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.
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by song title and performer. So if two different performers preformed the same song, you'll see
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Cherry Pie album at Amazon.com
Cheese Pie, Cherry Pie
Lookin' so good,
Peach Cream Pie
Lookin' so good
Makes your old man cry
My Cheese Cherry Pie
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie
The Story: The only time my sister and I actually heard this song was at a store on a Garage Band demo. She thought that the singer must have been pretty drunk to write a song about how much he liked cherry cheesecake ("cheese pie") and peach cream pies! - Submitted by: A frequent visitor who prefers to remain anonymous
Cheese pie, Cherry pie
You're a drink of water
Peach Cream Pie
Lookin' so good
It makes your old man cry
Eat Cheese-Cherry Pie!
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water
Such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good
Make a grown man cry
Sweet cherry pie
The Story: Played it on Guitar Hero and wondered if the guy was drunk while writing this. I thought he was singing about cheesecakes. - Submitted by: Anonymous
She's my terabyte!
She's my cherry pie!
The Story: Maybe my millennial brain is focused too much on storage space on my computer. - Submitted by: Ryan Miller
Squeeze my cherry pie
She's my cherry pie
The Story: I was at school and someone was playing 'Cherry Pie' on the jukebox in the commons. I began singing (quite loudly,as is typical with a misheard lyric),'Squeeze my cherry pie!' My friend Nicole promptly informed me of my mistake. Ooops! - Submitted by: Valerie Grapes
Heather isn't too far away
Heaven isn't too far away
The Story: Another song in which we hear "Heather" instead of "heaven". - Submitted by: Cody Finke
I got now where left to go?
But no one really care.
I don't need what you do.
But I never giving up on your... heaven is too far away.
I've got nowhere left to go.
No one really cares.
I don't know what to do.
But I'm never giving up on you.
Heaven isn't too far away.
The Story: First, how late singer Jani Lane reaching the English second-person pronoun? It sounding like that Jani Lane mistakenly singing "your" instead of "you". Second, how that band will find their way? The road to their home is too far away. About this song: Featured on their debut studio album, "Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich", released on 31 January 1989, it was the album's second single and later their first greatest hit on both the UK Singles Chart and Billboard's Pop Chart (reaching #93 on the UK Singles Chart and later faring better on Billboard's Pop Chart with reaching #2 but failed to reaching number-one on that chart). But this awards of "Heaven" became that band's greatest song to date. - Submitted by: Wisnu Aji
Like Lucifer in disguise
Like a blue suburban sky
The Story: I actually met Jani Lane [Warrant's frontman] last year and I told him about this little mishearing of mine. He got a good laugh out of it... - Submitted by: the man
There are more Warrant misheard lyrics available.
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