Misheard Green Day Lyrics

[radiofriendlyunitshifter]

On Shoplifter, i first thought the part where he sings "But you've been caught stealing, trying to take something you haven't got", was "But Jimmy's caught stealing, trying to take something he hasn't got"

And on Who Wrote Holden Caulfield, i thought "there's a boy who fogs his world" was "there's a boy who fucks his world".

I'm still not sure what "fogs his world" means, either.

[OverjoyedAndroid]

In Platypus, when he says: "waste of semen" i thought it was either waste of femur or waste of female. I don't know how that happened O.o

[ems]

Was watching BIAB with my mum yesterday...she thought 'Are We The Waiting' was saying 'Oh here we are, oh here we are, awaking' Well she didn't know the title of the song so that doesn't help. I told her the proper lyrics and she still can't make them out

[solongfromthestars]

I just remembered a really awful one. When I first heard 21 Guns I was totally convinced that the line "your faith walks on broken glass" was "your faith wants a milking glass".

And my friend thought "from here to eternity" in Know Your Enemy was "fuck me to eternity"

[Broken_Tune]

there probably is a lyric or 50 that i thought was something else............

i just cant think of one at the moment

And my friend thought "from here to eternity" in Know Your Enemy was "fuck me to eternity"

oh ya that's one! xD

You're not the only one there lol

no you really aren't xD

[Broken_Tune]

oh and there was also that whole "Horseshit and Handgrenades" thing x)

[Punk-tastic32]

Before the AI cast album, I had always thought "Hearts recycled but never saved, from the cradle to the grave" was "A life cycle I've never seen, from the cradle to the grave"

...Not even close

[Mass-Hysteria794]

what exactly is a monkey shine?

I dunno something my hearing made up i guess haha

[The Snark]

With Static Age being the song of the week, I read the lyrics and realized just how much of it I was hearing wrong.

"Hysteria in the static age" instead of "In stereo in the static age" (hey, at least that one made sense)

"Appetites for love and religion" instead of "Advertising love and religion"

"Screaming I love you" instead of "Screaming hallelujah"

[Sarabeth]

In Homecoming when he says "I started fucking running as soon as my feet touched ground" I always thought he said something about pizza. I can't remember exactly what I thought it was, but whenever I'd listen to that part I'd always think it never made sense.

I thought this too! ha ha

All of these are hilarious! Ive had to look up the lyrics to almost all of the Green Day songs. But I dont remember what I thought some things were.

With Static Age being the song of the week, I read the lyrics and realized just how much of it I was hearing wrong.

"Hysteria in the static age" instead of "In stereo in the static age" (hey, at least that one made sense)

I thought this too

Edit: Now I remember one, in Know Your Enemy I thought "give me revolution" was "give me satisfaction" but I couldnt understand how that was possible. I read it on the internet, but it didnt sound right. And then I heard it clear when I heard it live

Edited January 17, 2011 by JadedInsomniac21

[deadair]

Call me a fucking idiot, for almost a year I thought chorus to The Static Age went "I can't see feed in the video" instead of "I can't see a thing in the video"

[OverjoyedAndroid]

In Homecoming when he says "I started fucking running as soon as my feet touched ground" I always thought he said something about pizza. I can't remember exactly what I thought it was, but whenever I'd listen to that part I'd always think it never made sense.

"I started fucking running as my pizza down"?

That's my guess

[ltrbmb17]

as far as english is not my mother language there are many such things for me (thanx to those who posted lyrics!!!). my favourite is from Homecoming.

for the first time I heard - what's your pleasure and what is Japan (though i understood that there couldn't be anything about Japan )

[Hermione]

If I listen to 27th Ave. Shuffle when my mum's there, when it goes "falling from behind" and then "(falling from behind)" in the background, she joins in with the background one by singing "(TAKEN FROM BEHIND)" every time to be annoying. There must be about 10 Green Day songs she insists on joining in with her own lyrics now

[beejeezee]

Whenever I listen to Platypus I always hear 'Cause I chew instead of I Hate You.

I wonder what Billie chews?

[Little Girl Little One]

In St. Jimmy, for the longest time I thought that it was "Upon the boulevard like a sitcom on parade." I thought Jimmy was supposed to be seductive and dangerous, not be corny and have his own laugh track.

[EvanAsFuck]

The first few times I listened through Peacemaker I thought the chorus went "Banana, sweet banana"...

[beejeezee]

I just remembered some

- "Whats your pleasure, what is champange." Homecoming

- "She's a rebel, she's insane." She's a Rebel

-"I'm the son of raging love" Jesus of Suburbia

Can't remember any else though.

I was listening to Peacemaker and thought I heard

"Call of the pornstar"

[Emilie]

In 21st CB: "My name is Noah, the long lost son"

"I've been to the edge and I've thrown up okay"

In Viva La Gloria: "Your son is a gun for hire"

"Falling in broken glass that's slashing dirty spirits"

"So don't burn away, you're burning alright"

"Don't lose your faith to your last night in the drain"

"Wake up a mess, we're burning down"

[darenmay]

warning... live without border.

until i got to see the lyrics.

[solongfromthestars]

In Words I Might Have Ate I used to think he sang "now I blame the fool whose stable smells so bad" even though I knew that was almost impossible I still sing that

[jos_whatsername]

^hahahahaah a couple of these are soo funny :lol:

thanks to the american idiot cast that i now know it's "like a pet left in the rain" and not "pig" in letterbomb!

[jake smith]

In St. Jimmy, for the longest time I thought that it was "Upon the boulevard like a sitcom on parade." I thought Jimmy was supposed to be seductive and dangerous, not be corny and have his own laugh track.

the first time i heard St. Jimmy i was like what the fuck is he saying, when i don't know the words to songs i just make up my own words or sing things that fit in

[Little Girl Little One]

The first few times I listened through Peacemaker I thought the chorus went "Banana, sweet banana"...

LOOOOOOOL, way to make me almost piss myself.

I just remembered earlier how horribly I knew the lyrics to American Idiot until a few months ago. Here's what I thought they were:

Don't want to be an American idiot

Don't want a nation under the new media

Can you hear the sound of hysteria?

The subliminal mindfuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension

All across the idiot nation

Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Demolition dreams of tomorrow

We're not the ones we're meant to follow

Fasdljfaljfalfaenreinak argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America

I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

Now everybody to the propaganda.

And sing along to the age of paranoia.

-chorus-

Don't want to be an American idiot

One nation controlled by the media

Information age of hysteria

It's going out to idiot America

And I know there were more aflkfskaoifdnasfn confusion moments, but none that stood out so much as the last line of the chorus.

[Pedestrian9394]

I just remembered a really awful one. When I first heard 21 Guns I was totally convinced that the line "your faith walks on broken glass" was "your faith wants a milking glass".

And my friend thought "from here to eternity" in Know Your Enemy was "fuck me to eternity"

Lmao I'm pretty sure that everyone at some point has thought it was "fuck me to eternity". xD I was just about to say that one, until I realized a million other people had.