Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody.
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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.
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by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see
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misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).
I'm sick and tired of the dancing tree,
I'm gonna make my own movie
I'm sick and tired of the damn tv,
I'm gonna make my own movie.
The Story: I have been singing this lyric wrong for 12 years until just now, when I got ahold of the lyrics and felt really stupid. Anyway, I was 12 when I first heard thse lyrics and thought Joe Elliott was talking about those old Warner cartoons in which inanimate objects act alive and dance around and all and was just bored watching them so he decided he was going to have his own tv show or something (You know, like public access or something?) - Submitted by: Sandi The Glamm Slamm Goddezz Of Noize
And I want, and I need, and I love
Alcohol
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal
The Story: It was freshman year in college at my first frat party and I really thought that was the song because that's what everyone was yelling while singing along! - Submitted by: Brady
I need your touch on me down low, whoa oh
I gotta feel it in my blood (Whoa oh!)
I need your touch, don't need your love (Whoa oh!)
The Story: never knew the actual lyrics - Submitted by: dave
Tie me, ride me, bite me, animal
Take me, tame me, make me your animal
The Story: I was singing this song in a car with my brother when I was about 10. When I sang these lyrics, his jaw dropped. He couldn't believe his little brother would sing such dirty lyrics (of course I didn't know what they meant at the time, I just thought it was a referrence to an animal!) This song became known as 'The Little Pervert Song'! I'm 22 now, and he still makes fun of me anytime its on. - Submitted by: GoBlue
take me...take me...make me a animal
Take me, tame me, make me your animal
The Story: just been singing it this way forever...oops! - Submitted by: jennifer
Hey, but are you candyman?
I'm a candyman!
Oh really candyman?
Yes I'm a candyman!
Hey, but are you gettin' it?
I'm a gettin' it!
Oh really gettin' it?
Yes I'm a gettin' it!
The Story: If you imagine that he sings that, when you hear the song, it gets kinda funny! - Submitted by: Emilia Keifer
I'm a dirty man!
Armageddon it!
The Story: Me and my friend were sitting on a school bus one morning. We were listening to this song and I was like, "It sounds like they're saying, 'I'm a dirty man.'" - Submitted by: Lauren
Poulet, Poulet... (Pronounced poo-lay, the French word for chicken)
Pull it, Pull it
The Story: No story. Just how I heard it for years until I finally read them. - Submitted by: Jim
I'm a spaghetti head!
Armeggedon It!
The Story: I received this CD for Christmas from my older sister when I was in junior high. My dad thought these were the lyrics. We still laugh about it today. - Submitted by: K Wright
I got food for sale
I'm not foolin' myself
The Story: My daughter was about 10 when she heard this on my tape deck. She began singing along, 'I got food for sale...' This is sung as background to the more common lyric, 'Baby I'm NOT f-f-f-foolin''. - Submitted by: Bill Irvin
I'll sing it out loud!
F-f-f-foolin'
Cause, baby, I'm not
F-f-f-foolin'
The Story: When I was five, I thought this was what the singer was saying. It was on their VAULT CD. - Submitted by: Cassidy
S-s-stupid!
F-f-foolin'!
The Story: I thought it said stupid.... But it's foolin'! - Submitted by: DireStraitsFan
Get ya mocks off!
Getcha rocks off!
The Story: I yelled "GET YA MOCKS OFF!" instead of "getcha rocks off"... Me and my big misheard lyric mouth.... - Submitted by: DireStraitsFan
Tesco
Just go
The Story: If you are reading this from outside the U.K Tesco is a large supermarket chain where I come from. - Submitted by: James d
Have you ever seen someone from Spokane?
Have you ever needed someone so bad?
The Story: You'll never guess where I live. But I have really heard this while listening to this in the car while I'm driving. - Submitted by: John Mifflin
Hysteria, one moment
Hysteria, when you're near
The Story: When I was five, I thought this was what the singer was saying. - Submitted by: Cassidy
I get a stereo, a stereo
I get hysterical, hysteria
The Story: Back in the day, I used to work for a large record store chain where misheard lyrics were quoted/sung on a daily basis. One of the best ones was this guy asking me about 'The Stereo Song.' For the life of me I could not figure out what song he was talking about until he sang it. The song was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard. It was all I could not to bust out laughing in his face because he was just so wrong... - Submitted by: honeybfly
Wisteria, when you're near.
Hysteria, when you're near.
The Story: Back when we were first listening to the song, my friend said she heard 'wisteria'. I had no idea of that. But it sounded pretty damn funny. - Submitted by: Kate
Bearskin, Bearskin, Bearskin, Bearskin Rug
Let's get , lets get, lets get, lets get rocked
The Story: My mother swears that this is what she heard them sing. - Submitted by: john
Get up and move your feet, Meathead.
Get up and move your sleepy head.
The Story: My best friend thought this was the lyric and was singing along while we were heading home from a concert. I nearly drove off the road laughing so hard. - Submitted by: Jt Savage
If you'll do whatever he says
If you've got love in your sights
The Story: Thses are the spoken words at the very beginning of the track, it is digitally phased so as to be difficult to understand. After this line, he says 'Watch out, love bites' and I was trying forever to figure out what he was saying that might fit with what I thought I heard.... - Submitted by: Jim Jacobson
It's bringing me jungle knees.
It's bringing me to my knees.
The Story: The lyrics weren't printed in the liner notes of the cd. And since this was before the age of the Internet, I never figured out what it was, although I was pretty sure it wasn't 'jungle knees'. - Submitted by: Jason Kellner
Road bikes
Love bites
The Story: So Def Leppard got into seeing bikes on the road? - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Every guy radical
Every guy, grab a girl
The Story: I swear the misheard lyrics made more sense than the actual one. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Bone graft - I don't want your bone graft
I don't need your bone graft
All I've got is a bone graft
But it's not enough
Photograph - I don't want your photograph
I don't want your photograph
All I've got is a photograph
But it's not enough
The Story: I was at the gym recently and Photograph came on. I hadn't heard it since I was a kid and I was reminded of being mystified as a child as to what they were saying in the song. The more I listened to it the more "Photograph" sounded like "Bone graft." - Submitted by: Patrick
Fall in love
Photograph
The Story: Whenever I heard this song, I would heard 'fall in love'. I thought the lyrics to be interesting, since I'd always hear 'Fall in love. I don't want Fall in love. I don't need to fall in Love'. Just for the sake of keeping it sounds really cool like that, I'm gonna pretend that it is 'Fall in Love' instead of 'Photograph'. :) - Submitted by: Joseph M
Gotta photograph, picture of
Pancho Villa, you're too much.
Gotta photograph, picture of
Passion killer, you're too much.
The Story: I always wondered why Def Leppard was singing about Pancho VIlla. - Submitted by: Tiffany
I don’t want your phonograph!
I don’t want your photograph!
The Story: I was thinking that he didn’t want a phonograph from Edison or his girlfriend. - Submitted by: Ashley Brown
Let's sing it!
But it's not enough
The Story: The cassette had no lyrics. - Submitted by: Pyromaniac
Marshall Dillon, you're too much
Passion killer, you're too much
The Story: I have never seen Gunsmoke, but Marshall Dillon was mentioned in Die Hard. I listened to Def Leppard after watching this movie so maybe this is why I heard it this way. - Submitted by: Lion Ted
Possum dilla
Passion killer
The Story: My friend and I were cruising around listening to this song. I was singing it out loud and sang 'possum dilla'. She spit out her 'new' Coke. She corrected me after much laughter and a clean up. - Submitted by: Kim
Possum innards, it's too much
Passion killer, you're too much.
The Story: I knew it wasn't "possum innards". But even after I looked the lyrics up after a year the song came on the radio and all I heard was "possum innards". I had to look up the lyrics again. I love the song but can't hear it without thinking of possum innards, gross. - Submitted by: Dave
Put your hood on me, it's too dim
Put your hurt on me, if you dare.
The Story: The cassette version had no lyrics inside. - Submitted by: Pyromaniac
Awesome Zudokahn love
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: I always wondered what 'Zudokahn Love' was. I figured it was something like 'wild monkey sex'. - Submitted by: John F
Awesome shoes are on me.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: I am sending this on behalf of my 8 year old son, who swears this is the correct lyrics. - Submitted by: evan p
Awesome sugar-hot babe
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: I heard this song during the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia. I was completely weirded out by it and by the fact that my rather conservative friend like it so much. Then I heard the real lyrics. - Submitted by: Stacy
Awesome, the drinks are on me!
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: The first time I heard this song, I automatically thought that the song was about a guy buying a drink for some girl. - Submitted by: Sarah
Boy's town, runnin' round the bay.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: I was a child who cared not about lyrics. - Submitted by: Randy
Break the Bible, break it up!
Break the bubble, break it up!
The Story: My friend leads a deprived life. That's because her parents refuse to let her listen to anything that will "take her off the path of God", which, naturally, encompasses Rock n' Roll. So, she's a bit paranoid to begin with when I start putting on some REAL music. Suddenly, she flips out because she convinced Def Leppard, (AKA "Satan") just tried to tell her to 'break the Bible'. Ah, it was so damn funny. And it does sound like they're saying that. - Submitted by: Hilarie
Give me sugar, Homie
In the neighborhood.
Pour some sugar on me
In the name of love.
If you want some cheese now.
In the name of love.
The Story: I was playing this song a couple of weeks ago while my room mate and I were moving into our dorms. She started singing, 'If you want some cheese now!' - Submitted by: Quinallison
Livin' like a bomb, baby come on, get it on Livin' like a mother with a red iPhone.
Love you like a bomb baby come on get it on Livin' like a lover with a radar phone.
The Story: Until a few years ago, I didn't have a clue what they were saying. Recently, I discovered Def Leppard was working for Apple. - Submitted by: Janet
Livin' like a loser with a red iPhone
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone.
The Story: I've ALWAYS heard it like this and couldn't figure out why Def Leppard didn't sue Apple. - Submitted by: Steph
Livin' like a lover with a red iPhone.
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone.
The Story: I always wondered what a red iPhone was, now I can buy one from Apple for 499! Def Leppard was ahead of their time. - Submitted by: Christopher Salinardi
Livin' like a lover with a red-a-phone.
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone.
The Story: I didn't know what a red-a-phone was. I thought it might be something like the Batman phone, where it turns red and light up when someone calls. - Submitted by: Michelle
Living like a bum
Love is like a bomb.
The Story: I sincerely thought these were the words and would boisterously sing along. - Submitted by: Jesse
Livin’ like your brother with red iPhone
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone.
The Story: Hehe iPhones weren’t even invented yet silly - Submitted by: Bobby boob
Love comes shootin' all the way.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: My friend Robb comes to me and says, you heard that new Def Leppard song? I say, 'Pour some sugar on me?' He says, 'Oh I haven't heard that one. I heard this other one called 'Love comes shootin' all the way' He then sings it. I just bust up laughing and corrected him. To this day, 'Love Comes Shootin' All the Way' is one of our favorite songs! - Submitted by: Robb Blum
Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a red hot thong
Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
The Story: I heard it a long time ago while I was in the car with my best friend. A couple days ago I was at the bowling alley with the same friend, and a few others, when they started to play this song. I started to sing at the top of my lungs-I'm not a shy person!-when we got to this part. I belted out what I thought were the right lyrics, and everybody started to laugh at me. They corrected me, and then they let me know that I'm gonna hear about this for a long time! - Submitted by: Heather
Oh, some cheated on me.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: I always sang this and never even realized the lyrics could be the name of the song. So when I married my husband, it came on; and I was singing to the top of my lungs. He said, "What are you saying?" I told him, and I thought he was going to pass out from laughing. He told me what they were actually, and I felt so stupid. i still find myself singing the wrong ones every so often. - Submitted by: Brandi
Poison Sweet Omelette
Pour Some Sugar On Me
The Story: I heard this 'bad' rock and roll song when I was away at summer camp and immediately loved it. Problem is, when I heard it, I had a high fever and was pretty delirious, so I spent the next few very misquided months searching for Poison Sweet Omelette by an unknown band. No dice. - Submitted by: Charles E Davis
Poor son, shoot your own legs
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: I was heard this song for the first time in radio and I misheard that song. - Submitted by: Jovan Akeno Phung
Possum sugar omelet
Pour some sugar on me
The Story: Back when this song came out, I was a teen. I wanted to sound cool to the 'rocker' crowd, so I started sing Possum Sugar Omelet. Funny thing is, no one corrected me because it sounded so close to the real lyrics. Years later, I listened a little closer and heard my misheard lyric correctly performed. - Submitted by: Sharon
Pour some lube on me.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: At a party, I saw kids dancing to it like they were pouring invisible lube all over themselves. - Submitted by: Rupert Thorwell
Pour some sugar on love
We're in the need of love.
Pour some sugar on me
In the name of love.
The Story: I posted this part in my diary on the internet; 'pour some sugar on love' and everytime somebody asks me what that means and where it's from, I have to lie! ;) - Submitted by: Elin
Run, Son, shoot the hombre.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: As a kid, my friend idolized his friend's older brother...until he heard him singing the wrong words to this song. - Submitted by: Jennifer
Take a Friday, Shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up!
The Story: Dave C ! - Submitted by: JJ
Take the Volvo, Start it up!
Take the bottle, shake it up
The Story: I went to Warped tour where a band was doing a cover of this song and I was taking recordings of all the bands with my phone and later played the song to all my friends with me clearly singing the wrong lyrics quite loudly. - Submitted by: Lita
Television lover, baby go all night
Tell that Asian devil, baby go all night
The Story: Heard it since I was young, you can't convince me those aren't the real lyrics. - Submitted by: Mitch
Up-chuck, super-f***er
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: This is actually what I always thought it was until about 3 years ago, when there was a TV commercial that (had the song on it). - Submitted by: Matt
Welcome to the hombre
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: We played this song at New Years' 2003. A lady started singing these lyrics and we just busted out laughing. She had been miss singing this song for about 10 years! - Submitted by: Rachel Bolkema
Welcome to your own world
Pour some sugar on me
The Story: I was out clubbing with a g/f and at the top of her lungs she screamed the wrong words, she later told me that she had been singing the wrong words for 6 years - Submitted by: zac
You got the b***ches and I've got the keys
You got the peaches and I've got the keys
The Story: I heard it on the radio and told my mom. - Submitted by: Alyssa
You got the peaches, I gotta pee!
You got the peaches, I got the cream!
The Story: I was thinking that his Girlfriend would get some peaches from the store and bring them home and then he would say that he has to pee before he can eat them! I laughed so hard I almost caused a car crash! - Submitted by: Riley Roth
Awesome shootin', hombre
Pour some sugar on me
The Story: I was young and didn't hear too much rock as a kid. I just thought this was what it said. - Submitted by: Angua
Awesome sugar, Amen.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: My 3 year old was listening to this old cd and started singing the song. This is what she heard and when I tried to correct her, she told me I was wrong. She is very adamant, to this day, that the words are 'Awesome sugar, Amen'. - Submitted by: ladybug
Awesome, beautiful world
Pour some sugar on me
The Story: When I was eight my dad had this on on a lot and I didn't really know what it meant so I just apparently ad-libbed in made up words from an eight-year-old point of view. - Submitted by: Frenchorngenius
Born to keep on burning
Pour some sugar on me
The Story: Have been singing it this way for 30 years until I watched a movie with subtitles that had the song featured at the end with everyone singing this song - Submitted by: Tara
Boys go shoot your own dad!
Pour some sugar on me!
The Story: Wow... Thought I had it right but didn't.. Haha... DANG ME!!! - Submitted by: DireStraitsFan
Hall off and shoot an hombre.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: I was picturing this as an old Western song. Maybe it's a gunfight between two cowboys. - Submitted by: Jillian Hanschen
Hey for suit of armour.
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: Four of us in the car all had different interpretations, someone else's misheard lyric had something to do with a ham and a sheep. - Submitted by: Allissa
Love is like a bomb, baby
C'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a red iPhone
Love is like a bomb, baby
C'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone.
The Story: A modern day misheard lyric. Just heard this on a British 80s radio station and had to rewind it several times as I’m convinced the words were “red iPhone”! - Submitted by: Garry Davenport
Odio sugar Bombay
When your knees fall down
Pour some sugar on me
In the name of LOVE
The Story: This is actually what my girlfriend believed to be the lyrics of this song when she was it was popular. - Submitted by: Dr. Emmet Ballhammer
Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, it's a prophylactic
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon, fire me up
Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon, fire me up
The Story: I always did wonder how sugar could transform into a rubber (condom). :-O - Submitted by: Craig Johnson
Pour some tuna on Mae
Pour some sugar on me
The Story: My daughter was singing it along to the song, incidentally her name is Mae! - Submitted by: Anne H
Red IPhone
Radar Phone
The Story: While I was in the car, I was listening to that song and I heard Red IPhone. This made me laugh!!!! - Submitted by: Caranime
That lizard's taking a pee
Pour some sugar on me.
The Story: My buddy was doing karaoke and picked this song.... It's still an ongoing joke. - Submitted by: Abby
Welcome to the house of love where it's at
Welcome to the house of love where it's at
Sounds like someone's knockin' at my door
My heart is sweet from head to my knees now
(music) Take it higher, Take me higher, makin' love, makin' love
Welcome to the house of love where it's at
Welcome to the house of love now were out.
Welcome to the house of love
Pour some sugar on me. Pour some sugar on me.
I hot, sticky sweet from my head to my feet take a bottle, take a bottle, shake it up, shake it up
Pour some sugar on me, pour some sugar on me
The Story: I heard this i the radio December 13, 2010 on my way to work and thought that some of the lyrics were just the way I put them down till this morning when my girlfriend to me that the song was Pour some sugar on me by Def Leppard. I still believe there is a song out there with the lyrics that have "Welcome to the house of Love", "Sounds like Someone's knocken at my door." - Submitted by: Todd
You got the bitches I got the weed
You got the peaches I got the cream
The Story: I was 9 and singing this song in the car and my mother asked me what I had just sung and in an innocent manner I sad "You got the bitches I got the weed." She laughed so hard that she forgot to punish me for using bad language, she then blasted the radio for the remainder of the song. - Submitted by: Matthew McInnis
You got the peaches, I'm gonna scream
Sweet potatoes and sour cream.
You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet's the taste, saccharine
The Story: I hated Def Leppard post-Pyromania, but they're one of those bands that just has catchy tunes on the radio. My friends and I all had a big discussion of what the real words were, & this is what we came up with. Hey, it fits, it rhymes, and it sounds cooler than their original lyrics! - Submitted by: Aaron
You got the pizzas, I got the cheese
Sweet potatoes and sour cream.
You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet to taste, saccharine.
The Story: I was six years old when this song came out. And hey, I thought it was about food when I heard it. After all, it had the word 'sugar' in it! LOL - Submitted by: Ramona
cousin's hot, so hot, stinky feet
'Cuz I'm hot, so hot, sticky sweet.
The Story: I was so high when I heard this. - Submitted by: The Human Ballsack
Awesome Dudical Rad
In the name of LOVE
Pour some sugar on me
In the name of LOVE
The Story: It was actually my sister. We were at a bowling alley and that song came on and she started singing and everyone just stared at her opened mouthed then broke into laughter. - Submitted by: Shelby
Stop a lady, stop a lady.
Rock of ages, rock of ages.
The Story: I first heard this song on a tiny cheap cassette player on a school bus and that's what I thought they were saying. - Submitted by: JBL
Wop Wop Duty Wop Wop
Rock rock till you drop!
The Story: My dad told me when he was younger he was singing this song and he heard wop wop duty wop and was singing it out loud! - Submitted by: Jon Leblond
Grover Cleveland got us mowing.
Gunter Glieben Glauchen Globen.
The Story: I was thinking that Grover Cleveland would get Def Leppard to mow some Lawns. - Submitted by: Ashley Brown
I love rocky road
I love rock 'n' roll
The Story: Could have sworn it wasn't just mishearing Joan Jett's (and later covered by Britney Spears) song "I Love 'n' Roll" that made me hear "I love rocky road", since "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied that song as "I Love Rocky Road". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Midnight sleep mattress
Midnight street magic
The Story: I swear the misheard lyrics made sense. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Pedia, pedia
gnithgif er'eW, gnithgif er'eW
The Story: Back then, I didn't know what backmasking was, as that mishearing I found out is "We're fighting" played BACKWARDS. - Submitted by: Shutterbug
I rack and rut and bang it, oh
But cow meow
I'll rap and ruck and jam it up
But count me out
The Story: I heard the song on the radio long before I had the album. As I am not familiar with slang (either English or American), I made up my own lyrics for what I didn't understand. (I am Italian.) The line above is, IMHO, one of the funniest. I also had "Sittin' up, gettin' tanked for I said / Something glued in a lonesome ascent" for the first two lines. - Submitted by: Ugo
Koolaid, Koolaid, Koolaid, Koolaid for lunch
Too Late, Too Late, Too Late, Too late for love
The Story: This song talks about an actor and a clown and the lady across the street. I thought she had invited the actor and the clown over for lunch because she always played the fool. I always heard Koolaid for lunch. - Submitted by: Rob Meyers
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