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1960s | |
The Beatles', "She Loves You"
Misheard Lyrics: She loves you, Eddie, Eddie Vedder
Original Lyrics: She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
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The Grass Roots', "Midnight Confessions"
Misheard Lyrics: My modified affection
Original Lyrics: In my midnight confessions
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1970s | |
Billy Ocean's, "Love Really Hurts Without You"
Misheard Lyrics: And get me an Easy-Bake oven
Original Lyrics: And help to ease the pain inside me
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Cheryl Lynn's, "Got to Be Real"
Misheard Lyrics: Milo is older
Original Lyrics: My love is your love
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Peaches & Herb's, "Shake Your Groove Thing"
Misheard Lyrics: Dr. Seuss thing
Original Lyrics: Shake your groove thing
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Styx's, "Renegade"
Misheard Lyrics: I am so far from a whore
Original Lyrics: I am so far from my home
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Talking Heads', "Psycho Killer"
Misheard Lyrics: We are vein and we are blood
I hate people when they're not polite. Original Lyrics: We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they're not polite. |
The Grass Roots', "Baby Hold On"
Misheard Lyrics: You're such an unnatural woman
Original Lyrics: You're such a natural woman
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The Grass Roots', "Sooner or Later"
Misheard Lyrics: Gonna break your heart
Original Lyrics: Gonna save your heart
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The Grass Roots', "Two Divided by Love"
Misheard Lyrics: And one is an only number
Original Lyrics: And one is a lonely number
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1980s | |
Aerosmith's, "Angel"
Misheard Lyrics: You are ancient
or You are ages or You are BJ Original Lyrics: You're my angel
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Michael Jackson's, "Bad"
Misheard Lyrics: Because I bet, I bet
Original Lyrics: Because I'm bad, I'm bad
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Stevie Wonder's, "Happy Birthday"
Misheard Lyrics: Happy birthday, Judy
Original Lyrics: Happy birthday to you
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Talking Heads', "Cool Water"
Misheard Lyrics: This rusted god and gate
Can barely even stand Original Lyrics: This rusted garden gate
Can barely even stand |
The Fixx's, "Stand or Fall"
Misheard Lyrics: It's all your opinion
Original Lyrics: It's the Euro theatre
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The Police's, "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"
Misheard Lyrics: Boo boo boo, ba ba ba
Original Lyrics: De do do do, de da da da
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The Police's, "Don't Stand So Close to Me"
Misheard Lyrics: Sportscast
Sportscaster Sportscaster close to me Original Lyrics: Don't stand
Don't stand so Don't stand so close to me |
Weird Al Yankovic's, "Fat"
Misheard Lyrics: Because I bet, I bet
Original Lyrics: Because I'm fat, I'm fat
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1990s | |
Baz Luhrmann's, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"
Misheard Lyrics: Leaving New York City once
Original Lyrics: Live in New York City once
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Baz Luhrmann's, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"
Misheard Lyrics: Leaving Northern California once
Original Lyrics: Live in Northern California once
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Bill Whelan's, "Home and the Heartland"
Misheard Lyrics: Home in a hot land
Original Lyrics: Home and the heartland
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Blink-182's, "All the Small Things"
Misheard Lyrics: Over smoking
Original Lyrics: All the small things
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Celine Dion's, "The Power of Love"
Misheard Lyrics: The feeling of the Easter Bunny
Original Lyrics: The feeling that I can't go on
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Commercial's, "Pepperidge Farm Goldfish"
Misheard Lyrics: I love to p*** off
Original Lyrics: I love the fishes
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Commercial's, "Popeyes"
Misheard Lyrics: Dusty Springfield at Popeyes
Original Lyrics: Love that chicken from Popeyes
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Creed's, "Beautiful"
Misheard Lyrics: Lust she breathes in the airs of brothers.
Violent sons make bearded mothers. Original Lyrics: Lust she breeds in the eyes of brothers
Violent sons make bitter mothers |
Eternal's, "Stay"
Misheard Lyrics: They say that you're a commodore
Original Lyrics: They say that love will come and go
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Metallica's, "Slither"
Misheard Lyrics: Yeah, we're standing in this jungle
Yeah, with some things I have found Original Lyrics: Yeah, we're standing in this jungle
Yeah, with serpents I have found |
Sting's, "Fields of Gold"
Misheard Lyrics: I love the Easter Bunny
Original Lyrics: As we walk the fields of gold
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2000s | |
Coldplay's, "The Scientist"
Misheard Lyrics: Nobody said it was Easter
Original Lyrics: Nobody said it was easy
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Coldplay's, "Viva La Vida"
Misheard Lyrics: I hear those tingling bells are ringing
Original Lyrics: I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
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Coldplay's, "Viva La Vida"
Misheard Lyrics: I used a Lula roll
Original Lyrics: I used to rule the world
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Oasis', "Don't Look Back in Anger"
Misheard Lyrics: But don't look back, my neighbor
Original Lyrics: But don't look back in anger
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Rihanna's, "Disturbia"
Misheard Lyrics: Nobody in the studio
or Everybody in the studio Original Lyrics: Your mind is in disturbia
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The Pussycat Dolls featuring will.i.am's, "Beep"
Misheard Lyrics: I'm not kidding
Original Lyrics: I don't give a…
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The Pussycat Dolls', "Stickwitu"
Misheard Lyrics: I got Pikachu
Original Lyrics: I'm gonna stickwitu
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Theme Songs', "Little Einsteins"
Misheard Lyrics: Swimming through the sky, Little Eyesight’s!
Original Lyrics: Zooming through the sky, Little Einsteins!
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2010s | |