Am I the only one this happens to? I used to “feel it coming in the yellow night” with Phil Collins. What are yours?
“Wrapped up like a douche”
– Blinded by the Light, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Hold me closer Tony Danza
Hold me close, young Tony Danza
For the longest time, I thought this lyric in The Decemberists’ Annan Water was:
“…though my mother cries, that if I try, I sure will drown in pee…”
They repeat it 4 times; the last one, especially, I just can’t hear otherwise.
I cannot unhear Fishmaster.
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'scuse me while I kiss this guy
In Germany we call these misheard lyrics “Agathe Bauer Songs” (misheard “I got the power”), it happens mostly when some lyrics in english songs sound like a german sentence or name.
- All the leaves are brown - Anneliese Braun (name)
- I got the power - Agathe Bauer (name)
- At the gates - Hey, wie geht’s (Hey, how are you?)
- I believe in miracles - Alle lieben Mirco (Everybody loves Mirco)
- a deep shade of blue - Dickschädel Blues (Thickheaded blues)
- the phone rings - da vorne links (ahead on the left)
- hope of deliverance - Hau auf die Leberwurst (smack the liver-sausage)
- all my feelings grow - Oma fiel ins Klo (grandma fell into the toilet)
- Zombie - Zahnweh (Tooth-ache)
- the word is out - du blöde sau (you stupid pig)
- Dirty Diana - da geht der Gärtner (there walks the gardener)
- I’ll be gone - Almighurt (german joghurt brand)
- Your love is like bad medicine - your love is like Bettnässen (bed wetting)
- I cut and i spear - da kackt 'n Eisbär (a polar bear is shitting there)
- the pain is deep - der Penisdieb (the penis-thief)
edit: found this: https://youtu.be/hPV3wHnd5lo?si=Z1GiyHfe89iCMizH
Here is this the archive of misheard song lyrics. https://www.kissthisguy.com It’s named after purple haze by Jimmy Hendricks. “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”
She’s got electric boobs! Benny and the Jets
I am a chronic mondegreener,. I do it in normal conversation too, not just with songs
“I’m blue, if I were green I would die / I’m in need of a guy / I’ma beat up a guy . . . .”
Also, I fondly recall a YT commenter on Major Lazer’s Lean On that thought “Blow kiss, fire a gun” was “Marcus Firagon.”
I remember when that song came out and everyone was pretty much interpreting the lyrics in their own way.
Then that one song came out with really lame lyrics sung to that tune. “I’m good yeah I’m feeling alright, I’m gonna have the best fuckin’ night or my life, I’m good yeah I’m feeling alright.”
Like what? Those the lamest lyrics ever.
For real, there’s a difference between sampling and stealing the hook.
“I’m your penis! I’m your fire, your desire!”
Penis!
Yeah baby she’s got it!
Goddess on the mountain top.
Burning like a silver flame.
Summit of beauty and love.
And penis was her name!
Most of these don’t sound remotely like what is actually being sung, what the hell is happening here? how are so many people getting this wrong?
