Topic Playlist! (Part 2)

kenobi_65 · May 10, 2023, 3:26am

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs

I always hear the line in the chorus, “I may burn…might upset you,” as “My big bird might upset you”

Knowed_Out · May 10, 2023, 10:28am

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
Bad Moon Rising - John Fogerty

“There’s a bathroom on the right”

Bicycle_Bill · May 10, 2023, 11:33am

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
Bad Moon Rising - John Fogerty
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In – 5th Dimension

For at least twenty-five years I thought the line beginning at measure 39 (No more falsehoods or derisions) was actually something like Love will cross the golden regions. Of course, I’d only heard it over the radio or from a well-worn 45-rpm disc.

-“BB”-

Si_Amigo · May 10, 2023, 12:44pm

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Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
Bad Moon Rising - John Fogerty
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In – 5th Dimension
Wheel In the Sky - Journey

The morning sun is rising, its kissing the derrière.

Rebo · May 10, 2023, 1:38pm

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
Bad Moon Rising - John Fogerty
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In – 5th Dimension
Wheel In the Sky - Journey
Tiny Dancer - Elton John

Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down and she so planned it - (in sheets of linen)
You had a busy day today

Wheelz · May 11, 2023, 12:55am

Your Own Personal Mondegreens: Songs that have lyrics you mishear every time you listen to them

Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
Bad Moon Rising - John Fogerty
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In – 5th Dimension
Wheel In the Sky - Journey
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
At the Hop - Danny and the Juniors

“When the records start spinnin’
Get your lips and whack your chicken at the hop”

The real line “You calypso when you chicken at the hop” only makes a little more sense than mine.