"You can dance / You can die / Having the time of your life"
― flappy bird, Friday, 17 August 2018 06:02 (five years ago) link
Spice Girls, Wannabe:
Actual: If you wannabe my lover, you got to get with my friendsMisheard: If you wannabe my lover, you got to get rid of my friends
― Valentijn, Friday, 17 August 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
David Bowie, Diamond Dogs:
Actual: This ain't rock and roll, this is...genocide!Misheard: This ain't rock and roll, this is...jazz time!
I was 10 at the time, not sure I had even heard the word "genocide" before.
― henry s, Friday, 17 August 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
Also:
Billy Squier, In The Dark
Actual: in the darkMisheard: Canada
Not by me, but by a girl I knew in high school, who used to sing "Can-a-da" during the chorus when it came on the radio, totally thinking that was the proper lyric.
― henry s, Friday, 17 August 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
Metallica, The Unforgiven.
Actual: "Through constant pained disgrace". Misheard: "Bill Cosby faces disgrace".― chap, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:50 AM (eleven years ago)
prophetic
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 17 August 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
In 1979 my mother confidently sang "Ginger lady!" when the Village People came on the radio.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 17 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
The Moodists Swingy GeorgeActual: "just a black coat flapping"Misheard: "It was a black hole dripping"
― badg, Friday, 17 August 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link