Lyrical Misconceptions: How can we all have been so wrong....

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Daveman

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SimuLord said:
No discussion of misheard lyrics is complete without the Potato Wave.
I love Pearl Jam but I still have no idea what this song is about.
Durxom said:
"blinded by the light, ripped up like a douche in the middle of the night"
I have sung this... but he quite clearly does say "douche", I don't care what he thinks he said.
 

likalaruku

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teh_pwning_dude said:
likalaruku said:
Am I the only one who thinks System of a Down's "Vicinity Of Obscenity" is about having sex with hookers?
It's actually about getting STDs from hookers. So close!
I guess next time he'll think twice about sticking his banana in a strange woman's tericotta pie.
 

Eleuthera

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In Liquido's "Narcotic" there's the line "And I call your name, my cocaine" Which quite easily turns to "And I call your name, Micheal Caine" it's asking for it really
 

WINDOWCLEAN2

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Real - Im the leading man, and the lies i weave are oh so intracate.

Misheard - Im a little man, and im also evil, also into cats.
 

GrinningManiac

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Fallout Boy

"Loaded God Complex
Cock it and pull it"

I heard it as

"MumbleMumbleMurr
Get'yo Cock out and Pull it"

So I thought it was advocating spontaneous and furious masturbation

Awful band, though
 

Trivun

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Ldude893 said:
This is called a Mondegreen. It's when the lyrics to a song are misheard and misinterpreted. "Mondegreen" came from this old scottish ballad:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl O' Moray,
And Lady Mondegreen.

the last verse was supposed to be "And laid him on the Green"

Personally, I prefer misinterpreting the lyrics of non-english songs and twisting them into strange but understandable lyrics.
Damn ninjas, beat me to it. I was going to post that...

Anyway, first I thought of was Fall Out Boy's Sugar, We're Going Down. There's a lyric in the chorus that goes:

A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it...

That often gets mistaken as:

A loaded God complex, cock-eating bullet...