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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I'm not in at prison
I'm not in at present
The Story: It sounded like the person on the phone was in prison. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
And though I'm nobody's porridge
And though I'm nobody's poor wit
The Story: I thought he said the food the three bears from Goldilocks eat. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
If you like making love at midnight
And the doomed suffocate.
If you like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the cape.
The Story: My misheard line cited here was the nearest I could come to making any sense of the line in question, until I got access to the internet and learned of lyrics sites. What a learning tool lyric sites can be! - Submitted by: Sheila Evans
If you like p**** kolaches
If you like pina coladas
If you're not into robots,
If you have half a brain.
If you're not into yoga,
If you have half a brain
The Story: I was sitting in the lobby of an establishment, waiting to meet somebody, when this song came up on the playlist. On hearing these lines, I perceived the apparent "robots" reference. I thought, "I don't remember that part of the song." On looking up the words on a lyrics site, I remembered the "yoga" reference and some previous misheard lyrics cited for it. - Submitted by: Karen Smith
If you're not into yogurt
If you have half a brain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
The Story: For a long time, I thought it said 'yogurt' rather than 'yoga'. Interestingly, there wasn't much reason to question that hearing, since yogurt and yoga would fit about equally well on a list of the kinds of things that the song is about not being 'into'. - Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
if you like pina coladas, and getting cotton lorraine
if you like pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain
The Story: I didn't know what "cotton lorraine" was, but i thought it was a type of facial or something. - Submitted by: Andy
On the moon suffocate
On the dunes of the cape
The Story: My 45 year old husband thought this was the actual lyric until two years ago! The song came on and he was singing along and I laughed so hard, I was crying - especially since we grew up in Massachusetts and go to Cape Cod every summer. - Submitted by: Sue Harris
New entries in this section are currently reviewed by Brian Kelly. Previous editors (if any) are listed on the editors page.
