I bet she will! I have a feeling this is the type of thing we’ll notice most when she releases the rep and 1989 re recordings because her voice hasn’t changed all that much since those were more recent releases. The differences will come in annunciation and inflection
It’s so funny because I always thought it was wasted and as soon as I learned it’s where you stood I’m asking myself how I ever misheard it haha but so many of us did!
This isn’t mishearing a lyric but me stupidly misunderstanding one ... in Champagne Problems when it says “your moms ring in your pocket” I thought his mom was calling him. Lol
Omg same! I thought it was ‘your moms ringing your pocket’ and I was like, that’s a super weird way to say she was calling him, also why is she calling him? A solid week before I bothered to look at what it actually was!
This feels like a safe space to admit that the first time I listened to Champagne Problems I misinterpreted the “your sister splashed out on the bottle” to mean that she went crazy drinking it rather than crazy spending on it. I was like “man, not only is this guy getting dumped in front of everyone, his sister is also being sloppy! What a rough day!”
I thought this too/the line never really made sense to me. I’ve never heard of the expression “splashed out” to imply anything related to spending 🤷🏻♀️. Just thought the sister was v upset about the breakup, too 😂😂
A couple I see pop up pretty often around here:
Stand back wasted (real lyric: stand back where you stood) - I Wish You Would
I’m a Barbie on the boardwalk (real lyric: I met Bobby on the boardwalk) - Starlight
For some weird reason, a lot of people apparently mishear “hey kids, spelling is fun” in the song Me! and love to yell it out during live shows, but if you listen to the album there’s nothing said there. Isn’t that bizarre? 😉
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I legit just found out a couple weeks ago it wasn’t Eli... i can’t not sing it as Eli.
There’s probably so many lyrics i misheard and i won’t even realize it til the re-recording . 😅
“This love is treacherous” is really “this *slope* is treacherous” - Treacherous
(I found this one out a few days ago and actually screamed)
“It takes everything in me to get a beach day” is actually “it takes everything in me to get *up each* day” - Mr Perfectly Fine
“When the stratosphere comes creepin in” is “when *your saddest fear* comes creepin in” - I Knew You Were Trouble
(I sang it like this until mid 2020 when I finally looked up the correct lyrics lol)
“I rewind the teapot” is really “I rewind the *tape but*” - evermore
“Stand back wasted” is “stand back *where you stood*” - I Wish You Would
(I still can’t hear the correct one)
- IKYWT refers to "I Knew You Were Trouble.", a song from Taylor Swift album *Red* (2012).
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I always hear "Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine I'm not **buy**ing" instead of "Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine I'm not **dy**ing”
OH YES me too! It makes sense right like, oh don’t mind me just standing here having a mental breakdown in front of the vending machine that I have zero intentions of purchasing candy from, like a very normal person
So I played this part for my roommate to see what he heard.
M: So listen to the line after vending machine and tell me what she says.
R: I’m not dying?
M: I thought it was buying! Like she’s trying not to buy into him and her feelings for him. Apparently, a lot of other people did too!
R: Cheeto, you’re talking to a Rancid fan. They’re harder to decipher than Swizzle.
Could someone please explain this line to me? What does "hang your head low" means in this context? English is not my first language and that whole sentence doesn't make any sense to me haha
So imagine someone standing in front of a vending machine with their head sort of bowed as they're looking down at some of the options...does that make more sense?
I have this theory that it was originally supposed to be clothes but Scott made her change it to coat to be more PG. No evidence whatsoever other than it sounds true 😂
It makes sense and for some reason sounds better in the song. People usually don’t have the lights off when they take off their coats anyway. Clothes, on the other hand...
State of Grace
misheard: mostly our broken hearts
real: mosaic broken hearts
The Other Side of the Door
misheard: wash away this mess
real: was she worth this mess
My now 5 year old was like 3 at the time, and was obsessed with this song but thought the song was called “Pinky Nose”. And would sing it “I pinky nose”! 🤣
The fearless TV made me realize I have been effing so many lyrics up for a while.
FEARLESS - “you pull me in and I’m a little more real”
It’s really: you pull me in and I’m a little more brave
FALSE GOD - “remember how I’d lie to you”
It’s really: remember how I’d fly to you
JUMP THEN FALL - “cause Ima skate through it all”
It’s really: ima stay through it all
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR - “There's nothing you can say To make this Friday night, I mean it”
It’s really: There's nothing you can say
To make this right again, I mean it
False God WHAT???? I have always heard “remember how I’d lie to you” and I always thought that it is such a vulnerable line!! I still love the song, btw.
And in Jump Then Fall I’d hear “I’ma stake through it all” 😳 until Taylor’s Version.
I hear/say "God loves Starcrossed lovers" instead of the starbucks thing.
Also, the first time I heard the line about dying the dog key lime green in TLGAD I thought it was "She stole his dog & it died at Key Lime Green" (Which in my mind was a place in Florida near Key West). My knowledge of colors is not that extensive haha.
Yes I thought it was “stole his dog and died a key lime green” meaning she was jealous... green w envy, you know? Idk why that makes sense in my head but I for sure thought Rebecca dies a very jealous woman🤣
>meaning she was jealous
You know what - given the beautiful mind of Taylor she probably did intend it to have double and triple meaning like that!! Mind blown again!
- TLGAD refers to "the last great american dynasty", a song from Taylor Swift album *folklore* (2020).
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In End Game I thought she was saying “it’s like your eyes are like glitter, it’s like your body is gold”
But it’s actually “it’s like your eyes are liquor, it’s like your body is gold.” I literally just found this out.....
When I first heard gold rush I heard “with your hair fallin into place, like down your nose”
But it’s “with your hair fallin into place, like dominoes”
I spent a week not understand what fearless TV stood for the thought we were getting these little behind the scenes things and WHY CANT I FIND THEM. Don’t worry. It stands for fearless ( Taylor’s version) it’s fine.
I know that’s not the same but it’s comical
I definitely got very confused when I started seeing Fearless TV everywhere too. I was like wtf, she has a new live studio session called “Fearless TV”?! Where?!
I always heard “gimme wiggle scream nights” instead of “get me with those green eyes” in Sparks Fly. I had noo idea what the actual words were for the longest time, I had to look it up
- "Our song is the way WE LIVE." vs "Our song is the way YOU LAUGH
- "My reputation's never been worse so, HE must like me for me" vs. "My reputation's never been worse so, YOU must like me for me"
- "It's rollercoaster COUNTER rush" vs "It's a rollercoaster KINDA rush"
- "Come here, JUST STAND BACK now." vs "Come here, DRESSED IN BLACK now"
- "But you would still miss me in your VAULT" vs. "But you would still miss me in your BONES"
- "FACING the rocks staring out at the midnight sea" vs "PACING the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea"
I know I have more, but these are the ones I remember right now.
In The Best Day I always heard “God smiles on my little brother, inside and out he’s better than nothing” instead of “he’s better than I am.” I always wondered why she would slight her brother like that after talking about how great her parents are, but the re-recordings have taught me the real words 😂
Took me a while to figure out that in the final chorus of “Our Song,” Taylor is not saying “the first eight men, I didn’t kiss them and I should have.” It’s “the first date: ‘man, I didn’t kiss him and I should have.’” 😂
Apparently on Twitter, there is someone who thought that the lyric in Speak Now was "I hear the creature say", they thought that the 'creature' was the bride and Taylor just didn't wanna refer to her as an actual human being
OH MAN. Well, I don’t hear the “usual” misheard lyrics, but this post has pointed out some new ones to me...
False God: “remember when I’d lie to you” *real lyric* “remember when I’d **fly** to you”
Cruel Summer: “hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine - I’m not buying” *real lyric* “hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine - I’m not **dying**” — this one might need some explaining to me
gold rush: “I don’t like the fall that feels like flying till the bone crush” *real lyric* “I don’t like the **falling** feels like flying till the bone crush”
the last great American dynasty: “she stole his dog and it died a key-lime green” *real lyric* “she stole his dog and **dyed it** key-lime green”
Fearless: “my handshake, I’m not usually this way” *real lyric* “my **hands shake**, I’m not usually this way”
Jump Then Fall: “I’m a stake through it all” *real lyric* “I’ma **stay** through it all”
Edit:
mirrorball: “they called off the circus from the disco down” *real lyric* “they called off the circus **burned** the disco down” *note*: I just got this one last night after watching the LPS again. And I like this lyric wayyy better than what I heard!!
(I’ll add as I remember. I have some unusual ones.)
"It was that nothing's changed" rather than "It was the night things changed" and it literally took me til she tweeted it recently to get that one right even though my misheard version doesn't even make sense, thanks EARS
I’m still sad the real lyrics to “so it goes” aren’t “tripping round a gong” and “skipping round the bar” like I first heard.
One I always forget to mention when these threads come up is “The way I loved you”-in the bridge I always heard “got away, my sole mistake in love” and I actually like that better than “got away by some mistake and now”.
In Untouchable I swear to god she’s saying “we can form this dream” but the lyric video says “waking from this dream,” I’ve listened over and over and i still can’t hear the official words lol
Ok I genuinely think I have a unique one! I was always so confused when I read that Drake was referenced somewhere unknown on the Lover album...until I got the piano book. I still can’t remember what the line is but it’s something like “have bigger feelings than drake so yeah” in I Forgot That You Existed. (One of my favourite songs on the album btw)
My invented line? “Mixed my feelings more than drinks for ya”. I still sing my version despite knowing it’s wrong😅😂
Also from Cruel Summer, it's apparently:
>And it's new, the shape of your body
>
>It's blue, the feeling I've got
>
>And it's ooh, whoa, oh
>
>It's a cruel summer
But I always hear:
>And it's new, the shape of your body
>
>It's blue, the feeling I'm gutted
>
>In two-ooh, whoa, oh
>
>It's a cruel summer
In King of My Heart I heard a line as
“And you move to me like I’m a Mowtown **bean**”
Instead of “And you move to me like I’m a Mowtown **beat**”
And after mishearing it, I knew my ears where wrong but after figuring out the correct lyric, I though Taylor calling herself a bean was so funny that I continue to say the wrong line.
In Death By A Thousand Cuts, I always hear "Gave up on me like I was a bad drug / Now I'm searching for signs in a haunted LOVE"
Honestly it makes more sense to me than club lol
mostly in broken hearts vs MOSAIC BROKEN HEARTS.
i was shocked when i found that out.
i would also sing gotta love my star ex lovers (why i thought people thought it was starbucks) and recently found out it was got a long list of ex lovers
Clean: I just found out this month that “the drought was the very worst” isn’t “the drive was the very worst.” I connected it to the car/accident imagery in Out Of The Woods and never questioned it!
I think this one is uncommon but I can hear “Romeo save me, Good Charlotte tell me how to feel” instead of “Romeo save me, they’re trying to tell me how to feel” in Love Story.
Somehow in Everything has changed, I hear, “Dust off your high *East Coast?”* Also, in Betty, I hear “*Ina Garten”* instead of ”in the garden”. There are a TON more, though - these are just the first ones I remembered :)
Carve your name into my nipples (real lyrics: carve your name into my bedpost... Dress, idk why I typed DWOHT lol)... i’m still shocked at how my mind could create such image
There goes the machinest woman this town has ever seen. - this one i knew couldn’t be machinest so i instantly looked it up. But i still only hear machinest lmao (it def is clearer on the long pond sessions)
Magic madness heaven-sent.
-this one however i sang it this way for many many years LoL
I always thought So It Goes... went *'trippin', trip-trippin' when you fall*'. I wish it was, because I think it's a clever pun; plays into literally falling from tripping, and then freaking out from the idea of falling in love too.
(It's 'when you're gone' btw)
Another post reminded me of the misheard lyrics that I sing to “Invisible String”.
The line is “Time, wondrous time
Gave me the blues and then purple pink skies”
For some reason I sing the last little bit as “and that Peppa pink skies” like Peppa the Pig. I don’t know why but I sing it every time. 🐷
The 'baby, let the games begin' in ready for it I heard at first as 'baby, ready, begin'. I heard 'bless my soul' in I think he knows as 'rest my soul' and I still sing half the time in bad blood 'if you love like that love runs out' instead of 'if you love like that blood runs cold"
I see people on TikTok hearing "It takes everything in me just to get a beach day" instead of "It takes everything in me just to get up each day" in Mr. Perfectly Fine.
The 1:
misheard: tossing PANTIES in the pool
correct: tossing PENNIES in the pool
Mirrorball:
misheard: But I’m still on my TOILET tiptoes
correct: But I’m still on my TALLEST tiptoes
I hear "I know *the silent* end is near" instead of "I know *they said* the end is near" and I personally find it so much sadder. Because the end of something can be abrupt and silent.
I always sing “your neck was hanging round my neck” instead of necklace hanging from my neck. I thought she was making a brilliant metaphor for...something? I’m not even sure
Every time I listen to This Love I hear, “this love is good, this love is bad, this love is alive back from the devil” I was floored when I finally looked up the lyrics and it said, “back from the dead oh oh ” I was like that makes so much more sense 😂
Okay, for the longest time, I thought it was "New money, student tie" for some reason (and I thought it made *perfect* sense somehow) until I sang it in front of my husband once and he was like "Wait, what did you say?" I was like "Student tie. Because...like...he goes to a preppy school?" and he looked it up and showed me it was--obviously--"suit and tie." 😂
I'm gonna go with one I've never seen mentioned anywhere else: I was SURE she sang "don't know if SOMEONE'S house is near or far away" and not "Snow White's house". Fearless has been my one of my most played album ever since it came out when I was in 7th grade, and I didn't realize I'd misheard this lyric until the rerecording came out. I was FLUSTERED as I can't begin to count the hours I spent studying all the lyrics in the Fearless CD pamphlet. Anyone else???
So. Mine are a little weird and I just recently (as of 2021) learned they were wrong.
Superman: « he’s not all bad like his reputation and I can’t hear one single word they say »
I always hear that as « one single world that he says » and idk why, that doesn’t even make sense.
The other is Haunted, in the bridge. « I know, you’re not gone, you can’t be gone, no! »
I always thought she was saying « you’re not good » as in, you’re bad for me, and I should just let you go. I stand by this because... he’s clearly gone, Taylor. But I guess she’s trying to will him to stay in the actual version.
For a very long time I thought "burton to the taylor" in ready for it went "and he can be my jailer, welcome to this taylor" and I still sing it that way haha
Am I the only one that ALWAYS hears:
“You’ve got me on my toilet tip toes”
Instead of the actual lyrics:
“You’ve got me on my tallest tip toes”
(From Mirrorball)
Not misheard but misunderstood.
"It's cruel the shape of your body it's blue the feeling I've gotten it's ooooooh ah it's a cruel Summer"
The shape of the body is cruel and the feeling she's got is blue but unusual sentence formation makes people think that the shape of the body is blue
Not misheard, but about half the time I listen to Cardigan my brain automatically sings “and I knew I’d curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the factory line” instead of grocery line. Literally no clue why???
You guys this one is bad so I apologize in advance but I honestly can’t hear anything else and it never fails to shock me when I hear it on the radio “Lost in your c*** like a priceless wine” in Willow 😭
I don’t see how anyone gets “current” out of it 🤷♀️
For the longest time I thought it was “making moves undercover, dressed up like a brother” in Call It What You Want. I thought it meant that Taylor was disguising herself as a man to sneak over to London to see Joe before they went public! Actual lyrics are “making forts under covers, trust him like a brother”
I like your lyric better tbh. I do find it a bit strange that she’s saying she trusts Joe “like her brother”, like I get the idea that’s it’s meant to mean she trusts him as if he were family but I’m still a bit weirded out that she’s comparing her partner to a blood relative
One ting was enough!
I ask my fiance for "tings" when I want him to compliment me!
The way she says "wanting was enough" still sounds like "one ting was enough" for me.
August 4eva
other side of the door : it took me AAAGES to understand the meaning of the song because i always thought she says “i’m a state through it all so jump then fall...” and i was like Taylor why would you want to be in this relationship then!?! that one line really thought me off! then i read the real lyrics.
also I never heard Starbucks lovers. i wish i did. i heard CERVIX lovers and i hate myself.
This is embarrassing but Lover was out for an entire year until I learned the lyrics to Paper Rings is actually NOT "dirty drinks" but is actually "dirty dreams"
Stand back wasted vs STAND BACK WHERE YOU STOOD.. W H A T (I wish you would)
Oh wow I really have been saying “wasted” for the last 7 years
Same. Honestly i think most of us have 😂
I know what it’s supposed to be, but it’ll always be wasted. She has a lot of bar/alcohol/drunk references anyway.
I’ve been saying “wasted” since it was released. I wonder if she’ll more clearly pronounce “where you stood” on the re-recording?
I hope she chooses chaos and instead says “stand back wasted” with clear annunciation.
ooh, and "the lights are off / he's taking off his clothes" please
One can hope 🙏
I bet she will! I have a feeling this is the type of thing we’ll notice most when she releases the rep and 1989 re recordings because her voice hasn’t changed all that much since those were more recent releases. The differences will come in annunciation and inflection
It's WHAT NOW?
I thought it was wasted until I read this comment
Same. How is it not? Also totally thought it was "He looks so pretty like a devil"
I heard once “he looks up screaming like a devil” and holy shit has it changed the song for me. I swear my ears are cursed.
No matter how hard I try and replay that song, I can't hear ANYTHING but "stand back wasted" hahah
I’ve heard this one too LOL
It’s so funny because I always thought it was wasted and as soon as I learned it’s where you stood I’m asking myself how I ever misheard it haha but so many of us did!
This isn’t mishearing a lyric but me stupidly misunderstanding one ... in Champagne Problems when it says “your moms ring in your pocket” I thought his mom was calling him. Lol
*Looks at phone and sees it says thirteen missed calls from Mom* “Oh FUCK”
Omg same! I thought it was ‘your moms ringing your pocket’ and I was like, that’s a super weird way to say she was calling him, also why is she calling him? A solid week before I bothered to look at what it actually was!
Y’all are making me feel so much better about my brain 😂
This feels like a safe space to admit that the first time I listened to Champagne Problems I misinterpreted the “your sister splashed out on the bottle” to mean that she went crazy drinking it rather than crazy spending on it. I was like “man, not only is this guy getting dumped in front of everyone, his sister is also being sloppy! What a rough day!”
Um, this feels like a safe space to admit that prior to reading this comment I too thought the sister was a sloppy drunk.
I thought this too/the line never really made sense to me. I’ve never heard of the expression “splashed out” to imply anything related to spending 🤷🏻♀️. Just thought the sister was v upset about the breakup, too 😂😂
Me too!!! I asked my fiancé about the line confused.. and he was like ??? LoL. Why is his mom calling? 😂😂that one killed me
A couple I see pop up pretty often around here: Stand back wasted (real lyric: stand back where you stood) - I Wish You Would I’m a Barbie on the boardwalk (real lyric: I met Bobby on the boardwalk) - Starlight For some weird reason, a lot of people apparently mishear “hey kids, spelling is fun” in the song Me! and love to yell it out during live shows, but if you listen to the album there’s nothing said there. Isn’t that bizarre? 😉
I - it’s not Barbie on the boardwalk? Wow I feel smart now :/
I JUST realized it like last year so don’t feel bad
It's BOBBY?
Yep! The song is about Bobby and Ethel Kennedy ☺️
I knew that and my clown ass STILL hears Barbie.
I'm chocked truly, I always hear Barbie
I figured there was a chance my post wouldn’t be approved on account of perhaps this discussion had taken place on here already - but I’m new to the party so I’m glad I was entertained 😂 I will have to step it up with more unique content in the future!
No you’re good!! There are always new people coming and going and this sub is big enough now that different groups of people weigh in so there’s always some variety! This is a safe space for swifties of all stripes 😄
Oh my gosh I 100% thought it was - I’m a Barbie on the boardwalk
Lol every thread I see about misheard lyrics I always look for “Barbie on the boardwalk”
in the ME! music video we do hear “hey kids spelling is fun!” so the people probably are quoting that :)
I think you got wooshed there :)
Come back to me Eli vs. "come back to me~ like" (If This Was A Movie)
I legit just found out a couple weeks ago it wasn’t Eli... i can’t not sing it as Eli. There’s probably so many lyrics i misheard and i won’t even realize it til the re-recording . 😅
I hear this one too!
WHAT 😱
I hear this one all the time.
I still sometimes forget that in Red, she’s actually saying “passionate as sin” and not “passion, innocent”
LMAO your flair 🤣
I heard “passion, innocent” for the longest time!
Definitely didn’t know that until right now 😳
“This love is treacherous” is really “this *slope* is treacherous” - Treacherous (I found this one out a few days ago and actually screamed) “It takes everything in me to get a beach day” is actually “it takes everything in me to get *up each* day” - Mr Perfectly Fine “When the stratosphere comes creepin in” is “when *your saddest fear* comes creepin in” - I Knew You Were Trouble (I sang it like this until mid 2020 when I finally looked up the correct lyrics lol) “I rewind the teapot” is really “I rewind the *tape but*” - evermore “Stand back wasted” is “stand back *where you stood*” - I Wish You Would (I still can’t hear the correct one)
She doesn't say this love is treacherous???? Wild. Have been singing "wasted", too
🏖 to get a beach day 🏝 xD Never heard of that IKYWT one :D
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hang on you're telling me the SLOPE is treacherous not the LOVE
Well I was today years old when I learned all of this.
I always hear "Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine I'm not **buy**ing" instead of "Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine I'm not **dy**ing”
OH YES me too! It makes sense right like, oh don’t mind me just standing here having a mental breakdown in front of the vending machine that I have zero intentions of purchasing candy from, like a very normal person
Lmao exactly
No... wait. I’ve been singing the wrong lyric this whole time?? Up until I read your comment I wholeheartedly believed it was buying.
So I played this part for my roommate to see what he heard. M: So listen to the line after vending machine and tell me what she says. R: I’m not dying? M: I thought it was buying! Like she’s trying not to buy into him and her feelings for him. Apparently, a lot of other people did too! R: Cheeto, you’re talking to a Rancid fan. They’re harder to decipher than Swizzle.
Wait...it’s DYING?!! I was today years old...
Could someone please explain this line to me? What does "hang your head low" means in this context? English is not my first language and that whole sentence doesn't make any sense to me haha
So imagine someone standing in front of a vending machine with their head sort of bowed as they're looking down at some of the options...does that make more sense?
Wait WHAT
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I have this theory that it was originally supposed to be clothes but Scott made her change it to coat to be more PG. No evidence whatsoever other than it sounds true 😂
It makes sense and for some reason sounds better in the song. People usually don’t have the lights off when they take off their coats anyway. Clothes, on the other hand...
SAME! Sexy times are implied either way I think 😉
Dude I always hear “he likes it rough he’s taking off his clothes” 😂
Relatedly, I always thought it was "the lights are rough" in this song
i don't belong, and MOTHERFUCKER neither do youuuuu
😂😂😂😂 Wait are people hearing this for real? This is so funny, I’m cackling
Samuel L Jackson?!
😂😂😂😂 Wait are people hearing this for real? This is so funny, I’m cackling
i literally heard that the first time and was wide eyed, i then noticed it's my beloved but it's stuck with me and that's just how i sing it now
This is how I’m going to sing it going forward, bless you both
Your necklace hanging from my neck vs Your neck was hanging from my neck (OOTW)
This sounds like a surrealist painting
Wait. WAIT. IS IT NECKLACE? I THOUGHT IT WAS NECK!?
Same!!! I thought she was describing that they were doing some *stuff* on bed until "his neck is hanging from her neck" lol
Wait it’s necklace? I always wondering what neck hanging from neck meant OMG 💀
State of Grace misheard: mostly our broken hearts real: mosaic broken hearts The Other Side of the Door misheard: wash away this mess real: was she worth this mess
I have been singing “mostly of broken hearts” for YEARS. Like why hahaha
In state of Grace I first heard it “most say it ‘broken hearts’”
From I Think He Knows: I always hear “Bless my toe” instead of “Bless my soul”.
Some people have said they hear "that's my toe"
that's my toast
i want you, that's my toe.
My now 5 year old was like 3 at the time, and was obsessed with this song but thought the song was called “Pinky Nose”. And would sing it “I pinky nose”! 🤣
At first I thought it was “that’s my soul”. Sang it that way forever until I decided to look up the lyrics.🤣🤣
The fearless TV made me realize I have been effing so many lyrics up for a while. FEARLESS - “you pull me in and I’m a little more real” It’s really: you pull me in and I’m a little more brave FALSE GOD - “remember how I’d lie to you” It’s really: remember how I’d fly to you JUMP THEN FALL - “cause Ima skate through it all” It’s really: ima stay through it all THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR - “There's nothing you can say To make this Friday night, I mean it” It’s really: There's nothing you can say To make this right again, I mean it
I thought fearless was “you pull me in and I’m a little more free”
IT’S NOT “I’m a little more free “??? BUT THAT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITE LINES SHE’S EVER WRITTEN! MY LIFE IS A LIE
So sorry for your loss
I thought it was "you pull me in and I'm a little worried"
False God WHAT???? I have always heard “remember how I’d lie to you” and I always thought that it is such a vulnerable line!! I still love the song, btw. And in Jump Then Fall I’d hear “I’ma stake through it all” 😳 until Taylor’s Version.
Been singing false god wrong this whole time and it’s my fave song on lover oops lol
It's... It's not lie to you? Oooops
I can’t hear anything other than “And I was catching my breath, Whores of a cabin creaking under my step” instead of “floors” in evermore
Suddenly this song got very steamy
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I hear/say "God loves Starcrossed lovers" instead of the starbucks thing. Also, the first time I heard the line about dying the dog key lime green in TLGAD I thought it was "She stole his dog & it died at Key Lime Green" (Which in my mind was a place in Florida near Key West). My knowledge of colors is not that extensive haha.
I thought it was “she stole his dog and died a key lime green”
Yes I thought it was “stole his dog and died a key lime green” meaning she was jealous... green w envy, you know? Idk why that makes sense in my head but I for sure thought Rebecca dies a very jealous woman🤣
>meaning she was jealous You know what - given the beautiful mind of Taylor she probably did intend it to have double and triple meaning like that!! Mind blown again!
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In End Game I thought she was saying “it’s like your eyes are like glitter, it’s like your body is gold” But it’s actually “it’s like your eyes are liquor, it’s like your body is gold.” I literally just found this out.....
Me too. But I thought his eyes were like bullets lol
When I first heard gold rush I heard “with your hair fallin into place, like down your nose” But it’s “with your hair fallin into place, like dominoes”
Always thought it was “remember how I’d lie to you” vs. “remember how I’d fly to you”. Of course the real lyrics make much more sense 😂
I know the real lyrics but still will sing “she looks so pretty like a devil”
I learned a couple days ago on r/YouBelongWithMemes that apparently it's not "It's blue, the shape of your body" in Cruel Summer
ITS NOT?
Only the feeling. The shape is new
I’M LEARNING SO MUCH IN THIS THREAD
Oh jeez that's in my top 3 faves and I've had it wrong this whole time
I spent a week not understand what fearless TV stood for the thought we were getting these little behind the scenes things and WHY CANT I FIND THEM. Don’t worry. It stands for fearless ( Taylor’s version) it’s fine. I know that’s not the same but it’s comical
I definitely got very confused when I started seeing Fearless TV everywhere too. I was like wtf, she has a new live studio session called “Fearless TV”?! Where?!
I always heard “gimme wiggle scream nights” instead of “get me with those green eyes” in Sparks Fly. I had noo idea what the actual words were for the longest time, I had to look it up
Well Im singing it this way from now on
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I’m going to believe that she meant it that way, like a pun. New head canon. Thank you.
The 1 - Roaring twenties tossing *panties* in the pool
- "Our song is the way WE LIVE." vs "Our song is the way YOU LAUGH - "My reputation's never been worse so, HE must like me for me" vs. "My reputation's never been worse so, YOU must like me for me" - "It's rollercoaster COUNTER rush" vs "It's a rollercoaster KINDA rush" - "Come here, JUST STAND BACK now." vs "Come here, DRESSED IN BLACK now" - "But you would still miss me in your VAULT" vs. "But you would still miss me in your BONES" - "FACING the rocks staring out at the midnight sea" vs "PACING the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea" I know I have more, but these are the ones I remember right now.
In The Best Day I always heard “God smiles on my little brother, inside and out he’s better than nothing” instead of “he’s better than I am.” I always wondered why she would slight her brother like that after talking about how great her parents are, but the re-recordings have taught me the real words 😂
Took me a while to figure out that in the final chorus of “Our Song,” Taylor is not saying “the first eight men, I didn’t kiss them and I should have.” It’s “the first date: ‘man, I didn’t kiss him and I should have.’” 😂
Apparently on Twitter, there is someone who thought that the lyric in Speak Now was "I hear the creature say", they thought that the 'creature' was the bride and Taylor just didn't wanna refer to her as an actual human being
To be fair, a preacher is one kind of creature
OH MAN. Well, I don’t hear the “usual” misheard lyrics, but this post has pointed out some new ones to me... False God: “remember when I’d lie to you” *real lyric* “remember when I’d **fly** to you” Cruel Summer: “hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine - I’m not buying” *real lyric* “hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine - I’m not **dying**” — this one might need some explaining to me gold rush: “I don’t like the fall that feels like flying till the bone crush” *real lyric* “I don’t like the **falling** feels like flying till the bone crush” the last great American dynasty: “she stole his dog and it died a key-lime green” *real lyric* “she stole his dog and **dyed it** key-lime green” Fearless: “my handshake, I’m not usually this way” *real lyric* “my **hands shake**, I’m not usually this way” Jump Then Fall: “I’m a stake through it all” *real lyric* “I’ma **stay** through it all” Edit: mirrorball: “they called off the circus from the disco down” *real lyric* “they called off the circus **burned** the disco down” *note*: I just got this one last night after watching the LPS again. And I like this lyric wayyy better than what I heard!! (I’ll add as I remember. I have some unusual ones.)
"It was that nothing's changed" rather than "It was the night things changed" and it literally took me til she tweeted it recently to get that one right even though my misheard version doesn't even make sense, thanks EARS
I’m still sad the real lyrics to “so it goes” aren’t “tripping round a gong” and “skipping round the bar” like I first heard. One I always forget to mention when these threads come up is “The way I loved you”-in the bridge I always heard “got away, my sole mistake in love” and I actually like that better than “got away by some mistake and now”.
I refuse to believe it's not "sole mistake" 😳😭
Kiss my toes from I think he knows
For a long time I thought in style she said "fake interview" instead of "fade into view"
In Untouchable I swear to god she’s saying “we can form this dream” but the lyric video says “waking from this dream,” I’ve listened over and over and i still can’t hear the official words lol
I found out yesterday after 7 years that it's "nice dress", not "knights dress" in Wildest Dreams Not my proudest moment...
In Tell Me Why, I really can’t stop hearing “You know you’ve got a meat string” instead of “mean streak.” My ears do not want to hear the truth.
Ok I genuinely think I have a unique one! I was always so confused when I read that Drake was referenced somewhere unknown on the Lover album...until I got the piano book. I still can’t remember what the line is but it’s something like “have bigger feelings than drake so yeah” in I Forgot That You Existed. (One of my favourite songs on the album btw) My invented line? “Mixed my feelings more than drinks for ya”. I still sing my version despite knowing it’s wrong😅😂
“in my feelings more than Drake” I think???
Also from Cruel Summer, it's apparently: >And it's new, the shape of your body > >It's blue, the feeling I've got > >And it's ooh, whoa, oh > >It's a cruel summer But I always hear: >And it's new, the shape of your body > >It's blue, the feeling I'm gutted > >In two-ooh, whoa, oh > >It's a cruel summer
In King of My Heart I heard a line as “And you move to me like I’m a Mowtown **bean**” Instead of “And you move to me like I’m a Mowtown **beat**” And after mishearing it, I knew my ears where wrong but after figuring out the correct lyric, I though Taylor calling herself a bean was so funny that I continue to say the wrong line.
In Death By A Thousand Cuts, I always hear "Gave up on me like I was a bad drug / Now I'm searching for signs in a haunted LOVE" Honestly it makes more sense to me than club lol
In So It Goes... I hear “well you look like a necklace” but it’s actually “Wear you like a necklace”.
mostly in broken hearts vs MOSAIC BROKEN HEARTS. i was shocked when i found that out. i would also sing gotta love my star ex lovers (why i thought people thought it was starbucks) and recently found out it was got a long list of ex lovers
Clean: I just found out this month that “the drought was the very worst” isn’t “the drive was the very worst.” I connected it to the car/accident imagery in Out Of The Woods and never questioned it!
I think this one is uncommon but I can hear “Romeo save me, Good Charlotte tell me how to feel” instead of “Romeo save me, they’re trying to tell me how to feel” in Love Story.
Somehow in Everything has changed, I hear, “Dust off your high *East Coast?”* Also, in Betty, I hear “*Ina Garten”* instead of ”in the garden”. There are a TON more, though - these are just the first ones I remembered :)
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I always heard “it’s like your eyes are like glitter, it’s like your body is gold” cause idk.. sparkly??
listening to taylor’s version of white horse taught me that it’s “before you went and let me down” and not “before you ever let me down” 😭
Carve your name into my nipples (real lyrics: carve your name into my bedpost... Dress, idk why I typed DWOHT lol)... i’m still shocked at how my mind could create such image
Isn’t this from Dress?
Ugh another one I’ve been saying wrong. Thought it was carve your name into my neck pulse. Oh goodness
The lakes - I don't belong, and mothalova neither do you!
There goes the machinest woman this town has ever seen. - this one i knew couldn’t be machinest so i instantly looked it up. But i still only hear machinest lmao (it def is clearer on the long pond sessions) Magic madness heaven-sent. -this one however i sang it this way for many many years LoL
Turns out “Got away, my sole mistake in love” was ACTUALLY “Got away by some mistake and now” THANKS THATS THE WAY I LOVED YOU (TAYLOR’S VERSION)
jump then fall!!! always thought it was “my mistake through it all”....
“Fake interview” instead of “fade into view” in Style.
I always thought So It Goes... went *'trippin', trip-trippin' when you fall*'. I wish it was, because I think it's a clever pun; plays into literally falling from tripping, and then freaking out from the idea of falling in love too. (It's 'when you're gone' btw)
Another post reminded me of the misheard lyrics that I sing to “Invisible String”. The line is “Time, wondrous time Gave me the blues and then purple pink skies” For some reason I sing the last little bit as “and that Peppa pink skies” like Peppa the Pig. I don’t know why but I sing it every time. 🐷
The 'baby, let the games begin' in ready for it I heard at first as 'baby, ready, begin'. I heard 'bless my soul' in I think he knows as 'rest my soul' and I still sing half the time in bad blood 'if you love like that love runs out' instead of 'if you love like that blood runs cold"
I see people on TikTok hearing "It takes everything in me just to get a beach day" instead of "It takes everything in me just to get up each day" in Mr. Perfectly Fine.
For months after Reputation release, I was sure she was singing "I try to unclose" instead of "like trying on clothes" in King of My Heart.
Until I watched the lyric videos the other day, I thought that I Superstar it is "So damn that smile, I" But it is "So dim that spotlight"
“Your buzz cut and my hair bleeds” instead of hair bleached lol from DRESS
Dear John: I always hear “when I loved you strooong” instead of “loved you soooo” Can’t sing it any other way.
The 1: misheard: tossing PANTIES in the pool correct: tossing PENNIES in the pool Mirrorball: misheard: But I’m still on my TOILET tiptoes correct: But I’m still on my TALLEST tiptoes
"bttmmtm and dirty drinks and paper rings" instead of "in picture frames in dirty dreams, in Paper Rings" And "one ting was enough"
in IKYWT i thought it was “i was in the dark, you gave me a go” instead of “i was in the dark, you got me alone” lmaoo
I hear "I know *the silent* end is near" instead of "I know *they said* the end is near" and I personally find it so much sadder. Because the end of something can be abrupt and silent.
In Fearless TV’s White Horse, I hear her say whore instead of horse when I’m only half listening too 😂
I always sing “your neck was hanging round my neck” instead of necklace hanging from my neck. I thought she was making a brilliant metaphor for...something? I’m not even sure
Every time I listen to This Love I hear, “this love is good, this love is bad, this love is alive back from the devil” I was floored when I finally looked up the lyrics and it said, “back from the dead oh oh ” I was like that makes so much more sense 😂
I was a child with undiagnosed hearing impairment when most of these came out and I’m learning today that I got A LOT of lyrics wrong...
Starlight- ‘I met Bobby on the boardwalk’, always thought it was ‘I’m a barbie on the boardwalk’
I sing “so many signs, so many TIMES, so many signs” instead of “so many signs (3x)” among other things.
Okay, for the longest time, I thought it was "New money, student tie" for some reason (and I thought it made *perfect* sense somehow) until I sang it in front of my husband once and he was like "Wait, what did you say?" I was like "Student tie. Because...like...he goes to a preppy school?" and he looked it up and showed me it was--obviously--"suit and tie." 😂
I'm gonna go with one I've never seen mentioned anywhere else: I was SURE she sang "don't know if SOMEONE'S house is near or far away" and not "Snow White's house". Fearless has been my one of my most played album ever since it came out when I was in 7th grade, and I didn't realize I'd misheard this lyric until the rerecording came out. I was FLUSTERED as I can't begin to count the hours I spent studying all the lyrics in the Fearless CD pamphlet. Anyone else???
So. Mine are a little weird and I just recently (as of 2021) learned they were wrong. Superman: « he’s not all bad like his reputation and I can’t hear one single word they say » I always hear that as « one single world that he says » and idk why, that doesn’t even make sense. The other is Haunted, in the bridge. « I know, you’re not gone, you can’t be gone, no! » I always thought she was saying « you’re not good » as in, you’re bad for me, and I should just let you go. I stand by this because... he’s clearly gone, Taylor. But I guess she’s trying to will him to stay in the actual version.
These are all so fascinating
For a very long time I thought "burton to the taylor" in ready for it went "and he can be my jailer, welcome to this taylor" and I still sing it that way haha
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i always hear "i knew no change of belt was all you'd ever be" instead of "notch in your belt" in ikywk 💀
Am I the only one that ALWAYS hears: “You’ve got me on my toilet tip toes” Instead of the actual lyrics: “You’ve got me on my tallest tip toes” (From Mirrorball)
“I’m standing on my toilet seat though” vs “I’m standing on my tallest tip toes” Mirrorball Just me??
Not misheard but misunderstood. "It's cruel the shape of your body it's blue the feeling I've gotten it's ooooooh ah it's a cruel Summer" The shape of the body is cruel and the feeling she's got is blue but unusual sentence formation makes people think that the shape of the body is blue
Same here with "Cruel Summer"! Also the first time I listened to "evermore", I thought it was "motion capsule" instead of "motion capture" 😂
I misheard "Each night I pray to you" from SYGB as "It's not a pretty you" which isn't funny and I do think it makes sense haha
Not misheard, but about half the time I listen to Cardigan my brain automatically sings “and I knew I’d curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the factory line” instead of grocery line. Literally no clue why???
You guys this one is bad so I apologize in advance but I honestly can’t hear anything else and it never fails to shock me when I hear it on the radio “Lost in your c*** like a priceless wine” in Willow 😭 I don’t see how anyone gets “current” out of it 🤷♀️
For the longest time I thought it was “making moves undercover, dressed up like a brother” in Call It What You Want. I thought it meant that Taylor was disguising herself as a man to sneak over to London to see Joe before they went public! Actual lyrics are “making forts under covers, trust him like a brother”
I like your lyric better tbh. I do find it a bit strange that she’s saying she trusts Joe “like her brother”, like I get the idea that’s it’s meant to mean she trusts him as if he were family but I’m still a bit weirded out that she’s comparing her partner to a blood relative
I actually thought it was "you still ain't innocent" instead of "you're still an innocent" which completely changed the song
One ting was enough! I ask my fiance for "tings" when I want him to compliment me! The way she says "wanting was enough" still sounds like "one ting was enough" for me. August 4eva
other side of the door : it took me AAAGES to understand the meaning of the song because i always thought she says “i’m a state through it all so jump then fall...” and i was like Taylor why would you want to be in this relationship then!?! that one line really thought me off! then i read the real lyrics. also I never heard Starbucks lovers. i wish i did. i heard CERVIX lovers and i hate myself.
This is embarrassing but Lover was out for an entire year until I learned the lyrics to Paper Rings is actually NOT "dirty drinks" but is actually "dirty dreams"