, with a veg-e-ta-ble. Oooh, it'a a vinyard. Yeah, it's a vinyaaard." etc. With a little part about, "See a Mogwai." and then, "A banana, penguin in pyjamas."

This Troper was recently show what is quite possibly the best Mondegreen ever in Limp Bizkit's cover of 'Behind Blue Eyes.' Specifically, 'No one knows what its like, To be the Batman. To be the Sandman.'

In Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters", this troper always heard the line "Couldn't be much more from the heart" as a sarcastic "Couldn't be much more fun to have".

Since this troper first heard "and I see red" from ''Fuel'' as "Nazi red", he has been unable to disassociate the song from Panzer divisions.

"You know it's Sad Patroooollll!" (Sad But True)

For years, this troper thought that the second line of "Safety Dance" by Men without Hats mentioned a plan to "surprise 'em with a big chikai" ("surprise 'em with our vict'ry cry"). No idea what a "big chikai" would be.

This troper also heard that, but since it made no sense, I thought it might be "big chick ride". Not that that makes sense. But at least it's ''words''. In fact, I didn't know it was 'vict'ry cry' until this very moment, so thanks.

This troper thought it was "surprise 'em with a big trick eye," until now.

MAKKA NA CHIKAI! (Sorry, couldn't help myself there.)

This troper first heard "white men go to pieces in the tropics" in Stephen Malkmus' "Phantasies" as "White men go ''for pizzas'' in the tropics". Had this whole explanation worked out for that line too, about people going to exotic locales and then just doing things they could have just done at home, which does sort of fit with the rest of the song.

Near the end of my high school math class, the teacher was playing gospel music. (He plays music during class from time to time) There was one part where the singer kept repeating a phrase and it sounded suspiciously like "Oh, well be fucking now!" Unfortunately, the teacher wouldn't tell me what it really said.

"Mud flowed up into Lump's vajazz" ("Mud flowed up into Lump's ''pajamas''"), "Lump", The Presidents of the USA. When she sang it in ''Rock Band 2'', this troper actually thought the original lyric was an intentional mondegreen for the sake of placating the {{Media Watchdog}}s. Then she googled the lyrics.

This Troper assumed that in addition to living in a land called 'Honalee', 'Puff The Magic Dragon' (as sung by Peter, Paul and Mary) frolicked in something called 'the Otomis'. I had no idea what this might be (perhaps some sort of harbour or forest), and though correct, 'autumn mist' still doesn't sound quite right.

That would place the land of Honalee somewhere in the central altiplano of Mexico...?

The Pretenders' "I'll stand by you": "the tinsel in your eyes" turned out to be "tears are in your eres", and "I'm in love, lucky you" still sounds better, to this troper, than "I'm a lot like you"

Prefab Sprout's "The King of Rock 'n' Roll": this troper always misheard "Hot Dog! Jumping Frog! Albuquerque!" as "Hot Dog! Jumping Frog! I want cookies!"

This troper was truly freaked out by her version of the lyrics to Roisin Murphy's "Ramalama (Bang Bang)". I thought it was about necrophilia, or some fucked up Frankenstein thing. For example, the first line is, "Could a body close the mind out/stitch a seam along the eye?" I heard it for the longest time as "Pull a body close to mine, now,/Stitch a seam across the eye,". And the verse that goes, "Everybody smile, please/nobody pay no mind to me/finger in position on the switch/a little flash photography" creeped me out more, because I heard the first bit as "Everybody smilin'/nobody paying mind to me" and then, taken in conjunction with the lightning reference, and the next, repeated verse "taking a picture of you/taking a picture of me", I was seriously thinking zombies/Frankenstein. Until I looked up the lyrics. It's still weird, but thankfully not as morbid.

Also, I heard the repeated line "That could be OK" in "Let Me Know" as "It'll be OK," which I liked more.

To this troper and his friends, "War, children." from the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" sounds like "Whoa! Dinner!" the best part is that it still sounds like that to us even though we know what the actual lyrics are.

This troper was always under the impression that the lyrics were "Whoa, Dinah," especially because a woman sang a few verses of that song.

''Fool to Cry'' sure sounds like Mick Jagger insisting "Y'know, I'm not a woman". Apparently, it's "Y'know, ''I met'' a woman".

"Fuck and kiss you both at the same time" ("If I can kiss you both at the same time"), "I Can't Decide" by ScissorSisters. This troper is incapable of hearing the line as anything else.

"Fuck and kiss you..." is actually the correct lyric - This troper just checked the liner-notes to confirm.

Well, that'll teach me to trust random lyric websites.

And a rule of thumb with the Sisters- if you do a double-take because you think it sounds dirty, you probably heard it right.

For the longest time, this troper thought the Stone Temple Pilots song "Vasoline" was entitled "Gasoline".

Ditto this troper's best friend. If not for being introduced to the song by Rock Band (which, of course, handily spells out the song's name for you), I'd have heard it the same way.

One of this troper's parents misheard the titular line of "I Wanna Be Adored" as "I wanna be your dog".

Which is particularly funny because that's another song entirely.

This troper cannot hear the line "Just look at what's going on" from Shania Twain's ''Still the One'' as anything other than "Just look at the scalded nun...".

Also, This Troper wonders if Shania intentionally failed to enunciate the last "K" in "If You Wanna Touch Her, Ask." I'll let that one sink in a moment.

This troper only recently found out that TeganAndSara's "Walking with a Ghost" wasn't "''Smoking'' with a Ghost." And that's ''after'' she realized that it wasn't "''Fucking'' with a Ghost.

Also by Tegan and Sara, "the same as I love you, you'll always love me too, this love isn't gonna last. It's me and you." (I Know I Know I Know -- "...this love isn't good unless it's me and you.) This troper still prefers her version.

This troper had a hard time figuring out the lyrics to the ''Wolf's Rain'' closing theme "Gravity" by Maaya Sakamoto. The official lyrics, I've now learned, run: "Are the memories I hold still valid, or have the tears deluded them". I always thought they said "Are the memories of hope still valid, or have the tears diluted them". I think my version makes more sense.

"and Van Halen is overrated" instead of "and that heaven is is overrated" in Train's "Drops Of Jupiter". I knew what the actual lyric was to begin with, but after hearing the mondegreen from a friend, couldn't help hearing it that way every time the song happened to come on.

Wait, it's Van Halen? 'Heaven' makes more sense.

Every single time I hear "Hey Soul Sister," I automatically translate it to "Hey Seoul Sister".

403 Forbiddena's songs. Heavy Japanese accents made This Troper absolutely shocked to learn they were all in english.

I still meet people on the internet who insist that the songs "Northern Lights" and "Southern Cross" (made famous by the Nightmare City flash animations) are in Japanese. They're entirely in English, but with such a heavy accent that you'd never know unless you happened to look up the lyrics.

From Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs": "Taste the whip, now plead for me" sounds like "...now '''bleed''' for me". Certainly makes it kinkier. Also this troper always mishears "tongue of thongs" as "tongue of Fonz", which conjures up some unpleasant RuleThirtyFour...

I've always heard "bleed for me" too, in both the original and Bettie Serveert's cover version. Had no idea until just now it wasn't that.

I also always heard "bleed for me"...

BeautyAndTheBeast gives us one from "Gaston". "No one's big like Gaston/hulking big like Gaston". I always heard it as "No one's big like Gaston/fucking big like Gaston", which just sounds ''better''.

It's actually "No one's big like Gaston, a king-pin like Gaston" according to lyrics sites.

This troper, as a kid, heard the French lyrics to O Canada, ''Et ta valeur, de foi trempée'' (And your valour, steeped in faith) as ''Et ta valeur, deux fois trompée'' (And your valour, fooled twice). He thought that was an unnecessarily disrespectful way to refer to World Wars I and II. *harrumphs in childlike fashion*

My bus driver heard me saying 'je suis toujour dans la mode Francais'(I'm still in French mode) as 'is this your dumb bus?'

Not a mondegreen exactly, but during a rehearsal for 'South Pacific', when Nellie refers to Emile as 'my own frenchman', it prompted this troper and her best friend to re-write the lyrics to 'Personal Jesus'. I still sometimes sing the lyrics that way.

Same troper, same friend, different song, we also sang 'Centipede Rider' ('Dear Sir or Madam, will you see my bug, it took me years to train him, he's not a slug'). We had an honestly misheard lyric for 'All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints' by Paul Simon. I think it was 'heaven is a watermelon'...

A friend of this troper's sister believed that Maria [=McKee=] was singing "Leave me breakfast" in "Show Me Heaven" (it's "Leave me breathless"), and that Republica's "Drop Dead Gorgeous" was about "My ex-boyfriend Nige" (it's "My ex-boyfriend lies"). This troper himself spent some time under the impression that Bananarama's "Nathan Jones" (yes, it was originally by the Supremes, but I hadn't heard that version) went "Smith and Jones, you've been gone too long".

This troper thinks that FOB's new song sounds like it's got something to do with Magikarp.

This troper had two for the song "Kind And Generous" by Natalie Merchant. The line "you've been so kind and generous" sounds like "you felt some kind of genitals". Also, at the end when she repeats "I want to thank you, thank you" it sounds like she singing "I want to vaccuum, vaccuum".

This troper hears "Boobies in the afternoon" ("The movies in the afternoon") during "Nolita Fairytale" by Vanessa Carlton. I like my interpretation better...

Considering that Ms. Carlton recently came out as bisexual, your version is probably just better, period. (For the record, I heard "The rubies in the afternoon.")

This troper heard an episode of ''[=~I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue~=]'' years ago where Barry Cryer had to sing 'You're A Pink Toothbrush, I'm A Blue Toothbrush' to the tune of Cwm Rhondda. It was hilarious, but this troper doesn't speak Welsh and wondered for ages what "Koom Ronga" meant.

In Dragonforce's well-known song, "Through the Fire and Flames", one line says, "Day after day, this misery must go on". This Troper, when he first heard the song, thought it was "Day after day, this pizzeria must go on". He said to himself, "That can't be right".

I had a few from that song... "For the light source so wasted and gone" (actually "lives all"), "The skeletons will feel the hell" ("scattered souls"), "Foreign lonely desperation, now the time has come" ("All alone in desperation"). And I JUST found out that it's actually "So now we're flying, we're free" instead of "So now we fly ever free" which is what I heard it as.

This troper heard "For the light source so wasted and gone" too. Although he has this really twisted interpretation of the song...

The Who's "Baba O'Reilly" -- this troper misheard the lyrics "Sally take my hand / Travel south crossland" as "As I retake my hand / The tribal softballs land."

Speaking of Japanese, this troper thought for the longest time that "moshi moshi" (the greeting typically used when answering a phone in Japan) was "mushi mushi." This troper then looked it up in a Japanese/English dictionary... and wondered why the heck everyone in Japan opened phone conversations by talking about insects.

This troper mistook the line "nineteen sixty-five, yeah" in Rob Zombie's "Thunder Kiss '65" as "nineteen sixty fried ham." They referred to it as the "fried ham song" until a few years ago.

Nine Inch Nails' song "The Perfect Drug" had "the yellow goes straight through my heart" and "it's always so much fun to pick up the pieces" rather than the real lyrics "the arrow goes straight through my heart" and "It's not as much fun to pick up the pieces". "I shouldn't go but you're reaching back and shaking me" became "I shouldn't go, but you're wrenching dragging shaking me", which sounds better, and "My feelings want to get inside of you" was interpreted as "my seed are swarming to get inside of you", which is fairly vulgar but not out of place. Finally, the line "Every little word is a lack of me" was completely unclear to this Troper. Surprisingly, this is the Troper's favorite Nine Inch Nails song.

"YOU ARE THE PERFECT RUG THE PERFECT RUG THE PERFECT RUG!"

"Without you, it's not as much fun to take off your pants."

"Every little word is a lack of me" always sounded like "Very little room is left for me" to me.

Interestingly, this troper misheard the line "hito wa nashi" from "Chikyuu Wa Jinbutsu Chinretsushitsu" as "people are nothing" in Engrish. Turns out it translates roughly as "man does not exist", which is close enough that "people are nothing" was actually used as the official translation on the American DVD.

From "Stuck In A Movie!" by The Aquabats: This Troper thought the last line of the bridge was "If you wanna be here in my feature film / Then take your brain and shut it off"; the last part is actually "Then take your plane and sail off."

It wasn't until this troper heard the John Barrowman cover that she realised "You're So Vain" does not include the line "Your ''coffee'' was apricot". In her defence, there is a line about coffee later in the song, and this does sound quite tasty.

Created some confusion when this troper misinterpreted the lyrics of ''The Anthem'' as: #QUOTE#"And I don't ever wanna be like you! I don't wanna do the things you do! I'm never gonna hear the words you say, and I don't ever wanna, I don't ever wanna be yoooouuu! I wanna be ''just'' like you!"

This troper heard the very next line (she thinks; it's been a while) of that song as, "This is the end, I'll blow all your heads off" instead of "This is the anthem, throw all your hands up." She knew it wasn't right, but she chose to interpret it that way anyway because it's funny.

I've had a similar case of a mondegreen making a song seem to completely contradict itself: when I first heard "Another Saturday Night" by Sam Cooke I was confused by the refrain of "Another saturday night and I ain't got no money \ I got some money 'cause I just got paid..." (if you haven't heard the song, he actually "ain't got no''body''").

From ''SuperSmashBros'', we have Captain Falcon's taunt "Show me your moves!" misheard as "Show me your boobs!", and Falco's "Hands off my prey!" misheard as "Hands off my bread!" Also, Ness's B-neutral move is supposed to be "PK Flash", but some will swear it's "PK Pulse" or even "PK Flush".

Granted, Ness's voice actor says the attacks the way they would be written in Japanese, so it actually does come out to "PK Frosh" (furashu, with silent U's and an A like "call").

Ness's "PK Thunder" sounds vaguely like "DK's Mother", which makes for an interesting fight against Donkey Kong.

This troper misheard "PK Thunder" as "Peaked Butter."

This troper misheard "PK Thunder" in the original Super Smash Bros as "Stick your bum up!", sadly the voice acting is clearer in the later versions.

I thought PK Flash was PK Cross and PK Thunder was PK Hammer.

Fox and Falco's "mission complete"s are mistakable for "we sell cookies" or "we sell cupcakes."

Or "We serve coffee".

You know, "StarFox Cafe" would make a great CrackFic...

This troper once heard "PK Flash" as "Gimme props!"

I once heard "PK Psi!" as "PK Pee!" ...ew.

From ''Brawl'', various tropers can't avoid hearing Ike's Final Smash (Great Aether) as "Free... PIZZA!" or "Great... PIZZA!" or "Eat... PIZZA!"

And for the Japanese version, his Final Smash (daitenkū) has been mistakenly interpreted as "I... HATE... YOU!"

Speaking of the English, all my friends always heard it as "Great...ETHAN!" Made even funnier by the fact that one of our friend's name is Ethan.

The entire opening theme of ''Brawl'': "I'll be the Marth, e.g. noob, so this is Yoshi's B..."

Wait, the Brawl theme has lyrics?

The above comment speaks to another problem: songs with lyrics in Latin (in the Brawl theme's case, Church Latin). Just familiar enough to sound recognizable, but not for most people (even people that took Latin). How many people actually hear "Audi famam illius solus in hostes ruit et patriam servavit" for the intro to the Brawl theme? One Winged Angel suffers a similar problem.

"Bell's frogs, Bing cherries, Jingle bells, Magic cheese -- SE-PHI-ROTH!"

When I first listened to that I heard "ira vehementi" as "he's a fair entity" and thought those were the actual lyrics. Now even though I know the words I still hear it as "he's a fair entity". It makes some form of sense too, to me at least.

I have the metal version, which I absolutely LOVE! Well, when they sing "noli manere, manere in memoria" I always hear "holy manray, manray mamaw jo", and when they sing "saevam iram, iram et dolorem" I hear "save em eat em, need a man, dollor and". Also when they sing "mi fili veni, veni, veni, mi fili" I hear "me feeling very, very, very me-feeling". Yeah. I know.

Head sauce, Jim Carrey in a bear! Heaven pee! Dave Lee Roth!

This troper is able to understand most of the main theme (one thing Latin is good for), as well as One Winged Angel, but the SSBB version of the Fire Emblem theme is an entirely different story: she always hears "Wasch die Hände!", which is German for "Wash your hands!" Yeah. Her entire family has been infected with this mondegreen.

This troper and her friends heard "PK Fire" as "Get higher!" leading to the inside joke that Ness was on drugs.

This Troper's younger brother heard it as "Wicked Fire!"

This troper thought that Kirby said "YAHTZEE!!" when he did his up + B cutter attack which makes no sense whatsoever. (It's obviously "Pika! Ennh!" in the N64 game.)

Brawl Taunts 3 (One More Brawl Taunts) pokes fun at this, with Kirby doing that move while yelling "Your face!" over and over.

Big Gay Thunder! Big Gay Fire!

Pit's Final Smash is known as "Raw Shrimp!" to this troper and his friends.

The announcer isn't exempt from this either, as this troper notices every time he is told to 'rape the targets!' in Classic Mode.

"Break the TARDIS!

I'd always thought Lucario yelled "MUNCH THE POWERRR!!" during his Final Smash. Recently I figured out it was "Watch the power of aura!!" I must say, mine makes alot more sense.

This troper originally thought he was saying "Watch the pelt! *Gibberish*" Which, while closer to what he's actually saying, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

The above troper also wonders if he's the only one who hears "Crankshot!" instead of "Nice try!" whenever Pit reflects a projectile.

Whenever Ike parries this troper hears "Scrotum!" And his final smash sounds like "Rape Pizza!"

The absolute best, in the fighting game-addicted troper's opinion, in in the SamuraiShodown series, when Hanzo gets KO'ed, and shouts out "c...COCK!"

The website ''Fighter's Generation'' has more examples here

"Show me a moose!"

Sometimes happens in video games, especially {{fighting game}}s, where the player may mishear a character's victory quote or called attack:

Mai Shiranui's signature quote "Nippon Ichi!" from ''FatalFury'' and ''KingOfFighters'' has been misheard (appropriately enough) as "Me bouncy!" or "Me boingy!"

In ''MortalKombat'', the incomprehensible, vaguely Japanese shout Raiden gives when he performs his human torpedo attack has been interpreted as "Your mother's from L.A.!" and "Get back in the car!"

This Troper has a strategy guide for ''MortalKombat 4'' that attempts to decipher all the character's random yelling. The only two quotes that make '''''any''''' sense whatsoever are "OH I'M GONNA THROW YA OVER THERE!" (yes, it's attached to a throw) and "OHHHHHH GOD!".

This troper heard something along the lines of ''I want you in my barbecue!''.

I personally found the shouting of something that sounds vaguely like "AWWW MY LEG!" particularly funny. Because mostly it initiates when you hit them. In the head.

In ''StreetFighter 2'', Ryu's ''Shoryuken'' becomes "All you can" (or "Oh you kids"), ''Hadoken'' becomes "A token", and ''"Tatsumaki Senpukyaku'' has countless misinterpretations. Meanwhile, Dhalsim's "Yoga Fire" is sometimes misheard as "Yoga friar", "Build a fire" (with "Yoga Flame" then being "Build a flame") or "Yoda's fired". Sagat's "Tiger" becomes "My turn".

This troper always heard the original ''StreetFighter 2'' "Tiger" call as "Viper", which is a similarly kung-fu-sounding animal name. Then again, he always heard "Hadoken" as "I'm Wounded", and as a kid, thought Ryu shot fireballs out whenever he got hit (doubly reinforced by the amount of players -- and the AI -- who enjoyed spamming the projectiles in those days) so maybe he's not all there in the head...

Another interpretation of Hadouken & Shouryuuken. One commenter below even manages a translation for Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku.

Similarly, in the ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' games, Cyclops' "Gene Splice!" is often interpreted as "Jean's m'wife!"

Speaking of ''[=MvC=]'', "ICE BEAM!" ought to be "ICE CREAM!"

This Troper misheard Magneto's "Magnetic Tempest!" as "Magnetic Joker!".

Uppercut "Tiger Robocop!" Boom "Alex Full!"

This troper will ''never'' be able to unhear the name of the hurricane kick move from Ryu and Ken as "I twist and boogy!". In writing, this looks ridiculously far off from the actual chant ("Tatsu Maki Sen Puu Kyaku"), but seriously, it's there.

Better than "A-tat-tat-tat-boogen" in any case.

This troper's sister heard that as, in her words, "a bunch of quacking".

As a young boy I thought that Chun-Li yelled "Spinning side kick!" when doing her whirling kick move, which does make sense. It was later that I realised it's actually "Spinning bird kick!", though it REALLY doesn't sound like she's saying bird.

This Cantonese-speaking troper has relatives who misheard "Spinning bird kick!" as "$BZNBV(B kick!" (bin taai ''kick''), which means "perverted kick" (cognate to the Japanese term $BJQBV(B, {{Hentai}}). Considering how she executes the move, they might have had something there.

And this troper has been similarly affected by HomestarRunner's mishearing of the same attack: "The pipes are broken!"

This Troper, being only ''five'' when he first was introduced to ''X-Men vs. Street Fighter'', had no clue what Ryu and Ken were shouting when they were performing their Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku. Ryu sounding like he was saying "A-footcus-Americus!" and Ken's chant was something along the lines of "A-footcus-Lucas!". Wow...

This troper remembers Sagat's tiger uppercut as Fiber Uppercut!

A friend and I used to misunderstand Ryu and Ken's exclamation of "shoryuken" as "GeorgeLucas" which we felt made absolutely no sense, and was thus mocked thoroughly.

This troper's school hosted a video game tournament last month. the flyer had a comic that went something like this: #QUOTE#'''Nerd:''' Can I play {{Halo}} 3 at Fordham's video game tournament? #QUOTE#'''Master Chief''': *nods* #QUOTE#'''Nerd:''' and SuperSmashBros. Brawl? #QUOTE#'''Captain Falcon:''' Yes! #QUOTE#'''Nerd:''' And Street fighter 4? #QUOTE#'''BeatPanel''' #QUOTE#'''Nerd:''' Ken? #QUOTE#'''Ken:''' Sure''you''can!

I swear to high heaven that, in the arcade version of ''Street Fighter 2,'' someone calls his attack with "Cool Whip." It's like, he's getting ready to throw a punch, and all of a sudden he comes out with, "COOL WHIP! COOL WHIP!" Who is this guy, and why is he spouting random ProductPlacement?

Is Sephiroth's HPToOne attack in ''KingdomHearts'' "Descend, Heartless Angel" or "Sin Harvest"?

Whatever he says may be inaudible, but it's definitely not "Sin Harvest", it's way too long to be that. He says it clearer in ''KingdomHeartsII'' as well. However, talking of KingdomHearts, I found a few amusing ones of my own. One of which is Goofy's cry when he's low on HP, which is "Somebody come quick!". It took me a while to realise that he wasn't saying "Somebody call Quinn!", whoever Quinn was. Another is Xigbar's attack where he changes the background/area. APPARENTLY what he says is "You betcha!", but I still insist on what I hear, mainly because I think it's a lot cooler and very fitting: "NEW BACKDROP!" I also can't really tell what he says when he starts his uber-attack - apparently it's "I'm gonna dance for ya!", but it sounds to me like "New little dance for ya!" or "Got a new dance for ya!" Xemnas's "Bind!" sounds a lot like "Mine!" or "Find!", which is just confusing.

This troper is convinced that it's ''both'', and SquareEnix has just been screwing with everyone.

Given the presence of an attack called Heartless Angel in Final Fantasy VII, I'd be inclined to believe the former.

From {{Mega Man}} Zero and ZX, Omega Zero's taunt. This troper heard it's supposed to be "Ware wa meshia nari," or "I will be the messiah." His Japanese-speaking friends have come up with translations such as "I'm the missionary" and "I will be the mercenary." He always thought it was "I'm the bishounen," which he still thinks makes the most sense of any of them.

This troper and her friends swore up and down that Setzer's pre-battle phrase in KingdomHearts II was "My life is a chicken pot-pie." Admittedly it made no sense, but it was hilarious. Even this troper's mother thought that's what it was. It's actually "My life is a chip in your pile", which we probably should've realized considering he's a) a gambler and b)his other phrase is "Time to ante up!"

This troper has been unable to hear one line in Five For Fighting's 'Superman' as anything other than "Looking for special things and sodomy". (The actual lyric is "Looking for special things inside of me.") What makes it worse is that the line is repeated several times. "And sodomy, and sodomy, and so-domy..."

"In sodomy and such a part of you" for "Inside of me and such a part of you" from The Smashing Pumpkins' "Disarm" -- same with "slip away in sodomy" for "snip away and sever this" from A Perfect Circle's song "Orestes". This troper has a dirty mind. Fairly sure I sang the former before I knew what the word meant, resulting in some embarrassment.

This troper had ''all'' of the above "inside of me/ in sodomy" examples above, as well as one in U2's "City Of Blinding Lights": "can yooooouuuu... see the beauty in sodomy?"

I also could never really take "Today" by Smashing Pumpkins seriously, because I keep hearing "My belly stings" as the thematically appropriate but much more narmy "Life really stinks!".

"I steal a kiss from her sleep-enchanted boobs," from In the Arms of Sleep by The Smashing Pumpkins. Real lyrics - "I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves." This troper reckons the mondegreen makes far more sense.

"The aubergine is falling" was heard by this troper instead of "The old regime is falling" in Steely Dan's old track "Old Regime". Then again, it wouldn't be too strange for the guys of Steely Dan to come up with a song about falling eggplants -- and it would probably even have been better.

Back when she was an innocent 14-year-old francophone, this troper understood the line "give me a sign" in Britney Spears's "Baby One More Time" as "give me a son." Of course, in 2008, we all know that Britney Spears is such a dedicated mom.

And this wacky {{Cassy}} also has trouble with the ''{{FullmetalAlchemist}}'' song ''Hagane no Kokoro''... At one point, Ed says "ore hitori" ("me alone") but, try as she may, this troper still hears "kitori" and can't help thinking of...

I buy sausage.

This troper hears it as "I like sundaes."

I hear "I ''want'' sausage" or "I want something".

I LIKE CHOCOLATE

This troper has heard both "I spy something" and "Eins, zwei, something".

This troper, when encountering a foreign language, ''accepts that it is not English'', and just tries to listen to what the ''words'' are... Except that "san sen" part always sounds like "sunset" to me...

This troper heard "I buy something".

This troper keeps hearing "I like zombies" or "It's in zombies", which don't make too much sense.

"Elephants, Yeah!" (The Italian words Pavarotti is really singing are "e di pensier.")

This troper's family tend to come out with "Elephants Ears" whenever someone mentions Pavorotti.

This troper had several of these when he was a child, but the most memorable was "Let's form a patio" ("Waitin' for my daddio", Thin Lizzie's ''Whiskey in the Jar'').

If you look at the original folk song's lyrics it's something more like "whack fol the daddy-o", which makes no sense at all anyway.

This troper used to hear 'Mush a-rain da-ma-doo da-ma-da,' as 'Watch the rain on the hood of my car,'

This troper was convinced that the line in Hall and Oates' "Maneater" was "Oh you should know" instead of "Whoa here she comes".

This troper with a ''different'' "Maneater": "Bumpalope" (which has no meaning) for "fall in love" in the chorus of Nelly Furtado's recent song. (Of course, most of that CD is halfway unintelligible--but it sounds good, and based on the prevalence of English being mixed into anime theme songs, that's really all that matters.) Naturally, once I found out the truth (Lyrics.com is your friend!), I then set out to change the bit about "Bumpalope" having no meaning.

This troper just found out that her sister has been mishearing the line "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me" from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" as "The Elder Gods have a devil put aside for me." Somehow, this troper likes that version better.

This troper has just learned from the CulturePolice page that "Bohemian Rhapsody" does ''not'' mention Mitch Miller.

This troper had a radio show about mondegreens in high school, and one of the funniest ones she found was for this same line, only it was "The albatross is a very fright'ning bird indeed!" She still sings along with it that way more often than not.

This troper thought the line was "Beelzebub has a devil for a son for me" for a very long time.

This editor always hears the {{Foreign Sounding Gibberish}} in The Real Tuesday Weld's "Bathtime in Clerkinwell" as "One of you could have been this damn loco". Officially, it's "Wale-den-de-bobo-den-di-bili-d an-lo-no".

Apparently, ''Move Along'' by The All-American Rejects has been misheard as "Mow the Lawn". This troper's brother found that hilarious, and is now trying to rewrite the song to fit the theme.

This troper thought for the longest time the Sixties were refered to as "sex and drums and rock and roll."

Listening to ChristopherLee's sublime Charlemagne, This Troper heard the line "To subject those pagans to Christian RUUUUUUUUUUULE!" as "To subject those pagans to Chris-Chan RUUUUUUUUUUULE!"

This troper thought the words "figgy pudding" in ''We Wish You A Merry Christmas'' were actually "piggy pudding." It seems someone else thought it went that way, too.

This troper thought the lyrics said "frickin' pudding", which changes the meaning somewhat.

This troper always hears the line in Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" as "sorcerers of desconstruction" instead of "death's construction".

This Troper's girlfriend turned the sort-of lyrics (they're really a digitally synthesized voice-over) in the song "This Shit will Fuck You Up" by Aggrotech band Combichrist from being a vulgar sex BDSM reference into a drug reference. Original lyric: "I am a slut, please hold me down" Her Mondegreened version: "My mind is light, these hold me down" -- it would get a PMRC sticker either way.

This troper remembers, as a little kid, two egregious examples. First, that "Don't know much about" song -- "Don't know much about the French-eyed cook/Don't know much about the French I took" -- and then there was some song by Pat Benatar (I think) in the early 80s/late 70s. It sai "Treat me right" but as a kid I swore I heard "J.P. Ross" (and wondered who that was)

While this troper never ''really'' misheard it, he noted that the eponymous line in the chorus to Depeche Mode's ''Dead of Night'' can be easily replaced with "We are the ''Jedi Knights''" rather than " We are the Dead of Night". Aditionally, while not a lyric (from a human anyway), there's a repeating noise in the song that ''really really'' sounds like a screeching guinea pig. If you know the song, listen to it with these things in mind and try not to crack up laughing at a darkwave/gothy synthpop song featuring a guinea pig and singing about Jedi Knights.

Until reading the above, this troper ''did'' think they sang "Jedi Knights" ...

This troper had wondered for years why he heard Bush on the radio singing about Listerine. Then he was corrected. Now he wonders why they sung about Glycerine.

Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Bush, and the Spin Doctors always created Mondegreens in this Troper's ears. Surprisingly, most of Nirvana's lyrics are still unknown to me even though they were one of my favorite bands.

It doesn't help that Bush songs often have WordSaladLyrics - in "Body" this troper was always hearing "your trout is on fire" instead of "your ''child'' is on fire", the former didn't even seem like an especially odd lyric coming from them.

The beats in the songs in EliteBeatAgents sometimes make the words hard to hear. This troper once thought that the chorus of ''La La'' went, "You make me wanna murder!/You make me want an airplane! Even kids are on the floor!"

That may actually be on purpose (and also how they got that song into a G-rated game).

I got "You make me want to murder, clean the kitchen on the floor, I will keep bitching, till I meet you at the door".

This troper is completely sure that the composer of all the music in the first anime of Hellsing (except for the ending) is delighted by the fact that millions of otakus are still trying to find a "true" interpretation of the opening song.

One of the lines in the opening sounds like "I'll be stoned, I'll be waiting."

This troper knew a guy who sang the line in the Eagles' "Hotel California" "Her mind is definitely twisted" not "Her mind is Tiffany-twisted". He became really upset after being corrected.

The question is then did she get the Mercedes Benz or the Mercedes ''Bends''?

The opening to ''AzumangaDaioh: The Animation'' is called "Soramimi Cake"... meaning it's likely to contain a few itself, though this troper can't identify any.

Probably because it's sung with long pauses between syllables: So.....Ra..... Mii-Mii Ca-ke

Upon first hearing that line (without subtitles), this troper thought it may have been some oblique reference to Do-Re-Mi solfege syllables. In her defense, the "so" and "ra" (pronounced as "la") are actually the correct syllables for the pitches on which they're sung. And she could tell, off the bat, too.

This Troper, before getting it on DVD, mondegreened just about every lyric while singing it to himself, mondegreening the (GratuitousEnglish!) lyrics into character names and meaningful lines. The only one he can remember was "N-ya-mo/Run away, Yukari's driving" ("Cake for you/chiisana shiawase")

"Dressin' with the worms" ("Address me with your words"), from "Oopaatsu" in ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''. Although it ''would'' explain always dressing in rags...

Listen to Detonation and tell me "the right to get another portion" doesn't sound like "the right to ''get an abortion''."

This troper heard "cuddle with the sorrow" in that song as "color with the pharaoh".

{{Rihanna}}'s "Weasel Stomping Music", er, "''Please Don't Stop The'' Music". "Weasel Stomping Day" probably had something to do with this.

I also just remembered that the first time I heard "Breakin' Dishes" I was hearing "I'm-a fight a man tonight" as "I'm a fireman tonight".

The first time this troper heard "I Might Be Wrong" by {{Radiohead}}. he was almost convinced "Open up and let me in" was "Open up a can of beans".

"Son of Sun" by Shinji Hosoe: "I want some pussy, god damn! I want some pussy, heeeeeeeeeeeeey!"

As if the line "Backstage, under age..." line from Bell Biv [=DeVoe=]'s "Do Me" didn't already add enough {{squick}} to the song, this troper misheard it as "backstage, under eight".

This troper was told of a friend's father hearing TheyMightBeGiants' "For Science" and wondering aloud why such a big deal was being made about kissing "the girl from Phoenix" (in fact it's "the girl from ''Venus''"). If you think of the original lyrics with this in mind, the whole song becomes about the narrator sacrificing himself for the love of some girl from Arizona: "Signals declare there's one among us... ''From Phoenix!''", "I will kiss the girl from Phoenix, flowers die and so will I, I will kiss the girl from Phoenix for science!"

Shh! You have to be quiet! ''We can't let the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fangirls find out!!''

This troper has misheard the "love glue-gunning" line from Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" as "love glue ''Guren''." Kallen should probably play that song the next time she sorties in the Guren SEITEN. I suppose it could also be Gurren, but I doubt it'd work as well.

Thanks to a Fauxtivational Poster, Lady Gaga's 'I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me!' from Paparazzi is now 'I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you f*** me!'

I heard it as "I'm your ''latest'' fan, I'll follow you until you ''want'' me".

''Papa, papa loves me''. This troper has read too many incest tropes.

During a car trip with her mom where This Troper picked the music (David Bowie's ''Heroes''), she had to clarify to Mom that he was singing "The Secret Life of Arabia," not "The Secret Life of a Labia."

I misheard Monty Python's "Sit On My Face & Tell Me That You Love Me" as "Cinema Days, When We Were Young & Lovely".

TheKinks' "Got My Feet On The Ground": "Well I don't need nobody else, all I need's a single chicken" (instead of "...all I need's a single ''ticket''"). I figured it out soon enough through context, since the next line is "...when I travel on my own", but it does sound a lot like that. Kind of an odd parallel to "she's got a chicken to ride" there...

The closest this troper's friend could come to deciphering one line of "Rocket Man" by Elton John was "burnin' like a piece of herra bone" - herra bone would presumably be some sort of flammable substance none of us had heard of. After some debate, someone finally looked it up, and discovered it's actually "burnin' out his fuse out here alone". Time could have been saved if any of us had been familiar with the WilliamShatner version back then, since he, er, enunciates it much more clearly.

This troper seems to always end up mishearing at least one part of any given song by Shinedown. he was among those that thought it was "Shooting" instead of "She waved" in ''Second Chance'', and he thought the lyric in the chorus of ''The Sound of Madness'' was "You can sleep with a gun|when you gonna wake up and '''FIRE!'''" (the correct word there is "Fight", BTW)

This one is instantly funny if you are a Dane. Red Hot Chili Peppers's Soul to Squeeze have the lyrics: "When I find my piece of mind". Thanks to Anthony Kiedis's rather incomprehensive way of singing this line it comes out as "When I find my tissemand". Tissemand is a danish word for penis which is usually considered a childish euphemism.

This Troper's dad has a band (named Three Husbands on the Loose) made up of old school friends. Whenever they sing "There's a Bad Moon on the Rise" they almost always sing the last line as the mondegreen "There's a bathroom on the right," which was learned from a book entitled "And Then I'll Kiss This Guy and Other Mondegreens" (Or something like that.) He has also misheard part of the AhMyGoddess song Coro di Dea (Voices of Goddesses) as "Screw you all." It's in latin. And in choir class he purposely mis-sung the phrase "I've got a ticket to ride" as "I've got a chicken to ride." (Sometimes replacing "chicken" with "Chocobo" if he was sitting beside someone who would get the joke).

This troper had a bit of a WTF moment when she first heard the chorus to "In View" by The Tragically Hip. She initially thought it went "crumbling stars, crumbling skies", instead of "phone rings once," etc.

This troper once mentioned a "shottogan" ($B%7%g%C%H%,%s(B, meaning "shotgun") while speaking in Japanese. His friend thought he said "{{Shotacon}}". {{Squick}} ensued.

This troper was rather confused when, listening to Viral's themesong, she heard a line that sounded for all the world like "Stick a finger in your eye." (A lyric search revealed it was actually "The speck of fear grows in your eyes," but she still can't stop hearing the Mondegreen.)

This troper nearly thought that Madonna's "La Isla Bonita" was actually "LuckyStar Bonita", but knew better. Having said that, though, he will still swear that Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" "had a pink pair of dice and pulled up a f** king lot".

I heard it as "paved paradise and put up a fucking lie". I remember being in Limited Too when I was like 12 and it was playing on the radio, I was like, 'Woah, what the heck are they playing on the radio in a kids store?!'.

This troper heard it as ''They baked paradise and put up a fuckin' lie''. To be fair, he had a bad day and was in an emo mode, and never did question how the hell did the song make it to Malaysian public radio without censorship. He also still thinks his is better than the original.

Fallout Boy have a lot of MemeticMutation spread mondegreens to begin with, but the first time this troper heard "Sugar We're Going Down" on the radio he wondered how they managed to get the line "Wishing to be the freak shitting your jeans" in without an edit. Of course, it's actually "wishing to be the ''friction'' in your jeans".

ToriAmos is an interesting case. Her lyrics will ''always'' be stranger than what you think you heard. For instance, this troper thought the line in "Silent All These Years" went "What if I'm alone in these jeans of yours with her name still on them?" and it turns out she's saying "What if I'm a ''mermaid'' in these jeans of yours..."

This troper first heard the lyric as "what if I ''were murdered''...". Not sure if this qualifies as less strange or not.

What about "Police Me"? This troper thought she said "You are storing blackberry girl." (like someone kidnapped blackberry girl). It turns out that what this troper misheard was the combination of two lyrics: "...you are storming. Blackberry girl..."

This troper misheared a lot of lyrics in "Riot Poof":

"Driving up the boogie..." ("...your dried lean meat...")

"I guess that I'm stepping in to your space o-di two ("Black sahara/I'm stepping in/to your space oddity")

In the song "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC, this troper always mishears the first line as "she was a fax machine."

Speaking of AC/DC, ''this'' troper had a friend who was shocked when I pointed out that the "Highway to Hell" line, "she's a n***** on a one-way ride" was, in fact, "season ticket on a one-way ride." Since this conversation, I ''can't'' hear it the right way anymore.

Dirty Jeans, and DUN-GA-REES!

Dirty D's and the Dunder Chief! Dirty Deeds and they're Thunder Cheap!

THANK GOD I'm not alone in the former one.

Thirty thieves and the thunder chief!(note, that is NOT mine, I read it in a book of mondegreens)

Two examples: One, hearing "Heatseeker" (from Blow Up Your Video) as "Cocksucker" (it makes more sense, given that the lyrics are along the lines of "Get your head down and blow") and hearing "High voltage rock and roll" as "High voltage cock and balls". Given the fact that Brian Johnson is incomprehensible, to say the least, and Bon Scott is Bon Scott, this is probably deliberate.

TheBeatles: "Real Love". I heard "All my little plans and schemes / Lost like some forgotten dreams" as "All my little pandas asleep..." The idea of John Lennon tucking in panda cubs and turning out the light was so cute I never wanted to learn the real lyrics.

How about hearing "No need to be alone" as "Only to be alone"? It's amazing how something like that can transform a song from a happy love ballad to a much darker song about love and loss.

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", by TheBeatles. This Troper heard that as "Dookie in the Sky with Diamonds"

For a while, this guy heard it as "Lucy is so High she's Dyin'," which, knowing 60's rock songs, is probably closer to the actual meaning.

This troper thought it was "Lucy's in a fight with Linus", before she knew what it was called.

"The girl with colitis goes by" instead of "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes"

This is how the Beatles got into drugs - Bob Dylan misheard the line "I can't hide" in ''I Wanna Hold Your Hand'' as "I get high", thought they were already part of the drugs scene, and thus accidentally introduced them to it.

As The Beatles were doing speed like wildcat truckers just to get through five shows a night back in their Hamburg days, this story might be taken with a grain of salt.

The problem is the words 'drugs scene': the Beatles got introduced to speed in Hamburg, where the place was replete with it due to its being given to U.S. military personnel. Marijuana was generally smoked by jazz and some folk musicians (rockers generally did speed and alcohol, which explains a '''lot''' about JohnnyCash, and no-one called using it 'getting high'. (Dylan did both.)

This troper's husband, a model trains freak, heard Dylan's "Preoccupied with his vengeance" (in "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?") as "Preoccupied with his engines".

"All the single ladies" ("Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" by Beyonce); this troper heard it as "I'm a cigarette!"

"All my pringle haters" is one from a friend of this troper. Must have been hungry.

"I'm missin' the lettuce"

This Troper thought it was "I wanna see your legs!"

"Soy un perdedor" (''Loser'' by Beck); This Troper and his friends always used to sing "Say 'Oh, Canada,'" and we were always puzzling over it.

This Troper was very upset upon learning that the song "Put your ass up in the air" by Baracuda was not, in fact, about "giraffes in the air."

As a quick search at YTMND will demonstrate, you are ''far'' from the only one to make that mistake.

"Eight-tracks, Bernie Goetz" ("AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz", "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel)

Also, is it, "...Mickey Mantle, Cadillac..." or "...Mickey Mantle, Kerouac..."?

Kerouac.

Bernie Goetz, hm? Never having heard of him/her before, this troper always heard 'burning kids'...

"Burning kids" recalls the famous photo of the Veitnam War with the young girl running down the road naked (she had pulled her clothes off because they were on fire due to napalm), so it kind of fits with the "timeline" concept of this song (though it's anachronistic: the song's in the '80s by then, and the war was over in the late '70s).

This troper initially heard 'burning ''heads'''.

"Son can you play me a memory" (Billy Joel's ''Piano Man''); This troper pretty much always hears "Some kinda play me a memory", even after knowing what's actually being said.

This troper always thought it was "Son can ya play me a melody", which fits pretty well.

"Take the back right turn" is how I heard the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" for a long time.

This troper could never understand what the ''hell'' was being said during a portion of Blur's ''Coffee & TV''. Lyric sources seem to argue between "Easily", "History", "Misery", "Peacefully" (which is what she personally hears) and "Please don't leave" for the second line in the chorus.

For the record, it's officially "History".

This troper and her family heard "Asshole protector" instead of "Astral projector" at the end of "Is that you, Mo-Dean?" by The B-52's. Made funnier by the fact that it repeats till the end.

"There's a bad moon on the rise" ("Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival); this troper's heard "There's a baboon on the right".

This troper used to hear "Willie and the Poor Boys a-playin'", from "Down on the Corner", as "Willie and the Pope was a-playin'".

"Rock the dance floor" (from Will Smith's "Will 2k"); this Troper's favourite (intentional) misheard version is "Fuck the Death Star."

Fuck the Death Star, Fuck the Death Star, the Emperor don't like it?

"Ya never gonna keep me down" (Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping"); I always hear "I have it on a big guitar"

As a kid, I always heard that part of the song not as "I get knocked down, but I get up again; ya never gonna keep me down", but as "I get Noctowl, but I get yolk-n-egg; ya never gonna kick guitar". I still wonder if there was something in my Dr. Pepper that day...

''Caramelldansen!''; This Troper and her friends misheard part of the chorus as "Yours only yours, I'm not afraid of Batman's hips don't lie." Oh dear...

This Troper thought part of the chorus of Caramelldansen was "You show me yours, and I'll show you mine, then," the first time I heard it.

The second line of the chorus ("Klappa era händer", apparently) will forever be "Cat fucking a handbag" to This Troper.

There's one line that I can only hear now as "Oh Vic, I need a hamster, la la la."

This troper can't hear anything but this: #QUOTE# ''Dont' sell me oats'' #QUOTE# ''Papa ate a ham, and'' #QUOTE# ''Yours only yours'' #QUOTE# ''I wanna stink of bad spam'' #QUOTE# ''This no lie'' #QUOTE# ''Meesa ate the crumbs and'' #QUOTE# ''Look really high'' #QUOTE# ''Me caught a male dancer''

In case you're wondering, said troper probably watched or created this youtube video. I don't blame her/him, after watching that, I had those lyrics stuck in my head too.

This troper hears something in Italian that would be translated in this way: #QUOTE# ''Yeah, jump the pits'' #QUOTE# ''Unite your butt and bang bang'' #QUOTE# ''Yes, i'm the best'' #QUOTE# ''But my grandpa wrote "Desden"'' #QUOTE# ''I did it good over everyone else'' #QUOTE# ''After looking at stuff'' #QUOTE# ''About sailors'' #QUOTE# ''And Caramelldansen''

If you're wondering, in Italian would be: #QUOTE# ''Yeah, salta i fossi'' #QUOTE# ''Chiappa unita bang bang,'' #QUOTE# ''Yes, son migliore'' #QUOTE# ''Ma nonno ha scritto "Desden"'' #QUOTE# ''Li smarronai,'' #QUOTE# ''Viste lì le cose'' #QUOTE# ''Dei marinai'' #QUOTE# ''E del Caramelldansen''

I went through much of my life thinking Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" had a line referencing "Clowns in my coffee". I pictured her hallucinating tiny clowns swimming in her java. It was only two years ago that I found out it was "Clouds in my Coffee" which makes more sense but provides a far less amusing image.

This troper found out it was "clouds" fairly early, but being a very literal-minded child, thought there were actually miniature clouds (nimbus, cirrus and all) hovering over the cup of coffee... which seemed, to her, just as odd as clowns swimming about. A few weeks ago her boyfriend explained that it was supposed to mean the coffee was cloudy from milk or something in it. Who'd have thought?

This Troper watched episode six of ''Series/DoctorWho'' and thought that the Garlic Race were hateful, evil beings. Turns out they were saying DALEK race. As one could imagine, the British accents didn't help.

"Smoke on the water/Fire in the sky" (''Smoke on the Water'' by Deep Purple); this troper used to think it was "Slow Cousin Walter/Fire between his thighs".

Barenaked Ladies' subverted {{Mondegreen}} "Slow Uncle Walter/The fire engine guy" for "Smoke on the water/Fire in the sky": This Troper would have bet money that the line was "The slow-motion walker / the fire engine guy", assuming some sort of "time slows to a stop when you're about to die" situation.

In DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog, this troper first believed that Dr. Horrible's line "hammer, meet nail" was "hammer me now!" Luckily, she caught it the second time...

Subconscious HoYay, perhaps?

I still hear "hammer me, nail." I guess I always thought it was sort of a ha-ha you can't get me moment.

Also in Dr Horrible, this troper always heard "the brain that you receive will be your last we swear" instead of "the grade that you receive". Frankly, the whole getting a brain in the mail sounds a lot more sinister and befitting of the Thoroughbred of Sin.

This troper has a friend who first thought Bad Horse was Bad Whores. Which...could've made the movie a bit more interesting.

This troper managed to hear "So make the banners steeple," in that song. I still have NO idea what the real lyric is.

That'll be "So make the Bad Horse gleeful".

I could have sworn that the first time I heard Brand New Day I heard a lyric that went "I could list a million reasons why it's a brand new day," where the actual lyric is "How I hesitated, now I wonder why, it's a brand new day"

"just got into town about an hour ago" (Jim Morrison); this troper initially heard "I took a little downer 'bout an hour ago". Thus explaining the slurring.

The Decemberists' ''Summersong'' -- even though this troper knows the lyrics are "my girl, linen and curls," every time she hears it, she can only hear "my girl, anything curls."

This troper thought it was "Lenin in curls" until right this minute. Sure, it's weird, but it ''is'' the Decemberists.

"Hold me closer, tiny dancer" ("Tiny Dancer" by Elton John); this editor first heard it as "Hold me close and tie me down, sir", and has never quite been able to get the image out of his head.

And this editor has always heard it as, "Hold me close, it's time to dance now," which, considering some of the entries on this page, is actually quite benign.

Conversation between this troper and his best friend: "Hold me close, I'm trying to dance here..." "Don't you mean 'hold me closer, tiny dancer'?" "Those aren't the words." "I think you'll find they are."

This troper still sings her preferred lyrics, "''Hold me closer, Tony Danza''"

"I'm blue da ba dee da ba di da ba dee da ba di" (Eiffel 65, ''Blue (Da Ba Dee)''); this Troper once thought it was "I'm blue and in need of a guy . . . "

This Troper heard "I must live, I must die", overestimating the philosophical depth of the lyrics.

"I'm blue, if I was green I would die, I'm a blue apple pie, if I was green I would die" is how an old friend of this troper used to sing the chorus to "I'm Blue" ("Da ba dee da ba di") when he was young. This troper still sings it that way.

"If I was green I would die" is supposedly part of the official lyrics. It doesn't show up the first time the chorus is sung, but if you listen closely on subsequent choruses it's hard to deny it.

Except that the band did. Ain't no official lyrics that say that, and WordOfGod is that it doesn't.

*groans* This troper heard it as the "Da ba dee" version first, ''then'' saw it with "...green I would die" line and thought she was ''correcting'' herself. '''Double''' Mondegreen'd.

I always heard it as alternatively "I'm in need of a diet" or "Got my feet on the Nile".

I still hear "I'm indeed a blue guy."

Or "In Aberdeen I will die". I'd be pretty blue if I knew I was going to die in Aberdeen.

Or "Die, Dima, die". If you happen to have crossed paths with an annoying guy named Dima, anyways.

This troper heard it as "I'm blue, I will beat up a dolly". Thought it was about a hikikomori who took out his frustration on Barbie dolls due to his inability to score, if you know what I mean.

This song is ideal fodder for mondegreening -- as shown above, there are any number of different things that sound kind of like the syllables being sung, and I recall that when my friends and I were told it was just nonsense words, some of us refused to believe it.

Electric Six, ''Danger! High Voltage''; for years, This Troper heard, "Don't you want to know how many kids died in fires?!" instead of "...how we keep starting fires?!"

This troper used to wonder what Eric Clapton's lady friend had against Spokane, Washington. You know--"She don't like, she don't like, she don't like--Spokane!" Learning that the name of the song was "Cocaine" cleared things up a ''lot.''

... Except the city is pronounced "spo-can," not "spo-cane."

This troper was also kind of a dumb kid.

Any Eurobeat song (and most from ParaPara). The lyrics are already nonsensical, so adding mondegreens just makes them more so. My personal favorite is in "One Night in Arabia," where the line "it makes me feel like dyin', really" sounds like "it makes me feel like diarrhea."

"Shake your body, move" versus "Sheik Yarbati moves." The funny part? The latter is correct.

"the funk soul brother" (''Rockafeller Skank'' by Fatboy Slim):

"The farts will smother."

"The funk's so rubber"

To me it always sounded like they alternated between "funk so rubber" and "funk so bruva".

"The fox-hole brother" ...yeah, we were way off...

Stretched to "my faulty gas meter" by ''NeverMindTheBuzzcocks''.

I always thought it was "The funk's on, brother."

I always heard it as "Ride it out now, the bun-sole brother"

I knew someone who thought it was "Who the fuck's your brother?". Despite the fact that this would be a ''lot'' of f-bombs for a song that got played on the radio so often.

This troper thought the ''FamilyGuy'' theme song included the lyrics "All the things that make us effing cry". ("All the things that make us laugh and cry".) He wasn't the only one, as lampshaded in the Season 1 DVD audio commentary.

This troper's father thought it said "All the things that make us effing Christ".

The lyric is frequently given as that in closed captioning as well.

Despite the nature of the show, the lyrics were never meant to be "effin' cry". Seth [=MacFarlane=] eventually rerecorded that line to make it clearer.

"I'm a leading man/And the lies I weave are/Oh so intricate" (Fall Out Boy's ''This Ain't a Scene, it's an Arms Race''): I thought it was "I'm an ''evil'' man/and the lives I weave are/oh so intricate". Of course, most Fall Out Boy songs seem to suffer from this in this tropers opinion.

I thought it was "I believe in love/And the laws of evil/Are oh-so-intricate".

"I'm a leaning man/And the lies are even/Also into cats"

This troper thought it was "I believe in man/And the lives I lead are/Oh so intricate"; she also ''heard'' the last part as "oh so into cats", but figured that wasn't it.

I always heard "I'm a little man/And I'm also evil/Also into cats".

Also, "This ain't a scene, it's a: DEAD. HORSE. RACE!"

This ain't a CD, it's a GUN! DAD! ARSE! FACE!

This ain't a city, it's a GOTHAM ARSE RACE!

This ain't a city, it's a GUNDAM! ARMS! RACE! (It made sense in this troper's mind.)

Contributing my own: This ain't a scene, it's a GOD! SENDS! ARM! BRACE! I have no idea what he says after that. What ''is'' he saying when signs "Dominican" anyways? Lastly, "I'm a bleeding man! And the wives I leave are oh-so into math! ''Oh-so into maaaath!"''

This aint a scene, it's a God damn arse face/ arse rape. Take your pick of those two

This troper was initially wondering how they were getting away with the uncensored line "Wishing to be the freak shittin' your jeans" in "Sugar We're Going Down". Of course, it was "wishing to be the ''friction'' in your jeans". "Friction" ''is'' kind of enunciated like "freak-shin" though.

You mean it's not "friction in your ''sheets''"? Damn, don't know how many times I've heard that song and I never knew.

Also from "Sugar We're Going Down", "I'm watching Youtube in the closet". The real lyrics were "watching ''you two'' from the closet". This troper loves Patrick Stump dearly, but he needs to learn to enunciate.

"Dan's pants, are falling apart at halftime..."

''Help Me Rhonda'', heard as "Happy Hanukkah" by this troper's dad. To be fair, it was December.

Ayumi Hamasaki's music is a veritable vault of these for this non-Japanese-speaking troper. "We are dancing, you can't take my car" and "Come on, Matsuda, no one likes you" from "Glitter" especially.

Go West's ''King of Wishful Thinking'' always cracked this editor up because of a repeated line that sounds a ''lot'' like "I pretend my shit's not stinkin'!" It's supposed to be "ship's not sinking," I hear.

One line from the ''GoodTimes'' theme song is, which the troper always thought was "hangin' in the jungle" is apparently heard by others as "hangin' in a chow line." According to TheOtherWiki, it's actually "hangin' in and jivin'."

Most of "Warning" by Green Day is hard to understand but it's hard not to hear: #QUOTE#Gosh! Darn! Police line! (Caution! Police line!) #QUOTE#You better not cross #QUOTE#It's the cardboard kind (Is the cop or am I) #QUOTE#The kind that's really dangerous (The one that's really dangerous?)

The first time this troper heard "Brain Stew", she thought he was singing "I'm counting sheep and running nude...no rest for cough drops in my mind."

When this troper first heard "When I Come Around" there was a line he was almost certain was "Sell donuts at my door". It is in fact "So don't knock down my door".

This troper thought the exact same thing, so much so that I'll never be able to hear anything else.

Really? This tropers swears that she hears the line "You've been searching for that someone/and it's me out on the prowl" as... "Jimmy says it's from that someone/and it's me and I'm the ground."

For the longest time in "F.O.D." I was hearing "I'm takin' pride/ in telling you to fuck off and die" as "I'll take your bride/ intelligent as a coffee grind". At the time I thought this meant 1) he planned to sleep with the wife of the subject of the song, and 2) he was comparing the subject of the song's intelligence to that of a coffee grinder (or possibly a single piece of ground coffee).

("Our Lips Are Sealed" by The Go-Gos); this troper always hears it as ''I Love Cecile''.

This troper is surprised that no one has mentioned J-pop group Iceman's song ''Shining Collection'' from the {{Gravitation}} OVA, considering it has a pretty well known flash animation based on it.

"One ton tomato, I ate a one ton tomato..." If these were the real lyrics to "Guantanamera", it would be a TomatoSurprise.

This editor always heard it misinterpreted as "I ''need'' a one-ton tomato." For the world's biggest batch of pasta sauce, perhaps?

Being Chinese, This Troper's dad likes to turn it into a bilingual intentional mondegreen: "one dolla mei lah (is missing)" every time he has to spend money.

This troper would mention "Mystery Lifeguard", but that's another story.

This troper's family is fond of screaming "One ton of make up! She's wearing one ton of make up!" whenever we hear this song.

So it's not "One ton sombrero" then?

Nor is it "One, Tanah Merah"? (which may be a valid address in certain parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei).

In ''Something Bad'', I heard "And it's not like me to feel so important" as "And it's not like me to feel so afraid," which makes sense, and "I never thought I'd see it so exploited" as "I never thought I'd see it so explained," which doesn't really.

This troper's best friend swears she hears this when she listens to "This Ain't a Scene, it's an Arms Race" by Fall Out Boy: "THIS AIN'T A CITY IT'S A GOD. DAMN. ASS. FACE!"

I once had the misfortune to mishear "I want your body" by Geronimo Chief as "I want Joe Biden".

This troper has always heard Girls Aloud's ''Love Machine'' as "give me a kiss or three, and a fag" rather than "give me a kiss or three, and I'm fine". She (as a Brit and therefore using the 'cigarette' related meaning of fag) truly believes that is a better, and more apt, lyric.

"I believe in miracles" (Hot Chocolate's ''You Sexy Thing''); this troper always heard it as "I believe in mangoes".

"I believe in mail calls."

For some reason, Heart's "Dreamboat Annie" always sounded like "Dreamboat Eddie" to this troper.

Johnny Rivers' ''Secret Agent Man'': at least one ''{{Saiyuki}}'' fan hopes that someone will someday take it further and make an amv of ''Sacred Asian Man''.

"Kyrie eleison, down the road that I must travel" (Mr. Mister, ''Kyrie''); this troper always heard it interpreted as "carry a razor..."

As a kid, this troper heard "carry a laser." Which made sense at the time, because a) it would light up the road, right? and b) lasers are awesome.

I've always heard "And it's whispered at Sue, if they all call the Jew..." in ''Stairway To Heaven''.

Whatever Robert is singing near the end of ''In My Time of Dying'', it probably isn't "Ultra Jesus."

It is possible to mishear "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga as "Fucker face".

According to the official page, "Fuck her face" is the actual line.

This troper misheard the whole line "...can't read my poker face..." as "...carry my, poke her face...".

I always heard it as "bunker place"

And this (other) troper thought "can't read my" was "cutie pie".

This troper unfortunately hears the repeating bit after the refrain of Lady Gaga's "Pokerface" as 'fuh-fuh-fuh-fuck her face, fuh-fuh-fuck her face'.

A close friend of this troper refuses to believe the line is anything but "Bob-Bob-Bob-Barker face, my Bob Barker face."

This troper knows the first lines of the chorus to ''Paparazzi'' goes 'I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me, papa, paparazzi', but it sounded like 'I'm your latest fan'.

To this troper, "papa, mama loves me'. Yeah.

The word are clearly, "but, but, but her face" or ... something.

The part of the ''Liberty's Kids'' theme song that's sung by Aaron Carter is barely intelligible. Specifically, I heard "give that freedom bell a rattle" as "give that freedom deadly rattle" and "declare it on the dotted line" as "declare it all a diamond mine."

Instead of the actual lyrics from 'Thanks for the Memories' "Collecting page six lovers", I heard "Collecting patient's lovers."

"The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night" (Louis Armstrong's ''What a Wonderful World''); this troper has also seen the first part rendered "The bride blessed the day."

"Last night I dreamt of San Pedro" (Madonna's ''La Isla Bonita''); this lurker-troper has always heard it as "Last night I dreamt of some Pedro"...

From the song ''Kings of the Nordic Twilight'' by Luca Turilli (though, to be fair, Olaf Hayer did the vocals), this troper always hears the line "the freshness of the dawn" as "the Frenchness of the dog". And subsequently pictures a dog wearing a beret and carrying a baguette. ''Every time.''

This troper has always heard "No body told me there'd be ice cream," instead of "Nobody told me there'd be days like these," in John Lennon's "Nobody Told Me."

MichaelJackson:

"The chair is not my son" ("The kid is not my son", ''Billie Jean''). Although it's ''close''...

I thought it was "Michelle is not my son", which makes about as much sense.

"Blue jeans are not my colour" ("Billie Jean is not my lover" but it sounds better this way ''dammit''.)

The other option, "Billie Jean is not my mother", doesn't bear thinking about.

Margarine is not like butter.

This troper always heard "The kid is not my size". DON'T. FREAKING. ASK.

"She ran underneath the table/He could see she was an emo" ("...he could see she was unable." Michael Jackson ''Smooth Criminal''. This troper was hearing this a good ten years before the emo fad started, and thus it really was nonsense back then.)

From the same song: "Annie get your wookiee/are you woking any?" ("Annie are you OK/are you OK, Annie?") No, seriously. That's what it sounds like.

This troper first heard the lyrics as "Anything you want, 'kay? / You want, 'kay, any?".

"Annie are you walking?/Are you walking, Annie?"

What the hell does "neruok" mean, and why does he keep spelling it?

I thought it was "Eddy are you ok" until I went to sing it at karroke.

I thought that too; like "Eddie are you ok, but you're jealous, but you're ok..."

Pop-Up Video had a segment about this song. The mondegreens took up an entire chorus.

Probably because of hearing the Alien Ant Farm cover long before the original, this troper (and his two sisters and two cousins) heard the gibberish "enee yuokee yuokee yuokee enee." The rest of the cover isn't much better if you don't already know what they're saying, either. And to add insult to injury, this troper can never hear the original without thinking the guitar is missing....

"There's a sign in the window that he struck you like a Shinto, Annie." (It's actually "a crescendo".)

"I'm starting with the man in the river/I'm asking him to change his face/And no message could have been Andy Clever..."

"Keep on with the post office, don't stop till you get enough..." (Actually "keep on with the force, don't stop.")

You mean it's ''not'' "keep on with the Lone Star Stomp"?

In the Jackson Five song "I'll Be There," this troper still kkinda hears "Togetherness is all I'm after..." as "Two dozen eggs is all I'm after..." Why would Michael be listing groceries in the middle of a sweet love song?? WHY??

This Troper has heard the lines "Mama-se, mama-sa, ma-ma-coo-sa" from ''Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' '' commonly misconstrued as "Mama say it on the side of the mountainside" and "Gonna say it on the side of the mountainside" ("mountainside" is sometimes replaced by "mountaintop"). Steve Harvey's nephew Tommy further butchered this on Steve's radio broadcast as "Gonna say it on the side of Michael's house", which is a deviant from the usual misinterpretation norm. How he got ''that'' far is a mystery to me.

Morphine. As a kid, all I heard near the end of the song was, "You just, sit around jive talkin' in your Bar Mitzvah!" x4. (Actual: "You just sit around just talkin' about it, ah!"). To be honest, I still hear it now.

Matthew Wilder's ''Break My Stride'': this troper hears "whale vagina" somewhere near the beginning of that song. Don't know what the actual lyrics are.

That's "I sailed away to China."

"{{Snakes on a Plane}}" a few times while listening to {{Music/Muse}}'s ''Micro Cuts''. Matt Bellamy's diction in this song is... not perfect. The actual lyrics are "Souls weeping above" and "fork on a plate", depending which of the two bits I misheard you look at...

Similarly slushy diction led to this troper believing the title line from {{Music/Muse}}'s ''Supermassive Black Hole'' was "sympathetic vagabond" the first, second and third times it was heard on the radio. It seems to make as much sense as the actual lyrics.

This troper's roommate thought it was "supermarket vagabond" for quite a while.

This troper heard "supermagic vagabond."

This troper didn't have that particular problem, but did hear another line as "spaceships melting in the dead of night". I still maintain that that fits the theme better, and it's not like it makes any less sense than a random reference to glaciers.

Not exactly misheard, but when she was little this troper thought "Say" was a person's name ("Oh, Say can you see ...", ''The Star-Spangled Banner'').

For the longest time, this troper thought it was "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, a V.I.C." As in, a very important country.

When this troper was in early elementary school, he always heard "of the icing", which would explain what makes the land so sweet...

This troper thought it was "of thee I see". I also thought the song said was "land that the pilgrims pried," as in the verb to pry, as opposed to "land of the pilgrims' pride". And I thought the ending was "let Freeta lead." I didn't know who Freeta was.

This troper managed to get almost every single word (literally) in Massive Attack's song ''Teardrop'' utterly and completely wrong when she heard it and listened to it for the better part of a year before finally looking up the lyrics. She prefers her version significantly, though.

That's okay, everyone does. Particularly because the song doesn't make a terrible amount of sense even with the correct lyrics. Also by Massive Attack (albeit much later), this troper mistook "I will pilfer my family a bulletproof love" from Heligoland's Flat Of The Blade as "I will build for my family a bulletproof moon." Also similar to the above, neither makes a lot of sense but I still prefer my version. It's more poetic.

As for Madonna’s song ''4 Minutes (To Save the World)'' featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, one line contains "If you feel it, it must be real, just--". This troper, however, always heard "If you feel it, it must be ''ninjas''." This troper saw no ninjas in the actual music video, but you shouldn’t be able to see ninjas anyway. Or maybe not.

This troper always heard 'We've only got four minutes to save the world' as 'We've only got four minutes to say the word', and continued to sing it like that until her friends corrected her. Also, I always heard the 'Ninja' bit as 'And if you feel it, it must be raindrops.' No idea why.

I hear "If you thought it, it better be what you want" as "If you farted, it better be what you want."

"I tried to give you up, but I'm a dick, Tedd" -- from ''Time Is Running Out'', by {{Music/Muse}}. For a long time, I imagined Matt Bellamy singing to Tedd from ElGoonishShive. Turns out the real line is "I'm addicted".

Similarly, {{U2}}'s TearJerker ''Wake Up Dead Man'' will always be "wake up Tedd, man" for this troper.

This troper mishead the line "So charismatic / With an automatic" from the spoof spy anthem ''A Man For All Seasons'' as "So charismatic! / Women? Automatic!" She likes her version better, since it seems to fit the over-the-top MartyStu spy image the song generates--like he's so awesome, the girls just ''appear'' around him.

"Hang on Sloopy/Sloopy hang on" (''Hang on, Sloopy'' by The [=McCoys=]); when this troper was a kid, she actually saw the title and assumed it was a typo. It makes sense if you think about it: everyone knows who Snoopy is. Who the hell is Sloopy?

"When the priest comes to read me the last rites." in Iron Maidens ''Hallowed be thy name'' always sounds like "When the priest comes to rape me the last time." to This Troper

On the topic of IronMaiden, I've always heard the line "I see the ghosts of navigators" as "I see the ghosts of alligators" in their song ''Ghost of the Navigator''

Moonchild by IronMaiden- "Babylon, the Skeletor" as opposed to "Babylon, the scarlet whore"

This troper was once convinced Metallica's ''One'' had the line "For my breakfast I wish for tea!" (instead of "Hold my breath as I wish for death"). It's very incongruous with the rest of the lyrics, but ''does'' rhyme with the following line, "Oh please god wake me".

My friend thought the lyric "Blackened is the end" in Blackened was "Fuck it in the ass."

{{Nightwish}}:

''Planet Hell,'' while having some of the most epic music ever, is essentially one giant Mondegreen, largely thanks to the thick Finnish accents of some of the members. The first line is often heard as "Deny it, go try it," or "Deny it, Goliath," but the actual line is "Denying the lying." And when Tarja sings, I had so much trouble understanding her that I just assumed those lyrics were in Finnish.

This troper heard it as "Denying the lion".

Wishmaster. For example, in the line "Your world shall rest on Earth no more," this troper hears "rest on Earth" as "crystal meth."

Hamster! The dentist! Hard porn! Steven Seagull!

Of course for ''0{{Lost}}'' fans, there's always this version...

Amaranth."Carrots that wander, never fading/Rading your heart/The jesus snow-white zorro!/Carrots that wander/Hiding m&m's in a lamb..."

"Cherish the one, the never fading/Reign in your heart/Does Jesus know my sorrow?"

"Cherish the wonder, never fading rain in you heart/And Jesus' snow white sorrow"

"Carrots that wonder, hiding m&ms, in a lamb, as they break."

Real line: "Caress the one, the never-fading/Rain in your heart/Her tears of snow-white sorrow/Caress the one, the hiding amaranth..."

Also in Amaranth: "The dowelling won my heart" and "We reach for the one's who're in {{emmerdale.}}"

Romanticide. "Happy hunting, you carnivore taco-faced carnie whore..."

''Dragostea din Tei'': This troper has seen a video of Mondegreens of the song with a few lines talking about feta cheese, Picasso and Paris Hilton (who is just mentioned there as "a slutty date").

For the record, though, the song in its original Romanian really does talk about Picasso.

This troper has a whole list of her own mondegreens to that song, including "Raise the Death Star" and, for the title line, "Dragons all can stay."

This troper: ''Raise a pledge now, numa numa yay!'' (brought up images of {{PBS}} and a computer memory architecture. Given he does not get PBS at where he lives, but he has heard that PBS would do some sort of plege request and ask for donation often), ''Dragon study day'' (brought up images of DragonTales) and ''Nah, Mint test, they all kick tie, yay!'' (brought up images of TalesOfPhantasia).

Pearl Jam's "The Fixer": Though he was pretty sure it couldn't be right, this troper kept hearing a line as "When something's bald, I wanna put a little salad on it", when it is in fact "when something's bored, I wanna put a little excited on it". Kind of understandable since the the second half of that line is kind of odd grammatically.

"Kurt O's my hero, leaving all the base" ("Kudos my hero, leaving all the best", ''My Hero'' - though in my defense, Hayley is slurring her words more than usual in this one...)

"And when the day had ended, With rainbow colors splendid" ("... blended", Grateful Dead, ''The Other One''). Even having seen the sheet music, this troper is not wholly convinced the word wasn't meant to be "splendid".

"... I wanna have groupies" (''When I Grow Up'', by Pussycat Dolls); clearly this troper has been playing ''The LegendOfZelda'' too much; he misheard it as "rupees".

I heard it as "I wanna have boobies."

I misheard the lines in the Pixies song ''Monkey Gone to Heaven'' as "If man is flawed/then the devil exists/ and if the devil exists/then God's in heaven." The lines are actually "If man is five/then the devil is six/and if the devil is six/then god is seven." I still like my version better. According to a guy who knows a guy who knows Black Francis, the similarities are actually deliberate, making it unclear if this is truly a mondegreen.

Misheard lyric by many, "The cantaloupe is mythical" instead of "That kind of love is mythical" in ''Simply Irresistible'' by Robert Palmer (Although admittedly this troper has yet to mishear an RP lyric because oddly enough he seemed to sing in an American accent).

This Troper always heard "I-I-I...just robbed an Easy-bake" in The Adventures of Pete & Pete Theme Song.

"A walk on part of The Wall" ("A walk-on part in the War") from PinkFloyd's ''Wish You Were Here''. This troper thought it was a reference to '''The Wall''' from the eponymous album for the longest time, not knowing that ''Wish You Were Here'' actually came ''before'' ''The Wall''.

This version of Pearl Jam's ''Alive'' has a scream that sounds like "Yeah! Yeah! [[NWordPrivileges African-Americans!" near the beginning of the solo (which stars at around 3:32 in the video). This troper doesn't not currently have enough Microsoft Points to buy the song, so he has no idea what "[[NWordPrivileges African-Americans" is actually supposed to be.

This troper for a long time misheard "gunpowder, gelatine" as "got mind-activity" (Queen, ''Killer Queen'')

This troper's mom and aunt always sang "Another one rides the bus" in place of Queen's "Another one bites the dust". Of course, in place of "hey, I'm gonna get you too", they had to use "hey, I'm gonna sit by you".

A genuine song by WeirdAlYankovic, oddly enough. Perhaps based on a {{Mondegreen}} in the first place?

This French-speaking troper believed in his teenage years that ''America'' was a song performed by Queen. Or was it ''The Miracle'' ?

When first seeing ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' musical episode, I misheard Spike's lyric: "Let me take my love and bury it in a hole 6 foot deep" as ""Let me take my love and bury it in a ''whore'' 6 foot deep", which was a bit of a "Wait, wtf, that didn't get censored?" moment.

It happened again with: "Buffy's laughing, I've no doubt." Which turned into: "Buffy's life and I'm locked out," but that's... relatively benign.

That episode gave a few; "You find this fight just doesn't mean a thing" turned into "Your ''finest fight'' just doesn't mean a thing..."

This troper heard "Living on a fish island" instead of "Living in a fish-eye lens" in Rush's ''Limelight''.

REM's ''It's the End of the World As We Know It.'' It's damn hard to know for sure what some of the actual lyrics are. "The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide..." or "tripped at Knox, continental drift divide..." or "tripped a ''nice'' continental drift divide"?

''Losing My Religion'': this troper could have sworn Stipe was singing, "Let's pee in the corner..."

TheRollingStones: "Culled prostration down and bought a beer, sold in a market down in New Orleans." ("Gold Coast slaveship bound for cotton fields/Sold in the market down in New Orleans.") In my defense, the ability to correctly understand this lyric was used as evidence of Pryzbylewski's savant-level pattern recognition skills.

My favourite Radiohead one is "We don't want balloonists taking over" from ''Go To Sleep''. (rather than "We don't want the loonies taking over": the imagery is so much better!)

For years this troper thought {{Rick Astley}}'s ''Never Gonna Give you Up'' was all about a heel warning a girl infatuated with him about all the rotten things he'll do to her if she becomes his girlfriend: "I'm-a gonna give you up/And I'm-a gonna let you down/And I'm-a gonna run around and desert you/I'm-a gonna make you cry/And I'm-a gonna say goodbye/And I'm-a gonna tell a lie and hurt you."

This troper was sure he was the only one! (sniff)

Sweeney Todd, ''Pretty Women'', first line- "Pretty Women/Masturbating" for "Pretty Women/Fascinating". I challenge anyone to hear the original after reading that. Particularly bad because this Troper ended up getting roped into doing a sing-along rendition for his 6-year-old niece. Yeah, I got into trouble for that...

Well, he does watch his ward in her room. This is not the only person to have misheard other lyrics in the same song as "the blood to pound the hardly/heartly pyre" rather than "the blood to pound, the heart leap higher". And for some reason, "demons'll charm you with a smile" from ''Not While I'm Around'' as "women will charm you". Vtf?

So wait, you got in trouble for your mondegreen but not for singing SweeneyTodd songs to a six year old in the first place. This Troper is amused.

This troper first heard a line of ''Suddenly I See'' by KT Tunstall as "Suddenly I see; / Why did Heaven mean so much to me?" She was stunned to learn that the real lyrics are "Suddenly I see / why the hell it means so much to me." Even knowing the real lyrics, she thinks they sound like her first interpretation...and likes her version better.

The song ''Summer Fly''. I heard the line "A summer fly was buzzin' every night when I was young" as "Summer flowers blossomed every night when I was young", which is practically Zen.

Maybe he just had FertileFeet.

The Stranglers' ''Golden Brown'' had the lyric, "Golden brown, texture like sun/Lays me down, in my mind she runs" -- this troper (and, according to Google, he's not alone) misheard it as "Lays me down in my manchierons".

"My mother and my fathers used to leave me alone, dreaming I'm adopted" ("My mother and my brothers used to breathe in clean air, and dreaming I'm a doctor" from Tears For Fears' ''Head Over Heels''). Sometimes mondegreens can tell you a lot more about the person who thinks them up than you really want to know.

The Tears For Fears song ''Everybody Wants To Rule The World'' heard as "Everybody Wants To Move Along". It didn't help that this troper's father jokingly called it "Everybody Wants To Mow The Lawn".

This troper's boyfriend thought it was "Everybody wants to move away." Not being terribly fond of our city, it seemed an apt misunderstanding.

In WeirdAl's ''Smells Like Nirvana'' (parody of Nirvana's ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'') the line "Boy, this oughta bug your parents!" is easily misheard as "Fuck your parents!" instead. Whether this is meant as an insult or as an instruction is still unknown.

This troper heard it as "bugger parrots".

This troper heard "We're Nirvana; bug your parents."

Anyone who heard "Fuck your parents!" and thought it was the actual lyric obviously doesn't know that Weird Al is a completely clean artist, although This Troper thinks he CrossedTheLineTwice with ''Jerry Springer'' (I mean, come on, "the hermaphrodite, the slut, and the crack ho?"). And he's also sure he heard Weird Al say "You cheap bastard" at the end of ''Don't Download This Song''.

"You’ve got your big G's/I’ve got my hash pipe" (''Hash Pipe'' by Weezer); This guy heard it as "You've got your good things..."

This troper always heard the title lyrics of the song ''Signed, Sealed, Delivered'' by Stevie Wonder as "Signs Say I'm Livin'". It makes sense either way.

Back in the N64 days, basically anyone who played the game ''Yoshi's Story'' had their own theory about just what the Yoshi's sang in the end-of-level song, or if they sang anything at all besides just "eee-aah-oh". This troper remembers interpretations ranging from "next level", which makes sense, to "the airport", which does not.

The end-of-level gibberish at the end of ''Yoshi's Story'' may well be the musical equivalent of an ink blot test. Things people have heard: "The stair's full," "Be careful," and, this troper's personal favorite: "Neanderthal."

No way, dinobreath.

This troper always heard "Be thankful" for the end of level song and "Oh, lack of apples" for the opening.

This one was a literal guy, so he simply heard "ee-eh-ah" for the end of level song, as if they were retelling the story of the level in baby-talk: fear, apathy as they got used to it, then relief when it was over.

This troper keeps hearing the Yoshis say "Nintendo".

The Newgrounds video Nin10Doh! parodies this with the Yoshi's singing "the *** hole."

And this troper always thought they actually ''were'' saying "the asshole."

This troper coined the word "wheatevvo" (which really doesn't mean anything that "whatever" doesn't cover) because of those damned baby Yoshis.

I think I saw your letter to Nintendo Power...

I'm pretty sure it's just "The End" in a really thick Japanese accent; "Ji Endo." It would probably be much easier to understand if it wasn't so ''damn high-pitched.''

I first got "The ehhhhh-oooooh!" and then "nin teeeeen dooooo!"

"Fuck her for a pack of cigarettes" instead of "Vodka and a pack of cigarettes" from Joss Stone's ''You Had Me.'' They both work as examples of why Joss is breaking up with her boyfriend in the song, this troper was just surprised that radio stations and MTV and VH-1 were letting her get away with swearing on the air.

This Troper always mishears the first line of ''Owner of a Lonely Heart'' by {{Yes}}. The actual line is "move yourself", but IHeardThatAs "movies help". To be fair, "movies help you live your life never thinking of the future" makes sense.

This Troper is reminded of an official(?) music video of some band, which he has since lost, which was nothing but on Mondegreen of the band's lyrics after another. Key points were Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid, Sumo Wrestling, and a specific type of soy sauce.

Not a song, but a few years of this (Catholic) troper's were spent in strong belief that God was called Peter. The reason? The response from the congregation at the end of the Gospel reading ("Thanks be to God") sounds, when said slightly out of sync by about a hundred people, ''exactly'' like "Thanks Peter God."

Conversely, no few people were convinced when they were young that God's name was Harold, thanks to the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father, who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name..."

Or "Hollow Ed" as Morph from the ''Exiles'' puts it.

Well, there are "Harold Angels," after all . . . .

Well we do call His son Jesus ''H.'' Christ.

One that comes up in a lot of hymns is "grapefruit" for "great fruit." "I am the vine and you are now the branches/If you believe in me, I will bear grapefruit."

Then there's the classic mishearing of the lines spoken at a funeral: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, into the hole he goes..."

This troper's uncle as a child sang the phrase "Lead on, oh king eternal" as "lead on oh kinky turtle."

There's a song that ends, "With every grace endued." I heard the line for years before I could read as "With every Grayson dude," and for some reason associated it with an old guy on a motorcyle. Several years later my little sister, having heard songs on the radio by Josh Gracin, thought that the lyric referred to him- the "Gracin dude."

"Jump, Jive, and Wail" became "Drunk drive everywhere" to more than one of this troper's friends.

To this troper, it was "Drunk drivin', drive the whale."

To this one "Drunk drive, then you hit a rail."

The tv series of the manga X. Sad light? Star light? And those are the easy ones.

This troper once saw a rare (and ''failed'') attempt at coming up with Mondegreens where none existed. On one bulletin board in his dorm, there was a list of the real and "misheard" lyrics of several songs...except all the lines listed were either A. crystal clear when sung, or B. ''the titles of the songs''.

Hey, not everyone knows the title of every song they hear. This troper thought Duran Duran's ''Hungry Like the Wolf'' was saying "hungry like the moon" until she found out the title. Plus, clarity of enunciation can be very subjective. I've always thought Nirvana's ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'' was crystal clear, even hearing "mulatto," despite not knowing what a mulatto was at the time, or even that it was a word.

It's still really hard not to sing the chorus to the hymn ''Blessed be God'' as "Dissepy God", even though that's not a real word. If this troper's concentration slips ''even for a moment'' that's what comes out.

The first line of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man ("Has he lost his mind?") as interpreted by my father: "Ozzy's lost his mind." Which could either count as HilariousInHindsight or FunnyAneurysmMoment, depending on your view of things.

One line of the AquaTeenHungerForce theme song goes "Ice on my fingers and my toes, and I'm a Taurus". This Troper has always heard it as "Ice on my fingers, and my toes, and on my toys."

I could barely understand any of the words to the song until they got the old guy to sing it in spoken-word verse.

Phineas and Ferb: The song ''Backyard Beach''. This troper had to do a double take when first hearing the song, thinking there's no way Disney would ever allow that word to air. Just listen. Turned out it was just the accent.

"Becky" by Piles. This troper was hearing "Becky" as "bacon" every time it's said in the song (which is ''a lot'' of times). Which also lead to "I love bacon like my Jews" instead of "I love Becky like my jewels".

This troper doesn't know how many times she misheard the first lyric in the KatamariDamacy OP theme ''Katamari on the Rocks'' as "Don't worry, do your best" rather than the correct, and seemingly much more obvious, "Katamari, do your best".

I'm pretty sure the line is actually "Don't worry, do your best". At least that seems to get loads more results on Google than the other interpretation.

Inverted with "Ask A Silly Question" by folk metal band Elvenking. I heard the line "Let's play 'Pass the Pigs' / So come on, throw your pigs at me..." My boyfriend and I were completely baffled and were sure that we were hearing something wrong. Then we looked up the lyrics and sure enough, those were the words.

Pass the Pigs is a game where you have two plastic pigs with a dot on one side. You roll them like dice and get points based on how they land. No idea if that's the reference, but the game exists.

This Troper always thought Nickleback's song "If Today Was Your Last Day" had the line "evil bitches in the past" turns out its actually "leave old pictures in the past".

I'm glad I'm not the only one who misheard that. But I thought it was "Leave all bitches in the past."

In Paloma Faith's song ''Stone Cold Sober'', this troper heard "I'm in a whole other dimension/Dancing doubles on the floor" as "I'm in a whole other dimension/That's endeavored from the floor". I don't understand either of them.

"Viva La Vida" by Coldplay got ''very'' not sensical in this troper's mind - I still have no idea what a "gelris" is. #QUOTE#Hear gelris and a bells are ringing #QUOTE#Roman Catholic choirs are singing #QUOTE#Female mirror my soul she'll #QUOTE#Permission ain't easy to farm field.

This troper thought it was "I hear terrorists and the bells are ringing"-- he knew this was absolutely not right, but even now, still cannot hear "Jerusalem" in that line.

When listening to "Let Me Be With You", the opening song to ''{{Chobits}}'', this troper always hears "Dakishimetaino" as "I kiss you my darling". Not helped by the fact that the opening animation synchronizes that line with Chii leaning in towards Hideki.

Two of the Oompa Loompas' songs from the first movie based off of CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory confused me until I saw the lyrics. I thought "If you're not greedy, you will go far" from Augustus's song was "If you're not BREATHING, you will go far" which I thought was a reference to him being drowned in the chocolate river. Also, I thought "pampered and spoiled like a Siamese cat" from Veruca's song was "and purrs and squawks like a Siamese cat."

Several years after first hearing the song ''Fire'' by Scooter, This Troper and her friends still cannot agree on what the lyrics are, especially the whole "chili bowl/'till you blow" thing and the garbled mess that comes after "back to the family/a radical emergency."

It's "Back to the family, a guaranteed emergency, the radical MC H.P.'s got the melody".

The song Underdog World Strike by Gogol Bordello starts with "I am a foreigner and I'm walking through your streets/But before I want to I see the same deeds." I don't know if it's his accent or what, but until I got out the liner notes and read the lyrics I thought he was saying "But before I want to I see the same tits."

Jefferson Starship built this city on rock and roll, not (as this troper once thought) on broken bones.

This troper knows more than a few people, his wife included, who heard "cinnamon shoes" in Vanessa Carlton's Fools Like Me, instead of "sand in my shoes."

This troper is surely not the only one to mishear "flowers in mahogany hair" from the song ''Wander'' by Kamelot. (For me, as "flowers in my Holly's hair". Or something unintelligible.)

This troper misheard "the perfect sky is torn" in Natalie Imbruglia's ''Torn'' as "the perfect guy is tall". His sister heard it the same way.

That song tortured me because I heard everything right apart from "torn", which I misheard as "tall" every time I heard it. I kept thinking "What the hell is she saying? The perfect sky is tall? What's that mean?" It took a long time before I finally found out the title of the song, and then it clicked.

Jethro Tull's "Budapest" has a line "In fact, she wasn't there at all", which this troper always hears as "In fact, she wasn't very tall".

This troper has twice done this with songs as a result of hearing them repeatedly on the radio but never hearing the title.

"I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in my Hair)," which I heard as "I wish I was a pompom girl," (cheerleader), which seemed to make more sense than mixing punks and hippies.

The Alex LLoyd song "The Wonder.' I heard it as "Rwanda" up until I actually tried to look it up.

"Isn't it ironic, don't you think? ...it's like radiation on your wedding day!"

Not mine, but someone else mentioned having a mondegreen that referenced a trope name in Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love": #QUOTE#I'll soon be with you, my love #QUOTE#To give you my DullSurprise

The correct lyric is "''dawn'' surprise", by the way.

...You mean that's NOT the lyric? I heard it, too.

In a recent conversation, this troper was glad to learn that she's not the only one who used to think the crew of the Yellow Submarine were living a life of ''beans.'' (They actually "live a life of ''ease.''")

Daughtry's "No Surprise": "I'm practicing my riddles, shouldn't have to give a reason why."

When the Beach Boys' ''Do It Again'' was in the charts (I was 12, my brother was about 14), I could clearly hear (even through the muddy sound of AM radio) that the lyric was "all the places we surfed and danced", but my brother insisted it was "searched", and when I tried to correct him, he said "people don't dance on the beach!". (And never mind the fact that ''searching'' some place is a strange choice of leisure activity, or that "surfed" is more consistent with the Beach Boys' style.) Even back then, I realised that his argument was nonsensical on at least three grounds: ## How was he so sure what people do, or don't do, in the USA? He'd never been there. ## Several songs ''explicitly'' mention dancing on the beach -- including one by Britain's very own Cliff Richard; that one is even ''called'' "On the Beach". ## Why should "all the places we surfed and danced" be referring to only '''''one''''' set of places? It could be lumping together a set of beaches ''and'' a set of clubs; that may not be the best of grammar, but then we're talking about the genre which had already given us "I can't get no satisfaction".

I've since realised that if you want to argue realism, I've never heard of anyone in real life dancing in the street either, but that didn't stop Martha Reeves and the Vandellas singing about it.

This troper once heard someone say that he thought Blue Oyster Cult's, "Don't Fear The Reaper", was called, "Don't Pee In The River".

"There is arroz (rice) in Spanish Harlem". Well, there is, but the actual line is "There is ''a rose'' in Spanish Harlem".

In Philip Norman's unauthorised (and of highly suspect accuracy) Beatles biography ''Shout!'', German-speaking bands in Hamburg clubs are said to have rendered that one as "I Picked My Nose In Spanish Harlem".

When I first heard Cat Stevens' ''Peace Train'', to me it sounded like "dreaming about ''The World At One''" (BBC Radio 4's lunchtime news-magazine programme). Of course, the lyric is actually "dreaming about the world '''as''' one".

This troper still hears "And I'm constipated" in Metallica's "No Leaf Clover" when he says "And it comes to be".

That's similar to "My Love Don't Cost A Thing" (by J. Lo?) being misheard as "My love don't constipate". I for one reckon the mondegreen sounds better. :-)

This troper's favourite mondegreen has to be from the first few times she listened to JesusChristSuperstar, and thought the disciples were singing "always hoped that I'd be an opossum". Knowing what it was supposed to be didn't change anything...

[=~0dd1~=]: When I was younger, so much younger than today, I would always mishear the chorus of Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" as "Play that fu** ing music, white boy!"...I guess the audience is just extremely irate at the band!

And now I just misheard the line "I'll try to carry on" as "I'll try the carrion" in the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me)".

Also, in Real [=McCoy=]'s"Run Away", I used to hear the line "Money, sex, and full control" as "Booty sex and all control." XD And you know what? I still hear it!!

"It Was a Good Day" is my favorite IceCube song, but I first heard the song's opening as "Just wakin' up in the mornin, got a pink eye". I wasn't too surprised to learn that the lyrics were really "Just wakin' up in the mornin, gotta thank God", as I didn't really see why Ice Cube would list Conjunctivitis as one of the good things that happened to him.

This troper misheard (and keeps mishearing) the lyrics from Press Conference off the ''{{Chess}} In Concert'' album as "how come your second's a girl of a boy?" Which makes things a little weird.

I remember my family misunderstanding my yells of "Do something!" (we were approaching a red light; I was about ''five'', by the way) as "Deuces!". On a video game-related note, ''ViewtifulJoe''. When I first played the game (I was about 12), I didn't know about {{Toku}} and {{Henshin Hero}}es, so I completely butchered Joe's call of "Henshin a go-go, baby!" The end result? "Atsakunoko, baby!" Both moments have been moments of great mocking and frustration.

This troper misheard the line "Born bad, like a synchro-mesh shift" in the song ''Born Bad'' by The Gone Jackals as "Born bad, like I'm sick of this shit". Somehow I like my version better.

When this troper was a wee lassie listening to Radio Disney, she was always shocked when she heard All Star by Smash Mouth, because such vulgarity should not be played on a radio station for kids! Years later I realized that they were saying "with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead", not "and the shit coming out of her forehead"...

I heard the line "The Asian man with his love hate affair with his racist clientele" in Belle and Sebastian's The Boy with the Arab Strap as "The Asian man with his love-hate affair with this racist guy in town."

and I heard the "love-hate affair" line as "long head of hair."

In a RealLife ''subversion'', I actually used to think Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" titular lyric was a Mondegreen, and tried to hear it as "Do it like a lady". It was made that much funnier when I realized the truth.

I always heard it as "do the lucky lady".

I though it was "Do the funky lady" as a kid

"Doodle like a lady" here.

And here this troper thought they were singing "do the macarena".

The first time I heard the song, I felt that it could also sound like "Dude, look at that lady".

Inversion.

I've always heard Keane's Black Burning Heart's chorus as: If we could turn back/ You can pay for all of the crack as opposed to /You can paper over the crack.

This stupid commercial for 'London Choco Roll' playing on local tv repeatedly is sounding more and more like Chinese for 'man had plastic surgery'.

From TheWorldEndsWithYou soundtrack, "Long Dream", "Is it oranges, is it devils, whispering in my ear?"

So Hyde from L'Arc en Ciel starts off a new solo project, Vamps, with a song called "Love Addict," but his slippery grip on English causes him to stress the wrong syllable in the word "addict." Cue misheard lyrics from this troper: "I'm a love addict" suddenly became "I'mma love that dick." Some other egregious ones were: "Yay, hello, just feel mine!" ("Yeah! Just free your mind") and "Right on top that goes" ("Ride on time, let go"). He can no longer unhear this.

Until this troper actually read the lyrics over at the LargeHam article, he thought the line "oil and grime" from Toxic Love was "boilin' grime."

From the song ''Innocent'' by Our Lady Peace, this troper always heard the refrain as "We are all elephants" in place of "We are all innocent", much to the amusement of my friends. I... I kind of prefer it as elephants.

Inversion, I think (I'm still not clear on which "-version" to use when) This troper went through a country-music phase as a teenager, and was listening to a Reba McIntire tape in her cassette player. I can't remember the name of the song, but it contained the line "Don't trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer." My little brother (then around maybe 10?) kept singing it as "Don't trust your soul to know that would settle a lawyer." We argued over it for several minutes. Either there were no liner notes or I did not have them with me (we were in another state visiting our grandparents) or I would have just shown them to him.

That would be ''The Night that the Lights Went Out in Georgia''

From The Libertines' "Don't Look Back Into The Sun", this troper and her father always heard the line ''you're looking rough and living strange'' as ''you're the king of the living strange''.

For this troper, listening to AFI while playing Tony Hawk at the same time has led to persistent Mondegreening of the line "Hey Miss Murder can I" into "Where is my labco-oat?" ... yyyeah.

This troper first heard it as "Pain is my look, and I..."

"Hey miss my love, can I?" This Troper also hears things like, "I am gay" instead of "I decay" in Death of Seasons...

This troper and his friends insist that Colossus in Legends}} X-Men Legends II says "Those are the feet of Apocalypse" when exiting the character select menu.

VideoGame/SuperMario64 features Mario's cruelly homophobic taunt as he defeats Bowser, screaming triumphantly "So long, gay Bowser!". Other people hear it differently, with there once being a feature in the British N64 Magazine dedicated to different interpretations of the line.

I kept hearing it as "So long, kedalty!" and wondered what the hell he was actually saying.

For the longest time I thought the Crypt Fiend unit in WarCraft 3 said "Ye dreamed of life" when attacking, when it was in fact "Be drained of life". And yet the first one seems so much better, I keep hearing it.

As much as this tropes loves "You Are A Pirate", I've always thought that Robbie yelled "WANKER" after the first Stephine part. Turns out it's "Weigh Anchor!"

This troper used to think it was "She was a singer in a snow carol" instead of "I seen her in a smokey room" in Journey's Don't Stop Believing.

I'm 99% sure it's "A singer in a smokey room". The Glee cover was pretty clear on that.

This troper thought the line in Freefallin' was "I wanna free fall, out over Valhalla.", when it's really "Out over Mulholland."

Given how often I've seen it referenced, I know I'm not the only one who thought the chorus of "Human" by The Killers starts and ends with "Are we human, or are we dancer?" The real line is "Are we human, or are we denser?" - though given how many people still believe the mondegreen is the correct lyric, I'm going to assume the latter is the correct answer.

Brandon Flowers has gone on record that it ''is'' "...or are we dancer".

This troper consistently misheard "Teenage Wasteland" as "Ten inch waist land"

This Troper often misheard/mishears the line "I know this pretty rave girl" from "Pretty Rave Girl" by "I Am X-Ray", as either "I know this pretty rainbow" or "I know this pretty '''b'''rave girl".

From ZZ Top: "They come runnin' just as fast as they can, 'cause every girl's crazy 'bout a goddamn man!" I was a teenager before I realized the line, and name of the song, is "Sharp Dressed Man". Now, if only the line had been "every girl's crazy 'about a goddamn Batman"...

I've always thought it was "Women go crazy for a chartreuse man".

For the longest time this troper thought that "Dare to be Stupid" was actually "Terrawatt Zombie", and that the line "come crawling faster" from "Master of Puppets" was actually "controlling bastard"

"Run This Town" by Jay-Z. It took me quite a while before I realized that one of Rihanna's lines is actually "can't be scared when it goes down", and '''not''' "can't be starin' niggas down".

In The Postal Service's "Nothing Better", I can't help hearing the line about blocking the door "like a goalie tending the net" as "...like a ''Collie'' tending the net". Hey, there ain't no rule after all...

In the song "Canned Heat", I always thought he was saying that he has candy in his heels.

Same here, only I thought it was candy in his ''hands''.

As a kid, this troper's little brother impressively Mondegreened the last bit of "America the Beautiful" into "America, America, God shed his skin on me / And crown thy good with RobinHood / from sea to shine on me!"

"Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys managed to confuse me for a time by making me think that "Concrete jungle where dreams are made of" was "I think I'll grow some green tomatoes".

This troper had to look up the lyrics to realize that what she heard as "When you look in the mirror/Say hi to your shoes" in "Absolutely (Story of a Girl) by Nine Days was really "When you look in the mirror/So how do you choose".

"Ba Kkwo" by Lee Jung Hyun (which you may know from ''DanceDanceRevolution'' if you've been playing for a long time): kkwo! Ba kkwo! Ba kkwo!" "Fuck off! Fuck off! Fuck off!"

One of 2pac's early songs, "I Don't Give a Fuck". "I get more respect from a motherfuckin' dumplin'!" (it's really "I get more respect from a motherfuckin' dope man!")

Does anyone else here "weep not for the mammaries" when Sarah McLachlan sings her song "I Will Remember You"?

Ween's "Roses Are Free": "Don't believe the forest when he tells you that the roses are free" (instead of "the ''florist''"). It ''is'' weird enough lyrically that a talking forest (and a male one at that) doesn't stand out as being too odd.

A visual, rather than auditive, example in this very wiki: Up until 5 minutes ago (Fev 28 2010, 15:25:17 UTC) I always read DidNotEatTheMousse as DidNotEatTheMouse.

"Gimme the Bebo and feed my soul/I wanna get lost in your rock'n'roll/on Christmas Day".

This troper always thought that "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd went "We don't need no constipation..." It sure warps the meaning of "Leave us kids alone!" part entirely.

This Troper and his friend swear that "Now it's so true I can't go on without you by my side" is "Now it's so true I can't cum without you by my side" in ''Wires...and the Concept of Breathing'' by A Skylit Drive.

This troper originally heard the chorus to MidnightOil's ''White Skin, Black Heart'' as "What's in my car?"

This Troper remembers the choir organist once telling her of his childhood, and of a hymn they sang at school, "Highly Favoured Lady" (referring, of course, to Mama Mary). Which was known to the lads as, "Highly Flavoured Gravy".

A banner ad's recently appeared on TV Tropes for Raheem Devaughn, and every time the mouse cursor accidentally moves over it, it starts playing one of his songs. I always move the mouse away as fast as I can, so I've only heard one little bit of the song out of context. I can only assume he's not really singing "I'm a goddamn butterfly..."

It's kind of hard to take TheProdigy's "Breathe" seriously when you keep hearing Keith Flint shouting "Bake sale! Bake sale! Bake sale!" instead of "exhale!".

"Drove my Chevy ''through'' the levy" vs "drove my Chevy ''to'' the levy"

There was also "thirty kids, thunder chief" vs "dirty deeds done dirt cheap"

This troper heard "When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year" from the Friends theme song as "when it hasn't been your day, we come up and breathe in your ear".

My brother (see ''Do It Again'' entry above) heard "Fire!" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown as "I'll teach you to learn" and pointed out how nonsensical this lyric was. True, but the correct lyric ("I'll '''take''' you to learn") makes far more sense.

In AvatarTheLastAirbender's ''The Ember Island Players'', Aang calling himself "such an idiot!" Was definitely heard by myself and my friends as "Fucking idiot!"

Snap's "Rhythm Is A Dancer" - I used to think it was "rhythm isn't dancing". It makes no sense in the context of the song, but in my defense, "dancing" ''sort of'' rhymes with "companion", while "dancer" doesn't remotely rhyme.

When I heard "Every Heartbeat" by Amy Grant as a kid, I used to think the chorus was "Beverly Harvey, there's your name" (instead of "every heartbeat bears your name"). I'd always wondered who Beverly Harvey was, and why there was a song to remind her of her own name.

And finally Laura Branigan's "Gloria" - in the chorus I used to hear "I think they got the alias that you've been living under" as "I think they got the ''aliens'' that you've been living under". Since another line mentioned "voices in your head", as a kid I just assumed it was some paranoid woman convinced her upstairs neighbors were aliens or something. Looking it up, the whole paranoia thing ''actually sort of works'' with some of the other lyrics - maybe someone should pull a TheCoverChangesTheMeaning on that sometime.

There are several in video games. In {{Heretic}}, the Disciples of D'Sparil seem to alternate between "he's steppin' out, Yoshi" and "if there is, thou would, my arse" (it's actually backwards renditions of "destroy the Heretic" and one other which I can't remember), whilst D'Sparil himself seems to say "I've seen Mr. Davros". And does anyone know what the Heresiarch in {{Hexen}} actually says? I'm sure it can't actually be "up yours!"...

Ah, Dissidia, you and your easily misheard lines. This troper understood "Death approaches!" (often/popularly misheard as, "GET THE FRUIT!") easily enough, but misheard Bartz's final line during his EX Burst as, "For a final world!" (Actually, "For a ''shining'' world!" It's kinda funny if you know FFV's story... kinda.)

And TroperOnAStickV2 heard it as 'for a SILENT world.' And let's not forget Japanese Exdeath's infamous "TASTY ARROW!"

This troper does this often with songs in strange, mystical-sounding languages. Anything sung in Latin will follow a predictable pattern of "words" whenever he tries to sing it.

Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man": #QUOTE#You walk into the room #QUOTE#With your pants on your head #QUOTE#You see somebody naked

The second line should be, "With your pencil in your hand".

I misheard "voices carry" from Voices Carry as "cuz you're scary". It made the song sound really lame IMO, so I'm glad I know the real version now.

I heard the lyric before that ("Keep it down now") as "We'll be found out."

The chorus of ''How To Save A Life'' by The Fray. This troper has heard many different interpretations, including one who insisted the song talked about knowing 'how to say a lie' despite the title. My own makes the song a little more optimistic. #QUOTE#Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend #QUOTE#Somewhere along in the bitter descent, #QUOTE#And I would have stayed up with you all night, #QUOTE#And I know how to save a life.

The Ramones, ''My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)''. I can't remember which is the correct title. The song was on the ''School Of Rock'' soundtrack and I swear at the end of the chorus I could hear something about a bottle of sin. Apparently, the line is 'foreign policy'. No, I don't know how that works either.

I still hear the chorus in Panic at the Disco's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" as, "a sense of poisoned rationality," not "poise and rationality."

Avenged Sevenfold's "Lost": "The end is knocking," or, "The end is not gay."?

This troper used to hear a line in U2's "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" as "I would scale these ''silly'' walls". The real lyric is "these ''city'' walls." I actually like "silly walls" better, because it suggested that the speaker was so determined that the walls were futile. With "city walls," it's more dull.

A line in the lead-up to the refrain in Bullet For My Valentine's "Tears Don't Fall" sounded suspiciously like, "There's always someone f** king eggnog!"

In the Genesis song ''The Fountain of Salmacis'', my mother misheard the line 'hear me oh gods' as 'give me your 'nards'. Especially funny considering that Salmacis was pleading with the gods to fuse her with Hermaphroditus.

I misheard the Shania Twain song that goes 'kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away' as 'kick you so hard, I'll take your breath away'. Either way, I find it kind of creepy.

Unless there's a Shania song with the same lyrics (which is always a possibility in this sort of pop music), that's actually Possession by Sarah McLachlan, which - fun fact! - has lyrics culled from letters written to her by a stalker. That could account for the creepiness.

This troper heard Eve6's song "Promise" on the radio, and heard "I promise not to try" as "Brothers of the rhyme." And consequently spent the next four years searching for that fucking song.

Another one was Anberlin's "* Fin." What I heard was "Angels sing for the army of lost causes." The actual lyrics are "Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?"

I also recently found out that in Jason Mraz's song "The Remedy", the lyrics are "Something on the surface it stings." I've always been hearing "Something on the surface it '''stinks'''." In my defence, it IS Jason Mraz. His MotorMouth causes all kinds of Mondegreens.

I've managed to come up with a few due to my tendency to listen to bands with foreign singers.

"Way up high, I touch the sky" ("High I fly, I touch the sky", ''I Walk to My Own Song'' by Stratovarius)

"You can't kill my speed when I was born to be free" ("You can't kill my spirit, I was born to be free", same song)

"I will ride my star in the air" ("I will write my story again", ''I'm Still Alive'' by Stratovarius. Playing {{Kirby}} games a lot at the time didn't help...)

"Till the candle dies" ("Till the end of time", ''Alpha and Omega'' by Stratovarius)

"Illumination I have to face" ("A new dimension I have to face", ''Wisdom of the Kings'' by RhapsodyOfFire)

Non-foreign example: "That all you got!?" from the start of ''Leetstreet Fighter'' by LeetStreetBoys. (It's actually "Hadouken!!")

"Silver things are not for us" ("Simple things are not for us", ''Killer Instinct'' by Machinae Supremacy)

"My team like a lot of fun" ("Might seem like a lot of fun", ''Attack Music'' by Machinae Supremacy)

"And I refuse to be a bird" ("And I refuse to be unheard", ''Throttle And Mask'' by Machinae Supremacy)

"Gleaming of beauty" ("Pleading not guilty", ''False News Travel Fast'' by SonataArctica)

"Leave, little black sheep, live with me" ("Live with the black sheep, live with me", ''Black Sheep'' by SonataArctica)

"I'm king of the land of roses" ("I'm king of the land, I'm ruler of seas", ''Kingdom for a Heart'' by SonataArctica)

"Pleasures and power don't mean a thing" ("Treasures and crowns wouldn't mean a thing", same song)

"He promised to move out for Mary-Lou" ("He promised the moon, but won't marry you", ''Mary-Lou'' by SonataArctica)

"It's my bed that she spent the night" ("It's Monday and she's got to grind", same song)

"That is the pain of Mary-Lou" ("Life isn't grey, oh Mary-Lou", same song)

"Mountains sit in a line" ("Mt. St. Edelite", ''It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)'' by R.E.M. Though considering the ambiguity of the official lyrics anyway...)

"I'm noxic but I'm not well" ("I'm not sick, but I'm not well", ''Flagpole Sitta'' by Harvey Danger)

"Like an echo of obscene fantasies" ("unseen fantasies", ''A Drop in the Ocean'' by Stratovarius)

"Came in at ten to one" ("Came in eighteen to one", ''Fairytale of New York'' by The Pogues featuring Kirsty [=MacColl=])

This (different) troper heard a line of that song as "Clean up New York City, when the band finished playing, they held up the mall". Actual lyrics: "Queen of New York City, when the band finished playing they yelled out for more".

"Real good basher on the 45" or "We're gonna bash her on the 45" ("Brimful of Asha on the 45", ''Brimful of Asha'' by Cornershop)

"Playing Monopoly" ("Pain monopoly", ''Master of Puppets'' by Metallica)

I have to keep reminding myself that the line from "Forsaken" by DreamTheater is "Out of an ''ivory'' mist", not "Out of a nightly mist".

DragonForce's "Through the Fire and Flames" has also caused me no end of grief. I still have to concentrate to remember that it's "banished from a time in the fallen ''land''" rather than "fallen reign", "So now we're flyin', we're free" instead of "So now we fly, yeah, we're free" or "So now we fly ever free", "our destiny ''this'' time" instead of "our destiny, it's time" and "''All alone'' in desperation" instead of "Far and lonely desperation".

From "Evening Star" by DragonForce, we have "This sordid gaze reminds me" (actually "starlit gaze") and "Asylums filled with laughter ("A silence filled with laughter").

For the longest time I thought the Cherry Poppin Daddies were singing about some guy named "Zoot Suit Ryan"

As a kid, this troper heard the Dixie Cups' ''Chapel of Love'' and wondered why they were "Goin' to the Jack-o-lantern/Gonna do magic."

I CANNOT be the only one who hears the line "She just loves you more than you will know" (specifically, the "She just loves" part) from SimonAndGarfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" as "She's a slut." I still hear it even after listening closely and after looking up the lyrics.

I've seen the variation "She's a slutty Mormon, you would know".

What makes these even funnier is that the ''correct'' lyric is actually "'''Jesus''' loves you more than you will know" -- which after all fits the next stanza, "heaven holds a place for those who pray".

As a youngster, I would frequently see the music video for "Whole Again" by Atomic Kitten on Nickelodean. I always thought that the lyrics were: "Baby, you're the one. You can do no wrong.", until years later when I found out that it's actually: "Baby, you're the one. You still turn me on."

There is actually a censored version that says "you can do no wrong". If you saw it on Nickelodeon, then that's probably the one you heard.

The song "Once More with Feeling" from the BuffyTheVampireSlayer TheMusical episode has the line "And there's not a one / who could say..." - for ''years'' this troper heard it as "In this 9-0-1..." It actually makes sense in context, as 901 is the first three digits in some southern California postal codes, right around where Sunnydale is supposed to be.

This troper was randomly given the song ''Still Hurting'' (from the play ''The Last Five Years'') and for the longest time she heard the line: "Jamie has new dreams he's building upon..." as "Jamie has new dreams: he's building a bomb" which adds a rather dark twist to the rest of the song.

Jamie want big boom?

While looking up ThePixies on the internet a long time ago, I found a fan page with lyrics, where the author was apparently under the impression that the chorus of "Caribou" was "Red pants! Red pants!" instead of "Repent! Repent!". You kind of have to be familiar with the song, but the idea of Frank Black shrieking about a pair of red pants is inherently hilarious.

My mother always used to hear "Pull back the rug so we" as "Pull back the rustleweed" in Suzy Bogguss ''Two-Step 'Round the Christmas Tree''.

"Don't mind me, I'm watching YouTube from the closet" ("...you two from the closet", ''Sugar, We're Goin' Down'' by FallOutBoy)

"Waka Laka is Interplay forever" ("a thing to play forever", "Waka Laka" by Jenny Rom vs. Zippers)

''Waka Laka is a magical Nintendo''

"I wanna die, to feel so fine" ("I want the time to feel so fine", same song)

Tool, "Ticks & Leeches": "Fuck" instead of "suck". And it still kind of makes sense, though it completely changes the original meaning.

"FUCKING APPLE OF DOOM!" ("Fucking up all I do", Welcome Home by CoheedAndCambria)

In ''Don't Stop Believing'' this troper always, ''always'' hears "street lights, people" as "Street lights, beach ball".

This troper always heard a line in the ''{{JONAS}}'' theme song as "So ''excited'' of routines", when the word is actually "tired".

In "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth, what exactly are the words after "red-hot mama" and before "time's come to pay your dues"? I've seen various different suggestions: "velvet charmer", "down light charmer", "long-legged charmer", "oh that charmer", …

I was stunned to learn that the chorus of the Ray Stevens song ''The Streak'' starts, "Oh, yes, they call him 'The Streak,' Boogity-boogity." I would've stood up in front of a judge and sworn they were singing, "Look-at-that, look-at-that" -- which makes at least as much sense, in context, as the actual lyrics.

It took me surprisingly long to realize that the Barenaked Ladies song is "Be My Yoko Ono", not "Be My Oklahoma".

While I could understand most of Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", I was always confused by the line after "There were nights of endless pleasure". It sounded like, "It was more than any lousey love", and I was like, "Huh?" It got worse when the line was repeated only now it sounded like, "It was more than all your lousey love". ("It was more than any/all your laws allow")

This troper always hears that line as "it was more than any Lucy Liu."

Also from Dion (and this same troper), the opening line of "All by Myself" always sounded like, "No I can't forget the semen" ("this evenin'").

This (different) troper thought for the longest time that the line "My heart will go on and on" was "My heart will go open the door."

This troper always heard David Bowie's 'Ziggy played guitar' as 'second place guitar'.

This troper misheard in Three Days Grace's "Break" "Tonight I felt up a vampire." instead of "At night, I feel like a vampire."

Today in a cafe, a song was playing in which the phrase "rat with spherical breath" occurred so often that it had to be the song's title. I looked at the CD cover, and it turned out to be "Raspberry Beret" by Prince.

I always heard the line, "Please I need ya" from Blur's Song 2 as "He's a ninja." Then again, I can't hear any other words in that song.

To this day, whenever I hear "Don't Pull Your Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds, instead of hearing "Would you make me beg you, pretty please?", I hear "Would you make me bacon, pretty please?"

This Troper earlier this evening came across some old music she liked during her late teens/early twenties, when she was a member of a local animé club. It revived amused memories of how we all thought -- to the point of it becoming an injoke between those of us who met up frequently -- that one of the lines in from Naruto opening song 4, "GO!!!", sounded hella like, "you punch like a drunken rider". She also vaguely recalls another mondegreen associated with the same line: "your pants are a black binliner".

All the subs I've seen put "drunken rider" as the translation for that line. Makes more sense than the second one, at least...

The real lyrics are apparently, "buppanase like a dangan liner", translating to "fire like a bullet liner". Makes slightly more sense, but not much. GratuitousEnglish doesn't help.

I was convinced for years that the lyric "I'm teetering on the brink of . . ." in Radiohead's "Backdrifts" was "I'm cheating on a breakup." I like the latter better.

Wait, that's ''not'' the original lyric? I always kinda liked that line...

Red Fraction, oh dear lord in heaven, Red Fraction. "I hold the terms, look at me" (really "I'll put out your misery"), "I just wanna blam you" ("I just wanna feel you"), "It's all up to you, the one who's sober" ("no one lives forever"), and many more.

This troper entirely agrees...even now I still think my version of the "I'll put out your misery" line fits better; "I coined the term 'misery'". Also, instead of "sick with justice" I always heard "sleep with justice". Of course, the whole song is GratuitousEnglish, so...

I used to hear the first line of the bridge to "Whisper" as "Translation: I give in" until I went to lyrics websites. How I misheard "She beckons me, shall I give in?" as that, I shall never know. And also, some friends in elementary school tried to convince me that the lyrics to "Blue" were "I'm blue / If I was green I would die". The fact that you can hear it as either that or "Duh dabba dee dabba die" still bugs me.

You're not the only one for either one. This troper heard the first herself, and for I'm Blue, I heard Da Ba Dee Da Ba Die until someone told me it was "I'm diseased I must die". Now that's all she can hear.

*Snicker* Oh lordy. This was an joke the Andorian members of a Trek group in Second Life also had -- that these lyrics were indeed, "I'm blue, if I was green I would die".

This Swedish troper, due to NWordPrivilegies, doesn't dare posting what he misheard U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday as. Please get another Swedish troper to explain to you, this one is quite well known (Hint: includes small people and sand).

This troper always heard 'Peace is coming' in DJ Satomi's "With You" as "Pizza's coming". Also ironic is that I imagine GIR screaming that out whenever that particular line comes up.

Also by DJ Satomi, his "Waves" song-don't get people started on that one. "The sun is gonna beacon under your waves" (Actually, "When the sand is going to be cold under your waves") "Until the winter, see some broom is this love" ("Will see blooming, this love") "I'm feeling old man winter cuz' you're here" ("I feel no more, the winter, cuz' you're here")....

"Castles in the Sky", "Heart is nothing, a bird" (actually "or there's nothing out there", but I think my version makes a little more sense.)

When this troper first heard Mario say "Let'sa go!", he thought he was saying "Mexico!"

This troper and her dad also thought so, too. We have this in-joke where we follow it up with, "I thought he was Italian!".

In Miss Papaya's "Operator", I (Proginoskes) can't help but hear the second line of the song as "Please hook me up to my ''author'' at the end of the line" instead of "hook me up with my ''lover''". This has some interesting metafictional implications whenever the song is used in an AMV or a songfic.

This Troper heard the "Song about Ping-Pong" By Operator Please, and couldn't remember the title. A friend insisted that it was called a "Song About People", which I later argued (passionately) was the title with basically my ''whole class'', until I saw the album and was proved wrong. It was... embarrassing to say the least.

This Troper once misheard a line from "Guilty", as sung by Jake Blues in the "Made in America" concert: "I got some cookies from my friends" (the actual line? "I got some cocaine, from my friends".)

I've had this issue with a number of System of a Down songs, but especially with B.Y.O.B. I always wondered what the line "Still there's bleeding eyes from the cablecar" meant. (Actual lyrics: Still they feed us lies from the tablecloth".)

When I first heard the song "Dancing with the Moonlit Night" of {{Genesis}}, these lyrics: "Can you tell me where my country lies?, Said the unifaun to his true love's eyes" Sounded to me like: "Can you tell me when my country lies? Said the uniform to his true love size."

Mishearing "Strike with serious vengeance" as "Strike with serious finjitsu" in Busta Rhymes and Ozzy Osbourne's song "This Means War" led to creation of the Finjitsu Fish - a fish wearing a ''gi''.

This troper used to think that the "Ain't nothing but a heartache" line from the BackstreetBoys song I Want It That Way was "Ain't nothing but a party."

When this troper heard "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce for the first time, he thought the first lyrics were "Imma go into morning, in the time before the light, in flames I dance eternally, we ride to watch the fight." This troper is angry that these lyrics were submitted to amiright.com ''three times'' and were never put on the site.

This troper thought for the longest time that "Give me all the peace" from {{Music/Muse}}'s "Bliss" was "Give me all the bliss", considering it's the name of the song. There's also "Stretch it like it's a butt squeeze" from New Born, which is actually "birth squeeze".

This Troper heard the line "You could travel the world" in Katy Perry's "California Gurls" as "You could travel by whale" for the longest time. It was... odd.

A favorite I believe I remember finding on kissthisguy.com was interesting because the listener didn't mishear the words themselves, they just misinterpreted a pause in a line in such a way that it completely changed the meaning: The song "Charlie Brown" by The Coasters has the lyric "Who calls the English teacher 'Daddy-o'?", which the submitter heard as "Who calls The English 'teacher daddy-o?'". As if "Teacher Daddy-o" was some sort of slur referring to English people.

I am relieved to find I am not the only one who hears Knuckles' attack combination from ''{{Sonic Heroes}}'' as "SHIT!! HAAH!! YEAAHHH!!""

Or "SHIT!!! ON A ROCK!!! YEAAAAH!!", as I've heard it. I also once heard the announcer in ''SonicRiders'' say 'potato' instead of 'wind' because the volume was turned down ''really'' low.

I used to think that in the Oompa-Loompa song for Augustus Gloop from WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory, they were saying "If you're not breathing, you will go far" instead of "If you're not GREEDY." I later realized that the fact that Augustus had just been drowning in the chocolate river probably had something to do with me misinterpreting that line. On a less morbid note, I also thought "Pampered and spoiled like a Siamese cat" from Veruca's song was "And purrs and squawks like a Siamese cat."

For a very long time as a child, I was convinced the Feed the Birds song from Mary Poppins was saying "Feed the birds, tuppence of egg." Having some vague idea that "tuppence" was a form of currency, this was exceptionally confusing. The proper line of "Feed the birds, tuppence a bag" makes much more sense.

From the same song: In one of the verses, I could have sworn I heard, "Snakes And Oppossums" rather than, "Saints And Apostles". Silly me...

Olivia's song Skip to a Little # opens with a rap by Jeffrey Lufkin which includes the line "''kouhai'' bow to your ''senpai'', on your knees"; before reading the correct lyrics, this troper was pretty shocked by this song, due to having misheard "bow" as... a significantly more explicit act that could also be performed while on one's knees.

Leaves' Eyes' song ''Norwegian Lovesong'' has a partially incomprehensible chorus for this troper. "Between the blue bears sits a girl with long braids, a boo-eyed angel with strawberry jeans, the smell was bunny, I was living a dream, Norwegian homeland, my heart belongs to you..."

This troper hears the line in the Black Eyed Peas song "Where Is The Love" "People livin' like they ain't got no mamas" as "People livin' like they ain't got no ''llamas''."

With English voices turned on, Jin Kisaragi's "Touga Hyoujin" Distortion Drive is awfully prone to making him scream "Here's Miami!". Obviously he wants to send his opponents to Miami in hopes that {{Dexter}} will kill them.

Having first heard {{Green Day}}'s "Holiday" as background music in one of the Tony Hawk games, this troper originally heard the line "A plastic bag on an onion ring." midway through the song.

So that you know, the real lyric is "A plastic bag on a monument".

This troper misheard a ''spoken'' line from this song, "The Representative from California has the floor", as "The representative from California House of Lords". I thought "What kind of anti-utopia is that?!" Of course, CodeGeass hadn't been made yet...

To me, the growling in {{Epica))'s song Beyond Belief always sounded like "Stronger... there be... LOBSTERS !" (Instead of "Restore all that belong to us".

I was listening to Utada Hikaru's song ''Beautiful World'', and, expecting most of the song to be in Japanese, got Japanese Mondegreens instead of English ones. At one point in the song, I interpreted "bakka" as "baka" (the latter of the two meaning "stupid" or "idiot"). They're pronounced exactly the same. Just a couple of minutes before typing this, I saw the real lyrics. Mentioning that the idea that two words in a language would be pronounced the same but spelled differently and have a very different meaning hadn't even crossed my mind, my mom said something I can't quite remember that used the words "their" and "they're" a lot. Needless to say, I ''felt'' like a "baka".

SonicGTR: I was listening to ThemCrookedVultures in my alleged car. One of the speakers is broken and the [=LCD=] display on the radio doesn't work anymore so I can't fix the bass, treble, ect. Then I heard this: " Were the same, my dead end friendand I, Sanae." The only reason I want to listen to that song without hearing that every time is if anybody in Touhou is a dead end friend, it's Reimu or Kaguya.

Here, I have a couple of gems concerning my younger sister:

One night, while driving around looking for a place to eat, when my parents suggested a buffet restaurant called Mother Tucker's, prompting said sister to pipe up and say, "Yeah, let's go to Hucker Bucker's!". How she managed to mishear it as ''that'', I'll never know. Oh well, could've been worse...

While shopping around for a new house, my parents eventually settled on another bungalow rather than a two-storey (bummer, I've always wanted a two-storey). All of a sudden, the same sister spoke up with, "I don't wanna move into a '''buffalo''' house!". She still hasn't managed to live that one down...

This troper's family is Italian. One day my father came home from work and my mother asked him, "How did your day go?" He spun around and said, "What did you call me?"

When I was little (and even now I can't remember the real lyrics.) I thought the Spider-man theme went like this: "Spider-man, Spider-man can do anything a spider can. First he shoots then he climbs radioactive spider vines".

So, at advent, we had prayers we sung every night, including one I can't remember that had the line "Come quickly lord/ thy church doth wait". I was fairly convinced this line was, "Thy church duck waits", and spent a month or so pondering what that might be. The same song also had bits about squirrels (quarrels) ceasing, and mourning in Only Eggs's Isle (lonely exile).

Having gotten the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack I listened to the song 'Scott Pilgrim' where the name was taken from. Bryan Lee O'Malley, the original author, was inspired in some part by this song originally, so I misheard: "I've liked you for a thousand years" as "I'll fight you for a thousand years". I'm slightly suspicious he had a similar misunderstanding on hearing them

I always heard "All the Single Ladies" as "I'm a single ace". I've heard about twenty other variations, though.

From Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance": "Want you in my rear window" always seemed to turn into "While you admire a window."

The first time she heard "That's Not My Name", Tropers/SunnyV thought The Ting Tings were saying "They call me sexy" instead of "They call me Stacy." She also heard "You follow the earth (?)" instead of "Euphoria" in "Must Be Dreaming" by FrouFrou.

In the Black Eyed Peas song 'Imma Be' I have heard 'Imma be a fly and shit' instead of 'Imma be the flyest chick'. Still, I hate this song so much I like this more than the real lyrics.

Also, in Rihanna's Umbrella, I have heard 'Under my own Gorilla' instead of 'Under my Umbrella'.

New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" is one of this troper's favorite songs ever, but I always heard one of the lines as "we smash a mercy and then", which made absolutely no sense, even in context. And then I was listening to it the other day and suddenly realised it's "we smash a Mercedes Benz". I blame the AccentUponTheWrongSyllable.

This (same) troper just remembered I used to think The Wallflowers' "One Headlight" had the line "What smells of cheap Hawaiian cigarettes" ("What smells of cheap wine and cigarettes")

I was listening to the radio years ago when people were encouraged to call in and tell about lyrics they had misheard. One guy thought that in The Police's "Message In A Bottle", Sting sang "A year has passed since I broke my nose." Another thought that a line in the SkidRow song "18 And Life" went "Lived 9 to 5 and worked his big ass to the bone." The correct lyrics are "...since I wrote my note" and "...worked his fingers to the bone" respectively.

I'm still not sure what the real line in Fair to Midland's "Kyla Cries Cologne" ''is,'' but I'm sure it's not what I hear it as: "The hat monster any world.")

No matter how many times I repeat the title to myself, I still hear the chorus of Metallica's "The Sruggle Within" as "The Struggle With Your Hair".

For quite a long time after it was released, this troper heard the last bit of 'hanging brigets(?) around your neck, babe' from No More by Ruff Endz as '...to wring your neck, babe'. I was actually relieved when I found out the right words, since the Mondegreen version scared me a little bit.

I used to hear the chorus of {{Soundgarden}}'s "The Day I Tried to Live" as "One more time around/Am I naked?" when the actual lyrics are "One more time around/I might make it".

In Zetsubou Billy This troper swears he hears this... #QUOTE# '''CARAMEL!!''' We like '''CARAMEL!!''' I need '''CARAMEL!!''' You have any '''CARAMEL!!''' (annoyed grunt).

This Troper managed to turn the line "Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage" from Bullet With Butterfly Wings into "The smile on my rain, I still am a ram in pain." Considering I know all the words to Smells Like Teen Spirit, I wonder just how it happened.

This Troper at first understood the English line in the SuzumiyaHaruhi ImageSong "Punkish Regular" "Should be to be dance" as "Shoobie doobie dance". And she still sings it that way, because the original line doesn't make any damn ''sense'', and "shoobie doobie" is one of those legitimate arrangements of nonsense syllables that fits with dancing.

This troper recently found an audio cassette tape of myself singing a few Garth Brooks songs when I was 12 years old. Some of the more...intresting mondegreens I heard my 11-years younger self sing: From "Friends In Low Places": "I'll be as high as that ivory tower, but you'll never know!" (the lyric is actually "I'll be as high as that ivory tower that you're living in"); from "The River": "But with the Good Lord as my captain, I can make it through the mall" ("But with the Good Lord as my captain, I can make it through them all"); from "That Summer" (don't even ask me what I was doing singing that song when I was only 12, the meaning went WAY over my head): "In a dress that I was certain she had been mourning quite awhile" ("In a dress that I was certain she hadn't worn in quite awhile"). However, the two most distrubing ones were in "Much Too Young": "A worn-out tape of Chris LeDoux, lonely women with bad boobs seem to be the only friends I've left at all" ("A worn-out tape of Chris LeDoux, lonely women, and bad booze seem to be the only friends I've left at all"); and in "Two Pina Coladas": "She said goodbye to her good time in bed"!!!!!! ("She said goodbye to her good-timing man"). I've been considering burning this tape the last few days...

No matter how many times this troper hears "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey, she never hears the singer actually say "She took a midnight train" in the first verse. It just sounds like the singer says "He" twice.

This troper has a few:

Upbeat:

"I'm a racing car that survives, like ''Lady {{MacGyver}}''" ("I'm a racing car ''passing by'' like ''Lady Godiva''") and "Like an ''Autobot'', you gotta whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa explode!" ("Like an ''atom bomb, about to Oh oh oh oh oh'' explode") in Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" (due his choice to shoehorn a cheapo MP3 player with built in punitive speaker to a VTech toy microphone/amplifier).

On a more classic note, ''It's raining melons!'' (''It's raining men!'')

''Waka Laka is a magical Nintendo/Music full of wonder, fantasy!''

''One, Tanah Merah/Gorilla One Tanah Merah''(no offense intended to anyone actually living in said address).

''Raise a pledge now, numa numa yay!'', ''Dragon study day'' and ''Nah, Mint test, they all kick tie, yay!'', among others (random words: tri-duke, cheat-arrow, sambal beet, don't serenade Nick)

''Cooshies up, Cooshies up, Cooshies up, Cooshies in my head/Cooshies up, Cooshies up, Cooshies up, Cooshies might be dead'' (the chorus of ''Lump'' by ''The Presidents Of The United States of America'')

Heard in the Berrykins' song in the StrawberryShortcake: Sky's The Limit movie: "''Do we have a very nice butt?''" - which this troper promptly replied "'''PFFT Hell No!'''"

Depressive

''I could never be the one'' (''I could never be your woman'' - ''Your Woman'' - ''White Town'', which he was calls the "Imperial March rip song" due to part of the sample sounding like it was ripped from said score, sped up and pitch changed).

''They baked paradise and put out a f**king lie'' (to be fair, he was in emo mode when he first heard the song)

''I'm blue, I will beat up a dolly...''

Embarassing Street Fighter stupidity from when he was 10:

Ryu and Ken's attacks are called boogen(hadouken), Ah-boogen(shoryuken) and a-tat-tat-tat-boogen(Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku)

Guile's one attack is called Sabek-coo or "sabit ku!" (sonic boom)

Dhalsim's attacks are Booka-fire(yoga-fire) and Booka-flame(yoga-flame)

And of course, Sagat's TIGER ROBOCOP!

Mortal Kombat 4 for the GBC: Maybe it's the shitty audio compression (what were you expecting from a GameBoyColor!!!), but one of Raiden's named attack sounded like ''I want you in my barbecue!''

And he used to hear what he thought those japanese coin-operated rides say "Han-ya!" and "Bai-bai! Kudasai!". Took him a few years to realize that it was actually saying ''Konnichiwa'' and ''Bai-bai! Matta ne!'' respectively.

He thought he heard the phrase "Fuck-All!" in the GBA version of TheSims. It has become his favorite phrase to use when he's depressed.

Has also mondegreened whole songs on purpose, two were made into animutations that have since been pulled due to Avex Trax's stupidity, and the rest as files on a USB hard drive somewhere.

Until I saw the lyrics, I'd always thought that the last line of Be Prepared from TheLionKing was "And the meat of the victims is rare - Be prepared!" Which makes sense, coming from a bunch of hyenas, but is HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

In the same song, I used to think "decades of denial" was "the cage of denial". And in fact didn't find out what it really was until I read an example from the AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle page just now.

I had a Disney one as well. All these years I thought, rather then "Darkwing owns the night", a line from the DarkwingDuck theme was "A duckling of the night". Incidentally I still like my version better.

A double generational one in this case. My Grandma told a funny story of how my mother always used to think that the line in Silent Night was "Round young virgins" rather then "yon virgins." My response was "Wait, you mean it isn't?"

For the longest time, in TheWizardOfOz, I always thought that when the wizard tells them to "come forward", that the Cowardly Lion was saying "Tell me what it's all about". It was only some time back that I realized that he was actually saying "Tell me when it's over".

Also, I had recently watched TheMuppetsTakeManhattan on The Hub (formerly Discovery Kids). I had the cloded-captioning on, and even though I had watched the movie countless times, I always thought Pete was saying "is grits, grits, how many grits?" followed by Rizzo just being defiant. It turns out however, that Pete was actually saying "Hominy Grits" (I had personally never heard of Hominy Grits myself), followed Rizzo making fun of him by saying "how should I know how many, count them yourself!"; in other words, he was being a wiseguy. I never actually knew this until then.

There's actually an old joke this troper read once when I was a kid, regarding the word "hominy": #QUOTE#Man in restaurant: "I'll have the grits." #QUOTE#Waitress: "Hominy, sir?" #QUOTE#Man: "Five or six."

Funnily enough, I remembered it when I was making myself a bowl of hominy grits the other day. (I want to say it's kind of like Cream of Wheat in texture with slightly larger grains.)

"Strawberry Fields Forever": the infamous "cranberry sauce" line? This Troper didn't hear it as that ''or'' "I buried Paul". Instead it was "Waaaalk verrrry sloooow."

I always heard the line "We are young, we are free" from "Alright" by Supergrass as "We are young, we are green". I also heard "Be alright" instead of "Feel alright", and "Do we like you? Are your friends sure?" instead of "Are we like you? I can't be sure".

Subverted with Queen's "One Vision" in this troper's case. I did hear the last two words in the song as "fried chicken" - but I was like, "No, that can't be right". So I tried my best to hear the last two words as "one vision" - until I found out that the last two words were, in fact, "fried chicken".

Similarly, I had a friend who heard "fried chicken" but insisted the last line had to be "just give me my vision".

This troper always assumed that the line "A Vegetable" from {{Supertramp}}'s The Logical Song was actually "Impressionable." It helps that the word imressionable, when it comes to people has a negative connotation for me. Also, Edge of seventeen (it plays on the station I listen to) had only three lines this I could even pretend to understand: #QUOTE#Sings a song #QUOTE#Sounds Like She's singing #QUOTE#Ooo baby ooo baby ooo

In RepoTheGeneticOpera, specifically, in the song Infected, I managed to hear the Narmy "It's a butt condition-Damn this butt condition!"

This troper knew something was wrong when he put in the first Season 2 HaruhiSuzumiya disc into his DVD player and heard "''Super Diver Namine! I'm in love with the Outer Senshi!''"

In Cheap Trick's version of The Move's "California Man", I kept hearing a line as "Dance right on 'til your bones are breakin'". Turns out it's actually "Dance right on 'til ''the floors'' are breakin'". I kind of like my version better.

One from this Italian troper: every time Phil Collins sang "Think about it" in his song ''Another Day in Paradise'', he kept hearing "Pippo Baudo" (OK, maybe for you it has no meaning, but ol' Pippo here in Italy is almost an institution). He's not even the only one: a parody of the dance song "Think About the Way" with lyrics rewritten in Italian was actually called "Pippo Baudo Ué".

Until she was in ''high school,'' this troper's best friend used to think that, in TheLittleMermaid, Ursula was singing "They think a girl who gossips is a ''whore''", rather than "bore."

''"I'll wear your skin as a shit"'' completely ruins the fucked-up nature of FFTL's song ''Ride the Wings of Pestilence.'' It's "I'll wear your skin as a suit" by the way. It makes sense when you hear his voice--he was only 16.

Is Patrick Stump saying "the ''salad'' days are over"? (Turns out it was "the ''silent'' days are over". Whatever that means.)

Two cases of CountryMatters, one in the second verse of "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco and one in the chorus of "Lovefool" by the Cardigans. The latter has been {{B Roll Rebus}}ed on {{YTMND}}: lovefool.ytmnd.com

Not from a song, but for years I thought when you were an expert on something you could say "[subject] is my great". Why? Because in ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' I ''thought'' the soldier at the beginning says "Are you suggesting coconuts '''my great'''?" I was a teenager when I watched it again and realized he was saying "Are you suggesting coconuts '''migrate'''?"

I've listened a lot to the J-Rock band {{403 Forbiddena}}(also knows as just "{{403}}"). Some of their songs are in English, although most of it is badly pronounced and/or Engrish. This makes some of the lines pretty much impossible to understand unless you read the lyrics, and I've heard things like:

"I believe in pasteurized milk"("But I have an eagerness for life still")(Northern Lights)

"You're so high, and I need to display it"("If so, how I went into this life?")(Northern Lights)

"I'll be with the old man Chris" ("And it robs me of memories") (Northern Lights)

"You invite me with this invitation" ("Even my belief is imitation") (Blaze of Life)

"Oh Ivan, you punched hundreds of times, oh Ivan, you bitch-slapped me thousands of times" ("Oh, even if ratted hundreds of times, oh, even if penetrated thousands of times") (Blaze of Life)

The Korean MMO game ''Dragon Nest'' has the Mercenary and her HOLY SHIT SWING (Punishing Swing), as (mis)heard HERE.

This troper just found out that the lyrics in It's Raining Men are "God bless Mother Nature/She's a single woman too" instead of "God bless Mother Nature/Should have sent some women too." She likes her version better.

This troper always misheard the line "inflicting wounds with a cross-turned dagger" in Death's Crystal Mountain as "inflicting wounds with a costumed nigger."

When I first heard 5OUL ON D!SPLAY, the theme song to GranTurismo 5, I assumed that the lyric "Life is too precious to waste" was "Love is so precious in ways". It fits so well that I assume that the singer wanted it to be interpreted either way.

For the longest time, when I was a kid, I used to mishear "rated R" as "radar" at the end of movie ads. So for a while, I used to wonder how many of these ''Radar'' movies they were going to make and what theater I could see it at.

In the Russian dub of DudleyDoRight, it's pretty possible to mishear ''Snidley Whiplash'' as ''Snidley Winglish'' or ''Snidley V-English''.

Emo emo emo, emo emo! in Silver Forest's ''[[{{Touhou}} Minorin Fantasia''. The actual lyrics (and eventually a translation) can be found here.]]

This is actually a fairly common one from Disney's Disney/{{Aladdin}}. In Jafar's reprise of Prince Ali, his bizarre enunciation causes quite a few people, this troper included, to hear "His assets frozen" as "His ass is frozen" and thereby think Disney is GettingCrapPastTheRadar. (It's Aladdin. They ''are''. Just...not that time.)

Up until a few days ago, I always thought that the chorus in {{ptitlewiz5pz1p}} "Paradise City" said "Take me down to the ''very last'' city", even though it really says "Take me down to the ''Paradise'' city. I'm kind of surprised that I didn't notice this earlier, given the whole TitleDrop thing.

''Wait and Bleed'' by Slipknot for this troper. To me, "Inside my shell I wait and bleed" sounded like, "Inside Michelle I wait and bleed". Made me think that the song was about the lead singer's... er... interesting relationship with a girl, presumably named Michelle.

I used to think the first line of TheyMightBeGiants' "Hearing Aid" was "Frosty the supermiser lives by himself" - It's actually "Frosty the ''supervisor''". A reference to a miser would kind of make sense in context of the song too, and "supermiser" just somehow always sounded like a term that ''would'' be likely to be coined in a TMBG song.

This troper could've sworn the lyrics of {{tAtU}}'s "all about us" contained "touch pussy" somewhere, when he heard it. Admit it, it would fit. But no, only half right.

SmashingPumpkins' "Cherub Rock" - I initially thought I heard "hamsters unite", which of course turned out to be "''hipsters'' unite". The idea of hamsters uniting is kind of adorable though.

This troper has quite a few mondegreens while playing StarCraft, most of them coming from Protoss units. For example, the following three quotes are from the High Templar:

"I s**t alcohol." (Actually "I heed thy call.")

"Esteemed I'm being." (Actually "State thy bidding." Although my quote does make some sense knowing the High Templar's backstory)

"S**tc**k." (Actually "Zzz'togh." Apparently High Templar are potty mouths to me.)

Then the Dragoons have some: "I am niggit," (Actually "I am needed?") and "For Ventus." (Actually "For vengeance.") Finally, I also hear the Hydralisk's death screech as "WHAT?!"

I was watching ''Breakin''', and I initially thought the song one of the dance sequences was set to had something to do with "ninety-nine and a half balloons" - other than being half a balloon more than Nena's signature hit, it made no sense (after all how could you even have half of a balloon, anyway?). I eventually figured out it was "ninety-nine and a half won't do".

Listening to the original French 'La Vie en Rose', even with the limited knowledge of French this Troper has, I always want to hear 'Et ca me fait quelque chose' as 'And something quelque chose'. Which, knowing a little French, is kind of hilarious.

This troper's sister, back when we were kids, thought the gospel standard "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" was "Just a Postcard of Pralines", possibly due to road trip stops at Stuckey's pecan shops.

This troper misheard "Just a dead man walking with a double barreled shotgun" from the Five Finger Death Punch song "Dying Breed" as "Just a dead man walking with a Taco Bell shotgun" and subsequently wondered what the heck a Taco Bell shotgun was. Is it like a hot dog gun, only with burritos from Taco Bell?

This troper always heard "Might as well jump", in VanHalen's "Jump", as "Maxwell, jump!", and always wondered, "Who the hell is Maxwell?".

He also hears in {{Disturbed}}'s "Stricken", "Makin' me breakfast" instead of "Leaving me breathless", and also, instead of "Into the abyss will I run", "And today, hey, BruceLee and my mum"...

According to some Youtube comments, people keep hearing "Jupiter, run for your life" in PhilCollins' "Don't Lose My Number" (actually "You better run for your life").

Not a song or something I know what mean, but it's too hilarious not to write, and I couldn't find another place for it. Anyway, when on vacation in France, we were staying at a hotel, and my brother heard someone passing by, saying what sounded like:(in Norwegian) "Hey, *name*, what time is it in Afghanistan?"

For decades this troper thought it was "Electric You". It's "Electric Youth". Bonus points for it being the goddamn '''title.'''

The song "Everywhere I Go" by Hollywood Undead starts as follows: "Everywhere I go, b****es always know, Charlie Scene has got a weenie that he loves to show." This troper heard Charlie SHEEN, which makes about as much sense.

I was watching Film/PeepingTom and I thought I heard a character mention sending an email, which would be pretty unusual for a film made in 1960. He repeated the same word a sentence later, and I realized it was actually "memo" - the British pronounciation of that word apparently rhymes with "emo".

Ready Now by Ruby Tuesday: #QUOTE# '''I heard it as:''' "Every time I see you smile, Len" \\ '''What it actually is:''' "Every time I see you smile and..."

Another one occurs later in the song: #QUOTE# '''I heard it as:''' "I'm not the boss anymore, baby give me more" \\ '''What it actually is:''' "I'm on the floor, saying 'More! Baby give me more!'"

There's a line in "Feel Good Inc" by {{Gorillaz}} that goes "You've got a new horizon, it's ephemeral style," but this troper always hears it as "You've got a new horizon in the Federal style," probably the result of watching ''{{Antiques Roadshow}}'' one time too many.

Wait, that's not what they're saying?

The line is in fact "It's ephemeral style".

TheWho's ''{{Tommy}}'' has been ruined for me (sort of) by one YouTube commenter. Why? On a video for "Christmas", he or she left the following comment: #QUOTE#Did you ever see the faces of the children naked. #QUOTE#so excited #QUOTE#O_O

'''''CANNOT UNHEAR!'''''

This troper does this all the time when he hears a song and tries to sing it without lyrics. However, the two he has to relate are not his own:

Tale the first: one time, his browser came up with a misheard lyric for Bohemian Rhapsody: "Spare him his life from this monstrosity" was misheard as "Spare him his life from his pork sausages" by someone.

Tale the second: his dad constantly (probably as a "joke") sings "So long, toodlepip, farewell" instead of the correct "So long, farediwell, pip pip, cheerio". It gets very annoying.

When listening to Chris Brown's song "Yeah 3x", this troper always heard: "You like to drink, so do we/ Get more batters, bring them to me". The line is "....Get more ''bottles'', bring them to me".

This troper heard "a mechanic who laughs at a funeral" during One Week.

This tropersings "and shout: SIRVEMÉ!" on Saturday's Night Alright For Fighting. It means "pour me!", which strangely fits with the song (it's about a pub and the constant fights that happened there).

In "Hold It Against Me," I thought Britney Spears was saying "weren't your buddy" instead of "want your body."

The fans of MarvelVsCapcom3 hear a ''lot'' of these.

"Anime power up time!" for Deadpool's X-Factor is also commonly misheard as "Anime powerup shit!".

Ironically, he actually said that in an earlier build of the game.

"FEAR FLAME!" for Doctor Doom's "Sphere Flame" and "PHOTON ERASE!" for his "Photon Array".

His Photon Array is also heard as "HOME ON THE RANGE!"

This troper even heard it as "POPE ON A RING!"

And "BLAST PUPPY" for his Plasma Beam.

Or "ASTHMA BEAM!"

There's also "Hard Kick" which sounds like "HARD DICK!"

"Photon Shot" even sounds like "PHOTON COCK!"

Really, Dr. Doom is the Mr. Mondegreen of MarvelVsCapcom3.

Hulk says, "Gamma--Break you!" if you follow up his Gamma Charge with another Gamma Charge. Some fans have misheard this as "Dammnit, rape you!".

Super Skrull's Skrull Torch hyper combo. He says, "Burn, ignorant creature!" Sounds a lot more like "Burn, niggery creature!"

"MIGHTY FUCK!" for Thor's Mighty Spark.

"MIGHTY LAYER CAKE!" for his Mighty Hurricane.

"Buy Odin's beer!" for "By Odin's beard!" in his Mighty Tornado super. Also misheard as "Buy Odin Sphere!"

Some fans misheard Chris' "Suck on this!" (when he throws a grenade) as "Suck my dick!"

Also when he fires his revolver, sounds like he says "DIGLETT!" (He's actually saying "Eat lead!")

In one of Chris' intro dialogues it sounds like he's saying "gimme a shit rag," although he's just saying "gimme a sit-rep." (Situation report)

Hsien-Ko's Chireitou sounds much like "Here I go!"

Some people have heard Morrigan's quote before using the Finishing Shower hyper as "F*cking dodge this!"

Many fans hear Viewtiful Joe's "Six Machine!" as "Dick Machine!"

Also in his Mach Speed hyper, he sounds like he shouts "Watch meeeeeeeeeeeee!"

A lot of Joe's attacks come out erotically. Aside from "Dick Machine," there's "Sex Cannon" (Six Cannon), "Red Hot Dick" (Red Hot Kick), "Cock Speed" (Mach Speed), etc. What's interesting is that these all work in Japanese too.

A Japanese-only mondegreen for Joe is found in his Groovy Uppercut H variation. "Upper! Oh, Mike and Ike!"

Zero's Level 3 ''isn't'' named Shoryudan Reppujin (lit. "Rising Dragon's Finishing Gale Blade"). He's ''actually'' shouting "Ittouryoudan! Genmu Zero!". When translatated from Japanese, it's something along the lines of "Cut into two with one stroke! Illusion Zero!" This is also a BilingualBonus, as the move ''should'' be called Genmurei (remember Man X5''?); rei is Japanese for... wait for it... zero.

''Or'', it ''could'' instead be "Rekkyoudan!" In ''X8'', Zero received an ability for his Z-Saber from Earthrock Trilobyte called Rekkyoudan. It turned his Z-Saber a yellowish-orange color (much like his Level 3) and allowed Zero to deflect projectiles (again, much like his Level 3).

Fans have misheard his "Hadangeki!" as either "Zangeki!" or "Rangeki!" Cue Zangetsu jokes in regards to the former.

One of his combos has been heard as: "Burn... Dave And Buster's!"

His "Ryuenjin!" sounds like "Too easy!"

Spencer says "In your face!" whenever he strikes the enemy after he reeled them with his bionic arm. It sounds more like "Finger face!"

M.O.D.O.K's Analyze Cube sounds like "Candlelight Cube".

Or "Anal-ize Cube!"

Or (albeit less prominently) "Add an ice cube!"

Shuma-Gorath's "Mystic" in the names of his attacks sounds more like "Beefsteak".

Taskmaster's "Secret noob! I can see through that! Sort-of-Black Knight!" for his guard-hyper.

Tasky's "Aim of Hawkeye" also sort of sounds like "End Apartheid!"

Or, "Aim of heart guy!"

Or even "Aim of Popeye!"

In her Japanese audio, when C. Viper does her normal grab attack, what she says sounds like "Fuck me!"

While no one has come up with a definitive version of what Wesker says at the beginning of his Phantom Dance hyper, this troper always hears it as "Mortals are soup..."

The word "fatal" in this game just comes out wrong. Super Skrull's "ANAL BUSTER!!" and Wolverine's "ANAL CLAW!" for instance.

For a while I was convinced "(White Man In) Hammersmith Palais" included the line "but it was fucked up some nights". It's actually "But it was Four Tops all night". I realized my mistake when I heard it on the radio without any censorship and figured either a DJ somewhere got some crap past the radar, or, more likely, it was time to finally look up those lyrics.

Mondegreens can be persistant. Every time ''The Squonk'' starts playing, I still hear "one more revelation" even though I know it's "Like father like son". (And the hunter says "Here I am, I'm very fierce and frightening" not "Here I am, from a very distant nightmare"...)

My mishearing of the first verse of ''Holding Out for a Hero'' is less interesting than how I found out. Possibly because I'm an agnostic I heard "Where are all the gods?" as "Where are all the guards?", and a subconscious attempt to make it rhyme turned the last line into something about the tiger's eye and heart. I realized something was wrong when I saw a sketch of Leona from TheSuburbanJungle singing it. The thing is, Leona hates tigers...

The first time I heard Lisa Hannigan's "I Don't Know", I thought the first verse ended with the line "if you want to, I am gay". When the line got repeated I figured out it was actually "I am ''game''", which makes much more sense in the context of the song.

This new troper has some really interesting mondegreens from SSBB. I always mishear part of the Mona Pizza's Song (English) as "Mona Pizza's got nothing on us, 'cause we've got six-packs for once!" And in the Japanese version, one line sounds suspiciously like "Hold Sega on the loofah." Another one in Ashley's Song (Japanese): One part sounds like "movie YouTube" to me for some reason.

In "We Used To Wait" by The Arcade Fire, there's a line I always hear as "Like a pigeon on a table" - it's actually "Like a ''patient'' on a table".

Even though I know better, I can't help hearing the chorus of "Rhinoceros" by SmashingPumpkins as though Billy Corgan is singing about pants ("and chinos, and chinos, and chinos" instead of "and she knows...")

From Panic! at the Disco's "Camisado", I heard "This is the scent of quarantine wings in a hospital" as "This is the scent of chicken wings in a hospital" a few times.

This Troper's friend told her a story of the best Mondegreen she's ever heard. It involved the U2 song "Mysterious Ways"; someone apparently misheard the chorus as "Shamu the mysterious whale" (instead of "she moves in mysterious ways"). It still cracks her up.

A variation. "My old enemy...stairs." #QUOTE# "My old enemy stares."

I misheard some of Funky Kong's quotes from MarioKartWii as "FUCK YEAH" and "FUCK YOU". Also, when Great Tiger from PunchOut Wii misses a hit, it sounds like he says "Fuck yeah."(he's really saying something in Hindi) Apparently, to me, video game characters are pretty foul-mouthed.

To this troper, "want your bad romance" becomes "want John Barroman".

It turns out that line in Blind Melon's "Galaxie" I used to think was "You're leavin' me, well a hey diddle deedley dee" is in fact "you're leaving me with a hated identity". Yes, Shannon Hoon kind of ''does'' stretch out the last syllable of "identity" that much. I'm glad that was in fact a mondegreen, because it would be kind of a dumb lyric.

"It's a foreign film from Canada!" -> "It's a porn film from Canada!"

My cousin once told me not to listen to the song his older brother kept playing (When Two are One, by Atreyu), because one line was depressing. When we badgered it out of him, he told us it was, "Thanks for lying, have fun dying." His brother corrected him, "It's 'Things colliding, lovers dying." The lyric turned out to be "Fates colliding, love ''un''dying." And we all also misheard "Close our eyes, hope will never die" as "Close our eyes, hope we'll never die." (Just a bit less optimistic...)

"Someone found my keys!" -> Someone found my cheese!

More SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein than Mondegreen, but the broadcast stations in my area frequently air a commercial for a used car dealership in town. It mainly features a low-budget cop chase scene, ending with a song that I imagine is supposed to be TheJimmyHartVersion of "I Can't Drive 55". It goes something like this: #QUOTE#Blahdee blahdee bledhee blah blah ''OH NO!!!'' Blipdee blahdee bloodee blah blah ''HIT THE DOH!!!'' Blahdee bloodhee bleedee blah blah blohdee bloodee blah blah blahdee blahdee ''SINCE NINETEEN FIFTY FIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!''

Due to the odd inflection LilWayne puts on the words "lawn mower" in "A Milli", this Troper first Mondegreened as "Lorne Mauer."

This troper's mother heard "But heaven ain't close in a place like this" from "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers as "I never wear clothes in a place like this". This troper also has no idea what one line in "Remember The Name" by Fort Minor is: Lyrics websites say "People think it's a common owner's name", which makes no sense, and this troper thinks it's either "People often comment on his name" or "He often gets comments on his name", the former of which is more likely. There's a mondegreen somewhere in that.

This troper misheard the lyrics of... some German pop song, no idea what it was. The original was "Hebt die Hand hoch, wir stehn hinter euch" ("Raise your hand, we stand behind you") as "Hebt die Hand hoch, wischt den Hintern!", which translates as "Raise your hand, wipe your ass!" She also heard the line "Fate up against your will" from "Killing moon" as "Fate of the game still wild" or "Fate of the gangster Will", the latter of which gave her an idea: a story about superheroes etc. where the characters and their traits are based on mondegreens. The leader, of course, is Lady Mondegreen. Others include the German duo Agathe Bauer ("I got the power!") and Anneliese Braun ("All the leaves are brown") and the gangster Will.

This troper always thought that AC/DC said "Dirty deeds! Dun-der tree!" Of course I had no idea what a Dunder tree was.

This troper's best friend once spectacularly misheared a line from the Headstones' Cemetary, changing "She's embalmed in love juice" to the even less sensical "She's the monkey love juice".

My little brother kept insisting that the last line of "One Week" was "Let's go watch TV and poop on a Ferrari."

This troper was surprised to go to the {{Oliver and Company}} page and find that the chorus of 'Why Should I Worry' is actually {{Gratuitous French}} as opposed to 'Street sidewalk fare.' (As in, 'I may not have money but I can walk the streets without care.')

One time I heard "Grandma's Got A Facebook" by YourFavoriteMartian, I heard "Watching soaps half the day" as "Watching SouthPark all day".