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This page contains a list of the songs that have stories about their misheard lyrics submitted.

Song names are sorted by first letter, excluding A and The. This is sorted by song title only, not by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see misheard lyrics for both on the same page (provided the song title was spelt the same both times, and misheard lyrics have been submitted for both!).


Pumped Up Kicks album at Amazon.com
Foster The People's, "Pumped Up Kicks"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All the other kids are bangin' fucked up chics...
The Real Lyrics:
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
The Story: Brings back high school memories. I thought I was left out then, but now they're all paying child support to women they despise - Submitted by: David Carnes
Foster The People's, "Pumped Up Kicks"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, outrun my mom.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, faster than my oven.
The Real Lyrics:
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, outrun my gun.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, faster than my bullet.
The Story: I would always picture this oven chasing kids with bike pumps and nice shoes. Well, I went on that way for about three years, and it being a relatively popular song, every time I would sing it, that's what I would say. Ridiculous enough, I met this girl named Maddy who thought those were the lyrics too. - Submitted by: Sam
Foster the People's, "Pumped Up Kicks"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All the other kids with the foam duck dicks
Singing run baby run,
Faster than my puppet.
All the other kids with the foam duck dicks
Singing run baby run,
Outrun my girl.
The Real Lyrics:
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
Better run better run,
Faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You'd better run, better run,
Outrun my gun
The Story: The song is so jaunty I had no idea it was about a would-be mass killer. The lyrics I heard made no sense. - Submitted by: Lance
Foster the People's, "Pumped Up Kicks"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Your hair's one fire, you ugly twit.
The Real Lyrics:
Your hair is on fire. Have you lost your wits?
The Story: I heard this on the radio and thought it was about MJ. - Submitted by: justine
Foster the People's, "Sit Next to Me"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Feelin' kind of tempted and I'm pourin' out the truth
Just fadin' out these tacos cuz now all I want is you
The Real Lyrics:
Feelin' kind of tempted and I'm pourin' out the truth
Just fadin' out these talkers cuz now all I want is you
The Story: I was singing this loudly in the car with my wife and said the "tacos" line and she about fell over laughing. She said, "Is that a hint that you're hungry?" - Submitted by: Opialises

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