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.
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!).
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Don't bother me, don't bother me, Aliango
I want you babe, I want you babe, Fernando
Don't want to kiss, don't want to touch
Just smoke my cigarette blood
Don't bother me, don't bother me, Fernando Aliango, Aliango Ali-Ali-Ango, Ali-Ali-Ango
Don't bother me, don't bother me, AlejandroI'm not your babe, I'm not your babe, Fernando
Don't want to kiss, don't want to touch
Just smoke my cigarette and hush
Don't call me name, don't call my name, Roberto Alejandro, Alejandro Ale-ale-jandro, Ale-ale-jandro
The Story: Funny, maybe a bit self explanatory. - Submitted by: Arnold
Don't butter me
Don't bother me
The Story: I kept thinking she said "Don't butter me". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
ale alejandra ale alejandra
ale alejandro ale alejandro
The Story: gender swap - Submitted by: salsa
My name, Les Dennis
My name, is Alice
The Story: I kept hearing her saying "Les Dennis", who was the host of the UK gameshow Family Fortunes (Family Feud in the US). - Submitted by: Skye
She's got a bucket full of gonads
And they look just like her dad's,
Just like her dad's
She's got both hands in her pocket
And she won't look at you,Won't look at you
The Story: heard first doing overtime at work. - Submitted by: Steven Millington
I'm eating applesauce
The sauce
The sauce
I live for the applause applause applause
The Story: I saw a Game Bang video for Just Dance 2014 and someone said on the card for Applause it looked like it said "Lady Gaga - Applesauce" So I thought "I'm eating applesauce the sauce the sauce" even though I already knew the lyrics. - Submitted by: William
One second I'm a c***speck, then suddenly the c***'s in me
One second I'm a koons, suddenly the koons is me
The Story: driving with a sassy gay die hard Gaga fan, singing out loud to this song... sorry to all gaga fans, I know what she's saying now. Geeez - Submitted by: noears
Gun in a bad romance
Caught in a bad romance
The Story: Sounded a little funny - Submitted by: Trent Knight
I don't wanna speak French! I don't wanna speak French! I'm just a Roman!
I don't wanna be friends, I don't wanna be friends I don't wanna be friends, I don't wanna be friends
Want your bad romance (caught in a bad romance) want your bad romance
The Story: i hear this song about 5 times every single day over a store speaker system. the volume is just low enough to garble words and make you think you are hearing something else. Surprised nobody else has misheard the part right after she sings the line in french. - Submitted by: Mandrake71
I want your psycho
Your vertical stick
Want you in Morrowind baby your sick
I want your psycho
Your vertical stick
Want you in my rear window; baby, you're sick
The Story: Morrowind is the name of a roleplaying game which is part of the Elder Scrolls series. I heard this and thought "what the heck is Lady Gaga doing singing about a roleplaying game?" - Submitted by: Whootie Dave
I won't recycle your vertical stick.
Want you and Myra when your baby is sick.
I want your psycho, your vertigo stick.
Want you in my room when your baby is sick.
The Story: On first hearing this song, the misheard version is how I heard these lines. I suspected something was amiss. Fortunately, we live in an age when Internet sites can easily provide us with lyrics to most songs. So I checked and found the real lyrics. I found I would have expected something was amiss just as much if at first I'd heard the lyrics correctly! Hard to guess which make less sense, the real lyrics or my mishearing. In this case, I do tend to LIKE my mishearing more than the real lyrics, if I may say so. - Submitted by: Karen Smith
Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
Gaga oh-la-la!
Bon Jovi romance
Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
Gaga oh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
The Story: Being Jon Bon Jovi fans, my wife and I, have always laughed when we hear this song. We always say "Hmm... Bon Jovi romance. I wonder if Mrs. Bon Jovi knows about that?" - Submitted by: Kevin Powell
You and me could ride a bear on land.
You and me could write a bad romance.
The Story: I even knew the song was called bad romance, but for some reason it just didn't click in my head. - Submitted by: Claire
Your jumbo romance
Want your bad romance
The Story: I thought that's what Lady Gaga said! - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Give me some pudding,
Then we'll be friends.
Give yourself prudence
And love your friends
The Story: Listening to the radio with friends when I heard this song and when I asked them if that's what she said they busted out in laughter - Submitted by: Brady T.
Let you OutKast the leader tees
Left you outcast, bullied, or teased
The Story: I guess I thought she was saying they had the best shirts? I don't even know. - Submitted by: Katie
Subway kid, rejoice your truth
So we can rejoice your truth
The Story: It wasn't me who misheard this line. I was looking up the lyrics for this song for a project I'm working on, but so many lyric websites say that line is actually 'Subway kid, rejoice your truth,' which makes no sense. It's obvious the words are actually 'so we can rejoice your truth.' - Submitted by: Jen
I'm on the edge of something final we collide tonight
I'm on the edge of something final we call life tonight
The Story: It made sense to me that she'd say "we collide" since she's talking about hooking up with someone for a romantic fling. ;) But I guess the lyrics are tamer than I thought -- I'm sure I'll rarely say that again about Lady Gaga! LOL - Submitted by: Scary Shari
Loving me is like chewing on bugs
Loving me is like straightening curls.
The Story: I'm not sure how exactly I got "chewing on bugs" from "straigtening curls"- maybe because that part's somewhat distorted? - Submitted by: Onixx
I'm just a horny fool, and baby it's so cool
I'm just a Holy fool, and baby he's so cruel.
The Story: As soon as I saw it was "holy" instead of "horny" I had a big face palm! - Submitted by: Cori
Go slow ! ... Gonna feed it, set the lasso ... in your Paco
Don’t slow ! Drive it, clean it, lights out, bleed it, spend the lasto.
In your pocko
The Story: Deployed in Iraq when I was in the US Army back in 2008 to 2009. Worked out in the FOB gym in the MWR. Worked out hard everyday after my 12 to 15 hour shift 7 days a week. Loved this song. Never knew what she was saying. Still love this song. Still say to myself lasso and paco because it makes me laugh. Memories. - Submitted by: Jet Li
Baby you'll be shamed must, jinx you say and Terri loved me, mama, papa, right see
Baby you'll be famous, chase you down until you love me, papa, paparazzi
The Story: I know it makes no sense, but my ears heard it. - Submitted by: Trinnis
Shadow is blurred, we dance and we twirl
My lashes are dry, bubble teardrops I cry
Shadow is burnt, yellow dance in return
My lashes are dry, purple teardrops I cry
The Story: The "bubble teardrops" was a problem with a lyrics video on YouTube, but I like it better than "purple teardrops". Apart from that, I never got the "yellow dance" line, and so it never stayed in my head for longer than 2 seconds, so the misheard lyric was the version that stayed. - Submitted by: SideshowJazz1
Can we my can we my
Can't read my, can't read my...
The Story: Well what does it mean? - Submitted by: Lance
Carry blind, carry blind...
No he can't read my poker face.
Can't read my, Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
The Story: carry blind sounded like a poker strategy or hand to me. lol - Submitted by: Kaye
Cherry pie, cherry pie
Can't read my, can't read my...
The Story: Used to drive my kids nuts ... - Submitted by: Peta
Counting flies, counting flies
Can't read my, can't read my...
The Story: My 12 year old son would get mad at me because I insisted that's what she said whether or not it made any sense. Maybe I might have mentioned it in front of his friends while carpooling or something. - Submitted by: Jo
Cutie mark, cutie mark!
No one can breed all over the place.
Can't read my, can't read my,
No he can't read my Poker Face.
The Story: I was sure Lady Gaga was making a shout-out to My Little Pony. - Submitted by: Hereward
Here it weiss (vah-ih-s), here it weiss,
No he can't read my poker face
or
Hear it weiss, here it weiss
No he can't read my poker face
Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
The Story: I just hear it like that. Weiss is read as in German (vah-ih-s). Btw I'm not a native speaker of English *nor* German. - Submitted by: MihailLe
I'm not lying, I'm just stunnin' with my lovely Cullen
I'm not lying, I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunning
The Story: Guess I was a huge fan of Twilight xD - Submitted by: John
Just like chicken in Casino
Just like a chick in the casino
The Story: In France, Casino is a supermarket. - Submitted by: French guy
My my my Booker Bass, my my Booker Bass
My my my Poker Face, my my Poker Face
The Story: Had no idea who it was by, I just liked that "Booker Bass" tune. - Submitted by: Dan Costello
Tell me ma, tell me ma, so he can't read my poker face
Can't read my, can't read my, no he can't read my poker face
The Story: I was confused. - Submitted by: Poprocks
p-p-p poker face p-p poker face
P-p-p-poker face f-f fuck her face
The Story: This is accurate in the clean version of the song, but it;s confirmed that in the second line, she says fuck her face. - Submitted by: FF2007 Vyonder
Last night
I love a squirrel
I was thinking about you
Last night
Our lovers quarrel
I was thinking about you
The Story: When I first heard this I thought she said "I love a squirrel" and I thought why would she love a squirrel?! - Submitted by: NoOneAtAll
Happy in the class with a bottle of red wine,
Stars in her ass 'cause we're having a good time.
OR Happy in the clouds with a bottle of red wine, [etc.]
Happy in the club with a bottle of red wine,
Stars in our eyes 'cause we're having a good time.
The Story: I always heard the "stars in her ass" mishearing until I looked up the song on a lyrics site. As for the word that turns out to be "club" in the first quoted line, I was wondering until I looked up the lyrics. Either "class" or "clouds" was my best guess - Submitted by: Karen Smith
So happy I could die on a summer night. OR So happy I could die. I'm a Samurai.
So happy I could die, and it's alright.
The Story: Here's a case where I definitely find my mishearings more amusing than the real lyrics. When I finally looked up the lyrics on a lyrics site, I found the part about "and it's alright" to be really lackluster. My mishearings were much more fun. It was especially ludicrous trying to picture Lady Gaga as a Samurai. - Submitted by: Karen Smith
Put your hands on your waist for the vader.
Put your hands on your waist, pull the fader.
The Story: - Submitted by: Weezel
Tell me something that'll save me;
I need amendments for alright.
Tell me something that'll save me;
I need a man who makes me alright.
The Story: I'd heard this song for a long time without getting a clue as to what the singer was saying in the part whose real lyrics are "a man who makes me". My nearest guesses had been "limericks for" and "amendments for". But since neither would make much sense in the context of these lines or the song as a whole, I always suspected I must be mishearing something, and meant to look up the real lyrics. So now I've finally looked up the real lyrics and found out what they are. - Submitted by: Karen Smith
Tell me something that'll save me;
I need limericks for alright.
Tell me something that'll save me;
I need a man who makes me alright.
The Story: I'd heard this song for a long time without getting a clue as to what the singer was saying in the part whose real lyrics are "a man who makes me". My nearest guesses had been "limericks for" and "amendments for". But since neither would make much sense in the context of these lines or the song as a whole, I always suspected I must be mishearing something, and meant to look up the real lyrics. So now I've finally looked up the real lyrics and found out what they are. - Submitted by: Karen Smith
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