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"Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair"
Run with scissors
Run with scissors
Through a chip pan fire fight
"Fake Tales Of San Francisco" (MP3)
Get off the bandwagon, put down the anvil.
Get off the bandwagon, put down the handbook.
"Fake Tales Of San Francisco" (MP3)
Get off the bandwagon, put down the apple.
or
Get off the bandwagon, put down the ample.
Get off the bandwagon, put down the handbook.
"Fake Tales Of San Francisco" (MP3)
Get off the bandwagon
And put down the anvil.
Get off the bandwagon
And put down the handbook.
"Fake Tales Of San Francisco" (MP3)
Get off the punk rock and put down the ample.
Get off the band wagon and put down the handbook.
"Fake Tales Of San Francisco" (MP3)
So get off the bandwagon
And put down the anvil.
So get off the bandwagon
And put down the handbook.
"Fake Tales of San Francisco" (MP3)
Get off the bandwagon, put down the iPhone
Get off the bandwagon, put down the handbook.
"Fluorescent Adolescent" (MP3)
Discarded all the Nazi knives for niceness
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness
"Fluorescent Adolescent" (MP3)
The older boy's a slag
Oh, the boy's a slag
"Fluorescent Adolescent" (MP3)
Those drinks weren't as daft as they seemed
Those dreams weren't as daft as they seemed
"From The Ritz To The Rubble" (MP3)
They want arms flying everywhere and balls swelling
They want arms flying everywhere and bottles as well
"From the Ritz to the Rubble" (MP3)
I'll sign anywhere, balls as well
They want arms flying everywhere and bottles as well
"I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" (MP3)
Montagues and calculus
Montagues and Capulets
"I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" (MP3)
Your name isn't real
But I don't care about standard lies.
Your name isn't Rio
But I don't care for sand and lighting...
"I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" (MP3)
Your name isn't real
But I don't care for sound alikes
Your name isn't Rio
But I don't care for sand and lightning
"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" (MP3)
Your name isn't real, but I don't care for satellites
The fuse might result in a band with a banjo
Your name isn't Rio,
But I don't care for sand and lighting
The fuse might result in a bang, b-b-bang-oh
"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" (MP3)
Your name isn’t real but I don’t care for satellites,
The fuse might result in a band with a banjo
Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand and lighting
The fuse might result in a bang, b-b-bang-oh
Remember coodles in the kitchen
Remember cuddles in the kitchen
"Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But..." (MP3)
All you people have round tires.
All you people are vampires.
"Secret Door"
Fools operate
Fools on parade
"Star Treatment"
So who you gonna call? The mighty Nepalese
So who you gonna call? The Martini Police
"Suck It and See"
You're rarer than a can of dandelion buttock
You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock
"The View From The Afternoon" (MP3)
And there's verse and chapter citing Erwin Boggs
And there's verse and chapter sat in her inbox.
"Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High"
A talkin' moose ain't shy
Talking the same shite
"Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High"
Incapable love-making, alright decisions
Incapable of making alright decisions
"Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High"
Why'd you only ever frick me when you're high?
Why'd you only ever phone me when you're high?
"You're So Dark"
Got your one kind of ravens
And a matter of crows
Got your unkind of ravens
Got your murder of crows