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What are some song lyrics you sang you thought was right but wasn’t?

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For me as a kid growing up was band on the run by Paul McCartney. Thought it was pants on the run.

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Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night!

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For sure on that one lol. I think everyone says douche ha ha

u/ReallySickOfArguing avatar

Same. All through highschool we'd randomly yell that song out in class or going down the hallway. lol This was before you could just google stuff and we genuinely didn't know.

u/BlvckRvses avatar

That one part in the song “little early pearly came by in his curly wurly” my old man used to think was “little early pearly gave my anus curly wurly”

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Stay tonight by eagle eyed cherry. I'm shocked to find the band themsleves keep getting the words wrong and sing 'save tonight' by mistake...

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I assume the band members were wearing pants while on the run. technically, correct?

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MyHero by foo fighters…”there goes my hero, Sargent Mary” lol

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Dirty Deeds by (AC/DC) to a teen just learning English: Country tunes, side-eyes, TNT Retch-eyes (?), corn flakes, aye! Bullshit! The real lyrics are: Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT, Neck-ties, contracts, high-voltage

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“Treating people just like folding chairs, wait until their judgement day comes” - the obviously right lyrics to war pigs

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Waterboys - You saw the whole of the movie

There’s a bathroom on the right. - CCR

Skee-lo - The Wish

I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had a girl with a beard I would call her.

"She's got electric boobs..."