I almost forgot:
Artist: Weezer
Song: (not sure)
Real Lyric: “Why bother, it’s gonna hurt me, gonna kill me when you desert me”
My Mondegreen: “My father’s gonna hurt me, gonna kill me when you desert me”
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*Originally posted by betenoir *
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I believe that’s right. Two years of French later (and having actually seen the printed lyrics), I can understand what it means.
At the time, it sounded like incomprehensible gibberish (not meant as an anti-French slam) or some sort of made up words. I didn’t hear it as “Someday monkey play piano song, play piano song” as one popular misrendition goes.
Artist: Frank Black
Song: Cult of Ray
Real lyric: Melting rock into metal
Mondegreen: Milk and rotten tomato
It’s funny that most misheard lyrics are misheard as either sex related or food related.
I laughed at this so hard, I got a migraine!
But my all-time favorite is from “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (The Beatles):
“THE GIRL WITH COLITIS GOES BY.”
(should be: “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”