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Spliffman1 @lemdro.id

2y ago

Misheard song lyrics

Am I the only one this happens to? I used to "feel it coming in the yellow night" with Phil Collins. What are yours?

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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
- Some of those are really funny 🤣
- They are called Mondegreens in English, after Sylvia Wright wrote an essay about how she misheard "laid him on the green," as Lady Mondegreen.
- 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”
- when I lived in Switzerland I learned "the eye of the tiger - die eier von tiger (the balls or effs of the tiger)
“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!
- 😂 😂 😂 😂
"Wrapped up like a douche"
-- Blinded by the Light, Manfred Mann's Earth Band
- Hahaha that was one of mine too, I mean that song, that line lol... I didn't have douche but I had a few wacky versions of that line 😂
- From Wikipedia:
  Springsteen has joked about confusion over the lyrics, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a feminine hygiene product that it became popular.
'scuse me while I kiss this guy
- I remember the singer saying he would actually sing "kiss this guy" to mess with people.
- Wait, that's supposed to be something else?
  
  Kiss the sky.
"I can see clearly now the rain is gone, I can see all icicles in my way"
This part of the song in Shaggy's Angel:
"You're my angel, you're my darling angel. Closer than pizza your are to me"
Like, I knew that can't possibly be what he was saying, but I couldn't hear otherwise. Even now, I know he says "peeps", but I keep hearing "pizza".
"Snow White, take it easy..."
I thought Foghat were singing about a nympho fairy tale character.
- 😂
"Don't bring me down... Bruce!" as heard by everyone ever.
(It's "gross," supposedly. Apparently Jeff Lynne sings "Bruce" sometimes in concert just to mess with his fans.)
- It's "groos" which he made up on the spot. https://genius.com/2582537
I can tell you, my love for you will still be strong After the poison summer has gone.
I genuinely thought Don Henley was having a bad summer...
“Why is Bowie singing about Surfer Jet City?”
“Dude, the song is called Suffragette City.”
“Oh. Uh, what the hell is-”
“Dude, I dunno.”
- "There's a bathroom on the right."
"retarded fuckface" Depeche mode - personal Jesus. What the lyrics really say: "reach out and touch faith"
- This one really feels like you need to be hating on the song...
  Really big reach...
  
  Or not a native English speakers and also not too old.
"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.
She's got electric boobs! Benny and the Jets
For the longest time, I thought this lyric in The Decemberists' Annan Water was:
"...though my mother cries, that if I try, I sure will drown in pee..."
They repeat it 4 times; the last one, especially, I just can't hear otherwise.
- I am happy to have inflicted this on you. ;)
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/3zDvj2c5x_I?t=127
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“Should I give up? Or should I just keep chasing penguins?”
- If you chasing them on land and can't catch them something is wrong... And if you try to chase them in water then yes give up lol
The first ones that came to my mind for some reason despite not hearing any of the songs for years were:
I'm friends with the mustard that's under my bed
'Cause I keep givin' you a sexy oven
Don't you worry, don't you worry child. She hasn't got a pen for you
Hold me closer Tony Danza
- Hold me close, young Tony Danza
I cannot unhear Fishmaster.
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ
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I used to think that the Family Guy theme had Stewie singing "effing cry" when he was really singing "laugh and cry".
- Bahahaha
It's not just you.
Most of these don't sound remotely like what is actually being sung, what the hell is happening here? how are so many people getting this wrong?
- English is a stress based language (if you heard a peanuts-style audio blurrer, you’d still hear regular ups and downs, whereas Spanish would sound monotone), so English speakers rely on that emphasis to determine where one word ends and another begins. When we sing, we lose a lot of the stress indicators, so it’s pretty common for songs in stress based languages to be misunderstood.
  Plus people get audiologically confused by all the sounds in any language
  
  And once you hear it wrong the first time, your brain keeps perceiving it that way every time you hear the song lol
- "I swear that I can see forever in your eyes.... parrot eyes"
  
  What was it supposed to be?
Cum in my hair do it I dare
In Harder to Breathe (Maroon ) it always sounded to me like he said the n-word 😬 but I know he said something else lol
Cheap wine and a free can of coke
One Week by Barenaked Ladies is a mindfuck, as is REMs It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).
- Chiggity China the Chinese chicken?
I'm gonna join in with a banger by The Avener: The shower approves
- Yes yes
You sticky pickle - AJR
Play me the Beach Boys and free my soul
- Yes yes, "gimme the Beach Boys and free my soul" ... A classic one
https://youtu.be/_6jRICTGmnM
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/_6jRICTGmnM
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
- I am a chronic mondegreener,. I do it in normal conversation too, not just with songs

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