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- ask@piefed.social
I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing
My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse
Turns out it was “strong beliefs”, and not a medical term
Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623
I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but this bit by Peter Kay always has me in tears.
Also, the technical term is ‘Mondegreen’
Edit: I’m also reminded of a Colin Hay one man show I went to years ago where he told a story about a bloke that requested the ‘song about the goats’ at a gig. Turns out it was Overkill - “Goats appear and fade away”. He then went on to tell a long story about a sharehouse he lived in in his youth that decided to get a goat to keep the lawn down. Man that was a good show.
Hoobastank, the Reason.
Real lyric: “a reason to start over new”.
What i heard as a child: “the reason tostadas are new”
At one point in Another One Bites the Dust, Freddie says “Bite the dust, yeah” which for years I could not hear as anything but “I’m adopted”. Seemed like a weird way to share that information.
“You know I’d like to keep my cheating strategy”
Actual lyrics: “You know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today”
Blind Melon, “No Rain”
Owner of a lonely horse…
Real lyric: owner of a lonely heart.
I never understood why there’d be a song about a lonely horse.
Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?
For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went “under my arms forever”
“Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!”
I always wondered what a dunder chief is.
It was Thunder Chief for me. I figured he must be bad juju.
https://genius.com/Ac-dc-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap-lyrics
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap
I always wondered what a dunder chief is.
Michael Scott I guess ?
It wasn’t until my first job at a grocery store during Christmas time that I learned it was “Feliz Navidad” being sung.
Before that, I couldn’t figure out why the cheerful song that only appeared around Christmas time was saying “Police shot my dad”
Best laugh I had in a long time 🤣😭
I used to think the Kiss song went “I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day.”
https://genius.com/Kiss-rock-and-roll-all-nite-lyrics
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
Moderation is key for everything, after all.
I mean, partying every day just results in Slurms McKenzie.
We found Lois Griffin
That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.
I’m here to say that I figured out “stomp on the stoop when you hear the funk loop”. It took me 30 years.
“Blinded by the light.
Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”
Turns out is actually deuce.
I always heard “wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night” and happily sung that in bars.
That actually makes even less sense.
It’s referring to a two-stroke engine.
Generally it’s a 2-door car, specifically a 1932 Ford.
It’s a strange song
Don’t go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.
https://genius.com/Tlc-waterfalls-lyrics
Don’t go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to
some daughtry song about Tijuana.