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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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XTC's, "Earn Enough for Us"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I've been praying all the week through
At home and working on the bus
I've been praying I can keep you
And to earn enough for us
I can't take humiliation
Hurtful comments on the bus
I'm just praying by the weekend
I can earn enough for us
The Real Lyrics:
I've been praying all the week through
At home, at work, and on the bus
I've been praying I can keep you
And to earn enough for us
I can take humiliation
And hurtful comments from the boss
I'm just praying by the weekend
I can earn enough for us
The Story: I thought the narrator had a job as a bus driver. - Submitted by: Patrick
XTC's, "Earn Enough for Us"
The Misheard Lyrics:
So you're saying that we're gonna be three
Now a father's what I'll be
Don't get me wrong I'm so proud
That the belt's already tight
The Real Lyrics:
So you're saying that we're going to be three
Now, a father's what I'll be
Don't get me wrong I'm so proud
But the belt's already tight
The Story: One misheard word changes the meaning--- I thought he was referring to his wife's being visibly pregnant, rather than financial difficulties. - Submitted by: Patrick
XTC's, "Senses Working Overtime"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Turds and treasure
The Real Lyrics:
Dirt and treasure
The Story: For years, this is what I thought Partridge was singing around the end of this song. It made absolutely no sense to me, but it's how I would sing it. It is a recent revelation that is he is, in fact, singing dirt instead of turds. - Submitted by: Caleb
XTC's, "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Sgt. Rock is going to Hell. BING!!
The Real Lyrics:
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
The Story: I thought it was like when God uses his power to send someone to Hell, there's a kind of "BING"-ing sound, and that's what the song was trying to say. - Submitted by: Johannes Walcher

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