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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!).


Heart - Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com
Heart's, "All I Wanna Do (Is Make Love To You)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
All I wanna do is fake love to you
or
All I wanna do is tape bugs to you
or
All I wanna do is fake Fudd's 'yoohoo'
or
All I wanna do is take clubs to you
or
All I wanna view is clay stuck to you
or
All I wanna chew is snake gloves for you.
The Real Lyrics:
All I wanna do is make love to you.
The Story: If you had young children in the 90's (when this song got a lot of airplay), instant parodies were the way to avoid answering difficult questions while driving. - Submitted by: Martha
Heart's, "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We walked in the dark, with plenty of trees
The Real Lyrics:
We walked in the garden, we planted a tree
The Story: One of many lines I misheard in this song - Submitted by: Kenny
Heart's, "Alone"
The Misheard Lyrics:
'Til now I always got by on my own
I never really cared into longitude.
The Real Lyrics:
'Til now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you.
The Story: That's just as I heard it as a kid! - Submitted by: Dylan Moore
Heart's, "Alone"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And my love for you is still undo.
Alone.
The Real Lyrics:
And my love for you is still unknown.
Alone.
The Story: When I hear this song for the first time as an unknown song in radio and later I hear it again as "Alone" by Ann Wilson's band in my phone, I feel misheard. Because, that line is referring to how Ann Wilson undoing back her recording to the beginning rather than to know her love for a man. That's funny? About this song: Featured on their album 'Bad Animals' in 1987, this song was topping on Billboard's Pop Chart. In Indonesia, listeners only know "Alone" and not found on other recording from Ann Wilson's band. Usually, there are more than one song beside "Alone" that found on downloadable sites. - Submitted by: Wisnu Aji
Heart's, "Alone"
The Misheard Lyrics:
How do I get you a loan?
The Real Lyrics:
How do I get you alone?
The Story: Seriously, I thought it was a commercial for a bank or credit union the first time I heard it. - Submitted by: Bob Malone
Heart's, "Alone"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I hear the ticking of the clock,
I'm lying here in Brunswick's [sic] Dock.
The Real Lyrics:
I hear the ticking of the clock,
I'm lying here, the room's pitch dark.
The Story: Brunswick Dock is a shipyard in Liverpool, England. I went to school close to there, so we used to laugh about this lyric quite a bit. - Submitted by: goodsexchange
Heart's, "Barracuda"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The real thing don't wanna come to Madrid (Coca cola)
You better, make up something quick (Pepsi)
The Real Lyrics:
And the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
The Story: I thought this song was about coke when I was a kid. - Submitted by: Jacob
Heart's, "Crazy on You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I was a widow last night in a dream I did tell over a clear running street Sang you the song that I heard up the bar And you kicked me live with your sweet flowing love
The Real Lyrics:
I was a willow last night in my dream I bent down over a clear running stream Sang you the song that I heard up above And you kept me alive with your sweet flowing love
The Story: That's the way I heard them for a long time, that's just what my ears told me! - Submitted by: Henry
Heart's, "Crazy on You"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I was a weirdo last night in a dream
The Real Lyrics:
I was a willow last night in a dream
The Story: It really sounded like Ann Wilson was a weirdo in her sleep! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Heart's, "Dog and Butterfly"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Doggone butterfly
The Real Lyrics:
Dog and Butterfly
The Story: My sister Angie and I heard this song on the radio and she started singing it as doggone butterfly. I had to ask her two or three times what she said before I could stop laughing and tell her what it really said. - Submitted by: Diane M. Lystrom
Heart's, "Dog and Butterfly"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Duncan Butterfly
The Real Lyrics:
Dog and butterfly
The Story: Although my husband and I didn't know each other when we were little kids, we both thought these were the words to the song and didn't find out the real words until much later. I always wondered why she was singing about a yo-yo... - Submitted by: Anaija
Heart's, "Dog and Butterfly"
The Misheard Lyrics:
God d*** butterfly
The Real Lyrics:
Dog and butterfly
The Story: The lady that thought these were the real lyrics said, 'Boy, the songwriter must really hate butterflies!' - Submitted by: Myrna Dossey
Heart's, "Even It Up"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Eatin' it out, eatin' it out, eatin' it out.....
The Real Lyrics:
Even it up, even it up
Even it out.
The Story: Sounds naughty. - Submitted by: Joe
Heart's, "Magic Man"
The Misheard Lyrics:
He's a hatchin' man
The Real Lyrics:
He's a magic man
The Story: I was thinking it was having to do with hatching out of eggs when it was really about a magician. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Heart's, "Magic Man"
The Misheard Lyrics:
He's a tragic man
The Real Lyrics:
He's a magic man
The Story: Why do we often hear "tragic" instead of "magic"? Is this why No Doubt named their 1995 album Tragic Kingdom? - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Heart's, "Magic Man"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Summer love, a basketball
The Real Lyrics:
Summer love, passed to fall
The Story: running joke with my siblings, we all misheard it this way - Submitted by: Frank
Heart's, "Mistral Wind"
The Misheard Lyrics:
menstrual wind
The Real Lyrics:
mistral wind
The Story: I was a teenager when this came out, and would have had no idea what "mistral" meant. Naturally, all of us had heard of "menstrual," even though we probably had no idea what that meant, either. - Submitted by: Charles J. Eckard
Heart's, "Rage"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Pleasant black cold concrete
The Real Lyrics:
Flesh and blood and cold concrete
The Story: I was listening to the album "Desire Walks On". I originally heard this line in the song "Rage" as "Pleasant black cold concrete". That made me curious, as I thought it rather unlikely that cold concrete (of any color) would be characterized as pleasant. On listening to the song additional times, I nonetheless usually heard "Pleasant black cold concrete". Then one time the actual lyrics, "Flesh and blood and cold concrete" sort of "grabbed me" as what I heard. The latter seemed to make more sense, and, checking a lyrics site, I confirmed them as correct. Now, having familiarized myself with the song enough to clearly anticipate the coming of this line I usually hear it correctly when I'm listening closely for it. Curiously though, I still generally hear "Pleasant black cold concrete" when I wasn't listening closely and the line takes me by surprise. - Submitted by: Karen Smith
Heart's, "Stranded"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Don't leave me like this
Don't leave me in spandex.
The Real Lyrics:
Don't leave me like this
Don't leave me stranded.
The Story: Overheard my sister singing in the other room. She was 12. - Submitted by: Emma
Heart's, "These Dreams"
The Misheard Lyrics:
But all I remember are the dreams and the myths
The Real Lyrics:
But all I remember are the dreams in the mist
The Story: I thought myths made sense. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Heart's, "These Dreams"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The fur the wrong way
The Real Lyrics:
The further I'm away.
The Story: Actually misheard by my wife, not me. She thought it was a really surreal song. - Submitted by: Charles A. Burge
Heart's, "Voodoo Doll"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You work your magic on my boobs.
OR
You work your magic on my booze.
The Real Lyrics:
You work your magic on my blues.
The Story: I was listening to the CD "Desire Walks On", This song on the CD puzzled me in this line, as to what was being sung. The two mishearings quoted above were the only possible guesses I could make as to what the line sounds like. But they didn't seem very feasible in the context of the song. After puzzling a while, I looked up the song on a lyrics site and found the real lyrics as quoted. - Submitted by: Karen Smith
Heart's, "What About Love?"
The Misheard Lyrics:
What about Luvs?
The Real Lyrics:
What about love?
The Story: What about diapers? - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Heart's, "Will You Be There (In the Morning)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You're my obsession, my addiction, my drug,
So let the candle grow into a great fire plug.
The Real Lyrics:
You're my obsession, my addiction, my drug,
So let the candle grow into a great fire of love.
The Story: I was listening to the album "Desire Walks On". In those lines of this song, I heard "So let the candle grow into a great fire plug." I had occasionally heard the use of the term "fire plug" for fire hydrant, first by my mother, then by someone else years later. What a strange contorted metaphor , I thought. A candle produces fire, but a "fire plug" is something used in fighting fire. My mishearing might have been motivated by trying to make the lines rhyme, as "drug" and "plug" do rhyme, whereas there is only a pseudo-rhyme between "drug" and "love" in what turns out to be the real lyrics. On repeated listenings, I guessed the real lyrics as a possibility, but never discerned them so clearly by listening alone, and checking a lyrics site was how I finally confirmed them as the real lyrics. - Submitted by: Karen Smith

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