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Misheard song lyrics (lemdro.id)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Am I the only one this happens to? I used to "feel it coming in the yellow night" with Phil Collins. What are yours?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

In Germany we call these misheard lyrics "Agathe Bauer Songs" (misheard "I got the power"), it happens mostly when some lyrics in english songs sound like a german sentence or name.

  • All the leaves are brown - Anneliese Braun (name)
  • I got the power - Agathe Bauer (name)
  • At the gates - Hey, wie geht's (Hey, how are you?)
  • I believe in miracles - Alle lieben Mirco (Everybody loves Mirco)
  • a deep shade of blue - Dickschädel Blues (Thickheaded blues)
  • the phone rings - da vorne links (ahead on the left)
  • hope of deliverance - Hau auf die Leberwurst (smack the liver-sausage)
  • all my feelings grow - Oma fiel ins Klo (grandma fell into the toilet)
  • Zombie - Zahnweh (Tooth-ache)
  • the word is out - du blöde sau (you stupid pig)
  • Dirty Diana - da geht der Gärtner (there walks the gardener)
  • I'll be gone - Almighurt (german joghurt brand)
  • Your love is like bad medicine - your love is like Bettnässen (bed wetting)
  • I cut and i spear - da kackt 'n Eisbär (a polar bear is shitting there)
  • the pain is deep - der Penisdieb (the penis-thief)

edit: found this: https://youtu.be/hPV3wHnd5lo?si=Z1GiyHfe89iCMizH

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Some of those are really funny 🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They are called Mondegreens in English, after Sylvia Wright wrote an essay about how she misheard "laid him on the green," as Lady Mondegreen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

when I lived in Switzerland I learned "the eye of the tiger - die eier von tiger (the balls or effs of the tiger)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is this the archive of misheard song lyrics. https://www.kissthisguy.com It’s named after purple haze by Jimmy Hendricks. “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”