Misheard Lyrics (Mondegreens): There's A Bathroom On the Right

[smittykins]

John Denver, “Thank God I’m A Country Boy”:

Wrong: “I’d rather have my fiddle and my farm in tune”

Right:  “I’d rather have my fiddle and my farming tools”

My version made sense to me because you’d obviously want to have both your fiddle and your farm running smoothly, even though it doesn’t completely rhyme with the previous line, which is “I’ve never been one of them money-hungry fools.”

Edited October 8, 2023 by smittykins

[smittykins]

Not me, but I just saw this on a FB thread and I’m LMAO.

The Fifth Dimension, “Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In”

Wrong:  “This is the dawning of the plate of asparagus”

Right:  “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius”

[Giuseppe]

Alright I have a good one. Was listening to Digable Planets "Rebirth of Slick (Cool like dat)" on the way home tonight. This whole song is filled with misunderstood lyrics, but the very last line is "We out". All through high school, I swear I thought it was "meow". Never questioned it, never thought I was wrong. To me, it just fit the funkiness of the song. Like, these guys were cool cats, so why not end the song with "meow"? Made total sense. 

Don't quite remember when it dawned on me what they were actually saying, but I do remember relating this to a friend some years later, and I don't think I ever heard her laugh so hard, lol.

[KWalkerInc]

The other day, I heard "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" by Elton John, a song from the early '70s, for possibly the first time.  I thought he kept saying, "But now I know that groceries never grow in New York City."  I thought that made sense, that you're not going to find much farmland there (though maybe someone could grow a vegetable garden at their place), but it didn't really fit in with the context of the song.  It turned out he was saying "rose trees."

[KWalkerInc]

Ever since OneRepublic's "I Ain't Worried" came out a couple years ago (especially when it was getting a lot of airplay), a friend would complain that she didn't like the part that goes, "1999, Pete Rose" because she doesn't like Rose.  I heard the line the same way and couldn't figure out what the group was singing about.  If they had said "1989" then it could have been some statement about when he was banned from baseball.  I heard the song again recently and decided to Google it to see if it were explained or if it was just supposed to be some random, free association thing.  It turns out they are saying, "1999, heroes."  I still don't really know what they mean, but my friend probably won't believe this is the actual lyric.

[DoctorAtomic]

My aunt ruled this topic. Just one, which isn't even that bad. "Our love's in jeopardy" (real), "I love you Stephanie" (auntie).

I swear if you listen to Africa by Toto and go with "There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do" instead of "There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do". As a kid, I loved that they thought Africa was on Mars. 

 

On 3/14/2023 at 4:33 PM, BlueSkies said:

I always thought the lyric sound like Get Your Booty on the bus now but its get your booty on the floor tonight 

It seriously not BUS?!! I'm not even joking. 

[BlueSkies]

On 2/28/2024 at 10:51 PM, DoctorAtomic said:

My aunt ruled this topic. Just one, which isn't even that bad. "Our love's in jeopardy" (real), "I love you Stephanie" (auntie).

I swear if you listen to Africa by Toto and go with "There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do" instead of "There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do". As a kid, I loved that they thought Africa was on Mars. 

 

It seriously not BUS?!! I'm not even joking. 

https://genius.com/Technotronic-pump-up-the-jam-lyrics

[BlueSkies]

I always thought this song was dedicated to my favorite cartoon figure Snoopy the beagle.  Not someone named Sloopy

 

 

 

[DoctorAtomic]

I'm not clear on how you can get your booty on the dance floor before you get your booty on the bus now to get to the dance floor. 

[Anela]

I thought this was called "I Want You Back". 

 

 

[xls]

I thought he was saying 'condom' over n over! 🤣

"Girl you sweet like condom, condom"

[KWalkerInc]

I was listening to the Fifth Dimension's greatest hits album, and in their song "Save the Country," I thought they were saying "Sleep until the dream wakes up!  Sleep until the dream wakes up!"  Fortunately they repeated this enough times that I finally realized it was "We can build a dream with love."

In the next song, "Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes," I was hearing, "Weed leads the lines of love in circles and angles.  Weed runs deep like a tunnel with a pendulum beat."  It turns out it was "need" at the beginning of those lines, though I still think weed had something to do with the writing of the song.  I had this album on while I was exercising, and I kept losing count because I was baffled during this song trying to figure out what they were talking about.

[BlueSkies]

Her accent always made it sound like she was singing Pudding Food to me instead of Bulletproof

 

 

 

[BlueSkies]

It sounds like give us some fucked up music when its really give us some funked up music 😄

 

 

[BlueSkies]

I used to think this song was about somebody who didn't like people and wanted to avoid them at all costs.  lol

 

 

[KWalkerInc]

I thought I already mentioned this one, but apparently not...  Mr. Mister's "Kyrie" came out when I was in 5th grade; but when they would say "Kyrie elieson" throughout the song, I had no idea what they were talking about--or even the correct name of the song.  At the time, I would keep sort of a journal, which was mostly really important things like the plot of what I had watched on TV (sort of the beginning of when I went into episode guides) or what was playing on the radio.  I can remember writing that I liked the song "Give Me a Laser Down the Road That I Must Travel."  Ugh.  (Along with all of the other problems, that would have been a very long title.)  That would have made the next line "Give me a laser through the darkness of the night," which may have played some role in how I thought that made sense.  They needed a laser to see because it was dark out...or something.

[janie jones]

"Carry me on legs on down the road that I must travel" is what I heard and couldn't understand why it was called "Kyrie" (who the heck was Kyrie?) until I googled it as an adult.