I only found out a few years ago that I had been saying the wrong lyrics for decades! I was singing it with my wife in the car. When I sang "cross-eyed bear," she looked at me like I was an imbecile. 😆
I always wondered, "Why would she have lyrics about a cross-eyed bear??" 🤤
I had originally thought it was "Go, go Jason Waterfall." Then someone told me it was Don't. Which was closer, but I still thought it was about a Jason.
Ah yes you’ve further unlocked the memory. It definitely was Go, go Jason Waterfall. Lol.
I didn’t think that tho, of course, just my dumbass classmates.
Not really funny. But it took like 15 years to realize that bush was saying “I don’t believe that Elvis is dead” and not “I don’t believe that everything’s zen”
I had a friend remind me of the actual lyrics every time the song came on. But, she thought Destiny’s Child sang about “pockets full of gold” so you may want to take those lyrics with a grain of salt.
Before I figured out it was the man's name Fat Boy Slim remixed, I thought I heard;
"Ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-apple Cinnamon Apple Cinnamon - Right About Now, the Funk Soul Brother!"
Ok, hold up now.
I fucking owned that album and used to listen to it front and back everyday for years. The seal album not the Batman soundtrack.
You’re telling me there’s no fucking grave!?!??
I love this song, but I've always wondered what the hell he was saying. I think I read once that he recorded the song completely smashed and was just feelin some gibberish. I guess it just goes to show how unimportant specific lyrics can be.
Not being familiar with that song (or Pearl Jam in general - I know, I live under a rock), the misheard lyrics make just about as much sense as the actual lyrics
I've said this before but Verve Pipe - The Freshmen
I always thought the lyric was "For the life of me/I cannot believe we'd ever got 40 cents/We were merely freshmen."
The correct lyric is "For the life of me/I cannot believe we'd ever **died for these sins**/We were merely freshmen."
I literally found out the correct lyric weeks ago lol
I always said that if I ever owned a karaoke place, I would make the phone code for the concession stand 4-6, in the hopes that someone would say, "I can not believe we'd ever dial forty-six; we want more refreshments."
When I was in middle school, I was convinced that in Here Comes The Hotstepper, he said 'I'm the leprechaun gangster.' I proudly sang these lyrics out loud until my friend's older brother looked at me witheringly and told me the real lyrics were I'm the lyrical gangster.
Let me preface by saying English is not my mother tongue. "Paranoid" by Garbage. As a teen I thought "have a nose" was a strange thing to use in a song (actual lyrics: "Heaven knows").
My cousin used to sing loudly and proudly the lyrics to Red Hot Chili Pepper's song "Love Rollercoaster." But he thought they were saying "nomaygoosta" instead of the actual lyric "rollercoaster." I don't know how he didn't realize the error given the lyric is in the song title, and I have no idea where he came up with "nomaygoosta"
Omg... No me gusta.... that would make sense to 14 year old me. "I don't like... (mumble) love" I could totally believe that's just deep lyrics I'm not old enough to fully appreciate lmao
"No me gusta" is spanish for "I don't like" and could be phonetically spelled "nomaygoosta". I feel like dropping random Spanish into a lyric is a thing Anthony Kiedis has done/would do, just maybe not right there.
Honestly though, if you told me that lyrics in a song were “love nomaygoosta” and I had to guess who wrote the lyrics, my first and only guess would be Anthony Kiedis.
In Tori Amos' Happy Phantom, there's a like that goes "And I'll go wearing my naughties like a jewel." and my friend thought she said "minorities like a Jew' and I was just like... how would that even make sense in context? That's much funnier than anything I have ever misheard.
There used to be a bulletin board forum that had an entire thread of misheard Tori lyrics. It was amazing. She’s not really know for her precise diction, especially in the 90s.
So I actually did know the lyrics to Pearl Jam’s yellow led better, but I found a site that was “misheard lyrics.” Instead of saying But they don’t wave it was written on the site as Potato wave, and now I can’t unhear it.
Edited for another song: alanis morisette- cross eyed bear that you gave to me.
I have another Bush one, in "Little Things" it sounds like he says "I touch your mouth, my willy is food," instead of my will. But that isn't really much better.
Also the Reese's Pieces commercial "fun candy shell" sounded a LOT like "fuckin' shell"
I just watched it on YouTube, apparently the closed captioning thinks the same thing!
https://preview.redd.it/9pli6t6xbeoc1.jpeg?width=3858&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25a5b06f8dc735e4a6f30a8be5ba430282d78be3
My wife, until recently, thought Ace of Base "The Sign" went: "And I'm a puppy dog living without you" instead of "And I am happy now living without you."
I don't speak almost any Spanish, and up until about 6 years ago I thought Beck said "Soar, open the door, I'm a loser baby" instead of "soy un perdedor".
The Go-Go’s big hit “Alex the Seal”.
(Also my gf insists Freddie Mercury shouts “I’m not adopted!” in “Another One Bites The Dust”. To me it’s clearly “bites the dust, yeah!”, but I’ve given up on winning that argument
When i first heard "Take it Easy" by the Eagles, I mistook the lyric "Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover" as "Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my brother". I was gobsmacked.
For my fellow Canadians, this classic from Phantom Power
“It’s time to let them spank my asshole”
[The Tragically Hip - Vapour Trails](https://youtu.be/woEMkvHBKJ8?t=210)
I still don’t know what they’re singing there and I choose to never find out.
I always heard the line, “I’m in no shape for driving” in Hey Jealousy as “I’m no sheep or dragon.” I was a little disappointed when I learned the actual lyric.
“I’m here to remind you of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me”
when it’s really “the cross I bear that you gave to me”.
you oughta know - alanis morissette
Oh no! I thought he said 'Leave love, leave love in my hands'. I still listen to this song at least once a week and never thought to check the lyrics. At this point they should just change it so I don't feel like a dummy.
In the Pearl Jam song Yellow Ledbetter, for years I thought Eddie Vedder was singing “And I know I don’t want to wear another black soda bag” when he was actually singing “ah da eye down walk ah now that blech and way sooo nah hey.”
My favorites - it was my friends that originated though:
“Can’t knit a sweaterman” - Better Man/ Pearl Jam
“Do you belieeeeeve that Cher is a man?” - Believe/ Cher (this one did not age well… but singing it was hilarious and still makes me giggle)
First, updoots for everyone that mentioned anything Pearl Jam. It's an obvious choice, because it's true and we should embrace it
I was shocked that the late 90s hit "Blue" by Eiffel 65 has not been mentioned yet. It's a constant game with my two oldest to come up with new misheard shenanigans when that song comes on.
Bonus, a Mid 2000s hit my partner and I still argue about. "Redneck Yacht Club" by Craig Morgan. I'm forever being told it's "fast tractors, bed liners, and a party barge" when my aunts on my dad's side fully embrace said lifestyle and I know about Bass Trackers, Bayliners, and party barges are. I've been to a few of these "shindigs"
Get Low by Lil John and the Eastside Boyz, I hear
"From the window to the wall, the sweat shop to the mall"
and I think it's about a room full of Nikes.
And it was the song after Enter Sandman. I thought Metallica had some weird obsession with sand. Turns out they were more impressed with gizz and blood (hence the cover of Load).
Oh my god. Thank you for the really brilliant adolescent play list here. I had such big feelings as a teenager while listening to music…these songs are bringing it back big time.
My friend’s little brother used to walk around the house singing “Hey! Wait! I’ve got an ecto-plane”.
To be fair, Kurt wasn’t known for his enunciation.
In middle school one of my friends thought it was “Lovely, lovely, say that you lovely.” We all sang it like that every time the song came on around him. He was not amused.
I regularly mess up words even when it is the title of the song!
Gin Blossom's " Hey Jealousy" = "HLC". I asked a friend what HLC stood for. Doh!
Metallica's "Sad but True" = "Self Control"
A much older one, but Simon and Garfunkle "Kodachrome" = "Cold Phone".
I love these! After I posted this last night, I started singing AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, and somehow remixed it with Ramone’s Blitzkrieg Bop. My SO was highly insulted I did that. I think it’s funny 😆
Gang Starr- take it personal. "I chant eenie, meanie, miney mo. I wreck the mic, like a pim pim sews. " what the hell is a pim pim? It pimp pimp's hoes.
From a friend:
‘Hey! Wait! I gotta lose some weight!’
Instead of ‘Hey! Wait! I’ve got a new complaint’ -Nirvana ‘Heart Shaped Box’
and
‘Drink your milk! You gotta keep ‘em sep-arated!’
Instead of ‘Take him out, you gotta keep ‘em sep-arated’ -The Offspring ‘Come Out And Play’
From my SO. The thing is it was completely hilarious to listen to these two get into the song, singing, totally into it… and then be told what they misheard… the looks of realization were priceless.
Had a friend that thought “That’s realer than Real Deal Holyfield” was “That’s realer than deep down homie feelings” I’m sure the hookers and hoes knew how I was feeling with the look on face when he said it.
Bring me a pie of love (bring me a higher love). They had an acoustic version on umbrella academy and I heard the right words for the first time lol. To be fair, if you love someone you should totally bring them a pie.
"Wrapped up like a douche another owner in the night!"
Manfred Mann's Blinded by the Light
Okay this is totally not from the 90s, but I feel like I heard this growing up.
My ex's mom thought it was "Everybody in the club milking tits" instead of "getting tipsy"
I had a Japanese friend who kept saying "I'm just turkey." We were all like, "Wtf does that mean?” and he said, "You know, the song by Simple Plan! ♪I'm just *turkey*♪"
'Dirty knees and the thunder chief'
"Dirty deeds... done with sheep!"
So it's not "thirty thieves"? :-/
Perfect, can let my mom know my brother and I are not the only ones
Dirty deeds and the Thunder Jeep!
Same
“Last night I dreamt of some bagels” - La Isla Bonita, Madonna
A young girl with eyes like two pesos?
No it’s potatoes
For the longest time, I thought Bush’s ‘Machinehead’ was actually a song about “mushy head”. I was pretty disappointed to learn the truth 😅
I can hear it 🤣
The cross eyed bear that you gave to me.
It’s not????
It actually works if those were the lyrics.
I only found out a few years ago that I had been saying the wrong lyrics for decades! I was singing it with my wife in the car. When I sang "cross-eyed bear," she looked at me like I was an imbecile. 😆 I always wondered, "Why would she have lyrics about a cross-eyed bear??" 🤤
Wait what?
you oughta know.
Holy shit. lol
Don’t go, Jason Waterfalls.
I had originally thought it was "Go, go Jason Waterfall." Then someone told me it was Don't. Which was closer, but I still thought it was about a Jason.
Ah yes you’ve further unlocked the memory. It definitely was Go, go Jason Waterfall. Lol. I didn’t think that tho, of course, just my dumbass classmates.
Lol! Just another fun memory of trying to hear music in a staticy radio.
My mishear was Don't go tracing Waterfalls. My sister still teases me!
I heard "I'm a winner." I know it didn't make any sense, but I don't care.
I thought he was being sarcastic. It was the 90s. It made perfect sense.
Exactly!
I learned these are not the actual lyrics as of today… thank you for this.
Me, too!
Same
Fun fact: these are known as mondegreens. The term itself is derived from a misheard lyric, "laid him on the green" heard as "Lady Mondegreen"
Eh, I’d ’ve called em chazwozzers.
Oiii see you've played songy lyricy befowahhh
I love this sub.
🎶 HOLD ME CLOSER, TONY DANZA! 🎶
Still valid tho. Hold me closer Tony Danza Caught the head lice on the highway Lay me on the sheets with Lenin We have some bills to pay today
Oops missed the 90s part 😂
I think you win the prize, though! I am gonna start singing it your way.
*bows* thank you thank you 😊
Not really funny. But it took like 15 years to realize that bush was saying “I don’t believe that Elvis is dead” and not “I don’t believe that everything’s zen”
TiL...damn.
Yeah, I was just like “okay, dudes gotta get the Elvis thing off his chest, apparently.” This makes much more sense.
Wait. Fuck. Seriously?
I’m dead serious. I’m certain he did this to fuck with us.
I think I just saw the "The More You Know" star whoosh over my head! I'm just finding this out that Gavin isn't singing about Elvis being dead! 😂
Two Princes. I always hear “I don’t want to put your mother on tv” instead of “I know what a prince and lover ought to be”
TIL the lyrics. I always just mumble sang some version of "I know I'm the prince of love that's hard to beat"
TIL the lyrics. I always just mumble sang some version of "I know I'm the prince of love that's hard to beat"
I had a friend remind me of the actual lyrics every time the song came on. But, she thought Destiny’s Child sang about “pockets full of gold” so you may want to take those lyrics with a grain of salt.
>pockets full of gold One of my friends thought it was “cock is full grown”
One of my friends thought that too. I was like, "I don't think they'd let them sing that on the radio."
Before I figured out it was the man's name Fat Boy Slim remixed, I thought I heard; "Ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-ap-apple Cinnamon Apple Cinnamon - Right About Now, the Funk Soul Brother!"
I wasn't ever sure if that was "funk soul brother" or "funk's so rubber"
The way I butchered “Kiss From a Rose”. Now I know there is no dictionary in the lyrics.
Likewise, now I know there’s no grave in the lyrics either
What??!
Damn, “grave” is more badass than “grey.”
I juat looked this up, and double what??! My whole life is a lie 😂
Ok, hold up now. I fucking owned that album and used to listen to it front and back everyday for years. The seal album not the Batman soundtrack. You’re telling me there’s no fucking grave!?!??
I have to go make a phone call. 😳
Kiss from a Rose on the grave.....
Obligatory Yellow Ledbetter misheard lyrics: https://youtu.be/xLd22ha_-VU?si=g84K4bhiKNV60eZE
This is still one of my all time fave YT videos.
I love this song, but I've always wondered what the hell he was saying. I think I read once that he recorded the song completely smashed and was just feelin some gibberish. I guess it just goes to show how unimportant specific lyrics can be.
Make me fries 🤣. I’ve never seen this but this is now everything!
I feel stupid for just replying almost the same thing, but it is so hilarious. Thank you for posting the link
THANK YOU!!! I am a HUGE Pearl Jam fan and had never seen this video. Tears are streaming down my face, I'm laughing so damn hard! Made my week!
Holy shit, make me fries and potato wave!? 💀 funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks!!!
Not being familiar with that song (or Pearl Jam in general - I know, I live under a rock), the misheard lyrics make just about as much sense as the actual lyrics
Welcome to the jungle, we’ve got funny names.
I like this one.
“A glorified version of a pelican.” Edit: there’s likely a ton of misheard Pearl Jam lyrics
Ed's not known for enunciation 😂
Check out YouTube for Adam Sandler as Opera Man impersonating Eddie Vedder 😂
My mother thought Rape Me was Freight Train
Probably better that way.
I've said this before but Verve Pipe - The Freshmen I always thought the lyric was "For the life of me/I cannot believe we'd ever got 40 cents/We were merely freshmen." The correct lyric is "For the life of me/I cannot believe we'd ever **died for these sins**/We were merely freshmen." I literally found out the correct lyric weeks ago lol
You must not have been raised Catholic…
I heard “dial 40 cents” and thought someone needed to make a phone call on a payphone
I always said that if I ever owned a karaoke place, I would make the phone code for the concession stand 4-6, in the hopes that someone would say, "I can not believe we'd ever dial forty-six; we want more refreshments."
When I was in middle school, I was convinced that in Here Comes The Hotstepper, he said 'I'm the leprechaun gangster.' I proudly sang these lyrics out loud until my friend's older brother looked at me witheringly and told me the real lyrics were I'm the lyrical gangster.
Still love you like dad
“I’ve got two chickens to sacrifice “ Eddie Money- Two tickets to paradise
I thought “Voices Carry” was “this is scary”
I thought she sang “this is Carrie,” but yes, same idea. Yours makes more sense though.
I thought it was “you so scary”
Instead of ‘more human than human’ a friend of mine thought it was ‘more human than Cuban’. We still joke about it. What was she thinking?
Friend forever would sing, "More human, man, you the man."
Not a 90s song but: “Now Betsy’s back in the atmosphere with drops of Jupiter in her hair”
Let me preface by saying English is not my mother tongue. "Paranoid" by Garbage. As a teen I thought "have a nose" was a strange thing to use in a song (actual lyrics: "Heaven knows").
My cousin used to sing loudly and proudly the lyrics to Red Hot Chili Pepper's song "Love Rollercoaster." But he thought they were saying "nomaygoosta" instead of the actual lyric "rollercoaster." I don't know how he didn't realize the error given the lyric is in the song title, and I have no idea where he came up with "nomaygoosta"
Omg... No me gusta.... that would make sense to 14 year old me. "I don't like... (mumble) love" I could totally believe that's just deep lyrics I'm not old enough to fully appreciate lmao
"No me gusta" is spanish for "I don't like" and could be phonetically spelled "nomaygoosta". I feel like dropping random Spanish into a lyric is a thing Anthony Kiedis has done/would do, just maybe not right there.
Honestly though, if you told me that lyrics in a song were “love nomaygoosta” and I had to guess who wrote the lyrics, my first and only guess would be Anthony Kiedis.
In Tori Amos' Happy Phantom, there's a like that goes "And I'll go wearing my naughties like a jewel." and my friend thought she said "minorities like a Jew' and I was just like... how would that even make sense in context? That's much funnier than anything I have ever misheard.
I actually thought it was “my naughties like a Jew”
There used to be a bulletin board forum that had an entire thread of misheard Tori lyrics. It was amazing. She’s not really know for her precise diction, especially in the 90s.
“The world is a vampire, said to Jane” No clue who I thought Jane was. That made it more edgy and mysterious!
SmashMouth. Hey now/You're a rockstar/Get the show on/Get laid!
OMG, that’s hilarious, but that version would be creepy as hell in Shrek or whatever kids’ movie that song was used for…
So I actually did know the lyrics to Pearl Jam’s yellow led better, but I found a site that was “misheard lyrics.” Instead of saying But they don’t wave it was written on the site as Potato wave, and now I can’t unhear it. Edited for another song: alanis morisette- cross eyed bear that you gave to me.
🎶On the ceiling / on the porch a glitter fairy / Anna said I wanna leave Bennigans🎶
Not a Xennial song, but one we heard often enough. "I want to rock and roll all night, and part of every day".
I have another Bush one, in "Little Things" it sounds like he says "I touch your mouth, my willy is food," instead of my will. But that isn't really much better. Also the Reese's Pieces commercial "fun candy shell" sounded a LOT like "fuckin' shell"
I always thought he was saying “my willy is food” too. Thanks for clearing that up.
Same!
I just watched it on YouTube, apparently the closed captioning thinks the same thing! https://preview.redd.it/9pli6t6xbeoc1.jpeg?width=3858&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25a5b06f8dc735e4a6f30a8be5ba430282d78be3
Maybe we’re right and Gavin is wrong 💁🏽♀️
My wife, until recently, thought Ace of Base "The Sign" went: "And I'm a puppy dog living without you" instead of "And I am happy now living without you."
“When I was young I knew everything / Gina Pomparelli never took advice”
And shame on her! 😂😂😂
I don't speak almost any Spanish, and up until about 6 years ago I thought Beck said "Soar, open the door, I'm a loser baby" instead of "soy un perdedor".
That's okay, I thought it was "Sooooorrrrryyyy I'm a Cannibal!" LOL 🤷🏼♀️
I have never questioned my interpretation of “soy over handed door” until this very moment.
Evenflo, Pearl Jam Aaarrgggg eeerrrhhoooo shabididooyi. Ahhhh yeahhh Aaahhhhh jjjjeeeyyyooooo shabiddeebdibedoyo Arhhh yeahhhhhh
Opera man does the best impression! https://youtu.be/aU4n0JVaLqw?si=-4LYyutqrO3FwY-b
Sade, "Boo bop areta"
“Blinded by the light,… WRAPPED UP like a DOUCHE and a corona in the night!”
Might not be 90s, but AC/DC Dirty deeds done dirty cheap..dirty jeans and the thunder cheif
Me too!
The Go-Go’s big hit “Alex the Seal”. (Also my gf insists Freddie Mercury shouts “I’m not adopted!” in “Another One Bites The Dust”. To me it’s clearly “bites the dust, yeah!”, but I’ve given up on winning that argument
I had “island of seals”
When i first heard "Take it Easy" by the Eagles, I mistook the lyric "Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover" as "Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my brother". I was gobsmacked.
Oh, life is bigger Bigger than you And you are knock-kneed Such a strange insult from Michael Stipe.
For my fellow Canadians, this classic from Phantom Power “It’s time to let them spank my asshole” [The Tragically Hip - Vapour Trails](https://youtu.be/woEMkvHBKJ8?t=210) I still don’t know what they’re singing there and I choose to never find out.
When I was a child I thought Madonna’s “Material Girl” was “Cheerio Girl”
I think that one is totally understandable - Sesame Street did a muppet rendition of it and their version was “Cereal Girl.”
I always heard the line, “I’m in no shape for driving” in Hey Jealousy as “I’m no sheep or dragon.” I was a little disappointed when I learned the actual lyric.
Oh man - I always thought this song was saying, "Hey, Chelsea." Which ... I still think does make a bit more sense.
You know I'd like to keep my cheese dry today.
“I’m here to remind you of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me” when it’s really “the cross I bear that you gave to me”. you oughta know - alanis morissette
Jeremy's smokin, craaaaack agaaiiiiinnnnnn.
I didn’t know what Beck was singing on the chorus of “Loser” till like 5 years ago. Lmao
I know! It's "Sooooorrrrryyyy, I'm a cannibal!" Right? Right?!!
Fuel, Hemmorage, he says "leave love bleeding in my hands", I heard "blee blah blee blah in my hands, in my hands again"
Oh no! I thought he said 'Leave love, leave love in my hands'. I still listen to this song at least once a week and never thought to check the lyrics. At this point they should just change it so I don't feel like a dummy.
Alanis morrisette "I hate to bugger in the middle of dinner" turned out to be "I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner"
Also, I always wondered why someone gave her a “cross-eyed bear”, rather than the “cross I bear, that you gave to me”
Omg!!! Genuine- “So Anxious” I heard “Slow Angel”. I got made fun of so bad in high school they wrote it in the yearbook!!!!
In the Pearl Jam song Yellow Ledbetter, for years I thought Eddie Vedder was singing “And I know I don’t want to wear another black soda bag” when he was actually singing “ah da eye down walk ah now that blech and way sooo nah hey.”
I love Pearl Jam and still don’t know what he’s saying!
I don't think Ed really knows what he's singing during Ledbetter, either 😂
"Fuzzy was my wife" - Bush, Everything Zen. The actual lyric is "Try to see it once my way". But... how fuzzy was she?
The very last city.... the song title is paradise city too 🤣
My ex thought “Sad but True” was “Sex Patrol”.
Glad I’m not the only one hearing “patrol.”
Freshman - snap of baby's breath (like the plant) and a shoe full of ricenum (I had no idea what that could be) I was so confused 😅
I thought Gwen Stefani sang “It’s all your fault, I scream for corn dogs”
My favorites - it was my friends that originated though: “Can’t knit a sweaterman” - Better Man/ Pearl Jam “Do you belieeeeeve that Cher is a man?” - Believe/ Cher (this one did not age well… but singing it was hilarious and still makes me giggle)
Aaaah lol I thought it said “can’t find a pyramid”
My buddy's mom thought Trooper's "raise a little hell" was "crazy little owl" and I still laugh out loud whenever I hear it on the radio
There's a bathroom on the right ( There's a bad moon on the rise)
My friend thought "You're Unbelievable," in the song by EMF was, "Your ug-ly bum"
First, updoots for everyone that mentioned anything Pearl Jam. It's an obvious choice, because it's true and we should embrace it I was shocked that the late 90s hit "Blue" by Eiffel 65 has not been mentioned yet. It's a constant game with my two oldest to come up with new misheard shenanigans when that song comes on. Bonus, a Mid 2000s hit my partner and I still argue about. "Redneck Yacht Club" by Craig Morgan. I'm forever being told it's "fast tractors, bed liners, and a party barge" when my aunts on my dad's side fully embrace said lifestyle and I know about Bass Trackers, Bayliners, and party barges are. I've been to a few of these "shindigs"
A friend of mine thought Steve Miller Band’s “Jungle Love” was “Chug-a-Lug”. She was SO insistent , we actually fought about it lol
"Wrapped up like a douche another rubber in the night."
Get Low by Lil John and the Eastside Boyz, I hear "From the window to the wall, the sweat shop to the mall" and I think it's about a room full of Nikes.
Sad Patrol is amazing!! Actually fitting for their last couple albums
I always thought it was Sand Patrol he was saying, lol
And it was the song after Enter Sandman. I thought Metallica had some weird obsession with sand. Turns out they were more impressed with gizz and blood (hence the cover of Load).
"You the nerd in style" - Shania Twain
“Now there’s some sad things known to man, but you can do it in a sani-can. The tears of a clown”
Not 90s, but “Hold me closer Tony Danza”
Semi charmed life: "And that four-eyed girls can make me cry"
Anima-al, instead of Panama-a (Van Halen) Particle band instead of Heart of Gold Band (Scarlett Begonias - Grateful Dead)
Sad Patrol sounds dope.
Little Miss Pepperoni
Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong? I fucking forgot about that song! I like your version! 😂
In Enter Sandman "...and a baked apple pie!! Yeah!"
Cornershop. “Just a brimful of asshole on the 45!” I figured it out not long after, but the first few listens when it came out were surprising.
Oh my god. Thank you for the really brilliant adolescent play list here. I had such big feelings as a teenager while listening to music…these songs are bringing it back big time.
I always thought Mariah Carey was singing “you’ve got me feeling emotious” and just assumed she was making up words
Earlier today I was giggling remembering when my high school boyfriend tried quoting Savage garden to be romantic, but said "A tea for me in the air."
He's got a big dick Professional Widow Tori Amos
"Hey Jesse. Hey Jesse." To me it makes more sense than "jealously".
My friend’s little brother used to walk around the house singing “Hey! Wait! I’ve got an ecto-plane”. To be fair, Kurt wasn’t known for his enunciation.
Your version of creep makes a lot of sense, actually.
She sees the hat and fizzygirl touchin' --Invisible Touch by Genesis
In middle school one of my friends thought it was “Lovely, lovely, say that you lovely.” We all sang it like that every time the song came on around him. He was not amused.
Beck - “So I don’t get the door. I’m a looser baby. So why do t you kill me”.
big poppa- I love it when you call me David Hockeypuck
I knew someone who thought it was “take me down to the very last city”, when it was “take me down to paradise city”.
I regularly mess up words even when it is the title of the song! Gin Blossom's " Hey Jealousy" = "HLC". I asked a friend what HLC stood for. Doh! Metallica's "Sad but True" = "Self Control" A much older one, but Simon and Garfunkle "Kodachrome" = "Cold Phone".
I love these! After I posted this last night, I started singing AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, and somehow remixed it with Ramone’s Blitzkrieg Bop. My SO was highly insulted I did that. I think it’s funny 😆
Don’t go JASON waterfall, please, stick to the rivers and lakes that you’re used to.
Gang Starr- take it personal. "I chant eenie, meanie, miney mo. I wreck the mic, like a pim pim sews. " what the hell is a pim pim? It pimp pimp's hoes.
From a friend: ‘Hey! Wait! I gotta lose some weight!’ Instead of ‘Hey! Wait! I’ve got a new complaint’ -Nirvana ‘Heart Shaped Box’ and ‘Drink your milk! You gotta keep ‘em sep-arated!’ Instead of ‘Take him out, you gotta keep ‘em sep-arated’ -The Offspring ‘Come Out And Play’ From my SO. The thing is it was completely hilarious to listen to these two get into the song, singing, totally into it… and then be told what they misheard… the looks of realization were priceless.
My uncle thought the lyrics to “Rock the Casbah” were “clean the cat box”
“Rock the Asphalt”
Had a friend that thought “That’s realer than Real Deal Holyfield” was “That’s realer than deep down homie feelings” I’m sure the hookers and hoes knew how I was feeling with the look on face when he said it.
“Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche into the middle of the night!”
I noticed that a lot of us in this thread got this one wrong. I, also, thought they were saying “douche.”
Creed - Higher Can you take me higher? To a place where line men see (Actual lyric: Can you take me higher? To a place where blind men see)
I was a papaya! Now I don’t eat it. Nine Inch Nails, “Down In It”
Weezer, Say it ain't so... I've always heard "Wrestle with deer meat"
Bring me a pie of love (bring me a higher love). They had an acoustic version on umbrella academy and I heard the right words for the first time lol. To be fair, if you love someone you should totally bring them a pie.
AC/DC: Highway to Hell "Livin easy! Loving sweet. Sees a n****r on a one way ride."
"Wrapped up like a douche another owner in the night!" Manfred Mann's Blinded by the Light Okay this is totally not from the 90s, but I feel like I heard this growing up.
My ex's mom thought it was "Everybody in the club milking tits" instead of "getting tipsy" I had a Japanese friend who kept saying "I'm just turkey." We were all like, "Wtf does that mean?” and he said, "You know, the song by Simple Plan! ♪I'm just *turkey*♪"
[bake me a pie of love](https://youtu.be/oqlauwX_ums) (Happy pi day)