Rock the Casbah misheard as Rock the cash-bar. I thought it was a song about people drinking and being punished for drinking. In my defense, I was 4, and sadly I knew what a cash-bar was.
Jeff Davis of Who’s Line is it Anyway has a story about a friend of his mishearing “reach down, ease the seat back” in Van Halen’s Panama as “reach down, ease the seed bag”, as in adjusting his nuts. Always cracks me up when I think of that or hear the song
I used to think the KISS song went I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day.
It’s far less hard core that way.
Like at least try to get one rock in during the afternoon
Don’t skip roll day though or you’ll regret it later.
🤣
I have to admit, getting a rock n roll nap in is pretty good.
The Decemberists have a rock opera called Hazards of Love and in one song, Annan Water, the main character is trying to strike a bargain with a river to allow him passage across it. It includes the line:
Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drowned be
For the longest time, I would have sworn the lyric was:
Though my mother cries that if I try I sure will drown in pee
Have a listen and tell me you don’t hear that, too.
I always heard “I see a brand new horizon” instead of “I see a bad moon rising”. I feel like my version is waaay more optimistic!
“Therrrre’s a bathroom on the right!”
When the song was new, my dad heard I’m Your Venus played over the school cafeteria speakers, but everyone else knew the song so they didn’t react to it. He went years never understanding the meaning of that song.
Probs a common one but when ever Blinded By The Light came on I only heard “woke up like a douche” instead of “revved up like a deuce”
I only knew about ‘deuce’ as a synonym for poop, when I first heard the song, which made it very confusing.
Turns out it’s a pretty versatile word.
Deuce = 2, or a “number 2”. Pretty sure that’s why we use it for poop
Yeah that’s what I found out. Figured Bruce Springsteen want writing songs about nighttime shitting.
Bruce’s version lyrics are “… cut loose like a deuce” which sounds wayyyyy more intentionally like taking a shit
I heard, “Wrapped up like a douche,” which always went well with misunderstanding the lyric after it, “Another rumor in the night.” (Correct line is “Another runner in the night.”)
My roommate used to think Jimi Hendrix sang “excuse me while I kiss this guy” until I explained it was “sky”.
Although in his defense years later I heard a live version where I’m pretty sure he changes it for a verse or two to “kiss this guy.”
You’re correct, he started occasionally singing “kiss this guy” live after someone pointed the mondegreen out to him and he found it really funny.
That’s such a popular one that there’s a misheard lyrics site named kissthisguy.com
Another popular one is There’s a bathroom on the right=There’s a bad moon on the rise.
For us Dutch it is a mondegreen to hear “fok die kerstman” instead of “rock the casbah”.
Misheard lyrics, also called ‘mondegreens’.
I have a friend who thought Sinead O’Connor must’ve been a mechanic.
Every time she heard the song"Mandinka" she would sing along with it.
And I do love, mending cars
My fave when this subject comes up: “last night I dreamt of some bagels” as the opening line to La Isla Bonita by Madonna
I’m still annoyed that my older teen finished the bagels. The entire package, gone before I had any. I have been dreaming of some bagels
HAMSTER
A DENTIST
FOYER; SE-VEN SPEAKERS!
LOL you re-unlocked a 20 year old memory. Thank you 😂.
Chop Suey:
Why’d you leave the kids upon the table?
I still sing it like that for the absurdism.
Still a good question.
You wanted to.
Removed by mod
B.Y.O.B.
Why do you always sit in the corner?
“I just masturbated with the shade up” instead of “Hide the scars and fade away the shakeup” it very oddly works
My life has been extraordinary Blessed and cursed at once
It’s “blessed and cursed and won”. Totally ruined one of my favorite lyrics ever when I figured that out.
It’s an oldie, but my parents had George Benson’s Give Me The Night on during a road trip and I was pretty sure he was saying “Give me the knife”
That Pete Seeger song (which isn’t really his, but that’s the version I heard) has Cuban Spanish lyrics and isn’t at all about a One Ton Tomato.
