15 Misheard Lyrics That You Will Literally Never Be Able To Unhear

26 January 2017, 16:52 | Updated: 27 December 2019, 13:48

Katie Louise-Smith

By Katie Louise-Smith

"Maybe it's the way she walked, straight into my heart and stomach."

Have you ever spent your days singing the words to a song only to find out years later that you've been wrong for the entirety of your life? It's happened to us more than once. We've still not recovered from the revelation that Jennifer Lopez was actually spelling out R-U-L-E instead of saying "Are you Ellie?" in 'I'm Real'. 

If we're going down, you're coming down with us. Brace yourselves because music is about to be ruined for you... You will never be able to un-hear these misheard lyrics ever again. EVER.
 

1) Fall Out Boy - 'Sugar, We're Going Down'

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Lyrics you always hear: "We're going dowwwwwn dowwwwn turn an Indian round."

Actual lyrics: "We're going dowwwwwn dowwwwwn in an earlier round."


2) All Time Low - 'Damned If I Do Ya'

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Lyrics you always hear: "I farted for a long time now."

Actual lyrics: "I thought it for a long time now."

 

3) Paramore - 'Playing God'

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Lyrics you always hear: "You say I've been changing, that I'm not just simply asian."

Actual lyrics: "You say I've been changing, that I'm not just simply ageing."

 

4) Rihanna - 'We Found Love'

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Lyrics you always hear: "We found love in a hole in space."

Actual lyrics: "We found love in a hopeless place."

 

5) One Direction - 'Best Song Ever'

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Lyrics you always hear: "Maybe it's the way she walked, straight into my heart and stomach."

Actual lyrics: "Maybe it's the way she walked, straight into my heart and stole it."

 

6) Lorde - 'Royals'

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Lyrics you always hear: "And we'll never be royals, you can call me green beans."

Actual lyrics: "And we'll never be royals, you can call me Queen Bee."

 

7) TLC - 'Waterfalls'

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Lyrics you always hear: "Don't go Jason Waterfalls."

Actual lyrics: "Don't go chasing waterfalls."

 

8) Avril Lavigne - 'Complicated'

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Lyrics you always hear: "Honestly you promise me I'm never gonna find your bacon."

Actual lyrics: "Honestly you promise me I'm never gonna find you faking."

 

9) Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue

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Lyrics you always hear: "I'm blue, if I was green I would die."

Actual lyrics: "I'm blue da ba dee da ba dieeeeee"

 

10) Selena Gomez - 'Good For You'

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Lyrics you always hear: "I'm farting carrots... I'm farting carrots."

Actual lyrics: "I'm fourteen carats... I'm fourteen carats."

 

11) J. Lo ft Ja Rule - 'I'm Real'

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Lyrics you always hear: "Are you Ellie?"

Actual lyrics: "R. U. L. E."

 

12) Outkast - 'Ms Jackson'

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Lyrics you always hear: "Never meant to make your daughter cry, I am several fish and not a guy."

Actual lyrics: ""Never meant to make your daughter cry, I apologised a trillion times."

 

13) The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey - Closer

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Lyrics you always hear: Stay and play that Blink 182 song, while we bleed to death in Tuscon, ok?"

Actual lyrics: "Stay and play that Blink 182 song that we beat to death in Tuscon."

 

14) Twenty One Pilots - 'Holding On To You'

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Lyrics you always hear: "I farted it a lot and it seems a lot."

Actual lyrics: "I fought it a lot and it seems a lot."

 

15) Fall Out Boy - 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race'

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Lyrics you always hear: "I am an arm stealer."

Actual lyrics: "I am an arms dealer."