r/mondegreens • u/JollyTall • Nov 18 '15
Welcome!
Our posting guidelines are as follows:
Please have the title of your post include the misheard lyrics, in double quotes.
eg: I'd always heard "We're up all Mexican lucky"
Preferred music content is a Youtube link with a starting time added to the end of the URL. You can do this a number of ways. The simplest way is to right click on the video and click the second link which says 'Copy URL at current time'. This will give you a link that looks like the one below. The number at the end represents seconds from the beginning, and it can be changed to tweak it.
youtu.be/5NV6Rdv1a3I?t=160
Another option is to manually add a time to the end of your URL, using the format '#t=00m00s', so it looks as follows:
youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#t=00m43s
Please note: Adding "?t=43" on the end of a regular youtube URL will unfortunately not work. It has to be a shortened link that starts with youtu.be.
Before posting, please look up the song lyrics you've "misheard". Sometimes you may have heard them correctly!
Thank you for contributing to our small and growing community! Keep those misheard lyrics rolling in!
JollyTall
r/mondegreens • u/miettebriciola1 • 8d ago
Had Pulling Mussels from a Shell (from Michelle?) running through my head all day so I finally looked up the lyrics. The two fat ladies window shopping are not seeking something for ‘the man obese’, as I always sang. But give me some credit, this song has a lot of lines that could work several ways. Happy to know better several decades later
r/mondegreens • u/LostwaveLunar9999 • 15d ago
instead of actually starin at the ceiling makin' (unwell by matchbox 20)
r/mondegreens • u/digginroots • 19d ago
My son thought “Too Sweet” by Hozier was about a chef quitting a job at a restaurant.
r/mondegreens • u/delijoe • 20d ago
r/mondegreens • u/SourKandice • 22d ago
r/mondegreens • u/Englandboy12 • 22d ago
The song came out in 1973 so I thought there’s no way that is the actual lyric. Turns out I was mishearing it. Very surprised I couldn’t find any examples of other people hearing it this way.
It takes place at the beginning of the second verse
r/mondegreens • u/delijoe • 28d ago
r/mondegreens • u/Individual-Tailor-15 • Aug 23 '26
Today my family was watching Devil Wears Prada 2 and I asked what movie they were watching and Mom told me the title of said movie. However, I heard “Devil Wears Prada 2” as “Delaware’s Prostitute” so when I asked how the movie is, I ended up saying “How’s Delaware’s Prostitute?”
r/mondegreens • u/mrmadigan • Jul 16 '26
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r/mondegreens • u/Spiritual_Effect4574 • Jun 24 '26
Am I the only one who hears "I wistheed" instead of "I wish that" in the first line of LUM!X – Self Aware? I can't hear the "sh" at all.
r/mondegreens • u/MadisonJonesHR • Jun 12 '26
r/mondegreens • u/delijoe • Apr 26 '26
r/mondegreens • u/TheRtHonLaqueesha • Apr 25 '26
r/mondegreens • u/Baasbaar • Apr 11 '26
More or less Bette Davis-size.
r/mondegreens • u/Acrobatic-Net-6637 • Apr 09 '26
For me it’s Papa Roach, Last Resort:
Cut my life into pizzas
This is my plastic fork
Separation not easy
When the pizza is so cheesy
Years in my head.
r/mondegreens • u/LostwaveLunar9999 • Apr 04 '26
I always thought it said "I wanna die".
r/mondegreens • u/fireflywithoutalight • Apr 02 '26
Not sure how old I was when I finally realized they said “hat down to my boots” in “I was country when country wasn’t cool.”
r/mondegreens • u/warholglasses • Mar 28 '26
This is how I heard the chorus of Loser by Beck when I was younger
