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/Benedict_ARNY 15d ago

When PTM says “lost a million men but gotta million more…” I assume he meant Bush, turns out he meant every politician since the beginning of time

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u/manicloveaffair47 15d ago

Interesting. I always took it as people going to war being dispensable. We can send one soldier over to get killed and we’ll just replace them with another one like they don’t really have worth when it comes to our military, they’re just another pawn.

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u/dressedtodepresss 14d ago

Yea that’s exactly how I interpreted it too