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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Doin' in the butt
Eminence front
The Story: We listen to Lyn Davis & Smoke every day at work (Y103, the valley's only classic rock). I swear my co-workers and I all agree that it sounds like he says 'Doin' in the butt!' So we request Pete Townshend's 'Doin' In The Butt' every day for the lunch time diner, thank you. - Submitted by: Youngstown Painting & Decorating
It's Murder open the door!
Let my love open the door.
The Story: Clearly I have hearing problems. I was searching for this song on youtube based on my misheard lyrics! Shockingly I couldn't seem to find it XD - Submitted by: Jack
Let Milo open the door...to your heart
Let my love open the door...to your heart
The Story: The woman in the cubicle next to mine has a bad habit of wearing her headphones and singing along. When this song came on, I realized she was saying 'Let Milo open the door' instead of 'my love.' Would be a great parody if your name was Milo. - Submitted by: Lisa
Let Milo open the door
Let my love open the door
The Story: Hey, I was just a kid and what I misheard made sense....so... Eventually my older brother corrected me when he heard me singing it wrong! - Submitted by: Eric
Let Philum open the door.
Let my love open the door.
The Story: A guy named John Phillippi sang this song during my high school years, probably after learning the word in Biology class. He had some of the BEST (worst) lyrics ever!!! - Submitted by: Tom Yersavich
It's mine now open the door
To your car.
Let my love open the door
To your heart.
The Story: Embarrassed myself singing in front of my ex-girlfriend's father when i was 17 (in the mid-20-aughts). Thought it was a funny song about a carjacking. I had only been in the United States for three years at that time and English is not my first language. My friends had introduced me to Weird Al and a few Youtube comedy songs, which I thought was a common feature of American music outside of the pop stuff all the people here pretend to hate that we mostly hear labeled as "American Music" in the rest of the world. Turns out my friends were just really into comedy music that i could see telling a story about a carjacking in love song format. - Submitted by: Aaliyah Fiona El-Mas'ri Akhetemset
Gonna get inside you
Gonna get inside, your bed or mine?
Gonna get inside you
Gonna get inside your bitter mind.
The Story: I've loved this song for 27 years and only recently discovered I was way way off. I think it could work though - not sure how the Sex Pistols would feel about that. - Submitted by: Kelty
I'm number 1 in the hood, G!
I'm number 1 on the home team!
The Story: This is what I thought I heard when this song played on the radio, and each time I thought, "I guess Pete was number 1 before Aquateen Hunger Force!" - Submitted by: Josh
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