Young Writers Society

We've all done it.

Don't even try to pretend like you've heard every word of every song you've ever listened to, perfectly.

Even if you don't listen to much music, there are some widespread misheard lyrics, that many people have made the mistake with.
Among them is "there's a bathroom on the right", which is a more famous one since John Fogerty has swapped it in, in some of his live versions.

This thread isn't here to judge.
It's just here to see what lyrics have been misheard and which interpretation mistakes have been made.

I always thought that that song "Begging You" was an ode to a woman called Betty Blue.

Kenny Chesney's song "Beer in Mexico" has a line that goes "I'm at these crossroads in my life, And I really don't know which way to go"

I always heard it as "I'm at these crossroads in my life, and Billy don't know which way to go" which never made sense considering Billy wasn't mentioned anywhere else in the song

In Taylor Swift's song "Shake it Off" I was convinced that "Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break" was "our bakers gonna bake, bake, bake, bake"...

Then another one is in Ed Sheeran's song "Perfect" there's a line that is "I'm dancing in the dark, with you between my arms, barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song" and I still consistently hear it as "barefoot on the cross...." and thought it was a super strange crucifixion reference shoved in there.

...I am trying and failing to think of one of these, because my problem is essentially that I don't understand any music lyrics well, ever, (thanks, hearing loss) and so I never really assume that what my brain interprets as the lyrics is actually correct until I've gone and looked them up. xD I know I've come up with some really bizarre interpretations, but I'm blanking at the moment.

I did use to think that the Cupid Shuffle was the Cubic Shuffle, so there's that. (In my defense, everyone gets into a square formation when you dance it...)