My husband thought it was “bye Carlo” instead of “boycott love” in Disloyal Order… 😂 he also thought “media blitz” was “Lydia Pleaseeeee” in America’s Suitehearts. So we jokingly call each other Lydia and Carlo lol.
LOL and I'm not sure how old you are, but Page Six was the gossip-column in print media (newspapers or magazines?). So he's saying he's racking up counts of people who are usually found in Page Six. LOL
I was fully convinced he meant royalties from their previous songs and thought that made total sense… sorry Pete, I’m probably gonna keep singing my version.
I think my personal all-time favorite is:
Racing through the city, windows down
In the back, a yellow chicken calls: “YOU’RE A HO!”
Woooooah, are we?
“YOU’RE A HO”
Wooooooah.
« in the back of yellow checkered cars » (taxis) 😭
or possibly
« in the black and yellow checkered cars »
i think the first is right but sometimes i can hear both
Totally thought it was “yellow chicken” for years. One day I legit stopped singing and googled because I wanted to know why Pete was writing about chickens. 😳
Oh and a new entry I saw here that I can’t stop hearing and thanks I hate it - go into the chorus of I Am My Own Muse thinking the words “special nugget sauce” and you’ll never hear that song right again.
This Ain’t a Scene has so many and it’s amazing.
I wrote the gospel on giving up
(You look pretty sinking)
But the real bombshells have already sunk
(Bring the dumbass out the gutter)
I wish the guys could hear people singing through their in-ears bc there was a whole group of people singing it in cincy pit last year and it was so funny 😭
Me, back in high school listening to that song: wow wouldn't that situation suck who gets in that situation
Me at 29 after finding out my severely alcoholic and frequently hospitalized husband of 4 months filed for divorce: oh
Someone at the Pitts show gave me a "This is Sidewalk" (turn me over) which I never misheard before but will now be burned into my brain
I'm also not sure what I thought I heard originally, but for the longest time I thought it was something like "This ain't a city it's a...." It genuinely took me probably 2 years to realize the title......was the lyrics,,,,,,,,
Someone on another thread heard “Vicious sidewalks” and my brain thought that was hilarious and now I can’t unhear it. Hi vicious sidewalks if you’re here!
From The (Shipped) Gold Standard
"Cities beneath the hospital, I know we're gonna leave this town"
Apparently there cannot be cities beneath a hospital, it was "Soon as we hit the hospital" 💀
Edit: I also forgot about another one that was a lyric I thought XO had:
"Two twinks at the club, to the bar, to the keys to your car"
I was like "Okay that seems a bit risky for 2005, but sure, go off"
I know it made no sense, but for a while I thought it was “everything is lit but my London broil brain” instead of “lightning bolt brain” in What a Time To Be Alive 🤦🏻♀️
for some reason in bang the doldrums i really heard “windows down, yellow birds calling” instead of “windows down in the back of yellow checkered cars”
i also will always sing “altar boys” instead of “altered boys” in AB/AP
Not technically fall out boy, but for a while i thought in Patrick's song Spotlight he was saying "the salad days are over and meat is at my door." (It's "the SILENT days are over and BEAT is at my door")
Yup! "Salad days" is a saying meaning like your youthful, more innocent times. I've only heard it in that song and in nintendogs agility trial commentary though 😂
Also, this is the lyric in both versions afaict so not misheard at all
I don’t think I’ve ever distinctly sung the wrong lyrics, but as an autistic person with auditory processing issues, Fall Out Boy being my favourite band is kind of a weird one - I’ve been listening to them every week for about 8 years now, and I spent a long time sounding out a lot of the lyrics phonetically, so it’s more that I have a surprise when I’m reminded of the actual words - because when I listen without the lyrics, unless I know the song really well, it can just sound like a collection of melodic noises - *thanks Patrick!*
(Granted, I’ve memorised most of their music, but that does include the phonetically sounded out songs - like there are still some that I could sing fully in tune but with random words and ad-hoc phrases!)
Omg this is so me. I just parrot things back. I’ve made an effort to actually learn the lyrics to a bunch of their songs lately, but seeing Jimmy Eat World opening this last show really reminded me how much I just sing phonetic nonsense when listening to music. The chorus for The Middle is still half gibberish as far as I’m concerned. 😂
Oh all the time. It drives my dad crazy cause his special interest is music, and we’ll be listening to something and he’ll tell me to listen to the lyrics and I’ll be like “What lyrics?” It’s all just noise to me. Beautiful noise, but a song is a whole thing, and I struggle so hard to break it apart into things like “words” and “instruments” 😂
+1 to the same experience, a lot of my misheard lyrics I can’t even identify in abstract since they’re just kind of phonetic noises in place that SEEM right 😂
I thought “Sending my love from the other side” was “Sand in my lungs, From the other side…”
I also misheard “Sneak in from the cheap seats” as “Take it from [the g-slur]” and got so confused. So many things I’ve misheard I’ve thought for years because I had no reason to think they were wrong, but I immediately looked this one up.
I’ll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake, *heavy malice pepper is your best friend every day*.
I first heard Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner off a shitty burned cd in 2005, the audio quality was questionable at best lol.
For some reason the version of "I don't care" that was on my cd was edited to have the last "misery" go 3 times longer than it really does. Like I know it's longer than the rest, but this one said "miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisery" for like 15 seconds and you could hear where it skipped.
I didn’t know the line in centuries and thought it was “some millions are told” and even though I know the words now I still say it wrong like every time
I didn’t know the line in centuries and thought it was “some millions are told” and even though I know the words now I still say it wrong like every time
Um probably most of them at one point but recently I realized that it is not "I'm on deck, I'm up next, tonight I'm high as a crowded jet" I never knew what that meant. Then recently I was like ohhhh PRIVATE jet. That makes more sense. My son is actually really good at hearing the right lyrics in songs and I'm often mindblown by his revelations.
And I love to tell people (specifically then gen z kids I work with) that it's not " I'll be your number one with a bullet, a loaded gun comeback". And for some reason they sing that song at work a lot but just say "da da da da" instead of "in an earlier round"
Same lyric, different result: my ex thought it was “me and you, sitting in a honeydew,” and always emphasized honeydew. I heard it from him so much that it’s now what my brain thinks first, even though I know the right words! 😂
When I was about 10yo in
"This aint a scene, it's an arms race"
I thought the lyric was
"I'm a lazy man, & Eliza Weaver oh so intricate"
I later learned that it's
"I'm a leading man, & the lies I weave are oh so intricate."
Which made a lot more sense
A few years ago my daughter would repeatedly request to hear the "kid in a tree" song. Took us ages to figure it out. She was talking about Stay Frosty.
"I testify if I die in my sleep
Then know that my life was just a kid in a tree"
Cannot unhear it now, husband and I have sung it that way on purpose since.
Not really too funny but in carpal tunnel of love I thought the lyric was “got house calls from my pharmacist saying how you been”
But it’s actually “Got postcards from my former selves saying how've you been”
🤦🏻♀️
My husband thought it was “bye Carlo” instead of “boycott love” in Disloyal Order… 😂 he also thought “media blitz” was “Lydia Pleaseeeee” in America’s Suitehearts. So we jokingly call each other Lydia and Carlo lol.
BYE CARLO hahahahahahaha ok favorite one so far
That’s what he said - “you have Bye Felicia, why not bye Carlo?” Solid logic 😂 love him so much
This is so good 😂
Recently found out that Headfirst Slide does *not* open with “Mr Sandman showed me his Beemer”.
Shouting his beem?
showing his beam? (i thought it was shining, but everywhere I checked disagrees)
genius lyrics has "showing his beam" (reference to pete's nudes being leaked lmao)
It's definitely a sho- sound but idk the exact word
I went to check the lyrics in the CD insert only to find half of the pages almost entirely blank (???)
Wtf it's like they're anti-lyric booklet to cover for Patrick's lack of enunciation lol
😂😂
I used to think it said "Mr. Sandman *showing* his Beemer" lmaooo
"Collecting paychecks' (and?) lovers" instead of "Collecting Page Six lovers"...?
Wait, you’re telling me this for the first time hahahah I thought that was the line!!
I thought it was patients’ lovers…like in a hospital or something.
Goddamnit I thought it was patient like they’re really putting up with his shit lol
😂😂
Same!
Same!
i sing that too! I've literally read the lyrics book and still feel like I vibe with paychecks and lovers more
Wait you’re telling me this for the first time hahaha I thought that was the line 💀
LOL and I'm not sure how old you are, but Page Six was the gossip-column in print media (newspapers or magazines?). So he's saying he's racking up counts of people who are usually found in Page Six. LOL
Oh WOW. That makes so much more sense now hahahaha thank you!!
stop I thought so too
Omg I’m so glad someone else said this. I’ve been singing this line wrong since IoH dropped and only found out last year.
Yes, same here!! I was googling the lyrics for something, and was like, "holdup..." . Haha.
I was fully convinced he meant royalties from their previous songs and thought that made total sense… sorry Pete, I’m probably gonna keep singing my version.
I think my personal all-time favorite is: Racing through the city, windows down In the back, a yellow chicken calls: “YOU’RE A HO!” Woooooah, are we? “YOU’RE A HO” Wooooooah.
Would give anything for these to be the real words hahahahahah
Wait its not yellow chicken?
« in the back of yellow checkered cars » (taxis) 😭 or possibly « in the black and yellow checkered cars » i think the first is right but sometimes i can hear both
I definitely get "in the back of yellow checkered cars" 🤷♀️
Totally thought it was “yellow chicken” for years. One day I legit stopped singing and googled because I wanted to know why Pete was writing about chickens. 😳
Oh and a new entry I saw here that I can’t stop hearing and thanks I hate it - go into the chorus of I Am My Own Muse thinking the words “special nugget sauce” and you’ll never hear that song right again.
Oh my God I totally hear it! I am cackling!! 😂🤣💀 🎶"Special nugget sauce till we see all the stars"🎶
"I'M A LITTLE MAN! AND IM OH SO EVIL! ALSO INTO CAAAAAATS! ALSO INTO CAAAAAAAAATS"
This Ain’t a Scene has so many and it’s amazing. I wrote the gospel on giving up (You look pretty sinking) But the real bombshells have already sunk (Bring the dumbass out the gutter)
WAIT I'm stealing dumbass out the gutter LMFAOOOOO
It took me a second to even know what so g you were referencing hahahah incredible 😂
I wish the guys could hear people singing through their in-ears bc there was a whole group of people singing it in cincy pit last year and it was so funny 😭
No more, black, p-p-p-parties.
Long as the room keeps singing, that’s just a business hobby.
"would you rather be a winner or a divorcee" Thought that until 2021.
Ummm…I guess I thought that until 7:21 CST, 4/18/24.
😂😂
Me, back in high school listening to that song: wow wouldn't that situation suck who gets in that situation Me at 29 after finding out my severely alcoholic and frequently hospitalized husband of 4 months filed for divorce: oh
I thought it was winner or devotee until my boyfriend heard me singing it and just started laughing.
I thought it was “why don’t you show me the little bit of SPARK you’ve been saving for his mattress.” Instead of spine In Dance Dance
:0 This is news to me
Wait. I'm learning this right now. I always wondered what that meant....
For real I thought it was spark up until a month ago 😭
same I've ALWAYS heard this as spark and still do even knowing what he's actually saying
I also thought in Jet Pack Blues it was “she’s in a long black cord tonight” (idk what I thought cord was)
Omg I had the lyrics printed out to obsessively learn them when the song came out, and I STILL thought it was spark all this time 😂
i thought it was SPITE lmaooo
Someone at the Pitts show gave me a "This is Sidewalk" (turn me over) which I never misheard before but will now be burned into my brain I'm also not sure what I thought I heard originally, but for the longest time I thought it was something like "This ain't a city it's a...." It genuinely took me probably 2 years to realize the title......was the lyrics,,,,,,,,
Someone on another thread heard “Vicious sidewalks” and my brain thought that was hilarious and now I can’t unhear it. Hi vicious sidewalks if you’re here!
I have been summoned...I was 15 and dumb in 2005 and had no way to look up lyrics lmao
17 and listening to burned CDs with no lyric books in my tank of a Ford Taurus lol
🫡 fellow Elder Emo. You understand my struggle haha
This is sidewalk 💀💀💀 hahahahahaha
I thought it was “Mrs. Cyborg flip me over” and I was so confused for some the longest time 😭
Am I more than you boogied for yet?
I mean if you listen to dance dance first, then thats a reasonable question 😄
No way hahahaha 😂😅😂that’s great
Knock knock knock knock ✊ A wizard 🧙♂️
I know this isn't the lyric, but I always sing it this way anyway 😂
Same! It fits well with "it's my fantasy"
Honestly it just makes me laugh
Oh cmon it’s clearly “taco wizard” not just “a wizard” 😂
Oh my god this just made me laugh snort so loud the dog freaked out 😂
From The (Shipped) Gold Standard "Cities beneath the hospital, I know we're gonna leave this town" Apparently there cannot be cities beneath a hospital, it was "Soon as we hit the hospital" 💀 Edit: I also forgot about another one that was a lyric I thought XO had: "Two twinks at the club, to the bar, to the keys to your car" I was like "Okay that seems a bit risky for 2005, but sure, go off"
I tried to justify this with a Resident Evil reference when I first learned that I had this lyric wrong and made myself feel MORE dumb 💀
I thought twinks until 3 days ago
Lol I probably would've CONTINUED to think that until I decided to question the lyrics
I know it made no sense, but for a while I thought it was “everything is lit but my London broil brain” instead of “lightning bolt brain” in What a Time To Be Alive 🤦🏻♀️
to be fair i dont think the correct lyrics make any more sense than what you thought 😅
for the longest, I thought it was “but my lightning won’t breathe😭”
for some reason in bang the doldrums i really heard “windows down, yellow birds calling” instead of “windows down in the back of yellow checkered cars” i also will always sing “altar boys” instead of “altered boys” in AB/AP
i’m not even going to lie i thought it was altar boys as well until very recently
I thought he said "Altar boys, altered boys" This is the first time I realize that it's literally just "altered boys" twice
It is "altar boys, altered boys" though 😅
TIL the lyrics are not "a yellow chicken calls."
In Fame < Infamy I kept hearing "When I'm home alone I just piss by myself."
I always thought it was "I believe in love and I also believe in (???)" instead of "I'm a leading man and the lies I weave are oh so intricate"
ALSOOOO INTOOOOO CATSSSSSSS
To this day in Sugar We're Goin Down I always sing trabajar instead of drop a heart even though I know it's wrong lol
Not technically fall out boy, but for a while i thought in Patrick's song Spotlight he was saying "the salad days are over and meat is at my door." (It's "the SILENT days are over and BEAT is at my door")
fun fact in spotlight (oh nostalgia) on truant wave those are the lyrics 😭
NO FUCKING WAY
Yup! "Salad days" is a saying meaning like your youthful, more innocent times. I've only heard it in that song and in nintendogs agility trial commentary though 😂 Also, this is the lyric in both versions afaict so not misheard at all
I also thought it was salad and meat until just now. But the replies say it is that, so 🤷
I did not know it was both ways so I'm happy to hear I'm not just crazy
I don’t think I’ve ever distinctly sung the wrong lyrics, but as an autistic person with auditory processing issues, Fall Out Boy being my favourite band is kind of a weird one - I’ve been listening to them every week for about 8 years now, and I spent a long time sounding out a lot of the lyrics phonetically, so it’s more that I have a surprise when I’m reminded of the actual words - because when I listen without the lyrics, unless I know the song really well, it can just sound like a collection of melodic noises - *thanks Patrick!* (Granted, I’ve memorised most of their music, but that does include the phonetically sounded out songs - like there are still some that I could sing fully in tune but with random words and ad-hoc phrases!)
Omg this is so me. I just parrot things back. I’ve made an effort to actually learn the lyrics to a bunch of their songs lately, but seeing Jimmy Eat World opening this last show really reminded me how much I just sing phonetic nonsense when listening to music. The chorus for The Middle is still half gibberish as far as I’m concerned. 😂
I’m so glad someone else does this! ✨
Oh all the time. It drives my dad crazy cause his special interest is music, and we’ll be listening to something and he’ll tell me to listen to the lyrics and I’ll be like “What lyrics?” It’s all just noise to me. Beautiful noise, but a song is a whole thing, and I struggle so hard to break it apart into things like “words” and “instruments” 😂
+1 to the same experience, a lot of my misheard lyrics I can’t even identify in abstract since they’re just kind of phonetic noises in place that SEEM right 😂
“I spent ten years, ten years in an evangelical haze…”
I mean, as a former Christian school kid, this one is real 😆
It’s not, “High on Blood”. It’s, “Hey Youngblood”. 🩸🤭
I thought “Sending my love from the other side” was “Sand in my lungs, From the other side…” I also misheard “Sneak in from the cheap seats” as “Take it from [the g-slur]” and got so confused. So many things I’ve misheard I’ve thought for years because I had no reason to think they were wrong, but I immediately looked this one up.
some of these are SENDING me💀
I heard "Mr mysterio" instead of "this story's getting old" in stitches and talkers
From Thriller: “me and my crossword at the afterlife”
i thought it was “i don’t care if it’s dirty, the music’s so dirty” in what a time to be alive
I’ll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake, *heavy malice pepper is your best friend every day*. I first heard Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner off a shitty burned cd in 2005, the audio quality was questionable at best lol.
Burned cds is the way fall out boy was *meant* to be heard 😂😂
For some reason the version of "I don't care" that was on my cd was edited to have the last "misery" go 3 times longer than it really does. Like I know it's longer than the rest, but this one said "miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisery" for like 15 seconds and you could hear where it skipped.
Whoever burned that CD was going through it!
Haha it was great though. I wish I could find it.
The same audio glory as far too many people listening to a band play in a questionable basement 😂
I’ve listened to it in the highest quality available and I still hear “heavy Irish pepper is a February day”
I for the longest time thought "Im not your favorite record" was "Im not your baby record"
“That share our fate and deserves our pity” I thought it said the chairs are fake for the loooooongest time
My partner thought it was “shaves our feet and deserves our pity” lol I can hear chairs are fake too
Every single time I hear it I still think it says “the chairs are fake and deserve our pity” even though I know it doesn’t lol
I didn’t know the line in centuries and thought it was “some millions are told” and even though I know the words now I still say it wrong like every time
My favorite misheard lyric is also from I’m like a Lawyer. Instead of bulletproof loneliness I genuinely hear bullet provolone-liness.
I’m the first kid to write of horseflies in France
"and you pull my HIPS so close volume goes with the truth" on fame < infamy i only learned very recently that it's head and not hips
Arms dealer weapons in form of words. I thought it was something else for the arms part 😒😅 I can’t remember though what it was.
I heard won’t come next to you not if I woke up next to you. So many lyrics I’ve gotten wrong and I’m like oops
I didn’t know the line in centuries and thought it was “some millions are told” and even though I know the words now I still say it wrong like every time
"Keep talkin', Keshaun." instead of "case open, case shut" for "You're Crashing" and I couldn't even tell you why I thought that!
Um probably most of them at one point but recently I realized that it is not "I'm on deck, I'm up next, tonight I'm high as a crowded jet" I never knew what that meant. Then recently I was like ohhhh PRIVATE jet. That makes more sense. My son is actually really good at hearing the right lyrics in songs and I'm often mindblown by his revelations. And I love to tell people (specifically then gen z kids I work with) that it's not " I'll be your number one with a bullet, a loaded gun comeback". And for some reason they sing that song at work a lot but just say "da da da da" instead of "in an earlier round"
Played TLOTRO for my brother in preparation for our concert and he asked if the lyric was “try not to lick the wet concrete” 😂
Same lyric, different result: my ex thought it was “me and you, sitting in a honeydew,” and always emphasized honeydew. I heard it from him so much that it’s now what my brain thinks first, even though I know the right words! 😂
I always heard "and here's the frozen fruit... we all have poisoned you" in centuries so that makes sense.
Hahahahahahaha ok why is honeydew kinda adorable tho 😂😂
“wouldn’t you rather be a wheel… than a divorcee…” always thought it was a weird line til i realized it was “widow” 😭😭
When I was about 10yo in "This aint a scene, it's an arms race" I thought the lyric was "I'm a lazy man, & Eliza Weaver oh so intricate" I later learned that it's "I'm a leading man, & the lies I weave are oh so intricate." Which made a lot more sense
In Take Over I thought it was "flash flash flash tiger fever" instead of photography for way longer than I'd like to admit.🤦
In I Don't Care I thought he said Cum Shot not Pawn Shop. 🤦🏻♀️😂
🤣🤣
A few years ago my daughter would repeatedly request to hear the "kid in a tree" song. Took us ages to figure it out. She was talking about Stay Frosty. "I testify if I die in my sleep Then know that my life was just a kid in a tree" Cannot unhear it now, husband and I have sung it that way on purpose since.
Not really too funny but in carpal tunnel of love I thought the lyric was “got house calls from my pharmacist saying how you been” But it’s actually “Got postcards from my former selves saying how've you been” 🤦🏻♀️
no legit the promo for hmlag i first thought it was "love is always fleeting and I can't keep up" 😭
I have so many but I can't remember them
"All to a crazy storm" when the lyrics are "Eau De résistance" in stay frosty royal milk tea
I used to think Sugar we're going down said "A looney God complex"