(When you thought the lyric was one thing but it turned out to be totally different)

Not mine but one day my buddy's 6 year old asked "what's parking tips?" My buddy being a veteran dad gives him some generic parking advice, doesn't think much of it until later when he hears his kid singing along to the shaboozy song but instead of "everyone at the bar getting tipsy" he's sing about how everyone getting parking tips.

What prompted the post: I feel silly even saying it, but there was a rap song playing at my gym with female vocals in the chorus singing what sounded like “it’s the batteries of your mom”, which I’m certain are not the correct lyrics.

better off alone?

In Lambada by Kaoma there is a part where every dutch person hears "what is that little zebra dog for?" And everyone sings along for that sentence when the music is playing.

In dutch it goes: lalalalala waar is toch dat zebrahondje voor.

APT APT

(I got the upper tits, I got the upper tits)

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"

It always sounds like the lady wants some "fuckin' pie."

Excuse me, while I kiss this guy! 😘

There is a famous one here in Germany that everyone gets wrong.
The original line being sung: "Es tobt der Hass da vor meinem Fenster", meaning "Hatred is raging in front of my window".
What everyone hears: "Es tobt der Hamster vor meinem Fenster", meaning "The hamster is raging in front of my window".

From Pour Some Sugar On Me

looking like a lover with a red iPhone (radar phone)

From I'll Be There For You by Bon Jovi

I pray to God to give me one more trans girl

(I pray to God you'll give me one more chance, girl)

Haha, cute.

Now that you mentioned Dutch, it reminded me of when I first heard doooonkey showww before it clicked that this was a Dutch song.

Doja Cat - Woman

"Roomba, let me be your Roomba. Roomba Roomba Roomba."

It's supposedly woman, but even listening very closely it's only very loosely "Wom man" and sounds like "Rumah" or "Wumah."

https://youtu.be/g7X9X6TlrUo?t=18

I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her merry chopsticks.

As much as I hoped for someone to be able to identify the song from my bungled lyrics, nope, that’s not the one. The song I heard was a more serious sounding rap song.

Hold me closer, Tony Danza.

Oh my fucking god.

So my best friend heard the line or song, not sure, "Making Whoopie" as a kid. He thought the lyric was "they can whoop me" and thought it was an old slave song. I still shit myself laughing at the entire thing.

Call me maybe: Before you came into my life, I'm mister sofa.

Get lucky by daft punk, when the robot voices say 'we're up all night to get lucky' I can't unhear 'we'll rub up a mexican monkey'.
I'm sorry for ruining this song for you.

When listening to a Michael Patrick Kelly song outside of a running car for the first time, it turned out it wasn't a nerdy song about "Beautiful maths", but just another boring love song called "Beautiful madness":-)

The translation is: The safe shrimp no one can be.

From Rock and Roll All Nite by Kiss:
I want to rock and roll all niiiite, and part of ev-er-y day!

My childhood best friend absolutely loved this song and sang it out loud ALL the time with these incorrect lyrics, I was totally convinced and would sing along with him. My mom thought it was HILARIOUS and so she never told us lol 😆

(The correct lyrics are and party ev-er-y day)

This is called a "Mondegreen," and there are some examples here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

Wrapped up like a douche

Actual lyrics

Revved up like a duece

• Blinded by the light

12 year old me is at the dentist in the middle of getting a cavity filled when Benny and the Jets comes on.

I'm trying not to laugh while the radio keeps saying "She's got electric boobs!"

I had to go and listen to this song because of how outrageous I thought this interpretation was... But it's real!!!!!

There's a bathroom on the right.

• why would they sing this?

There's a bad moon out tonight

• oh, that makes sense

In Radiohead's Sit Down. Stand Up, at the end, Thom repeats "The raindrops", but I kept hearing "Power Rangers". I searched for it and found a lot of people in my situation, I was amazed at humans.

so there is this tull song where I thought it was "the smart guys aren't running the whole damn tribe" and I actually saw someone online hear it with the exact same wording. The actual line is. "the smart guys aren't running their warm and dry"

I mean the actual lyric makes me think about someone straining on the toilet.

My mother thought the lyrics to Roberta Flack's version of Killing Me Softly With His Song was "Strumming my face with his fingers" (not strumming my pain).

I 100% genuinely thought “Lose yourself to dance” was “You just suck the dicks” when I first heard it on the radio.

I was wondering who it was by and why it wasn’t censored being played at lunchtime.

Sex Pistols:

“God save the Queen,
The fascist regime,
Who made you a moron,
And touched your wife’s bum!”

This was mine too, lol

Michael wants to party all the time - with Eddie Murphy. Thought it was his ode to trans dating.

wicked guitar fill

When I was a kid listening to the oldies station, I heard "Little blue scoop" instead of deuce coupe.

Later my mom actually called in and requested it that way. I think they played the request on air.

HAMSTER

I always heard it as "ran off like a douche" which made way more sense

“Bald-Headed Woman” instead of “More than a Woman.”

Smokey River Walters, the fire engine guy is the best one I've ever heard someone say.

Correct lyric is Smoke on the water, fire in the sky.

Sex and buy lunch! Sex and buy lunch. Sex and buy lunch! Sex. And. Buy lunch.

Also,

We're the redneck kings of funk!

It's not fair to remind meh. Of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to meh! You. You. You. Oughtta know!

You will not be able to unhear it. I'm so sorry. To make it up to you on the youtube version that is just the audio with the picture of the dudes in front of the sun there is an easter egg for a few seconds when they start saying we'll rub a mexican.

[We're the redneck kings of funk!](https://youtu.be/sHF7lD2fnho)

I always heard, “We’re the renegades who fuck! Fuck!”

Been singing that for years. My wife can’t unhear it.

In Jingle Bell Rock, I always hear “giddy up, jingle whores, pick up your feet!”

Whatever they’re saying in that justice song. Contagious beat but it sounds like they’re singing about… peepee dance? youre always flapping your ??????? at me? I have NO IDEA what theyre saying

Do you know which album it’s off of? Now I really want to know what song you’re on about haha

I think it’s called d.a.n.c.e. Basically the big hit Edit. I just listened to it. I am hearing “poo poo dance doo doo dance” so confusing

Oh, interesting. I find that to be one of their more intelligible ones. Though I still don’t know what a p-y-t or b-y-t is

Took me ages to work out what’s being said in DVNO

Not exactly “misheard”, but the lyrics to the Minecraft parody of “Dynamite” stuck more strongly in my head than the original.

Those letters are in d.a.n.c.e. are so random. I’ve never invested any time into figuring any of it out. I guess the lyrics to dvno never jumped out at me. I just gave it a listen and yep. Hard to understand. I usually just hear justice in whatever electronic music feed. I should check out an album