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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!).


Hybrid Theory album at Amazon.com
Linkin Park's, "Bleed It Out"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Bleed it out dicky jeebers just to throw it away
The Real Lyrics:
I bleed it out,
Digging deeper just to throw it away.
The Story: It sounds like dicky jeebers - Submitted by: Ryan
Linkin Park's, "Bleed It Out"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Chiquitita just to throw it away
The Real Lyrics:
Digging deeper just to throw it away
The Story: I thought it was in reference to ABBA. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
Linkin Park's, "Bleed It Out"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I bring it out, chicken Tigger just to throw it away
The Real Lyrics:
I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
The Story: When I looked it up on your website Chester quotes from the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Bleed It Out"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Shotgun up for lock-n-load
The Real Lyrics:
Shotgun Opera, lock and load.
The Story: Always heard it this way. Both versions still make sense though and they fit. - Submitted by: JCD
Linkin Park's, "Breaking The Habit"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why it is I'm Greek
The Real Lyrics:
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
The Story: My daughter is really into Linkin Park, so I thought I'd give them a try. I had listened to the song when it came out, though didn't pay much attention. Imagine my confusion when I listened properly, as I thought I had, and heard them going on about being Greek. I wondered what that had to do with the rest of the song. - Submitted by: Dawn B
Linkin Park's, "Breaking The Habit"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Touching Myself
The Real Lyrics:
Clutching My Cure
The Story: My cousin thought this whole song was about whacking off - Submitted by: Jack Meehoff
Linkin Park's, "Burn It Down"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We're building it, oh, this s*** is back down
We're building it, oh, this burning down
We can't wait to burn it to the collide
The Real Lyrics:
We're building it up to break it back down
We're building it up to burn it down
We can't wait to burn it to the ground
The Story: I looked up the lyrics one day to copy to my iPod and found out. - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Castle of Glass"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Wash the poison from off my skin
Show me how to be a hooligan
The Real Lyrics:
Wash the poison from off my skin
Show me how to be whole again
The Story: Heard this song as "Show me how to be a hooligan" until I've read the lyrics... then it made more sense, - Submitted by: Antonio
Linkin Park's, "Crawling"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not Eeyore
The Real Lyrics:
Crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heal
The Story: I dunno. I think I just realised that Eeyore didn't make sense. Maybe my little sis told me, she's a big LP fan. Chester quotes from Eeyore as the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Crawling"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Crawling on my skin
These worms they whale Mario
The Real Lyrics:
Crawling in my skin
These wounds will not heal
The Story: I really thought that Linkin Park was singing as a game and animal activist after this song referring to whale and Mario. - Submitted by: Shubham Chatterjee
Linkin Park's, "Crawling"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Fear inside my balls
The Real Lyrics:
Fear is how I fall
The Story: I'm Swedish. - Submitted by: scared_balls
Linkin Park's, "Crawling"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Solikin Mati
Ketinggang Radio
The Real Lyrics:
Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
The Story: That's Malay (misheard) version - Submitted by: Request Lagu Ngawur
Linkin Park's, "Crawling"
The Misheard Lyrics:
These wounds they finding Nemo
The Real Lyrics:
These wounds they will not heal
The Story: It was stoopid lol Chester quotes from Finding Nemo - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Don't Stay"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Take on the fatithlessness with you.
The Real Lyrics:
Take all your faithlessness with you.
The Story: I bought Meteora, and it was my first time listening to LP. I thought to myself, "Wow! this music is really dark." Because I really thought they were singing this. - Submitted by: Gabriel
Linkin Park's, "Easier To Run"
The Misheard Lyrics:
It's so Matt cheesier to gun.
The Real Lyrics:
It's so much easier to run.
The Story: My friend said, 'I thought one of the band members was allergic to dairy.' I told her the real lyrics were 'easier to run'. She replied, 'Oh now I'm hungry for some cheese.' - Submitted by: kyle
Linkin Park's, "Faint"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I can't faint the way I did before
The Real Lyrics:
I can't feel the way I did before
The Story: Thought it was referring to the title so that's what I ended up thinking it was. - Submitted by: Kenan
Linkin Park's, "Faint"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I can't sing the way I did before
The Real Lyrics:
I can't feel the way I did before
The Story: Perhaps I wanted to hear these lyrics based on the way the vocals are almost screamed in this section of the song. I was listening to the song with muffled audio on an FM station with bad reception. - Submitted by: Ryan Miller
Linkin Park's, "Figure.09"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You become a polar bear.
The Real Lyrics:
You've become a part of me.
The Story: I keep listening to this part of the song, to try to catch the lyrics. I thought it was kind of cute that Linkin Park sings about a polar bear. When I asked my husband to listen to it, he also couldn't quite catch it and agree with me that it was 'polar bear'. - Submitted by: epidote
Linkin Park's, "Forgotten"
The Misheard Lyrics:
In the memory of Bambi
A** burning up
The duck is holding me tightly
Until the scum rises up.
The Real Lyrics:
In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The darkness holding me tightly
Until the sun rises up
The Story: Even though my sister had the lyrics for the song, this is just how it sounded to us on the CD. Now whenever we sing it, we use our 'version' instead and crack up laughing. - Submitted by: Scarlet
Linkin Park's, "Forgotten"
The Misheard Lyrics:
In the memory of family
As I'm burning them
The Real Lyrics:
In the memory you'll find me
Eyes burning up
The Story: The first few times I listened to this song, this is what I thought I heard. I thought that the "memory of family" part could make sense, but "As I'm burning them" was... odd... I came to the conclusion that he was singing about being forgotten or disowned by his family or close friends and was either burning things which reminds him of them, or mentally "burning" them from his mind/ to forget them. However, I still thought this was odd, so In The End (pun intended), I decided to look them up and then I found the real words and thought "Ah. Well that makes more sense." - Submitted by: Laurence Knott
Linkin Park's, "From the Inside"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Everyone's after dust
The Real Lyrics:
Heavy thoughts sift through dust
The Story: I just assumed it meant something like the Dust in the Golden Compass movie. - Submitted by: Jane
Linkin Park's, "From the Inside"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I will waste my cellphone YO! YO! YO!
Waste my cellphone YO! YO! YO!
The Real Lyrics:
I won't waste myself on you! You! You!
Waste myself on you! You! You!
The Story: Chester's scream before the bridge. - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Hit The Floor"
The Misheard Lyrics:
One miniature rock star
The Real Lyrics:
One minute you're on top.
The Story: I was showing my best friend Meteora and she was asking me if she could hear the miniature rock star song. I was like, wtf? When 'Hit The Floor' came on, she started saying 'miniature rock star'. Then I realized what she was on about. When I posted this in a magazine, the editor said that a lot of journalists heard it that way, too. - Submitted by: Gabz_LP
Linkin Park's, "Hit The Floor"
The Misheard Lyrics:
We're miniature rock stars!
No you're not, watch it drop
Thinking you're hot stuff!
The Real Lyrics:
One minute you're on top
Now you're not, watch it drop
Thinking your hot stuff.
The Story: I was with my BFF and was trying to sing karaoke to this song as she whispered the lyrics into my ear. When she said "We're miniature rock stars!" I fell over laughing and couldn't complete the song. - Submitted by: Ellie
Linkin Park's, "Hit the Floor"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm feeling up a bulbasaur.
The Real Lyrics:
Floating up above us all
The Story: A couple of my friends and I were listening to it and all 7 of us thought we heard it at the same time. It's 2:08 into the song - Submitted by: Harry Gee
Linkin Park's, "Hit the floor"
The Misheard Lyrics:
One minute Sriracha
The Real Lyrics:
One minute your on top
The Story: I was listening to Linkin Park and every time this song came on I wondered what Sriracha sauce had to do with the song. - Submitted by: Mateo
Linkin Park's, "In the End"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I tried so hard and got so far.
But in the end, it doesn't really matter.
I had to fall to lose it all.
But in the end, it doesn't really matter.
I put my time in you.
The Real Lyrics:
I tried so hard and got so far.
But in the end, it doesn't even matter.
I had to fall to lose it all.
But in the end, it doesn't even matter.
I put my trust in you.
The Story: I play this song many times for remembering Chester Bennington and his band. One of my favorite bands that I love and this song now I'm saving into my playlist. About this song: Formed in 1996 as Xero, this band released their debut studio album, "Hybrid Theory". It was released on 24 October 2000. The first single from that album, "One Step Closer", reaching #75 on Billboard's Pop Chart and #24 on the UK Singles Chart. The second single, "Crawling", reaching #79 Billboard's Pop Chart and #16 on the UK Singles Chart. Unfortunately, the third single, "Papercut", failed to entering Billboard's Pop Chart but reaching #14 on the UK Singles Chart. Later, their fortunate was giving to the fourth single, "In the End". And finally, entering them into one-hit wonder fame after the album, "Hybrid Theory", charting very well and also making "In the End" the highest position on Billboard's Pop Chart where it reaching #2. "In the End" was also reaching #8 on the UK Singles Chart. With reaching #2 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart and #4 on the UK Albums Chart at that time in the beginning of the 2000s, "Hybrid Theory" has sold 30 million copies worldwide. So, congrats for Mike Shinoda, Chester Bennington, and friends, for their success of their singles (including "In the End" as my favorite song from them) and their debut studio album, "Hybrid Theory". Thanks. - Submitted by: Wisnu Aji
Linkin Park's, "Lies Greed Misery"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You did it to the cell
The Real Lyrics:
You did it to yourself
The Story: Chester's scream before the bridge and quotes from The Cell - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "New Divide"
The Misheard Lyrics:
The crosses will divide
The Real Lyrics:
Across this new divide
The Story: I heard the song play on a friend's profile, but it was pretty low quality. - Submitted by: Tasha
Linkin Park's, "Numb"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And every second I waste is more than I can say
The Real Lyrics:
And every second I waste is more than I can take
The Story: Chester quotes from Leo Sayer's "More Than I Can Say" - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Numb"
The Misheard Lyrics:
And every second I waste is more than I can say
The Real Lyrics:
And every second I waste is more than I can take
The Story: Chester quotes song from Leo Sayer's "More Than I Can Say" - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Numb"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've become my mom
And I hate you, Dad.
The Real Lyrics:
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there.
The Story: My sister, poor thing, thought they were singing this. She realized her mistake when our brother gave her a crazy look and told her the right lyrics whenever they were listening to music. Needless to say, she felt silly! lol - Submitted by: Rayna
Linkin Park's, "Numb"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've become so young.
The Real Lyrics:
I've become so numb.
The Story: I was talking to my friend. This song track came on on the cd, and we were listening to it. I told her, 'OMG. I love this song, but why is it called "Numb"?' Sort of an inside joke; call it a trickism if you meet anyone with the same problem. - Submitted by: Keeba Kuba
Linkin Park's, "One More Light"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Who cares if one more night goes out?
The Real Lyrics:
Who cares if one more light goes out?
The Story: Chester quotes song from Phil Collins's "One More Night" - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Pushing Me Away "
The Misheard Lyrics:
Blew Up Jerry D, this is a f***ing mess to see.
The Real Lyrics:
Reverse psychology, is failing miserably.
The Story: I had on this cd, and for some reason, my mom came in. She stood there and listened for a moment, then turned to my with a horrified look. She asked, 'Why are they talking about blowing Jerry? That isn't funny!' Needless to say, she was pretty amused when I showed her the real lyrics. - Submitted by: Amy Perry
Linkin Park's, "Runaway"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Guilty pie association
The Real Lyrics:
Guilty by association
The Story: I legitimately thought they were singing about an association for pies who were guilty, or an association of people who were guilty of eating pie? All I knew was that it sounded delicious! - Submitted by: GoldTransMan
Linkin Park's, "Somewhere I Belong"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Just truck, Pablo went alone in the forest biome, in the forest biome.
The Real Lyrics:
Just stuck, hollow and alone and the fault is my own, and the fault is my own
The Story: I'm guessing my hearing is as good as Ozzy Osbourne talks. - Submitted by: Gage Keith
Linkin Park's, "Until It's Gone"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I burned instead for a thousand times
But now I know
The Real Lyrics:
I've heard it said a thousand times
But now I know
The Story: I heard this when they premiered it on BBC Radio One. - Submitted by: jason a.
Linkin Park's, "Until It's Gone"
The Misheard Lyrics:
No, you don't know what you've got
It's The Beatles to be fought
The Real Lyrics:
No, you don't know what you've got
It's your battle to be fought
The Story: Chester quotes from The Beatles - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "Victimized"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Evicting mice, evicting mice,
Never again evicting mice
The Real Lyrics:
Victimized, victimized,
Never again victimized
The Story: Chester's scream before the first chorus - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
Linkin Park's, "When They Come for Me"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Try the ketchup, motherf***er!
The Real Lyrics:
Try to catch up, motherf***er!
The Story: This misheard lyric became such a Meme phenomenon that now they're even selling t-shirts with this phrase on it! - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo

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