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I will say that one example for all is Abba's "Mamma Mia" which I interpreted the beginning of chorus "Mamma mia, we are collagen" and the beginning of the second part of it "He'll something broken hardly". Don't ask past me why I had to make it about intercellular matrix.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Blinded by the light . To me it always just sounds like he is saying dressed up like a douche , I can't even remember what the actual lyrics are.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Revved up like a Deuce, another runner in the night.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I always hear “ripped up like a douche”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I always heard wrapped up like a douche another roamer in the night

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Dirty Jeans and the Thunder Chief

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Don't tell your friends about the tour bus.

I left some brains down in Africa.

She was a fax machine she kept her modem clean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

She was a fax machine she kept her modem clean.

That's a legit start to a Weird Al song right there!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

... She was the best damn printer that I EVER seen!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Real lyrics? I guess the second is Toto's famous 'I bless the rains down in Africa', but the others?

[–] darkdemize 4 points 6 months ago

The third one is AC/DC. You shook me all night long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The first is "don't tell your friends about the two of us" from I'm not in love, 10cc.

Might just be my humour, but I do wonder why he didn't their friends to know about the tour bus. What did he do it it?

https://youtu.be/STugQ0X1NoI?si=ml0PbGS76M9sqky0

The last one was already guessed - AC /DC - You shook me all night long.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I’m suddenly feeling revved up like a douche.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"I'm blue, da ba de da ba die..."

"I'm blue, I would beat off a guy..."

You'll hear that every time now, you're welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Blinded by the light - Bruce Springsteen

"Like a douche in the night"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I was all set to correct you. Never realized the Manfred Mann version was a cover.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That one Taylor Swift song about being Starbucks Lovers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Omg. I thought I was the only one that heard that!

Even on Taylor's Version, it still sounds like "Starbucks Lovers".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Blank Space. And she does have a 'lovely Starbucks lovers', as least as I first heard it. For anyone who doesn't know, it's actually a 'long list of ex lovers'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit... Are you telling me it's not "gotta love those Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane?"

I have a serious problem with understanding lyrics in songs. I look them up when I don't quite understand what is being said and I realize I didn't even fully comprehend half of the verses to begin with. It's like musical dyslexia or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's really common, it's not just you. Singers sing much more indistinctly than they talk, and it's common enough it's been given a name.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Jimi Hendrix - “‘scuse me while I kiss this guy!”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Hold me closer, Tony Danza / Countin' head lice on the highway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Digimon

Digital Monsters

Digimon Garlic Champions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There was a series of bumps for Digimon marathons during the summer once when I was a kid that went

"Beat the heat with a digi-beat."

My siblings and friends and I would instead say "beat your meat with a parakeet." I still sometimes think about it and hum it to myself lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

🎼 Blinded by the light / Wrapped up like a douche / A motor homer in the night 🎶

The actual lyrics are:

Blinded by the light. Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I was almost 25, in the 1990s, singing along in my car to Elton John, confidently belting out ""Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another man"" when I suddenly realized that it was unlikely a guy would have a hit song about what he'd do with a guy in the 60s or 70s. Even as a little kid I'd known Elton John was gay, and hadn't really been brought up to think that was weird (thank you, mom and dad and your theater friends) .

I looked up the lyrics and it's love lies bleeding in my hands, it kills me to think of you with another man and the name of the fucking song is love lies bleeding, I didn't know that either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace. I always hear "she wanna pearl necklace" as "she wanna put on Netflix".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My wife thought it was

"All we are is ducks in the wind"

-dust in the wind

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A more recent one I love is Selena Gomez - Good for You: "I'm on a farting carrot. I'm farting carrot."

https://youtu.be/1TsVjvEkc4s

(First 2 lines of song)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

thereeeees the bathroom, on the right

ccr, bad moon rising

There's a bad moon on the rise

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The site kissthisguy.com used to be a great source for this, but unfortunately today it's mostly a place for lyrics which may also fit the song.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Maybe no one else will find this funny, but I do. My parents were Cuban immigrants to the USA. My uncle in particular was in his prime dating age when I was a little kid, so he would play the hits when I was around. Since he didn't know English yet, he would just guess the sounds the singers were making when he sung along. For that reason, I thought the chorus to a song was "spoon apurataaaa" and that songs didn't need to make sense. The singers could just make noises representing their feelings rather than use actual words. It wasnt until much later and a bunch of bullying in middle school that I learned almost all popular songs are based on words and "spoon apurataaaaa" was actually "smooth operator". Til this day, I still think of a spoon when I hear Smooth Operator by Sade.

Not really relevant video of a Smooth Operator

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

"Radio night, here I come"

instead of

"Ready or not, here I come"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

We've got some good ones in french.

For example there's a bridge in Sepultura's Rattamahattah that distinctly sounds like "c'est dans ta chambre, ça pue l'opium" (it's in your room, it stinks of opium").

Also, Metallica's Unforgiven, the first verse sounds like "nous faisons des oeufs, et couic couic ils se tournent" (we are cooking eggs, and squeak squeak they flip).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

There's a bathroom on the right

I'll never leave your pizza burnin

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My favourite mondegreen: 'Living like a lover with a red iPhone' from pour some sugar on me, released 20 years before Apple's first iPhone was released.

The real lyric is apparently 'radar phone', whatever that is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I believe you are looking for this

Radar from MASH talking on the phone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Take a walk, to the post office. Don't stop til you get enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Head Automatica - The Razor

Yeah, yeah!

I put a sausage in your little ha-aand!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like the legend of the penis

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just like a one-winged dove

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

🧐 Those aren't the words?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

FRYING OPENED MY THIRD EYE

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ariana Grande - Thank You, Next: “Bacon, Eggs”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Big ol' Jed left a light on

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Steve Miller! I can hear it now!

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