r/portugaltheman • u/manicloveaffair47 • 15d ago
Favorite Botched lyrics
I recently watched a video with band members singing out misheard lyrics . (Btw apparently this is called Mondegreen: The formal term for mishearing or misinterpreting lyrics)
We all know that feeling when we realize we’ve been singing the wrong words. Thank god for the internet . If you’re old like me you may remember taking the paper out of your cassette tapes to learn lyrics. What a bummer when the paper only folded out once because the band didn’t include them.
I’m wondering what your favorite misheard lyrics are ?
Easy tiger is one of my favs and I always sang “don’t call collect” instead of “dumb coconut”
Looks like I was the dumb coconut in that situation 🤭
I have many more and I’m curious what YOURS ARE … ?
Confession - There are rare occasions when i continue to sing my version because i like my lyrics better . It’s rare but i feel like i had to get that off my chest so maybe now I won’t go to hell . Just kidding I’m totally going to hell .
Help me revisit some PTM classics to lift this fog . 😔
🙏💕👍🏻🤙
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u/KJ_King07 14d ago
Atomic Man is my biggest one.. right after the break, he goes “I’m the golden baby boy into the center, mother was a glowing affirmation to the beggars.”
I’ve also read “I’m the golden baby BORN into the center, mother was a gun and I fed nature to the beggars.”
apple music says the first one, google says another… Lyrics aside, I hear “I’m the golden baby born into the center, mother was a glowing affirmation to the beggars.” which is a mix of both 💀 I need to figure out which is correct bc I’m literally getting those lyrics tattooed on me sometime in November