Discussões → Post your favourite mondegreen

Just to start off, I'll post one of my misheard lyrics. (Yes, I do have more. Most are more embarrassing.)

You know the part in Survive where they sing "Somehow, Guido, gotta find a way to survive?" Well, apparently no-one but me knows that.

The lyrics as written, and sung so I am told, are "Somehow we all got to find a way to survive."

I had wondered why Guido wasn't mentioned elsewhere in the song and what he had to do with surviving.

YES! Love a good Creedence Mondegreen.

My dad swore for 20 odd years that the lyric from Down On The Corner was "you don't need a pinhead just to hang around."

I Wanna Be Sedated by the Ramones = I want a piece of bacon.

For like a year after I got the album Roulette Girl I heard a line in Swan Dive as "And remind you in its leather vice/Of failures you’d forgot" instead of "remind you in its lullabies." I don't know what a leather vice is, and frankly I don't think I want to. The worst part is that the CD had the lyrics in the liner notes the whole time.

There's a Five O'Clock Heroes song (Run to Her?) with the line "I know your daughter, oh so well" that I still hear as, "I know your daughter, Orson Welles." I didn't even know Orson Welles had a daughter.

On Brian Wilson's 'Child is the Father of Man', I hear

"Easy my child, it's just enough to believe (I believe, I believe, I believe)
Out of the wild into what you can't conceive
Eugene"
I thought, why, or who is Eugene... it wasn't Eugene, it was "You'll change"...

and... an oldie but a goodie:

Alex the seal = Our lips are sealed (Go-Gos/Fun Boy Three)

Some of mine.

Gina wants to die of old age ==> Gina works in a diner all day (Bon Jovi, Living On A Prayer)

And a couple that betray my geekiness:

And the pretty, pretty girls I thought I could trust
Have taken everything but my dial-up

eventually morphed into the correct "...have taken everything but my bad luck" after I realised there was no other evidence the singer was a computer user. I still think my version more accurately conveys misery, though. :P

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We're wasting our time watching our old re-runs
Waiting for the good one that never comes
You say it beats working on the Internets (Semisonic, Who's Stopping You?)

After I realised that this had been recorded before the general spread of "Internets" as a jokey form of "Internet", I listened more closely and found it was the much more profound

You say it beats working on the emptiness
That's lurking inside your head

Cheryl Cole's "dont talk about this love":

"It's like I could drown in syphilis" - it's actually "It's like i could drown, It's effortless".

But this mondegreen is epic.

"I called your name
and you were gone (and you were gone)" - John Farnham, Pressure Down

when i was a kid i thought it went like this:

"I called your name
and a U.F.O. (and a U.F.O.)"

;)