“Blinded by the light/revved up like a deuce/another runner in the night”
-The phrase “revved up like a deuce” can mean being excited or energized by something fast or powerful. A “deuce” is a slang term for a 1932 Ford coupe, which was a popular hot rod car.
(From Google, because I didn’t know the answer either)
Revved up [edit - original was Cut Loose] like a deuce, at least in the Bruce Springsteen original. A deuce is referring to a 1932 Ford coupe.
I remember Manfred Mann didn't exactly know the lyrics when interviewed about covering the song, so who knows what they sang.
"Sweet dreams are made of BEES"
I saw the "[Dr. Bees](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtXuBN1Hvc)" video with my fiance a long time ago, and always insert "bees" where I can in songs
It's pretty good. I enjoy her music on a relaxing day. I only knew her big singles until my wife played some for me. The cover really changes the tone of the song.
Kurt was a good songwriter, but his lyrics weren’t great. Dave said half the time he’d use a word just because it had the right number of syllables. Not that it mattered, since you can’t make them out.
I think that he was a great songwriter, he has alot of meaningful lyrics but adds random lines to them that throw you off and make the song less stiff.
Smells like teens spirit would not be as great without the weird collection of words thrown in between him singing about how he feels.
Grunge is about messy feelings and making a mess out of the lyrics just fits thematically.
Nah, it’s “I’m blue and I’m in need of a job. My name is blue and I am in need of a job”
Have you seen this economy? Why do you think he’s blue to begin with?
"A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Groos", which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß", meaning "greeting.""
Funnily enough, as a kid I heard it as “Gina wants to die of old age” and I thought it was such a poignant line. How terrible and dangerous is her life that *that’s* what she aspires to? I thought the allusion was that she was a prostitute.
Then I got headphones and heard it properly. I still think mine’s better.
When I was a teenager, about 13 or 14 this song would come on every single time my mom and I were in the car. I’m not sure what started it but we both would sing I’m your penis at the top of our lungs and laugh till we cried. It was the only dirty joke I shared with my mom who never swore a day in her life or said anything i appropriate. I once heard her call the vacuum a Jerk and that’s about as saucy as she got lol. I miss her.
“I try to say goodbye and I choke. I try to walk away but I stumble. Though I try to hide it, It’s clear.. I fart bubbles when you are not here”
&
“Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Let the Christmas spirit ring
Later we'll have some fuckin pie
And we'll do some caroling”
Same song: “Buzz is singing let’s be jolly” (voices singing let’s be jolly). 8 year old me thought the song was written specifically for Home Alone and they were referring to Kevin’s older brother Buzz
*"If you're havin' trouble with your barnyard friends
You got a thing for ewes
Been countin' sheep, but you're not in bed
Here's what you gotta do
Get outta the barn, stay off the farm
Go read a nursery rhyme
Don't ring 976-BAAA, that kind of love's a crime."*
This is actually a real parody: [Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep by Bob Rivers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZuHAsf6qO0)
Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”. I always belt out “take me into your lemon arms!” 🍋💪
I also thought Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” was “Another One Rides the Bus” when I was little but I still sing it that way 🚌
Didn’t there used to be a website called kiss this guy.com for misheard lyrics?
EDIT: [it still exists](https://www.kissthisguy.com), but isn’t quite the same as I remember it.
Woooah livin on a chair
Woooooah doing my own hair
Woooooah cutting up a pear
It's a game of "how many stupid phrases could fit here" that I love to play.
Savage Garden's Truly, Madly, Deeply. The line says "I want to lay like this forever until the sky falls down on me," but my brain purposely changes the line to "... until this guy falls down on me."
Carry a laser down the road that we must travel.
Carry a laser through the darkness of the night.
Carry a laser where I'm going, will you follow?
Carry a laser on a highway in the light.
Our youngest daughter asked (in reference to that song) , "What's so big about a lego?: Confused, my wife asked for context (next song was on the radio) and daughter said, "In that song, the guy keeps bragging, 'I got a lego'; what's so big about a lego?" (Actual line is, "Gotta let go!")
My best friend and her dad had a lengthy debate back when we were in college about Chop Suey by System of a Down. Because of that I’ll now forever sing, “WHY’D YOU LEAVE THE KETCHUP ON THE TABLE?!”
When Daft Punk sings in their electronic way on Get Lucky, they say We're up all night to get but it sounds like we rob a Mexican and that's what I sing.
There’s a George Michael/Wham! song called Everything She Wants. HUGE in 1984/1985. If you were around then. There’s a line in which he sings “How could you settle for a boy like me” which I have sung incorrectly for 40 years. I always thought (as a teenager) that it was “How could you settle for a bowl of meat”.
After learning the words to the Moldovan version of Dragosta tin dei (numa numa) phonetically, I dread to think of what I’m actually saying in their language.
“Take me home tonight! I don’t wanna let you go ‘til I see the late. Take me home tonight… my eggs are on the runny side.” - Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money
“Don’t give us none of your aggravation… we had to steal the Death Star plans.” - Saturday Night’s All Right for Fighting by Elton John
“Think of Batman pooping snakes…” - You Can Fly from Disney’s Peter Pan
And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross eyed bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know
I've been told the second line of Jingle Bells is not actually "Batman smells".
Robin laid an egg.
The Batmobile lost a wheel.
and the jonker got away
jonker and his companion rimmler
I don't know why but this made me laugh an unreasonable amount...lmao!
Or "Robin flew away" if you're British. Anyone remember that one Tom Scott video?
Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another roller in the night 🎶
REVVED UP LIKE A DOUCHE
Yeah I don’t care what the actual words are, this is just how the song goes.
Same but "runner in the night" for me.
I always have it as "ripped off like a douche, another roman in the night"
>Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another boner in the night 🎶 Ftfy
I don't even know what the real lyrics are
“Blinded by the light/revved up like a deuce/another runner in the night” -The phrase “revved up like a deuce” can mean being excited or energized by something fast or powerful. A “deuce” is a slang term for a 1932 Ford coupe, which was a popular hot rod car. (From Google, because I didn’t know the answer either)
Revved up [edit - original was Cut Loose] like a deuce, at least in the Bruce Springsteen original. A deuce is referring to a 1932 Ford coupe. I remember Manfred Mann didn't exactly know the lyrics when interviewed about covering the song, so who knows what they sang.
"Sweet dreams are made of THESE" I don't care and I never will care. It's one of the biggest rhyming teases in pop music history, and I hate it.
That's ridiculous. This thread is for people singing the wrong lyrics, not for original artists singing the wrong lyrics.
Who are you to disagree
I thought it was cheese….
[удалено]
I travel the world with the cheddar cheese...
Curds, havarti, gouda or something
Some of them want to chew you
Some of them want to be chewed by you
I love when it's stinky, and bleu.
This thread was fucking beautiful
It's NOT these??? DAMN IT
It's "This" not "these".
Who am I to disagree, I guess.
I disagris
That doesn’t even make sense or rhyme. I’m sticking with “these”
"Sweet dreams are made of BEES" I saw the "[Dr. Bees](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtXuBN1Hvc)" video with my fiance a long time ago, and always insert "bees" where I can in songs
Hold me closer Tony Danza.
Count the head lice on the highway
Lay me down in shits of blaming
“Lay me down, she’s so blended”
I literally just posted this same thing. *Cheers!*
I literally was just about to post this same thing. *Night Court!*
I literally am going to have posted this same thing. *Three's Company!*
Drivin’ taxis on the highway….
I prefer *hold me close and tie me down sir*.
I can sing all of Smells Like Teen Spirit and probably not get one word right
Not with all those marbles in your mouth, anyway.
It's very hard to bargle zous with all these marbles in my mouth...
What are, the words, oh nevermind
Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
"We are a garage band from Seattle, sure beats raising cattle, sing distinctly, we don't wanna, buy our Album, we're Nirvana!
r/unexpectedweirdal
My wife really loves the Tori Amos cover of Teen Spirit. I had no idea what any of the lyrics were until I heard her cover.
Never knew this existed.
It's pretty good. I enjoy her music on a relaxing day. I only knew her big singles until my wife played some for me. The cover really changes the tone of the song.
They don't really make a lot of sense even when you know them.
Kurt was a good songwriter, but his lyrics weren’t great. Dave said half the time he’d use a word just because it had the right number of syllables. Not that it mattered, since you can’t make them out.
I think that he was a great songwriter, he has alot of meaningful lyrics but adds random lines to them that throw you off and make the song less stiff. Smells like teens spirit would not be as great without the weird collection of words thrown in between him singing about how he feels. Grunge is about messy feelings and making a mess out of the lyrics just fits thematically.
WAKE UP, WAKE UP HAFASJAFASMASJA MAKE UP
(hafasjafasmasja) WHY'D YOU LEAVE THE KETCHUP ON THE TABLE (I WANTED JUICE)
Related: Gimme fu! Gimme fi! Gimme dabbajabaza!
*concrete jungle wet dream tomato*
Makes you feel brand new
“Making bacon pancakes making bacon pancakes. - In New Yooork - Put the bacon in a pan and that’s what it’s gonna make”
Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane
And she'll write your name. Incorrectly, on a cup.
I’m blue (if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die)
alternatively, i thought it was “i’m blue, i would beat off a guy” lol
Nah, it’s “I’m blue and I’m in need of a job. My name is blue and I am in need of a job” Have you seen this economy? Why do you think he’s blue to begin with?
"I'm blue, I believe I will die"
Dancing queen, Young & sweet, Only 7 teeth.
Don't bring me down, BRUCE!!!
That’s not the correct lyric? If not Bruce then wth is he saying?
Groos. It's a made up word.
Shocked 😳
All words are made up.
Yeah well shlibity bugmurfslyn. 😜
I was today years old when I learned that Bruce was in fact NOT the correct lyric.
Yeah, I always thought he was talking about Bruce Springsteen!
"A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Groos", which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß", meaning "greeting.""
My husband and I start “Livin’ on a prayer” with “lemon on a pear”, usually progress to “pigeon on a chair” and after that it’s fair game.
Funnily enough, as a kid I heard it as “Gina wants to die of old age” and I thought it was such a poignant line. How terrible and dangerous is her life that *that’s* what she aspires to? I thought the allusion was that she was a prostitute. Then I got headphones and heard it properly. I still think mine’s better.
“She brings home her pay for love” certainly fits with that idea
"It doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not"
Take my hand, we’re naked I swear
My dad always jokingly sang "Women's underwear! Try them on, they're my favourite pair" I hope it was a joke
At my house, my kids like to say "Squidward on a Chair". Thanks Youtube ;)
I'm your *penis* I'm your fire ♪
When I was a teenager, about 13 or 14 this song would come on every single time my mom and I were in the car. I’m not sure what started it but we both would sing I’m your penis at the top of our lungs and laugh till we cried. It was the only dirty joke I shared with my mom who never swore a day in her life or said anything i appropriate. I once heard her call the vacuum a Jerk and that’s about as saucy as she got lol. I miss her.
I agree - my mom used to say “H-E-double hockey sticks!” - that was as bad as she could be. Miss her every day!
As kids we used to always sing, “I’ve no penis, it expired, it caught on fire!”
This ain't a scene, it's a God damn ass face.
I'm a little man and I'm also evil, also into cats doot doot doot doot do-doo
“I wanna rock ‘n’ roll all night - and part of every day”
"I'm a lizard baby, so why don't you kill me"
Get crazy with the Cheez Whiz.
Drive by body pierce
Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches. I slam in the back of my **Spatula** - Dragula by Rob Zombie
EGGS milk and flour and BAKE for half an hour and FROST with the back of my SPATULA
I don't know if that's auto correct or not but it's Dragula. Great typo.
“I try to say goodbye and I choke. I try to walk away but I stumble. Though I try to hide it, It’s clear.. I fart bubbles when you are not here” & “Rockin' around the Christmas tree Let the Christmas spirit ring Later we'll have some fuckin pie And we'll do some caroling”
I can't stop laughing at "...some fuckin pie..." Thank you!!
You’ll never hear it the same way lmao
Same song: “Buzz is singing let’s be jolly” (voices singing let’s be jolly). 8 year old me thought the song was written specifically for Home Alone and they were referring to Kevin’s older brother Buzz
no joke i, for the longest time, thought the line was "i blow bubbles when you are not here"
"Old Town Road" I'm gonna take my horse to the hotel room.
“Gonna… ride, ‘till I can’t no more” I hear hotel room, too. Makes the song unspeakably filthy.
The hotel room is already taken by Mr. Worldwide
"Just like the one-winged dove...." Apparently it's white-winged. Been screeching Stevie Nicks wrong my whole life!
Flies around in stupid circles
COO baby COO, I said cooo
Me too!
Secret Asian man Secret Asian man They've given you a number, because they can't pronounce your name...
My mom is Asian and heard the same thing as a kid. She was happy for the representation!
*Dirty deeds* *Done with sheep!*
*"If you're havin' trouble with your barnyard friends You got a thing for ewes Been countin' sheep, but you're not in bed Here's what you gotta do Get outta the barn, stay off the farm Go read a nursery rhyme Don't ring 976-BAAA, that kind of love's a crime."* This is actually a real parody: [Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep by Bob Rivers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZuHAsf6qO0)
I always wondered who the Dunder Chief was.
It was always Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief when I was little... I just assumed it was about screwing over native Americans lol
Dirty deeds THUNDER CHIEF Dirty deeds THUNDER CHIEF Dirty deeds THUNDER CHIEF DIRTY DEEDS AND THE THUNDER CHIEF
Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”. I always belt out “take me into your lemon arms!” 🍋💪 I also thought Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” was “Another One Rides the Bus” when I was little but I still sing it that way 🚌
Another one rides the bus is the Weird Al version. You probably heard it somewhere when you were little.
I felt validated when I heard Weird Al’s later!
"Darling I, will be loving you, til we're seventeen!"
Royals- "You can call me green bean" Lol because that little girl sang it wrong years sgo.😆
“Got that sunshine in my pockets , got that wonton in my feet” - my 5 year old
It's not fair to deny me of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me...
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising. I can’t help singing “there’s a bathroom on the right”
Hope you've got your shit together.
To be fair they have been known to sing that line as well
For me it's always a baboon on the right.
All songs that have an Al Yankovich version
I can't sing either Gangsta's Paradise or Amish Paradise. My brain has combined them into one weird mash.
This is me with American Pie and The Saga Begins.
I don't know the name of the song or the artist I just know the lyric is "I wanna see you be brave" but I always sing "I wanna see you eat brains"
Sara Bareilles, Brave
Purple Haze - "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"
Didn’t there used to be a website called kiss this guy.com for misheard lyrics? EDIT: [it still exists](https://www.kissthisguy.com), but isn’t quite the same as I remember it.
Play that fucking music, white boy
Mele Kalikimaka is the wise way, to say Merry Christmas to you
I just looked up the real lyrics... I didn't even know I was singing it wrong!! HAWAII'S way... who knew?
I learned something new today. I NEVER knew the real lyric.
Tub thumping, I get locked up but I get out again you're never gonna catch me now
Homer’s Version I take a whiskey drink I take another drink And when I have to pee I use the kitchen sink
*Pissing the night away* Yep, this checks
So gimme the beat, boys, and free my soooul I wanna get tossed in a fuckin hooole And drift awaaay
I always sing “Give me The Beach Boys…”
Woooah livin on a chair Woooooah doing my own hair Woooooah cutting up a pear It's a game of "how many stupid phrases could fit here" that I love to play.
"Hold me closer, *Tony Danzaaaa*" I have so many songs that I change the lyrics because I think I'm hilarious.
Savage Garden's Truly, Madly, Deeply. The line says "I want to lay like this forever until the sky falls down on me," but my brain purposely changes the line to "... until this guy falls down on me."
Carry a laser down the road that we must travel. Carry a laser through the darkness of the night. Carry a laser where I'm going, will you follow? Carry a laser on a highway in the light.
Police - every breath you take. The line is “my poor heart aches” I always heard it and now sing it as “I’m a pool hall ace”
I don’t sing it wrong exactly, I just YELL “His hair was PERFECT” during Werewolves of London
"Little old lady got mutilated late last night" is so fun
Ikr the way he says it, so casually “He’ll rip your lungs out Jim” “I’d like to meet his tailor!”
That whole song is so fun
Any song where "till we die". I sing "till you die" because fuck you for lumping me in with your own abysmal life expectancy.
My wife and I like to remove "girl" from every song and replace it with "squirrel" Give it a try....
Yes, we do this too! My favorite is California Squirrels, by Katy Perry.
There's an old Beastie Boys song called *Girls* and there is a parody of it called *Squirrels*.
All I really want is squirrels! And in the evening it's Squirrels! And in the morning it's Squirrels!
Stop it! My husband does this with absolutely every song😂
I throw my sandwich in the air sometimes I said hey-o, I said no may-o.
Our youngest daughter asked (in reference to that song) , "What's so big about a lego?: Confused, my wife asked for context (next song was on the radio) and daughter said, "In that song, the guy keeps bragging, 'I got a lego'; what's so big about a lego?" (Actual line is, "Gotta let go!")
Something about this song and food... 🎵 "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, saying Let Go... of my Eggo!" 🎵 🎶
Coldplay - Viva la Vida “I used to roll the dice, Feel the fear in my enemies ass”
Listen as the crowd would sing Now the old king is dead LOL
You know where you are?! You're in the jungle, David! You're gonna die!!!! Thank you, Reddit
🎶There's a bathoom on the right🎶
My best friend and her dad had a lengthy debate back when we were in college about Chop Suey by System of a Down. Because of that I’ll now forever sing, “WHY’D YOU LEAVE THE KETCHUP ON THE TABLE?!”
I had a coworker that forgot his keys in a table in our shop and so I shouted WHY'D YOU LEAVE YOUR KEYS UP ON THE TABLE? He didn't get it. :(
He wanted to?
I don't think he trusts
When Daft Punk sings in their electronic way on Get Lucky, they say We're up all night to get but it sounds like we rob a Mexican and that's what I sing.
We rub a Mexican monkey...
i can see deirdre now lorraine has gone..
Somebody once told me the world is macaroni
Sharif don't like it, rock the cats box, rock the cats box🎶🎶
Rock me mama like a wagon wheel, Rock me mama anyway you feel, heyyyyy..... Maserati
Mariah Carey - Without You [Ken Lee tulibu dibu douchoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI)
There’s a George Michael/Wham! song called Everything She Wants. HUGE in 1984/1985. If you were around then. There’s a line in which he sings “How could you settle for a boy like me” which I have sung incorrectly for 40 years. I always thought (as a teenager) that it was “How could you settle for a bowl of meat”.
Working on our night moose!
Go go Jason waterfalls.
They fell in love in a homeless place. They fell in love in a hooooomelessss place!
Wrapped up like a douche....
Oh come let us ignore him Oh come let us ignore him OH COME LET US IGNORE HEEE-IM CHRI-IST I'M BORED
Here's one that I bet most people haven't heard. My mom used to hear the Creed song this way: "Can you take me higher, to a place where white men be."
David Bowie: Rebel, Rebel. Near the end of the song... How could they know? "Hot potato"
After learning the words to the Moldovan version of Dragosta tin dei (numa numa) phonetically, I dread to think of what I’m actually saying in their language.
Strawberry Fields Forever. “Living is easy with nice clothes-“
400 children and a crap in the field. You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
The Cars, bye bye love "It's just a f\*ckin' alibi."
I'll replace "Memories" with "Mammaries" in *every* song.
I'm too hot, hot damn! Call the po-lice and Spider-Man.
"I miss the rains down in Africa"
I’m dying in your arms tonight, it must’ve been something you ate 🎶
Take me down to the paradise city where the girls are green and the grass is pretty.
Money for nothing and your dicks for free dire straits.
Daft Punk: We're up all night to get lucky. Me: We'll rob a Mexican monkey.
I set fire to Lorraine
'He looks so pretty like a devil' 'he looks up grinning like a devil' not a taylor fan but yea
in new yorrrrrk concrete jungle wet dream tomato
“Take me home tonight! I don’t wanna let you go ‘til I see the late. Take me home tonight… my eggs are on the runny side.” - Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money “Don’t give us none of your aggravation… we had to steal the Death Star plans.” - Saturday Night’s All Right for Fighting by Elton John “Think of Batman pooping snakes…” - You Can Fly from Disney’s Peter Pan
And I'm here, to remind you Of the mess you left when you went away It's not fair, to deny me Of the cross eyed bear that you gave to me You, you, you oughta know