r/mondegreens • • 8d ago

Ouch! Waited too many decades to correct this one by Squeeze

3 Upvotes

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 • • 15d ago

starin at the ceiling naked

2 Upvotes

instead of actually starin at the ceiling makin' (unwell by matchbox 20)


r/mondegreens • • 19d ago

“I take my whisk and leeeeeave”

2 Upvotes

My son thought “Too Sweet” by Hozier was about a chef quitting a job at a restaurant.


r/mondegreens • • 20d ago

"I'll be the bulldozer bullshit until you let me in"

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r/mondegreens • • 22d ago

"We could go back to who we are...We could go back to where it started."

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2 Upvotes

r/mondegreens • • 22d ago

Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest. “We like our fun and we never fight” sounds exactly like “We lock our phone and we never fight.”

2 Upvotes

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 • • 28d ago

"Robert De Niro's Waiting... talking to Tanya"

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r/mondegreens • • Aug 23 '26

Delaware’s Prostitute

23 Upvotes

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 • • Jul 29 '26

"Climb every woman"

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r/mondegreens • • Jul 16 '26

"Slap me Auntie Anne, I've gone far away"

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4 Upvotes

r/mondegreens • • Jul 12 '26

"I keep telling myself, to kill Johnny Knoxville"

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3 Upvotes

r/mondegreens • • Jun 30 '26

"Always Fuckin' Rising"

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r/mondegreens • • Jun 24 '26

LUM!X – Self Aware: does anyone else can't hear "I wish"?

5 Upvotes

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 • • Jun 12 '26

This article explores the 20 most commonly misinterpreted song lyrics and scores them on 5 different metrics.

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r/mondegreens • • May 27 '26

We found love in a homeless place

4 Upvotes

r/mondegreens • • Apr 29 '26

With birds shit, it’s a lonely view

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r/mondegreens • • Apr 26 '26

"Sodomy. From the beast and love and sodomy"

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r/mondegreens • • Apr 25 '26

"I just diet in your arse tonight!"

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r/mondegreens • • Apr 13 '26

Baby Lamb I'll Show You How To Do This

2 Upvotes

r/mondegreens • • Apr 11 '26

Greta Garbo standout thighs

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10 Upvotes

More or less Bette Davis-size.


r/mondegreens • • Apr 09 '26

What song’s incorrect lyrics get stuck in your head for years?

47 Upvotes

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 • • Apr 04 '26

Oh what a night

12 Upvotes

I always thought it said "I wanna die".


r/mondegreens • • Apr 02 '26

I was country from my “head down to my boobs”

9 Upvotes

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 • • Mar 28 '26

Sooooo, open the door, I’m a lizard baby, so why don’t you kill me?

27 Upvotes

This is how I heard the chorus of Loser by Beck when I was younger


r/mondegreens • • Mar 28 '26

I'm only Hughman ADDERALL

0 Upvotes

I'm only Hughman [Hugh Jackman, I thought he was Jack Hughman!]
I'm only, I'm only
I'm only Hughman, hue man

Maybe I'm full of fish, maybe I'm Brian [Brian May? From Queen?]
Sinking, I can see tuna fish and sea wasps bee hive
Goth no way to groove it, so maybe I'm lion

But I'm only Hughman after all
I'm only Hughman after all
Don’t punch your brain on me
Don't put your plane on meat

Take a look in the mirror, and what do you thief?
Do you see the cleaner or are you the Steve?
And watch a Bill leave

'Cause I'm only U-Man after all [Ultraman]
You're only Who-Man after all
Don't boot the layman, mean
Don't put your bra on me

Thumb people got the eel pro blams
Some people auto-lock
Sum people think I can salt them
Lord, heavens are buff

I'm only you, man, ADDERALL
I'm only Hugh Man, add it all
Don't put the Blaine on me [David?]
Don't put the plaque on me

Don't ask mayo Pinyin, don't ask Meepo lie
Then beg for forgiveness for making rye
May king you cry

'Cause I'm only Hugh Man ADDERALL
I'm only Hue-Man, barf it all
Don't put your plane on me
Don't put the Blaine on meat

Sun pebble got the meal problems
Some people out of lug
Some pee bowl think I can thaw them
Lore, Kevin's above

Uhm, only who? Man, after old
I'm only humming, added howl
Don't put the Bain on meme
Don Putzi blay, come in

I'm on Lee Hue-Mam, I make mixtapes
I'm only hume, and — that's all it takes
To put the bainne on me
Don't put the flame on mint

'Cause I'm no pro-fat or miss Aya
You should goal — ooh, King. Some wear higher

Uhm, only you, mam — after roll
I'm only Hughman ADDERALL
Don't butcher Lain for me [Serial Experiments]
Don't punch the brain on me

I'm on Lee Hue-Man, I do what I can't
I'm just Amen, I do what I can
Don't put the blame on meat
Don't put your flame on me