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Misheard song lyrics

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DEBuckeye

DEBuckeye

It ain't easy, bein' cheesy.
We've all heard the "excuse me while I kiss this guy" version of the Jimi Hendrix lyric, but what are some of the lyrics that you've misheard in the past?

A few for me:
Boston - Peace of Mind
Actual line- "All I want is to have my peace of mind."
I thought- "All I want is to have a piece of pie."

Bad Company - Rock and Roll Fantasy
Actual line- "It's all part of my rock and roll fantasy"
I thought- "Guitar Bob, and his rock and roll family"
 
Any Bruce Springsteen album you can name.
But, there's hope for Springsteen lovers(like me). You can make a copy onto a Memorex Black CD-R using Exact Copy or Nero and improve the sonics by about 50%. I kid you not!
This works for many hard to understand CDs. Try it. :biggrin:
 
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There's a crap-load for me. But I can't remember them now. I bet there's more that I don't even know about.

But here's a good one. I actually like it better the way I thought it was:
Stabbing Westward. I don't know the name of the song.
Real words: "How can I exist without you?"
I thought: "How can I have sex without you?"
 
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Girl I date in highc school thought the Police's song was, "sugar in my cereal bowl" instead of "Spirits in the material world". I did not care about brains then.

When my oldest son was about 2.5, at Christmas he heard on the radio, "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree". However, when he sang it, it came out, "Fucking around the Christmas tree." The site of him happily belting that out still makes me chuckle and the site of him doing that when the mother-in-law was around provides me with eternal joy.
 
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This is called a "mondegreen."

A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase as a homophone or near-homophone in such a way that it acquires a new meaning.
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There are some great examples on the wikipedia page and a bunch of websites about it, including (of course) kissthisguy.com

One I can think of I had a problem with was "Hotel California" and the "warm smell of colitas, rising up thru the air" I heard as "warm smell of tequila." To this day it STILL makes more sense to me. T
 
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