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It’s not so much that I ever actually mishear the lyrics to a song it’s that I’m never really listening closely in the first place. I listen to 99% of music when I’m in the car or commuting and I’m doing a million other things.
With that said, I’m just as guilty as anyone alive with singing the wrong lyrics to songs. It’s nice to see that I’m not alone. Jimmy Fallon sent out a tweet a few days ago that said “I used to think it was “Rocket Man, burnin’ down his fort of traffic cones.” #MisheardLyrics” and everyone started responding to the tweet with misheard lyrics of their own.
Jimmy compiled the best of those tweets into a short clip last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and I’ll be honest, some of these are pretty inexcusable, but I’m trying to withhold judgment. Since I know that a lot of you would rather scroll through tweets than watch a video, I’ve included a bunch of the tweets below as well as some that he didn’t include in this clip.
Here are those tweets for anyone who’d rather scroll through Twitter…
my son sings "if you like cheese enchiladas, and getting caught in the rain" #MisheardLyrics
— HeyBrother (@brooker79) February 5, 2019
#misheardlyrics My 6-year old, Caleb, was singing the other night in the kitchen: "Put your hands up, they're playing my song, my underwear flies away."😂😂😂😂 #partyintheusa
— Brad Myers (@thebradmyers) February 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/kendramaxiine/status/1092803498624847873
It’s a shame that anyone ever gets corrected. All of these people need to just be allowed to be themselves.
This song has plagued me forever. My first name’s Casspaul. ‘Rock the Casbah’ sounds eerily similar to Rock the Casspaul. People have been singing this shit to me forever.
I used to think it was "I'm here and I like it, rock the cat box." (Rockin' the Casbah) and I sang this to a boyfriend as an adult… #MisheardLyrics @FallonTonight
— Karen Pilarski (@KarenPilarski) February 5, 2019
We’re all guilty of this one.
I STILL hear Manfred Mann's Earth Band singing "Blinded by the light, rolled up like a douche, and a rollin' in the night…" #MisHeardLyrics
— Eric 🇺🇸 (@EricSails) February 5, 2019
#misheardlyrics And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
The cross-eyed bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know— Hydra (@SkepticHydra) February 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/andydrew1212/status/1092648709140164610
They probably thought ‘You’re So Vain’ was also about them.
My name was Lisa Brown and I thought “All the leaves are Brown” from California Dreaming was “All the Lisa Browns”. It was so cool my name was a hit song! #MisheardLyrics
— Lisa Martel (@arteacher277) February 5, 2019
As a child I was sure the right lyrics was: "Who you gonna call? (Those bastards!)" #MisheardLyrics
— seastory (@_Sea_Story_) February 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/MrMattTweets/status/1092802059232075779
thought the song Africa by Toto went
“I left my brains down in Africa” #MisheardLyrics— Zoe (@idkzoegilbert) February 5, 2019
I think we’ve got the winner here.
My best friend used to think the line in Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” was “last night you were in my room and now my butt cheeks smell like you” #MisheardLyrics
— Laura DePeel (@lauradepeel) February 5, 2019